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of the State of Kanzas, as one of the inde-
pendent and sovereign States of the Union,
as may be convenient.
SEC. IS. Oaths of Office may be admin
Iistered by any Judge. Justice of the Peace,
or clerk of any court of record of the Ter
ritorv or State of Kanzas, until the Legis-
lature of the State may otherwise direct.
SEC. IA. That after the year one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four, whenever the
Legislature shall think it necessary to amend,
alter and change this Constitution, they
shall recommend to the electors, at the next
general election, two-thirds of the members
of each House concurring, to vote for or
against calling Convention and if it ap-
pear that majority of all the citizens of the
State have voted for Convention, the Leg
islature shall, at its next regular session,
call Convention, to consist of as many
members as there may be in the House of
Representatives at the time, to be chosen in
the same manner, at the same places, and
by the same electors that chose the Repre-
sentatives; said delegates so elected shall
meet within three months after said election,
for the purpose of revising, amending or
changing the Constitution. But no altera-
ton shall be made to affect the right of prop
erty in the ownership of slaves.
SEC. 15. Until the Legislature elected in
accordance with the provisions of this con-
stitution shall otherwise direct, the salary
of the Governor shall be $4,000 per an
mum; and the salary of the Lieutenant
Governor shall be double the pay of State
Senator; and the pay of members of the
Legislature shsll be SIS per diem, until 9TH
erwise provided by the first Legislature,
which shall fix the salaries of all officers
other than those elected by the people at
the first election.
SEC. Is. This Constitution shall take eff
feet and be in force from and after its rati-
fication by the people as hereinbefore
provided.
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PIows! PIovs! Plows!

"E call especial attention to the following ad-
w vertisement, from which it will be seen tba,
We the only agents Kanzas for the sale Of IL
Celebrated Moline Center Draft PIow.
We have sold several hundred of them this .easo,
and all give perfect satisfaction.
ALLEN & GILMORE
John Deere's Moline PloWs in Kanzasr
ON the opening of navigation in the sprino 7
~ shall send to Messrs. Allen Gilmore, Law.
renee, h. T., q large assortment of Breakers of all
sizes, especially of my extra Two-Horse MonIJ
Board Breakers, which has received the highest
commendations from all who have used them: al.
so great variety of Stirring or old Ground Plows
among which would mention the Improved Clin
per, the No. 4 or Eng. cast steel Plow, and the
Michigan Double or Subsoil Plow, which should
receive the especial attention of those who wish To
raise crop the first year. have made some i'm
provements on this plow from last year. and be-
heve it is now perfect to be used on Western soil
Also, Corn Plows, Cultivators double and single
Shovel Plows, Rolling Cutters and Clasps, Gauge
Wheels, Truck Wheels, and other Plow fixtures
The quality of the stock used in my plows is not
equalied by any establishment in the West, and
the plows are finished in a very superior style
Having been engaged for eighteen years in the
ma nuacture of plows for in the Western States
entirely, can confidently say to emigrants from
the Eastern States, that these plows lUa scour and
work perfectly In any soil in the Mississippi Val
ley.
Ali orders addressed to ALLEN 4 GILMORE, Law.
renee, h. T., or to me at Moline. Rock Island Co.
H., will receive UToHlDt attention
june6-Iv JOHN DEERE.
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NEW PROSPECTUS OF THE ~
s cIETNIFIc AM ERlcAN
VOLUME THIRTEEN.
To Mechanics. Msuafaetarers. IsDentor. & Farmers

To Mechanics, MGnafaeturers, InOentoTs g. Farmers.
TN announcing the Thirteenth Annual Volume
/ of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, which commenced
on the 18th of September, the Editors and Publish
ers embrace this opportunity to thank their numer-
our friends and subscribers for the encouraging
and very liberal support heretofore extended to
their Journal and they would again re-assure their
patrons of the determination to render the ScIEN-
TIFIc American more and more useful, and more
and more worthy of their continued confidence
and good will The undersigned point to the
past as guarantee of their disposition to always
deal Justly and discriminatory with all subjects
of Scientific and Mechanical character which
comes within their legitimate purview.
Having entirely discarded the system of em-
poying itinerant agents to obtain subscribers, the
Publishers of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN propose
to offer
ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOL
LARS IN CASH PREMIUMS
for the fifteen largest lists of subscribers sent In
by the first of January, 1858; said premiums to
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Clarke's Newly Patented
Combined Grinding and Boiling, or MerchGnt
FL o u r NC NIL
rHE GREATEsr INvENTIoN or THE AGE

