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Kan0as GljUf. SOL. MILLER, EDITOR. WHITE MOOT), KAH8AS: Thursday, jM0 27 ,867 Xfce Knllroad, and It Import- nee. The petitions asking the Coonty Botrd to tubmil the proposition for subscribing 8200,000 stock in the Atchison end Nebraska City Railroad, to the voters of the County, has not been circulated as energetically os it sbonid have been.

The petition ebonlJ have been submitted to tba Board, at it Joly meeting, bnt we fear that it has not yet received enongb names to jnstify. We also hear of jeal ousies and rivalries as to points on the ronte. One is pretty sure; tbe road will be located, until asobscrip ton is made and after it is made, the Coonty becomes a stockholder, and has a roica in the location. So that, if the thing is quarrelled and fonght over nntil the subscription fails, the entire Connty will lose the road. The Hiawatha Sen tinel is already advocating tbe location of the road tbrongh that Connty, leaving this Connty entirely ont.

As to that being the most practicable route, and the only one by which Coonty aid can be received in Nebraska, it is si.nply talk. If Doniphan Coonty desires tbe road, and shows it by her works, Brown Connty will not eet it bnt if we refnse to aid it, tbe Company will undoubtedly seek aid else where. Probably very few persons have con sidered what an advantage the building of that road wonld be to this Connty, and the railroad connections it would give them, by means of roads already bnilt, and those certain to be bnilt some of them before this can be. Tbe road will be completed from Leavenworth to Atch ison, long before onrs is completed to the antra of this Connty. Tbat wonld give ns direct communication, witbont change of cars, with Leavenworth, Kansas City, and St.

Louis. From Leavenworth, there is direct communication with Lawrence and Topeka, and with all points on the Pacific Railroad, which will extend to Denver, and on to California. A vigorous movement is making for a road from Atchison to Lawrence, by way of Oa-ksloost, which wonld mike the comma-. nication between here and Lawrence al most direct. The Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad is a fixed fact, and is already being pnshed forward.

We wonld then bo in almost direct communication with the Golf of Mexico. On tbe north, we wonld have connections with the roads to Chicago, through Iowa, making tbat mnch the nearest ronte to (he last named city. A majority of tbe roads named above, will be bnilt as soon as onrs, even if we make tbe subscription at once. We now seem to be separated from tbe rest of the world, with scarcely any means of communication. By means of this one road through the centre of the County, we would at once become nnited with every part of the Union, by a constant, easy and Epeedy channel of communication.

Business could be transacted rapidly, at all seasons, and we would feel as if we lived in different and better country. Our Connty, which only needs this inducement, would fill np more rapidly than any part of the State is now doing, for its natural advantages are superior to any other Connty in the State and we wonld Bo longer have to complain that the emigration was passing ns. These are advantages worth an effort to seenre, and such as we cannot afford to lose by wrangling over remote and unimportant contingencies. Grasshoppers. Tbe grasshopper "humbug," the "scare," and tbe "croakers," have been thoronghly ventilated by the wise men of the pros, and the "old-eat inhabitants" bare given their experiences in grasshoppers in past years, in this and other conntries, and have told what wonld and wonld not happen now; Bat notwithstanding all this, the grasshoppers have, within the part tbe work of destruction in earnest Spring wheat is being rapidly destroyed, and Fall wheat is suffering greatly.

Oats is aboot used up, and the work of havoc has been commenced on the corn. The grasshoppers are bow becoming- large enough to accomplish something, and it is hardly possible that they can leave before all the grain is completely destroyed. Tbkfobast. Ikjuhctioh basted. A despatch from Atchison, informs ns tbat a temporary injnnction was allowed, oa Toeeday, against Frank M.

Tracy, Coonty Treasurer, Charles Reppelye, Connty Clerk, Frank Brown, District Clerk, Joseph Hayton, Sheriff, and Duncan Mcintosh, Register of Deeds, removing the Connty office from Troy. We hare not learned particulars, bnt presume this will open np the dance anew. 7 TncFocBTnis White Clocd. Ar rangements bave been completed for a 8anday School Celebration and Pic-nic at tbi place, "on the Fourth of Joly. A general attendance from the surrounding country is invited.

L. It. Hills, of tbe Union Pacific Rtilroid Engineer Corps, was recently killed by Indians, while survey iog iu the country west of Joleebnrg. The murdered man was a son of Mr. L.

