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The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09
Gen. Pomeroy.

We be lievs we have neglected to men,
ton the reelection of Gen. PoMERoY, as
Mayor o. Atchison. A more active, or
efficient Free State man does not live in
Kansas, than Gen. P, nor is there one
who has lsbored harder, or with better
success for the freedom of the Territory.
Such men, we love to see rewarded.
The editor Of the Zeitung, a German
newspaper, published at Atchison, pays
the General deserved compliment, al
luding to some opposition arrayed against
him, and in the course of his remarks,
gives a back handed blow to some of
the demagogues in that locality, quite
as appropriate for other portions of the
Territory who have recently crept into
the Free State party from the Pro- Slavery
party, and are now more radical than the
original anti-slavery men themselves.
The editor says:
at stirs our blood to see men who are
above suspicion, cast aside by those who
were but recently associated with the
Pro- Slavery party, and especially by those
who entertain such q hatred for free
dom that they only want an excuse 20
return again to their old quarters, the
Democracy.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09
Gov. Douyer.

Ere another number of our journal
shall go to press, the period will arrive
when Gov. DENvER's term of office will
have expired by his own act, he having
fixed that period on the 10th inst. We
are not willing to let the period pass with
out expressing our entire satisfaction with
his administration of Kansas affairs, so far
as has come under his jurisdiction. The
times have been less troublous than in the
past. The times that tried Governors
had passed away ere Gov. DzNvER's term
of Office commenced, but would he have
allowed himself to have become parti-
san Governor, those difficulties could have
been easily revived, with all their viru-
lence.
In leaving Kansas, as we understand it
is Gov. Denver's intention, he carries with
him the best wishes of euery citizen Of
the Territory. If journalists have CEN
sured him, it was from not understand
ing his motives, and like honest men they
viii be prompted to mako rsparation.-
Our hope is that Mr.. BUCHANAN will give
us another Governor as unexceptionable as
Gov. DENVER. If he does so, he will 50
far redeem himself in his Kansas policy,
which, in very many respects, has been
ss bad Is bad could be. a =
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09

or Over fifty wagons left here yester-
day for different sections of Sonth Kansas.
Among them were nineteen families from
the States of Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois
and Ohio. The land emigration to the
Territory for the past two weeks has been
larger than at any other time this year.
There seems to be 9 general exodus,
not only from the older Western States
bat also from the Eastern and Atlantic
States, to the rich farming valleys of
Southern Kansas. 81
There is not, probably, in all of ;ou.
public domain, q greater area Of first class
land for all branches Of farming stock
farms, produce farms, dairy, orchard and
vineyard farms, hemp tobacco and cotton
farms-and last but not least, farms for
the raising Of sheep-than 10 to be found
among the counties Of Southern Kan
sss. .
Our city Is every day crowded with de-
tachments of this immense emigration,
and there is one feature about this moving
multitude that we cannot fail TO admire
it is sn emigration Qf fathers, mothers,
sens and daughters, with all their house
hold effects, and their stock and imple-
nents Of agriculture, to provide for their
maintenance through the cultivation and
bountiss Of the seil--Jouynal Of Com
a}4Fe1. 80 60. 3..sls "a Z - -
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09
The Gold REGIONS.

A Atelegraphic dispatch from Washing
ton, dated Sept. 9th, says:
Governor Denver, writing to the Secre-
tary Of the Interior, September 18th. saws
that the late news from Pixies Peak leaves
no room to doubt the correctness of the re-
ported discoveries Of gold in that vicinity.
The explorers in that region have found
gold in the Arkansas, on the head waters
Of the Kansas, and on the South Fork of
the Platte rivers, embracing an extent Of
country more than three hundred miles
wide. The richest mines yet found are
on Cherry Creek, tributary of the South
Platte, directly north of Pixies Peak.
Gov. Denver has not yet heard of quartz
veins, but the. best information would
seem to indicate great similarity be-
tween these mines and the first discove-
ries in California.
In view of the present condition Of af-
fairs in that region, and to prevent future
difficulties, Gov. Denver advises that the
lands there be withdrawn from pre-emp-
ton, if they are open to settlement, leav-
ing them, as in the mining districts in
California, free to all who may see fit to
engage in working the mines The coun-
try, he believes, is. or has been claimed
by the Utah, the Cheyennes, the Kiowa
and Arrapahoe Indiana, and he does moi
know that their title to it has ever been
extinguished. If it has not, there will be
no trouble in Withdrawing the lands under
the operation Of the pre-emption laws
but if it has, then they ought to be with.
drawn anyhow, and the facts and reasons
reported to Congress next winter. 1t will,
he adds, also be advisable to send out
some competent person to examine the
mines, and report the facts in connection
with them.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09