THE GREATEST INVENTION OF THE AGE.
TNHE complete Mill occupies space 26 feet long,
1 B feet wide, and feet high. Grinding and
Boting at q single operationI Warranted to grind
from 10 to Is bushels per hourl requiring only
from six TO ght horsepower Making as LARGE
a yield, and as GOOD quality of Flour any 9th
er Mu in use. Every person having mill
should by all means have one of these mills at
tached. Also, all Town Companies should pur-
chase rights Cost of mill at ST. Louis, boxed
ready for shipping, only $780, For further infor-
nation or for the purchase of Mills or for rights
in LeavenwOrth county, or town or County rights
south of the Kanzas river, in Kanzas, address
N. WOOD d CO.,
Real Estate Agents, Lawrence, Kanzas.
sep26-3m.
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HI o r. n s B Y s. FIG K,
RCH NTS.
EhIPORIA,

EhPOR1A, kANZAS,
HAVE opened large, seasonable and we'll
i Il selected stock of Goods in their
New Store House, Directly Opposite to the
EmpOria Hotel,
where they will be pleased to accommodate all
who may need anything in their line on the LOW
EST POSSIBLE TERMS. We would state to
the people of this vicinity and the public general
ly, that having purchased our goods in st. Louis,
and shipped them, without unpacking, directly to
this place, enabled to sell as cheap, and in
most cases cheaper, than any other establishment
West of the Missouri river. A full supply of ev-
erything usually found in Western Stores will be
kept constantly on hand at prices that cannot fail
to strike, very reasonable, all who may favor us
with sheir patronage Our stock consists in part of
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Groceries,
Hardware, TinWare, Stoves, Drugs,
Medicines, &C., sc.
1t is no trouble to show Goods-call, examine
and judge for yourselves.
HORNSBY & FTCK,
Emporia, Kanzas June 9th, 1857.
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EMPORIA AND LAWRENCE
PASSENGER AND EXPRESS LINZ

ID. 4 G. NJ WALKER, PRoPR1EroRs
4 HACK will leave the Emporia House, Empo-
"A ria, for Lawrence, every Monde morning at
7 o'clock, and the Whitney House, Lawrence, for
Emporia, every Thursday morning at o'clock
Passing through Bloomington, Twin Mound, Bur
lingame, and Kanzas Centre.
AGENTs-N. S. STORRS, Emporia House, En-
poria T. L. WHITNEY, Whitney House, Law
renee augl5-6
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G.. NJ. WALKER.
BOOKS, STATIONERY, &C.
o. WILMA RTH

LAW KEN CE, kANZAS. .
WOULD inform his friends and the public gem
w orally, that he keeps on hand as good an as
soment fartcles in the above line as can be found
IN the Territory, consisting of School, Childrens
and Miscellaneous Books; also, Blank and Memo
randum Books; Writing Books, States, Pencils,
Musical Instruments, Musical Merchandise, DC
HIS CIRCULATING LIBRARY is supplied
with some of the most popular works published,
and is constantly receiving additions from the East
june6-tf.
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Steam Fire Engines.

MILL MACHINERY, PRINTING PRESSES
Va Iron Fronts, Columns, Cutters, Conductors,
Window Iintels and Sills, Moving Machines,
Threshers. and Little Giant Corn Mills, furnished
to order by ALLEN & GILMORE
Cor. Mass. 4 Winthrop sts., Lawrence
june6-ly.
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LEGAL WHITING

WTE are prepared to. draw up all manner of
w Forms for Contracts, Copartaership, Con-
veyanees, Bills of Sale, Leases, Warranty and
Mortgage Deeds, ChstteI Mortgages, Notes, de-,
&c. Instructions giSenin regard to Prescription
cases. and Declarations fled in the Registers Of
fee. iune6fel PLUMB 4 MeCLUNG.
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Lime

THE subscriber has for sale several hundred
4 bushels of superior Lime, at his kiln ON the
Neosho. Those wishing to purchase viii do well
to call soon. z LAAB
October, ID, iS57-tf
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CKSM HING.

b l. a Z Z 5 ID l I II ] n g.
j. b. COX,
"AVING established himself in the above
Ii business at Emporia, would announce to the
people of the surrounding country that he is fully
prepared to do all manner of work in his line Of
business, in the best manner. He flatters himself
: : IT with his long experience at the business he
e,e able to give the fullest satisfaction to all
It Iron p favor him with their patronage. His
e a5 atlsw will be reasonable.
& slfmporia, August l, 1S57-tf
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DAVID A. POWELL,
Steam Engine and Boiler Builder.

