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1--we are indebted to our friend,
:. ,. Gilkey, Esq, Of Rockport, for
la'o Cincinnati and EvaDsyiilc papers.
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Indiana Free 2anixs.

The Auditor Of Siate'- semi = nnual state
ment showing the cordiiion OF he Ere,
Banks Of lndana, ss,o their circulation. &C.
curl,es, places OF redemption. &c. il pub
l'shed. From il we gather the iolio~in,
facts:
Sixteen banks continuing in operation
under the lav, and having an excess Ut sc.
curiiies over ci.cslnlior. IN aggregate cir.
culation Of 81 oOi.lCO. Trn banks which
are vclsntsrily r-tirng Their cirru.a,ion q.
cured according 10 The squr~mrnis 81 Isy.
have circulation Of Sl2045l FIVE banks,
which have given bon for the REDEEM p,ion
~ their notes, have a circulation OF $50.
1s3 The aggregate circulation OF these
banks $l,27l,70i. g
This does not Include The circulation or the
suspended b. nk-. which isredeemed al va.
: icus hgures varying from GO cents 10 par.
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OFFICERS OF BA:NDRIDcr TOWNSHIP.
Justices n. G. Newcomb. 5. Ross.
Trustees Charles Bifhemeier. Franci.
Brileage, Kasper J"hn.
Clerk Geo. a. kiizinger.
Treasufcr-Wrndolin Erny.
CJnstabe-Anlhony Eckert.
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OFFICERS OF DUBOIS COUNTY.

Clrrk-EAzrL b. EDmossros.
Auditor ions MEHRrxGER
Tfsesursr- EnwAaD STEPHENSON.
Recorder SrfPHgs JER6ER.
Sherif'-.JAcE llsRsAs.
CoFoner--WM. ScHUELTERMAs.
Sarvey"r-BEsJAnIs X. KENT.
HARVEY Nicholson,
j. b. BIcKwERxEar, ) Commissioners.
WMr n. GRFEs.
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1HF NHEAr CRor.-We have been en-
couraged iy many Of our farmers. who have
The beet opportunity Of knowing and iuJs.
'nr q The advancing heat crop ia his
county, 90 believe That il win BE- tie best
crop r'isrd for many years /. i fail there
was more seed put in than ever before, il
TINS vicinity, and, although the winter was
not y iayorabie as could be wished, The
wstm spring weather has brought the " heat
out amazingly. From our exchanges, il
other parts Of the State. we are daily recew.
lad uolJ ssql o. 'siunooos roo5 smrs 81 |, 5uI
sent appearances no one need tear scar.
city Of cereal this year.-!v.nccnnes, In.
diana Gazette.
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White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-28
PROCLAMATION.

In pursuance of the third section of the
"Act to provide for the formation of a
Constitution and State Government for
the State of Kansas" majority of the
legal voters of the Territory having de-
clared themselves in favor of the forma-
ton of a Constitution and State Govern.
ment, -..--
/. Samal Medary. Governor of the
Territory of Kansas, do proclaim, as the
law requires,
''That an election shall be holden on
the FIRST Tuesdsy of June, A. D. 1859, in
the several voting precincts in the Terri
tory of Kansas. for Delegates to Con-
vention to frame Consultation and State
Government for the State of Kansas.
''That said Convention shall be COM
posed of fifty-two members, to be appor.
toned among the several districts Of the
Territory as follows, to-wit: The County
of Leavenworth shall constitute the first
district, and shall elect ten delegates /;
the County of Atchison shall constitute
the second district, and shall elect three
delegates the County of Doniphan shall
constitute the third district, and shall elect
five delegates the County of Brown shall
constitute the fourth district, and shall
one delegate; the County of Nemaha
shall constitute the fifth district, and shall
elect one delegate the Counties of Mar
shall, Washington and Arappahoe, shall
constitute the sixth district, and elect one
delegate; the County of jefferson shall
constitute the seventh district, and shall
elect one delegate; the County Of Call
houn shall constitute the eighth district,
and shall elect one delegate the County
of Riley shall constitute the ninth district,
and shall elect one delegate the County
of Pottowatamie shall constitute the tenth
district, and shall elect one delegate the
County of johnson shall constitute the
eleventh district, and shall elect two del
egates; the County of Douglas shall con-
stitute the twelfth district, and shall elect
seven delegates : the County of Shawnee
shall constitute the thirteenth district, and
shall elect three delegates the Counties
of Richardson, Davis. Dickinson and
Clay. shall constitute the fourteenth dis
trict, and shall elect one delegate the
County Of Lykins shall constitute the IF
tenth district, and shall elect two dele
gates the County of Franklin shall con-
stitute the sixteenth district, and shall
elect two delegates; the Counties Of We'll
Ter, breckenridge and Wise, shall consti-
tute the seventeenth district, and shall
elect two delegates the County of Linn
shall constitute the eighteenth district,
and shall elect two delegates the County
OF Anderson shall constitute the nineteenth
district, and shall elect one delegate the
Counties of CofFey and Woodson shall
constitute the twentieth district. and shall
elect two delegates; the Counties of Mad
ison, Butler. Hunter, Greenwood. God
frey and Wilson shall constitute the
Iwenty-first district. and shall elect one
delegate the Counties Of Bourbon, Me-
Gee and Dorm shall constitute the twenty
-
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-28