Hills, of Highland, ia this Connty. 9- Mew Deea Thia Xek? We bare read a good deal, ia certain papers, abont selling ont on the Connty Seat question, making an honorable fight. "stop, thief," and all that sort of thing. We have been furnished with the follow ng affidavit, wnicn snows mat inose who throw the most stones are not always above reproach State of Kansas, R3 Cosnty of Brown, Personally appeared before me, the under signed, a Notary Public in and for tbe said County and State, H. A.

Hales and C. W. Holmes, who, being duly sworn according to law, depose and say tbat they compose the Minstrel Troupe known aa the Louisiana Mia etrela; that they were in Wathena, Donipban County, Kansas, on Tuesday, the 4th day of June, 1867, and voted, at the election held on said day, for Watbena to be the County Seat of Doniphan County, Kansas. The affiants further state that they thus voted, on aaid day, for Wathena' at the instance and by the pro corement of Messrs. Saow Larzelere, editors of the Walbeua Reporter, the said Snow and Larxelere caring first agreed to print all their band-bills for iheir show, if they would thus rote or Wathena to be the County Seat of Donipban Connty, Kansas.

The affiants fur ther state that T3lliam Pinks. Harry Sanford MIU A.VW. OSBHU M1CU UCIVHCU MIC. iu- strel Tronpe, and were present with them on the 4th of June, 1867, at Wathena, and also voted for Wathena to bo the County Seat ol said County of Doniphan. The affiants further state tbat neither themselves nor any of their Minstrel Troupe were at aaid time residents of Doniphan County, Kansas, and none of them ever hire reside! in Doniphan County, Kansas.

II. A. HALES, CHAS. W. HOLMES State of Kansas, ca County of Brown, a Personally came before me, this, the 18th day of June, A.

D. 1867, the above named H. A. Hales and Chaa. W.

Holmer, who were by ote duly aworn to the facts and allegations in tbe foregoing affidavit, and who subscribed the same in my presence. In testimony whereof, I have set my haud and Notarial Seal, the SEAL. year and date aforesaid. B. F.

KILLEV," Notary Public. It is but justice to give tbe following item, which appeared in the Reporter of Jnne 13th: A Hcmsuo. We warn the press throughout the country to beware of a party of genteel looking loafers, styling themselres Sanford 's Louisiana Mi nitre I They gave a performance here last week, which Droved a failure in more than one respect, and after giving tbeir uoiw mr tucir uuici leaving an unsettled account at this office. A set of men that will deliberately swindle a printer, haven't nearu as targe a a mustard seed, and would aieai a soeep, ir mere was no dog about. The affidavit, made five days after the publication of the above "pnff," may have been gotten np by way of retalia tion.

We have no doubt that erery available means was resorted to. to secure votes, and the foregoing affidavit may be entirely true bnt we must say that the sonrce and occasion make it look bogus. We should dislike to condemn any Iulf-rcspectable man, npon tbe affidavit of ir responsible strangers, engsged in the rery lowest of callings tbat of strolling counterfeiters of nigger character, or, rather, of nigger foolishness especially after snch vagrants had been publicly exposed by the persons against whom tbeir charge is made. Men who will make oath that they knowingly committed a frand upon the ballot-box, for tbe sake of a few dollars' worth of printing, are hardly too conscientious to make a false affidavit for spite. But we hare given both sides the pnblic pays its money, and may tako its choice.

The Lady's Friend. Tbe July nnm ber of this magazine opens with a Steel Plate ofnnnsual interest and beanty a lovely Cinderella, sitting sad and neglected, by tbe kitchen fire, her hangbty sisters disappearing through the door way, me uoiored rasnion riate, as usual, is an elegant and faithful trans cript of the prevailing modes and the wood cuts, illustrating articles of dress and teaching fancy jvork, must be of great value to the ladies. The Music. "Kiss the little ones for me," looks the kind of song to be popular. The liter ry entertainment is furnished by Eliza beth Prescolt, Miss A.

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Address Deacon fe Peterson, 819 Walnnt Street, Philadelphia. Hoiaowat's Pills. A sudden sup pression of the evacuations often ends ia collapse. Tbe action of Holloway'a medicines ia based oa a more rational principle by combiaieg with tbe depra ved humors, they neutralize an 1 expel them through the natural channels. Tbey purify the fluids, clean-e the bowels, invigorate the stomach, and by regulating the various (auctions, restore the body to its natural state of health.

Sold by all Druggists. 6 7 A child died in St. Joseph, a few days ago, whose Christian name was William Beauregard. No wonder it died. The parenta onght to be proseea ted for its murder.

