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White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-10-28

"0ccAsIoNAL" on THE NEXT PREsIDEN-
cY.-A late letter from the Washington
correspondent of the Philadelphia Press
says:
at is now stated that the unfortunate
course of the Administration for the last
year is to be attributed to the intrigues Of
Presidential aspirants in the Cabinet.
The Secretary of the Treasury was anx-
ious to be restored to the favor Of the
South, and so he backed down from his
support Of Gov. Walker on the Kansas
question. while the Secretary ofthe Navy
thought if he could hold his status in the
South he would be able. to rally the New
England delegates to the Charleston Con-
vention, and so come in as a sort Of COM
promise candidate. In all this pro.
gramne. you win perceive, the Demo
cratic North was entirely ignored. That
would go. Of course, with slight greasing.
Some slight mistake has, however. occur
red in It. and it is too late to recall it.
The great Object Of the Administration
is to secure the American vote for Le-
This is its last hope. The
adopted citizens, Germans and Irish. are
against Lecompton, and it is
proposed to do without thess if the So
called Know Nothings can be secured"
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A TERRIBLE ENCOUNTER WITH Bull.
DoGs.-Yesterday Reed r. Young, the
well known pilot, was most terribly Bit
ten and lascerated BY two fierce dogs, the
property of milkman of the name of
Rhinehart, we believe. 1t occurred in the
salt river lane, in the lower part of the
city, Just as Mr.. Young was walking to-
ward the railroad track. The dogs sud-
denly jumped on him, one seizing him by
the calf Of the leg and the other attempt
ing to catch him by the throat. He had
presence Of mind sufficient to throw up
his arm in defence Of hthroat, and the
dog seized him by the arm, tearing away
the clothes and flesh inaaEerrible manner.
The other dog tore the flesh from his leg.
severing an artery. He then caught
Young by the top of his head with his
teeth, and liter lilly tore off his scalp. The
other dog fastened his fangs in his breast,
and they had so completely worried and
bitten him that he was almost exhausted,
and entirely overpowed, and but for the
timely assistance of neigbbor, would
have been killed outright. The man at
tackled them with club, and had much
difficulty in getting them loose from their
Louisville Courier, 5M.
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STEAMER MANSFIELD SoLD.-The steam
err Mansfield, which has been running be-
tween here and Omaha, has changed
hands. Capt. j. NJ. Lucas. her comman-
der and owner, yesterday. sold her to Mr..
Henry Douglass, Of this city. for SIS. 900.
Mr. Douglass is a man of untiring indus
try and enterprise, and If there is any
money in the Mansfield he will be sure
to get it on: of her. We learn that the
Mansfield viii again enter the upper trade
Immediately. Capt Morrison. the late
popular commander Of the Watossa, takes
command, and Mr. Nicely goes into the
Office. Success to the Mansfield, her new
owner and ofices.-& Joseph Journal.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-10-28

The "SoUAw TRADE "A correspon-
dent of the Milwaukee Wisconsin, wri-
ting from Cedar City, Utah Territory,
says:
A new trade is springing up between
the Utes and Piedes Indians-that Of sell
ing and buying squaws. At Harmony,
some forty miles from Washington, the
Peido Abram, having a squaw who sig
ni6ed her wish to have a younger hus-
band. marched her before the muzzle Of
his rife to Cedar, where Utes were quar-
tered, having come here for the purpose
of buing squaws for the United States
troops, and sold her to them so she had
a fair prospect Of having her desires more
than grati6ed IL is UNDERSTOOD that
agent G. Hurt is encouraging this trade.
A few davs since noise of crying was
heard in the streets went out and saw
an Indian dragging along his squaw,
while she was bowling bitterly. Upon
asking what was the cause, he replied,
"Kots ashinti mi"-she don't want me /;
having also conceived desire for another
husband, and probably she may be like
wise accommodated. There are soldiers
enough here, who have nothing to do or
think of, to furnish all the disaffected
squaws in the Territory with temporary
husbands.
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TIE CHINESE EMPIRE.-The Foreign
News which has lately been received by
the Atlantic Telegraph and various
Steam ships is decidedly the most imper-
tant which has reached rs for long time.
