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The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21

Ne do not doubt that there are few
honest Anti-Slavery Republicans in the
Territory, who believe that the time
has not yet come to organize Republican,
party-that it we're better postponed until
after Kansas shall have been admitted into
the Union as State There may be some
such amongst our readers; and TO them We
have word to say.
On Tuesday. the 9Th of June next, an
election is to be holden in the various coun-
ties of the Territory for delegates to frame a
Constitution for the State of Kansas. This
Constitutions win doubtless be the one un-
der which Kansas win be admitted into the
Union. 1t win not be a work which viii
affect us before our admission into The Un-
ion but afisr-and perhaps for number of
years. This Convention viii apportion the
Territory into Representative and Senate
rial Districts. The Legislature 10 be cleo
ted under this apportionmen; will have the
choosing of two Senators to represent the
STATE of Kansas in the q. s. Senate. There
win also be an election for STATE Officers
and Representative to Congress. underline
new Constitution in October next.
All these things do not affect the people
of Kansas while in their Territorial condi-
ton, but take effect after their admission as
a State. ,s
Ii, therefore it is deemed desirable that
the Republican party should succeed at all.
it should certainly have the Inauguration of
the new State Government, the first admin
istration of which will be the most impor-
tant to the interests of the people of the
State. It should also control the election
of the two United States Senators that the
people of Kansas might be fairly represen-
ted in the Councils of the Nation. So of
the Representative to Congress.
It will not do to trust these Important in
terests in the hands of the mongrel ''insti-
tuition" known as the Free State party
The Democrats are all 'tFree State men"
par excellence now, and where they are
too weak to succeed with their own organi-
zation, they will go into the Free State
party and control its action to as great an
extent as possible. All the independent
Free State candidates for the Territorial
Legislature in Douglas county last fall,
are now Democrats in full communion in
the party. In Leavenworth the result has
been the same-so in other coun ties.
We think these reasons, with others
which they will suggest win meet all the
objections which can be raised against the
of the Republican party at the
present time. The Free State party had
so long been under the control of dema-
gogues that necessity demanded that hon
est men who did not wish to be used as
tools to further the designs of bad men
should come out of it, and form an organi-
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21

General Burnett. Surveyor General of
Kansas and Nebraska, has been informed
by the Commissioner of the Land Office
that, in consequence of the smallness of the
appropriation, it viii be necessary that the
cost of the surveys in his district shall not
exceed the sum of s26, 900, of which s1O,-
600 are appropriated for surveys in Nebras-
ka, and Si6.O 900 for surveys in Kansas
The Kansas survey fund has been appor-
toned for the survey of the New York In
dian lands. AS soon as the surveys are
completed a half section viii be allotted to
each of the Indians who may have removed
there under the provisions of the treaties of
1888 and 1912, after which the public do
main will be opened to pre-emption. 1t is
one of the most valuable sections of Kan
sas Territory.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21
nae Biz springs Fizzle.


The ureatest fzzIe, politically, that ne
have been called upon to record for some
time, was that Of the Big Springers, on the
1eth inst. It Was perfect counterpart of
their failure in this scouaty-and- in fact in
every county IL the Territory = Not sin
gle delegate, chosen as such by the people.
or any portion Of the same, was there
F. P. Stanton. G. W. Brown, G. w. Smith,
and two or three others composed the entire
outside representation; the balance of the
meeting, which numbered not to exceed sizty
in all, was made up entirely Of citizens of
Big Springs and vicinity. No call was
made for delegates. but it was just resolved
that all present should be allowed to par
tieipate. And then the motions were
gone through with, with gravity which
battles description. Stanton had his speech
there, and a platform already prepared,
which in due season, were presented for the
enlightenment of those present. The plat
form, of course, will hold anybody and eY-
erybody that believes in compromising be-
tween God and Mammon. After. the main
performance was over, some indiscreet in
diyidual. not having the fear of 9. w.
Brown and James Buchanan before his eyes,
offered as new plank to the platform. a
resolution repudiating the Dred Scott de-
eision, and the doctrine enunciated by the
Supreme Court, that the Constitution car
ries slavery with it wherever it goes. This
created quite hub7bub. Up jumped Gus.
"a Bloza Brown, flaming with wrath, and
saidihe hoped that there would be no such
tests as this introduced-that there were
some members of the Free State (R) party
who did believe that the Constitution car
ried slavery with it wherever it went; and
he did not want to drive these men away
from their party. He evidently alluded to
the Democrats who met at Tecumseh the
day before, and who are all Free State men
of that stripe. believing the Constitution to
be an instrument for the protection and per-
petuation of Slavery. However, as the
misguided youth insisted on his resolution.
It was dished up in new shape and passed.
A Territorial Central Committee was then
appointed, on which we find our friend, c.
v. Eskridge, of this place. figuring. But
We know, however, that the use of his name
was entirely unauthorized, and that he re-
pudiates the whole thing. How many more
of the same kind there are on the commit
tee, We are not aware.
The Convention then adjourned, in very
solemn -choly mood, as playing second fid-
die to few Pro-slavery hounds is not a
good business to be .'caught in.'' The
people see through the whole game and are
careful not to be caught
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21
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THE WEST WANTS.