OUTFIT AND WAYS OF KANSAS
at a distance may not
generally know what kind Of an outfit is
required for a Kansas Judge; and we
cannot enlighten them better than by
mentioning that of Judge Petit, our new
Judge, as taken down by an informant,
upon the Judges late visit to Hiawatha.
Himself and suite arrived in town, on
Sunday evening. His suite. or body
guard, consisted of clerk, who rode in
the buggy with him. and several Demo
cratic lawyers following after. Arriving
in town, they were at a loss 10 find the
hotel, and the Judge sent his clerk out to
hunt one. That worthy started out, with
a revolver in his hand, which he carried
in plain sight wherever he went, no doubt
looking every moment to be set upon by
some ruf6an Abolitionist. Finding the
hotel, they put up. and occupied all Their
spare time in discussing politics. and de.
vising plans to give the Democratic party
control Of the Territory once more. One
Of the lawyers got drunk, and spewed al
terrible rate. On the following day,
our informant made an excuse to go into
the Judges private room, where b.
glanced around, and found it to contain
the following legal documents one kee
of brandy, four revolvers. four bowie
knives, three TASKS of brandy, and 4
quantity of cigars and tobacco Wher
the judge started away, he took all thes'
articles with him in his buggy. Wher
the landlord narnessed the horse to the
buggy, the animal took a baking fit
and the man undertook to drive hin
around awhile. to get him in travelling
condition. The judge seeing this, com
menced cursing the landlord, pouring
forth the oaths as if he were doing it BY
note, raving loud enough to be heard
over the whole town, and giving vent t.
blasphemies horrible enough to make tn,
hair stand on the head of q heather
Such is a fair specimen of Fedora
Office holders in Kansas. Can any decen
man blame the people of Kansas for ar
raging themselves against them ? Tt
think of Territorial judge going abou
with his buggy loaded down with brandy
revolvers and bOwie-knives, and ravine
and cursing because q man undertakes t.
do him favor his clerk carrying a re
volver through the street, on Sunday, tt
hunt hotel ; and one of his particular
friends getting beastly drunk, and pukine
all over town
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-28
DiscOuraeing from Pixies Peak.

From the Kansas City Journal, April 5th-I
Mr. W. H. Branham, formerly a mer-
chant of this city. arrived home yester-
day, direct from the mines. He lett here
on the 18th of September last.
He says that the reports as to the farm
ing capacity of the country are exagSer-
ate,l. the bottoms only being good.
He has been all through the mountains
from the Arkansas Trail to Cheyenne
Pass. The gold got on Cherry Greek i
float gold, the shot gold being only found
in the mountains, and in very limited
quantities as yet. Mr.. B. dug 50, him
self, in one day. on Vasques's Fork, N
company with Mr.. Brookfeld, Of Nebras-
ka City, on the Sd of March.
The most that he has known made by
one man, was by Mr.. Barker, at the
old Mexican diggings, three miles above
Auraria-the first day he dug So,I
the second SO, and the third day $40
There has been but little mining done
the past Winter the ground being frozen
from Is inches to 2 feet in depth. A
great many have WOIheu Haiu oht 81
nothing, and are very much discouraged
Others are very sanguine. Those who
have mined and been successful have av-
eraged from SO to IS per day, while al
work. The mining tools used may be
said to be no tools-no sluices or toms
being built or attempted to be worked.
There is plenty of pine timber in the
mountains and about the head Of Cherry
Greek.
Mr.. Branham further says that if any
gold is found in large quantities it will
be in the monntains-bGth there is no gOld
on Cherry Greek wo,M looking after
and that the sooner the public get Cherry
Greek OFT of their heads the better.
As an illustration of how mining op-
crates. he gives us the following instance
Himself, David Kellogg and II. G. Rod
gers, worked three claims adjoining each
other faithfully for week. He made
Sl9, 20. Kellogg made nothing, Rodgers
go cents, and this is about fair sample
of the mines.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-28

