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Year: 1859

Here the average is but little over six TO IA
county, aud these nine will not be a very
unfair sample OF the State generally. AL
lowing the average TO reach eight, outside
of the counties containing large towns, and
we shall have about 700 for those, with 300
for the large ones, OF 1000 in all, which we
suspect will vary but little from the actual
result This will yield $50, 900 to the School
Fund and save one hundred times that to
the State in the waste and exhaustion OF
drunkenness.


The Charlottesville Journal says that
but one application will be made to the
Board of Commissioners of that county, for
license to retail liquors in that town. The
feeling there against the traffic is very
strong and "A tremendous remonstrance is
preparing against the granting of any Ii
cense. In case il fails the Journal intimates
that force will be resorted to, and that
Judge Lynch will be invoked 10 interfere in
the matter.


In Boone and Putnam counties the peo-
pie are arraying themselves ea masse against
the granting of license, and such is the
strength and unanimity OF public sentiment
that il is believed that the traffic will be en-
tirely stopped in these counties.


The Lafayette Journal says; "In this
city some fifty or sixty applications for Ii
cense will be made-a large deduction from
the number at present engaged in the bust
ness. The Commissioner will require a
rigid adherence to the law, and will accept
none but the most undoubtrd testimonials
as to the personal character of the applicant,
as well as the responsibility of the sureties. y


In Terre Haute there are now some forty
five applications-how many more there
will be, remains to be seen.
Year: 1859

We published last week the result of
the first county election held in this Ter
ritory, since the organization among us of
the Democratic and Republican parties.
The result is just what was expected, ard
Just what we firmly believe will be the
case in three-fourths of the counties Of
this Territory, unless party tactics are i'm
mediately changed; not that the people
sympathize with the Democratic party,
but they utterly despise those who have
forced themselves into the position Of
leaders in the Republican party. We have
entered our protest, time and time again,
agains. the organization of the Republican
party until Kansas was State, and have
begged, importuned, and reasoned with the
advocates of the other policy until we were
wearied with the effort, but all to no
purpose. "Rule or ruin" was their motto,
and the latter is before them. With the
exception of Douglas, Shawnee, and prob
ably Breckenridge counties, we do not
believe there is hardly another county in
Kansas which will elect Republican
ticket with Jim Lane, Vaughan, Conway,
Thacher, and Montgomery in the lead.
If we wished to disgrace the Republican
party, and damn it eternaHy, we could
employ no more successful instrumentality
than allow these men to direct it. Again
and again We enter our solemn warning
against the policy which is being pursued,
and again we say to Republicans in the
States, that the programme must be
changed Immediately or Kansas will be a
Democratic State with Democratic Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress. This
charging the staunchest Anti Slavery men
in Kansas, and those who have borne the
flag of freedom aloft in the darkest hour
of her history, with being Democrats,
because they will not sustain murderers,
bullies, and dictators for office, and re-
ceive to their embraces persons who came
here to organize the Democratic party, and
whose every effort has been to bring Re-
publicanism into disrepute, is only tending
to accomplish what they pretend most to
deprecate.
Year: 1859




There are now nearly two hundred
manuscript pages ready for the press, of
this thrillingly interesting work. We delay
the commencement of its publication a
short time, until it is completed, and in
order that subscribers may have time to
send in their orders, and be able to COM
mence with the beginning of the tale. 1t
is work Of rare merit and artistic skill.
Legendary in its character, its compass
ranges from the ludicrous TO the sublime
and blends the beautiful and the terrible
with startling and unrivaled power. The
reader will feel inclined to alternately
laugh and weep, as he follows the author
in his mastery portrayal of the life-like,
mirth moving, and melancholy scenes
with which the story abounds. Even the
JAY -Hawkers will pay it the tribute of a
broad grin, as its incidents revive in their
minds recollections of past events. A vein
of pleasantly, peculiar to the author, runs
through and pervades the body of the
work. For variety of incident and power
of delineation, the work is almost without
a rival. 1t is the lone star of Kansas
literature, and is destined to shine forever.
We bespeak for it an extensive and world
wide popularity.


