The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-09-22

1tMss, Fort Scott 1dtTa1 and Springfield
PdtriOt were Represented by proxies.
Several important amendments wess made
TO The BY laws, and H. Kasns City Bulsin
was snspenied from lie use of all ,Aaseeia-
ted Press telegEams until it shall chsnee
back to an evening paper. In the meantime
If it desires to remain in the association it is
obliged to pay the monthly dues as usual
s.. Joseph Usios, I4k
he Future - tie RspsAasean Farty.
The following is the concluding portion of
. speech recently delivered in Indiana, by
Vice President Colhx:
The future history of the Republican party
can be judged by its past; and its pledges and
its acts show what the future will be:
, l. 1t will surely and resolutely maintain
its work of enfianchisement, of reconstruc-
ton, Of making all citizens equal under the
protection of our supreme Law, against all
hostile attempts 20 that, by the final settle
ment of these questions, SO happily ended
and SO faithfully to be maintained, the nation
shall have stability and peace, and this once
exciting issue be regarded as decided for all
time.
2. The work of retrenchment of our ma
tiOnal expenses the abolition of all need
less Ofices-of the elevation and improve
ment of the civil service of the saving
of every possible amount to the people
20 on as faithfully as during the past eigh-
teen months.
3. The pledge of the last National Re-
publican platform in that ''taxation shall be
e9ualized and reduced as rapidly as the na-
tiOnal faith will permit" will be faithfully
carried out, as already inaugurated by the
undivided Republican vote Of the recent
Congress; and, ~ the national obligations
diminish, the burdens of taxation, increased
as they were during the war, expressly to
meet these obligations, will be justly reduced.
4. The debt will be funded at lower rate
of interest, and 'having been contracted for
the preservation of the Union for all time to
come, will be extended over fair period for
redemption" lessening largely, without
doubt, the present monthly amount of its re-
duction, SO that the same generation shall
not be required to fight the battles of the
Union, and also to pay of the entire cost of
its preservation, by bearing heavy and op-
pressive burdens needlessly.
). The revival Of our American COM
merce-the development Of our vast re-
sources-the completion Of the work Of am
nesty to the fullest limits of the liberal profier
of the National Republican platform
all subjects worthy Of and that will doubt
less receive, the fullest consideration and the
wisest legislation.
Thus acting faithful to the country and
all its interests-faithful to the Union and its
integrity faithful to the people whose con-
fidence and support has sustained it in all its
trials-faithfili To its brilliant record for the
right-and faithful to every pledge on which
it obtained power, a Republican administra-
ton and Republican Congress will go for
ward in the work entrusted to them, and the
nation, under their legislation, will go on,
prospecting and 70 prosper.
The Cost 81 she Dois dc ls0al0gnc.
From Galignani's Messenger.
At the present moment, when the destruc-
ton of that beautiful focus Of elegance and
fashion, the Pare de Boulogne is more or less
seriously spoken Of with view to insure
the defence Of Paris, It may not he amiss to
lay before our readers a general view Of
what it has cost the city since the year 1852.
We borrow our figures from the official and
magnificent work entitled lies Promenades
de Paris" by NJ. A. Alphand, Chief Civil
Engineer and Director Of the Public Walks
Of the Capital.
BY the law Of the 18th Of July, 1852, the
Municipality received possession Of the Bois
de BoulOgne from the State, on condition,
not only of devoting il to the public, and
maintaining it in the state it was then in,
pierced with a few roads, but also of laying
out two million francs upon it in cmtellisi.-
ments. This sum was expended in digging
the two lakes, making the islands and rails
ing the hill called MOrtemart, crowned with
a splendid cedar tree, and overlooking the
pieces Of water.
The result Of these works appeared 50 sat
isfact0ry that in 1855 it was resolved to colt
vert the old straight roads into winding ma
c.,,lamizcd ones, with gravclled sidewalks for
riders, and fUotpaths under the trees; to dig
new lakes, ponds, and rivulets; to make the
cascades Of the Mare-aux- Bicl,es and Long
champs; to cover all the bare tracts with
turf, and plant valuable trees about: to con-
Arlct Swiss cottages and grottoes; 10 form
the race course Of Longcilamps, and lastly,
to continue the whole Bots de Bouloeue To
the Seine.
The Park accordingly now contains SAG
hectares e acres and a half each) instead OF
767: viz, wooded, 4O7; turfed, 273; shrub
bed, %; surface of water, 30; surface ofroads,
lO7. The totalamountsto IA, S52, OOOfr.; viz.
purchase of houses and ground: 6, ISIS, l6Sfr."
labor and accessories, Z, 473, S3fr. But As
building ground for ornamental villas has
already been and more remains to he sold, to
the amount OF S.77O, 365fr., the above total
is reduced to 5,572, 64Ofr. Again, the State
having contributed 9, ITO, 513fr., toward the
cost ofthe race-course, the whole Bots de
Boulogne, as it stands, only leaves to the
city an expended capital of 3, 4G2, l27fr.