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Territory.
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street, Lcayenworth City, X. L. Nov. -; SO.
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A TT0RNEY AT LAW and commissioner of
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attention given to procuring and locating land
warrants, .pre-emptng claims, &c. Office at
Osawatomie, Kansas.
NoY % 1856
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A SMALL assortment of boots, caps, and win
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he location of land warrents, DC.
Teeumseh, Shawnee Co., K. T., Nov. ., sc,
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Morrow House, which we can sell on terms to
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Boots and Shoes, Hats. Caps, Queensware, Flour,
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IL Merchants. Corner Second and Cherokee
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A TTOIkNEY AT LAW AND REAL ESTATE
n AGENT, will execute Deeds, Mortgages, &c.
Guy ansl sell land and town lots, invest moneys in
Kansas property, for others ithcare andprompt-
ness,
Lawrence, Kansas, Nov. 8, 1856. ZIG.
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WE ARE RECEIVING OUR WINTER SUP
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CITY DBUG STORE.
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Charles A. Foster,
A TTORNEY At LAW, Osawatomie, Kansas
a Territory. Particular attention given to the
Exemption Of Settlers Claims, and the pur-
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-09
The Lecomptoh Constitution In CongreS-The
Ftrst Battle.

The Thirty fifth Congress will be memorable
one in the history of this country, and Monday
the 9Th Of February, 1858, will be n memorable
day in the history of this Congress.
Upon the reference of the Presidents Kansas
Message and the Lecompton constitution and
the accompanying papers, the Kansas admins
tration and ant-administration forces in the
House Of Representatives fought, yesterday
their first pitched battle The administration
OF Lecompton party was DESTROYS of referring
the said message and constitution to the regular
Committee on Territories while the snti-Le-
compton party were resolved, If possible, to
have the whole matter submitted to a special
committee Of inquiry into the alleged Kansas
proslavery election frauds, with power to send
for persons and papers
As the intelligent reader will readily compre-
bend. the reference to the regular Territorial
Committee would have secured an early report
in favor of the admission of Kansas under the
Lecompton constitution, in pursuance of the
policy Of the Presidents Message. On the
other hand. the policy Of the anti-Lecompton
party, headed by Mr.. Harris, of Illinois, is
pretty distinctly set forth in the following reso-
luton of /" the gentleman from Illinois," which
he moved as a substitute for the regular refer
ence -
Resolved That the message Of the President enclosing
the constitution framed at Lecompton In the Territory Of
kansas by convention Of delegates thereof the pa
pers ACCOMPANY the same be referred select com
mee Of neen 70 be appointed by the Speaker and that
said committee be Instructed 10 inquire into all the facts
connected with the formation Of said constitution and the
laws under which the same originated and into all
such aCs and proceedings have tfanspired the
formation u said Constitution having relation 10 the ques
lion q The proprety 81 the admission said Territory
INTO TIE JnOn under said constitution and whether the
same acceptable and satisfactory 10 majority Of the
leea voters OF Kansas, aud that said nit.ec have
power To- send FOR persons aud papers.
On the assembling Of the House yesterday,
according TO the armistice which closed the
long sitting Of Friday, Friday night and Satar-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-09

OLD VIRGINIA NEVER TRE.-william Ballard
Preston returned from Europe in the Arabia. Mr..
Preston was the elected agent of the friends Of
Mr. Dudley Msnns project to divert the COM
merce of the country from this city by establish
ing line Of steamers from Norfolk to some
port in France or England. AS an arant
courier Mr.. Preston went to England to in
duce the owners Of the Leviathau to send that
ship to Norfolk. But the Leviathan was still
stuck in the mud at Millwall and even all thc
speeches Of all the Southern conventions could
not get her off till the next tide. So
Mr.. Preston has returned without the Lee
viaihan. What else Mr.. Preston has done
We know not. The Richmond Bnquir~-
aid that he had initiated arrangements for q
line Of steamers between Norfolk and Orleans
Orleans is in the centre of France, not quite 40
accessible to the sea as Little Rock in Arkansas
We trust that If no other good result flows from
Mr.. Preston's mission, he will at least be able
to 1--WE the Enquirer man this little bit of geo
graphical Information.
