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silence Give. consent %

We learn that it is stated we must be
guilty of the charges Robinson brought
against Us, because we did not come forward
and deny it on the spot, agreeably to the
request Of the people at that time. We
were in eur Office at that time as usual,
laboriug to advance the best interest OF
Kansas, as we always have been, little con-
scious that a man we have done so much
to bring prominently before the country
was laboring by falshood 10 rob US Of our
reputation because we no longer entertained
the high respect fer him we had in the
past. Those who thought Us afraid to make
denial have the denial now, and they
shall have the proof when Chas. Robinson
shall have exhausted his venom which will
be Immediately forthcoming.
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Insurance Company.

We invite attention to the adver-
tisement of the Union Insurance Com
pany, of jamestown, Pa, which we
insert in our advertising columns
We have long been acquainted with
the officers of this Company, and their
mode of transaetirg business and can
assure those who have Insurance busi-
ness to transact, that they will never
have occasion to regret the giving OF
their business to this Company. The
officers are men of large capital, of
superior business qualifications, and
just the persons for carrying on a
heavy business transaction of this
character. They desire the services of
active local agents in every part OF
Kansas. They have General Agent
located in this city, who will take
risks for Lawrence and vicinity, and
appoint local agents in other portions
of the Territory. 1t is the duty of all
men to insure during these perilous
times, and we hope they will do SO,
though the cost of the same does ap-
pear high. The amount paid for a
risk is not large when taken by itself,
and yet it may be fortune to man
in case of fire or other accident which
sweeps everything away in a moment,
leaving nothing ON which to build a
hope.
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Put This ara That 7ogether.

Since the Inauguration of the En-
ancipation movement in Missouri tkeIe
has been a great advance in the value
of real estate in St. Louis, in some
eases more than a hundred per cent,
while in many localities in the inter
ior of the State there has been Z
marked rise In farming lands, and 4
rapid settlement of those hitherto M
occupied. Are we not authorized to
assume that the prospect Of Missoun
shortly becoming free State, and tbs
advance in property referred to, stand
related to each other as cause and ei'
feet I? So it seems to Us. During The
prevalence of border rufianism, The
Missouri papers were filed with la-
mentations over the downhill tenden-
cy of business and property through
out the State; real estate even in s.
Louis was slow of sale; emigrants no
more thought OF settling upon us
long neglected government lands than
of going to the Dismal Swamp but
the Wholesome reaction against the
doings of Atchison and his lswIess'
gang began to effect change in these
respects, and the conviction that the
incubus of Slavery must ere long give
way to make room for Free LaLor has
done the rest. Our Missouri nelgh,,
bors, having secured these substantial
benefits on the strength of the mere
prospect of Emancipation some hiteen
or twenty years hence, will BOT, We
imagine. very soon permit anotbe.
ruffian crusade for the extension 0;
slavery to cast q stigma upon then
State, and set it backward in its ca
reer of prosperity-Chieago Dt'H-
Press.
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same fruitful manufactorY.

Thus it is In Kansas, we are as
much slaves to party as We are en-
shaved by arbitrary and unjust laws
The time has come when the shackies
which bind US, must be broken. Kan
sas can never be free, while the mind
is enchained.
We venture the assertion, that
there is not one person in one hun
dred. who acts just as he would act In
view of the approaching crisis. were
he not restrained in his actions, by
some neighbor or partizan leader
Even DR.. ROBINSON, has exhibited ev-
idences at times that he was not salts
fed with the line of policy he had
marked out. We see him hesitating,
doubling, and then resigning his post,
and declaring that the " federal gov
ernment had shown disposition to
eoncede to us cur rights" The fire.
eating letter-writers lash him into
submission, and he withdraws his
resignation to get lashed from anoth-
er quarter. He gets angry and ap-
proaches our new Governor, and
agrees to "overlook the past" if a
course he indicates, can be pursued
Fooled here, like the lion at bay, he
turns upon others, and is determined
to apply the inquisitorial party lash,
and whip all opposition into submis-
sion. Falsehood becomes his stock in
trade, and right busily is he applying
it. backed up by his cohorts. the let
ter-writers, who become his most ac-
tive tools in furtherence of his pur-
pose.
Such is the slavery of party.
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Land Office Decisions,