1t conveys the Intelligence that the War
in which the English and French have
been engaged with the Celestial Chinese
of the Central Flowery Land has result
ed in compelling the brother of the Sun
and Moon, as his 'celestial'iH ighness, the
opium smoking. almond-eyed Emperor
Of the Chinese is styled. to comply with
the demands of the foreign powers. A
Treaty of Peace has been concluded which
allows French and English Consul Gem
erals to reside at Tien Sin, near Pekin.
and to have personal audience of the En-
peror and his CRbinet when desired. 1t
also throws open for foreigH trade the
ports Of the Empire. and the interior OF
the country-so long "a sealed book to
ms outside barbarians.' But, better than
all, it opens out this vast Empire, with
its 400, O00, 600 of inhabitants, TO the
immediate influence Of the Religion of our
Savior. and invites the Christian Nations
to enter upon the work of Evangelizing
these immense numbers, now sunk IN so
much ignorance and sin. The light of
revelation is soon to shine with undim-
med splendor upon this hitherto benight-
ed and bigoted physiological in their
ignorance. joss Sticks and seclusive-
ness will take their flight together. and
this people will come into the family Of
Nations, from whom they have SO long
excluded themselves.
There are great results to be expected
from this event--a great event. indeed, to
the commercial and business world gener-
ally, as well as the Christian. Trade
with such an immense number Of people
not heretofore approachable-tond Of
luxuries and delighting in show and state,
with wealth untold to purchase what they
may wish. and with valuable productions
to barter for them, must receive an i'm
pulse not now to be calculated upon.
Christianity and commerce have an inter-
esting field before them in which to labor.
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-
There have been in the United States
three separate and distinct parties which
have successfully rejoiced in the name Of
Democratic. The first was that founded
by Jefferson, and of which he was the
head and apostle. though be never recog-
nized that name, but preferred to call him
self Republican. Indeed, it is worth
while to remark that those who substitu-
ted the name Democrat in place Of that Of
Republican, though they continued to use
the name of Jefferson and to profess TO be
his political disciples, and to call them
selves Jeffersolian Democrats, yet, by
plunging the country into the war with
England. contrary to his intention and
wishes, they led the way to an entire de-
parture from that system Of policy ofwhich
he had always been the advocate, and to
a vast increase Of Federal power and pat
ronage to which he had always been op-
posed.
The second Democratic party took its
origin in the combination to make Gen.
Jackson President. He was its apostle
and head, and it was known as the jack
son Democracy.
The third Democratic party, that now
in power, took its commencement with
the rejection of Mr.. Van Buren, BY the
Baltimore Convention, and the nomina-
ton of NJ. Polk as candidate for the
Presidency. The originator and ruling
and guiding spirit of this party, though
the fact is not recognized BY large part
of its members, and indeed here at the
North is kept carefully out of sight, be-
yond all question was John @. Calhoun !;
and this political combination may be fit
" ehristened the Calhoun Democracy
This may be news, perhaps, to good
many persons who vote the current Dem
ocratic ticket, but it is none the less true
for all that In fact, the power exercised
by John G.. Calhoun over this third So
called) Democratic party, is far more re-
markable than that possessed by Jefferson
and Jackson.-N Y. Tribune.
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Qu1TE A CH1sar-THE PAsT AND THE
PREsExT.-The Democrats seem to have
a holy horror Of the word Republican
They conceive that they have expressed
the utmost contempt for political oPPo'
nent, when they call him Black Repub'
liean. A few years have wrought greai
change in the tastes of these patriots
We have before us a Democratic paper
published in the year 1882. from which
we learn that the Democratic Republican
candidates for President and Vice Presi'
dent, were Andrew Jackson. Of Tennessee
and Martin Van Buren,, of New York
1t appears that every party was then anx'
iOus to have Republican to its name
From the same paper. We learn that tn:
National Republican candidates wer'
Henry Clay, of Kentucky, and John Ser
gesnt, of Pennsylvania. The Anti-Ma'
sonic candidates were William Writ, Of
Maryland, and Amos Ellmakcr, Of Penn.
sylvania. ;ys
There is striking similarity in the
condition of PARTIES in 1882 and in 1858.
The Democratic party then, US now, was
in power. Their strongest opponents,
were the National Republican party. The
Anti Masonic party was strong in some 10
calities, but powerless as party in tho Un-
ion. They were much abused, and bran
ded as Observation-Disclosures as nearly
as may be. like the present American
party. The great Wing party, which
soon after became such terror to the
Democracy, was composed Of union Of
the National Republicans and Anti Ma
sons, with such Democrats as the tyran-
nical policy of jackson drove from the
ranks of the Democracy. The much
abused Anti Masons became the most ar.
dent and steadfast Wings, they proved
the most faithful to the cause, and are to
this day, the most bitter opponents of bO-
gus Democracy.