Measures are now being taken to have
the work dramatized, and brought out
upon the stage.
Year: 1859

Those in want of job work in the shape
of handbills, circulars, certificates of town
stock, business cards, blanks of any kind,
bookwork, whether of pamphlets or the
largest class of books, should know that
better work can be done at the Herald Of
Freedom office, and in a more satisfactory
manner, than at any other Office in the
Territory. We added to the Office, dur
ing the winter, new press, designed ex-
pressly for card, label and circular work,
and recently have ordered another, de-
signed for the larger class of legal blanks,
posters, &c. We are also adding con-
stantly to our almost endless variety OF
type, such new letter as the ingenuity Of
the type manufacturer brings before the
public. We are now making arrange
ments to add book bindery, which we
hope to have in operation in few weeks,
and if the present encouragement continues
through the spring months, it is probable
we shall add stereotype foundry
Though desirous of retiring from business,
and determined to do so when the first
favorable opportunity to sell out occurs,
yet we are equally determined to keep up
good establishment while we remain
connected with the Office, and to defy all
competition west Of St. Louis.
Year: 1859

A call has made its appearance for a
Republican Convention at 0sawatomie,
on the 18th of May next, signed by nu-
merous persons from different portions Of
the Territory. Whether it was wise or
expedient to issue such call, it is need
less for us to inquire at this time, as the
Convention is fixed fact. and the two
parties, Republican and Democratic, will,
from this forth, labor to control the desti-
nies of the Territory. Perhaps it is well
that it is SO, because these parties will be
more equally divided than many suppose,
and the ability of either to impose bad
men upon the country will be less likely
than if parties should remain all on one
side, as formerly.


1t is evidently the intention and ex-
pectatioR of Lane. Conway, Thacher,
Vaughan & Co., to control the Osawatomie
Convention, and foist themselves into
offices under its organization. Indeed,
the whole thing was concocted in Lanes
Office, and we have the most positive as
surances that the officers under the new
Constitution that is to be, were all farmed
out by him and his cohorts, and that they
will labor unitedly to carry into execution
their programme. Lane opened the ball
in Leavenworth, as we mentioned several
weeks ago, and is following it up with his
peculiar earnestness. 1t is said he has
arranged to canvass the entire Territory,to
pave the way for the election Of delegates
who will labor to advance his interest at
taat Convention. We have heard but
one expression from the Free State men
thus far, and that is, that they willnor be
transferred to Lanes support by any such
arrangement. Though earnest Republi-
cans, yet he is to lead the Republican forces
they cannot, will not, work in the party.
We say this for ourself, to all the world,
and VIC speak the determination of large
number Of other persons, as good anti
slavery men as there are in Kansas, at the
same time. James II. Lane still seeks q
position in the United States Senate, and
he labors to use the Republican organiza-
ton as stepping stone to his ambition
Shall he succeed
Year: 1859

VI Another Correspondent In the Gold Region.


On Tuesday last Mr.. E. ROPES, young
man about twenty-five years of age, set
out on foot, and alone, we believe, for the
gold region. He carried his necessary
supplies in hand cart, and will take the
Santa Fe route, deeming that the best at
this season of the year, in his unprotected
position. The article on the Geology of
Eastern Kansas, in another column, is
from his pen. He has promised to write
us weekly while on his way to, and during
his stay at the mines, and he pledges us
that not representation of any character
shall be made in his letters which he does
not kno,c from personal observation to be
strictly true. As his mother, in Massachu-
sets, is a reader of the Herald Of Freedom,
he expects to write such articles as he
will be pleased to have her read.


With the correspondence of Mr.. ROPES,
frequent letters from Mr.. CUssoNs, and
such occasional correspondence as we shall
expect from others who visit that region,
we are confident we shall be able to give
the most reliable and interesting INTEL
ligence from that quarter, of any of our
contemporaries.