We learn that a person attempted
to prove up pre-emption on claim
near Emporia the ether day, and was
refused because the doors and windows
were not yet cut open in his cabin. The
Register declared that the claim pre-
empted must be the residence of the
pre-enptor at the time of proving up
the same, and that he must have erected
a cabin on the same himself and occu-
pied it, besides making other improve
ments towards tilling the soil. In
another case he decided that person
buying claim with a cabin on it, and
residing in that cabin did not come
within the law that improvements
purchased of another was not the kind
contemplated by the law; on the con-
trary they must be made by the pre-
emptor, or by his procurement.
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Uha Little osaga

N
LAWRENCE, Kansas, May II, '57. |
Ma. EDITOR ~ have just returned
from a two weeks tour in southern
Kansas, and viii very briefly state
some of the results of my obserya-
tions. Without claiming that have
made any wonderful discovery, that
I have found where the government
road, the chartered stage road, the
first railroad to Utah or the Gulf of
Mexico, or the great jugular line of
Kansas trade is sure to pass, or the
only place where a bridge can be buiA
or county seat located, / shall new
ertheless venture the statement, that
the country adjacent to the Little
Usage river, is equal to any portion
of the Territory in the richness of its
soil, abundance of good timber. wa
ter, coal and minerals, and the gene
raj beauty OF Its scsnery.
This portion Of Kansas has been
heretofore almost wholly neglected,
and no emigrants have been directed
there this year, until within few days.
The Vermont colony have now loca-
ted over thirty claims in one town
ship, with timber enough and to
spare, and one hundred more can be
well located near by, on as good land
as the country affords. Although the
most of the timber is claimed by the
old residents, of whom a majority are
pro-slavery, on that river, by holding
from two to FIVE claims each, they are
legally open for jumping" and eve
ry claw abiding man." who is In
search of a home, should have nc
compunctions about exercising his pre-
emption rights in that direction
None of the pro-slavery men on the
river seemed disposed to contest our
rights, but usually they wanted to sell
out to US what they had left the next
day. They do not exhibit vitality
enough to survive such an ordeal.
The new colony have located a town
on the Usage river, about sixteen
miles from the Missouri line, called
Napleton. Without disparagement
to the hundred and one, thriving ci-
ties of Kansas, I pronounce this the
most beautiful town site, l ever beheld,
in or out of Kansas. "Tim Der Hills, :"
raise their convolving mounds in the
front ground, as if to hang out before
US their perpetual symbols of New
England character. 1t being the only
town yet located on the river, it will
undoubtedly hold a prominent place
among her southern rivals. A steam
mill is already contracted for and will
be in operation before winter.
While other portions of Kansas
further west, are being surfeited with
claim hunters, many of whom retura
because they cannot get timber, or
near enough to market, or to supplies,
we bespeak for the Little Usage, her
share of consideration, particularly,
as we believe in the policy of settling
and securing eastern Kansas first
Let US plant the institutions we revere,
at the very gates of our domain, then
say to the southern Sanhedrim, i" thus
far shalt thou go, but no farther"
WM. HUTCHINSON.
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Wa rhaurh. So.

