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The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20
A Political Cemetery.

1t is a general complaint in Kanzas, that
the people are cursed by numerous horde
of politicians who use the cloak of Free
Stateism to accomplish their own aggran-
dizement and particular party purposes.
1t would seem as if Providence had at last
taken compassion upon US and by means of
the Minneola Capital scheme into which our
immaculate Legislators have SO eagerly
rushed, provided mode of ridding our
people of a large number of the political
spectators and demagogues with whom
they are burthened. The town site of Min
nicola will make beautiful location for a
cemetery, in which to bury decently the re-
mains of those politicians who have so reck-
lessly committed suicide.
We trust that all due respect viii be paid
to the departed, and propose as fitting cpl
taph for their tombstone the following =
'tHe died of twenty thousand dollars worth
of Minneola stock"
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20
A Premium onRufiianism.

That august and dignifed body. yclept
H Territorial Legislature thank
Heaven, has diourned-among other equal
ly important and notable actions. passed a
resolution inviting the notorious Sheriff
Jones TO seat within the bar of the House,
and refused to extend the same courtesy to
Mr.. Redpath, Editor of the Crusader of
Freedom, who has been an earnest and effect
i've laborer In the Free State ranks for the
last three years A Free State Legislature
paying a premium for Border Ruffanism
Comment is unnecessary.
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20

The Nebraska Legislature have enliyened
their proceedings by expelling Mr.. Robert
son, of the Omaha Ne6raskian, from the
hall where he was acting as reporter. lie
has, it seems, reviewed the political history
of some of the members. One of the graTest
charges against him was calling enc OF the
members SO small potato r.
We understand that the Florence fragment
of the Legislature adjourned on the 17th
ult., upon the arrival Of Gov Richardson
the other wing. At Omaha, is probably SUI
in session.
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20
The Thirty Pieces of Silver.

The following item. which we clip from
the Washington Correspondence of an East
ern paper. is significant as showing The pay
to be won by those Northern traitors who,
Judas-like, are about 10 sell themselves to
do the bidding of the slaveocracy:
'The President will continue to hold back
the nominations for number of important
civil and diplomatic Offices till the Kanzas
question be settled
There is world of meaning in that short
sentence.
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20
The Territorial Legislsture--A Bill of
Indictment. |

The. Territorial Legislsture--A Bill OF
Indictment.
Last fall when the question of abandon
ing our old policy of '.non-recognitE0n was
introduced, one of the main arguments
brought forward in favor of the policy Of
voting was, that the Legislature to be elected
could repeal all laws previously passed. and
give the people a wholesome code in theiI
place. We were told that the ssbattery'
which had 50 long played upon our ranks
would be captured, and their ssguns spiked =
An through the canvass it was kept be-
fore the people that the repeal of the bogus
laws should be the first thing done /; that
the unjust apportionment should be RENE
died; that the path should be cleared of all
membranes in the way of the State Gov
ernment; that if laws were enacted they
should be of good and wholesome charac-
ter, speaking the sentiments of the Freemen
of Kanzas. Let us see how our Legislators
have fulfilled these expectations.
Now that they have adjourned, we are en-
abled to see what they have done. They
held an extra session of over a week at Le-
compton, and have been in session at Law
renee the regular period of forty days.
They have failed to repeal the iniquitous
enactments of their Rufian predecessors
all measures having that object in view hav-
ing been poeketed IN committee, or lost be-
tween the two Houses.
They refused to do anything to strength
en- the State Government, and treated its
members with contempt.
They occupied three-fourths of their ses-
sion in granting special privileges to spec
ulators.
They have chartered ''shinplaster"
Banking Institution, with extraordinary
privileges, which viii flood the country with
"wild cat currency, deranging the COM
mereial interests of the Territory, and pre-
pairing the way for financial "smash-up."
They have refused to remedy the iniqui-
tous apportionment of their Border Rufian
predecessors-an nineteen counties, con-
tanning nearlg one half of the whole popu-
lation of the Territory are as completely dis
franchised as by the Border Rufians; be-
ing allowed but three Representatives. om Of
thirty -ninei
They did not abolish slavery in the Ter
ritory.
They located the Territorial Capital thro'
monstrous scheme of fraud and corrup-
ton, unequalled by anything that the Bor-
der Ruffian Legislature ever done.
They have sacrificed the interests of the
people to the advancement of their own Pc
cuniary and political aggrandizement.
For all these things they viii be tried be-
fore the tribunal of an outraged people, and
deserve to be held in perpetual and scornful
remembrance.
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20