Some seem apprehensive that the gold
mines are myth, and the large stories of
gold being found there is mere chimera
of the imagination; but if so, it is one
of the most magnificent conspiracies ever
known in the history of the world. Hun
dreds of men, writing from different points,
most of them describing what they profess
to have seen, and all urging their own
relatives and friends to come to the mines,
shows that if there is deception, the parties
are practising it upon those they would be
the least likely to impose upon.
Year: 1859

@ We understand that the Commits
sioners, authorized under late Act of
the Legislature to locate the county seat
of FL Paso county, have gone forward to
discharge the duties of their commission,
accompanied by several gentlemen who
will interest themselves in the town, and
take possession os the town site. The
name of the town, Ell Faso. was deter
mined upon last fall, and is near the
base of Pixies Peak, in the heart of the
new gold region. and, We understand, was
partly surveyed several months ago. We
expect to hear more Of this new town in
the future.
Year: 1859

Is it just for those newspapers of Kan
sas which copy the laws. passed at the
recent session of the Legislature, from the
Herald Of Freedom, to do so without giving
credit for thesame Some of those laws
which We see going the rounds of the
press. We paid for transcribing, and all Of
them have cost us much labor to obtain.
We shall leave it with the press to do
what is right in the premises.
Year: 1859

o. Our friends from all parts of the
Territory will again accept our thanks for
their exertions in behalf of the Herald of
Freedom. largely increasing our list of SUBJ
scribers during the last few weeks, and
particularly within the last few days
Every mail brings US an armful of letters,
and nearly all of them contain remit
tances. Who says the Herald of Freedom
is breaking down?
Year: 1859

OF The Journals of the late Lesisla-
ture are not quite ready for delivery, and
may not be for several days, owing to the
fact that We turned all our strength upon
the pamphlet containing tho election and


other important laws now in force. The


pamphlet is printed, as are the Journals,
and, as soon as folded and stitched, viii


be ready for delivery the former, how
lever. viii be FIRST looked after.
Year: 1859

ANSWER OF course you cannot get
your horses back. The Amnesty Act con-
firms the thief-title, and the jay-hawker
is not subject to any prosecution on any
complaint or indictment in any court
whatsoever in the Territory" Your case
is bad one, but you must grin and bear
it. The only way to get even Is TO steal
as much as you can this year, 80 that
when the next Amnesty Act is passed
you can take advantage Of II as well as
the Border Star.
Year: 1859

e certain lady, who was famous for making
good picked walnuts, and was very fond OF eating
them, too one season discovered that her jars were
emptied before she had fairly tasted her iavorite
pickle She called her servants to account, but
each one denied having meddled with the jars, and
the good lady determined. if possible, TO find out
the thief So she made another fine lot of pickles,
and placed them on the shelf in the same store
room, keeping a daily watch upon them. 10 her
great surprise, she discovered no other than her
pet parrot to be the pilferer OF the pickle Jars
She caught him hooking out the walnuts with his
crooked beak, and in her anger she dashed upon
him pitcher of hot water, which she CHANGED to
have in her hand.


Poor poll was in a sad plight. both in suffering
and appearance his bright feathers all fell out;
and be was long in his naked condition nursed by
the pity of his forgiving mistress. During this
period of probation venerable friend of the lady,
who was quite bald, one day came to visit her,
Poll waddled quietly into the parlor, and, climb
ing upon the back Of the old gentleman.s chair,
seemed for some time to be intently examining his
bald head then, growing bOlder, ne got upon ms
shoulder and with beak upon the bald spot, cried:


"sol-so! you've been at the picked "ainut''
too, have youl'
Year: 1859

Daniel Webster is reported to have said that
no lawyer would risk his reputation before a ju-
ry if he had to speak from pulpit and that
he considered the surviving of Christianity, in
spite of pulpts, as one Of the evidences Of its
divinity
Year: 1859

TIE GREAT REpuBLIc.-From the publishers Oak
smith & Co., New York, we have received the Febru
ary number OF this new illustrated monthly The
contents excellent as they are varied. and this
Magazine, both in its literary articles and artistic
embellishments, will well bear comparison with any
of the monthlies. The premium subscription price is
four dollars which entities the subscriber to copy
of one Of two splendid engravings. The Last Sup
per-" or, The City of the Great King
Year: 1859

A RELIc.-The Pendlcton (S c. Messenger says
We have lately exhumed In cellar of our village,
the old wooden press that the Messenger was first is
sued upon It was the identical press that Gen. Green
printed the dispatches of the army with 1t is made
mostly Of mahogany TO compare it with the presses
of the present day it is indeed curiosity.
Year: 1859

uST RECEIVED, at the ''Clinton Drug Store"
supply OF the above seed, raised and put up by
,ne Society of Shakers, Pleasant Hill Mercer County,
Kentucky, in the year 1858


ihese seeds are superior to any other kind sold In
,hlS section They are the only Seed raised and put up "a
me So"m The Proprieors take back all their old
seed at the close of each season. and supply their
Agents with fresh seed. BY this means yon can al
ways get fresh seed you buy from the regularly ap-
pointed Agent


