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Indians In New York.

A party of ten Indian Chiefs from differ
ent tribes in and near Nebraska have been
for the past week paying a visit to New
York. They are accompanied by an Indian
agent and interpreter, and occupied room
arranged for them at the Astor House. On
Friday one of Adams Express Company's
large vehicles was fitted up, drawn by six
black horses, decorated for the occasion,
with the party in full costume of paint,
robes, tomahawks and pipes took ride
through the principal streets, sung a war
chant in the Fifth Avenue, and returned
highly delighted. On Saturday evening a
grand war-dance was given by the party in
the hall of the Astor House, much to the
entertainment of the guests; and the three
red visitors expressed themselves satisfied
that three things are self-evident facts, viz:
that New York is a big village, the Aston
House u big lodge, and Charley Stetston q
great chief.
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The Suprsne Court Of Californis has q.
cided The cass Of Biddle Boggs ". the Mss.
cd Mining Company reversing the judg-
nent ~ Dc Court below. The question
involves the title Of Fremont 70 the mineral
wealth Of his Mariposs olain. The Court
decides against Fremont, and that : H.
simple to land does mot carry with it the
title to the gold extracted therefrom. This
is considered . great triumph for the miners.
George N. Shaw, formerly Of Boston, -
President Of the MERGED Mining Company,
which has contested the case at great ex-
pense, and it is supposed will reap great
advantage from the decision.
Col. Fremont carried out with him re-
lease given by the United States Government
Of al their claims to the mineral wealth in
the Mariposs claim; and a. the decision Of
the California Court rested wholly On this
United States claim, the decision does not
in any way affect Col. Fremont's title to the
mines. s.sst~- ..ag .si
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For some months past "all the papers -
have published that the Earl Rose has de-
clared it as his belief that the approaching
Summer would be one of the hottest seasons
ever witnessed in Ireland. Upon this absurd
report another was founded, that the noble
Earl had erected houses for the shelter of
his cattle from the expected heat of the
Summer; and that many gentlemen, relying
upon the distinguished reputation of Lord
Rose as an astronomer, had followed bis
example in preparing .ncconm odations to
stall feed their stock ddriDg the hot season.
1t is q lamentable evidence of credulity,
even among educated people, that all those
ridiculous tales were believed by many.
Earl Rose has lately published letter,
in which he states that he has never made
any prediction or expressed any opinion
upon the subject.
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TRk Agricultural College Bill.