Crime is so prevalent at tbe pres ent time, tbat it really seems aa if the devil were let loose oa earth. Wonder if Horace Greeley' it oa bit bond Dlrefial Tbiu. The opponents of female suffrage in Kansas, are permitting tbeir fears of the conteqnenres of tbe adoption of the meas ure, to settle into something like. a nightmare, or more like delirium tremens. It is to rain tbe women letotally.

Tbe elegant and classical E-liridge asserts tbat It vtill rein It in women becoming tbe common property of debated men. The Atchison Champion declares that it will tend directly toward "Free Love," "Com-mnnes," and tbe abrogation of marriage. Tbey can all prophesy tbat these things will come to pass, bnt none of them pre tend to tell wby it nill be so then more than now. To take their word for it. one would oe leu io oeueve mai ine whole race of women are naturally depraved, and inclined to lawlessness, dissipation, end Inst that as soon as they hare a voice in pnblic affair-, tbey will break down all barriers to licentiousness, and convert the conntry into one vast bawdy bonse; and that tbe immaculate virtue and mighty authority of the men is necessary to keep them in subjection, aadpreveut them from rushing headlong to destruction.

Now, it is well known to these horrified gentlrmen, as well as to everybody else, (bit women are the greatest sufferers from every species of vice, and tbat consequently they are the most interested in suppressing it. Yet many a man, after fulfilling an engagement with some bawd. will sneak home at a late hour, to bis virtuous wife, with a lie on his lips, per haps to worry and dream over the heresy of female suffrage, and trouble himself lest his wife shonld break down all laws and customs which prevent him from proving false to her, and carrying on his intrigues openly The young man, top-heary from an over-dose of bad whiskey. will manage to spin out a long essay against women voting, lest it lead to drnnkenness and dissipation! We guess that is just what is the matter. If wo men once get the power, Free Lore in stitutions, bawdy-bouses, and dena of rice, will bare a sore time of it hence the desire in certain quarters to keep them nnder wholesome restraint, and prevent them from going to rnin I Goodspeed's Golden Per.

Thin is a new steel pen, manufacture! at Chicago It is subjected to a process giving it the appearance of gold, and prerenling its corroding. The agent, who was here last week, left some -pecimens with us, which we find to be -superior to any steel pen we h-ve ever ned. Tbe point is rem vk-ably smooth, and will admit of any stroke thst the writer may desire; from the heaviest to the finest hair line. It approaches the quality of a gold pen as pearly as it i- possible to mako any other metal do ir, -n-1 it far ont-weirs the ordinary steel pens. One that we bare been using for a week, writes as well as it did tbe first time we put it on paper.

These pens are for sale by Utt, Springer Allison, at only 25 cents per dozen. Rogers on We publish, in this issoe, the reply of Hon. James Rogers, of Osage, to Eskridge's assault npon women. Eskridge is catching it from all quarters; bnt Rogers knows the man, and is able to dissect him. His allusion to Eskridge's shytaring is well pnt in for the latter has been known as tbe Prince of Shysters in Kansas Legislatures.

Eskridge has been known to enter into solemn combinations with three or four conflicting elements at the same time, and has rarely been known to accomplish a thing openly and straightforwardly, when it coold be done by means of skullduggery; and trading his influence on one side of a qnestion, and his vote on the. other, hss been a favorite practice with him. He lias pnt his foot into it. Wanted, a gentleman who understands the whole routine of the Newspaper business being a practical Printer a situation as Editor, or Publisher, or both, of some good Radical newspaper. References given, if desired.

Address, BOX 624, St. Joseph, Mo. The gentleman who advertises above, once had charge of this paper, for several months, dnring our absence; and we found bim to be ia every way competent and trnstwortby. Professor Boardbun. This gentle-maa recently spent a week in onr town, lcvrnrlojcwOTl- Ja reading character, he teems to be very proficient.

We presume tbat be does this from his knowledge of physiognomy, although be claims to do it more by meant of tpiritntl influences. Be thia as it may, he i remarkably proficient ia tbe science, and his lectoree may be attended with interest and profit. Too Bad. It ia scandalous, the alter disregard shown by the people of Troy, for tbe expressed will of a majority of tbe people of tbe Coonty, which expressed will waa honestly, obtained ia favor ef Watbena, by the payment of true and lawful money of tbe United States of America, at tba rate of from' 82 50 to 850 per expressed will I M3T The Republicans of Ohio bare nominated Oea. B.

