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White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21
A BILL OF INDICTMENT AGAINST THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

The Lexington MOI Express, has drawn "
the following just and truthful Bill ofIndictneni
against the Democratic Party:
They have killed the National Banks
They have deranged the currencyi g.
They have favored State Banks;
They have stopped the manufactures;
They have reduced the tariff to free trade;
They have depleted full treasury;
They have bankrupted people and country;
They have appreciated specie;
They have deprecated labor;
They have squandered millions on Squan
Beach; not dollar on Western riversi
Their have uniformly been sectional;
They have loved Office with uDgodly lust;
They have gerrymandered the States;
They have squandered the public lands;
They have defeated all measures looking to
wise system acknowledgements;
They have violated the Constitution;
They have brought the country on the very
verge ofdissolutiOn;
They have encouraged foreign emigration
till the sceptre of Office is passing from them;
They have falsifed history;
They have retreated and advanced from and
upon all questionsi
They have DETAINED Mr.. Clay;
They have encouraged the defamation OF the
Sabbath day;
They have given Us poor Ministers;
They have Instituted and encouraged Fill
busterism;
They have failed to protect the Outposts;
They have squaAdered public money on worth
less partisans:
They have failed to govern the Territories;
They have embroiled the country in bitter
sectional disputes upon abstract issuesI
They have corrupted the ballot-boI;
and in short, have "cut such fantastic tricks
before high Heaven rs make angels blush"
For these direlictions, for their errors Of
omission and commission, they deserve to fall;
nay, must fall. The body is too pOnderOus and
rotten to much longer Withstand the assaults Of
time.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21
(From the National Intelligencer.)
TO THE EDITORS.

GENTLrNEN: May make q suggestion
through the medium of your colemns, which I
think will be acceptable to every letter-Writer
and letter reader who may chance TO read it,
The selfsealing envelopes which every body
flor the sake of convenience and dispatch) uses
are no protection against either the imperti-
Hence or dishonesty ofthose who "hanker" after
their contents. Who has not received letters
which had evidently been opened, examined,
and plastered up againH l know that many OF
mine have undergone that treatment; and, be-
tween you and me, l prefer to read my own
letters first. Wax and seal are the only securi-
ty, and they are not generally at hand. Is there
no remedy
Usethe postage stamps as a seal on the back Of
the letter. This wouldbe effectual, if the post
masters would stamp their mail mark over it,
which doubtless they would do; and, besides
this security, the delicacy ofthe postage stamp
would prevent any attempt to remove it, with
out the certainty of DETACHMENT and detection.
Ifany objections to this plan occur to you or
to your readers, IwOuld be glad to know them.
can preShe mono. M.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21
FEARFUL DECLINE N THE PRICE OF Hzs
en0Ra = y ialss mid

- 6BOE8. ~ . s4arli'ist
Misfortune never comes single While the
Democratic party Is rent BY Kansas feud, il ia
assailed even more dangerously BY the terrible
decline in the price Of the negro.
We cut the following from the RichnOnd
South: et 221d sa1
.. December II, 1857. 70
Heayy Decline IN Slssss!-The Dispatch. %,
Friday last, for the benefit Of county read.
ers," on what It no doubt thinks reliable an-
thority, gave the price Of slaves in this market
To show that the prices given in the DiPGtsh
are not to be had, and slightly artificial, and
must be above What slaves are bringing, and 70,
prexsas owners and sellers Of slaves nom being.
mis' !, / request that you publish the sale o.
seven, made on Thursday, BY the leading houss
here, and probably the same who posted the
Dispatch: A No. 1 field hand, black, % yeAEl
old, $500 No. 2, a woman, stout and healthy
q good cook, S475, No. ga No. brown, fan
cy woman, 26 years, good seamstress, $3.50
No. 4, man and wife, 20 and 80, man slightly
unsound, taken In at 500 for the pair. Ne s.
man, about 81, $416. Little niagsrs, rom s.
to 7 years, so low that they arc generally sold
in lots by the dozen. .-.----ft ,---
The above sale is regarded as . fair test sk
the market, as the subjects were fresh from the
country, and fully guaranteed, and the auction
eer exerted himselfto obtain high prices. aiI
YKRITIKR.
These are less than half the prices current SIX
months since, and the actual prospects Of tie
Democratic party do not justify the hope Of any
favorable reaction in the market.
All the cases are ineligible enough, except
case No.2. What possibly may be intended By
q Clancy iromGn" is not altogether clear
Some little room is le here for the Imagination,
The Democracy carried the last Presidential
election, on the basis Of the negro property Of
the country, then reckonsd attWo thousand mil-a
lions of dollars. Every reducti0 from these
figures isjust so much subtraction from the pow,
err and resources of the party. All is lost, ifbusk
negroes sink to FIVE hundred dollars each, and
If "liRle nigsers" are subjected to the indignity
of being bought and sold "by the 6OSsn-"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

