Kansas Tribune from Lawrence, Kansas • 2

TIIEWHftLY TRIBUNE SHALL WE VOTE ANT MORE BONDS? I LETTER FROM WASHINGTON. OLD-TIME KANSAS ANECDOTES. i "What have you to eat THE RUTH TRAGEDY. TALK OF THE KANSAS EDITORS. KOTO.

A PIONEER UDDlobd A2TD TUB FEDERAL OFFICIALS. Hews from all Pap of the Accidejtt. Last Miindav. as the chil Close of Mrs. Ruth's Examination.

"Oh," he replied, "a soldier's fare corn meal and bacon." "Have you any money?" "No, and don't need any. I am going to fall in with the other troops for Kansas, and then I will get my share with them." We insisted that a man who had done such pirited, debt-burdened, tax-ridden people supplanted at onee by a fresh, full-handed people line those who took the farmers' lands from them in the case referred to. It will in this case develop rapidly, while in the other it will only remain poor and stagnant. So we say, let our people conclude to vote no more bonds. We trust as a people, we shall do well with our present load.

But it will be with hard work, and let there be no more bonds. uuo wants to Know at once, on reading the question at the head of this article, why we ask it now, when nobody is thinking about voting any more bonds; when there is no proposition now before the people or being made in any way to have more bonds voted, our answer to such a one is contained in his own inquiry. We ask the question, Shall the city of Lawrence or the county of Douglas vote any more bonds for public improvements of any kind because there is no proposition before the Deo- KANSAS PB39B33. Our State Is daily augmenting its numbers beyond estimate. If the census could have been postponed till this time, we doubt not our population would be shown to approach very closely, perhaps exceed, half a million of people, and we might have instead of three, four representatives in Congress.

The man who travels over the State will be struck with the wonderful progress made within the last year. He will see mile after mile of lanes where a year ago he could not see from house to house. Villages and towns have grown up where bare prairies used to be seen, and men and ani dren attending the Catholic school on Fifth street, near Kickanoo. vt ere out at olav. one tired of life that he had a large fomllT to support, and had a small salary.

My dasgh-ter was down to St. Louit In April about that time. She came, I think, on Thursday or Friday preceding the week she left-it strikes me "7" eould ten by referring bk Rati rtrnoon si ive day to Friday afternoon of the week after am positive a. to the day of her leaving it was EUth'' dth was with me shews, being treated for a disease she was so unroll When Judge Petit first came to Kansas as Chief Justice of the Territorial court, he soon had a court to hold at Osawkee. Old max Dormon had been a government wagon-master on the plains and had Mrs.

Kuth's 3f other and Belmont of the boys named Jlalarky, had a pistol in on the Stand. nis pocaei ue goi tnppea someway, ana fell, causing the pistol to explode, the ball i seen rough customers of all varieties from the red painted savage with feathers on his striking a boy named Willy. Carroll The wound, though painful, is not considered dangerous. Leavenworth CalL Long Arguments on the Part of head to the "Border Ruffian" from Pike Prosecution and Defense. Who co to the National Convention m-ill county.

bus wu qox ame to come down v. service as he had, ought to be better provided for, and before we left we offered him a five dollar bill tlo provide for his necessities. He made various objections to taking it such as that we had a family, and might need it, and he had nobody but himself. We saw his necessities and his sufferings, and finally almost compelled him to accept. We remained in Tabor, for a day or two, boarding with an excellent family from Oberiin, Ohio.

Tabor was an Oberlin town. ple to be acted on. We want to suggest to the people as citizens of the county and city that the question wants to be weU considered beforehand. We ought to fortify our not depend so nraoh on their being good editors as it will on something else No Dormon kept the only hotel in Osawkee. Dormon had no bells to tine to his hotel: 6.

mod. iv fAroA for The Prisoner Committed Trial. uiau vsui jutusds in mat (JOnven- i tion unles he is a supporter of CUr, (i-t he scoutedall "reading matter" in the shape of bills of lire. Nevertheless he had all the herroom. Dr.

Hodgen was the lttl '-after my daughter Z'l one time, about eight square. then ttey moved to about four square, then they moved again and Uved about t- w. selves against any temptation that mav arise Paola Spir't: mals struggled in their travels through tall prairie grass. The lands of districts only opened to settlement within two years have been so generally sold and settled upon that the land offices have been moved westward into new regions, where homesteads will substantial for the inner man. But he was THURSDAY, JAXUARYXliTiT vrauie in nunnaani near Baker ranche, near the Red Fork.

Wild inrb. The examination of Mrs. Ruth was resumed just as independent in that hotel as he ever deer, wolves, and raccoons are very abund- ant. It is said that turkeys and raccoons I yesterday moraine. they Uved together during that time most can be seen almost any time in the day.

to increase our bonded Indebtedness. We have recently had an article on this subject which, by some mishap, failed to get into our weekly, which is mainly the issue of the Tbibuhb that falls into the hands of our subscribers out through the county, whom we are as much interested in arousing to Mr. Ridall recalled: I and Mr. Nichols auiicau.y mey always spoke of one another most endearingly. and the people were all wonderfully devoted to the cause of free Kansas.

We told Mrs. Jones, our landlady, (we could hardly call her the landlady, for the family only kept a few Kansas stragglers as an accom got to be when all his wagons and teams were corralled on the plains and his savory dish of buffalo or antelope and corn-cake was ready around his camp fire. were in charge of Ruth's honse the day after me uunaio are gradually moving furtner west, the Indians having set fire to the grass east of them, in order to drive them away Cross-examined by Mr. Hutching. he died I noticed a washstand in the room where Ruth died there was a drawer in it it continue to be made and sold to the people.

Then look at the towns. Take a look at Lawrence, which is in some degree fair specimen of the growth of the country. The frosts of the winter don't hush the hammers of the workmen. New As Dorman sat on the stoop of his hotel. irom the whites, and stop their hunting- Arkansas City Traveler.

modation, and out of devotion to our canse1 up rode Judge Petit, Marshall Donalson and the situation of Orlan Brown, and who he habit to destroy aU letters I receive toon after I read them, or within th day at any rate this is my invariable rule perhaps I may have returned some letters to Mrs. Ruth wnich she had written to me; possibly mav hav. horf was about two or two and a half feet from the bed, could not tell exactly how tar," but it could not nave been much farther I opened The BHmoK C.tA. John Doniphan H. Miles Moore, in a can-iace, on their first was.

Just then the name of old John Brown that stand drwircr when I had ehai ge of the began to inspire the hearts of all who loved brings most encouraging news in reference to the Missourri river bridge. He says that arrangments have been so perfected that visit to the first court in Osawkee. It was a sultry day in the latter part of summer, and the landlord eat at the door in his shirt honse after Mr. Bnth died I think it was the freedom. some of those letters in the house atW as three months can't say why I escaped that day after, not potitive when it was I noticed No sooner had Mrs.

Jones heard the lucre ia no uoudk wnaiever oi tu Butw Work will certainly be commenced by the -first of March, and prosecuted with all pos- sleeves and his bare feet smoking his nine boxes in that drswer, they were paper boxes slide boxes, on box slides into the other and brushing away the flies. rule In relation to those letter. perhaps it is not an invariable rule all the letters m.t I had from Mrs. Ruth are destroyed every one of them are destroyed I respected Mr. Rnth Here four boxes marked were shown wit story than she set about providing for the wants of the good man, and the ladies of Tabor made him some nice shirts, sent him biscuits and fried chickens and reserves and business housess have been built from the basement since the frost king has stopped ail work ia many more pretentious cities.

The solidly frosen earth Is being picked up to plant street ran ways. The blocks lie waiting for the first thaw to put down wooden pavements. In all the element of wealth and productive industry we are making rapid strides. "Are you the landlord?" said Petit in a 4.1 The boxes that I saw were made like tone of authority. Washington, D.

Dec. 13. ,71. Dear Editor Tribune: Though all the leading correspondents here have been doubtful of the probability of any great work being accomplished this week in Congress, yet the result of each day's session, fraught with unusual interest seems thus far to have proved them hasty prophets. Never, it seemsjto us, has a session of Congress opened with such promise, and been conducted for the first two weeks with more energy.