The Democratic press are everywhere
quoting Hon. ELI THAYER's speech in
favor of squatter sovereignty. They even
propose in Ohio to employ him to repeat
his speeches in that State in vindication
of their past policy, and in opposition to
the views of Mr.. SEWARD, who, as late as
the last session of Congress, favored the
restoration of the Missouri Compromise.
The Republican press will now open their
batteries on Mr.. THAYER, and attempt his
annihilation. When they shall have
driven out all who no,0 are in favor of
the popular sovereignty doctrine they will
have party of leaders but no followers.
The true policy of this government is to
let the people of Territory govern them
selves, Independent of outside interfer-
ence, as do the people Of a State. We
shall be disappointed if bill is not sub
mitted to the next Congress giving to the
people of the organized Territories the
election of all their officers, Executive,
Legislative and Judicial, as fully as this
privilege is conferred upon the people Of
State. If 80, woe to that politician whs
opposes the movement.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09
The Causes.


Two causes conspired to defeat the In
dependent Free Stste Ticket in this dis
trict on Monday last. First, the fraudu-
lent tickets distributed through johnson
county, by which the moderate Free State
men, in most localities, as we shall show
elsewhere, were induced to vote for the
fire. eaters of Douglas county; and, Sec
ond, the viva Voce system of voting. In
Lawrence, for instance, whore the popular
feeling was in favor of sustaining the Re-
publican nominations, more than one
hundred voters, whose sympashies were
with the Independent Ticket, and who
would have voted for it, if not for the
outside pressure, and the influence of en-
open ballot, voted for the regular nomi-
nees. What was true of the Lawrence
poll is true of many other precincts.
In all the old States secret ballot sys-
tenn has been adopted as the surest way
to protect the voter in the exercise of his
natural rights. The system must be
adopted here, and the next Legislature
should look to it at an early day. 1t is
important that the people be protected in
the fullest enjoyment of the elective fran,
chise, and the system of the Pro-Slavery
usurpers, adopted for the perpetuation Of
our enslayement, should not be preserved
by Free State men to rob Free State men
as well as others, of their freedom.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09

EOT toc a90tO O EToouOn4.
organizatieu Meeting Of the Friends Of Progress
In accordance with proposition made
at the Basket Meeting, held at Twin
Mound on the 9th inst, meeting was
held at Lawrence on Saturday, the 25th
inst, commencing at O'Clock P. M
Henry Hiatt, Chairman, and Elizabeth NJ.
F. Denton, Secretary.
The object of the meeting, as defined
by those who took an active part in its
deliberations, was the forming of an or
ganization auxiliary to those organizations
in the States, known as Friends of Pro-
gress," Progressive Friends" &c. An
organization which, while without what
may properly be termed "Creed," or EAR
ticles of Faith" seeks to unite upon one
platform representatives Of all creeds, and
expounders of all faiths; that, by free and
fair discussion, truth may be brought to
light, and error be made apparent.
The name, Friends of Progress" was
chosen, that this organization might not
be understood as representing any denoni-
nation of Friends" (Which has some
times been the case when the name has
been Progressive Friends,") and, also, as
expressive of the real objects for which
it is formed.
Its members wish it distinctly under
stood that the platform of this organiza-
ton is free for the Religionist or Infdel;
free for the believers in the Bible of the
Christian, the Koran of the Mohammedan,
the Shaster Of the Hindoo, and equally
free for him or her whose only Bible is the
wide spread book of Nature. which is
ever open, and which no man can close.
Henry Hiatt presented the following
RESOLVED, That the laws which govern
our Physical, Moral and Spiritual natures,
are always in harmony with each other,
consequently those laws governing the
Moral and Spiritual being are as immnta-
Bile as are those which govern the Phys
ical being.
He argued from this that Miracles,
special judgments and forgiveness of sins,
were based on principles having no foun-
dation in fact, and were, consequently, un-
worthy the credit of an enlightened COM
munity and age.
On motion, it was decided by unani-
nous vote to hold the first Annual Meet.
ing of this organization, at Lawrence, on
the third Saturday and Sunday of june
next, 1859, and that the invitation to meet
with US on that occasion, be extended to
all who desire the triumph of truth, Of
whatever name or creed.
On motion, adjourned to the holding ol
the Annual Meeting of June next.
ELIZABETH NJ. F. DENTON.
Secretary
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09
swh.r. Shall I eo,,-Donis, Webster.


