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Year: 1859

A portion of the Rock Island bridge
was seriously damaged, recently, by
the passage over it of a heavily load
ed train of cars. The bridge settled
so that the draw could not be opened.
Men are at work repairing the injury.
Year: 1859

A company of gentlemen, composed of
Mr.. Collins, from Amoor river, in China,
Mr.. Aspinwal of California, and other gen.
tlemen from the Pacific Coast, called upon
Mr.. Buchanan, and one OF them gives an
account of the interview in a letter to the
editor of the Worcester Spy. He says:


The conversation Immediately turned up
on things important as" Had any of you
come overland - Yes; then he musts.be
informed of the journey. He expressed
himself strongly in favor of keeping open
all the avenues to the Pacific, because they
develop resources and aid settlements, and
are thus a benefit to the whole nation. But
he said that there was danger that these
avenues might be closed up on account of
the factious opposition of a majority of
Congress to any measure he had proposed
for the national good. In fact, he said,
there was danger of the government be-
coming bankrupt, because Congress seems
determined to adjourn without providing
means to pay the demands upon the Treas
ury-and that be will probably have to call
an extra session in August to meet tue
emergency which will arise. He declared
the Democratic party-the great party that
elected him-that built the Cincinnati plat
| form, and from which they all seem to have
fallen off, except hmself-to be disorgan-
| lied, split up into all sorts of factions; in
capable of adhesion, or of carrying any
measure as party; his own adherents are
so few in numbers that, without the aid oil
the Black Republicans, he could not have
cirIed through any measure at the present
session. To them he was under obligations
for unexpected assistance on several ocea-
sions, but, said he, - not man of them has
ever called upon me. He said, if he had g
! Republican Congress, ne could get along
better than he does with the factiouS un


manageable Democrats, who, the moment
he proposes measure for the honor and
glory of his country, raise embarrassing
questions, in tone that heaps opprobrium
upon it; and thus he is defeated, continual
ly, and his recommendations pass for moth


lug. Republican Congress, he said


would feel some degree of responsibility
resting upon it, and would act with reason
Year: 1859

fsA. The Washington tragedy continues
to occupy the pens of editors and the
tongues of the people The papers take
about the same view of it that they did at
the outset. The Constellation, the new
weekly paper edited by Park Benjamin,
justifes the act of Mr.. Sickles in the fol-
lowing emphatic language:


Whatever our diSlikes may be to the
system OF taking the law into an individu-
ais own hands, we feel most entirely and
conscientiousiy that Mr.. Sickles was COM
pletely justified in his course. Mr. Key had
been particular friend of his. His own
suspicion had refused to awaken at the al
most certain evidence which a less confid-
ing husband would long since have listened
to. His wifes confess ion, and scarcely an
hour after, the sight of her paramour, max
ing her his usual signal to accompany or
follow him to their place of rendezvous, al
most maddened him at the moment; and
deeply as we may regret it, we feel that If
the tdcts are as zoe haze stated them-aohich
,oe haze not the least reason Tor doubtiraq-
the husband must have been more than a
philosopher or less than poltroon, had he
hCoittICu w oFCnSc HIulScIli VI pduSeu 10 ar
range the matter in any other manner


The Times says:


Let the early career of Mr.. Sicllles have
been what it may the simple fact is here be-
fore us, that in few hours of time, the
man, a husband and a father, striving fer
usefulness and success in the world, has
been driven b. the fury of passion into an
act which, whatever its legal event may be,
has fixed upon him the shame of a desecrat-
ed home and the bloom of slaughtered
associate, and has blasted his career in pub
lie and in private forever. In comparison
with his present and his future, how enyi-
able is the grave of Key The dead have
the living at terrible advantage. Time,
which dogs the footsteps of the survivor
with thousand recurring rancors, miscon-
ceptions, prejudices, smoothes steadily away
the sharp outlines of the dead mans fail
ings and his crimes. Public opinion is far
more likely to condone too easily that Of
fense of the dead which stung the living
man to madness, than to pass lightly over
the frenzy which laid unholy hands upon
the sanctities of vengeance, and trampIed
the law under foot in its hot flight from the
horror which winged it first with fire
Year: 1859