The sittings have been longer, each day, than had been expected, and the debates as full of interest, if not more so, than those of the closing week of the previous congress. If the same spirit continues during the winter, after the holidays we shall have the old, long-standing questions of finance, tariff, the condition of the South, the postal telegraph, and a host of others left over from last winter, dealt with in a summary, business-like manner, and speedily settled. The old treaty of Washington, together with the whole question of our foreign relations, seems a difficulty through which the wisest of the wise heads around the President cannot so easily point out the safest and most satisfactory course. With the Alabama claims still a by-word in the mouth of foreign nations and people, with the wonderful arguments that have been built up upon it on both sides of the Atlantic, and translated into half a dozen languages for the instruction of our neighbors, and are vet unequal to the task of adjusting matters to the satisfaction of both governments; with the slow process of "negotiations" on the subject, putting one in mind of an old suit in chancery, as described by Dickens, we truly give up the hope of seeing that claim adjusted, even by the present wide-awake congress. But when we reflect that most of the old, questions left over from the past session will be proposed again under entirely new conditions, assuming almost the importance of new ones, and the struggle for their settlement be re-commenced with added vigor, we cannot for a moment doubt that the present session will be a working one.

To follow the suggestions of the President in his message, as regards legislation upon many important relations which the government sustains with the different sections of our country, with cofnpetative interests, as well as with the surrounding governments of Europe, will employ the houses of congress and the members of the cabinet in much earnest consultation and united action. The apportionment bill which passed the house a few days since, givingif it becomes a law) the State of Kansas three representatives instead of one, and many more in proportion to the west than the east, is already these I eould sot say positively that I saw very highly, indeed, because he watkind to his aiuie vigor unui tne structure is compieiou. i Atchison Champion. We learn that the young men Wm Bob- erts and George Rice, who were sentenced to the penitentiary at the last term of the district court for horse-stealing, but who subsequently escaped from the jail at Osags and all the little delinanim tu Old Dormon puffed a whiff of tobacco family he did write frequently for money 1 could not tell how many letters I returned to knew so well how to prepare for the sick. Mrs.

Ruth I can't say positively how many tunes he wrote for money can't say positively smoke from his mouth about equal to an issue from a smoke stack to a steam engine, and replied, "What the 1 is that your business?" The reason for this nrogreaa ia riain. Wo The next morning, Orlaa Brown was at THB NEW TEAR. The old year is drawing its last breath. To some this is a solemn fact To some it has not so much meaning. With the latter kind of people life is like the shape and the sound of a full note in music But though these seem to be of the philosophical kind it is not so certain that they are.

What is the point that marks the beginning of the year but a purely arbitrary oner Did the years begin to be On this dayf Or might not what is now the twenty-second of March as well have been the first day of the year? And if a man makes the best of every day of the year, as it is his duty, his privilege and to his advantage to do, the first day of May is as good if not much better than the first day of January. But it so happens that January and its first day begin the year. This fact is unalterably fixed no matter how it came about And as business men find that the first day of the year is the time to balance their accounts and see just what progress they have made, or whether any, and Just how great it is, so is it natural, helpful, and in the true sense, philosophical to make the beginning of the year a land mark by which to mark our progress in reference to all our interests; and by which also, which is by far the most important, to estimate the work we have before us and our ability to perform it Have we done this much since the close of the last year and in the five or the last ten years? How much then have we to do in the year we are about to enter upon and how much can we do in the next fiver Landmarks in life and life work we need. They tell us how far we have come they warn us how slowly or rapidly we are going; they give us a sharply marked idea of ho far we have yet to go. So then let us note well the dying of the old year and the birth of the new year.

But we can scarcely sing to-day, "Ring out the old, Ring in the new," for the past year has in the main been a very blessed, prosperous year to us as a city, as a state these boxes, bat tome Just bke them I opened them, some contained powders; did not examine them all, but all that I examined had powders in them white powders I think 1 saw some boxes marked "morphine one box there was full, or very nearly fuU I did not notice whether the boxes marked "morphine" had anything in them or not I recollect some boxes were narked "quinine if I am not invite immigrants to no unproductive fields A GOOD APPOINTMBNT. It gives us pleasure to announce that our esteemed fellow-citizen, James E. Watsoh, has been appointed agent of the St. Louis, Lawrence ancLDen ver (generally called the Pleasant Hill) railroad at Lawrence. -So mora woi'hy gentleman could have received the appointment, and we know not which moat to congratulate, the gentleman whose worth has been so meritoriously recognixed, or the company that has been so fortunate in securing his services.

"We presume it would not be out of place to refer to Mr. Watson's Terr large rote at the recent election, for treasurer of this county as an independent candidate, when nothing could hare defeated him but the fact that the Republican party had aominrted man of undoubted ability and the tot highest character for integrity. We are sure that all our people will be glad to learn that they are to have so weU qualified and courteous gentleman in charge of the business of the Pleasant Hill company. -VOTES OX BONDS We hare heard of a good many resorts for getting enough of votes into the ballot-box to sell out the rights of the people. The times and occasions are numerous where repeaters and ballot box st affers have over, ridden the people, and proclaimed elections in favor bonds, where the real vote was Iwgel against them.

There la not doubt bat that divisions have been made amongst rings who have agreed to carry through votes in favor of railroad bonds. That is caission, ana to aid their toosxwo horses belonging to fanners living near there, were pursued to the Indian Territory line, there captured and immediately hung. New our boarding house. Drawing that identical five dollar bill from his pocket he said. he asked for money in that letter, bat be wrote frequently for money my daughter waa not confined to her room all the time the was at my house the was confined to her room nntil "Well, well," said Petit "if you are, you are the most independent boniface I ever jnr.

epeer, tue good ladies of Tabor have provided for all my wants, and I brouirht Thursday, when the walked or rode out with your money back." met with." "What do you want?" said Dormon. "We wanted to know, sir. whether we vwcago iranscnpt. We have learned farther details of the. sad accident to the children of George on Clear Creek, mention of which was mado- in our last week's Courier.

Mrs. Rison we sweeping a room in which there was T5ed, jt me the partly rode and portly walked the had one child with her no one attended her could stay with you while we are at court" home the came home alone with her child vox country is aa Eden of fertility. It abounds in all the resources to make men prosperous and happy. It raises all the cereals in abundance. Our trees have been loaded with fruits which have astonished the old horticulturists of the east Our farmers have, by practical experience, demonstrated the fact that farms can be opened out and improved cheaper than in any other part of the world.

Cattle can be raised for less money and with as little danger from disease as in any portion of the Union. tuiu uuiiLi Mil II tuaucu S11U1-KUI1 XU1U IMXU i i she remained from Wednesday, I think, am not positive, untU Friday of the foUowing laid. On eweeDiner under thebed the broom mistaken, the box which was marked "quinine" was full but I am not certain I pnt them back into the drawer I don't know of their being taken away am not positive whetlwr Mr. Thacher or I took them away or not; I know that I was there that day and looked at them I did not have occasion to go to the drawer after that when I first saw these boxes Mrs. Ruth had got home looked over things helped to move them out -of the truck the gurUin such a manner as caused 1 weca sue arnvea home, 1 suppose, Saturday she left my kouse the Friday before Ruth't it go on, tbrrsootentastriKing two OI her children in the lower limbs, inflicting to one death the two letters received in April were received previous to the time when Mrs.

Ruth -1 liiuruu wuunu. jjr. tiere. ot raw-- nun mawer oi restricting our bonded. indebtedness as our readers ia the city and vicinity.

Perhaps, too, the matter will bear considerable hammering on. The SUte, very wisely and most fortunately, as time has proved, has fixed a limit which its indebtedness cannot be increased. But counties, aad cities, are without any safeguard of the kind. The tendencies are, therefore, inordinate, to pile tip a debt of bonds upon bonds till the people groan under the burdens of taxation, and immigration and influx of people and wealth are turned away. This is not simply sounding a reasonable alarm only, it is referring to a fact patent not only to the observation of every one, but pretty well realized in the general experience of the people of this country.

Indeed the State is not without aa example of a fatal paralysis of life aad business being induced by too much bond-voting. This safeguard, however, is left With us The people abhor taxation, and can be aroused to the necessity of watching carefully after their own interests. There is not a bit of danger of the people of Douglas county voting any more bonds unless taken off their guard and misled, and honeyfugled into so doing. 8o we want to have them make up their minds thoroughly and put down their foot firmly. Let the determination be fixed that they will not vote another dollar of bonds.

There are, we think, several good reasons for forming this determination, two or three of which we will now give The taxable property of the county amounts in all to seven and a third million dollars ia round numbers. The indebtedness of the county is over one million dollarsr one-seventh of the entire value of the taxable property. This seems pretty formidable. For to pay the interest on this indebtedness and create the sinking fund necessary to liquidate it in the less than fifteen years the bonds on aa average have to run, will require an average tax for fifteen years of over two per cent on all the No entreaties could induce him to touch, the money. He left pleased with what he considered the blessings of Providence, and a heart enthusiastic for the cause.

