The New York Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1858, Page 2

2 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1858. Lawreace from bec Remarkakie Munictpal Deveiopements in the | ¢ profit which ia re- NEWS FROM KANSAS. | gusry'su: 7 “Opening. of Serente One of the Piacere Die | Sem UF en naa Special Correspondcnee of the Herald. Fupning out of Jim Lan Iv 66 covered—A Nugget worth $105,000 Tamed | ani Awards 1 will take ; Fort Laaviaxwoura, KT, Reb. 9, 1868, | {Rall uotone dren ot iH “ YP so run sorros ov ram main : ing. ar = Borsas News Manufactured to Suit the Times—The Le. fe instance in which “Our Special Fs 45 in leg this to the public { have jered to the the writer is a compion Constitution the only Salvation for Kansas—What | Tribune charged the 21 38 prteeniing this pe Coaght member, for the In amount the Kansas Pree State Party is—Civil War not the bes Sie shaecian 22 o that perhaps I might be rendering @ benefit to the proper: | it is $1,112 1254; Lot us 900, During the we ree nao to require 23. a ty owner and the taxpayer by an exposition of @ aysiem | two hi ad this commission, the per- quence of the Passage of the Lecompton Constitution— | badly have left him Dy 3 of ‘and extortions daily practised in this oity under soa ofthe counsel was never present; and to the many The Neceasity of am Increase of the army—Dispostion of | bave secured him in some eligible situation. 25 33 frauds and © y communications eddressed to. him, as counsel of & in Ki are unwelcome or wi gentlem 26. 0 the cover of law, and of which the property owner is tho | the commission, requiring legal edvice, no answer, Troops in Kansas. to the true cause—not or 46 principal victim. The Legislature of iaat year undertook | @% far as I understand, was ever returned by him: ‘Tt wa singular {act that people, in this otherwise fast | is simp!y and wholly uptrue—but to the 2B 4 the task of making reform laws for thia city; among the Noreen mene Cnceeaanans Sort she conmmtiasion con runry, get caine aipeangerede news from the | for ae 2 a most importaat of which was a side act enlarging the pow- | the number of commissions aitiing numbered in amount asters papers. a fact, also, wang bate ie | Sareea 31 62 ers of the Corporation Counsel and increasing the perqui” See. em ‘Will exceed this ‘when it does arrive, finds ‘(Laughter holding both his with freedom or food bis ‘The couse of this mark of favoritiam | Swmber; but, ‘them to be meyey “ and their fanatical duty as 43, tien of bis office. from which to the counsel, , amount to $22,000 and Bides.’ Tho way some nowspapers ph Tea 6 just ot “that stime wttracted public. attention, It ia '& third of the which this office eadesnore “tied,” to enough to arouse the sympathy of | Wit some geatiomen it seems there or u 90—Fair. probable that ao opposition would gow be heard to the Felts ls fectenatn pomseaser. inal ely outrage he toughest “border ruffian.”’ In taking up the accredited | entitled to sympathy and 23, 368 Fair, in the case of (he Corporstion Counsel, eaeciorkeen be newer owes, It pot unf Touis and , (the respec: | from Africa. At present Les. : canendatury oat, ; + | happens thas commiasions ait Crom four to five years, tho ‘Organs in New York, St. Chicago, (the respec 3 38 36—Fair 4 frauds alan tive facilities of which for blood and thunder Venworth, with the exception 4 :4 ” 26—Fair. were it not that the impositions ea\ perpet ory ee nootie artillery, Lieut, Hazzard in 5. Mu Pry ‘38—Fur. under it have become no longer bearable te-the commu- | when the whole amount of work performed by thom 4 mensurate with ne enn pears = ing the public money and records of squatters’ a 6 32 88 Fair. nity. In the Grat place it is known to almost every lawyer Enapons that wota few of tan ednunees yan of thane corse, or whats is Kanaan or how and whence come theee many | 18 former letter Tam made to say the musket is wild 7 = | Sony, {thas the business of the Corporation Counsel haaea increased | sions exact extra favors. At this momeut e chairman of false tales. Cui bono? Friends writing at forty yards. The prinier will do me the justice 9. 32 rr) 4 within the last year that were four times the present | one of these commissions has his offices in Broadway contzadictory and to add a cypher; it's nothing to him but tome—}| 49, “ 8 toni, foroe sageged upon it: that amount of labor,would be ia- | {uraiahed roughout with choloe furniture, which he from bome are inclined to indulge in complaints, and | at least the difference between forty aud four hundred. iu ‘29 46 38—Olear. rut ne ef:ihe. allan. taal bm te en eee dollars a refer me to such sources for confirmation, More than 12 39 «65s 30a. Wecienhie ten. demante os Lage nelghborbond Hisgperce Borys poe and Ghat, wey cut out the editorials in which the old stereo- Lawranc®, K. T., Feb. 13, 1868. 18. 2t Pry 36—Cloar. munication from the counsel, officer speaks of the — year pe por So ~ me nae The Slaves in the Territory—Their Condition, Number and 38 41 @—Olear. pressure of business, and of his inability to be more ef. given very fow, typed tune is sung over, and in which, provokingty rr 38 tised under the present system of street enough, the editor refers to his Kansas correspondence | °ation—The Climate of Kansas—Thermometrical Ta- ry br) fae clent than he is. It is understood that over @ hundred zhtoea on oni 'op romored Oy logue acts = 5 columa’’ for the truth of what he says. All ble, de. 23 42 36—Olear. cases lie untouched in that office, the purport of which | Their enormity cremate hom eens. of pe} The number of slaves in Kansas is about three hundred. 