Ma. BATES AND THE PRESIDENCY
Republican of yesterday, had a labored
attack upon the Bates wing of the Amer
lean party, owing to rumors that it al
legged were current, favorableto Mr.. Bates,
as the candidate of the united opposition
to the National Democracy, for President
of the United States. 1t ridicules the
idea of fusion or cooperation, predicts
many sad things to the Americans if Mr..
Bates should prove acceptable to the Re-
publican party, and be triumphsntly cleo
ted, and urges as the best mode of avert
ing such dismal calamity, that all the
real friends of Mr. Bates should at once
desert and go over to Bogy. Pathetic
to say the least of it. Novel, if nothing
more. AS for the suggestion it brings
out, we have only to say, that should Mr..
Bates be placed in so exalted candidacy
as that proposed, be would sweep Mis-
souri, like whirlwind, and we may add
farther, that in this State, he would find
no stauncher vindicator, no firmer sup
porter throughout such race, than Mr.,
Blair, of st. Louis. Without presumine
to make Presidents in advance of the
general expression of the country, we
have felt it due to say this much in re-
Spouse to the article of the Republican.
We hope the answer will enlighten it, at
least, sufficiently to show that its appeal
to personal ambition will raise no STUN
bling block in the road to victory in
1860.-Mo. Democrat.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-28
A United Opposition.

There are tendencies all over the coun-
try demanding a party union of all OPP
posed the present administration. and, we
we think, ere the canvass Of 1860 begins,
that it will be difficult, if not impossible,
for any third party to resist these tenden-
cies. OF course jeslousies still disturb
leading minds and divide certain portions
of the people but these are being soft
ened, if not subdued, every day. A true
liberality-a wise toleration-that spirit
which asks only what it is ready to &C.
cede-will bring together the right-mind-
ed and the honest, who desire to overthrow
the present administration. Can it be
otherwise I? "If," says the Albany Eve
ming Journal, "this spirit pervades the
Opposition, who can doubt its triumph ?
The rivers, fed by thousand streams in
the spring time, viii be but an emblem
of its power and force, as it sweeps on
ward, spreading on every side its bene6.
cent and glorious effects"
This able paper continues II
Who can look upon the policy Of the
Government, and witness tine mismanage,
ment of the great interests of the country,
without determining that, so far as In him
lies. the change shall be absolute and pos
tive? 1t is no time for men to think Of
division, when union and harmony are SO
necessary to our success. The judicious
and true men, who, day by day, are
watching the cause of the Opposition,
who are watering its roots, and cutting
off its decayed branches, know and un.
derstand the requirements of the time
They are not wanting in the foresight
which will lead to satisfactory and sue
cessful result, and those who have doubted
the wisdom of their policy. will ere long
acknowledge their mistake. Never were
we so strong in all the elements of power
as at the present time, and never were the
Democracy more disorganized. Let the
petty chickering's of to day be forgotten,
for the sunlight of the future will CLEAN
on the shields of victorious and united
party.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-28
~ We have noticed one curious 81,

re- We have noticed one curious cir
cumstance, in connection with fhe great
gold stories now flooding the country.
In the reports regarding certain persons
making big hauls. it is almost invariably
asserted that they did it all with indifer-
ent mining tools. The inference is, that
it is impossible to get good tools, and
that the miners have to put up with poor
ones; but that if they had the right kind
oftools, they could do a huge business.
A disappointed digger, who has recently
returned from the mines. puts different
face on this matter. He says that, when
about starting home, he offered to sell his
tools, which were excellent ones, very
low, but could not find purchaser. A
good pick he offered for the small sum Of
one dollar, but it was no go. He at
length threw down his tools, and left
them. Now, if gold is so plenty, and
good tools to dig it with are so scarce,
why would not these good tools sell for
what they originally cost? Something
not right there.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-28
Unfavorable Gold News.
FROM AN IMPARTIAL WRITER.