We are informed that lady and gentle
man destined for this place, arrived in Law
renee in the early part of this week, and
not wishing to wait until Friday morning
for the regular hack for this place, hired a
man with a two horse team-or rather what
was intended for two horse team-to bring
them to Burlingame, distance of about
thirty miles. for which services they had to
pay sizteeR dollars each. and the drivers
expenses. They also had to hire an OK
team eEerS time they crossed sluiee- way
IN order to pull the horses out Of the mud,
We give the above facts as they were rela-
ted to US. but we hope for the sake of Law
renee, that there is some mistake about it.
We advise every one coming to this place
by public conveyance. to take passage with
Messrs. Hard d Reynolds, and come thro'
with GAO team, and gentleman for q
driver. Their Hack leaves Lawrence for
this place every Friday morning.
Year: 1859

The Lawrence Herald of last week urges
strongly the holding of 8 Free State Con-
vention at Big Springs on the Sd of May
next The main reason which it puts forth
for this movement, is s'to defeat both of fhe
new parties which are Iaboring to foist them
selves upon the people in opposition to their
wishes" "Both of the new parties" allu-
ded to, of course, means the Republican
and Democratic parties, the latter of which
has already been organized, and the former
is about to be. to the utter. horror and dis
gust of the editor of the Herald, and men
of his stamp. This is one of the Herald
man IS old games, and nobody need be fright
ened 1t is dodge stave-of-intended
to defeat the effort to organize the Republi-
can party of Kansas at the present time
1t won't win. The organization of the Re
publican party is measure demanded BY
the masses of the people. The question of
Freedom or Slavery for Kansas is settled,
and it is high time that her citizens were
taking their positions in one or the other of
the great National parties of the county
1t is useless to have third party in Kan
sas. The mission of the Free State party
is accomplished-th end for which it was
organized attained. No one-not even Bu-
chanan himseIf-looks upon Kansas now
with the least hope that she will ever be-
come slave State. The game now is to
make her black Democratic State, and ev-
cry effort to divide the ranks of Freedom
will only strengthen the Democracy. The
freemen of Kansas have worked together
in times past to accomplish the one great
object of putting down the usurping and
corrupt Democratic party, and now when
victory is about to crown their efforts, shall
they be divided into miserable factions to
answer the purposes of ambitious and un-
scrupulous politicians? We answer, never!
Let them continue to work together for the
right. Let them organize under the great
National Republican banner for the struggle
of 186Ol And now is the time to do it
There is danger in delay. The Democratic
party is every day becoming more corrupt
and more oppressive. Let us mow unite as
band of brothers and put it down. We
can do it if we will. The attempt to re-or-
ganize the old Free State party can result
in no possible good. 1t never can have the
sympathy and support of the masses as it
has had in days gone by, for the simple rea-
son that the causes which called it into ex-
istence are removed. Let all then who are
in favor of rescuing the administration of
the Government from the hands of the par
ty now in power, and thus saving it from
bankruptcy and anarchy, take their stand
with the Republican party, and prepare to
fight the great battle of freedom. The
cause of Republicanism will triumph be-
cause it is just and right.
Year: 1859

We have expressed our opinion pretty
fully as to the doings of the late Legisla-
ture. Here is what A. D. Richardson, the
able correspondent of the Boston Journal,
aud one of the clerks of the House, says Of
it, in letter to the Atehison Champion:


The Legislature has certainly accom-
plished a large amount of work, having
passed IN all nearly three hundred acts
With the exception of its course on the
Anti-Slavery Bill, its action will be highly
satisfactory to the people. Some things
have doubtless been done hastily aud i'm
perfectly, but it would be hardly reasona-
BILE 10 look for perfection in Legislature
of frontiersmen, with little more than thirty
working days in the session.


After touching upon several local mat
ters and the Amnesty bill, which he highly
approves, Mr. Richardson comes to the
Bogus Statutes.


These are formally repealed and wiped
from our statute books. Thank God! AT
midnight on Friday, after the adjournment
of the Legislature, huge bonfire of tar
barrels was kindied in front of the Eldridge
House, and copy of them was publicly
burned, amid the jubilant shouts of the
crowd. On the following morning another
copy was sent by express to the Governor
of Missouri, with message that the peo-
pie of Kansas had no further use for them.