The bill reported by Mr.. Morrill,, of YER
mont, from the Committee on Agriculture,
and, we believe, by MIR. Walbridge, of Mich
igan, from the Committee on Public Lands,
donating 10000 acres of land for each Rep
sentative in Congress and 10000 for each
Territory, for the purpose of Agricultural
Education, has passed the House by vote
of lO4 to l0l. The Slaveocracy Of course
voted against it; and it is more than doubt
full whether it will run the gauntlet of the
Senate and the White House. We have not
the bill before us, and hence cannot Judge
of its merits as whole, but we may allege,
without the fear of contradiction, that no
measure half so worthy, none half so honest,
affecting the public domain, has passed Con-
gress within a score of years. Possibly the
aggregate of the appropriation-7,5 O0, 900
acres-is larger than would be required for
immediate purposes. Not knowing what
may be the details of the expenditure, we
cannot speak on that point; but the principle
in itself IS most just and correct. 1t is a
tardy tribute to the farmers of the North,
and will, if properly and understandingly
applied, add millions to the national wealth.
1t proposes to institute and maintain q num-
Der Of agricultural schools or colleges,
where the tedious and costly experiments
which every thorough farmer is now required
to undertake for himself; to determine the
comparative values Of soils and manures,
the most profitable systems of alienation of
crops, the best and cheapest kinds of farm
machinery, the surest and productive seeds
for particular ATTITUDES, the most adyapta-
geous plans for farm buildings, and the
numberless problems of agricultural econo-
my-shall be prosecuted on scientific princi-
pies, and the results communicated to the
people. Not only this, but landscape gar
dening and architecture, tie science of
groves, the arts which transform the prai
RE, the heath and the tangled wood, into
scenes which please the eye and elevate the
taste, will be made IN essential part of the
new contributions to rural knowledge, To
the profits of educated labor will be added
the attractions of a higher life in the refine
ment of taste and the comforts of the home-
stead. If nothing was sought to be accom-
plished by this measure but to render
attractive the three million of farmers
homes in the United States. we should re-
gard the cost ins ignifcant. The improvement
OF our national character by making country
life pleasure with those who now regard
it as martyrdom and bore, would be worth
more than all the territory acquired by the
war with Mexico.
As we observed, we fear the farmers can
look for nothing from this Congress or this
The only product regarded
now as Of national importance, is cotton.
he only live stock, young niggers.- Chicago
Tribune. ..... =
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of State Government, in
with the Federal Constitution,
subject to the approval or ratification of the
people Of the proposed State 10 such man
ner us they may have prescribed, and shall
be entitled to admission into the Union as
State under such Constitution Thus fairly
and legally made, with, or without slavery,
as Such Constitution may prescribe.
Section second relates to boundaries. &C.,
and is the same as that in the Crittenden
bill.
Section third relates to Commissioners of
Election, and is the same as in the Critten-
den, except that the United States District
Attorney is added to the Governor, Secre-
tary and presiding officers of both Houses,
as a Commissioner. The remaining sections
are substantially the same as in the Critten-
den bill. O.. sa.. ..5 .s ..
By this it will be seen that the Lecompton
Constitution, in reality, is not submitted to
a cote Of the people at all, but only the
proposition of Congress and admission"
or "against proposition of Congress and
admission" and this proposition" differs
from the Crittenden amendment in this i'm
portant particular if the "propositlon" is
rejected the people are not authorized to
torn another Constitution until their pop
ulation entitle them to member in Con-
gress. This is nothing less than an attempt
to coerce the people into an approval OF the
Lecompton Constitution; or suffer on, for
years to come, subject to political revolu-
ton, as heretofore. The donation Of lands,
in amount, under this proposition, is not
different from the Crittenden amendment.
In fact, the English act is SO framed and
worded that the real thing and question
submitted to a vote, is the proposition to
accept of the donation of land amounting to
same 100000 acres. If accepted, then
the Constitution is accepted, and if rejected,
the Constitution is rejected, and the people
are denied the power of forming new one,
until they have certain population. The
following section in the Crittenden amend
ment touching the donation Of lands, is
omitted in the English contrivance, and is
important, exhibiting large Ethiopian I'M
der the hedge:
6. And that said State shall never tax the
lands or property of the United States in
that State, provided, however, nothing in
this act of admission shall be SO construed
as to ratify or accept the ordinances attach
ed to said constitution at Lecompton, but
said ordinance is hereby rejected by the
United States"
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tF0r Utah.

The Leavenworth Daily Ledger of the 2Sth
says despatch arrived at Fort Leaven-
worth on Monday night, requesting rein
forcements for the troops near Salt Lake.
A company under Captain Anderson have
had a severe engagement with guerrilla
party, in which two or three of the enemy
were killed and three of their own men
wounded. Three companies marched on
the 9th to their assistance-one light bat
terry, one heavy battery, and company Of
dragons. So it seems the war will not end
in smoke, notwithstanding the predictions to
that off,ct . ., : ."7.-T@f
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Both houses of Congress have voted to
close the present session on Monday, the
7th of june. This is an earlier day than
has of late years been usual, and some will
doubtless attribute it to the fact, that mem
bers Of Congress receive fixed salary in
stead of eight dollars per diem, as formerly.
Their pay is now $1,000 per session, exclu-
sive Of mileage, as well for the short SEES
sion, which terminates on the 4th of March,
as for the long one which ends whenever
Congress pleases. The present is the FIRST
session held under the salary regulation,
and the day designated for adjournment,
will probably be in some sense precedent.
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ACommotion anon. Cripoltpe.

