Year: 1861

Hcsu, and you should make provision for a
Board of Commissionsss TO ssdt the returns.
and correct them. would suggest the names
Of Judge Dougherty, Joel p. Blair and Captain
Heed, as men eminently qualified TO compose
such Board. shall in all probability be q
candidate in that County nyself ere long, and
do not desire to become victim TO the ignor-
anes and obtussnen Of the voters, which fate
so narrowly escaped but little over year since.


Entertaining the Democratic principles which
do, am opposed to the Free School system.
l deem it important that gymnastics and pisea-
tory exercises should be taught all our schools,
and that school houses should invariably be
erected on the submits of hills, convenient for
the boys to "coass" down the slopes on hand
eleds, in the Winter season.


In all new countries, where the male greatly
outnumbers the female population. laws should
exist for the relief and protection of bachelors.
therefore recommend the passage Of law
investing all unmarried men over thirty years
Of age. with binary powers.


Our Territory Is rich in minerals. and provis-
ion should be made for thorough geological
survey. 1t is but several years since candle
box was dug up in the city Of Lecompton, the
legitimate Capital of our Territory, where can
be had as good grub as anywhere else in the
Territory. not even excepting Troy; and l
would recommend ~ appropriation to defray
the expenses of further examination, a. I am
confident that by very little digging the candles
could be found. =


would likewise recommend the passage Of
an act for the encouragement of the cultivation
of pea nuts. The soil Of Kansas is admirably
adapted to their growth, snd they would doubt
less soon become source Of great wealth.


Your consideration is directed to the project
of fishing for oysters in the Kaw River. for
which purpose recommend an appropriation.
I am informed that muscles and snails have
been found in abundance, and am confident
there are oysters also.


During the past Fall, serious troubles were
reported in the Southern part of our Territory.
Upon the receipt of the first intelligence of the
outbreak l hastcned thither, and ascertained
that lawless band of dssperadocs exists down
there, whose object is to forcibly resist, and
even to murder, the law and order citizens oi
Missouri who come over to administer to them
merited chastisement for their manifold politi-
cal sins. and to bring them to that humble at
titude becoming their circumstances. l shall
take care to prevent all such insubordination in
the future. During my trip, wore a hole in
the seat of my breeches, and CALLED myself 50.
verely. suggest an appropriation to defray
the expenses of mule hire, repairing bresches,
and purchasing ointment for the relief Of my
soreness.


Our fair Territory, during the last Summer,
was visited by drouth unprecedented since a
similar one blighted the land of Egypt, which
was sent BY the Almighty, as a preliminary to
the secession Of His chosen people from the do
minion and aggressions Of Pharaoh. Can the
hand Of Providence not be seen In our recent
drouth7 Was it not a forerunner Of the seces
sion Of the chosen people of the South from
Northern aggressions and tyranny1


Connected with the drouth, arises the quss-
ton of cheap food in such seasons. Ihave sat
isfed myself, BY practical experiments, that eat
ing dirt not only sustains life, but begets fat.
ness-officially. il not physically. The dirt
found in the South possesses the greatest amount
Of nutrition. Ireeomnsnd an appropriation TO
aid farther experiments.


Dark clouds have for years been brooding
over our political horizon, and now threaten 10
wrap US In ethereal darkness. For centuries
the North has been steadily and persstsntly
encroaching upon the patient, gentle, Union
loving South, notwithstanding her repeated mild
warnings to desist. The Northern States have
refused to station patrols on the borders Of the
Slave States, to prevent the escape of slaves;
they have prohibited the holding, buying and
selling of slaves within their Jurisdiction; and
now they have capped the infamy, by taking
out Of the hands Of the Southern people the rule
Of the country. for which they we're 90 well and
admirably fitted. and by electing man to the
Presidency who has unblushingly proclaimed
that portion Of the public territory should be
used for the benefit of white men. Finding
their gentle rsmonstrances Of no avail, our Sou
thern brethren have psaceably and quietly with
drawn from Confsdsracy which was used but
to cypress them, and our once glorious Union IL
now virtually dissolved.


If this dissolution be fnal and iretrievable.
the proper course for Kansas to pursue is plain.
She should at once unite her destinies with
those of South Carolina, become dependent
Province of that glorious and rising Republic,
and be ruled by a viceroy appointed by the Co
vernon Of that nation. would myself accept
that responsible position, If duty and patriotism
should require it, and my services should be
demanded. We could supply her with hay and
corn, and in return could consume her rice and
cotton. Our broad plains would invite her sur.
plus niggers, and ere the lapse Of many years
We would outstrip the parent nation, and could
boast Of at least tsn niggers to one white man.
Our prosperity would be une1ampled in the his
tory of the world, and the surrounding dismem-
bered fragments Of the Union could not even
Ehink Of u without going into conniptions!


GEORGE M. B. B.
CMvALRous ExrLorT..-A few nights
since. the Disunion Chivalry of Oregon
assembled. surrounded Rev. Mr.. Blan.
shard's privy. and upset it. amid trs-
cheering and yelling. Mr..
Blanchard is still absent. and no person
was at home except bis invalid wife and