Mrs. Hand, a half sister of Old John Brown kept and we suppose still keeps, a small hotel at Grafton Station, in Ohio. Two weeks after the Lawrence raid, we sat at her table, and looking across it reeognized Orlan Brown. The train left in a few minutes, and he walked to the cars with us and talked over Kansas history till the whistle blowed; as the train moved off, he passed a bank bill into our hands, exclaiming "good-bye, God bless you and Kansas." was down there 1 swear positively that they were received in the month of April. uct: os im mediately sent lor, Out before his arrival to the scene of sorrow one of the lit- tie Knfferpra hni) naccjvl fmM .1.

And Still we have room. Millions of acres Mr. Carnes. By Mr. Nevison took the house I saw Mrs.

uutn in mat room belore saw those things in the drawer her daughter and Mrs Lively were with her she did not go to that drawer before I saw those things there. hYmg hied to death. The Doctor attended the mjmy of the surviving child, and at I letters and things from Mrs. Ruth's house at land, superior to that cultivated in the EsVare still trodden by the buffalo, and "Well, sir, that depends upon circumstances." "What in 1 are your circumstances, old fellow." "Most of these Federal officials go away without paying their bills, and your staying depends on whether you have any money." Petit saw he had met a "customer," and turning jocosely to the United States Marshall, he said, "Donalson, have you got any money?" Donalson indicating that he had the requsitejunds, Petit responded: "Well, we will accept of your circumstances, old fellow, and stop with you. You can put out our horses." "What the 1 do you take me for?" was Dorman's contemptuous reply.

"We took you for the landlord." "Well if I am, I have never got down low tne lime she was arrested I looked over most F. W. McCauley sworn. By Mr. Kevison of the letters, think I found a letter vrritten unwucked by the hands of the husbandman.

We know men who built their little cabins rPapers marked 1222, 1229 1206 shown wit from Mrs. Ruth to her mother but one, can't tell the date of that letter I can produce ness. I recognize these papers These are in oa the prairie without a dollar, last year. Dr. Medlicott's hand writing I don't remem the reason why such exorbitant amounts of who are sn worth (h.j.

ber from whom I received this one marked it Here witnesa went out and got the letter. this other letter signed Belmont I found with it, among the other papers I found at Mrs. by the mere increase of the value of land in- 1222 It wss from one of Ruth's children ins accounts ii was speedily Kemaha Courier. As Aerial Dasce ts Baxter. On last Tuesday evening a man arrived in Baxter, and registered his name at the Wiggins House as Gov.

Stewart, of Texas. On Wednesday morning he went to the New i xorfc store, and being third clad, and the weather being unpropitious'for such cloth- uig as he had on, and not being properly dressed for a Governor, purloined therefrom i an overcoat. But he was also dry, as most Governors are, and being short of ducats, went to the Lone Star saloon and sold the cident to the construction of railroads and For The Tribnne. Ruth's honse I have no letters written by Mrs. Ruth or to Mrs.

Rath which I took at that time in my possession, I think I have not, bonds are required. The railroads have to make an estimate of what will be left after they divide. In some cases demagogues hive sat down and figured up the per cent which they will take to carry an election, when In fact such demagogues could' nt car don't remember which one I don't remember when I received It I pat np the prescription it was sulphate of quinine thirty grains, in six powders it is the ordinary quantity used in prescriptions I delivered it to one of Mrs. the erection of villages and, other improvements. We say there is stm room for industrious hands, but bo placeib sluggards.

and as individuals. The the hap Iam glad to see that you are noting down recollections of the early days in the settlement of Kansas, and giving them to your readers. It is time these items should coma not be positive, but will look I have couple of revolvers taken at that time one Ruth's children could tell when It was by enough to tend to horses for any of Buchanan's Border Ruffian Judges. If you want to down at my house, the other is here in the be gathered up and preserved as material for imiwiiiwi oi in poor tut industrious, efficient and intelligent aspirant to fortune. looking over the files of prescriptions pretty court room I think.

complained of by the New York papers on stay with old Dormon, you can take care of the future historian. The "rudefsrefathers" near, could not tell the exact date; witness Mr. RidaU on the stand I wish to make a that ground. New York has now thirty- your own horses. There is the barn, and shown boxes I see here the box into which of our state are fast passing away.

Several ry a vote but their own, but they eould get np a great howl, and might have power to do injury to a proposition when thov could not do good. We are glad to know that in some cases the people have actually refused the hay and the corn. If you don't like one members in the House, and by the pro coat fcr a mere trifle. Not being satisfied with what he had done, he went back to the same store and took a lot of other goods and hid them. Then in the evening he went hack to try iton the third time.

But the merchants were oa-th lookout, having missed tneh-goodn, attempting tn (Vlmmil ilia tKlwl tkaA .11 LAWREJfCK'9 BALAITCX SHHETN FOB 1871. put that prescription box marked 1222 of the most prominent actors in the stirring correction of my statement concerning carrying out the things from the house. When visions of this bill will get only one addition corresponding with the namber of the pre urama or oo and 66 have already gone be that, you can all go to" and here, he mentioned a place where there was supposed to carried ont these things I helped Mrs. Lively. It has frequently been observed and re scription that is my hand writing on the box al, while Kansas, having but one will get yond our reach.

That they and the scenes to near such black mailers. one placed them at first on the fence, and It reads, "take one each night at bed time." marked by visitors to Lawrence from other Another prescription shown. That is in DOUGLAS COUTy AGRICULTURAL uict tugcuvereu. i The proprietors made for him, and he run, I followed by about thirty who were apprised thought they looked rather ridiculous in that place. I took the pillow offthe fence and pnt two additional members.

It seems tons high time that the growing interests of the rich and fertile west were more adequately in which they figured may be rightly understood by the generations that are to succeed, he who can speak from personal knowledge be more fire than was necessary for culinary purposes at that season of the year. "WeU well," said Petit yon are the dst landlord I ever met" To Miles and Don parts of the State, as well as from other States, during the year just closing, that this Dr. Medlicott's hand writing, "sulphate of morphine seven grams, four powders, use lo of his acta. They took the precaution to take a rope with them, and when they over- it behind the mattress; the mattress standing up against the house, snould Hasten to put on record what he cally aa directed I think I received that pa city was evidently prosperous and having a very rapid growth. We have ourselves, we alson: "What shall we do Petit was taxable property of the county.

per from one of Mrs. Ruth's children; eould I uuuieu nunmey piacea tne rope around his neck in an affectionate manner, and hung his mg knows. I therefore offer you what I know of that historical personage "Old John ajm attilAJilCAL ASSOCIATION. This society held its annual meeting at the court house, Monday, Jan. 1st, at two p.

for the election of officers, which resulted in a choice of the following named persons to serve for the ensuing year: President, a Kalioch; Vice President, stuck. The encounter was "nuts" to Miles But then this is not alL The amount of not teU exactly when I pat np that prescrip uiui up niaa.e mm Alter nannni protected in the house. The west that has been opened np and redeemed from a wilderness in the past ten years, is now the garden spot the land of promise, to the whole country the east looks to her for the material upon which to feed her own crowded cities, and for every material aid which her Moore. said Miles, "let's put up our Brown." tion at the time I received it this is the box in air for a while, he informed the crowd Cross examined by Mr. Riggs: The mattress was not on the fence there waa only one pillow and one bolster that I took particular notice -of; I don't think that I should have been as likely to notice the other had there school-house bonds in the county, which it must confess, kept smiling all along quite blandly and complacently over the matter.

And every time We visited our prosperous sister cities in the different parts of the State into which I put it marked No. 1229 it is my all his transactions. He-was then turned over to the authorities, and the next day hand writing on the box I gave it to one of is difficult to estimate, is a very considerable item of indebtedness on which an average interest is paid by the county of eigh It was during the seige of Lawrence, in what we called the Wakarusa war of 1855, that I first saw this remarkable manN The little village was surrounded by earthworks brought to this place for trial He had a hearing in the district court yesterday, and been two, oh account of the blood being on the children this box (being shown another) is marked 1266 this is in Dr. Medlicott's hand uone; Secretary, D. L.