All over the Territory the Free State
men are coming out in opposition to Re-
publican organization. We observe in the
last Fort Scott Democrat, letter from
Capt. JOHN HAMILTON. A better or
truer Free State man has not lived in
Kansas, than this Capt. HAMILTON, but
he says in substance
II am opposed to the organization of a
Republican party. 1 have always been a
consistent Free State nan, and have
done what could to seculs its triumph,
and do not want to be 1nven away from
that party by its assuming Republican
grounds. l know large number of Free
State men who feel as lido. They were
associated with the Democratic party be-
fore they came here, and have but little
sympathy with it now, yet they will not
consent to being passed over to the Re-
publican party. will never Join it under
such circumstances, and l know my
friends will not. There has been q
movement at Fort Scott, to orgsnize the
Democracy of Southern Kansas. l at
tended that Convention, but it endorsed
Mr.. Buchanan, hence that was no place
for me-" He concludes
81 can never be Republican and have
my children educated with the free ne
gro, as the Republican party declares il
the Leavenworth Constitution, and / am
sure never can be BUCHANAN Dem.
ocrat.
"Now, as / am no aspirant, all want K
see, is, Kansas Free white State. l will
still remain voter in the Free Stat,
party until We are one of the States o.
this Union"
While such are the expressions o
Capt. HAMILTON, thousands of others fee
just like him, and they will remain to
gether "until we are a State in tn
Union" on the Big Springs Platform; ant
zoe shall remain with them, whether sue
cess or defeat follows. Like Capt. Ham
ilton we have reviewed the ichols ground
and like DANIEL WEBSTER, have in
quired, "where shall we CO." and hav
answered it by solemn resolve that W
WILL STAY RIGHT WHERE WE ARE, an
no threats, or sn eers, or abuse shall driv
us into different position.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09
iapor,.a, From rlts'. p..t-rr.a.ur. Arriving.

AAaPoitAnt 3Lokn &ike : 6oaA-A hoa1ofo arriving.
The Wyandott, Kansas, Gazette, OF
the 18th, says Yesterday ten thousand
dollars in gold dust arrived from Pixies
Peak. One man brought in $1,000 as the
result Of few weeks work. A small
boy had $1,000, which he says abe dug
down and found" and the little fellow
says che can get all he wants.
''These statements are reliable. Par
ties are daily returning for winters pro-
visions. A Mr.. Jones, an old mountain
eer, expended $1,000 in Independence
last week, for his return outfit. Mr..
Jones is well known in this vicinity, and
being an old Californian, his statements
that the Kansas mines are far ahead oi
those of California, must be believed"
Some specimens of this gold have al
ready reached this city. Several days ago
we were shown quite handful Of the
scales and dust, and yesterday Mr.. Cook,
of the firm of Cook & Matthews, of this
city, exhibited to US fine specimen. II
was sent to this city by Mr.. Cooks broth
or. 1t is a ragged lump worth about $40,
and contains few Jumps of quartz.
We are on the eve of an intense gold
excitement in the West. The presence
of large quantities of the precious materi-
al in the neighborhood of Pixies Peak is
now conceded on all sides; and during
the coming winter, thousands of adven-
turers from the western States will be
pouring along the head waters of the Ar
kansas river. Already several compa.
MES have started from this city. By next
spring the rush will be immense from all
parts Of the Union.-St. Louis Republican.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09
Slavery in Delaware.