The Washington correspondent oi
the Cincinnati Enquirer writes that
he met Robert j. Walker, the new
Governor of Kansas, in the office Of
the Department of the Interior, on the
18th inst, busily " collecting statls-
tics of the distribution of the public
land among the several States and
Territories, in view of movement
which he will set on foot, immedi'
ateiy on his arrival in the Territory
to secure from the Federal Govern
ment ample provision for the nsE
Territory for railroad and educational
purposes. We thought so. a great
railroad project is the new Governors
element. Kansas is a grand field for
his enterprise, and much more prom
ising than Texas, if hs Will have the
wisdom to keep slavery ont Of the
Territory. Let him 60 ahead TO BIS
hearts content : bat We beg OF hIn
to take care that the subscriptions 70
the stock of hrs roads shall be Of >
more substantial charactsr than thai
of his ten million subscription to thai
ofths Psciic Railroad. Chicago Des'
Press.
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Associates, till 1st Monday in May,
1858, and until their successors are
appointed and qualified.
RESOLVED, That an election be held
on the lst Monday in May, annually,
for one County Judge, and four Asso-
ciates, who shall hold their Office till
their successors are elected and quail
fed.
/Resolred, That we approve of the
militia organization of the town Of
Hyatt, and hereby adopt the same for
our County.
RESOLVED, That the above enactments
shall be and continue In full force,
until repealed or amended by major
ity of the citizens of the county, at
an election, after one months notice
being posted in two public places, in
each road district of the County.
After discussion, it was adopted with
but one dissenting voice, and Mr.. w. T.
NJ. Army was elected Judge, and j. I !
CAMPBELL, Col. HARVEY, SOLOMON KAUFz
NAN and B. TYLER, Associate Judges.
The following preamble and resolu-
tions were unanimously adopted:
Whereas it is fundamental princi-
pie of Republican Governments that
their shall be no taxation without re-
presentation, and whereas NJ provis-
ion to our knowledge has been made
in accordance with the organic law, for
the exercise of the right of suffrage
aud representation by the citizens of
this county in the formation of the
Legislative enactments by which we
are to be governed, or in the Conven-
ton to be held for the formation and
adoption of State Constitution, there
fore,
Resolred, That meeting of the
citizens of this county be held at the
town of Hyatt, on the last Saturday of
May, 1857, for the selection of a
person to represent us at the coming
sessions of the Legislature and State
Conventions of Kansas.
ResoLUed, That S. P. HAND. JOHN S.
ROBINSON and DARIUS FRAEkINBERGER,
be and are hereby appointed Judges
of election on the occasion of such
selection, which shall be effected by
ballot.
On motion the meeting adjourned j
ID. n. BUFFUM, Pres't.
ALBERT BLAUvELT. Sec'y.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-05-16
Governor of Utah.

We understand that the Governor
ship of Utah Territory has been ten
dered to Major BENJAMIs 1fc CuLLoUGH,
of Texas, and that there is every reason
to believe that he viii accept the office.
1t would be difficult to name another
person who combines in himself so
many qualities for the successful dis
charge of the duties ofthis important
and delicate trust as are undoubtedly
possessed by Major McCULleuGH.-
Union.
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Great Raiief

The 81 900 appropriated By the Governol
Of Michigan, and expended by Mr.. wHl7-
NAN, for seeds, for spring crop, is doing an
invaluable amount of good. The great pity
is that it had not been four times the amount
Though it does not relieve destitution aoso,
yet it will prevent vast amount of i, in fu-
ture. We hardly know how our people would
have got along. but for this timely relief
Mr.. WHrrNAs has shown great zeal in get
ting it before the people at an early day.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-05-16
- A fellow bv the name Of S,1ru

re- A fellow by the name of SMITH.
was killed at Franklin the other day,
by Mr. McGHEE. As the case has been
related to US, 1t seems like brutal
murder, though there may be extern
uating circumstances, which would
modify this opinion. 1t is said that
Smith was oyerbearing, and, generally
very abusive. A warrant Is ont for
the arrest Of McGEEE.
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= a t.ant;nn ia ;nuita6 io 4ho .