Hoadley; Treasurer, M. a Beach: Directors CoL this Mailing only became a little bit stronger that; I don't remember how the pillows piness and the prosperity of our city, has been the best and highest Our State has grows in all her national, educational and moral interests, we believe without a parallel in the growth of countries, and our homes have been so happy and blessed. So we must looc back upon the old year with a feeling of such thankfulness that wc are compelled to say that if the coming year is as blessed a one, we shall have all that our hearts can now hope for. But as to our own habits our petulant ways, our coarse ways, our mean ways, our prejudices, our bigotry, our selfishness, and all this kind of things, there is, doubtless, considerable chance for singing on the death of this yeaf. "Ring out the old, ring in the new." And as to the old world tyrannies over the liberties and labors of the people; French inhumanity and Spanish brutality; and the stupid, hoary evil of king craft and every forced and artificial superiority of one man over another; for all these lef us pour out all the hopeful and imprecatory prayers we are capable of and sing the most ringing hymns, for the death of the old and the birth of the new, on the bad time past and the "good time coming." And still if the New Tear carries the old world forward as far as the old year has done, all peoples will have vast reason to feel encouraged and thankful.

BOOKS AND MAGAZINES. The publishing house of Orange Judd will shortly issue "The Hoosier School teen per cent per annum, thus representing looked after the slips were off, only they horses," and the three court officers actually went to the barn, and fed and watered and curried their horses. They returned to the house and sat down in the front room. The party had rode in a sultry day and were tired and Petit looked up at the rough, jolly old landlord as if afraid of another encounter. within which was a small company expect and deeper.

We have, too, perhaps, indulged in a little blowing about the newspaper education intellectual business a real indebtedness drawing interest at sev looked bloody I did not notice the color of the evidence being as above stated, the jury returned a verdict of guilty, whereupon 1 Judge Webb gave him two years in the pen- itentiary. He has given several names, among which writing it is a prescription of quinine and sugar "sulphate of quinine half a one half grain," live powders for J. M. Rath I think I received it from one of the children ing every hour to beattactedby a whisky en per cent of twice their amount in other bonds. Then when we add the amount nec moo, men gatnered a few miles away by Chas.

Willemsen, P. 3. Ridenour, W. EC. EL Whitney, Lawrence, Robert Steele, Clinton, Wm.

Hughes, Eudora, W.LR Blackman, Grant and Hon. J. C. Vincent, Kanwakee. Thus the years work has been commenced authority of government officials under pre haadcentre.

All of which, we trustos taken nch natural endowments and rapid development have rendered her able to afford. Is it not the highest wisdom to protect well these young, but promising states by able and adequate representation? The nation seems to think it is, and Kansas will not be likely to forget that she has representative public men in her borders, and when the time comes for choosing such additional members of Congress, she will choose from among her pioneers, such as are true and text of executing the laws, but for the openly avowed purpose of crushing out the little I pat it up as directed there, in powders, in a box this is the box, No. 1266 the writing on it is mine, "one each night," written at the time 1 put np the perscription, (looking into essary for state general sinking fund, state interest fund, state school fund, county tax, county improvements in the way of bridges, we find the people of the county are "Could I venture, landlord, to ask you for as good humoredly as possible by our neighbors of the many and various metropolises throughout the State and the entire bound under efficient officers. is that of O'Conner. We presume he is a tough character generally, and had he received a little more punishment at the hands of the Baxterites, would not have received more than he deserved.

We not in mob violence, but we do believe in teach-' ing men to obey he law, even if they hsr to be frightened into it. Columbus Inde settlement of abolitionists, because they the material of the pillows, whether striped or white or pink or what color they were, bnt did notice the blood on them. Charles Cbadwick sworn. By Mr. Riggs: I remember the time of Mr.

Ruth's death I met a Mrs. Gooding, now Mrs. Lively, there at that time at Mrs. Ruth't house I had some conversation with her in regard to the death of Rnth. I was present when a conversation took place between Mr.

Smith and Mrs. Ruth, who was there to tee about a coffin don't recollect that Mrs. Lively was present at that time; think she Wat not; Mr. threatened to make Kansas a free state. We trust that they will take time by the forelock, and at an early day commence paying still one and one-half per cent more the box) there are two powders here coold not tell what they are don't pretend to be an expert have been engaged in a drag store about two years have had considerable expe less West But now we propose to do something serious, namely, figure the matter up and strike a "hslanco sheet" and see how we lived out on the prairie about two miles west of town.

One morning I came in with my rifle to take part in the defence pendent. I such work as may be necessary to enlist the best Torts of our agriculturists. Douglas county is capable of competing with any county in the State, and much will depend We hear tell of a citizen, not necessary toi oa all their property. And still we have to add to this two and a half per cent of tax that the county is paying annually for schools. And if we include the city in the some water?" His appealing way touched old Dormon's better nature, and he replied rather pleasantly for him, "Certainly," and at once approach.

ed him with a large gourd full of pure fresh water from under the banks of the Grasshopper. Petit waved his hand indignantly, stamped his foot, and thundered out "Go away, mnch Lawrence has grown in its outward tried known of old, pledged to stand by the interests of the people, and identified with them by a joint heritage in the same rience in dealing out quinine and morphine almeet every day. I don't know whether I could dlttingnish them apart I think I could should it be necessary. On entering the lines I learned that a number had come in to offer their services during the night name, who was down at the depot some -mornings since, in the dim light of Decern- ber dawning, when tha train takes its de-, parture, to see his Jleat Secur estimate, we have to add the 'city inHng not distinguish them the taste of quinine is teeming soil, as well as in the growth and prosperity of her institutions. bulk during the year 1871, a small enough matter, to be sure, when compared with qualities of a fax higher value which a city and community ought to possess, but still Carnes and I went there with Mr.

Smith we upon early movements in that direction. FBES TRADE. Among the rest we were told of an old man bitter, and so la that of morphine, and both of took him there to tee Mrs. Ruth concerning the coffin, when she bargained for It the day c.p.a; who with six of his sons had come up from fund" and city general fund," which gives a rate of tax which, construed as interest, amounts to over four per cent per annun. the same color white.

I could not say that Free trade is hobby ridden by dema important la the estimate of a city's growth. QuawauwueaBtil tlemmt, before that Mr. Carnes and I had been over to (bete are the powders I put np or not I pre you old tooL Wn't m- kov. better than that? Do you suppose a democrat gogues. To oar knowledge it has been rid ing ber a seat, be passed cT.t tf-he cars, and i went round to her win yiay a parting wordvsxJs JQginj -a suchoccal skmis.

the will left the seat to speak to wd, and at th. same time a prim lookingtdy who occupied' the seat with her, moved tip to the window sume wai meysre; The value of the whole number of busi Mr. Smith's and ordered av coffin 1 Stated to Our railroad indebtedness amounts to one sis ting then of about a dzen houses, about 25 miles to the soutiCr Lawrence. Much THE PRESS AND FREE KANSAS. We have seen it stated from very high Mrs.

Ruth that it was her privilege to furnish Mr. John Charlton sworn. He testified sub seventh of all the property of the county. master," a story by Edward Eggleston. It den fcr over thirty years.

Like "the star-spang ad hanaer," and "the American egle," when a brainless orator ma oat of ides. ness and Boamuicturing booses erected ia Lawrence, oa both aides efthe river, is by a stantially the same as in the Medllcott case. was said of the pluck and public spirit of authority that the New York Tribune was baa been published as a serial ia Hearth and Ia other words, the entire property of the the coffin we went np stairs into the Uttle room at the head of the stairs, turning to the left at we went np, Mr. Smith, Mr. Carnes and Mr.

Oliver re-called. By Mr. Nevison: I the Brown family. These seven stalwart men the paper that did the most for the cause of eareftd taUiuetu, -value of church county is mortgaged to railroad bond hold- Hosae, and has attracted in that form a great am the owner of the house in which Rath died. he fell back on the hobby of Jim trade, aad ofOsawatomie were the heroes of the hour.

freedom ia Kansas Nobody would think iasNMtaltoaMtisHli myself. I think Mrs. Ruth came in from an fcaae fcr aa iauat equal to one seventh deal of attention, and its popularity as a se unaware oi ue important cnanges venerable friend put his face to the window and hurriedly exclaimed; one more kiss, sweet In another iif stant the point of a blue cotton umbrell I recollect the small side room it bad two niinwt poiilirai anathemas snaiaa The general opinion seemed to be that the of disputing the power of that great paper, ofea-erbnEdifags, etnat wil- adjoining room we told her that this was the rial gives promise ia being a great suc body who should taik of a tariff, aa ssaa old man was an extremist in his views of of the value of the entire utupeite of the county. Our taxation for other purposes undertaker, Mr. Smith, and he would famish way, -ef paveaaent oa Massachusetts street, sot hacroding sidewalks aad caugnt ms seductive lips, followed by the conflict with slavery, and to the crisis to the coffin, and Mr.