Hayes, at present a member of Congress, for Governor and Hob. Samnel Gallloway, for Lieutenant Governor. A Jndge ia Henry Connty, Iowa, it reported to be dying of trichioas, cans- ed by eating raw bam. Any person wbo eats raw pork, deserves to die of trichina 49 We beard, tbe other day. tbat the toll-gates oa tha road between bere and St.

Joseph are to be takea off aooa. We don't "vouch for tbe correctness of this rumor, bnt hope it' it tree. If the mer-obants of 8t. Joseph were fally alive to their interests, they wonld endeavor to accomplish this. Watnena Eeporur.

Now tbat Watbena is the County Seat, and in a fair way to b'ecomo a "commer cial metropolis," bad abe not better endeavor to wean herself from St. Joseph, and take on aome degree of self-reliance and dignity? When a macadamized road is needed, St Joseph capital it called into requisition. When it ia desired to stock fonr miles of railroad from Wathena to the river, 8t. Joseph it called npon to do it. When an election is ordered for Coonty Seat, St.

Joseph busi ness men are assessed for funds to aid Watbena. When it it found that toll- gates are interfering with trade and trav el, an appeal is made to St. Joseph merchants to remove tbem. In short, Wathena appears to be nnder mortgage to St, and can do nothing without ber graciooi, permission. We protest that this lodiV'WaJty and the dignity and independence of Doniphan County demand tbat her Connty Seat should be emancipated from Missouri domination.

Godet'b Ladt's Book. The July number, which is now before ns. begins tbe 75th volume of the Lady's Book, or the year. The engravings are "Old Letters," a fine steel engraving a Colored Fashion Plate, containing five figures "A Pleasure party," a tinted plate and numerous wood-engravings" of Fashions, Patterns, Its Mnxic, Tales Poetry, Hrcr-ipta, are all orthe first clans, and go to make the Lady's Book the leading as well aa the oldest Magazine published. This is an excel lent time to begin subscriptions.

Send 83 to L. A. Godey, Philadelphia. Pa. We still furnish the Book to onr subscribers, for 82.50 a year.

Wbile the people of tbe North are subscribing their hundreds of tbon ssnds for the relief of tbe starving South ernert, the people of the 8onth are sob scribing large sums to purchase valuable farm'a and bouses and costly presents for rebel leaden. If tbe North will only feed the South, the latter can afford to lionize the men who caused all their troubles. We wish that persons having advertisements, notices, or other matter to insert in the Chief, wonld hand in the same by Tuesday morning, at the latest. and as mnch earlier as convenient. There is no necessity, except in rare cases, for holding off nntil tbe last moment.

We are frequently compelled to pnt aside no tices, on account of their being handed in too late. tS" A yoomf married man in 'Rich mond, Virginia, has discovered thst he has a wife who crows regnlarly every morning, at tbe tame hour the roosters do. Husbands and young men of Kan sas, take warning. Vote down the per nicious measure of female suffrage, or you may erery one hare a wife who crows 1 ESF Tbey have a mad-stone in Indiana, that cures hydrophobia. Lucy Stone mnst be a mad-Stone with the contrary property of producing hydrophobia, if we may jndge from the frothing and snapping among the puppy species in Kansas, ever since she visited the State.

XT The Reporter stated thst the July meeting of the County Board wonld be held at Watbena. We have heard tbat disputed. Ia there not tome mistake abont it? They will hardly meet with out tbrir Clerk, and the latter office is not a travelling "shebang." Look Oot for the Children. Miny deaths occnr from eating nnripe frnit'. Every family abonld have Coe's Dyspepsia Cure at hand in case of emergency.

It wtll speedily correct the Stomach in eases of Cholera Morbus, if taksn in season. XT The ladies gave a Strawborry Festival, on last Friday eveniog. at tbe City Hotel, to raise fonda to aid in completing the new chnrcb. Tbe Festival waa well attended, and we learn tbat a handsome torn wat realized. XT Our town was favored with sev eral exhibitions of a niggtr performance, last week.

We were not present, bnt learned, from their bills, that they had aa "excenlrfe" character with tbem, who sang ballarda." XT We bave received the first num ber of tbe Soetbera Nebraekiaa, (former Ir of Falls City.) isened at Arago. It ia the aame paper aa before, with tbe exeep-tioa of location neat aad Radical. XT Tbe papera are deaonaciag Secretary Browaing, for bit reteatioa of Bogy. Do tbey not know tbat tbe Bcmgxt in tended especially for caeca of reteatioa No striduret, geatlemea. The York San nronoeee Bea.

Wade for President, aad General Longstreet for Vice President. Ia other words, the New York Sua wants Bea. Wade assassinated. XT Tbe rebel Qeaeral Longstreet baa taraed Republieaa. It ia a loac street tbat hat bo torn.