H. WALKER. Commercial Row,
Jan sole Agent for the Parish Of Fast Ecicana
Year: 1859

Eo' The barat the mouth of the Mississippi is pro.
badly in worse condition than it has been before
Tor years. considerable feet of vessels lie at that
point unable to get in or out of the river many of
them hard aground, OF at least sticking in the soft
UVhy mud of the bar,
Year: 1859

II is with feelings Of extreme qualification, that we
are able to announce to our readers that preliminary
measures have been entered into for the erection Of
this building. The sum required before commencing
operations, $4,000 had already been subscribed
and on Wednesday last the Building Committee pur
chased the site on which it is to be erected it being
six-eightbs of the square, bounded the north and
south by the streets running due east by the Court
House, the next above Commercial Row.


In our advertising columns will be found notice
to contractors, calling for proposals Thus il will be
scen that great period Of time will capsc, ere we
will have cdice, that win not only be an orna-
ment but most useful addition to our town. The
plan, as now proposed is to erect plain but sub
stantial building, 80 by 90 feet, three stories in
heigth the ground floor to be used as Public Hall
the second, as q Male Academy and the third, for
Masonic purposes.


Should the sum already subscribed be insufficient
to complete the Hall" have no doubt that the
liberal generosity of those who have already contrib.
nted will meet with ready and willing imitators.
Year: 1859

NOBLE GIRI"-Onc Of the Boston papers relates
this aneedotc on the authority of fellow passenger
OF the heroiue Of it, from Detroit TO Albany


On reaching the depot, at Suspension Bridge the
conductor told a young man--whoSe health was very
feeble, and who was on his way to Springfield, Mass.
whore he had lrieud3--he must leave the car as he
bad no money with which to pay his fare Notwith
standing the debllilated appearance Of the young man
he was suffered to be led ont of the car without any
movement being made for his relief As the young
man WIS about stepping Off the platform, a young la
dy rose in the cars and asked the conductor how
much the young mans fare would be to Albany. He
replied eight dollars She Immediately stepped to the
door and told the invalid to return and resume his
seat lie did So and then some of the male passen-
gers began to exhibit little charity offering to pay
portion of the fare. The young lady declined their
prolered aid saying she preferred to pay the amount
herself She did 50, and besides gave him script',
to keep him in Albany over Sunday, promising TO see
him forwarded to his friends on Monday


EUROPEAN ALARM ABOUT CUBA.--Baron Yon Gcrot
Is to return to Washington by the next steamer from
Europe.


1t is believed that the decided demonstration Of
Congress towards the acquisition ofCuba has created
much uneasincss among the European power.
Year: 1859

EXPLANATION OF SENATOR DAVIS Immediately on
the reading of the journal in the Senate on the morn
ing of the 25th ult Mr. Pugh called the attention of
the body to the late gross invasion Of its Executive
session. made, evidently. by some one connected with
the Senate. Mr. Davis seized the occasion afforded in
discussion this subject, to pointcdly dsclaim the
libel that has found its way into the press that he
made an attack on the Senator from Illinois,


He stated that he had made no such attack direct.
'ly or indirectly. Mr.. Douglas replied that such was
his own understanding and that while he apprecia-
ted the explanation Of Mr. Davis he did not regard it
as at all necessary 1t seemed to be regarded on all
sides that some steps should be taken immedi.
ately to protect the secret sessions of the Senate
Year: 1859

A BLACK DoUGLAsI>N. "Congress has
never passed law for the protection of
any kind of property in the Territories.'--
Douglas speech.


This little giant, but great knave has the
impudence to assert this to an audience of
what he called the "intelgent citizens of
Ohio"-in the face of a law which had
been extended over every Territory, author
izing men to enter the Territory and seize
any person to whom they may lay claim as
property, and drag them away to slavery
without trial


He talks as if it would be an innovation
for Congress to provide any different protec-
ton for slave property, than for horses and
mules; as if Congress had not already en-
acted slave coGe for the entire Union,
States and Territories: jnst as if the party
had not planted itself Oh this as the sole
democratic principle in Ohio and resolved
to sink with it.