Free homesteads, and means to have them.
THE WEST WANTS the Central Pa
cifc OF Continental Roilroad, and means to
have it.
THE WEST WANTS River and Har-
Dor improvements for her commerce. aud
she means to have them.
THE WEST WANTS a fair share of
the public money expended for her benefit,
and she means to have it.
THE WEST WANTS immunity from
Slavery, and she means to have it.
THE WEST WANTS an honest care
full and economical government, and she
means to have it.
THE WEST WANTS a stop put to
robbing and stealing the public money to
enrich hirelings and traitors, and she means
to have it.
THE WEST WANTS a sound Repub
lican Administration at Washington, when
ever the Buchanan nuisance is abated, as a
means to these ends.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21

These Free-State Big-Springs fellows
who are just now making such terrible
racket about their own patriotism and faith
full observance of solemn promises and decla-
rations, are perfect '.jewels" of ''eonsisten-
cy'' In 1855. they swore to support the
Big Springs platform and the Topeka Con-
stitution, in prosperity and adversely, un-
til I. ansas was admitted into the Union
In 1857 every one of them repudiated the
Topeka Constitution, and went in for the
bogus Territorial Government; and in 1853
about half of tenn went their "whole
lengths for the infamous Lecompton Con-
stitution. And yet these impudent fellows
talk about the "breach of faith" being COM
mitted by those who are forming Republi-
can organisation. o tempora o mores
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21

The Ohio Legislature has passed law
making it a misdemeaaor to carry pistol,
bowie knife, dirk, or any other concealed
deadly weapon, under the penalty of a fine
not exceeding $500 and Imprisonment not
more than thirty days for the first offence;
and $500 fne, and Imprisonment for three
months, or both at the discretion of the
court, for the second offence; and, in pur-
suance of the law, the Mayor of Cincinnati
has directed the police to arrest and bring
before him all persons whom they shall find
with concealed weapons. This is very
salutary law, if it is only enforced.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21
New Democratic Ccnvert.