Several divorce bills were put through
in great haste near the close of the session.
These are matters which should be left to
the courts, and not be permitted to occupy
the time of Legislative bodies; but the par
ties who desired to have the hymemial bonds
separated happened to have strong frinds in
the Assembly. AS both partses in each
case were restored to all their original
rights" perhaps no injustice was done;
but the haste with which they were rushed
through afforded the sensible members a
good deal of material fer ridicule One oI
the members proposed just before the ad-
iournment ''that the bachelors of the House
now proceed to ballot for the widows they
have divorced Another-BaiIeY, of EN-
poria-introduced burlesque bill abolish
ing the institution of marriage in Kansas
aud establishing Free Love in its place
In The course of speech on the subject,
he remarked wittily that these divorces
were being put through so hastily and SO
thoughtiessly that il was unsafe for mar
ried man to seek his domestic couch at
night, lest he should wake up in the morn
ing and find himself committing adultery
the Legislature having divorced him during
the night without his knowledge.
Year: 1859

We observe that a paper is in circulation
here recommending to the electors of this
county who believe in the great fundamental
principles of Republicanism, to meet in
their respective townships on Saturday next,
the 9th inst, and choose delegates to a
County Convention to be held at Fremont
on Saturday the 93d of April next, at 12
o'clock NJ, for the purpose of choosing
three delegates to represent this county at
the Osawatomie Convention on the 18th of
May. And further recommending that the
apportionment of delegates for each town
ship to the county convention be as follows:
Let each township choose one delegate, and
one additional delegate for every forty votes
polled at the township election on Monday
last, and one delegate for fraction of for
ty if it exceed one-half of that lumber


The proposition, so far as We have heard,
meets with general favor, and is being sign
ed by almost every Republican to whom it
is presented. The apportionment of dele
gates, it seems to US. could not be fairer, as
all will admit that township which only
casts forty or fifty votes should not be as
fully represented as one which casts a hun
dred. We sincerely hope that the Republi
cans of the county will take hold of this
matter as they sheuld. and have out full
meetings. As this plan seems feasible and
Just, let US all unite on it and set the ball in
motion. Several counties in the Territory
have already organized, and it is high time
we were doing the same. The propositions
have been sent to the different townships in
the county for signatures, and as we design
publishing them next week, we hope those
having them in their possession will get as
many names as possible and send them to
this Office by Thursday next.
Year: 1859

One of our citizens who has just returned
from Leayenworth informs us that the rush
of emigration through that place for the
Gold Mines is far beyond the anticipations
of any one. The number of strangers IN
town at any one time last week was estima-
tel to be FIVE thousand, while hundreds were
leaving for western and central Kansas every
dsv
Year: 1859

The Democracy are to have another con
vention. They are to meet at Tecumseh on
the 10th of May Rich developments are
ahead. They are afraid to go before the
people with their cid pro-slaVery hacks rs
leaders, and they are to be thrown over
board, and new men are to be taken up.
Year: 1859

We give below an extract from letter
written hy Rev.. G. C. Morse of this place,
to-the boston Coagregationatist, pleading
earnestly for assistance from the Congrega-
tional Society at the East, to build house
Of Worship in Emporia He says: -eg
y.lrWe need funds not so much in furnish
ing churches as to enclose building so that
we may have some place besides the open
air, or small room for meetings-and I'm
ish next year when we get little stronger.
.'To get the building up.'' is by far the
hardest work, and in this we need the aid


We now feel that we must build, and that
Immediately. What shall we do? Our
church is feeble, only handful, seven
members all told; and only two male mem
bers beside myself We are all Door, and
what we do must be done in work, lumber,
DC. for silver and gold we have none. By
and by we shall receive few more mem
bers, but their resources are but small The
predominating influences are Methodism
and Campbellism. Their doctrines are any,
thing but accordant with Puritan principles.
Il Emporia is now the emporium of South
.ern, or rather Central Kansas. 1t is now
the great radiating point of the interior,
both of trade and emigration. It is the
terminus of the southern branch of the Pa
cifc Railroad, which will undoubtedly be
completed in few years With the present
tide of immigration, it will in year or two
be the center of population, as it is now the
geographical center of the proposed State
of two hundred miles square.