Tbe preaeat aeaaatioa ia New York it over tha bloody affair ef Gea. Cole The last Ode to Horace the re leaaa of Jeff. Davie waa owed to Horace I Greeby, orrt5ponbtnct. (for the Cbier.) St. Josxra, Jane 16, 1867.

FaizxD Mittxa: Business matters, down this way, are dull eery dull. Money is scarce, and hard to get hold of: renta are enormously high, and the price of iirlng, frightful. I ven ture the assertion tbat half of the merchants of this eity are net patina txpetue, and the other half barely making living. Mechanical work of all kinds is nearly a etand still, and wings generally and collectively look hlut. In the language of of of well, no matter.

bnt yon know where he aaysl Things ain't aa they used to was; the crisis which was to have arrore, baa arriven." Iustead of the cil- itens of this place seizing the ill by the boms. the bull has seized and gored them treraen dously. I refer to Railroad matters the Pacifio Railroad, in particular. St. Joseph was the first place on the Missouri River to start the Pacific Road west by the indomitable perseverance of the ubiquitous Jefi.

Thompson and the road to-day stands just aa Jeff, left it, mi nus the locomotive; wbile Omaha and Kansas City are fast leaving Su Joe. in the shade-connecting thcmelvea with the Pacific slope, and growing into great and flourishing cities. St. Joseph ought to have had the Road. In fact, this is the gr' central point wherV the main trunk should have started from, and possesses more natural advantages for building a road west than either of the above points.

Way Aa SL Jtupk failed to tuild At Read the Pacific Road 7 Wby has she failed to build the C. B. St. Joe. R.

or. rather, the P. C. R. R.l The principal cause ia this: Bitter sectional, political, and personal bate, avarice, and money making, have shut the eyes of the people bore to nearly everything that would advance the interests of the city, in a commercial point of view.

When the war began, most of the merchants bere bid full stocks these doubled and Ire-bled on their hands. They grew wealthy, built large, commodious stores, and rolled in luxury. Men bere who formerly lived from hand to mouth, ware well off when the war closed. People didn't stop to think of a re-action in financial affairs, but lived as if the Niagara flood of green backs was going to be a steady thing, apparently unmindful of the future. The consequence waa, when the times tightened up, many were involved to an alarming extent, and could not raise miney enongb to buy a locomotive whittle, to say nothing of building a railroad! Others, who had money, were either avaricious, distrustful or suspicious, and would not vote a man or a dollar." Then came old grudges, both personal and political, to settle op, strife for offices, Look at our recent elections.

Radical against Radical; Conservative against Conservative; Copperhead agaiost Copperhead; all fighting each other, in their greed for office, and hatred oi each other. Such a mixed np mess as there was here at the last city election, never was seen before, since the fall of the Tower of Babel! Great God! Talk of building railroad, to such a confused people! A railroad from St. Joseph to the Pacific? Why, it's all moonshine. You might advance tbe sime proposition to the. inmate of a lunatic asylum, with as much hope of success! Why, aome of the very men who helped Ben.

Loan to Congress, have tried to cripple his efforts for the good of the State, while there; hare tried to tie hia hands and seal his lips, and heap infamy upon him and, mark you, out of pure personal tpite, by professed Radicals! Is it any wonder that St. Joseph is on the de cline Can such discordant elements build railroads? Kansas City is buildinga railroad from Cam cron, to cut the trade from St. Joe. to the above place. Tbe citizens here look on with apathy.

Kansas City is building a bridge across the Missouri. Quinry is buildinc a bridge across the Mississippi. Freight and passengers for the Kansas City route will lake the Cameron cut-off. Trade and traffic, freight and passengers for the Omaha Road, will take the Chicago, Des Moines, and North-Western Railroad. Where will St.

Joe. bet Echo an swers, Where Most of tbe wealthy men here were formerly slave-holders, and it is almost inpossible to shake the old slow-coach slavery system out of them; for, GalTanlu it, whitewaih it, Fia St. Jo. np joa wilt, Tbt (i)eeat of th African hanri roaad it still. That's what's tho matter.

In the language of the immortal Obediah Drant, the fructification of a darkey, placed in juxtaposition to some' men's pockets, obfuscates their vision to aug'it else. St. Joseph ought to finish the Pacific Road from here to Kearney, if every house in the city is pledged for the money. It ought to have been built long since. Some day, perhaps, the people'here will wake from their Rip Van Winkle sleep, to Cud a repetition of Gold smith's Deserted Village.