~ Attention is invited to the ad-
vertisements of r. q. FARSHAM and s.
o. HENENwAY, of Lecompton. The
former has opened . Law and Exchange
Office ct LeOompton, and the latter has
taken the American Hotel. Each de-
seEye pasronage.
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HA fat boat came up the river
from Wyandott few days ago with
twenty tons of freight The trip was
made m eight days. The water was
as low as we often see it. and the boat
drew twelve inches of water. This
fact tells Us that boats can be made to
navigate the Kansas river, though
they must be small and ofl;ghf draft.
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RA new town has been project
ed on the great bend Of the Arkansas.
probably two hundred miles west Of
Kansas City. It is bold strike. bat
sgood one.
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transact business, and who shall have
power to assess taxes for the improve
ment of roads, and building of bridges
in our said county; said tax shall in
no instance exceed 81 on the 100 of
property owned by the citizens of the
county, and said County Court shall
have power to divide the county into
suitable Road Districts and hold an
annual election of Road Supervisor
in each road district of the county.
They shall, also, be constituted a
Court of Appeals, from the decision
of the Mayor and Aldermen, of the
town of Hyatt. and all other towns in
the county, with power to issue legal
process for the collection of debts,
and the recovery Of stolen property,
within our said County, and also, TO
appoint Clerk and Sheriff. with dep
uties for the execution of legal process,
and enforcement of the attendance of
Juries and Witnesses.
Resoived, That the Road Supervi-
sors of each Road District, when cleo
ted shall have power, and is required
to call out and work, three days in
each year, on the roads in his district,
every able bodied male resident of his
district, between the ages of Is aud
60 years.
Resolred. That the Judge of the
County Court, shall act as County
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
and shall divide each Township in the
County, into School Districts, and
call an election in each School Dis
trict, of three School Directors, for
said District, when requested in wri-
ting to do SO, by ten residents of the
Township.
Resolved, That when School Dis
trict is organized, an annual election
shall thereafter be held, on the 1st
Monday of July, for the election of
three Directors, for the ensuing year.
ReSolped, That on the 1st Monday
of July, of each year, the citizens of
each School District, shall determine
by vote, the site for school houses,
the kind of houses, and the amount of
taxes to be assessed, for building and
repairing school houses, as also, for
the paying of teachers, and other
school expenses.
Resolved, That it shall be the duty
of the School Directors, to collect and
appropriate the taxes as assessed by
the voters of the district, and that
they shall on the 1st Monday of July,
of each year, furnish to the County
Judge, list of the children in their
district, the amount collected in dis
trict, and how expended.
RESOLVED, That be,
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ARTICLES OF FRATERNlzAIoE.

We, the citizens and residents of the
Town Of Hyatt, in Kansas, accepting
the foregoing declaration OF principles
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-07
/ No. 90.7
AN ACT

Amendatory Of the act entitled an act to
provide for taxing Banks and Bank
ing Companies, passed March %,
1850.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of Ohio,
That so many OF the branches of the
State bank of Ohio, and independent
banks as accepted and are taxed agree
able to the provisions of this act to pro-
vide for the taxing of banks and bank
ing companies, passed March 23, 1850,
shall hereafter make out under oath
their return, agreeable to the first Sec
ton of said act, and return the same to
the auditor OF the proper county where
in the banks or branches are located,
instead of to the auditor Of State; and
that the auditors of the respective coun-
ties wherein such banks or branches are
located shall place the same on the
grand duplicate of the county to be tax
ed, for all purposes, as money at inte-
rest and other capital are, at the place
where such bank or branch is located.
And the taxes arising therelrom shall
be collected by the county treasurer,
and by him paid over as all other taxes
are for State, county, township and
other purposes, in their respective coun-
ties.
SEC. ?. That so much of the act to
which this amendatory as is inconsis-
tent with this act, be and the same is
hereby repealed.
SEo 3. This act to take on and after
its passage.
Y. II. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House Of Representatives
THOMAS IL. FORD,
President Of the Senate.
April s, 1857.
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EATON, PREBLE COUNTY, 0. MAY 7, 1857.

