The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-01-26
LAWRENCE. Jan. %. 1861.

communication with the outside world, and
left US entirely at the mercy of domestic ex-
elements and home intelligence. There
has been no eastern mail since the twelfth
of the present month and the wires have
been so frequently broken by the storm,
that our information in reference to the ex-
citing topics of Secession" ''compro-
mise .tpanic.'' and 1.-The seizure of the
forts,'' has been very meagrs and infre-
quent.
The tendency of the Kansas Admission
Bill has also been subject which has, of
course, excited the highest interest, and the
rush for the daily papers on the arrival of
the stages, attests the universal anxiety to
know whether we are or are not unconscious
ly exercising the rights of State Sovereign
ty. The question is agitated whether the
functions of the Territorial Legislature are
suspended by the act of admission, and The
legal mind is greatly exercised in the dis
eussion of this mooted point. Governors,
Robinson and Beebe, sre Clearly of opinion
that Immediately upon the signing of the
bill, all the powers Of the old Government,
except those specially excepted by the terms
of the Wyandct Constitution, are suspended.
Beebe is so positive that be assures the mem
bers that their per diem will be at once cut
off, and as he holds the 'ssinews of war, ="
his opinion is OF considerable importance
The question is really one of great nicely,
and may give rise to some difficulty in the
future. 1t is possible that new election
may be ordered for members of the lower
house; if so, there will be some canvassing
done by senatorial aspirants in high Roman
fashion.
The Legislature has not been very busily
engaged since the dale of my last commu
nication- There was really no great neces-
sity for their assembling at all, except to
draw the three dollars per day, which is
something Of consideration in these times
of famine and destitution. Every body in
Kansas has been incorporated, and nearly
every body has been divorced. Every 9TH
err section of land has city on it. Every
village Las its university, its college, its
church, and seminary. The whole coun-
try is gridironed with imaginary systems of
railroads, connecting it with every portion
of the world, and at the same time, the real
interests of the country have been SO be-
deviled with every species of absurd and
impertinent legislation, that nothing short
of inspiration can ever extricate it from the
abject condition with which it has fallen; its
credit ruined its resources exhausted and
its energies crippled by an increasing debt
which has already reached nearly tire sum
of one hundred thousand dollars, and that
with legislative, Judicial and executive ex-
penses, paid by our benevolent Uncle Sam.
But every new country has the same ordeal
to run, and must be ruined several times
before it learns wisdom, though, with the
recent examples of nearly all the western
States SO Immediately before US, it seems
as if there were no need of such reckless
and careless profigacy.
An hundred and fifty bills have been in
ITOluNG1 III Tic 11OOSC anu u liliEu rs lDaH
more in the Council. a large proportion of
these are for divorces, by sundry FESTIVE
parties on whom the bonds of hyuen set
most uneasiIy. The applicants are from all
portions of the known world, and the
grounds on which they apply, are as fEiyo-
lous and absurd as can be imagined
Slight differences of opinion on social sub
jects, incompatibility of disposition and
temper, differences in political sentiment,
have all been alleged with freedom and
frequency, which if it were allowed, would
soon make Kansas one general free-love in
stitution, second only to the Territory of
Utah. Capt. Keller, of Johnson county,
is the great champion Of unhappy females
who desire relief, and creates much amuse-
ment By the vigor and originality with which
he urges the claims Of his lovely but luck
less cIients. The disposition Is not as lib
eral as last year. and the lower House indi-
Gates a determination to reject all applca-
tons, preferring to leave the matter entirely
to the courts.
Several resolutions have been offered ex-
pressiYe of the sentiments of Kansas on
Major Anderson and the crisis. They ara
chiefly submitted by the President of the
Council. The Democrats generally seem
to be opposed to the exhibition of any
strong union sentiment on the part of Kan
sas, as might be expected from their antece-
dents, from Bebee, the accidental Governor,
down to the dirtiest scayenger that grubs
among the offal of administration politics.
The bill to Arm. Equip and organize
the Militia of Kansas" has perhaps excit-
Ell more interest than any other measure be-
fore the Assembly. 1t is pet scheme of
Gen. Lanes, TO whom the position of Ma
ior General of the forces is conceded By all
prrties The bill passed the Council with
almost no opposition, bat seems at present
to be stalled in the House. Some of Lanes
enemies dread the selat which be viii obtain
BY being again at the head of the citizen
soldiery of Kansas, and once more beneath
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