OCCASIONAL. Foarth of Jnly at Wnttienau Pnrsnant to previons notice, a mass meeting of the citizens of Wathena and vicinity assembled oa Friday evening, June 14th. for the purpose of making arrangements to celebrate the Fourth of July. On motion, W. B.

Craig wat elected (Jbairman, and Tracy Bancroft, Secre tary. J- The meeting derided to bave a basket dinner, or pic-nic. and tbe following com mittees of arrangements were appointed by the Chair Orator and Reader of the Declaration of Independence G. W. Larxelere, Frank H.

Drennieg, aad W. H. Small- wood. MntTc H. D.

Hoat, Joba Braxxaltoa, and E. R. Reed. Financiea A. E.

Campbell. J. W. Cook. Bnj.

Harding; G. W. Barr, and Lyman Naah. Preparation of Grounds W. H.

Wil-on, S. Irvin, L. 8teel. 8. Mitchell, L.

T. Holland, M. Brannoa, 8. Carton, J. J.

Markham, H. S. Beardsley, O. M. Markham.

J. H. McKee, Taos. Moasoa, aad O. Craig.

Oa motion, J. W. Cook waa elected President of the day, aad A. Larxelere Ubiet Marshal. On motion, tba citiceaa of Northern Kansas aad SL Joseph, Mo- were re quested to joia-oa ia tha celebration of toe day, and Watbena Division No.

17, 8. of were invited to joia the procession. Oa motioa, tbe Donipbaa aad Atchi son County aad St. Joeepb fftpers were requested to pablitb these preeeedina. W.

B. Uauis, rTte'r. Tiucr BAiomorT, See', FEaCAItE SUFFRAGE. ntogers Tersata Ealcrldse. Editor EmMbu News' It is not of ten that I trouble newspapers with my scribbling, bnt an article in last week's News, over the signature of Eskridge, haa ao excited my merriment and dis gust, that I feel constrained, from tbe standing of the writer, not to allow it to go nnnoticed.

Tn the first place, be sets ont by call ing tbe last legialatnre "hystrriog." a qualification of which I will admit bim to be a competent judge, though the term rnma with a bad Rrace from one who haa alwavs bad the reputation of out ahystering any thing that ever sat in a Kansas legislature, even wnen oam Wood was pitted against him. In the next place, he either ignorantly or intentionally states what is untrue, that the proposition to strike' ont the word Male was carried by a minority vote, to ride down and defeat the proposition to strike ont the word White. The trnth is, each of these propositions was made by it'elf, and pasted each body by itself, a pep -rate and distinct proposition. They bo'h originated in the Hon, and each passed there by lrge rnj'ri ties. The proposition to strike out the word Male bains, the first in order was called np by myself in the Senate, and-passed without debate, several members voting against it becanae of tho disconrt eons- mantjer in which the House had treated a aitnilar Senate proposition.

The proposition lo strike out tbe word White was then callel np by myself, which came well nigh being defeated by its enemies trying lo load it with amend ments. all of which amendments the friends of female Miffraga opposed. In short, tlie of female snftrage weie witbont exception the warmest friends of negro suffrage. But Mr. E.

pretends lo be all in love with negro snffirage in the legislature. Now, Mr. while you opposed Wood iu every thine else, hv did von then not offer one word in behalf of vonr "dear negro?" You were thcrr. Yon heard Wood's speech, and not until after three years, and after Wood had boen converted, bad you one word to say in reply. The question was discussed in committee of the whole, and made tbe special order of a day by Wood.s motion.

Now, it is currently reported tbat Eskridge. while in the legislature, traded bit influence on one tide of each qnestion and his voe on tbe other. But on the negro snfjrage question he said nothing. He did not "dodge," as that would be equivalent to voting against it. He did not ask to be exensed, as that wonld be tbe aame thing.

But what then? Why, he voted on both sides of the qnestion. See House Journal, 1864, page 270. on the agreeing to the report of tbe Committee of tbe whole, which report was against negro safTrage. Thero bis name stands with Wood's in faror of agreeing to tbe report, and also wHh mine against it. Again, Mr.

nby, in an article of two columns could yon not find loom, with yonr superior intellect, to answer some of the argument in favor of female snfTragp, or lo advance one argument against ii Yon predict and prophesy and assert, but why not give us some reason for the positive opinion of yours, that we may think as yon do Your whole letter is slnra and flings, nnwoitliy a msn of yonr standing. Yonr slur at tho last legislature ia a slur flung at yonr superiors. inn cowardly attack the character of a woman wbo baa left tbe State, because yon are nnable to cope with ber sonnd logic. If she is a weak, silly woman, why did yon not met and expose her'sophistry, and not attack hrr private character? Your "seed wart" may be a "big thing" to yon, bnt men wbo know H. B.