36 “a 40—Clear. are unknown to both the counsel and bis deputies, a | ‘hebonorable Mayor Tiemann message to z Tcan say is, God beip them, if they stake the accuracy of 38 “a 30. mon Council of January last. I would submit the follow. thoir knowledge of the civil and military history of this | | BAve been unable to ascertain what proportiog. of them oe sik eee majority of these canes are auld to iapaiyn We: quttiqmens na a substitute for the present systom:—For the Lo- «Kansas imbroglio” on such records. are males, or females, or children. They are chiefly lo- 38 @ 52—Clear. of large amounts of money to the city, while many of our to establish a of Commission, to be knowa - cated in the border counties, along the Missouri river; 45 | «OO 52—Cloudy. follow citizens bave their all depending upon the issue, | ** Commissioners of Assessment and Estimate, for the Between Kansas borribles, manufactured to play on the Fe ge ap sedinmggns of streets and avenuos, to consist passions of weak humanity, and its current of political | Mere are #few however, at Lecompton and Fort Scott, 48 S 60—Raining. In the creation of this office it was not intended that it three persons, proverly chosen by the Mayor and Com- triekery there is'a wide gulf’ of discrimigation. ‘The Iat- ‘The interior and western counties are almost or entirely - 4a Shee should benefit solelyfone man, as is the case toa large | mon Council. be men of character and ox- ter sesmate ho trelily pevteayed by Stee gontlouen cies Pha sae uoreeiont | = a. oreo gent: tes 8 pune eeaeekl tame a taerstenione Mencia writing you fully from Lawrence. The whole | *eSuthern Siates generally settled along the Missouri 5 BS Bee ral, designed to protect the thterest of the city, while i | Such a Commission could execule, ‘and execute ‘well, the thing reminds me of 5 ef live ‘ede, wrig river, on the central and northern longitudinal lines of 29 38 32—Clear, guarded the rights of the humbiest citizen. The profita. | whole of the work now performed by the or sixty geen, donk gah i = every } Kansas, and it is there the slaves are chiefly located. The 39 3T 30—Olear. ble amount of patronage in the possession of this office ere A clerk “Tate gen eon ee 5 sake’ th, but the | #¥2 of Doniphan probably contains a larger number of “4 36—Light snow. makes it in this respect the most to be desired of any in jong" tenga med We will now show the ne ae Sates admission of Kansas as a State will right matters now ali | ‘em than any other inthe Territory. Judge Filmore, of } aye for Jan, 168-35 25 49 9:10 31% Soci, aticw Seek atthe: cent Locale. aint See the present system and the one | Sion of that public, and thus prevent my debtors from bring. The condition of the Territory is a ‘Lecompton, owns twelve slaves, and H. P. Johnson, who 40 28 exercise of power it is the most arbitrary and iis ; ins fe Cha ee them have done—that my ang; Bs tt wae ou ‘Astrict adhiorence | Tesides on the Stranger, Leavenworth county, owns aix- ou despotic of any of the creations of the Legisiature— | 29 commissioners, $800 each. «+++ 158,000 | Us abotition books. * "PA °C") Wie tetoeT AND. of law may Pe coed Lyla the | teen—the largest number held by any man in the Terri- 22 2 aa at present conducted—and yet, strange as it o0 + 16,000 | So far from being under a servile censorship (of publis ee aon ee uae eee vod xb ‘war | tory. Besides the slaves, there are about one hundred Beceeeeee 20 » 24 may seem, there is no redress against these abuses; while + 25,000 epinion we suppose he means), we published at the ear- be ee J Pe! subé. | colored persons in Kansas who are froo. If the day was cloudy in the leaat it is marked ‘“‘clowdy”’ | 4 complain might} prove a loss to the complaining party Sei convenient moment what his the editor of A few aneassinations or bi noses do not constitute 7 in this table; if there wasa sprinkle of rain, the day is a £6,000 | Daily Wisconsin. calls ‘‘a uarrative of oxciting events at. Civil war. Pesos Ai veunn sone Yee peeions mighs We have had little or no cold weather this winter. The | marked raining.” The word “snow” occurs opposite | Which he would not be prepared to risk. Justice, as also + 2,000 | tendant upon his recent visit to Mobile, whence he was ex- oo oe ne kum st rould Rave been well | slaves thrive in such a climate; they are fat and healthy, several dates, and convoys rather & false impression; for | the interest of the taxpayer, demands a change, an entire + _1,900 | pelled by a ruflan mob of repudiators And ery zealots, vweray ‘as much snow since wn , for oursel posed quarters had taken place long and stronger, 1am told, than in warmer Southe: a lati- Ipest dave e1 ve im the above table, yet all the snow reorganization and reconstruction of this office of Corpo- asibeiieesaasiit arn pg phew d polled ves were ration Counsel. The following is submitted to the tax. A REPLY TO WM. STRICKLAND'S LETTER TO THE NEW As | remarked ina previews Ieter; the Kansas comedy | tudes. Slaveholders tell me their “help” like Kansas ‘that has io Kansas this oe eee to to-day, cover it an fs nearty played out. . The republican party has clung to better than they do Virginia or Missouri. ‘This climate is, | if put on the round together would it aninch } payer and tothe Legislature of this State as a gubstitute Al EL ley ieeull cles to Mae wine yates not quite #0 warm in winter as that of Virginia, but it is not to aoe Of it; for, Dag woe of Sond ng 2 for the present system. | By ts adop many of the evita an 2 connie ow. i a pal a Sentiment, that the administration is determined on foreing | much more pleasant; it is not so changeable, not 89 fo ‘8Y; | Leavenworth Cy, and the northern part of the Territory, | NOW complained of in the office of Corporation Counsel | Stationery ioe | setae aa pom ieorenistat wah his eben vba slavery in Kansas, aided gy rad and lead. But | rainy and stormy. We do not have sych severely swdden remained | would be removed. It is estiniated that the fees alone to Advertising..... 