A gentleman living in this vicinity who
left Lawrence a few days before the Legis-
lature adjourned, said that people in that
section had begun to think that the first
Border Rufian Legislature was pretty de-
cent and respectable body. The Free STATE
Territorial Legislature has done for the Bor-
der Rufians, what Buchanan is doing for
Pierce's Administration-made them re-
spectacle.
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20
The Boilers Showing their Hand.

A document is in circulation in Law
renee, among the members. of the Terrific
rial Legislature and others, for the purpose
of obtaining subscriptions to establish a
81 'Free-State Democratic organ out of the
ruins of the Herald Of Freedom. It is to
be the organ of the party of which Walker
dreamed, for which the late bolt in the Free
State party was made, and to establish which
for months past certain prominent Free State
politicians have labored assidiously. Brown
nonsinally retires from the chair editorial,
but is to control the business department of
this concern We are glad to see, gentle
men Hunkers, that you have found courage
at last to show your hand, and We shall
know where and when to meet you.
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20

The steamer Fanny Fern, a stern wheeler
running between St. Louis and Cincinnati,
burst her boiler, above North Bend IN the
Ohio. few days ago, by which accident
some fourteen persons we're killed, and ses.
eral others were badly scalded. The ooa1
was valued at S1s, 600. and was insured IN
Pittsburgh for $4,000.
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20
Tun Outf

We hope that our citizens wiz turn out
as generally as possible to the Convention
to be held at Kanzas Center on next Satur-
day, the eth inst Itisof vital importance
that The persons selected to represent this
county in the Constitutional Convention
should be good ones-who cannot be bought
with town shares. Turn out!
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20
The Constitutional Convention.


We have received copy of the Bill pass
ed by the Territorial Legislature providing
for the election of Delegates to Constitu-
tional Convention The election for Dele
gates is to be held on the End Tuesday 1.-THE
9th) of March next, and the Convention to
assemble on the fourth Tuesday of the same
month, at Minneola. The Constitution
framed is to be submitted to the people on
the third Tuesday of May next.
The apportionment of Delegates is as fol-
lows:
Leayenworth, Is; Douglas and johnson,
13; Doniphan, 8; Atehison, 5; Brown, 8;
Nemaha, e; Marshall, 1; Riley, 3; Pota-
watomie, 2; Calhoun, e; Dickinson, 1; Clay
and Washington, /; Butler and Hunter, /;
Weller, /; McGee, 1; Dorm, /; Wise, l.;
Greenwood, I; Wilson and Godfrey, 1; Da-
Wis, i; Madison, L; Breckenridge, 3; Rich
ardson, g; Woodson, 1; Coffey, 3; Shaw
nee, E; Anderson, 3; Franklin, 2; Bourbon
and Allen, 5; Linn, A; Lykins, 4; Jeffer-
son, 4.
Section third provides
''That the several precincts in each coun-
ty or district shall be defined, and places of
voting established, and three judges in each
appointed by the Commissioners selected by
the Governor, under an act entitled, ''An
act submitting the Constitution framed at
Lecomptnn," under the act of the Legisla-
tive Assembly of Kanzas Territory, enti-
tied can act to provide for taking census,
and of election of delegates to ConEen-
tion,' passed February 18th, 1857, as far
as may be applicable to the districts afore-
said.''
We shall publish the Act entire next week.
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20

The Nebraska Republicans held meet
ing st 0maha last Monday evening. ior
the ostensible purpose of taking measure
to organize Rspublican party IN the Ter
ritory.
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20