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the House and the country. we shall, perhaps,
know no more of recent events in Kansas than
We know already.
What, then. We cannot answer. No man
can tell The President, DESTROYS of putting an
end to this harassing Kansas agitation, and of
u wing the people of,Kansas perfectly free to
n,s.> age their own affairs in their own way, has
,rssA upon Congress their immediate admission
90 q &ta tie under the Lecompton constitution.
He yss - wn that ii is the legitimate point
of III. Ksusas-N Nebraska BILL and that if its
ratification. with the slavery clause was by only
minority of til. people of Kansas, it was still
clear lsea, and decided majority of the vote
cast on the lsxfuf day of the election. He has
shown too. tbSs if IN majority of the people
of Kansas are opposed to this Lecompton con
stitution they will have the liberty forthwith,
after their admission, TO Il Ike the necessary steps
to amend or abolish it,
The President has done b. duty. His policy
would have made short work OF Kansas The
House has taken the initiative tepto diherent
policy-a policy deliberately CON 'empia"ne ane
rejection of the Lecompton const 'u''on. Inns
first step draws broad line of sep "a''oh oe-
tween the administration defnon acy anu
the democratic seceders Of tho nou'o'
and the next step may result in ii 'ol'
NAL organization of great Southern ! '"iV'
of more serious and dangerous secessionA ~"
racter than anything of the sort that has eva
been dreamed of by our slippery democratic
politicians of the North. As the matter stands,
this Kansas trouble, which Mr.. Buchanan has
desired to bring to an end in the shortest leglti
mate way, is re-opened again for months, and
perhaps for years to come. The triumph of the
opposition upon the question of this committee
is ominous of the speedy dissolution of the
democratic party North and South and of the
reorganization of all parties upon sectional
Issues, and of a general and disastrous disunion
AGITATION
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ANYTHNe.-we publish this morning the pro-
ceedings of another day investigation by the
Standing Committee on Frauds, which developers
few more Of the hocus-pocus arrangements
among the contractors, surveyors, assessors,
and so forth, by which the unfortunate tax
payers are Aeeced. We doubt whether the
records of any court can boast Of an array or
testimony so fraught with mystihcation so un-
satisfactory, or so calculated to manifest the
existence Of the grossest deception, and so cum
ningly devised to shield the parties from con-
viction. The substance Of the evidence was
that nobody knew anything about the trausac-
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Chs Few York REHABILITATION for Europe.
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clear of its crowned heads Louis Napoleon 4
too sagacious a statesman to push matters to
this extremity. From present appearances.
however, he seems determined to make all the
political capital he can out Of that god-send-
the bullet hole in his hat
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PATENT LEGISLATION AND LOBBY SCuEMER-
Our latest information from Washington leads
us to believe that there is more in the proposed
Patent bill of Mr.. Chaffee and Others than meets
the eye. Our call for copy Of the bill seems
to have stirred up the schemers In Washington,
and they have accordingly secured the services
of several of the newspaper correspondents
there to send what purports to be a synopsis VI
the act, together with laudatory notices Of the
great benefits which will result from its pas
sage. Very likely the lobby members inside
and outside of Congress think they can lead US
astray and slip the bill through under the ex-
citement of the Lecompton discussion, but we
will try and smoke them out. Will any honest
man-if such rara auis exists in Washington
send us full copy of the proposed bill We
don't want our correspondents to trouble US
with their view of the matter-we will take
care of that.
Last Congress bill was introduced into the
Senate to amend the Patent laws. 1t read very
fairly, and proposed quite number Of amend
ments in the existing Patent laws very similar
to the bill now before Congress, as far as VIC
can judge of the latter by the "synopsis." But
the whole object of that bill was in fact to
compel the Commissioner of Patents in all cases
to extend fourteen years patent for seven
years. 30 as to make the term twenty one years.