1,000 | the character of the Mobile Committee might be deceived on vitae wiheaea ieser p ... ? . of | Changes in temperature es. *tuey to in Virginia, Hr the present incumbent from his office yields him an an- by the tissue of falsehoods he bas woven together in his Kansas will find her @ sound democratic State. Before | is it so oppressivey hot ben in summer. huity of at Least $65,000, while again it is aid to amount | Tls++-sessrseeesersserseeeeccssessessees ss 82,600 | letter. AS one of the committee, I p Seritinca’y ra? Chat, the parties a6 organized in the old States cannot meet | The slaves are very aPXious to remain here; they look seen adh esta ed onan reese EX emocrat | Upon it asa misfortune 9 Lare oreturrto the old slave trom -eske county, Pe., to the eeiiahannnent tte ‘States. This climate agrees with them, and they are real ‘Worcester, Mass. For the purpose of ing Kansas & | Kansas “pro-slavery men.” Nearly all the slaves in the oo ani sone to a peng Tapochetiens wit Territory are family slaves, that is, slaves who have been Continue their worsb); and “ higher law’’ absurdities, | brought up and always lived in the family now holding while old Berks will resume voting for Jackgon, and stick | thom, slaves who have their families with them, and not & the plain English of our beloved constitution. I care ot unser what form Kansas is admutted, republicanism is | SVes who have been bought and sold a dozen times. 8 dead oock in the pit. National democracy can affurd to They have abundant opportunities for absconding, but ‘wait a listle longer for justice ov this Kansas question. I¢ | they stick to Woon owners, and as a whole would hhas had to struggle from the beginning against » moun. | Pe Very sorry if compelled to accept freedom and tain of political histor; , as well as the paagious of men | }eave their masters. They have every facility for 3 , 2 | obtaming their freedom, all that is lacking is the will. perverted by nigger worshipping demagogues, who bave | To Ot. tscry has made slaveholding & ‘crimjpal of Peas ee dns a ers, and there is no slave who, if he should express a desire to Men will believe, because they love the lie.” Jeave his master would not find armed friends to aid and Since the election of the 4th ult. the troops have had a | defend him. The free State men have not troubled them quiet time. But one company is out, guarding the Land | *¢!¥es much about inciting the slaves to run away, but if Office at Kickapoo, a place historical for election frauds, | ‘2 latter should express a desire to do 80, the former Tn fact, Kansas seems to be as dry as a turnip, and would ae doubtless, a ih a free, open track coutinie wo if a few partizaas and the Topeka re- | devoid of danger. Notwit handing the Taeliiiies Or aleves gency were soundly whipped and put to bed. These | 19 become Tae poms tes 00 arent, Raa Bare Been anrbag te are the restless spirits that have kep: up a running Irish | &Teter part of our Territorial history, yet probably not Tow, especially about election time. Two of the topeza eix phones have ree Ot, ae eee since the first patriots, Rebinson and lane, are very anxious to serve bag “er find i hed fs - ‘ in entered Kansas. their country in the United States Senate; it is the Sane at eae - presume to an last throw of the dice, and perhaps they have | Wer that question, but will give a few figures which Onmued themselves into suificient fame to win 67 ee See erene’ SS? Soteen ae apne By telegraph from St. Louis we learn the Lecompton pa gh on cae Lapp gdh a aie, receive $28 Constitution is now fairly before Copgress, and that the ll nell 8 from to $1,200 car . Ff e lb ege members sprang upon it with an eagerness giving earnest > vom a rh = we’ that the wool will fly, probably for some time tocome, with | Fi28, pon end port yg ony oe ? ae a iro more than aceustome’ fury Now isthe time for bumcombe, pe a eg Res oe eae nase, “4 for “points,” for stump speeches, for re-elections, tor a Seaeee e Bey Arpreiape pontine ‘as possible. 2 grand crusade op passions and fanaticisms, fora grand a s pcteyee oct won yo bs oy Bada * ‘one he Sbriek for the most dangerous party tat ever rung false | Willy St le Aor gery thenny Bry go changes onthe sacred name of freedom. Can it not be Jive 99,080" “y = ae per year — 5 bopea that the “long agony” is about over? This ve $9. aa ~ ro mentee ~ expenses. nigger question bat to come to a head; it had bag de ee ae in Wer Deere tobe governed “iu future time by some princi- | ERED oF after forty yoars of "age. |The amount ple on which all constitutional men could unite, ee ee ong f Fy AN anc this principle is the ge:m of the organic act. In this po halt Goad Ga —, yat yoy hd ‘Terntory the Daitle has been (ought, and the great masses | Hgures one! they = . Investments are ‘of our people are issuing from the smoke with a clearer | Property ven yee ie cae Sa knowledge of the mutual obligations of our republican Saran Gada ves od ony ge luced into form of govermment than thoy ever had before. Let the | Territory during yon gt maton vows Gal anew democracy but stand immoveable as a rock on this prin- Ive been removed . _ Muel 4 al nature having prohibited s\avery in Kaneas; that is all ciple, and all aseaults upon it from opposing faction will " fall en.harmiess