The signs of the times indicate a SINH
lar fusion Of the parties Of The present
day. Measures are on foot which prom
Use speedily to bring about union of the
Republicans and the Americans-and we
are confident that none can outvie the
true A mericans in faithfulness to the cause,
and opposition to LecomptOn DemOcra-
cy. This union will likewise be strength
ened by the thousands who have been
driven from the Democratic ranks by the
tyranny of the Administration. Let us
hope that the new party may emulate the
glory of the good old Wing party, but
he blessed with much longer life.
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PIKs's PEAK, AxD CAIuFoRSIA.-The
news in regard to the abundance Of gold
at Pixies Peak, is conflicting. Some pa
pers are intent upon making people be-
lieve the gold stories all humbug while
other papers give only the bright side.
Ansextra from the Office Of the Lawrence
Republican gives an account OF the recep-
ton Of the Lawrence company, who have
arrived from the Peak, and bring fatter-
ing reports of the abundance of gold.
But why they left after so short a stay,
when gold was SO plentiful, does not ap-
pear. 1t may be like everything else
some may meet with success, and others
with disappointment. If there were no
gold In the region in question. we hardly
think SO many men Of respectability and
veracity would circulate reports to that
effect. We believe Califognia is not at
this time considered much Of a humbug.
To show how reliable some accounts are
with regard to these gold discoveries, we
copy the following item from a paper
published shortly after the breaking out
Of the California gold fever
The OTHER SfDE OF THE PIcruRE.-
The St, Louis Argus gives the following
reverse side of the picture of the Califor-
mia Gold flowing into this country
q C6NPgLsoRY CRAwFTsHING. - Several
California emigrants have arrived in this
city, from ChaSres, without even taking
Gsnif Of the salty on the other side of the
Isthmus, the circulating medium having
becOmesmall by degrees and dolefully less.
Guess they'll have to take up de shovel
and de hoe, and go to raising prime vel :
low corn, instead Of the other prime ca
nary colored article.
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bantling, TO save his seat And to the
same cause do Pendleton. Vallsndigham,
and Cox. and perhaps others in Ohio. owe
their election. Poor Burns has been con-
signed to the tomb Of the Capulets.
But the most CALLING rcbuke to Buch-
anan. is the result in his own State Of
Pennsylvania. His party has been most
disastfousiy defeated there. Only three
of bis adherents are left-we may say but
two. as the election Of Montgomery is
owing to his opposition to Lecompton-
This result is splendid triumph for
John w. Forney. through whose inAu-
ence it was chiefly brought about. He
carried Pennsylvania for Buchanan, and
thereby elected him; now he has carried
her against Buchanan's Administration.
upon the Presidents own issue, and ad-
ministered to him a signal rebuke.
j. Clancy Jones, the Presidents right
6O'Oer, in old Gibraltar Berks, is left at
home. When Berks County repudiates
a regular Democratic ticket, light must
surely be breaking among the mountains Of
Pennsylvania. But Jones has been pro-
vided for. The same papers that bring
the final result in his District, also bring
Geographic despatch, stating that Clan
cy has been appointed Minister to Aus
tria. The President needs to have great
many spare Offices for the victims of his
mulishness. There are a number Of hun
cry mouths, whose hold upon the public
teat, has been ruthlessly broken off by the
hands Of an indignant people. Hughes,
of Indiana, must have an Office. Groes-
beck, Burns. Hall, and Miller. of Ohio.
want Offices. Landy, Phillips, Owen
Jones. Dewart, Leidy, White. ALL, Reil-
ly, and ellis, of Pennsylvania, must
have offices. And New York and New
Jersey will throw a number more hungry
suckers upon the mercy Of the President.
Old Buck should be getting his Offices
readyl
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-10-28
HENRY MORT, Esq.

A MODEL CoxGREssMAS.-The manner
in which the men who disgrace our Ma
tional Congress retain their popularity at
home is well illustrated by the case of the
Hon. John Kelly. Of New York. The
Tribune publishes the names of ifty-four
Irishmen in Dir. Kelly district, who hold
appointments obtained for them by him,
in one department Of the Custom House.