Two new military posts are 10 be es'aD-
liohed on the Santa Fe, Nev Mexican route
one at Pawnee Fork, and the other on tn'
Upper Gmarons river Old Fort u. s''''-
viii also be rehuiIt.
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20
No be shunned.

ssMinneola'' rtOck. and Kanzas ..Wild
Cat'' Shinplasters. Both are swindles. and
we advise all persons who do not want to
be cheated. to refuse them.
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20
KANzAs AT wAsHINeFoN.
AIness another ssBulIy Brooks, AFFAIR.

CHANCES OF THE LECoMPToE coNsTI.
TUITION IMPROVING
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20

Look out for the .WiId Cals!'.
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20
From Lawrence.

The Mihneoliaas and Union Savers .Join
Hands-A Grand "Horaoaiam The
Territorial Legislature Expires, de-, dc.
The Kanzas news., 1858-02-20

The weather IS warm and pleasant.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-18
BALTIMORE.
MONDAY, OCTOBER Is. 1853.

VIVA Fatal mistake-that of the Rough Skins
1ost--to venture out of Baltimore into
a., r<rrrn SrArEs-out of the jurisdiction of
Mayor SWAMI into that OF the Federal Govern
-. They certainly could never have been
a,.oro that in crossing the threshold of the Gus
+,,-Uouse and Post-Office, they placed themselves
1o,ond the useful protection of the police, and out
Of reach of the friendly offices of Justice MEARIs
and Mr.. WHITNEY. They have now got where
they will find no sympathising friends among the
officers of the ANYWHERE straw bail is unknown
and where there is no removal of cases to Balt-
more county, or postponement of them to some
indefinite future. They have unwittingly commit
ted an offence for which they must answer before
Court where they will infallibly receive what of
all things in the world they have hitherto had
least reason to expect, and that is-exempary JUS
tice.
til satisfaction to the public to know that with
in the city of Baltimore there is one small spot where
the lives and persons of citizens are safe beneath
the protecting shield of the Republic, and where, in
the case of an outrage committed upon one of
the humbest of It's children, the laws and courts
of the UNION will not fail to administer that re-
dress which the laws and courts of Maryland have
long since ceased to afford. 1t is gratifying to
be able to state that the rutfans who on Friday
mercileSsly and wantonly beat an old man within
the precincts of the Post-0fiice have been taken
into the custody Of the UNITED STATES Marshal,
and committed to Jail b. the UNITED STATES Com
missioner, where they now remain, in default of
s. 600 good and sufficient security to appear and
answer for the offence before the UNITED STATES
Court By his action on Saturday, Mr.. HANAN
has happily repaired the consequences of his error
of the day before, when he inadvertently admitted
these parties to bail, in the insufficient sum
of $500, and took JOHN ENGLISH as one of their
Srretias
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-18

In THE american of Friday, in the same column
with two highly ''defamatory" and 'qibeous''
paragraphs, rejecting severely upon the "good
''name of our city, and calculated ITO iniure
seriously its material interests, headed respec-
lively Ceases of Shooting,'' and Ceases for
"Courf'-appears the following singular item:
VIOLATION OF CITY u DrNAxcE-Bernard Paris was
arrested on Wednesday night by Sergeant Love the
charge OF hiring pistol in the street. Justice McAlister
lined him 81 with costs.
Why BERNARD-wlsDse name exposes him to
vehement suspicion Of being an Irslman, and
who is probably called Observation-Disclosures been
arrested on Wednesday night, for doing precisely
what five thousand of his .fellow-citizens were
engaged in doing all over town, we cannot for
the life of us imagine, Did he fire his pistol at
anybody? The presumption is that he did not,
otherwise particularly if he be an Irishman-he
never in the world would have got off with ISL
''and costs" Why then, we wish to know, was
BARNEY debarred from Che pleasure of partic-
pating in the general teu-de.joie by which, ap-
propriatey enough, the election of Mr. SWAMI
was celebrated-in order to remind him, we pre-
sumo, of the means by which it was effected :?
Why should his pistol shot, of all Others,
have Jared upon the deicatey sensitive ear of the
vigilant Sergeant LOVE? 1t was but a small
contribution on his part to the general noise
and confusion of the night 1t does not appear
that he sent a buf1etthrcugh anybody's window,
nor through anybodf's head Some of Mr.. SwANy's
friends were in that respect, notquite particular
In fact, when we reflect upon the enormous con-
sumption of gunpbwder which his nomination and
election have involved, and how many salutes with
firearms, both great and small, have been fired
in his honor, all equally in violation of city ordi-
nance" we think that the properest thing that
Mr.. SWAMI can do,-nextt to resigning the office to
which he has been illegally elected and which,
therefore, he cannot hold without dishonor,-
would be to remit this poor fellows fine Or pay
it out of his own pocket.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-18
STATE AGRICTJL TTRdL FAIR