as arrows shot in the face of the sun. folly, Kansas is much more adapted to slavery than Mis: to over $100,000. It is certainly not far below the firs, figure, but to get at the facts an investigating or examin- ing Committee would be necessary. This money is taken directly from the pocket of the taxpayer, while as a means to perpetuate the annual receipt of this amount, mumerous petty offices and appointments are illegally made, which, at the end of the year, costs the city $65,000 more. Were thia free system abolished, there would be @ saving atonce to the taxpayer of $130,000 yearly. Then, again, the counsel would not find it to hia interest to bunt up excuses for bringing forward and urging upon the Common Council the adoption of ordinances for cutting through streets, where the same are not oo ger and which, in a majority of instances, are atten with beavy loss to the property owner. It is impossible to estimate the amount of injury and pecuniary loss to both the taxpayer and the city which is effected by this sys- tem of lobbying after perquisites and fees. It would amount to at $1,000,000 yearly; and this as serticn is capable of the clearest demonstration proof. As an evidence of this abuse I have before me a receipt, the property of a real estate owner, which shews that $2,600 was assessed him, and was , as bis Difference... + reseeseseesseceeeeses+8105,500 | cality, viz.:—Some eighteen or twenty months ago it was In this eatimate the pay of the surveyor is not included. | rumored in the community of Mobile that Strickland & Co. An officer of this character should be aitached to the com- | Were selling incendiary abolition books. The books mission, and should be under a liberal salary. I am | Were produced, and a committee of citizens called te- assured that it would be in the power of a singe surveyor, r at the Battle House, and Mr.S. sent for to defend pty ne work whe, Wf, When charged’ by the chairman, he naked at present costs ‘the property owzer the sum above | to be heard, and made 4 very plausible speech, mentioned. This item of $106,000 will give the denying thes bie had ever ordered of red for sale any property owner some idea of the amount of | such books as exhibited, but tried, if possible, to lay the money that be is fleeced out of in the course | blame ou his pariner, Mr Upson.’ One incendiary book of a year, for the beuelt solely of city officials | WAS mentioned, which he declared had been throwing their well provided associates.” 1 have not here | About the store for three years, and bad nover been offee- allowed any pay for the Corporation Counsel; this is in- | ¢4 for sale, and that it had been gent to him ina lot of cluded in bis proposed salary. The injury, in’ a majority | books without his knowlecge, when, on examinatioa, it of cases, to the property owner from the present system, | W5 found that tbe book had only been published about does not consist alone in the assoasments levied upon bim; | four months. A committee was then appointed to ox- for although the aggregate of these assessments and levies | amine the stock, books, &c., of S. & Co., #0 as to give him amount to no inconsiderable sums, yet they are not equal | DY chance to explain. Said committee called at the store to the injuries, by the destruction of his property, which | Bext day, and got hold of his letter book, invoices, &o., the real estate owner is forced to submit to in many of | aDd soon found that all of the incendiary books of which these improvement cases. These robberies—for as such, | Mr. 8. pleaded ignorance were expressly ordered by him- they must be called—do but commence with the close of | Self, and in the midst of that examination Mr. 3. the duties of the Commissioners of Fstimate and Assess. | Walked into the store and finding the committee im ments; for at that point the contractor steps in, and then | Possession of the proot, and that his conviction the work of wholesale plunder ts entered upon with | Was certain, not only of ordermg ani seling incendiary avidity. Why, not one-half of the out committed | books, but of perjury, the man who now boasts of his upon Brivate ‘property, under the fraudulent ‘of | bravery immediately left the store, hired a sailboat te necessity, be known, if, at the first, the wi of | Cross the bay, and then took his horse and buggy aud met the property owners to be affected by these openings | the stage between Stockton and Montgomery, and made were apprised of the movement in time to oppose it. This cook SS nee After the committee bad fully inveati- emdied ‘8, invoices and orders, they reported to a , which, being satisfied of the guilt of 3., should be received by the Common Council that did not | Voted to give him three days to appoint an agent to settle contain at least a majority of the property | Dis affairs and leave the city. The brave gentieman had, owners of the street to be thus opened. These petitions | bowever, left betore the action of the committee. T will should then be referred to the Commissioners of Extimate bere state that the mombers of the committee wore ‘and Assessment, and before any action be had upon them | blamed generally by the citizens for their leniency. letters ‘ehould be seut to all owners of property | _ 1m the face of his guilt he bad the impudence to retura affected by the opening, and their presence re- | © Mobile a fow wi since and publish a card, stating quested jor a hearing, at a stated time, before the Com- | that he would remain to settle up bis affairs. The com- the same should also be publish mittee were called on at every corner w know if he in two or tore of the