The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-01-08


LAvRrscE, K. r., Dee. 81, 1856.
To tho Editor vf the Missouri Democrat:
"SheriiT" Samuel ]. Jones who has gain
ed considerable notoriety in the history Of
Kansas BY his border ruttanism, has resign
ed as ''sheriff Of Douglass county," and the
bogus commissioners have appointed u Mr..
VIM. Shanard, formerly Of Virginia, to fill
the vacancy.
An officer sent out BY the President to IN
| quire into the official affairs of General Call
houn, Surveyor General Of this and Nebras-
ka Territories, is now in Lecompton exam
ming the books, &c. Ii is supposed that the
next nppointce Of the Chief Magistrate for
this Territory, that will be removed from Of
fee, will be Calhoun, and respectable per-
son appointed Us his successor.
Judge Lecomrte, the Jeffreys of Kansas,
has received official notice Of his removal
from position which he has rendered infa-
nous BIZ his one sided course and border
rulhanisn.
Major George W. Clark, Ex.lndian agent,
the murderer Of the lnmented Thomas W.
Barber, has an advertisement in the Lecomp-
ton Union, offering $50 reward for the re-
covery OF his runaway slave woman named
Judy. II states that ''the last seen of judy
she was on her way to Lawrence where she
now is, unless she has already secured pas
sage on the underground railway to Chicago"
DR. Cox ASp HIS CRIrlc.-A writer Ia the
| Christian Register gives droll criticism on
u sermon recently preached by the Rev DR..
Cox, Brooklyn. Ii is compared to an omni-
bus, to q railroad car, to drove Of cattle:
and no doubt all the epithe,s OF praise and
censure are thrown in for explanation. Here
| it is:
"Iiow shall describe the sermon of Rev.
| DR.. Cox, Of Brooklyn. DELIVERED before the
Mills Theological Society. on the evening Of
the 4th, in Williamstown? could think OF
nothing but a four horse omnibus, somewhat
| foridly painted aud ambiti susly ornamented,
driven round the streets, turning corners
with grand hourishes Of the whip and shouts
at the leaders, picking UP passenger here
and there, and after giving him brief air
Ing, dropping him, and driving the spank ing
old horses home at last, without hair wet
| upon them, and not more than half satisfied
with their exercise. have not the slightest
| idea that the DR.. knew what he was going to
say when he arose, and but for his almost
unexampled memory, should doubt whether
| he knew what he had said when he had I'm
4 ished. Ii seemed TO me like a sermon that
might be represented as railroad car that
had been thrown from the track under a high
| rate Of speed, mashed in pieces, and then
gathered mp in fragments, just in those
chance relations into which accident had
thrown them. The materials of complete
and beautiful oar were there, with the ex-
ception of the brakes but they were hauled
out of the mass. and put together very much
like those cattle that DIR. Todd tells the chill
/ dren about Us the inhabitants Of a chance
world. The sermon was learned, poetical,
disjonted, pedantic, powerful, brilliant, hui
morous, witty. explosive, redundant, Eng
lish, Greek, Latin. and DIR. Coxy.
! The lSptAS LAs0rAcg.-The n. T. Sunday
! Times furnishes the following interesting
statement respecting the language of the
! American Indians 'The great popularity
OF the American or Indian language is the
absence of nil logical ANALYSIS Of ideas, and
the synthetic character peryading them all.
! The indian does not separate the component
! parts Of the proposition which ho utters.--
F His thoughts rush forth in "a troop, for the
picture is presented Ut once and altogether.
( The synthe.ie character il apparent ia the at.
tempt TO express, in the simplest manner. the
name of ANYTHING. The Algonquin and the
i. lroqu0is, Tor example, could no. say sfather;'
+ they must uss q more definite EXPRESSION
/ The noun, Adjective and pronoun are blended
INTO one word. The Indian never kneels; so
when Eliot, in making MS translation Of ia.
Bible. wished to give the expression CT
'kneeling,' the word which he was compelled
I 70 use filled line, and numbered eleven syl
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