THE FoETEIrURE OF PEE EMTIoS RreHTs--
Twelve months is allowed from the date Offset
Element in which to prove up claims on offered
land. The question has been raised whether
where parties have been misled By erroneous In
formation at the land Offices, in regard 70 the
period oftime in which they are bound 70 estAb-
lish their claims, that fact viii exempt him from
forfeiture.
II has been decided that he is bound to take
notice Of the legal inception Of his claim, and to
keep within the limitation provided BY the stat
ute. Failing 20 to do he forfeits. g. .-.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

ApvsrAeEs or ST. LOUIS, Mo.-A St. Louis
Mol Journal says that they can ship to the
North British possessions, BY the Upper Misais-
sippi; to Mexican ports BY the Lower Mississip-
nj and the Gulf; to the Canadian frontier BY the
Illinois River and the Lakes; and TO the ATTAIN
tic By the Ohio river and the railroads; and TO
the Western Plains BY the Missouri river. No
other great interior city commands such happily
radiating and such cheap carriage tonll portions
nj the confederacy.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

The Washington correspondent Of the PhilA-
eelphia Press says that Senator Douglas Went 70
the Senatorial caucus on Monday 70 state the
reason why he could not vote for the editor oT
the Union for printer; they were SOusded upon
the unretracted opinions Of the editor sf tho
Union. that the people Of a free State could nctI
exclude slavery therefrom-an opinion which
elected, when it 6sss appeared, the severe re-
probation of several prominent Denoeratie pa
nerS
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

In the Butler District, in this State. cows ere
either in very high repute, or men are shocking
low. During the recent sitting Of the CouF. o.
Common Pleas, in the town Of HamiItOa. A.
drew Cutters. for manslaughter, CkiIling JAMES
Pringle) was found guilty and sentenced ONE
year to the PeniteniiAry. While Henry Wills,
for killing a-eov, worth thirty-hve dollars, Wns
found guilty and sentenced to The State PEisss
for TWO years.-Dsgos Empire. q Ps1s
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21
Gbpitt 4oetrp.
sV1T1Te-A WINTER SCENE.

What bsstls, what q shO1i!
Every village boy is Out
On the ice:
sons are Ikstiag t0-and-fo'
eous are msrking in the ino"
Qsesr Device.
Hsrs and there q rosy gin
Ia waiting for = wbiri,
As they pass:
For Of falling tbsrsb no fssI'
eines the ice is smooth and clear
Smooth a. glass.
There 10 handsome little Ned,
With his siStrr on bis sled,
Skating by
WhiIs ice and Billy Brace
Both are striving in raes-
now they ny!
Eimbls Billy Brace win bsAti
Rut the ice is such a cheat
ne
In the water TO his chin:
Can the little fellow Iwimi
Will he drown!
No! the boys have k'hsd him out.
With many noisy shout,
And they say:
"eimpls Billy, have care
How you venture out to far
Ia the bay"
Bat the distant village chime
or bells is striking nine,
And they all
HAnsn home, with noisy shout,
Running nimbly on the route,
Great and small.
May never grow so old,
And have sympathisI so cold,
As to hate
The buSte and the noise
Made BY the village boys,
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

Coon yoR FRANK WADE-The Washingtoa
correspondent of the New York Tribune tails
the following:
A Senator in conversation, expressed surprise
that Mr.. Douglas should have turned against
the South, which had so long considered hin =
their property. .la
at surprises me-" said Senator Wade, 90
esuse never expected 70 see slave insurTee-
ton"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21
Mistrllar9uus,
THE LAssIE OF THE GLEN.
BY rHE REV. JAMES NIcoL.