daily papers having the largest cir. | Would be sufleggd to remain, and feeling it to be thoir It should then be made the duty of Com. | duty, they called on 8., at the Battle House, and requested missioners to vieit the place of the proposed street, and to | him to leave the city. This he refused to do, whoa themselves how far the necessities of the city or | the committee banded his answer over to the citi- one the opening. The decision of the | 2608, Who. | believe, determined to make him leave. He © | left the Battle House that evening, because he was afraid mitted te the Common Council for approval. Should the | risk the consequences. He was afterwards tracod te ions of the Commission | the Garner House, where he was waited upon and told the subject should then be referred to the Mayor, whose | bY one cf the gentlemen that he must leave, not that he Verdict shall be binding, “unless a ‘reconsideration wished to befriend, but that he did not wish ‘to see what ¥ the Common Council, and | never had been seen in Mobile—a mob, The brave fea- ‘State Banks—Botts Writing a Book—The Weather, dc. A bill is now before the Legislature to repeal the law disqualifying parties engaged in a duel from holding any State office. It was originally designed to stop the practice of duelling, but chivalry recognized no such restraint, and the law accordingly worked no good. Under its operation a man sending a persoa a challenge would be disquatified from holding the most trivial and subordinate State office. The anti-duelling law is no less inefficient, for it constitutes every individual present at a duel particeps criminie—spectators, as well as principals and seconds—and under the exemption guarantied to wit- neases to reveal nothing that might involve themselves in «criminal prosecution no conviction could possibly be bad. This was done by Watkins Leigh when chairman of the Committee on Courts of Justice, to which the matter was referred. He was himself a strong believer in the code of honor, and baving had to yield te the pressure of public opinion he so framed the law as to render it nuga- tory. The several railroad interests, at whose instance the Hon. William Ballard Preston made his recent tour to Europe to negotiate for the establishment of a line of steamers between Norfolk and some port in France or Exgiand, will hold a meeting in this city on the night of the 17th instant to receive the report of that gentleman eating He success of his mission. This bas not! to do with the scheme of the Hon. A. Dudley Mann. It is a distinct enterprise, set on foot by the several railroad in- terests converging at this point, as well as those of Ten- nessee and Kentucky, whose lines are constructed with reference to this outlet. The President has declined the invitation to attend the E See te Rey ean io not ot wi is the Counsel of the Corporation called to inter. pe Np nt ng ee hr nnn judgment is inst : +a Oftice, fiver in his sureties othe wg spl ee HH lain. He also reports yearly to the Common il, and Svally bis salary is paid by the Comptroller. Why then should this important office remain an appendage to the office of ion Counsel, when in fact, it is wndependent of it in all its official acts, and with There is no — ininistration | SUT). f ration of the Washiny nestrian statue in this an oras Ebene Ay Rng ee acatat |. Lberewith attach a thermometrical daily table of the | Cayon the 22d, inst, General Case has also, declined, so | different. und distinct duties to perform? their previous decisions are sustained by a two-third vote, | teman then begged, on his wife's account, that he J temperature here during the five months preceding this, | tar gs ia yet ascertained. Governor Floyd will pe the Tu that event the interposition of the Mayor shoald be of | be permitted to stay until the New Orleans boat left the Treason whatever for it; but there are many reasons why it should be made into an independent di nt—one the substance—iue former firm for the principle, the lat- of which is that the Corporation Attorney should not be tor as firm in sustaining the folly of their partisans. In Bo avail. It is fair to presume that such contingencies | Bextday. He disappeared, and nothing more was heard at sunrise, noou and sunset:— would seldom arise, and that the Commission, as a general | from bim until a note to one of the co.amittee was re- only member of the Cabinet who will attend. Prepara- tions on a grand scale are being made for the occasion, the meantime all eyes here will be vent on the Capitol— Thermameter.—— . Sunrise. Noon. Sunset. Weather. it may be safely asserted that so grand a display was | dependent for his tment and retention to office to | thing, would be supported in its acts. With these checks | Ceived from him, dated Mobile, on the same day that it SFT, sees’ ote eretioung atabtte ore an ‘6 70—Fair. Dever before wineaed within the botders of the OM Do- | any other thea the Meyer and Common Council of ew | i tie bande of the Commission a stop ‘would etcoeres | was mailed in New Orleans, asda eppecee Mavi dee abstract nigger question in Kansas 74—Fair. minion as tbis will prove to be York. Not one cent of additional cost to the city would | put to the further repetition of frauds and abuses as at Epetch to a Weatern paper, the same day that he left for Now, those who think or flatter themselves 75—Cloudy, igt shower. The House of Delegates, a fow days ago, decided, by a | follow this change, while it would give to the attorney | present practiced by city officials and their i ble Weat. that civil war will follow the acceptance of 76—Fair. vote of 80 te 33, in favor of @ reduction of the cost'of the grester freedoms of action, and to the additional use- the opening of streets. While submitting | To #um up—it will be seen and can be proven in every the Lecompton constitution, are in slight error. 