Blackwell, and hare known him for the last twenty years, as a plnlsn'hropi8t, a scholar and a gentle man, will form alow estimate of your personal worm. No, Mr. Eikridg-. be a man; meet the great qnestion fairly and squarely. If women have not the right to vote.

show ns why lliey hnve not. Tbe peo ple are too intelligent to be pnt off wilh hucIi billingsgate and assault npon private character. Such wishy-washy articles are degrading to the author, and an inanlt to the intelligence of the people who read the News If yon hnng that article out as a specimen of what you have in store, I fear yon will soon be driving a do'l bo-ioesa. If yon desire to discuss this question fairly and candidly, to advance argnmrnt and reply to arguments, I will meet ynn at any time nnd place. But "Sally Ann Wood." "Shy tering Lgis1alnre." "Political "Mormonism." "Free Lnveism." Petticoat Government." "Petticoated old Even," "seed warts." "bad eharac ters," "vulgar pimps." "dried no old elm-peelre," are no argnmen's to me.

why my my mother, my sis ters and my daogf-tem, should not have a voice in making those laws which they are oouna io ooy. Jambs Rooebi. Bobuhoakb, Jnne 10. 1867. State Tbacrcbs' Association The Kansas State Trachera' Assoeiatioa will hold its Annaal Meeting, at Topeka, commencing Tuesday, Jnly 2-1.

at 2 p. and closing Thursday evening, Jnly 4th. Tbe opening Addreee will be delivered on Toeday evening by tbe President of the Association. Hon. P.

Me Vicar. The Pacific Railway, E. will retnra persons ia attendance oa the Association, free. The meeting this year, is anticipated at nae of great inter est. Let tbe frieadt of Edacttioa throughout the 8tafe, endeavor to be pretest Teacnere need the benefit of anrh a Conveatioa.

BntertainnMt will be provided, free, for all wbo com-. Tno-e purposing; io do preaenr, will con amk fer a favor by lor warding tbeir name at once, to Prof. Che. H. Hayaee.

Chair -maa or tbe Committee of ArraagemeaU, Topeka. It ia currently reported aad generally believed throughout this Connty, that oar Sheriff, J. M. Siglia. haa abaqnatalated.

Bnt the wont feature or tbe cate Ja tbe fact tbat be hat "doae" tome of Ie anv political frirada to the taae of or 800. Southern NebnuHan. Madsma Pattersea Boaaeerte baa aaM back to Baltimore, bat eaaoaaeea hir f. teatioa to eat off her graadaeoe if they many Aamicta gwlev- Sljingam-ajigg. tCT A elergyaao io Cincinnati haa preached twenty taven barrets fall ofaermons.

CT Jefieraon Dvls waa born Todd Connty, and wat sixty years old on the 3d of June. 07 Artemus Ward's funeral took plaea oa Thursday at Waterbrd, Me. tie was bnried wilh Masonie honors. 83" The Thumbs aad Suit bav cagagtd themselves to Bantam for five weeks. They will all be Notts for hist.

ET Win was bung and Jeff; Davit haa gone to Canada! What a farce. ET Hiram Powers talks of eomi.ig home. He has lived in Italy nearly thirty years. Dr. Ayer'a pills are good to have If not to take.

Tbey gave him as iatome last year of 168,578. ET A man is on trial In Detroit for seJo-f-r his former wife, having been divorced front bea and married to another woman. 07 In the Grondyc divorce, now on trial, it appears that the greatest grievance the wife had to endure was the presence of lfenry day Dean, of Iowa, known aa Doctor Dean, who waa a favorite guest of her hmtnnd. There are one m)llhytmort women thaw men in England. Jobs Stuart Mill la iq favor of giving tbe suffrage to woasea.

BentitaV John. IT The last survivor of the war of 1776 li in the person of a hale, hearty old vtttraa named John Gray, residing in Nob) Conaty, Ohio, aged one hundred and four years O- The Albany Evening Journal feeds fat on the ancient grudge it beara H. by calling him "a finished orator," meaning, ol court, that he is what the base, vulgar call "played." What's in a name 7 In yesterday's exchanges we observe tho arrest of Andy John-sor, at New Orlrans, fur an attempt to commit rape and George Bancroft sent to tbe House of Correction, in Boston, vagrancy. ID A Clergyman, recently dismissed froa Congregational Church in Gilead, that the whole difficulty originated in bia spelV- ing the word "Savior" without a aad similar unimportant matter. IT A "tin" wedding waa observed after an nonsuit manner in Vermont, the other day.