The importance of this place to the
Church, arises not so much from the pres
ent magnitude of the town, as from It's CEN
trail position and prospective importance.
Our congregation, had we suitable house,
would in a short time be doubled and treb-
bled, but upon such congregation we can
not depend in hard struggle. The peo-
pie outside will do something. What we
propose to do is this: we shall raise all we
be in a few dsys-each one of US will COM
mence digging stone, cutting timber. &C.,
going to work just as we do in building our
own houses with our own hands, trusting
IN God to open the hearts of the friends of
the Redeemer at the East to lend US some
assistance in our struggle to build house
of prayer Build we must, aud shall we
look in vain to the sons of the Pilgrims?
Will not the churches of New England that
have offered so many prayers for Bleeding
Kansas, remember that the conflict is not
yet over, that we must have the Christian
Church before we shall enjoy any degree
of safety? Will they not remember this,
the most important place in Central Kansas.
and give us the aid that has been received
by other places of no greater Importance,
but with greater resources?''
Year: 1859

The Jamaica l.. 1. J Farmer thus refers


to- the career of one whose praise is on ev-
cry tongue. s.-


tit is we'll known to many of cur read.
ers. that Mr.. Walter Nichols of this village,


was once baker in the city of Brooklyn
| 1t CHANGED that on time co-iaborer with
him was a lad of more than ordinary indus
try and tact. Ever faithful, he rapidly
gsined knowledge of his business and ev-
| erything seemed to point to his becoming 8
successful baker, but nothing more. But
Providence had for him wider field, and
one better fitted to develop his genius and
power. Born of poor parents and now faith
erless, he had no where to look for elevation
and maintenance in life, but to his own dill
igent exertions. One day he CHANGED to be
in the Navy Yard. at Brooklyn, and the
thought struck him that he would like to
enter the Navy. Being of energetic tenn
perament, with him to think was to act, to
desire was to strive. So going to the prop
er officer he applied for admission. The nov
city of seeing lad alone boldly asking for
a place often secured only by political pre-
ferences or by the entreaties of influential
friends, attracted at once the attention OF
the officer, and he inquired 'What can you
do?" The reply was prompt and decisive,
anything that any boy can.' He was
told to call again in a few days, and leaving,
he fastened to tell his mother the step he
had taken. She thought the matter mere
whim, and did not suppose it would accom-
plish anything. But the few days past and
the place was given to the enterprising lad.
Scarcely in his new position he began to
show marks of genius and aptitude which
outdid his associates, and step by step the
bakers boy rose to influence and rank
His aim was high, his courage undaunted,
his perseverance unfailing; and to-day he
stands among the highest in rank and most
influential in power of the great ones who
compose the United States Navy. Such in
brief is the career of William L. Hudson,
Commander of the q. s. steamer, Niagara,
the vessel whose recent arrival at Trinity
Bay caused greater thrill of enthusiastic
pleasure to swell American hearts than any
event since the Declaration of Independ-
ence."
Year: 1859

HAVING established themselves in the above
IL business at Emporia, would announce TO the
people OF the surrounding country that they arc
iully prepared to do all manner of work in tbei,
ine of business, in the best manner They fiatter
themselves that with their long experience at the
ouainess they will be able to give the fullest sat;s
action to all Who may favor them with their nat
fonsge- Prices reasonable


Empcris, August l, IS58-f .st.-
Year: 1859

Or West. last week, thteshing machine
took fire from singular cause A small flint
stone got into the machine, and struck fire,
igniting the dry chntF aud dust The straw
passing out was sheet Of flame, aud in a few
seconds, stack of straw and another of wheat,
was one mass Of fire, there being barely time to
rescue the team from the general destruction.
Year: 1859

To The Senate of The United StaisS:


transmit herewith report from The Sec.
retary of State in answer to the resolution OF
the Senate of the 18th instant, requesting the
President, il not incompatible with the public
interest, "io communicate to the Senate any
and all correspondence between the govern
ment of the United States and the govern
ment of her Catholic Majesty relating to any
proposition for the purchase of the lslnnd Of
Cuba, which correspondence has not been
furnished to either house of Congress"
From this it appears that no such correspon-
dence has taken place which Inns not already
been communicated to Congress. In my late
annual message stated, in reference to the
purchase of Cuba, that publicity which has
been given to our former negotiations on this
subject, and the large appropriations which
may be required to effect the purpose, render
it expedient before making another attempt
to renew the negotiation that ! should lay
the whole subject before Congress" ! still
entertain the same opinion, deemng it highly
important, if not indispensable to the success
of any negotiation which | might institute
lor the purpose. that the measure should re-
ceivo the previous sanction OF Congress.