8inith asked what kind of who wasted to oppress the people by taxation. EiwryadmiiiistratioBkMlMdtokeep cess in book form. It is to be aaadsomery bound and The author has long been rorgnired as one who possesses a than peying-the interest and principal of fail passionate injunction: "scat, you gray-hai porta ef the streets ia timcrss of frginx "1 hoods, if we take it that money is only StL r. djc3wt and tWii but what would it have done had not editors from different portions of the Union planted themselves oa the battle ground sad fought an to face. "WTms we came to Kansas the NewTork Tribune had not tea subscribers in Kansas, and there was not a post office in the thea territory noAlsg a total valne of im- xenins fh mw.

and this jn ea wreicfij" ana acausa. Florence neer.t The public schools in this county are er doors, one into the hall and one into the yard there wis no lock on the door that opened into the hall there was a rimmed latch, with a bolt there was no lock with a key to it at any Ume on that door, bat bolt separate from the latch a little slide just above the latch. Cross-examined by Mr. Hatchings It looks like a lock It sounds just the same as locking the door tad fattens the door just the same it was the 23d of January that they moved into the house, instead of the 23d of February. no tost in the prewar oaatury free trtde will ever be thought of except as weatsBts, as specified, of $570,8001.

This novel shows that he has been getting permanently worth seven per cent, per a ama, (and this is a high figure) means that there now rests on all the property we have erally making progress. Yet they woe 'ail 6S in tnm for producing it It will take rank a coffin she wanted the stated what kind of a eoffin, and he told her what It would cost as near at I can recollect the said the wanted at good a coffin at the eould have, next to a case that she wot not able to bny a -case be told that he would not furnish a coffin to her unless the hod the money to pay for it the made the remark about that time that she thought that Mr. Hutchings or Mr. Shimmons, the persons at once among the best novels. It is writ- uuiu w.K, lu-f fjni-cuto Ml U1V would take an active interest in thei- A does not include sidewalks rebuilt and extended ia different parte of the city, the steam ferry.

Ac All these severs! amounts another mortgage, and a permanent one, except at Fort Leavenworth, for the accom fare. The itassive nolicr does not an electioneering dodge. The promise was biade by the Democrats in portions of the country, when Gen. Jackson was a candidate, and yet Gen. Jackson's adminstration not only established a revenue, but a protec amounting to over four millions.

Which added to the amount of the railroad mort well. Let every parent see that his dren are doing their dutv and the effir ca, -ienev- tea ia a style admirablj suited for the story, simple, artlessly beautiful, strong and vigorous. The Laxkstdk Mosthxt. We have re modation of the officers, and they were as pro-slavery as Platte county desired. The free state men scarcely showed their heads.

as I before testified through mistaken ot the teacjcrs would be more than doubi led. gage, makes aa aggregate of mortgages on for whom Ruth worked, ought to furnish the Mr. McCauley recalled It was I think be and indeed there were few of that kind of ceived the January namber of this excellent tive tariff. In 1844, the friends of Polk inscribed "free trade'' on their banners, and in 1S43, enacted a "protective tariff." In 1853, Jbureka Herald. Tub Wkathek Bclletixs.

Especially have they proved of inestimable benefit to 1-11. mnn 1 I. ..1 3 1 I have been attained by adding up the estimates given as by builders and others of the improvements referred to, in all their particularsthe houses, for instance, being enumerated and the value of each given with it Leaving out of account then, the complacency and all that kind of things re tween the 8d and 4th of April that I pnt np the prescription No. 1222, the Dr. never dated heads to show, till the press began to thun would drink water, that filthy liquid which hat smelt of dead bodies ever since the flood bilious stuff only fit for watering cows) I want to wash." He got a tub and went through his ablutions.

Dormon waa dumbfounded. He had seen many government officials, but he had never met his match before. Petit then tamed to Miles and said, "Miles, bring in the barrel" Mites obeyed, bringing in a five-gallon keg with a screw in the end of it and a small pipe attached. Dormon had been overcome, and he tried to be a Uttle polite. "I reckon," said he, "you would like a cup." "Away," said Petit with a wave of his band.

"Are you fool enough to suppose a democrat would drink whiskey that the air had struck?" And drawing the cork, each of them took a drink of the good old Bourbon. Dormon stood looking on in amazement, till his feelings of antagonism turned to admiration of the Judge. At last he broke forth: "Well, well, by. thunder, I begin to like your style, if you are Federal officials! I don't care if I take a suck of that myself." And from that time they were all friends. A jollier set never took dinner at old Dormon's, nor enjoyed a more substantial meal.

From that day onward old Dormon admitted that good men might be democrats and Federal officers. magazine, and must pronounce it a number der at the institution of slavery. Even coffin, that she had no money to pay for one that was I think in the forepart of the conversation. He asked me and Carnes if we would become responsible, and we said not for a better coffin than the one we were going to fur his prescriptions it was not later than the Gtlf all our property amounting to over five millions of dollars, which is equal to five sevenths of all the property the people of the county a large part of which it is fair to assume they still are in debt for to parties outside the state. Pierce's friends made the same promise, and town companies established rules against which every reader, in the land ought to possess.

It is filled with or rather is but "The Story of Chicago," with three supple allowing anti-slavery editors a foothold. or April that I put up prescription No. 1229, and about the 34th of April that I put prescription No. 1306 the year-1871. were guilty of the same violation of it.

To establish "free trade" would be to advocate an increase of direct taxes. A revenue tar- ferred to in a prefatory way at the head of mentary articles entitled respectively "The iCross examined by Mr. Hutching: Pre Fires of History," "Science of the North isf must either be incidentally protective or this "balance sheet" statement for the year 1871, we think Lawrence makes a fair showing. The balance on the credit side is We did our "level best" in our way. but we know not how much that One independent paper seemed to inspire another.

When we think of such men as Judge Josiah Miller, a South Carolinian, striking nish tor the county, and she said the wot not willing to have Ruth buried in that she wanted one better than that, the wanted Mr. Smith to wait till she could get some money from St. Louis from her mother to pay for the coffin. He would not wait nor give credit and We think these facts ought to make people open their eyes. Many of our farmers and many of our property holders in the scription 1223 was "sulphate of quinine, thirty grains, six powders there is no powder in western Fires," and "Political Economy of be almost exclusively levied upon the necessaries of life, which cannot be produced in the Fire.

The first of these contains an ine dox now there was nothlne else in that city feel the fact vaguely every time the tax accurate, though brief account of all the which we stood. AH were delighted with the spirit of the plain-speaking farmer; bat he proposed methods of action that were, in the opinion of our wise heads, rash and impracticable. Soon we found ourselves in the group, of which he was the center, and to whom he was freely, but with great calmness, expressing his mind. He was for taking the offensive. We should go down and drive those miscreants out of their encampment, and back across our border.

They had fired upon our peaceful citizens, and were openly threatening our destruction. He was ready to fight slavery wherever it was found, or in whatever shape or pretext it should come against him some thought that we should respect the national flag and the national authority should they be opposed to us. Not so, said the blunt old man of Osawotomie. "I am ready to fight anything that comes to sustain slavery. If the United States comes with its officials, or its army, to thrust slavery upon us, I am ready to fight the United States.

When an army is opposed to us we have no business to stop and ask how strong it is. All we have got to do is to fight it to the best of our ability, and leave the results to Almighty God." Such in substance, were the views, and almost exactly the words of John Brown. A few coincided and cried out, "right right, that's so," and all applauded the spirit shown by our new-found champion. In raising a company for the defense of the town he was commissioned as the leader, and ever after through that contest was known as captain Brown. My next meeting with John Brown, and my only personal acquaintance with him, Mrs.

Rnth seemed vexed, turned into the such blows against the hated institution, that his press waa destroyed, and his life uiu, duu ciuuuiucuw uy its success, the War Department has decided to extend its operations in this directifn. Commencing with the first of January, 1873, the stage of the water at all prominent points on the Mississippi river and its tributaries will be carefully measured every day by officers of the signal service, and the result telegraphed ia the same manner as the weather bulletins. Shippers, captains and pilots may, therefore, be apprised every morning of the exact state of the water, and may with perfect confidence, as based upon carefully proven figures, make such preparations as depend upon this knowledge. It will be of almost incalculable valnt to river commerce. The United States signal station ara Leavenworth has a very -careful and i ut perienced observer, and this addition us.