At London the Court news is, that in con-
sequence of the appointment of the Duchess
of Manchester to the situation of Mistress
Of the Robes of her Majesty, in place of the
Duchess of Sutherland, both the Duchess OF
Wellington and the Duchess of Athol have
resigned their official positions at Court
The Morning Advertiser SAYS "other SINH
lar designations will follow, in consequence
of the extreme unpopularity of the appoint
ment in question among the female aristoc-
racy of England" Dod's Parliamentary
Companion for 1858 states that the Duchess
of Manchester was, before her marriage, the
Countesse Louise d'Alten.
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ca Thurlow Weed, the most sagacious
political editor in the United States, has
resumed his post as chief editor of the Al
bany Journal. After withdrawal of q
couple of years duration from the active du-
ties of an editor, Mr.. Weed resumes his po-
sition at the age of three score, with an edi-
torial experience of near forty years. We
presume that other than mere personal con-
siderations have influenced this veteran of
the press to take this step, and We shall look
with much interest and confidence to the
course of the Journal on the great interests
Of the country, especially in the next
Presidential contest Gate Cifv.
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c. Fort Leavenworth is now bristling,
not with call the pomp and circumstance Of
glorious war;" but with all the accompani-
ments and accoutrements of the anticipated
campaign. The work of supplying the Gov
eminent with the requisite number Of horses,
mules and oxen, for transportation pur-
poses, is progressing rapidly, and trains of
contractors and suffers are daily taking up
the line of march. For our own part We
have fears that it will prove an inglorious
campaign. We do most sincerely trust that
Col. johnson may give the rascally Brigham
brush before the advent at Camp Scott
of the Peace Commissioners.--W eston
dr1us.
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TThe New York Times has tried hard
to find some apology for the Conference
plot to compel Kansas to take Lecompton
or nothing, but comes to this sensible con-
clusion: a .,, #..z -E ~ ..r ...
sThere is no room for doubt that the real
object and motive of this provision is to CO.
cree the people of Kansas into adopting the
Lecompton Constitution, and this motive is
fagitious, corrupt, and personally, as well
as politically discreditable to the authors Of
the scheme. It's a gross invasion of popu-
lar rights thus to attempt to influence an
election by Furnishing a community for ,vot-
ing against the wishes Of dominant party"
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The unnamed TerrI,ory.

For the western division of Utah, border
ing California, which it is proposed to erect
a new Territory, q variety Of names have
been proposed. The people themselves re-
siding there christened it Columbus. Sena-
tor Gwin attempted Sierra Nevada. Some
body else sticks to the name Of Carson,
after Carson Valley. A different party
advocates Colorado, and the Washington
States goes for calling it Yuma, after the
Indian designation Of the Colorado river.
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c. The Schoharie Republican, Demo-
cratic paper, has two editors. One Of the
two has just received an appointment worth
two thousand dollars year, and the other
is private citizen. The ofice-holder is of
course Lecompton man, and the private
citizen is an nti-Lecompton man. Neither
being willing to yield an inch, they ore fight
ing out the battle in their mutual paper in
parallel columns. They are getting as fe-
rocious as two fighting bulldogs. They are
making their paper very fair miniature of
the Democratic party. -....'.... . a.-.t5
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lSlt ReheIlion

The st. Louis Democrat very significantly
asks, "why Mr.. BUCHANAN does not pro-
claim the House of Representatives in a
state Of rebellion. How long is he going to
submit to this triHing with his authority
Not day passes that he is not openly with
stood in the face and eyes of all the world.
1t is becoming matter of scandalous noto-
riety that his word is no longer law. Even
his own party in the House hesitate about
obeying orders, and are losing all sense Of
discipline" ....
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Extraordinary Carelessncss.