The wife eloped with a young fellow, taking with ber all the "tin" her husband had saved in ten years. The discovery of ber absence of course closed the festival. Tfe saw aa excellent specimen of the fitness of things the other day with all do respect to Stover a dirty, nasty, greasy Kaw, carrying around a medal of Jamtt Buehaaan. Junctitn Union. "Lo, tbe poor Indian, Whose untutored mind." IT A cottonwood tree in Nashville, to whleh the national flag waa suspended, was recently blown down.

The Appeal says that the tree "doubtless executed this strange freak to manifest its sense of the Indignity imposed upon it, in bearing such a banner." Good reconstruction talk, that. Breckinridge, of the defunct Confederacy, waa at last accounts taking sherry coblert at one of the tables of the American resturant in the Paris Exhibition, with a couple of agents of Northern tewing machine companies. He had not received Greeley's letter telling hint to come bome. ID The artist. Carpenter, is painting a portrait of Horare Greeley.

It is said that th philosopher troubles the artist very mnch by dropping asleep at soon as he sits down in his chair. A caricature in the newsdealers' win dows, of H. G. embracing J. D.

under a sour apple tree, indicates the manner ia which "treason ia to be made odious." IT The Washington Chronicle suggests to Andrew Johnson the propriety of returning to Jefferson Divis the crinoline in which be waa captured by Colonel alto of making the amplest apology for the sad want of civility shown by the Union army on that lattt- esting occasion. IT Gen Halpine, in his Citizen, says that when President Lincoln was first informed of the arrest of Jeff. Davis by Gen Wilson, be expressed his regret for It, and Illustrated hie views by telling the famous story of tbe mao who drew a white elephant in a lottery. The point of thia statement blunted by tbe fact that Davis was not arretted by Col. Fritchard until nearly four weeks after the assassination of President Lincoln.

ST Mrs. Swisahelm has taken the field against Grant. She says that bis military policy was pitifully contemptible, and that all bie campaigns, from first to last, in the Weat and in the East, were so badly conducted that, taken as whole, they onght to consign hinft everlasting infamy. He never made a brilliant movement, or one out-maneuvered an enrstv. His politics, too, are, or were, or th most detestable character take hist all in all.

a should be put anywhere rather than lata President's chair. IT The Washington Star says that Cap, John G- Ryan, the "mysterious prisoner," waa wat arretted in Mississippi aa Joba Surratt, aad brought to Washington ia irons, aad kept ia the Old Capitol for tome months, waa ia Ooarfc, on Moodav, having a curiosity to taw the aria oner, who similarity la personal aaasaraata bad led to hit tsitfortan. Barrett aad Ryaa bea eaeagh reecvableae lb twia JutiaaSeV being abont th sara bight, tarae ewaplcaio and color of hair; tzmt style of feeta-, fail'. nest ot forehead, meaner ef eMtaiag tha hair behind the ears, aad th tame fet-lalae lacfe, ST Th Haailtoa (O.) Telegraph tayt bad th pleats last Saturday of tetieg in our sanctum th oldest living Mbterieer te the Telegraph, Coioatl WiRiaam Steves, Reily, who aaas baa been oa th teak aa a subscriber tine 1S28 He tells at that be carried boat a Cincinnati Gaxette eeatelalBg the newt of Hull's sarreader, aad that several strong mea who tried read tha aewa abrad broke dowa with araoliea. The payer waa ia mourning for th event." tXIdcatre to eay, that I am aew aad evaV have been, th advaeata ef ael aad "ajpertiei suffrage to atl a'aataa at the United Bute who hava arrived at the age ef 91 year, wh are efaoaad raiad.

aad waa hv not lUtaatH-led tbeejMlvea by th mrasie of eay eC fcaaI(wihrt aay dJsUactioa oa aeeoaatof race, color ereex. Every argaavtat mat evar haa been or ever eaa 4deed lo arav that asalettheaM hava th right with not greater tare te areva that femalet ehoald -tftatat the aaas riL Asa. B.P. ITaaV, U. 8.

Sraawr, Ota. Oa ttilltea of the IihiHtiamva Laa- m. my aa tagtita aaaor, aarar lata she ia- aide a uharah tr ehaett. S7 r. 1 X'V- i' )J iaiiK" -j.