I report, of the stage of the "Big Muddj -g materially enhance the value of -tM maim prescription but qninine; prescription No. 1229 was "sulphate of morphine, seven grains, in three powders, one and three quarter erains THE ADKIK1STRATIOX this country. Undoubtedly the country might discriminate in a tai iff for revenve so as to relieve it of burthens upon the poor, but free trade is a "delusion and a snare" set great fires of history. This one article is so valuable that no reader can afford to let an other room and came back with the money, AND RE- Nbarely.8aved, under a charge of treason to in eacn powder;" this was put up not later opportunity for possessing this number of she asked Mr. Smith to moke a receipt for it and gave him the money to pay for it I don't remember that there was anything said con South Carolina when we think of straight the Lakeside pass, if only for this one short by demagogue for votes.

man April 8th there are two powders now in the box prescription No. 1266 was "sulDhate paying period comes around. They feel it pretty strongly too. But to reflect upon it carefully brings it home to them with a piercing sharpness, as well as weight It may be said, however, that the increase of property will rapidly decrease the rate of tax. The answer to this is two-fold.

If the property of the county increases it article. But what shall be said of this ex cerning giving anybody as security I remem forward, honest Bob Elliot when we think of Mark W. Delahay, who came here with his Trritorial Register as a democrat, but There is reason in all things, and this tariff question is not an exception. What of quinine, each powder six grains of quinine snd eighteen grains of sugar there is now only one powder in that box I have not the traordinary Story of Chicago 1 The theme is a tremendous one, as everybody in the ber her saying that she thought the persons for whom Ruth worked ought to become responsible for the coffin. the country wants first is revenue.

The who could not stand the tyranny of slavery civilized world knows. And when we reck man who for a prohibiting tariff is oppos- prescription for that box another box here Cross-examined by Mr. Hatchings I don't on that this "Story" ia the most thorough ing the raising of revenue by that i FORM. The denunciations of the admistration don't seem to have much effect oa the reform question. The President Is ready to adopt all the reform measures which the beet Judgment of statesmen can devise.

Of course these reformatory measures require laws to carry them out, and the ad-ministratioa has never failed vigorously to sisMssii the htwa. No sooner does a bill for the'etvminatioa of persons aamed for offlce beeoww a tar tbsa Ue President goes earnestly to work to carry it out He has announced to the collectors of customs that all appointees must undergo a thorough ex Leavenworth Commercial. T-r trwa and accurate account of this "great fire," much aa he who favors free trade. The remember anything said concerning Ruth having a Masonic burial don't remember to have shown the witness there is no number on this I don't think I put that up, I never pnt up prescriptions without a namber; can't say certainly that either of these powders are the does so at this vast disadvantage. But it does not invalidate the statement that the county is now mortgaged to five-sevenths ef its value.

And then agaia, it is right Figures. i The true theory is tut of a taii wkkh, while it will rztiae revenue, will iuddenrally teen Mrs. Lively in the room at that time mj over free thought and soon began to tell them so in such terms as to cause the slavery propaganda to throw his press ia the river, when we think of the hospitable old Irishman E. C. K.

Garvey, who not only issued a paper with the proceedings of the Topeka convention, but actually spread out free tables at the free state gatherings we don't like to see the success of free institutions attributed impression is that when we first went there favor Aeocaa skill and Aaaericaa labor. the was in the room below she might have been within hearing. The New York World, reviewing the recently published letter of Mr. John Quincy Adams, reminds him that he is more of a sentimentalist than a statistican, and tells the "Possumists in general that they seem to forget that on the popular vote for Presi It was once said of James Buchanan that be that has been written, and as perfect a history of it perhaps, as ever will be written, we conclude that this number will certainly be in almost universal demand. But the Lakeside is always one of our very best magazines.

As soon as you take it into your hands its splendid typography powaersmatlputup; they are in the same kind of paper that we used. The three prescriptions and the four boxes were here offered in evidence and the contents. Objected to as not proven to be the said "America would never prosper until ia our eyes that this same argument has been used from the first, and yet while the property has been increasing ia value, the taxes have also still increased. And it may be questioned whether if the people of the Here a letter, the memorandum book of her laborers could be made to sheep's head and pluck, at ten cents wages per day, same powders. Objection overruled as to the amination as to qualifications.

There never to any other editors than the persons who NO. VUI OLD JOHN BROWK'S BON. 1 We knew Old John Brown well The old gentleman resided but about twenty-five miles from our residence in Ohio when we left for Kansas. We came here in September, 1854, making a tour of the territory, and selecting Lawrence as our place of abode. We went back to Ohio for printing material, and returned in December of that year.

While out here, we wrote a series of letters oa Kansas for the Cleveland Leader, and old John Brown probably had his attention called to the writer by these letters. At any and lie under a cart at night," and the aoubri- captivates you. No magiim go ambitious Mrs. Ruth, and a copy of some verses, all In her hand-writing, were offered in evidence, and objected to by the prosecution on the ground that they being in her hand-writing eould not properly be introduced in her defense. After faced the enemy at home.

dent in 18(i8, General Grant's majority was 1 only 334,930. It goes on to show that a change of 168,000 votes a bagatelle com- pared with the vote of the whole country would have given Seymour a majority of the county resolve that they will not vote anoth boxes, which were admitted. Belmont De Spraugh sworn. By Mr. Nevi nnet of "ten cent Jimmy" stuck to him for was a more faithful, honest and upright occupant of the executive chair than the man who now hoids the reigns of government ly printed can contain inferior reading matter.

The taste and judgment that secure was during our troubles in the summer of son: I am the son of Mrs. Ruth; Uved at home at the time Ruth died Dr. Rico Uved in 'Smuiy a day, but even he, when he became President, was compelled to favor even an PLANTING TREES. A good deal has been said alvuit ni.ni;n. a lengthened argument pro and con, the objec the one is a guaranty against the other.

entire vote cast, and that there is, therefore, but a comparatively trifling gain to be made in order to give the eiectorial vote to the tion was sustained. mc nonse next north of us. just a little varrt Then its conductors announce that they "incidentally protective tariff. VVhen trees, but it is doubtful whether ton mnK shall hereafter be able to make it a better GOOD HO WLXB8. man talks free trade, he is either deceived The evldense for the defense here closed.

The court then adjourned until three o'clock can be said ia this country of plains and There is one thing that the Kuklux do democratic candidate in 1872. 4 Now this may be considered very hopefuW-meat for the famished soul oHdw flpmnm' about the interests of his government or rate, on our return we found that the wife of j. vir peopie nave demonstrated that there is no olace where tna trmr to hear tha closing arguments in the case. cy, but in the presence of tiw aotnaV', At the reassembling of the court Mr. Hutch wants to deceive some one else.

HTTRRY. to food advantage. They send up howls constantly. They murder a "colored lawyer" because he knows too much for a "nigger and when they arouse the indignation seems to us exceeding thii- it is aiST unfortunate for a minority oarty, and it mav-Vtl be wrong in principle, but is true never-' IhplADO tkal nn alnnlAiul -ill IK MrCnm lf ings occupied two hoars with arguments for the prosecution, and he was foUowed by Mc, Riggs for the defense, after which Mr. well as ia Kansas.

This is true, we believe, of all trees except the black locust, and would be true of that, except that it is subject to inevitable destruction from borers. magazine than it has heretofore been. Though it has already a hjgh reputation, and has risen, while it is but four years since it was started, to an enviable place among our literary periodicals. Among the new and attractive features to be added at the commencement of the year is a new serial story: "Life in the West Twenty Years Ago," by D. H.

Wheeler, professor of English literature and history in the Northwestern Uni Scarcely anything impresses one unaccustomed to western life, more forcibly than the universal hurry which seems to prevail Hutchings again spoke in reply, when the case of the colored people who are naturally determined that the murderers shall be pun was closed, and the court gave its decision, choosing a President males the popular vote a very small consideraion. The popular vote defeated Mr. Linioln in I860 by 947,263 nearly a million, three times the everywhere- Leisure seems to be an un between, maybe a little more than the width of this room there are windows on north side of our house Dr. Rice has windows on the south tide of his house Mr. Apltz lived on the side south of as should Judge there was about a lot between us.

There were windows on the south side of onr honse and windows on the north side of his; I slept in the back room that night, and father in the front room my bed was in the small back room, and two doors between as I don't know just how large the hall is it is just targe enough to open the door, snd it touches the waU there is a plaster partition between the rooms Mr. Ruth did not call me that night could not say how far my bed was from Ruth think not farther than the width of this room it may be about ten feet don't think it was that far in the morning that my father was found dead the ror a lew years after the settlement of Kansas, there was little tree planting, for two prominent reasons. First n. nn ished, they send out howling dispatches committing the prisoner for trial on the charge of being accessory before the act, of the mur known thing. 'Everybody is In a hurry, and everything is done in a hurry.