The following story is current in Virginia.
The Baptists were baptizing some converts;
they finished by baptizing an old negro, "a
slave.) The parson, not thinking so much
OF his soul as of the white portion Of his
converts. let him drop, and make his own
way to the shore. The negro, blowing and
putting, reached the shore, and sitting on
stump Remarked: s'that some gentleman's
niger weuld get killed by such foolishness
vet - 800. %. 1913 .-.. z- 49,. ..-n.
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Go Back to the PIOw.

Did it ever occur to political theorists,
that this universal Yankee nation was given
to traiicking to an excess almost startling =?
The lists of one of the mercantile agencies
of New York exhibit the astonishing fact,
that there are 204, 06I traders of all kinds in
tho United States. What an army of "store-
keepers" Dividing the trade of our twenty
five millions equality among these traders,
and there are l23 to each, men, women and
children, or about twenty-five families
What can show more strikingly the great
excess ofpttention bestowed upon traffic. All
these men cannot live honestly by their bu-
siness, and they do not. Half of them fail,
and are succeeded by others, who 60 the
same round and come to the same end. If
the other half live, it can only be by exorbi-
tant profits on the articles passing through
their hands, constituting a system of legal
lied robbery of the producers and consumers
Of the community. Every article Of food
and drink and apparel is burdened with n
neA'y '"A w 'aPFoi' Ills '"s' al Va va"
ders. They cat up the substance of the land,
and like Pharaoh's lean kline, they still con-
tinue lean and ravenous.
If about three-fourths Of this class would
devote themselves to some productive labor,
the country would be richer by several
millions every year, the means of living
would be sold for an honest price, and labor
would not be cheated out of its just rewards.
Let the crowd who are eagerly rushing into
traffic, hoping to become quickly rich by its
uncertain gains, return to the pillow, the anvil
and the plane, and they will attain true
prosperity, and give the rest Of the commu-
nifty chance to live also. If anybody is
anxious to know what the exact gain will be
of reducing trade to reasonable limits, let
him estimate what it now costs the % families
to support each trader and his family, and
then allow 1000 families to each trader and
the difference. 1t is q simple op-
Grafton in arithmetic. Let us have reduc-
ton in the great army of trafickers. We
cannot all live by trading with each other
Let US go back to the pillow, for tho wealth
must be created before it CON be accumulat-
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Two names have been suggested for the
new States to be erected from parts Of Mi.
chigan and North Superior and
Ontonagon. Since Congress has adopted
the policy Of admitting new States into the
Union, without regard to population, We
should not be surprised to see dozen Of
them manufactured in the course Of tho next
twelve months. The Emigration Aid Soci-
cites in the North, without much trouble,
could, at least, hatch one out monthly
Warrington States.
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CT"In looking over the list of members
Of this Congress Thirty years ago., as pub
lished in Niles's Register of December, 1925,
we notice curious circumstance. The list
contains the full names of every member of
the House of Representatives but one
There was q new member from Tennessee,
whose Christian name could not be found
out by the compiler, and so he put it down
thus:- Polk. Twenty years afterward this
obscure gentleman, of whose identity there
was SO much question in 1925, was elected
President of the United States.'
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We have often said that manufactures
will do more than any other agency to insure
the pe,manent prosperity Of . country. Give
Iowa. n addition to her unsqualled agricul.
tural resources, 3 fair proportion Of these
and she will in . few years enjoy degree
of prosperity and wealth mover attained By
any of her older sisters. With regard to
our advantages in this respect the ValIey
Farmer says:
aNo portion of the world has ever increas-
ed in population and wealth faster than the
Great West, and what Is now most needed
to add still more to its wealth and prosper
ity, is the establishment of sll the important
manufactures in the midst Of the fields and
great store houses Of the nation.
ssThe South and West furnish q largo
proportion of the raw material for the man
ufacturers of the East, while at the same
time the wheat, the corn, the beef and the
pork-the products Of our own field, are
transported a. thousand miles to sustain the
laborers emf loyed in these factories, at .
cost of ten or twenty per cent or even more,
on their value, for transportation, while the
goods manufactured are returned to US with
the additional charge of all the Incidental
expenses, not only for the carriage Of the
raw material, but Of the return of the goods
to US. The cost of transportation OF the
raw material from our own borders to the
Eastern manufacturers, together with the
carriage Of the provisions We furnish to
sustain their laborers, and the cost Of the
return of the goods to US, would afford .
handsome profit to the Western manufac-
turers. ........... %.
"There are few natural advantages enjoy
ed by the Eastern manufacturers that may
not be more than equalled in the West. We
have every species Of raw material furnished
by nature at our doors-cotton, wool, iron,
coal, &C., with provisions abundant and at
the lowest cost, while from the salubrity Of
the climate no country is more healthy.
sIn regard to motive power, We have ad.
vantages over almost every other section Of
the country" ...l ........,
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We had the pleasure of meeting on Sat.
urday, an old friend who will be remember
ed by many Of the citizens of this CITY and
county-Ralph P. Lowe, now Governor Of
Iowa. The Governor, we are glad to notice,
is in the enjoyment of robust health, and,
excepting Drowned and sunburnt face,
looking as natural and almost as youthful
as when he walked among US some seven
teen years ago. Gov. Lowe leaves Dayton
for New York to-day, on business connected
with the affairs of his State.-Daytoa Jour-
nal. 10Th.
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ca SMART Bor-ln Fond du Lac, boy
and an eagle had fight, and the boy aoored
the proud emblem of America. We have
seen dozen able-bodied men Hoored with
less than "haf an eagle. Horizon argus.
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Brigham Young is a terrible fellow
to talk. The latest news from his seraglio
is-that if the U. S. troops did not evacuate
the territory by the 10th Of March, he would
annihilate them all. But then Brigham
made the same threat once or twice before
yet Col. johnson 1--WE have no doubt) s'still
Evos -
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The Clerk Of the House Of Represent
atives, says that upwards Of three hundred
thousand names, attached to petitions, have
been received in favor Of general bankrupt
law.
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If we are to believe the reports, gold dig
gings are being rapidly discovered in Keokuk
county, Polk, Madison, Union, Clark, and
other counties. Those who ssmske haste to
be rich;" will pitch in eagerly, work hard,
and finally end worse than they began, per-
haps.
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Republican State Convention.