69—Cloudy. State printing from 6234 cents a thousand ‘“‘ema’'to 45 | fulness and efficiency. The necessity for a lke change in | to bopliarnsee owner and taxpayer for consideration the | particular, Not a bit of it, All Sree-w.og or niggerdom 63—Fair cente a thousand. This is regarded as by no means | the office of Public Administrator is equally urgent and | facts in this paper, the writer would recommend | 1st. That he was guilty of bringing and circulating in- couldn't get up a civil war beyond what well knowa rene 73—Fair. consistent with the future barmony of Virgima, inag- | important. The subject of changing it into a department | that immediate steps be taken by them to petition the | Cendiary abolition books, gades have ali along practised. Let the aforesaid consti 50—Fair. much as” it. is understood to be a” measure | was considered by one of the committees of the Lagisia- | Legislature for redress against the abuses herein set ferth. | _ 24. he was guilty of cowardice and a breach of Cation be un faite compli, and no one will fight for it 82—Fair. of retalistion upon the public printer, William | ture last year. same influence, however, which was | Such the writer has reason to think would be fa- | friendehip in trying tothrow the blame on his partacr, more lustily, either by action or non action, than the free 78—Fair F. Ritchie, because of the oppostion of the | used to increase the powers and emoluments of the Cor- | Vorably received and freely granted. At all events, if | Who had only beon in tue firm «a few months, whea he State party.’ Who bagever ye® kuown a higger to stand 72—Cioudy. Enquirer to the reelection of Senator Hunter. | poration Counsel was brought to bear in this instance; | reform be desired, the present care un copertentty for | had himself either bought in person or ordered in his own in the way of dollars and cents, except, perhaps, the 70—Fair. Untortunately tor the result in this matter, such in- | and, as stated by the chairman, * it was thought advisable | ® Commencement that should not = led. hand writing the abominable books complained of. ““bogus’’ fugitive slaves Greeley tells about, who want to 73—Fair. insinuations were thrown out at the ‘of the inquiry | to let the subject rest as it was for the present.” The JOMAS N. CARR, 3. That he was guilty of cowardice in making so hasty “bleed” him occasionally? Indeed, the Kansas bill works 10—Frir which led to this result, as led to the inference that the | secret of this fondness, which and present Commissioner of Assessments and Fatimate for the | ® retreat before the committee got through their in- toscharm. It brings Kansas in formally a slave State— 73—Cloudy, rain. movement was conceived in a spirit of revenge; but this opening of Fifty ninth street. vestigation, thereby showing guilt and being too cowardly that eure South Carciina; but eudetantially ‘a free State— 70—Cloudy: motive being subsequently supplanted by one of econo- Feb. 22, 1858. to face the community. which cught to «u t Massachusetts but she never was 74—Cloudy , shower. my, based upon offers by other printers to do the work at po cae eR cag sm wt 4. That he was guilty of the most consummate impe- Suited yet, except, perhaps, when, in oppesition to heathen 62—Ciouay, the’ reduced price iadieated, the House, “having the foar ‘The Gas Explosion in the Methodist Church | dence in returning to Mobile (bringing his wife for pro- Virginia. she youea to extend negro stealing eight years 88—Fair. of their constituents before their, eyes,” were driven to phi gcneence tection) under the piea that be came to settle up his busi- in by 01 5—Fair. disregard the motive, however obnoxious, and vote N . n te pty Ato eg ‘genmeal ~ 4 Maton beooleeay the reduction. The friewds of Mr. Ritchie, meanwhile, re- ‘From the Cincinnat: Gazette, Feb. 20.) 6, That he skulked frst up the railroad and then to New Gaily more couvinced that the inactive, defaulting ma: b7—Clear, gard the movement as a direct blow aimed at him; and law should be #o far altered or amonded as ‘When the explosion occurred there were some oight or | Orleans, in disguise, jority bere are not entitled to, and should rot claim, 66—Cloar we may safely predicate upon |t a future of strife and | to confine the Counsel of the Corporation to a plain line of | ten persons only in the church, but all of these were more 6, That he is ® braggadoclo, a coward and a general ‘any such copsideration. With full power ever within 70—Clear: dleveosion. = Not only should the office have no bureaus at- | OF less injured, and some of them, we think, fatally so, | humbug, and now writing and lying to try to make cage their reach, but refused, except when the spoils beckoned 70—Clear. Panks, one of the partners in the public printing at the ed to it, it should be deprived of all patronage | As far as we could ascertain, where all was coufusion and | tl with the Northern fanatics. them oa, fepudiating all laws, territorial aud organic 72—Clear. federal capital, was whipped some days ago at Hampton, | and appointments, save in the selection of its deputies and | excitement, thousands of persons crowding around to look | _ 7. That he ought to be drummed out of every Southern breeding revolution ostensibly over a dead horse, aad ihe 62—Far in this State, by a man named Jett, (ormer light keeper at | clerks. The office should be salaried, and the counsel be | for friends, we gather following particulars of the | State which he may enter. slimy trail of the To farce apparent everywhere, even 59—Clear. Old Point. The cause was said to be an agency on the wounded, which we believe to be nearly accurate — N. B.