St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-03-10
Kansas.

The Legislative Assembly was DIS
by limitation of the organic
act, which restricts its sessions to for
ty days, at midnight on the lltr.
A very large amount of work has
been performed by it, and with the
exception of failing to pass the
bill formally abolishing and prohibit
ing slavery, in season for it TO become
a law, its labors will prove satisfac-
tory to the people Of Kansas.
The bill repeating the bogus statutes
passed, has been signed by the Gov
crnor, and IS i0n. There is much
iubilation over it. Immediately after
the adjournment of the Legislature,
an immense bonfire of tar barrels was
kindled in front of the Eldridgc House,
and a copy of the bogus statutes was
pubIidv burned, amidst the shouts and
cheers of the assembled crowd An
other copy has been sent by express
to the Governor of Missouri, with a
message informing him that the pco-
pie of Kansas have no further use for
them ! Thus, the last vcstige of the
usurpation which has so long deprived
the peoplc.of Kansas of their rights is
ripcd ont. LqRs Dec!
The Constitutional Convention bill
has been approved by the Governor,
and is now a law.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward 0. Coburn,
who were parties in the famous Bos'
ton case of Coburn and Dalton, which
our readers doubtless recollect, where
the husbands of Mrs. Coburn and Mrs.
Dalton. were tried for an assault on
Young Sumner, resulting in his death
for alleged intimacy with the ladies
in question, have procured a divorce
from the Kansas Legislature.
On Saturday, near midnight, W
d. White, one of the attaches of thC
Journal office, attempted to a~ssassi
nate w. w. Bloss, the local editor 0
the Times. Mr.. b. was seated at hi.
desk, with his back towards the door
when White entered, and Instant,
fired at the back of Mr.. b., the bal
striking his shouldcr-bladc in the re
gion Of the heart, and CHANGING OF
=. passed through his left arm. Befor,
he could turn, White had fired tire,
:, shots, one passing through the RICH
arm, and one through the left hand
A fourth shot was aimed directly a
:, his head. White fired three NOR
: shots, and hastily left the room. TIL
f wounds of Mr.. Boss were very scr
Gus.
f A special messenger arrived at ;
f Joseph, February 9th, from Platte
thirty miles below there, with speci1
information that boy and his son, VIII
were arrested near Topeka a fc'
: weeks since, on a charge of runnin.
| off negroes, were executed by a lyncl
l ING committee the Goth. The me
senger tells that the crowd mu
I tered three hundred strong, and a
I tackled the jail, taking the prisoner,
and then forced the son to drive II
cart out on the ridge, about two mile
. from the city, where they were hun
to a tree. The old man begged vel
- hard for his life, but they would n
hear him. The son was hung frs
:, There is "a great deal of excitement
Platte in consequence, and mu'
trouble is feared. The excuse,
rather the reason why this course w;
taken, was the opinion that they won
be cleared by the court which was
4 sit there next morning 1t won
q be obliged to clear them, because
o. was not the proper district to try the
in, and the citizens had declared tn;
they should not go out of Platte cou
ty.
4 FuGrIvE SLAvE.-Mr. Naugha
4 editor of the Leavenworth (kansas
Times, is out in a card in his W d
fence, in reference to the recent tug
tive slave case. He says That
# helped Charley Fisher to escape me
, be true-that | an rejoiced in his C
cape is certain. 1t is also equal
, true and certain that | am responsib
for all hat has appeared in the Tim
y relative to the matter. If have OF
10 ragged any law, let me suffer. If al
a individual feels aggrieved, he C;
p have all the satisfaction he desires"