JAMES BUCHANAN.


Washington, Janury 81, 1859
Year: 1859

SLAVE TRADE IN NORTH CARoLISA.-The
following resolutions relative to the Slave
Trade have been introduced in the North
Carolina Legislature:


Whereas the question Of the re-opening of
the foreign slave t-ade is exciting much dis
cusson in some of the Southern States


ReSolred That the people OF North Caro-
lima are utterly opposed TO the re-opening Of
the foreign slave trade and the importation
Of wild and uneiviized Africans among
them.


Resolred That our Senators In Congress
be instructed, and our Representatives be
requested, to vote against the repeal Of the
present law now in force upon the subject.
Year: 1859

BY TRASouILLA
oh fair but unfCrgiving thou
Whose red lips curls in pride,
II but IN erring sister brush
The silken garb aside,
Shrink not from that profaning touch
Frown not thy naughty brow
In Gods great eye that scorned one
May be as pure as thou.
Thou canst not know, thou canst not tell,
The struggle and the shife,
The fierce temptation that beset
Her fair unspotted life,
And gave to that hearts purity
lis first dark tint Of sin;
Nor how its angel turned to weep,
As came its tempter in.
Judge notl-that soul condemed by thee
May shine in heaven afar,
Redeemed from it's strayed orbit here
A fixed and glorious star;
A siuiess mothers prayers, perchance,
Breataed DER her long ago,
May have won above, from God of love,
The mercy thou capst not show.
Year: 1859

~ An old divine, caulioning the clergy
against engaging in violent controversy,
uses the following happy SMILES III we will
be eoutending, let us contend like the olive
and the vine, who shall produce the mos,
and the best fruit: not like the aspen and tho
elm, which shall make the most noise In The
wind"
Year: 1859




The following day Her;ha felt herself
very much better. She wrote home to her
father and sisters, fixing the day for her re-
turn, and the day following, with Eva Duf-
va crossed the Kattegatt 10 Copenhagen,
where she restored the young girl to her
family-not without having formed close
compact with her for the future-and then
went to seek out Rudolph.


Well was it that she came to him at this
moment The unfortunate young man,
pursued by uuspeakable mental di>quiet, by
The horrible memories of the night of the
fire, which seemed more and more strongly
to rise up in his soul, was just about TO
leave The house into which he had been re-
ceved, and to wander out into the world,
without any other object than that of flying
from himself.


Hertha did not dissuade him from this
purpose; on the contrary, she strengthened
him in his intentions of taking long pc
deStrian journey, and in concert with the
relative who had received him under his
protection laid out for him the route Of
such journey, and furnished him with let
ters which would enable him to fnd friends
aud protectors at various places on his way,
in case he needed them This was good
for the unhappy young man; but oh, how
much MI re so was her presence, her
Strengthening, consolatory words, and the
thought that she had come to Copenhagen
merely for his sake that he was something
to her that she had an interest about
him. Joy and gratitude for this made him
as child in her hands. She. on her part,
strengthened by the baptism through which
she had so lately passed, talked to the poor
son of the twilight with quite another wis
dom and quite another power than former
ly, comforting and Strengthening him at the
same time.


When Hertba had, with motherly care
provided the suitable equipment Of Rudolpf
for his journey after she had seen him
with his knapsack on his back, weeping hui
s,ill happy, happy by her blessing, set ou
On his solitary way with his plgrm-stalf ii
his hand, she, without single glimpse a
the glorious works of art which are pos
Sessed 10y this northern Athens, turned hel
face towards her own country and her owl
home.


Once more there she was received will
unspeakable joy by her young sisters, Who's
tears and endearments made her feel wha
she was to them. Her father received he
with dark aud stern looks, Int without say