—He talks about mosting the committee and hie to this hour, they » e last to deserve the submission 60—Ciear part of Banks in his removal from that post, and the ap- Atthe moment of the explosion Rev. Daniel Kinney, | *ccusers. He has met them in the streets of New York, just for the ‘puerile revenge of placing their tee! on the 68—Ciear. Ppointinent in his stead of a lady friend of the public President of the Ohio Conference, accompanied by Rey. | but dared not sccost them. ONE OF THE COMMITTEE. reault of their own folly. They are estopped from claim- - rinter. I am aware that summary vengeance would Mr. White, the pastor of the church, had reached within Se vilege which might be conceded to patriotic men. | Av’e for Sept.'67.58 O34 ave been dealt to Banks during the sessioa of the Old five or six feet of the door, and in an instant they were Religious Revivals tn E: . rards of two years they have insulted the venera- | Oct. or 65—Cloudy. Point Convention, last summer, hat oot an assu- blown nearly across Sixth street. Mr. White, it Reems, [From the London Star, Jan. 21.) ident with Spprobrious epfthets, slandered the 43 60—Pair. rance been given on the part of the former that struck upon his face and left knee in the street, but for- The eflorts which are now making to bring the very bused Gov. Walker, who they would now hob 185 40—Rainy he had oo agency in this matter, but that it tunately received no other injuries than a severe bruise | outcasts of society within the hearing of the i are { stultification were not in the way, and disre 67 $5—Clouay. was the act of a certain member of Congress dictated on the nose, from which the blood flowed profusely, and | certainly moet creditable to those who make them. But garded the authority of te Congress they now implore to ao * 62—Cloudy. by a epirit of revenge for a simple act of courtesy in the an unimportant bruise on the knee. His escape from seri- | there are difficulties in the of these attempted revivals Save them. Save them from what’ A giant from the 6 61—Clouay entertainment at the lighthouse for one night his compe. ous injury was most fortunate. which few sufficiently , and whieh many cannot tyranny of a confessed puny boy ! “el 64—Cloudy titor in the late canvass. All this, however, turned out to President Kinney had arrived from his home in Me | realize at all. The sort of sensation which our lar lm my opinion the acceptance of the Lecompton consti 66 60—Fair. be untrue, ana the vengeance staved of by this subter- chanicsburg, Champagne county, om the evening train, | preachers excite is, however, of a very different kind tution is the most speedy way of settling this “ bleeding €3—Cloudy fuge was dealt in the late instance referred to. Banks ‘and was proceeding to the church to aid in the services of | that which Wesley and Whitield excited in their day. Kansas" question which tbe republicans cling to with all ob 6 air, says his opponent hit him, while [ understand the oppo- the evening. He was blown about half way across the | There is a terrible carnestnoss, followed by practical re- the tenacity of a iamishing dog to a bone. The people 4l 61 56—Cloudy. nent emphatically denies it. Report says the latter is street, his face badly cut, and his head bruised. The | sults, and by an immediate Sepaen.et aw and severe here are weary of the \atriques of egitating demagogues, ys Clear. light frost | @Dxiously seeking another opportunity to sccomplish his severest wound is r his lefteye, aud the physicians | rules of life in the converte made by these latter preach- ‘and of the shuttlecock gatm so long Played ‘They are sick a 68 60. in low lands— | @nd more effectually. last night feared be might lose the «: of it altogether. | ers which we do not even ook for in the most of Unkering up the only plank, rotten as it is, in @ certain the drat. Colonel Benjamin Rush Floyd is prominently spoken of He was removed to the office of Dr. McCarty, on the oppo- | devoted admirors of our present pul; orators. ——— ‘The great majority of them are eager to 6 61—Clear. in connection with the office of Governor of this State, site side of the street, and bis wounds dressed by They seem followed for the sake ‘of the ex. Eeve e We” waved for # sound democratic State—as the 70 62—Ciear. after the expiration of Governor Wise’s term gentieman and Dr. Newton. Mr. K.’s injuries are not | citement, and instead of converts 7; bave only party lines oxist (2 Pennsylvania, for example—and to 55 46—Ciear. The seems to be in doubt as to what course considered dangerous. He remains at the residence of | admirers. But what did John ‘esley care consign the Topeka couspirators to the political grave 56 52—Clear to pursue with reference to the banks of the State. A bill is Mir. Rockies, corner of Sixth and College streets. about admirers? He would not have given a crown pisce awaiting them. 68 66—Ciear. Low reported which i intended to urge upon them are- Mrs. Hook, a widow iady, residing at No. 179 | fore whole clmrch full. He came to institute a new rule No doubt the instrument would soon be changed, but it a 42—Ran sumption of specie payment on the Ist of Ay Should Court street, bed eutered the church but a short time | of life, aud to make followers. We should, how- would be by solid men of both parties, and is a right 39 oo 46—Rain. they fad to comply with this requisition, wil be Previous to the explosion, with her daughter Charlotte, a | ever, be to merely at t ho men, and to com- which every ‘one would cheerfully accord them, how 32 “6 44—Raio. forced into liquidation—en alternative bh will Toure lady, and her son, William Henry, some twelve or | pare them w! it considering The reaction of the lar ever unsubstantial the result might be. There is no 2 3208s Cloudy prove destructive alike to the note and gharchold. teen Fears of age At the time of the explosion they | religion of the time upon them. We have not use to contend aty longer it slaveryan Kan 22. 