Under this bill the Goodyear India rubber pa
tent would have had an extension of seven years
without any further trouble That patent ex-
pires in June next and if the Commissioner
does not renew it-and under the present law
he cannot-do so unless it can be shown that the
patentees have not had sufficient protection
the parties must apply to Congress
| Chaffee, Haywood, Day, the Goodyear compa-
MES, Colt, Mccormick, and a host of other per-
IONS interested in getting extensions or revivals
of their expiring or expired patents, are now in
Washington with their lobby forces, and we have
no doubt they are prominent in shaping the
projected patent bills. 1t may be that they
will omit the particular points they desire in
the bill, to be added as amendments. We will,
h owever, watch them closely, and expose their
pl. 'ndering schemes The money they pay,
ther, fore, to correspondents will be wasted.
Nay change is made in the Patent laws it
should We the result of full, careful, deliberate
and ora investigation. No bill suddenly
srrune upA Congress will answer this require
merit The wealthy monopOlists who now con-
troll the rubs>- and other patents have too great
an interest at s,s.'se not TO adopt every means
to shape legis,a.i ID in their favor, and the
history of patenr lA 10y movements is too we'll
known to permit the belief that any cOnscien-
tious scruplcs stand in their way.
Let US have copy Of the bill.
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Bonhan. South Carolina. Gilmer, North Carolina
Caruthers Missouri. HARRIS Maryland
Clark, RI ", New York 1eidy, Pennsylvania
Garuell, Georgia. Mdteson, New York
Kelley, Pennsylvania
Democrats In roman Republicans in iulic, Americans
KDox Eotbngs in SMALL CAPITALS
The House of Representatives have thus de-
creed that the Presidents Kansas Message. the
Lecompton constitution aud the accompanying
papers. shall be submitted to special COM
mittee of ifteen-that this committee shall Il in
quire into all the facts connected With the
formation Of said constitution, and all the'laws
under which il originated" and into all the
Kansas elections and alleged election frauds
that have transpired since The formation Of said
constitution, TO the end Of ascertsining whether
the same is acceptable and satisfactory to
majority Of the legal voters Of Kansas; and
that said committee have power to send for
persons and papers"
This sweeping schedule Of instructions cuts
out heavy job of work for the committee; 20
comprehensive, indeed, that If their labors
should be protracted till the first Of May or the
last of June, or the first Monday in December
next, IL would not be at all surprising We
uOuDb uot 'nhN bpthhVi VII VIII uppOlut
the committee according to the usual parlia-
mentary course in such cases, making the
mover Of the resolution the chairman, and Civ
ing the majority by which the resolution was
carried the majority Of the committee We thus
conclude that we shall have committee
that will 90 over the whole ground of all
the elections and all the conventions and all
the movements Of both parties, and oS the fede.
raj and local authorities in Kansas, from the
point where the Congressional Committee of the
spring Of 1856 left off down to the late elections
for State Legislature and members of Con-
gress under the Lecompton programme.
This will be a godsend to the defunct Govern
ors Of Kansas-for Reeder, Shannon. Geary,
Walker and Stanton will doubtless be summon
ed before the committee. Then there are Atchi-
son. Stringfellow, Lecompte, Cato, Jack Cal
houn and Jack Henderson. and others of the
pro-slavery leaders, and Gen Jim Lane, Gov.
Robinson, old Mr.. Brown, and others OF the
anti. slavery cheftains Of Kansas, who will, per.
haps, derive from this committee of Congress
the advantage of trip as special witnesses at
Washington for or against the popular sove-
reignty" Of the Lecompton programme. To the
House printers the report, testimony, papers,
&C., Of the committee will probably cover a job
Of hundred thousand dollars. more or less.
Finally, with The report Of the committee before
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NAYS.