Butler ST., bet. Congress and Front Cincinnati, o.
All sizes of Portable Circular Saw Mills, Cast
Iron Water Wheels, for Saw and Grist Mills, Saw
Upright Drills, Screw Cutters, de-, made to order.
Second handed Engines and Boilers for sale.
iune6-ly*
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MANUFACTURERS or
Forsman's Grinding and Bolting Custom
or Merchant Flouring Mills,
AND THE CELEBRATED
Double Action Steel Wire Cloth Flour Bolt.
M ILLS with two pair of Burrs SO inch. diane
IHI ter Conveyors, Elevators and Bolts. all ready
for use, occupy feet long, feet wide, feet HIGH
will grind and bolt 500 bushels per day, making
better Flour. and larger yields, using less power
than other Mills; VIII grind any u kind of Grain
Mill weighs 5000 lbs. Cost $1,000
Mills of any number and size of Burrs, with or
without Bolt, made to order.
Bolts that viii bolt from 100 to $50 bbls of Flour
per day occupy from to 10 feet long, from to
31s feet wide, and to AZ feet high. Cost sepa-
rately from Mills, from 1895 to $460.
Factory, East Front Street, one square above the
Water Works.
FOfice, No 25 Pearl street, Cincinnati Ohio.
PLUMB & MoCLUNG, Agents,
Juneb-6m Emporia, Kanzas.
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BURLNGAMF HOUSE.

BURLINGAME, (LATE COUNCIL cIrY) KANzAs
GEORGE BRATTON, :: : Proprietor,
This House is now open for the reception of
Travellers and Boarders. Terms reasonable
nl-tf
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!. ". HoopwaRp.
3. VI. WOODWARD
CITY DRUG STORE.
WoodWard's Block. Lawrence. 70
w 30 D w ARD s. FINLFV s'

nRUGS. PATENT MEDICINES. PAINT,
~ Oils and Varnishes, Window Glass and 1,d.e-'
ware, Brushes, Perfumeries, Fancy and To;ss.
Articles, Fine Brandes, Wine, de-, for Med;c;nee11
Purposes. Aiso-Books, Stationery, Periodicals
Sheet Music, de-, DC
Country dealers, Physicians, and all Others o..
invited to call and examine our stock, which tba'
will find the largest and best assorted in this To-
ritory, all of which viii be sold on the most H.
raj terms. All orders promptly attended to.
iu20-&f
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]. Y. RANDOLPH.

EMPORIA, KANZAS.
Holds himself in readiness to attend to Survey
ing in all its branches. iy4-tf
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E. B. KirkendaIl,
p II A CT ICAII SURV EY o Z .
OFFIcE-Fom miles west of Emporia, Kanzas.
ju20-tf
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Valuable Claim

DOTH Timber and Prairie, for sale cheap.
D oct17-2t G. V. ESKRIDGE.
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Straved--.$lO Reward

oEEdy6U's.]1U 66War0.
4 DARK BAY STALLION PONY, three years
"a old, with white hind feet, saddle marks
his back, and shod al round, strayed from the
subscriber, living the Cottonwood, five miles
west of Emporia, on Wednesday night the 5th
inst. The above reward viii be paid for the
turn Of the Pony to TO the Editor of THE
News at Emporia.
Aug. 8, '57-d. CIV. LEONHARDT.
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Town Sites /:

NULL information given with regard to the steps
i necessary TO be taken to legally secure Town
Sits. [octI7-atJ C.V.ESKRIDGL
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SECTION l. That no inconvenience may
arise by reason of a change from Terri
torial to permanent State government, it
is declared that all rights, actions. prosecu
tions, judgments, claims, and contracts, as
well of individuals as of bodies corporate,
except the bill incorporating banks by the
last Territorial Legislature, shall continue
as if no such change had taken place, and
all processes which may have issued under
the authority of the Territory of Kanzas,
shall be as valid as if issued in the name of
the State of Kanzas.
SEC. G. All laws now In force in the
Territory of Kanzas, which are not repug-
nant to this constitution. shall continue and
be of force until altered, amended or repeal
ed, by Legislature assembled under the
provisions of this Constitution.
SEC. 8. All fines, penalties, and forfeit
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Publishers and Patent Agents,
No. 12S Fulton street, New York.
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Wanted!