FROM An IMPARTIAL WRITER.
Correspondence of the Westport Border S,,rl
BENT's FoRT, Feb. 10Th
l will say something about Pike,
Peak. Still | can give you nothing def.
mite as regards that great FL Dorado
But from all that | have heard, (anl |
have seen and converSed with a numLr
from the mines, l think the prOspec, Of
gathering a rich harvest Of that precious
metal, called gold, will never be reaizel
by many, at Pixies Peak, Cherry Creek or
on the Platte. | think that the Kans,,
fever for village and town speculation,
heads the list Of operations in those 10,
calities above named There are not Is,
than dozen town sites already locatel.
and it will not be long before You see
some OF them on paper, describing their
localities, beauties, and advantages, ke.
Maybe you want to invest. am toll
that there is nothing going on but drink.
ing, gambling. and horse racing. There
is but little money among them, and con.
sequently that is not the article played
for-horses, mules, oxen, and even oil
clothes, are the stakes. Many persons
that arrived in that country with fns
outfit for one year, have not sufficient left
to bury them.
Whisky appears to be the staple article
Of trade. Well, it is the staff Of life, but
a fellow can't lean on it long, some how
or other.
What | have written above, have
heard from Americans, Mexicsns, and
Indians. Any quantity of liquor is ira
ded to the Indians. The indians are not
satisfied at seeing so many Americans
settling on their lands, and that without
ever consulting them. much fear there
will be trouble in this country the ensu.
ing simmer. Rather sweet time then, |
should think. ii.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-28
DOs'r JIsoIE.-The Herald Of Free

DoH'T JIscLR.-The Herald Of Free
dom has recently professed to be at 8
loss to know where we stand now it
viii pardon us for making inquiry as to
what it is aiming at. Il every week
grows more vehement in its opposition
to Republicans organization in Kansas /;
and yet, in its last Issue, it expresses its
preference for Salmon P. Chase for the
next Presidency, above all other men.
Chase, everybody knows, is one of the
pillars Of the Republican party-yea, Of
the Abolition portion of it. Chase oc-
oupies undisputed grOund-nop party meets
his appreciation, that does not go the en-
tire length of Republican doctrines. II
Republicanism is good, it is surely so in
Kansas, as well as in the States. What
consistency, then, is there in the Herald's
advocating the election TO the Presidency
Of Republican of the strictest sect, and
at the same time 60 bitterly denouncing
that party in Kansas ? Is it merely be.
cause some bad men are engaged in the
movement? If such men are engaged in
it, that is an additional reason why the
Herald should go in, that it might use
its influence to counteract theirs. 1t does
not look right. that we, an outsider,
should be compelled to lecture an &C.
knowledged member of the party upon
his duty.
We are not one of those who are in the
habit of crying out that Brown has sold
himself to the Administration, or done
some other act equally as bad, whenever
he pursues course which we cannot en-.
dorse. TO be sure, we have sometimes
thought that he was pursuing rather q
suspicious course, but we presume he has
had his own reasons for it. We believe
he is all right on the great question al
issue yet when we deem his practices
inconsistent with his professions, we take
the liberty of saying so.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-28

A SLIGHT MIsTAKE.-In an article
published last week, headed "Nigger
Troubles" there we're some remarks
which, we understand, have made certain
sensitive gentlemen over in Holt County,
who hail from near the Blue Ridge, or
the neighborhood of the head waters OF
the Rappahannock, infer that we insinu-
ated that some of them had caught the
two free negroes, and drove them to pri-
son before the "yawning pistols mouth"
whereat they seem to be very much in
suited, and strongly deny having done
the base act, but stoutly aver that the two
men who did it were from Free States.
Now, we did not say that the Southern
chivalry alluded to had caught the ne
grocs, but that they had done the blow
ing, to get up an excitement. In fact,
we had understood that the persons who
caught the negroes were from Free States;
and II we had not, we had seen enough
of the ways of the world, to teach US that
Northern men are the readiest tools to do
the dirty work of the shareholders and
we could easily guess, that if Northern
men were to be found in that communi-
ty, they were the ones who caught the
darkies. If this explanation is not salts
factory, we have none other to make.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-28

GEN. JAcKsoN's GOLD SxUFP Box
1t appears that Gen. Ward B. Burnett
Surveyor General of Kansas and Nebras.
ka, is about to fall heir to the gold snuff
box which Gen. jackson left to be awar.
ded to the bravest man of the Mexican
war. The adopted son of 'Old Hicko.
ry," Col. Andrew jackson, in a private
letter from Nashville, informs the editor
OF the Richmond Enquirer, that having
been called away very suddenly to attend
to important business affairs. as well as
to bring his family to the Hermitage %
be has been compelled to defer the formal
presentation of the gold boz recently
awarded by him to Gen. Ward B. Bur
nett, under a vote of the New York Reg
iment, until Gen. Burnett can go to Kan
sas and Nebraska to place his deputies in
the 6eld. and return to Nashville to meet
Col. Jackson. s, g.s.g ,
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-28
Correspondence of tn. Cincinnati -,
Letter from Kansas - Pike, ''I }.
Humbug. Fsak