dollars, (being ten days per diem.)
Sec. 4. For Superintendence and
repairs on section number three, Ohio
Canals, thirty-seven thousand seven
hundred dollars and for the payment
attorneys fees and incidental expenses,
two thousand dollars.
For prosecuting the work on the State
House, thirty thousand dollars.
For charging the canal on the first
level below the city of Dayton, five
thousand dollars.
For the purchase of three hundred
and fifty copies of the reports of the de-
cisions of the Supreme Court, published
in 1856, under the act of April II, 1854,
at one dollar and sixty cents per volume,
FIVE hundred and sixty dollars.
SEC. 5. For paying balance due on
account of expenses incurred by the
joint committee of the General Assem-
by appointed on the eleventh day of
April last, to investigate the transactions
and expenditures of the Board of Pub
lie Works, for service of various persons
employed by said committee, travelling
and other incidental expenses, including
the per diem allowance to the members
of said committee, as members Of the
General Assembly, the gross sum of
eight hundred and ninety-two dollars
and forty-two cents; and
For the payment Of balances due on
account of similar expenses incurred by
the joint committee appointed at the
aforesaid time, to investigate the trans
actions and expenditures about the new
State House, the Penitentiary, the three
Lunatic Asylums, and the Blind and
Deaf and Dumb Asylums, inclusive of
the per diem allowance to the members
of said committee, one thousand seven
hundred and ffty-seven dollars and
ninety-nine cents.
For paying the balance due on ac-
count of similar expenses incurred by
the joint committee appointed at the
same date to investigate the transactions
Of public agents in regard to the custody
and disbursement of public moneys, in
Guiding the per diem allowance to the
members of said committee, the sum of
two hundred and eighty-threc dollars
and sixty cents.
SEC. q. The several appropriations
made to the next preceding section shall
be held TO lie in addition tosthe arpro-
priations heretofore made for the same
purposes, and as authorizing the pay
ment of the money therein appropriated
in addition to the money heretofore
drawn from the treasury on the warrants
of the Auditor of State, whether the
Auditor shall have construed the acts
making such former appropriations cor
rectly or not. And all warrants for the
payment of money appropriated by the
said preceding section, shall be predi
Gated on the certificates of the chair
man of the committc by which the ex-
pense was incurred.
Sec. Z. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its pass
age.
n. II. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives
THOMAS II. FORD,
President Of the Senate.
April 3, 1857:
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LAWS OF OHIO.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
mo. III AN ACT

mo. III AN ACT
To amend section fourteen of an act
entitled an act providing for the
Punishment of Crimes passed March
z, 1885.
General Assembly of the State of Ohio,
That section fourteen of an act entitled
" an act providing for the punishment
of crimes passed March seventh,
eighteen hundred and thirty-fve, be
amended so as to read as follows: Sec
ton IA. That if any person shall, in
the night season, wilfully, maliciously,
and forcibly break and enter into any
dwelling house, kitchen, smoke-house,
shop, office, store-house, warehouse,
malt-housc, still-house, mill, pottery,
factory, water craft, sehool-house, church
or meeting-house, barn or stable, with
intent to kill, rob, commit a rape, or
with intent to steal property of any
value, OF to commit any deed made
criminal by this act to which this is
amef1datory; every person so offending
shall be deemed guilty of burglary, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be i'm
prisoned in the penitentiary, and kept
at hard labor not more than ten nor less
than one year.
SEC. 2 That the original section
fourteen of this act aforesaid be and the
same is hereby repealed,
n. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS II. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April Sd, 1857.
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mo. 91.7 AN ACT.
To establish and fix the standard by
which Linseed or Flax-seed Oil shall
be sold, and to provide for the inspcc-
ton of barrels therefor.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State Of Ohio,
That whenever linseed or fax-secd oil
shall be sold by the barrel, and no spe-
cial agreement as to the measurement
shall be made by the parties, the stand
ard shall be seven and one-half pounds
to the gallon.
SEC. 2. That all barrels for linseed
or fax-seed oil shall be made of sound,
we'll seasoned timber, tightly bound
with strong hoops, the outward hoop On
each end shall be secured with three
nails of suitable size.
SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of
inspectors of the respective counties to
inspect such barrels intended for linseed
or fax-seed oil, and before filing the
same, ascertain the true weight Of such
barrel and when so inspected and
weighed, to mark on the barrel the true
weight with marking irons, to be pro-
Nlucu by inc inspector 1of tnat purpose,
together with his name and name Of the
county.
SEC. 4 That the inspectors shall be
entitled to receive ten cents per barrel
for each barrel intended for inseed or
fax-seed oil by him inspected and
weighed, when the quantity required to
be inspected and weighed at amy one
time, is less than twenty-five barrels,
and when the quantity exceeds twenty
Eye barrels his feca shalt be fixcs cha1t2
per barrel; and in all cases five cents
per mile for every mile necessarily
travelled in the performance of his duty.
n II. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS Ii. FORD,
President Of the Senate.
April 8, 1857.