What qualiicsfsins were deemed neees-
sary may be best inferred from the fact
that three or four appointees bear thenane
of the gentleman to whom they are in
debted for the office they hold.-Cinein-
Rdti Gazette.
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sTTHE ELECTION IN THIS COUNTY WE
have been told that the vote Of Washing
ton Township has been thrown out. and
the Democratic ticket has BEEN declared
elected This was on account Of the vo-
ting in that Township having been by
ballot, which was not according to law.
This may be-but the Legislature is
strongly Free State, and will fix it all
night. The vote, if it was informal, show
ed the will of the people, and it is not
right that their will should be set aside.
on account Of simple informality. The
Democracy are constantly prating about
the will of the people, and the voice Of
the ballot-box but, like pack of small
fry pettifoggers, they are constantly on
the lookout for Insignificant flaws and in
forrnalities, by which they may subvert
the expressed will Of the people. They
have been trying the same game in Leav-
enworth County, but with what success,
we are not able to say. Even if they
swindle the people of this County and
Leavenworth out Of their rights, there will
still be a Free State majority in the Leg:
islature. which win see that justice is done.
1t is singular what simpletons some
men viii make Of themselves. The law
was certainly plain to those who took the
trouble to examine it, particularly after
the Governor issued proclamation, in
which he explained the matter in full. To
make it still palmer, the Elwood Press,
published in Washington Township, took
the trouble 10 state distinctly, for the in
formation of all. that the voting was 70
be giva pOce. Yet, notwithstanding all
these things, we are told that the Judges
Of election for that Township caused the
voting to be by ballot, and consequently
the Township was DISTINGUISHED. What
reliance can be placed in men who thus
trife with the will of the people?
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WHAT Is DEMocRAcY THE Nashville
Tenn. Union. one Of the brightest lu-
minaries Of the so-called Democratic
party, and one of its principal expound-
ers and leading organs. gives the follow
ing. and no doubt true definition, saying
in answer to the above interrogatory;
Democracy is progression. What was
Democracy in Jef5erson's time, is not
Democracy at the present day. What
was Democracy in General Jaekson's
day, is not Democracy now. And. in
deed, what was Democracy ten years ago,
is not Democracy to-day. Democracy is
progressive. I'D b l15-.. ~.
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FLoRENCE's SEAT TO DE CoSTEsTED.-
The Philadelphia journals state that the
seat Of Thomas b. Florence, who claims
to have received few hundred plurality
in the Third District Of Pennsylvania, by
the colonization of thousand or two Of
voters at the Navy Yard. is to-be contest
ed. From the particulars Of this case. IS
we have already published them, It Is
nantes: that he has no right to seat in
Congress, by virtue Of such an election.
Such a palpable fraud, to which the Ma
tional Executive appears 10 have been an
original party. ns he was to the frau.'s in
Kansas after the fact, should not go unrs'
buked.
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~ The Iowa Point Enquirer is in q
terrible. fright in regard to the Danites.
It exclaims that no one knows how soon
some person in Doniphan County may
become their victiml Even Free State
men, he says, are not safe ! Perhaps the
Enquirer has reason for fearing that the
Danites may commence their work in
Doniphan County. No doubt there is
many guilty conscience that keeps its
owner In constant alarm, lest the Danites
should appear to him, some dark night.
We have yet to see the first Free State
man or Pro-Slavery man with stainless
hands and clear conscience, who is tor
tured by fears Of vengeance from the
Danites. We would recommend all who
aresufering such fortunes, to relieve them
selves by Immediately vamosing to Ala
bama-and other States where it is a mark
of respeCtability to have murdered an
Abolitionist!
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-10-28

RUFFIANIsM.-In Hamilton County,
Ohio, in the late political campaign, the
Anti-Lecompton party nominated Ger
man named Kessler, for Sheriff. This SO
ineensed the Lecompton Germans, that
they used all manner of violence towards
thee who favored Kessler's election. A
small boy who hurrahed for him, was
brutally beaten, and almost killed and
persons who went to his rescue were bad.
ly beaten. A German who supported
Kessler, was stabbed and kilIed Yetve
have seen not word against these ont.