rhs author Of the following beautiful song, Mini
he parish Of Traquair pleasing rural district In
e Of Tweed, South Of Scotland. This song was an
sarlisst Of his muse, and addrssISd to the lady
srwsrdI became his wife.
Where Qauir rms iweei smang the flowers,
Down BY yOn woody glen, laIIie.
Ny cottage Ttands--it shall be yOurI,
Gin ys viii be my ain, laIIis.
IN watch 70 wi lovers care,
And wi lovers se, IaIsis;
III weary Heaven wi mony prayer,
And ilka prayer for thee, lassis.
'Tis true haze nae muekls gear;
My stock it's uncO Sma', lasIie;
Nae ins-Ipun foreign class I wear,
Nor servants teAd my ca, laIIiS.
But had heir'd the British crown,
And thou O. low degree, laIsis,
A rustic lad wad hss grown,
Or shared that crown wi thee, Iassio.
Whenever sbssnt frae thy sight.
Nae pleasure smiles on me, las,isj
climb the mountain's towering height,
And cast look look to thee, lasEie.
blame the blast blaws on thy cheek;
The flower that decks thy hair, lassie,
The gales that steal thy breath sac sweet,
Ny love and envy share, lasIis.
Tffor heart that glows for thee,
Thou wilt thy heart resign, laIsie,
Then come, my Nancy, come to me-
That glowing heart is mine, Iassie.
Where ouhir rims sweet amang the flowers,
Down BY yOn woody glen, laIIis,
Ny cottage Stands-it shall be yours,
Gin We will be my ain, lassie.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

SHORT SrEEcHEs.-In the English House OF
Commons they will not hear man speak at
length who is not known beforehand to have
something to say. They cheer him down. cough
him down, laugh him down, clap him down,
stamp him doHn-Orgo down themselves to din
nsr. Long speeches are an abominatiOn. So,
remarks the Philadelphia Ledger, it will now
become at Washington. A few of the really
great men viii make just as many really great
and useful speeches as ever. Bot the
business oftbe countryis rapidly coming to be
more transacted by sharp, short, pointed speech
es, with the quick-~i:ted- resOrs, than Prosaic
orations. Senators Bigler and Douglas have
illustrated this.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

Mexico seems to be "rOtting down." Is one
of the correspondents expresses it. Canpeaehy.
Cuernsvsca and oueretarO, are IN the hands oil
reyolutionists; the Indians are ruling and ruin
ing in YucatAn, Durango, Chihuahua, sOuora,
and in parts Of Zacateeas, Jaliseo, COahuila and
Nuevo Leon. The high roads are abandoned
to robbers; commerce is checked, and in many
parts entirely ruined-tbe post routes broken up
and the nation bsggariy poor.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

The GAINESVILLE (Tenn.) Chronicle tells an
improbable story as follows:
Two young gents in GAINESVILLE, simultaneous
" fell in love with the same young lady, and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the other to be a
formidable rival, both were exceedingly jeal-
Gus. In-order to settle their claims, without
submitting them to the lady herself, one ofthe
gentlemen said to the other: "Sir, will give
YOU FIVE hundred dollars If you will retire from
the field, or / will take that amount and back
down." The gentleman to whom the PROPOSE
ton was made accepted it-thus paying five
hundred dollars for the chance Of winning a
lady's hand. This don't look like hard times,
cspecially as counting is free thing.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

It is said that Senator Gvin Is preparing. -.
viii at an early day introduce, bills orgnsiszs
two new territories West Of the Rocky Mods' :
tains-Arizona and Sierra MAdre. His cHjeesn
in part, Is 70 protect the overland mail FDgts -
the Paeiac. He also wishes 70 change the Eas-
tern boundary Of CaliSornis 70 he ersss q ne
mountains. -
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

ASNeuIAn srArEzEr-Tbe Tablet, Cath
Ole newspaper published in New York, makes
the following assertion: /" Few Insurance Com
panies, We venture to assert, would take risk
on the national life of creed which pats 1--WE
hundred daily into the grave, for one il wins to
its communion. And yet this is what Catholic
isy is doing in these States while We write"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21
FoRrY.sEHEN STATES.