One of the Delaware papers has re-
Gently come out with long and earnest
editorial in favor Of the abolition Of slave
~ in that State. It institutes compari-
son between Newcastle and Sussex coun-
ties, the former being practically free,
and the latter slave county. In the
former, improved land is worth over If
ty three dollars per acre, while in the lat
ter similar land is worth but seven to
eight dollars per acre. The plan of ex-
tinction proposed by the paper to which
we have alluded, is to make all children
born or brought into the State, after the
next fourth Of July, free at the ages Of
eighteen or twenty-one years. This, it
is thought, will affect no individual slave
holder seriously, while it will have an
instant and powerful influence on the gem
eral prosperity Of the State.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09
Min. Chan. far Lykans ooun,r,
Nine Chssrs for Lyhns County.
We are indebted to Messrx GLovER
and SHANNON, Of Raols, for the complete
election returns of Lykina county. They
are as follows:
I3s724a37llag7i3l3 an 37e'assI 3sa

Those marked with . star are Free
State nominations, made at Paola on the
18th ult, and in opposition to the Radi-
cal, or Republican nominations, made on
the 9Th ult. Lykins county is opposed to q
Republican organization. and her people
will resist it to the last extremity. The
Big Springs Platform is large enough for
every conservative man in Kansas to stand
upon il, and we hope they will do so.-
Those who have been crowded from it in
the past, by the Radicals, would do well
to step upon it while yet there Is rsem.
The issue is an open one in every county
and district in Kansas, whether the Free
State organization shall be deserted and
national issues formed, while We are yet
Territory.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09
For the Herald of Freedom.
Letter from John o. Watilss.
MoNEKA, Oct. End.

MoNEKA, Oct. End.
FRIEND BRowN:-Probably ne-tenths
of the men, and all the women, are
friends of the temperance cause in Kan
sas, theoretically and practically.
They believe that the use of alcoholic
drinks, as a beverage is curse to any
community, and is productive of as much
crime and pauperism as nearly all things
else combined /; and that Kansas has more
to fear from it in the future, than from
Indians, shareholders and Border Ruff
fans combined.
Such being the case, would it not be
we'll for them Just now, in the beginning
of their political existence, to meet it at
the door and forbid its entrance to keep
it forever outside its boundaries. 1t is
easier to keep it out, than when once
in, to either contract, or to .extermi-
nate it.
Like the prairie fire, better not let it
begin, lest, like that desolating element it
sweeps all before 1.-THE industry of the
farmer, the labor of the mechanic, and
the beauty of the country leaving in its
trail only blackened fields and desolated
homesteads. In this matter the Legisla-
ture wait for the people, and the people
wait for the Legislature.
It's proper that the people begin it,
and this leads me to the suggestion was
about to make, to wit that the several
counties hold delegate meetings, from
the several townships within them, at
some central place, and form county as
sociation; and that the county associa
tioIs hold grand territorial convention,
wherein the subject can be fully and fair
ly laid before the people, and the Legis-
lature, and as they declare, SO let it be.
Linn county has already taken the IN
tiatory step. A county convention, has
been called, to meet at this place, ON the
18th of the current month, and it is ex.
pectsd that Anderson, Coffey, Brecksn.
ridge and others will do the same. And
should the movement be, as it may be-
simultaneous, the first Legislature weuld
be prepared to tske measures to carry II
into immediate effect. afi
1t seems to me that no argument i,
needed, nor persuasion required with
those who have lived for years amidst it:
desolation, and toiled with tongue and pen
and money, to stay its fiery tide, toinducs
them at once to rally and stop the evil
before it has legal existence among US
If people must act politically, it is n
well to accomplish as much good as pos
sible. As ever, for God and Humanity
JOHN o. wATTLES.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09
The Gold Excitement