RACES. in the Democratic papers. Had
the politics of the parties concerned been
reversed, and then. in addition, had these
things occurred in Louisville or Baltimore,
they would have been food for unearthly
hOwk from the bogus Democracy, for Eve
years to come
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WHITE CLOUD, KANSAS:
Thursday, 50: October %, 1858.
AGENTS.

J.E.DgDDEHIneE, (Successorto w S. Swym
ner,) North-West Corner of Olive and Mair
Streets, St. Louis, is our Agent in that City fol-
soliciting Subscriptionsan Advertisements,a and
making collections for the Chief
J. j. RULEv; ESQ. = Post Master, Oregon, Mo.
J. T.MILLER, WestAlexandria, Preble Co, D
G. L. Dit, Germantown, Ohio.
0RyILLE Roor, ESQ.,, Padonia. Brown Co /, X
A.W. WILLIAMS, Esq, Sabetha, "a
Dan McFAKLKxD, ESQ.,, Carson,
J. w. WfEHoIT, Esq, Mt. Roy, !"
IT. DsUHnoSD, ESQ.,, Hiawatha, 90
NJ. L. SAwrN, Esq, Sawin's Store, as
ToaREY 4 LAPPIN, Seneca. Nemsha Co. Kan
Rey.C- GRAHAM, Highland, Doniphan Co., K.
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The Louisville Journal tells the oppo-
sitiOn that what they want is revival Of
the old Wing party. It lays down a
platform, leaving out the slavery plank,
and says it would give the concern ma
tionality. 1t says that 10 efpeettAs Amer-
leans or Wigs to support the RepURioaa
party. as saek. under as present oreani-
zatiOH Is simply ridiculous. Il asks the
Republican leaders to speedily manifest
q disposition to form . new party. by ma
tionalizing themselves. This must be
pleasant reading to such Northern Wings
as think they can stand on the Republi-
can platform.
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DoueLAs.-Prentiee has received pho
tographic copy Of likeness Of Douglas.
He says Of il: efI f'a7'rs
The Little Giants face looks so much
like our own I've have q slight touch of
the erysipelas just now that our heart
almost melts toward him. We suppose
that giants naturally resemble each other,
though of course they differ in politics.
especially as some are honest and some
are not. sri
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A little Locofoco paper out in Sucker
dom, laboring under an attack Of patri-
otism, asks If there isn't "some chosen
curse-some hidden thunder in the stores
of heaven. red with uncommon wrath, to
blast the man who owes his greatness to
his eountry's ruin ?" Keep on the road
you're in now, Messrs. Loeofocos, and
you'll find out to your satisfaction.
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"BAD MISTAKE. The old liners bsTe
been filling Colfax's district with men for
the ostensible purpose Of ditching the
swamp lands. but for the real purpose
of defeating Mr.. Colfax, and TINS rObth'
people ofthat district Of the right to select
their Congressman. In White County
they employed q body Of Germans,
and when they came round to command
their services to defeat Mr.. Colfax, tbeJ
found they had caught tsrtar-thst sh'y
were Republicans. and not to be con-
tnanGed, coaxed or driven.--Dslpi d0ar.
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The DEvn. Cor HIS DUE !-REJoICING
IN THE INTERNAL REGIONS We learn
that the notorious and blood Thirsty G..
w. CLARK, who brutally murdered Thos.
w. Barber, some three years since, has
met his doom. For his services in the
cause of the devil, President. Buchanan
had appointed him to fat ofice-Purser
in the Navy Yard, at Washington. Hav-
ing the endorsement of Autocrat Buch-
anan, he felt secure, and probably thought
death could not approach him, without
the Autocrat's consent. He went to Le-
compton, to settle up some business be-
fore finally leaving the Territory, and was
found, one very fine day. near that place,
shot and scalpsd! No one knows the
author of the deed, but it was doubtless
friend and avenger of some one of
Clarke's victims. While murder, in or
binary cases, is horrible thing, yet no
honest man can with truth say that he is
sorry to hear of the murder of Clark.
He murdered an innocent and unohending
man, and he has met the same fate, in the
same neighborhood where he committed
his horrible crime. We frequently, at
short intervals, hear of the death Of some
blood thirsty scoundrel in Kansas. The
avenger seems to be ever towering near,
like an invisible spirit, and strikes when
the blow is least expected. And who is
sorry? These villains are murderers, and
the dispensers of the law have refused to
punish them. Who will censure the
friends of their victims, for melting out
the justice which the law has refused +?