The Boston Journal says, would one believe,
without looking into it, that we are in fair
way of carrying the number of sovereign States,
originally thirteen, and now thirty-one, up to
forty seven. But so it is. In the first place,
there are Oregon, Kansas and Minnesota, whose
constitutions are already formed or forming. 1t
is hoped they will be admitted the coming win
ter, making the members Of the Confederacy
thirty-four. Then New Mexico, Nebraska and
Washington, already thriving territories, will
swell the aggregate to thirty-seyen. -Four new
States to be carried out of Texas, according to
provisions in the treaty Of annexation, will give
us forty-one. Two additionalStates demanded
from the area now included in California, would
make forty-three; Arizona, Neosho, Dacotah
and Columbus Territories carry US up to forty
si1-and lovely Utah will be the forty seventh.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

Prentice, of Che Louisville Journal says that
the fault With the female Yankee tesche" Who
20 westward, Is, that instead Of teaching other
DeOple's children, they soon go to teaehing their
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

There is clerk in the New York Post ones.
Of thirty years standing. He formerly carried
the whole Southern mail in = BAG under hIs I'm
across The river to Jersey City,. ThAsane m.n
now amounts 70 ten thousand pounds dAiyli {,
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

President KimbaIl, Mornan, boass shsi ~
has had altogether about hfsy Shildssn.'' -
that he Is "dOing the WORK ofAkuhAns Eassfi
and Jacob" Hs3 az
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

An OLD LEGAL PRiScIPLE IN DIsREFurE.-That
old principle of English law which says that
emo man shall be put twice in jeopardy for the
same offence,"-a principle that dates beyond
the days of Alfred-is getting into disrepute in
England.
The Law Times, q periodical published in
London, in noticing the verdict of areeenterim-
inal trial, says
"The courts have gradually restricted the
meaning of this once cherished maxim, until,
in the case now under consideration, it has been
reduced to nullity. We are not prepared to
say whether such result is desirable, or if is
not for the public advantage that persons accu-
sed of crime should be subject to continual trials
until conviction is obtained. Our present pur-
pose is merely to record the fact Of the annihi-
lation of another of the famous old maIims Of
our jurisprudence, in the hope that the spirit
and letter of the law may be brought into agree
ment, and that one impartial rsle may be ap,
piled to all offenders"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

Robert J. Walker. although for more than
thirty years q southern man, was born In Fem
sylVauia in 1901. 81.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

The Constitution regulates the pohcy OF the
country, and the Democratic party expound,
adnniniiter and enforce the Constitution
Times.
Oh, yes. The Democratic party expound "
the Constitution in Kansas BY bogus election re-
turns, and hooking the people with popular sov-
ereignty. In Minnesota they administer y it
by marching painted Indians to the polls, and
stealing Forts Smelling and Ripley. In Wis
cousin they enforce " it by usurping the Office
Of Governor, and holding it until dispossessed
BY the highest judicial tribunal IN the State
President Buchanan eIpounds the Constitu-
ton by declaring that it carries slavery into the
Territories The Washington Union, his organ.
expounds it BY claiming that it carries slavery
into the States, and Stephen A. Douglas e1-
pounds it by affirming that the Missouri Com
promise vas " sacred thing akin to the Con-
stitution.''-
The Democratic party is indeed, great eI-
pounder.-Chiesss Journal
aEvfl communications corrupt good manners
-Bible.-P taiadegieT.
All, indeed, Bro. Piaiudealer. But do tai Us
uha. chapter and verse Of the Bible contains
the sAldte1t For Bible read "ecpy hoOk. -
Dsytoa Eapire. ,.,r.,. &C.,
Please sverhsui the 18th chapter Of LIST Cor.
inthians, ga verse. and when found make
note on ito. S Journal
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-21

The Democratic party is indeed, great eI-
pounder.-Chieess Journal
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-06-12
AROMATIC SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS, &c
The London Club House Gin
THE LONDON CLUB HOUSE GIN
WILLIAM III. DAILY,
L. p. FISHERS

A DVERTISING AGENCY, San Francis.
~ co--No 171@ Washington street, up stairs,
nearly opposite Magure's Opera House.
l.. p. FISHER is the authorized Agent Of the
TRINITY JOURNAL, Weavervillc ; Sacramento I'm
ion Marysvlle Herald San Joaquin Republ-
can, Stockton Pacific Methodist, Stockton So
nora Herald Nevada Journal Grass Valley
Telegraph Red Bluff Beacon Columbia Ga
zette Tuoumne Courier Mountain Democrat
Placcrville: Empire County Argus Placerville :;
Calayeras Chronicle Mokeumne Hill Shasta
Courier Marposa Gazette Ireka Weekly Tn
ion Iowa Hill News; Weekly Ledger, Jackson !;
San Jose Telegraph; Sonoma County Journal /;
Folsom Dispatch California Mining Journal !;
Los Angeles Star; Santa Barbara Gazette San
Diego Herald Alameda County Gazette; Pla-
Ger Courier, Yankee JIms Napa County Re-
porter Sierra Democrat, Downieville Hum
boldt Times, Union Oregonian. Portland. o. r.;
Oregon Weekly Times. Portland, O. T. Oregon
Statesman. Salem @. y. Jacksonville Herald,
Jacksonville, o. r.; Pioneer and Democrat,
Olympia, w. T.. Washington Republican, Stella
COON, w. t.. Polynesian, Honolulu, s. I. Paci-
fc Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu S. l.. Mex
lean Extraordinary, City Of Mexico llongkong
Register.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-06-12