This is der of Isaac M. Ruth. about the conduct of the It turns out now that the savages in the Chicot riots were the Kuklux rascals who raised amount of the "bagatelle' njcuity of Grant in 1808. And vet Lincoln it a million against liiin had a majority a the eiectorial i college that answered his jurpose quite as 1 doubtless inevitable in a western town or city, where so much is needed to be done versity. It promisesto be one of the most attractive serial stories of the year; then it has engaged a score of writers to furnish that most time to plant on account of "wars and rumors of and secondly, because there was a good deal of doubt whether trees would grow to advantage.

With many there was an impression that ground which the howls. 56. It was in the old burying ground on the hill, about sunset, at the close of a funeral service, that I was told that a stranger wished to speak with me. I was taken to a gaunt grey bearded man sitting on a horse by the side of the grave of our first martyr. Barber, and introduced to "Mr.

Brown, from Osawotomie." I failed to recognize him as the hero by that name at the siege of '55, but in a moment it occurred to me that this might be the man, and I asked, "Is this Captain Brown He drew himself up and replied, "I don't want any such title; I want to be known as 'Old John as my boys call me." He then told his plans and wishes. He had about one hundred men pledged to follow him in driving back the ruffians who had come over the border and had been burning the cabins and plundering the free State settlers in his neighborhood. His own cabin, with many others, had been stripped in the sacking of Ossowatomie. Two of his sons were then prisoners in charge of the U. S.

dragoons, having been delivered into their hands by the pro-slavery marauders, after suffering every indignity, including the burning of their homes. Fired by these outrages, the old man had taken the field with the determination to bring them to an end. But aid was needed to arm his The Indian Territory. Take it for all in all the Indian Territory at once but hurry is, nevertheless, one of the most demoralizing conditions possible is perhaps the most beautiful portion of the unobtainable of mgTiTO wants, a full supply American continent. 1 lie sun never suonc of splendid, emphatic, short literary articles.

THTJB PLUCK. Grant is plucky. He has as much moral on more smiline landscapes of earth, timber. courage in his administration as he had of These writers are among the most gifted and prominent in the country. The price is wen as Grant three inousanci at his favor.

1 Refore the Democratic or Oppositiot party can elect aPresident thy must reverse majorities in all the large states of the Union, to an extent of whiebwearc incline! -to think tliev little dream at wesent. The I must "naturalize" 41,428 in hio; 28.898 Pennsylvania; 51.150 in Illfioia, and 9.57? 4 in Indiana. UnlfR they caaii all thee States their Presidential latxfs are in vai. wouiu raise corn ana all kinds of vegetables would not flo well for trees. The experience in tree growing has satisfied all parties that nowhere in th water and varied scenery, unly nouses, barns, fences and the signs of civilization ooor to ms room was shut and fastened don't know what time it was that I went there first physical courage la front of Vicksburg.

the same as that of other first-class maga When he struck at the telegraph he aimed for individuals and for society. It is the fruitful cause of bad work, bad Semper, and confusion generally. Ho one can execute any work well in a hurry. The skillful workman may make haste, and his skill stay enable him to accomplish a great deal in a vesy short time, but if begets harried his E) will almost certainly be injuriously are wanting, ou may travel nfty mile? and not see a settlement, scarcely a house. It is a land without people, a country with world will trees grow better than ia Kan zines.

We heartily commend the Lake Side Monthly to our readers. It is published in a blow at a monster monopoly; but he will think it was between 7 and 9 o'clock I attempted to get the door open I knocked on it, and no one answered I got my brother to go np stairs and get some keys I shoved the out tenants. On both sides of the track as er dollar of bonds for any railroad or other like purpose and stick fast to their resolution the taxes will diminish much in the next eight or tea years. For the necessary expenses of the county and city will increase considerably with their growth. This may be set down as a fact of general experience.

We have voted for the issuing of all the railroad bonds that are now held on the city and county. We were most heartily In favor of giving the hundred thousand dollars of city bonds to the university. We have voted for the issuing of all the railroad bonds so far held against the county. We were heartily in favor of giving the hundred thousand dollars. We believe that, so far, every dollar of bonds voted (iftheLL.

G. railroad will live up to the agreement on which our bonds were given to it,) will prove a good investment But we think we have reached the point to Btop at We have roads enough to develop the county and build up the city, if they are capable of being developed and built up. To build more roads with bonds is speculation, and not business. Aad we want to remind our readers that the argument for giving more bonds to build railroads based on the consequent increase of their farms is true to aa immeasurable extent It is true to the extent that it is wise to give bonds for roads enough to enable them and their trading town to market the products of their farm. Beyond this it is falsa It only increases the taxes of the farmer by increasing the valuation of his farm.

It does not make it produce any more to the acre. It only enables him to travel and transport better a great advantage to be sore, but one which the farmer has to pay for from the first, in the way of increased taxation. If twenty rati roads were built through the county by county bonds, so as to make every acre of every farm command a price of two hundred dollars, it might enrich every man who would sell at that price, but it would impoverish every man attempt Chicago by the University Publishing Com Their candidate must be abh to hold evey bring It, aad bring it without injustice to Us owners, and with great advantage to the democrat ana gain by conversion 83,000 pany. far as the eye can reach, stretch the wide rolling prairies and beautiful savannas traversed by meandering streams and fringed by deep skirts of heavy timber; bnt the traveler looks in vain for the comfortable t- j' aiT vted by it country. The postal aad telegraph services united la the hands of the government would be a great stride in the dissemination unio, in rennsyiv-um, so.ouu a Illinois and 5,000 in Indiana; If they on find a man with strength foiuth for tls undertakiner.it will be we' for them We are of coarse obliged to accept this Littkll's Lrvuro Aoe.

We have so often commended this weekly magazine as the best eclectic magazine of foreign literature that our readers all understand the high estimation in which we hold it As a maga tarm house or the welcome sighs of civilization. Not him; short of an act of Congress of things as inevitable In all west- of lntefflgeace. Cheap news is the forerun aey oui inat wss in the lock it fell into the room where Rath was, snd I could not unlock It then I attempted to open the window they were ail fastened down. Cross-eurnincd by Mr. Hutchingsl The window at the head of the bed was np shout half an inch, not more than that, and there was a Uttle stick under it; I tried to raise that window, tad, after I had got an axe, did raise it far enough to get my arm in.

Mrs. Murray sworn. By Mr. Nevison. Mv give him the job; but his -f? appear on the conscription 1-sdraa ooiiar.

to date by the ner of universal education, aad is or the potent manipulations of R. 8. Stevens can rescue this beautiful domain from thi grasp of the squalid Indian and open it to the corner stone of freedom. em fotarosnltles, for a time at least We em btCJoar houses in a hurry, plan them in a ba Ty, faint laeaa In hurry, and then we ha.l probably repent the aeosastty for band and sustain their families during their zine of its it has no equal, and it is of the editor had received a letter from John Brown, of Hudson. It was remarkable for its earnest opposition to slavery, and the God like faith evinced in the final overthrow of that institution, and we remember well that we thought he evinced a good deal of pride in stating that he had seven sons to help him in the cause.

That was probably the first letter ever written by Old Joha Brown on slavery in Kansas, and would be interesting if we had it now But John Brown was then no more than John Smith, or John Jones, and the letter was lost But we started to tell a story of Old John Brown's son, and wandered off on the father- During the fierce struggles of 1856, the whole Brown family were constantly and fearlessly at work for the free state cause, and among them was Orlaa Brown. He was takes siek, and passed up into Iowa to get away from the excitement and recover his health. At that time the Missouri river wss blockaded by the "border ruffians," and we were passing with a company through Iowa for Kansas, when a tent was pointed out to us near Tabor, Iowa, with the remark, "There it a Kansas man ia that tent" Of coarse we were anxious to see all Kansas men, and stepped into the tent We extended our hand, saying, "How are you, Mr. Brown." He did net recognize us, but said "I am known by the name of Dodge." "I don't care what name you are known by, but you can't dodge me. I know you.

My name is Speer." We never saw a man who seemed more pleased at seeing a friend, and it was a still further pletsure to us to know that there was no Insincerity about any of that Brown family. We talked over matters generally, and we told him for the first time, of a report of his brother's death at Osowatomie. He heard it with evident feelings of emotion and tenderness for his promising young brother, but finally remarked, "Well, a great many of us will have to go in that way before this great struggle is terminated." We looked around his tent He was sick. absence from home. All he asked was a tue civilized energy ql the ubiquitous i an-kee.