4 Purchaser for two good Yoke Of work Cattle.
N Cheap sale. PLUMB d McCLUNG.
augl9
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-27

IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE ARMs.-Among the minor
annoyances ofsportsmen is the loss of time and tenn
per often experienced in Gaping their pieces. DR..
ingenious man, has been experimenting upon an at
tachment which may perform this labor without
needing any attention. On Saturday last we saw and
tested this invention and found it to work with great
precision. 1t consists of tube by the sids&f the
hammer, containing caps, which by slid9fg rodNare
deposited one at time in the cavity of Ae hammer,
just before it strikes the nipple Sncf completing
this improvement, Dr. G. has made flEEther modifi-
cation, which simplfes the operations Still more He
makes the hammer somewhat larger than ordinary,
with a cavity through it that will contain thirty
caps, which can be deposited in succession upon the
tube at the moment of firing. This invention seems
so simple and yet efectual that We wonder it has
not sooner been put in operation. From its working,
we think it will do all that the inventor claims for it,
and as it be attached to any gun for small cost
and requires no change of any part but the hammer,
it will doubtless be at once received into general
favor. ISayannah Georgian.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-27

EXTREMELY PHILOSOPHICAL few weeks ago, two
unknown men drowned in bayou near Marks
yille in Avoyelles parish. jury of inquest deber-
ated over the unfortunate affair, and Feneon Cannon,
the editor and big gun Of the Central Organ" gave
birth to the following philosophical reflection
Death is quite a serious thing, and we guess it is
rather hard to die when fellow isn't exactly ready
to vamose the ranche' but, then, if poor devil is
without friends and far from his native land with only
old pocket book and twenty-five cents, in cou1i.
try where the cash is iudispensaby necessary to
existence he had better give up the ghost at once,
mankind at large.
Shade of the great and good author of "Telema-
chus = ddst thou dream that thy revered name
would be prefxed to cognomen ferociously belli-
gerent as Cannon" or fall into the possession of a
wag so phosophically funny as that same Cannon?
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-27

Re- RE-AssEssMENT OF LANDS IN VIRGINIA. - The
Richmond papers adduce the late returns of assess
ments of lands in Virginia, to show that all the talk
about worIl-out soil and the irrccoverable decline Of
Virginia is idle and not sustained by facts.
The assessments of 1850 made the aggregate
value of the real estate of Virginia $274 226 The
assessments of 1856 makes this value S379424 ,O95
and shows an increase of $9S,743,S ,S69 This last
assessment has been made too under the influence OF
doubled taxes, when combination Of circumstances
conspred to induce as low State valuation as pos
sble Each assessor living in the district he assesses
and subject himself to the taxation imposed, has OF
course no motive to exaggeate the value. The ten
dency in 1850 was to at full market value the
tendency in 1856 has been to at the very lowest
valuation, and we verify believe the real estate OF
Virginia to be worth nearer $450,000,000 thar
$375 900 ,0O0."
This looks well and indicates prosperity; yet the
last Legislature, in fixing the rate Of taxation upor
lands to have forgotten that the increase would
operate upon Il different basis Of value and hence
the complaints of heavy taxation which we occasion
ally hear from the Old Dominion.
National Intelligencer
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-27

CAPs1zED.-The Savannah Republican states, that
on the morning of the l6th the mate and two seamen
of the lishtshp near Beaufort, while out in small
boat, were capsized during heavy sea- The men
being good swimmers clung to the bottom of the boat
but the mate, after holding for some hours became
exhausted and disappeared. The other two main
tanned their position by extraordinary efforts until
o'clock P. NJ. of the following day. (Friday) when
they were picked up off Hunting Island by the pilot
boat John r. Wider and taken back to the lightship
The Georgian says they were apparently nearly
dead when first seen, having been for twenty-seven
hours exposed to the sea, with only the keel of the
boat to hold on by.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-27

Observation-Disclosures German, of Minnesota, is
sues proclamation from which we extract the fol-
lowing:
affairs of the Territory of Minnesota, requiring an
extra session of the Legislature for the purpose of pro
viding by law for holding courts and for enactng
such laws as may be deemed necessary to enable the
being admitted into the Union as State also fol
the purpose of dsposng of the grant of lands made
by the U. S. Congress at its last session, to aij
the Territory of Minnesota in constructing certair
designated railroads therein, the members of til,
Council and House of Representatives are therefore
required to meet at St. Paul on Monday, the 9th o
April 1857, and take into consideration the subiec
above specified.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-27