READING SPEECHES. Reading from manu-.
script strips oratory of its mightest armor-t the
eloquence of the eye and of gesture. Burning
and inspired, indeed, must the words be which,
if read forth with no auxiliary but intonation,
will rouse the human passions like the eloquence
which is driven forth by the impusive gesture of
the arms and lighted to its destination by the fire
which genius or passion kindles in the eye. Te
compare the relative effects is an absurdity; one
il the quiet stream that follows its channel
through the still valley, the other is the swollen
torrent which tbunders through the mountain
gorges with fury that nothing but its Creator
can resist When the Indian chief is preparing
for battle, he barangues his warriors with all the
passion Of gesture, look and language when a
State is in danger, the statesman speaks 20 the
people with all the earnestness of iear when a
man 'pleadeth with his friend, he looks in his
eye and stretches out his hand, and his words are
less effective than the signs of emotion; when a
mortal is in distress or fear of death, he clasps
his hands and looks upward, while the tongue
may utter no sound, and yet the panomime ex-
presses faith and hope louder than they could be
fung from a chime Of cathedral bells; and so all
through nature the language of signs is the elo-
quencc of intense passion and desire, when words
fail, even TO the young child who, when hungry,
lays his hand on his mothers breast in supplica-
tion and hope.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-06-12
Sherif's Sale.

by VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF FORE
ID closure and Decree of Sale, to me directed.
issued out of the Hon. District Court of the Ninth
Judicial District, in and for the county of Trinity
and State OF California, on the 25th day of Nav,
A. D. 1858, in favor of NJ Leary and against
Willard Goss and A. Shepard, for the sum Of
ono thousand dollars ($l000) principal and two
hundred and thirteen and 75-l00 dollars (S213
$4,000 interest, and thirty five 75-lO0 dollars
(S35 75-l00) costs of Of Court, with seventy five
50-l00 dollars 1875 -100) costs accrued upon
former writ in this behalf together with accru-
ing costs and interest at the rate of three per
cent. per month, will expose at public SALE to
the highest and best bidder, for cash. at the Court
House door, in the town Of Wcavervillc, between
the hours of 10 o'clock, a. m, and p. m., on
Friday, June 18th, 1853,
all the right, title, interest and claim of said Goss
& Shepard in an to the following described pro-
perty, to wit g The saw mill known as Shepard
& Co.'S mill, on Weaver Creek, in said county at
the junction of East and West Weaver creeks
with the lumber yard, water privilege, tools
teams and appurtenances thereunto belonging or
in anywise appertaining, together with all that
certain piece or parcel of land on which the said
mill is situated, and which was originally recorded
In Recorders office Trinity county, by one Street
containing one hundred and sixty acres of land,
more or less, together with the appurtenances.n
JOHN b. MAY, Sheriff.
by r. G. STUART Deputy.
May 2S 1858. l9td.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-06-12

How THEY USED TO LOOK FOR GoID.-First,
about 80 pounds of flour strapped crosswise on
his back, in such manner that when tired he
could rest the burthen against the root of tree
and take breath without unlading; then few
pounds of pork, or of fresh beef, for the first
day or two, and whatever else in the provision
line be could purchase. Then frying pan, gold
pan-the latter used to mix bread in--coffee pot
and tin cup, completed his kitchen utensils. A
pair of blankets were tightly rolled up, in which
was deposited tobacco and other little extras,
among which were sometimes included pack of
cards and a bottle of brandy; the latter placed
In tho upper end of the roll for convenience sake
should ii be wanted on the road The pick was
strapped on the blankets, while the shovel was
carried in his hand to help the traveller up the
hill, or to dig steps in the snow on the steep
hillside. A hatchct and the rife completed bis
equipments.