Nepub1cdn St3te COnvent10ms -
A Republican State Convention will be held at iowa
city, Thursday the l7lh day Of June 1855 for the
purpose OF nominating Secretary Auditor Treasurer Of
State anil Attorney General, Commissioner Of Des
Moines River Improvement and Register Of State Land
Once and for the transaction such other business
may be deemed necessary by the Convention.
The ratio Of representation Of each county will be one
delegate for every one hundred Republican votes, and
additional for every fraction fifty, the vote
Governor the last State election being the basis
Organized counties with less than hundred Repub
lcan voters will be entitled each to one delegate
$. j. KiRkwOOD, W. II. FARMER,
wv. p. CLARK, II. PRICE,
II. O'CONNOR, G.. d. WOODEN,
Des Moincs, Jan Goth, 1858. Committee.
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MRS. MCDONALD, RESPYCrYUi1v
4y1 noua - 70 the Ladies Of Council Daulk ~
hi City and vicinity, that %
Saturday. Nay lss., 1esA
She will OPEN o. Bsosdwsy, three doon W. = :.
sisting Of Fancy Bonnets, Csaees, 49, ~ ~
horns, Braids; Rutlands, Nsopoiitans, 1nss& ~
0osaamers, English StrawB, ke.; LeshorS Tsssz
Hats Gipsies and Caps for Children, 1ihhs-
Flowers, Rushes, Quillings, Tarlton, stysv 49,
ana variety OF GOODS too numerous 10 nsu6IHs7f
have selected my Goods carefully in HewrxH
Philadelphia, and hope BY strict atteptisat -
to merit . share Of your patronage. -
Pinking Of different Patterns aone % 60 ~
shortest notice. % ~ 10y