Amongst the most prominent Of the re-
cent converts to the Democratic party of
this Territory. IS CoLoKEL s. slasiass: of
Lawrence. The somersault which this in
dividual made to get into the pro-slayery
party, is accompanied with neither profit
nor. loss to any person or party excepting
only himself. He was an early settler OF
the Territory; was driven out of Kansas
City because be was Free State man; was
keeping the Free State Emigrant-Aid Hotel
at Lawrence at the time of its sack by the
Border Rufians in 1856; was shortly after
made member of the National Kansas
Committee out of sympathy for his sup
posed losses in the cause of "Free Kansas, %
and afterwards achieved the wonderful un :
dertaking of bringing a company of two
hundred meE into the Territory for the
modest and moderate sum of taco hundred
and fifty dollars eaeh-provisions, teams
etc., being found-which sum was paid by
the National Committee out of the Kansas
Aid Fund, and out of which the valiant
Col. cleared forty thousand dollars, with
which he has since erected magnificent
hotel in Lawrence on the site of the one
destroyed by the Democracy in 1856.
We don't charge the Colonel with mer-
eenary naotives in going over to the Pro-
slaveryites; but when he, with other
spectators was engineering huge swindle
through Republican Kansas Legislature
last winter) he was an ardent Republican,
and as such signed the call for the Osawat-
omie Convention. He has claim against
the U. S. Government amounting to about
$50, 900 for losses sustained at the hands
of Government officials during the Kansas
troubles. Of course he never sustained
damage to any such amount nor one fiftieth
part of it; and he well knows that if his
claim is honestly audited he will not get
anything. The present Administration is
Pro-slayery. and might pay Pro-slavsry
sldrises what they would not pay Republican
eldrdse. OF course we don't say that the
Col. is Influenced by this fact, not by any
means. Then. too, the Democratic Post
master of Lawrence has removed the Post
Office of that place from its former eligible
situation, to an out-oft the way room in the
eldridse House-this too, in spite of the ear,
nest remonstrances of large majority Of
the business men of Lawrence.
Looking over the field, in all our ac-
quaintance, we do not know of an individu-
al whom we would rather loose from the
Republican ranks than this same Sam eldridge
Hereafter when the Democrats charge that
the money given by the people of the North
to help the settlers of Kansas was stolen,
we viii point them to the biggest thief Of
the pile in their own ranks.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21

LASD- WARRANTs.-The General Land
Office, at Washington. has decided that
bounty land warrants sre personal property,
and cannot be sold by an administrator for
payment of the debts of the party to whom
issued. If issued during the lifetime of the
warrantee, and not disposed Of by him, it
belongs to the heirs at law. If be dies in
testate, il becomes the absolute property of
the widow or legstees; and If issued after
the waTrantee's death. il becomes the prop
erty of the widow or heirs at laE. without
regard to age.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21
KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE

KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE
That every Republican in Congress vo-
ted in favor of the Free Homestead Bill /!
KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE !
that Hon. g. A. Grow. Republican mem
Der of Congress from Pennsylvania, was
the author of the Free Homestead Bill.
KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE
that the Buchanan Democracy defeated
the Free Homestead Bill.
KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE !
that Buehaneer Democracy seeks to tax
the people two hundred millions of dollars
for the purchase of Cubal
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE /
that Buchanan wants to buy Cuba for the
niger drivers at ten dollars an acre
KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE
Democracy seeks to reopen the African
Slave Trade, to provide cheap niggers for
the niggerless
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE
that the Republican Party advocates free
Homes for the Homeless. free Lands for the
Landless
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLES
that the lands are forced into the market for
the benefit of spectators
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE !
that Buchanan's Administration costs the
country 0ne Hundred millions Of dollars a
year, and thas one half of that sum is cor
ruptly squandered upon party pete and "a
voritee.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21

Capt. Beasley, of the new Kansas riTes
steamer Gas Linn, arrived here yesterday
by the Var Eagle, and informs us that his
boat viii reach here to-day. Capt. Beasley,
is an old KaW river navigator, having made
a season on the Excel several years ago,
when that boat navigated the river as far as
Fort Riley. He has superintended the bull
ding of the Linn, and says be can navigate
the Kansas without any difficulty. The
hearty wishes of the entire Kansas valley
are with Capt Bessley in his enterprise
Kansas Citg JostrssGl.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21
TO MULE BREEDERS!

THE CELEBRATED JACK, BLACK VAR
l. RIOR, will stand the ensuing season, con-
mencing in the middle of May. and ending in the
middle of July, at my stable, miles west Of En-
poria, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and
Thursdays. and at Emporis, on Fridays and Sat
urdays. TERMs-Insurance, go; the season, 81
single leap, s.. Any person parting with nare
before she is known to be with foal forfeits the IN
surance money. Great care will be taken to pre-
vent accidents, but Will not be accountable for
any that may happen.
Black Warrior was sired by the MarengO Nam,
moth; his dam was sired by the Old Imported
Warrior; his grand dam was fine Maltese JeRnet
He is six years cid this spring.
may2Iw3 NICHOLAS LOCKERMAS.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21