If the principle should be adopted that
slave property is entitled to no Other protec
tion than other pro- erty what would be-
come of the fugitive slave law?


What kind of an idea must this trickster
have of the intelligence of the Ohio Dem.
ocracy, when he can utter and repeat, and
amplity this lie in their presence with a
brazen front? What kind of Democratic
organs must they be that can hear this, and
bv their silence endorse it p Columbus
Ohi0) Journal.
Year: 1859

BABB1Tr's DEFALcATIoN. The Locofoco
press is heraldng before the country, with
display type and exclamation points, that
"Babbitt is not defaulter !!l'-because, for
sooth, Judge Love, of the U. S. District Court,
has decided in his favor the suit brought
against him for the recovery of money received
by him at the Land Office. By this decision,
Babbitt's claim to ten thousand dollars, which
he pocketed, contrary to all past usage, as fees
on bounty land warrants, is declared legal T!
This is nothing more, however, than we
expected. The District Courts, as well as the
Supreme Court of the United States, now
render decisions 'made to order" The Dred
Scott decision was intended to bolster up
new Democratic dogma, and the Babbitt
decision is intended to make legal the plum
dering of dishonest Locofoco official. The
hard-fsted yeomanry of Iowa should bear in
mind that this sum of ten thousand dollars is
in addition to salary of three thousand dol
lars per annum-making over seven thousand
dollars per year, or about twenty dollars per
day, received by the virtuous and economical
Babbitt, while acting as Land Office Receiver!
Can such man be reasonably expected to aid
in inaugurating the retrenchment and
reform" policy so much vaunted by the DEM
ocrats? We think not. A hireling Court
may acquit one of its masters of the charge
of defalcation in this matter, but the people
will not. They will hold him to reckoning,
so far as it is in their power, on the 18th day
of October next
Year: 1859

DOUGLAS AND THE SLAVE TRADE.-Douglas
says he is opposed to the re-opening of the
slave trade because its prohibition results from
a compromise of the Constitution. That's
his highest reason. tits only a few years ago
(remarks an exchange) that he said the Mis-
souri, prohibition of slavery "was compro-
mise akin to the Constitution, and hallowed
in the affection of the American people" and
then the very next year carried through bill
to repeal it. He now says the slave trade
prohibition is Constitutional compromise,
but will be just as ready with some new
humbug to repeal that, next year, if needful
to promote his own ambitious views, as he
was five years ago with squatter sovereignty.
Douglas is an ambitious, dishonest demagogue,
who ignores principle, and recognizes only a
shifting, uncertain and false expediency as
the rule of his political action. Let no such
man be trusted.
Year: 1859

SLAVERY CIvILIzlNG AND CHRIsTIANIzING
INSTITUTION Such was the declaration Of
Gen. Dodge, in his speech at Oskaloosa.-
Muscatine Journal.


Gen. Dodge never uttered the above, and
there is no doubt that the editor of the Jour-
nal knew he perpetrated falsehood wheNhe
wrote it.-Dubuque Herald.


How does the Herald man know that Gen.
Dodge never uttered the above declaration
Was he present when Dodge made his Oska-
loosa speech? He does not say SO, and we
have coed reason to believe he was nearly two
hundred miles distant. We do not claim to
have been present, but our assertion was
made upon the most reliable hearsay evidence.
Our authority is gentleman who vas present,
and who showed us his notebook, in which
he had written the words as they fell from the
lips of the illustrious ambassador himself
The Herald man can have this gentleman S
name, if he wishes further evidence. 1t is
folly now for the Democrats to attempt a
denial of the fact that Dodge lauded the insti-
tuition Of slavery-(saying the negroes were
taken from their native jungles, and, when
brought to this country, were civilized, Chris
tianized and fitted for Heaven Din his first
speech of the canvass, at Oskaloosa. Hun
dreds of people heard him, and can testify to
his words.
Year: 1859

THIS establishment, the most extensive in the
l. Southwest, still continues TO be the resort OF
the fashion and beauty of our country, which fully
endorses the sentiments of thousands that is the
great EMPORIUM for