Far as the eye can reach on either side the unbroken acres stretch away and a a very valuable kind; it comes to us every week, and contains, for the most part, the TEW B9UT THBOTJGH KAKSAS. wit ikiuuuu wiw It tJiBua lima have suddenly revived the odiat tawsbov the war times, for the VOJxi? unwilling men into the Prv cJr'jlto. exemption UstaDDetrs to grow Sharp's rifle for each man, and a sack of so doii e. in carry. Our railroad, oar The Kansas Pacific, since the building of country as beautiful as God ever made best articles of the British and foreign re flour.

As to his little army he proposed to make that self-sustaining by forages of re hridirse. oar public buildings, almost every the road to California, has proved much the conscription list, and after all srientioiia ipmnlM nr whose thing ws in mxt new country indicates prisal among the enemy. Having heard that hest route ef aay ether road. The time will come when the wants of the country will hurrv. But let as hops sod I lor a on I was in correspondence with the National Kansas Aid Society, he wanted me to lay his case before them and ask for the needed aid.

ft Tent stats of things. Let not harry mould v.j or demoralize our tastes. We name is Sarah M. Murray Mrs. Ruth It my daughter I reside in St.

Louis resided there last April was acquainted with J. M. Ruth I received some letters from Ruthin the month of April last have not those letters now it It my habit to destroy them they are destroyed I recollect hearing of Ruth't death I destroyed the letters before I heard of Ruth't views and magazines. And we can scarcely claim that we take the time and pains in this country to produce the best review articles, which they tak in the old. It is not an unusual thing for a man of the highest literary attainments to give his best thought for months, and even a whole year, to the seems waiting and beckoning the white man to come.

It only needs to be tickled with a hoe to make it laugh with a harvest. But there is no sight or sound of civilization save the railroad track and the thundering train. The track here makes a bee line tor the Gulf In one stretch of eighty -nine miles over eighty miles are a perleetlv straight line. Sedalia (Mo.) Times. compel that road to put through a southern road to the Pacific.

The time ia coming when the Kansas route will be the route to the Psdflc, well as to New Mexico and the Gulf of California. Time tries all at kt keep our ideal of good work In response to that application a draft for sas, inat question, then, is settled. The next question is as to the all-absorbing question with many persons: "Will tree-growing pay?" Ask a real estate agent who has two houses and lots to sell, precisely alike, except that one has a yard and garden foil of shrubbery aad trees, and the other is devoid of all such things. It will be found that trees and shrubbery will add fifty percent We have known homesteads with old worn-out houses sold at big prices just because the lady of the house had, year after year, planted trees and cultivated them. The utility and advantage of trees is self-evident They speak for themselves.

Their genial shade ia the hot summer speaks in more eloquent language to the man in search of a home than the real estate agent can command. The time is soon coming to plant them. We have talked with men of experience who say that trees of large growth can be dug around in the winter, the roots cut and left to heal, and that in early spring they can be planted with perfect success. We have seen them so planted large enough to make considerable shade the first year. In Paris immense elms were successfully grown in the parks by Louis Napoleon.

In Boston very large trees have been removed for public buildings and placed in other parts of the "common" with little apparent injury. Thea let ns all plant trees without delay. Let our cities and towns take measures to secure them at once. It cannot be done too soon. These shades will call down bleulnn an t.tiA nianAif for in advance of what we are able rwrfbrm In a hurry.

production of a single review article. The 1'-- wvmum lis with "the enemy are excused toa eaaant w- the number to choose from wirt In the above calculatijn we uT1 n-ri-ing about the important acqnUWN TlbUTC November electk. eat of Tammnnv secured 33 elenl mmmcZ for the Republican candidates cast in 18ti8 for Seymour. the Republicans to lose half a oZA nZT, States by "immense majorities? hold their full strength in the eha" lege. But we can see no reasonr oX that the Republican eiectorial vol -Tt will be lost in a single State in Ihqb notwithstanding Grant's "bagateK ls68.

ty on the popular vole, his elcct-jorU was 237 to 80 and this will. 1 v. things, and we prophecy that time aad ex eat work was ever performed, says perience will show that the Kansas route writer, by one who did not to liixJe; and lust as certainly true value of such an article is inestimable. And from reviews produced in this ambitious spirit, Littell selects, with excellent judgment, what seems to be the very best for the weekly reading of its subscribers. The last will be the great thorough fare of the west.

PLEASANT HILL RAILROAD. death I received some in which he referred to hit life I received two letters of that kind in the month of April both of them are destroyed they were destroyed before I heard of hit death could not say Just when I received the first of those letters it was in the month of April, sometime before my daughter came down to visit me in that letter he spoke a good deal ef my daughter's ill-health, and in connection with it he said he was tired of life vn Krwit work was ever prformed by "i 1 love and seek for and at- five hundred dollars was sent to John Brown. Before it could reach him his wants were supplied from other sources nearer home, at least so far as to enable him to keep his company in service, and repel the invasions. It was not until years after his tragic and honorable death that we learned from the treasurer of the society who had sent him the aid that the draft had never been used, but was returned, after the troubles were over, with the report "It has not been needed." E.N. The completion of this road is one of the k-iaure and repose.

The ing to hold his farm and involve every man great accessions to the business of Law number contains, among other articles be the th niijutM care, the skilled man who purchased one. rence, which is being felt and eppreciated. sides the poetry and miscellany, "French casting 33 against him. To tho21W figuring on the next President of. dlllltHan QJ (Win.

DA 1 1 1 In Wisconsin, the same project that of Full trains commenced running on the first snrceaslUI artist or artisan in rf tli world's work must Servants," from Blackwell's Magazine; that it was very hard for him to succeed day of the year, aad the road has com "People I Have Hated," fromCornhill Mag Quick Time. The rapid flight of the carrier pigeon is something man clous. A biid, let loose at a distance of 1.004 miles from Montclair, New Jersey, recently roscupflOO vanis high, and wilh plunge was out of sislit about as quick as a flash of lightning. The journey was made at the rale of l'Jli miles an hour. Another bird, having made a journey of miles at the rate of S03 miles an hour, fell dead.

This last time was unprecedented. Little Rock, Dec. 20. Gen. Danford, the Governor's Adjutant General, returned from Chicot county last niulit.

He reports all quiet, but a spirit of uneasiness pervades all classes that the outrages may be repeated. It is understood that the Governor will send a detail from his guard to take the place of the sheriffs posse and remain until confidence Is restored among the people. ou ana add it ttf they wiy come near enough to th? tad 1872 for all practical rtoe. This is the truth azine; "Simplicity or Splendor?" from the menced with a most excellent business. The first and second passenger coaches were full i i vi vf 'rn we submit to be hur erat.

WT mortgaging farms heavily to get railroads, was once tried by the farmers of that State. Only they mortgaged their farms directly. The result was, they lost their farms. And if our farmers take too much stock in the indirect way of voting bonds the result will Spectator; "The Opening of the Swiss Federal Assembly." from the Saturday Review. our li as to a dis- There is a needle Gun .1 but acr forget that where the whole process of cliaa of wire into needles' is Mrformedj2 toil (he was constantly writing to me for money 0 he had a large family to support he also mentioned that he wot afraid of coming In contact with Mr.

VeuUalre, bnt spoke in the most endearing terms of his wife that is about the substance of that though it was a great deal longer the second letter, (caat give any dates) bat tt wis in the month of April that It all I can aay the substance of that letter was about the saute at the fireWbat be was The passenger train leaves at 1 80 p. m. We anticipate that this new route will sdd greatly to the business of our city, and bring the prices of freight down to fair rates. We hope soon to see this rente continued west machine. And probably in the judgment of some the articles we omit to mention are among the best It would be difficult to know how to invest eight dollars to better advantage than ia the fifty-two numbers that make up "Well do you love me said an ugly and not very agreeable friend of the family to the pet four-year-old.

know, but I can't tell," was the answer, "But why not "Because I should be whipped if I did," was the frank answer of the observing child, who had been taught by past experience that it was not always safe to tell the truth. wfurg state of things, and jj ia ear power to severe i ks ins Jf to from eventually be the same. That is, it will be which turns out 80,000 W' er day while another ij(f- L. and as much disheartened as a member of the same to them, but worse to the county. rnngea the heads and points tocetS ir- persons who plant them long years after the Brown family ever got to be.

We said thlm ward, 'v For it is, better for a county to have a dls- we UKeu tor a year. uw suau nave gone iromeann. paper. toto 1.