Ahl, Pennsylvania
ANDERSON, Missouri.
Arnold, Connecticut
Atkins, Tennessee.
Avery, Tennessee.
Barksda!e, Mississippi.
Bishop, Connecticut.
Bocock, Virginia.
30 vie, Mary land.
Boyce, South Carolina.
Branch, North Car oitna.
Bryan, Texas.
Burnett, Kentucky.
Burns, OHIO.
Caskie, Virginia.
Clark, Missouri.
Clay, kentucky.
clemens, Virginia
CliDgman, North CarolinA.
Cobb, Alabama.
Cochrane John, New York.
Corning, New York.
Craig, Missouri.
Craige. North Carolina.
Crawford, North Carolina.
Curry, Ala oama-
Davidson, louisiana
Davis, Mississippi.
Dimmick, Pennsylvania.
Do Sdeli, Alabama.
Edmundson, Virginia.
Elliott, Kentucky.
EUsIls, louisiana.
Faulkner. Virginia
Florence, Pennsylvania.
Garnet, Virginia.
Gillis, Pennsylvania,
Goodo, Virginia
Greenwood, Arkansas.
Gregg, Indiana.
Hatch, New York.
Ha wilkins, Florida.
Hill, Georgia
Hopkins, Virginia.
Houston, Alabsma-
Hughes, Indiana.
Huy Ter, New Jersey.
Jackson, Georgia.
jenkins, Virginia
Jewett, Kentucky.
Jones. Tennessee.
Jones, Clancy, Pennsyly'a-
Keitt, South Carolina.
Kelly, New York.
kunkel, jacob, Maryland.
Lamar, Miss issippi.
Iandy, Pennsylvania.
Letcher, Virginia.
Maclay, New York.
Mcqueen, South Carolina
MARsHAIL, II. Kentucky.
Mason, Kentucky.
MAYNARD, Tennessee.
Mites. South Carolina
Miller, Ohio.
Millsor. Virginia.
Moore, Alabama.
Pendleton, Ohio.
Peyton, Kentucky.
Phelps, Missouri.
Philips, Pennsylvania.
Powell, Virginia.
Quitman, Mississippi.
READY, Tennessee.
Reagan, Texas.
RcAUp, Maryland.
Ruiin, North Carolina.
Russell, New York.
Sandldge, Louisiana.
Savage Tennessee.
Scales, North Carolina.
Scott, California
Soaring, New York.
Seward, Georgia.
shaw, H., North Carolina.
Shorter, Alabama
Ssckles, New York.
Singleton, Mississi ppi.
Smith, S. A., Tennessee.
Smith, Am. Virginia
Stallworth, Alabama
stephens. Georgia.
Stevenson, Kentucky.
Stewart, Maryland.
Talbot, Kentucky.
Taylor, g., New York.
Taylor, N. louisiana
TURK. Georgia
VSpKxwoop, Kentucky.
Ward, New York.
Warren, Arkansas.
Watkins, Tennessee.
White. Pennsylvania
Whitley, Delaware.
wmslow, North Carolina
WoopsoS, Missouri.
wirtendyke, New Jersey.
Wright, A. r. Georgia.
Wright. J. Y, Tennessee.
Zouiorrm, Tennessee.
Total. .......,. ..,.....fl
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day morning. the business Of voting y. n com
m-nced without the further interpositicns f'ime
killing or ciiatory motions" There was the
regular motion to refer to the Committee u
Territories, and the substitute motion of ne
foregoing resolution The previous question:
was ordered by q vote of ll3 to l07, which
brought the main question up on the regular
motion of reference. This was lost by the close
vote of llS to ia. A change of a single vote
would have given the victory to the admnistra-
ton party, and would have virtually settled the
controversy in favor Of the admission of Kansas
under the LecOmpton programme.
The regular motion, however, being lost,
the question REQUIRED upon the substitute mo-
ton of the above resolution, and 1t was adopted
by the following vote -
Nays. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ................lll