Almost every border paper we take up,
notices the departure Of large compa-
MES for Pixies Peak in search of gold
Perhaps we have too large caution, but
were we to advise our readers, it would
be to defer their trip to the land of gold
until about the middle of March, or lst of
April next. The'greater altitude of the
gold region viii make the season at least
a month later in the spring than it is in
this locality. Trains starting from here
with the first appearance of grass, and
consuming thirty days in their trip, will
find grass on their whole route, and will
be able to plunge at once into the mines
as soon as they arrive at their destination.
Injured to labor and exercise while travel
ing over the plains, they are fit for toll
on their arrival there, and can engage
in it with persevering energy, while
those who go out now will be compelled,
from nccsssity, to lie idle through the win
ter, period of full five months. Their
time will be spent in inactivity, and when
spring arrives, enfeebled and enervated
by their habits, they are not qualified for
the fatiguing labor required of them, and
like the Missouri company, just returned
from the same region, will be represent
ing it as hoax, and advising everybody
to stay at home who can earn eighteen
cents day.
We have no doubt but there is an
abundance of gold on the eastern slope Of
the Rocky Mountains, and cannot see any
reason why it should not be as plentiful
there as in California. The adventurous
will seek it, and find it, but they should
not be in so great hurry as to run the
risk of everything-life itself-in pursuit
1of "a shining, constant trouble"
We may be permitted to state, that
several years ago we inquired of friend
who had just returned from California,
what he thought the chances were of a
common laboring man, or a mechanic,
making money in California? He re-
piled:
"a man who can lay up money in the
States, and keep it, can make money in
California; but there is a class of men
who spend as they go;' such men cannot
make money any where, and if they &c
to California, poverty, suffering and wretch
edness will follow them. He who car
labor with his own hands, and toll from
) morning till night, week in and week out
and who will avoid dissipation, licentious
ness and gambling, and every other un
necessary expense, can amass, in year o.
two, fair property. Too many go to th'
mines with the expectation of sudde'
wealth, and return broken down in healtl
and spirits, probably mere wrecks of mel
the balance of their days"
These remarks, we have no doubt, hav,
as much practical utility now, and will
apply with as much force to those seek
ing gold in Kansas as they did six or eigh
years ago, when spoken to those enquir
: ing of California, so we give publicity t
them for the benefit of those concerned
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09
Arzppzhos oouu,y.

Gov. DESvKR, anticipating the rapid
settlement of this county by the rush to
the gold mines Of Cherry creek and Pixies
Peak, has organized Arsppahoe county
by the appointment Of the following off,
GERS: Mr.. Smith, Of Lecompton, Probate
Judge; j. Fl. St Mathew, Of Atchison,
District Attorney e. b. Wykoop, Sher-
if; Rogers, Clerk Of the Board of Super
visors. Mr.. St Mathew Is the leader Of
q company which win leave this city
next week, and most Of the ether officers
have already started. ed.-FIssdouss Cham
man u 1e.atN -. a-sl
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09
Be, All cod, 4e..

A friend of ours, residing near Ameri-
Gus, in Breckenridge county, has left
with Us some specimens of minerals
found by him in the vicinity of that
place. Improves, on investigation, to be
sulphuret ofiron, and is wholly worth
less for any purpose. By attempting to
melt it in ladls, in . ablacksmith's fire,
the sulphur viii be driven of. and moth
ing win remain but . black oxyde of
iron.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09

We learn from our Post Master, that
one Of the mail bags was found on Thurs-
day last near the Lexington road, about
Is miles from this place. The beg had
been cutopen and the Letters broken open
and Afterwards thrust back in the bag. It
proved to be 9 ST. Louis bag, containing
mails dated the 9th Of September. It 10
not known whsther the thief got any
money or net. .-1ndQsndases Nrssmgg
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09

OF Those wishing to purchase Real Es-
tate in Lawrence. will notice the sdvsr-
tissment for the sale Of the property be-
longing to the late R. ?. HoOton, to take
place at Lecompton, on Monday, the
l1th inst.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09

or It is reported that Leavsnworsh
county has elected the regular ticket BY
about 300 majority. We hsys not no
csivsd the returns g We 60 to press. =
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09

0rws observe that q Masonic L0aT'
has been instituted at Emporia- l. ~
BAILEY. Esq,, has been installed ". ~
and G. v. EsKzIpeE. Secretary.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09

o1r The Grand LodgsI. o. Q. T. q
Kansas, win meet 1t LsavsnwOrsA nsn
Tuesday. "a 81 y. .l3.Ess ~ = . y
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09

history. But we have long since buried
those feelings of hatred then engendered,
and now meet those who were laboring for
our snslavement, as true men should al
yayk meet a fallen foe.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09
TERxs.--ss.OO PER ANNUM. IN ADVANCE

Here shall the Press the Peoples rights maintain
UnaW'd By party, and unbFibed By gain,
Pledged bat to Truth, to Liberty and Law,
Ne Favor sways rs, and NO Fear ahan awe.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-10-09

" Kn.zsry is the vous szads.