FL. Clay-pate, and bis Abolition eoadiu-
tors have stolen 50 many negroes from Wes-
tern Missouri that they are becoming scarce
and consequently dear. Our friend Me-
Carly editor of the Westport Star. adver-
tises for white woman for a serTant-the
profits of his profession not being such As
to afford him the luxury of darkey. Co
lionel. the opening of the African Slave
trade is the only thing that viii enable
you and other "poor folks" in the South to
maintain caste. The "white element in
your population want ''cheap niggers'' and
win be obliged to have them.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21

H. Cloy.pate, hero of Black Jack, Post
master at Weatport. No.. and high Dig
aifary generally in that section, was arrested
in st. Louis few days siace on charge OF
stealing negroes from the vicinity of West
port and taking them to st. Louis and sell
ling them! That wasn't fare Clay -pSte to
go it so on the strength of the reputation o.
the Kansas Abolitionists, who of course got
all the credit, while you got the CASH On
Pate! you orter not to But then you are
all right, and viii be upheld-and the next
Abolitionist they catch win have to 'tsweat''
for it. Gro it Clay pate.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21
TELL EVERYBODY

That the Republican Party is in favor of
Free Homesteads for actual settlers.
TELL EVERYBODY that the Repub-
liean Party is in favor of Continental
Railroad from the Mississippi Valley to the
Pacific.
TELL EVERYBODY that the Repub-
lican Party is in favor of River and Harbor
Improvements.
TELL EVERYBODY that the Republi-
can Party is in favor of home industry
and economy, and of Revenue Tariff
which will enable Us to pay as we gol
TELL EVERYBODY that the Republi-
can Party is as National as Freedom, and
that the bunker Democracy is as Sectional
as Slavery.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21

Our recent Biblical researches have con-
vinced us that Job was the first s'liye dar-
key of which we have any authentic rec
ord. We take his own word for it. Hear
him:
"My skin is black upon me, and my bones are
burned with heat BOOK OF Jos, xxx-30.
Poor Jobl He would probably never have
''toid'' on himself if he had known how
discreditable it was to be the wearer of a
black skin The darkies of the present day
and generation have inherited at least one
conspicuous virtue of their aneestor-that
of patience under afiiction and persecution.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21

The Detroit Advertiser states that there
is general awakening throughout the State
Of Michigan on the subject Of religion, g-.,
weeks past, held in various parts of the State,
and there is ground Sor the hope that much
real good has been accomplished.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21

At the glorious 6zzle of the "Big
Springers'' held last week, certainin divid-
ual, who glories in the certainly peculiar,
and somewhat euphonious name of Smith,
(G. W. Senior, not Junior-O no, or we
would be shot--and whose residence is at
Lawrence, figured quite largely, and talked
patriotically about keeping inviolate the
pledges made by the Free State party in
1853. He said that for one, he could not
violate the "sacred honor which he had
then pledged, by going off after other gods.
until Kansas was safely moored in the har-
Dor of the Union.
This is all very fine of course; but We
have a very strong recollection that this
same patriotic Smith (G. w. Sen who
in 1856 entered into a solemn league and
covenant with the people of Kansas to
stand together as one man for the recovery
of their dearest rights" did his dirtiest
fand that's very dirty J to induce the people
to bow their necks under the yoke of the
Lecompton Constitution, which was the es-
cence-the cu,mination, of the wrongs,
which this solemn league and covenant was
formed to resist.
Well now, when We come to consider
seho and acAdt this erratic Smith G. W.
SEM is, we do not SO much wonder at this.
He is kept By the managers of the Big
Springs "Menagerie' to stand outside the
canvass. and tell of the monkeys, zebras.
lions, lambs. snakes, toads and other ami
mails that are living under it in such har-
ssonyf His promotion 70 this exalted sta
ton is owing entirely to his venerable APP
pearance. and his perfect indifference as to
whether be tells . lie or the truth-rather
preferring the former however. as be is zsors
used 10 thar kied.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21
The Democratic Convention.