Correspondence Of the Cincinnati = -
Letter from Kansas -Piks,.
Humbug. Fsak
Iowa PoINT, X. T., March % To-.
l have just got in from an ;n, ic09
excursion. and finding few leisT.as
ments at hand | have concluJaJ no.
you few lines with regard 10 n" nGFop
Peak Humbug. 1t is highly iDta,a,. .a''
if not exciting, to see and minsis
the thousands Of expectant gold a Era
who are daily arriving, and out6,, ,ssSsi',
a trip over the plains. have sn To-
few days in each of the cities Of ' E
City, Leavenworth and St. Josenb AT1 ~
are all crowded to OVERLOOKING anil e!
parties are arriving with every boa, q Y
emigration to Pixies Peak is inn, lA'
and will reach by the first of N,u
enormous number of 100, 900 tn
ent rush will justify these figures p'e'
With regard to the real merits Il,
"newly discovered gold fields" 7 N'
had peculiar advantages for obtainip...
liable information. | have seen sa e,
parties who have arrived from tbp,s "a
in the last few weeks, some of vi. a.'a,
know to be truthful and dismtere,,sg Iu |
sons. They all concur in sav;n. !a'
"Pikc's Peak" is a AumJug. and H., ' n
many favorable reports sent to tho ST.. ~
are emanati0ns of town lot specrI,,.
who are reaping rich harvests from ', 4
credulous masses, who believe that i -, N
turn out to be a new Ell Dorado ,.I
that fortunes may be made in a few ,S Il.
months. l have no doubt but that ,'ii
exists at Pixies Peak 1.-THE opinion q IN ~
Vaughan, and other eminent reolo.;.
who have proSpeeted the country 10 ~
contrary notwithstanding, but # is 5r -
in such small quantities, that it will -.
pay to work the mines. In coueIus; ~
let me say, that all who have comloT,,T'
homes and loving friends, in the Stat.
had better remain there; at least NJ,
emigrate to Pixies Peak, with anv ~ Nv
pectations of lettering their condition =.
if they do, they will most assurellv /,
"taken in and done for" 1t is now II,
hey-day with border trading points anil
they are reaping rich harvesis. The Men
on the border, here. are perfectly ouir,
and not the first one is Quitting for ,bs
mines. This, of itself, ought to be 4,
volume of advice to those who are no'
regularly initiated.
Yours, ALLEY.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-28

The ANTI-DoUGLAs War RENEWED
The Washington Union, since it came
into the hands of 81. b." has resumed
its assaults upon Senator Douglas. In
noticing that Jenny Jones, Of Tennes.
SEE" has gone back to the Opposition, the
Union remarks that he sis the identical
individual that was heralded last summer
as stumping the State of Illinois in favor
of the reelection of Senator Douglas -
and adds: ..s 81. .-. ....--; $3.50.
1.-The Southern Democracy will under
stand from this, how far, and to what
extent, sympathy with the anti-Lecomp-
ton faction of the North, corresponds with
the same feeling for the success of the
Democratic party in the South. At the
North, the sympathizers with Judge
Douglas, claimed to be as good Demo
Gratis as could be found anywhere. From
the position Of the late Senator from
Tennessee, however, it seems that the Op-
position was more vital, than a mere DIFF
ference of opinion, with the Administra-
ton on the Lecompton question. We
opine that this is only the beginning Of
the developments that viii take place, in
showing The hydra headed monster that Is
to come out Of ibis rebellion against he
Democracy, from which tho Administra-
ton weuld have saved the party"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-28

re- The annual meeting of the South
ern Disunion Convention, which its
friends endeavor to dignity by the name
of Commercial" is shortly to take
place at Vicksburg. Mississippi. The
Democratic papers will all contain copi-
our reports of its proceedings, without q
word of condemnation. Were It meet
ing of Northern people, to devise means
to check the aggressiOns of niggerdom.
every Democratic sheet in the land, from
the greatest to the smallest, would set up
a howl about Abolition traitors.