DEMOCRATIC APPLICATION FOR OFFICE.-The edi
tor of the Vicksburg Sentinel, who has four WIS il
his name, was appointed Collector of the port O
Vicksburg recently. He has since received the fol,
lowing note, and publishes it in his paper for the
benefit of aspirants to Office:
Mister fore doble yous Gee buy thee papers that
IL ar pinted collector of the crate and risn cety o
Nicksberg ! shud like to bee pinted deputy if soc
bee it will doc it, let me here from u.
Yours trulli,
p. S. l. am fnrst rate dimocraat and hare
shell babtist tu boot kan Civ yu best recommendations
from the edin pollyticens M Orleens, s April
S. used to play with u onst.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-27
Political Movcments-The $ Wheel IVithI,
n WheeI.7'

Political NIoycmems-The Wheel Within
Nheel.''
We find the following item of intelligence in the
Richmond (Nadison parish) Journal of the 18th inst
The Hon. John Slidell, U. S. Senator and the Hon.
John NJ. Sandige, member of Congress- passed
through parish few days since, on their way to
Shreveport. Both gentlemen appeared in excellent
health and spirits.
They were in company with DR.. Young the Presi-
dent Of our railroad and visit this portion of the
State are told, for the purpose of making them.
selves acquainted with our peculiar interests This
is very praiseworthy motive, and we doubt not the
visit will result greatly to the advantage of North
Louisiana. Whether the gentlemen had any other
object in view we leave to the individual who solved
the " wheel within wheel problem, and we shall
turn the matter over to the asue editors of the New
Orleans Courier.
The editors of the Felicana Democrat are the an.
thors of the article entitled "A Wheel within q
Wheel copied into these columns two or three
weeks since. To refresh the public mind we repro.
duce paragraph from the article in question:
There is an organized party acthin the Democratic
party of Louisiana, as perfect we believe in all its
arrangements and in its operations, its plans and its
secret purposes Know Nothingsm ever was in the
prestige of its greatest strength and hope and be-
lieve is destined ere long to fall ignoble. The
organs and secondeaders of this inside secret Demo-
cratic organization may generally be known by their
lippant denunciations of all Democrats who do not
bow submissivcly to their plans and behess, in cpl
thets and terms of rdicue and abuse, wishywashy
disappointed olice-seekers, and such like. Let them
go the Indignation of outraged party will burst
in laundering peals about their ears ere they are
aware.
At the time the article appeared of which the above
extract is portion, in the columns of strong and
influential Democratic journal such as is the Feciana
Democrat thought it rather severe upon portion
of the Democracy, and commented upon it accord.
ingly in our usual independent way. The State ga.
zette replied to the Feciana Democrat, and the Fell
ciana Democrat, in its issue of the lSth came back
at the State gazette with response remarkable for
its severity and bitterness if for nothing else. Up to
this time the State gazette has been silent in regard
to the onslaught of the Felicana Democrat of the
18th. Whether it will open its batteries upon the
Democrat whether the last fierce cannonade Of the
Democrat has dismounted its guns and dismaned lis
bulwarks, are matters of which we are not advised
So our respected contemporary will see that the
work of dsputaton, instead of being neglected ha:
being going on quite bravely.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-27

NOTE THE FACT.-Ice on the 23d day of Apsik-A
gentleman informs that there was ice in West
Baton Rouge on Thursday morning last. As yet
we have heard of none in this parish, but the cold
was very severe on Wednesday night and on Thurs
city. What is the matter? Are we getting out of
the forbt prescribed for us-or are the poles of the
eath to keep pace with the general breaking up and
moving of things, actually coming round to oecRpy
the position in the Zodiac that belongs to by pre-
empton right? If this latter surmise has anything
to rest on. then the arctic problem of North west
passage will soon be solved LBaton Rouge Gaz 24th.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-27

The first comet is increasing its distance from the
during the whole of May. The first is now in Aunges,
the second in Perseus.
The Louisville Journal thinks that it is beyond ques
ton that the recent extraordinary weather is attrbu
table to the approaching comet and that itspassage
across our orbit or its possible collision may produce
very important and extraordinary geographical
changes" What sort of geographical changes" soal
or terrestrial? We thought you impervious to such
moonshine as this, Mr.. Journal. To use the words OF
a distinguished astronomer, there is just abont as
much chance of a collision between the earth and a
comet, as between London and Partisan omnibus.