The convention of the Democracy of
Kansas, held at Tecumseh on the 10th
inst, was tolerably well attended and was
quite harmonious. A majority of those
present were Office holders and retainers OF
the present Administration, and of course
there was no 'tsqueamishness" exhibited.
They endorsed the Cincinnati Platform, and
the bloody rule of Pierce without squirm,
as also that of the venerable ''James. -
These pro-slavery fellows have got pluck
which we admire. With them we shall
have fair standup fight, and no ''dodg-
ing" or "gouging." We know where to
meet them all the time. Give us an enemy
open and above board in his operations
one that is not afraid of daylight and we
enjoy the "sport' of fighting him. Now
such fellows as Kastin. Emery. Brindle,
Davis, Moore, Abel and Stringfellow, have
the pluck to just come out and acknowl-
edge that they and their party are Pro- Slave
ry and they "'glory in it, That's right,
we like to see men who are not ashamed Of
their principles, even though they are bad.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21
Claim Notice.

OFFICE WESTERN LAND DIsrRIcI{
OGDEN, K. t., May Is. 1853
THO THOMAS WOODALL: You are hereby
4 notified that on the 22d day of June los,
James Fitzgerald will offer proof before us at ms
Office Of his right to pre-empt the north vest qT
south Range seven al, east of the sixth prpeIPa1
meridian. You being an adverse claimant TO s1iu
land, will be permitted to offer counter-Proa -
fore Us at that time.
SAM'L B. GARRETT, Register.
2iv4 FINDLEY PATTERSON, ReceiEef'
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21
Claim NOticel
oyrICE WESTERN LAND Dls5s,c1{t SD

OFFICE WESTERN LAND DIsIScf
OGDES, K. T., Nay Is, 1922
THO JEREMIAH CRAWBY: You are hgLsSa 1Ssa
i notified that on the 22d day Of June, i9S;' -.
George W. Black viii offer proof before US q 4 bs
office of his right to pre-empt the 1e<th nsn al. - ls
northwest quarter Of Section twenty '.-4s- Il
Section thirteen u.s., Township fifteen ls), soun
Range seven "a, east of the sixth PrinciPal h
dian You being an adverse claimant g sac @ "a n
will be permitted to ofser eounter-Pron "e'''N
at that time.
SAAf1L B. GARRETT, Register.
2Iv4 FlNDLEY PATTERSON Reee"N'
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21

The Washington Republic says that it is
reported to be settled thing that Mr.
James Gordon Bennett is TO have the
French Mission previous TO the expiration
of Mr.. Buchanan's term. He will be ex-
pected TO intrigue for Buchanan's renomi-
nation. and. succeeding in that. work for
his reelection. If the latter is accom-
plished, he viii remain at Paris till 1865.
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21
southern Kansas Railroad c

Southern 4 aRsas kaiIEoad Coht :,
THE undersigned, 3 committee epPoins.sHu. =. ID
4 late railroad meeting, would invite ~ =. Ess
zens Of Kansas in the counties south OF ~ II rsi
river, who are friendly TO the construction = ersns
roads, and who feel an interest In o6tain11 A.
Of land, to meet in Convention at GAhHsSt II
derson Co. Ron Friday. June Sd, at 10 oeiOe,'
d. VI. HOUSTON,
r-ss-sF WTLLIAM SPRIGG}
w. F.E. AREEY-
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21
Administratrix' Notiee.

NOTICE is hereby given that Lstssfs .as ands.
~ ministration have been granted =. late Of
signed on the Estste Of George d. -. Le~;d dste the
% dsS ~ Esy D. 1853. Therefore. al rdu K
sons having claims against said estate A. Ous
ed to exhibit them to me for allowance - nav Be
wear from the date Of said letters, or and i
5rscladed from any benefit Of such esq., ..se ysar'
aid eIaims be not exhibited witnin - foFssef
barred HAChhb = p, ;nistrsssiS
may1x3 2 e'-' - -
The Kanzas news., 1859-05-21

Eli Thayer is s.organizing . company at
Worcester, Mass. 20 emigrate to ceEedo.
his Virginia town.
, 1859-08-25

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,eu,r pu2ercs. For children teeihinS It is lny.u.
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