The eleventh annual exhibition of the Maryland
State Agricultural Society will be opened to-mor-
row morning, at the Cattle Show Grounds on
Charles street avenue, and will be continued for
four days. Unusual exertions have been made by
the Managers, with the view of rendering it the
most attractive Fair held in this city, and such
police arrangements have been effected as we trust
will.secure the preservation of good order The
occasion is one not only afording the most agreea-
BILE social intercourse with fellow citizens from
every portion of the State but contributing in its
results, very materially, to the wealth and prosper
ty of our city. 1t therefore becomes the merchants
and business men generally, while extending their
proverbial hospitality to the strangers in their
midst, to encourage and promote, in every way
possible the interests of the Agricultural Society
The annual meeting of the Society will be held this
evening at Carroll Hall.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-18
HE COPYRIGHT CONGRESS AT RRrSsEI.s-

THE COPYRIGHT CONGRESS AT BRUSSELS.
From The London Times. oct. .
During the last week number Of gentlemen
more less connected with art and literature have
met at Brussels to discuss the question of interna
tional copyrights The sittngs of the - Congress
International ''de Ia Propriete Laf,eraire et 4rig-
tjguc" are over, and the results are not unim-
pOrtant.
On the 28th ult., the chair was offered to NJ Ro-
gier, the Minister Of the Interior who made short
but appropriate speech, which was followed by
loud and unanimous cheering.
The result of the Congress may be thus briefly
stated
81. international admission of the right of liter
airy and artistic copyright, with without recipro-
city.
90. The establishment of uniform law, that
protection to the produce of intellect may be uni
yersal.
"3. Complete equality between native and for
eign authors.
"a. A simplifcation of the formaities required
for author to publish his work in foreign coun-
trythat is to say, that the fact of his having COM
piled with the requirement in his own country
shall be sufficient.
IS. Dramatic works and plutual compositions to
be placed on the same footing as library works, as
regards copyright.
"6. An authors or compostor's right over there
presentations or performance of his works.
81. Works of design, painting sculpture, archi-
lecture and engraving to be placed on the same
footing as regards copyright works of literature.
"S. An abolition or, at least reduction of Gus
toms dues on all works of genius
The principal of perpetuity in literary and arts
tic copyright was rejected by large majority.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-18
We clip the following paragraph from Thu
american of Saturday:

american OF Sdllrudy
"PRocEEDINes oP MISUNDERSTANDING morning a
party of who belong to the Rough Skin Club took
forcibe possession of omnibus belonging Messrs
Coleman Bailey, and driving the Exchange Building
which, well the adjacent grounds belongs the Uni
States Government committed unprovoked assault
upon of the workmen engaged thereon named Brady
He is laborng advanced in years. and beaten
with undue severity"
Will our contemporary be so good as to
explain what it means by saying that Brady
''was beaten with undue severityP' 1t en-
pressly states that the assault upon him was Gun
provoked" Why, therefore we are curious to
know-ought he to have been beaten at all :?
Something he must have done, surely which, in
the opinion of our contemporary, merited chastse
ment. May we be informed what that some
thing was? A certain amount of beating, twould
seem, would have been no more than his due
In the absence of all "provocation' on his part.
we are at a loss to imagine how much that
should have been. Perhaps, the excess con-
sisted, in the Judgment of our neighbour not so
much in the amount as in the mode and manner of
his punishment. 1t may be, he ought only to have
been stuck with avis, or "hustled" and stiostledu
little, and it going beyond his deserts, to
beat him nearly to death with clubs. Besides, as
these assaults upon citizens by members of
the Rough Skin club are now growing to
be matters of daily occurrence, it would
be well for our neighbor, to define, with its
usual precision and accuracy, the exact amount
of severity" which is admissible on such occa-
sions. We anxiousy await its explanations upon
the subject
There is another point in our neighbours ac-
count OF this brutal outrage, to which we would
invite public attention. 1t discloses fact which
Is quite as disgraceful to the community, as the
language which we have quoted above is discred-
.,aoie 10 our contemporary Going on to describe
.1e conduct of the Rough Skins The americas
-ney also drew several pistols and threatened q. a
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-18

charge them at persons case any interference took
place on the part of the citizens about hundred of
secons OF the city, and caused considerable excitement
parcel of ruflians, at the hour of noon, and
in the most public place in the city, at the entrance
leading 10 the Custom-IIouSe and the Post Office
cruelty beat poor old man, an humble inoflensive
laborer, who was quietly engaged in eating his
dinner, and who had done them no earthly harm,
nor offered them, by word or deed, the smallest
provocation-and among the 1.-TWO hundred citi-
''zens" who, we are told, were there assembled,
there was not pluck and manhood enough, nor
common humanity, to rescue him from their
hands, and inlict upon his cowardly assailants
the punishment they deserved. One gentleman
there was, although the fact is not stated by The
american, who did interfere, and whatever one
man could d. he endeavored to accomplish The
rest of the ''two hundred suffered them
selves to be kept at bay by few pistols
in the hands of set of miserable vagabonds,
who are just as cowardly in heart, as they are
brutal and rufianly in conduct and who were
permitted, to the shame of our city be it told, to
drive off in triumph from the spot, in an omnibus
which had stood waiting for them in an adjoining
Suecti anu vi WHICH tney nau previously taken
orcible possession" This single fact is enough to
show how thoroughly demoralzed this community
has become, and how little claim we can have, in
our present degradation, upon the sympathy of
anybody. Nor is this solitary Illustration of the
want of proper spirit amongus How many men,
we should like to know, who pride themselves
upon their sense of personal honor-how many
gentlemen who have been accustomed to consider
blow as the last indignity which one man can
receive from another, tamey submitted, on Wednes-
day last, to be kicked and cuffed to have their
persons pricked with avis and to be ANONYMOUSLY
hustled from the polls, by the lowest and viest
blackguards in the city, and humbly thanked their
stars that their treatment was no worse? This
patient endurance Of personal wrong and insult by
the better classes Of the community, we regard as
perhaps, the most melancholy and alarming fea-
ture in our present condition, and one which
argues most unfavorably for the hope of future
redemption. Until there is a greater display of
individual courage on the part of citizens the vio-
lence of the clubs must go on unchecked Until
people cease to be afraid the Reign of Terror will
continue.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-18

SENATOR FITCH MALTREATED BY lNDIANs.-The ST.
Paul Pioneer and Democrat of the Sth inst, says:
Senator Fitch, of Indiana, accompanied by two
or three friends and guides, left this city few
yenne River, where buffalo are reported very pen-
ty. The Senator and his friends well provided
with animals, provisions, guns and ammunition. 1t
is now reported in this city, on good authority,
that the hunting party had been set upon by band
passing upon their lands took orcible possession of
the guns belonging to the hunters, maitreated and
mutiiated their horses, and cautioned the Senator
to his slaughter of buffalo and leave tho n
try pr. Fitch and his friends left immediately for