40 aa 51—Rainy era aa weil as the creditors. This measure of com- were in the lecture reom, and the mother and sow wore | ligious individuals—we have a religious world, Re! Ba Almighty has settied that beyond mortal strife 2 Pty Py 64—Lioudy pulaion will certainly not increase their capacity for re- mort seriously injured. ‘The daughter escaped with as is fashionable, and goes in golden slippers. of —Southerners admit it t© me—why then, negroprobiets “ “4 “ 60—Fair. sumption, but rather lead to an CoE which cut upon the left cheek, and oy og ses upon “doers of the Word,” we have connoisseurs of doctrine. ‘Will Continue whimpering over it | cannot imagine ginless 25 38 8 60—Fair will very materially impair the value of their issues, and reop. Mra. Hook was taken the ruins in a per. Disguise it as we may, there is a great and grievous de- inceed it be to tinker up the backbone of certain old 6 rr 60 48—Rainy. convey a0 admonition tothe aotwholdereto get rid of them helpless and painful condition. Hor face and | terioration in the tone of the religious world religion ladies of both sexes. The only issue is the “stump speech a “4 62 ‘s—Clousy. before that crisis shall arrive. A lagge number of the | nag were bruised, the right . broken above the | consists too much ofa religious: wy oe re in the belly of the bill.’ Shall it succeed if # legitimate Bry 30. 56 —Clear. members seem to favor @ postponememt of action in re- nee, the bones of which rough the fle, the | of practical consequences. It is a theory, nota life. minority is the medium, following the letter and spirit of 99 “SB “a 4—Clear. gard to the banks, believing It wiser to await the develope- left leg broken below knee, and the bones of both | Hence the roal influence of our religious leaders is small of the law? or shalls defaulting majority nulify it, and 30 B2 62 —Ciear. ments of another commercial cycle before legislating crushed in a sickening and manner. She wasre- | in proportion. We go to hear them speak in pulpit or yet claim immunity for their misconduct? 's the a a 62 52—Clear. prospectively with reference to them. They seem to moved to the office tof Dr. Wilson, adjoining the church, ee, ‘and there it ends. All our energies are spent in question a. = 7 think that it is premature to determine upon any perma- and ruch assistance promptly rendered as the case de- | forming 's creed, and in yy agent 5 Ibs true thie minority as @ class are of base medicority, | Average Oot.,’67.445, oe o pent basis for banking ‘ions so cloae upon the heels manded. The physicians in attendance generally con- | assailants when we have formed it. But as for energetic Laterspersed with some consummate villany equally bit ete . Of the late revulsion. {ris not at all improbable, there: curred in the opinion that she must suffer amputation of | and practical protest against tho tyrannies and ter in their priv te prejudices, but it is nevertheless true | bf A omar. fore, tat the Legislature wil adjourn without takiag any both limba, if, she survived her injuries. Al- | sions that are in the ‘orld, we no louger look to the Fe- they have take. the law for Weir guide, and obtained fall 38 53 43—Fair. action in this matter, and that it will be made the occasion though pay BS most excruciating pain, she borevit | ligious world to mai. them. It was not always so. The Control in the Lecompton Convention only because their 8 54—Fair for an extra session fo the ensuing winter ll with the fortitude of a martyr. time was when to be « realous Christian was to be aeslous nts preferred being factious and unreasonable 68—Cloudy ; rain. Tt is understood that Botts will, upon his return, write The son of Mrs. Hook received compound fracture of | in resistance to slavery, to unneceseary and cruel ware, law is fairly with them, and hence they are ontitied 68—Clear the left i the knee, the thigh bone being almoet | to 2’! the pride and rapacity of lawles power. Religion im © book of bis travels in Kurope fe is said to have made a large fortune by his tour, and he can therefore rom his ordinary pursuits, t com- Tam informed by one of ‘his conf. dants here that the Emperor of all the Russias helt review of sixty thousand troops for his special honor, ratification and pleasure. What if bis imperial Majesty new he was 80 strong a Know Nothing and so averse to foreigners? It is probable he would forego this display. We had a heavy fall of snow here a few days It is now almost entirely cleared away under the of the genial heat of yesterday and to-day Robt, G. Scott, Faq, late Minister to Wo, arrived bere yesterday eveving from Alabama, where he now re- sides. « He is owner of a large plantation there, got by his second marriage fo the poor boon its operation has thrown out. seme San, ae increase of thearmy because tbe expense wet 80. They seem to take it for granted Ghat we fifteen or twenty millions, when so voted, are in etantly sonihilated, when the fact is it is merely putting fo much money tp circulation, benefiting every profes fion and trade. “Fifteen hundred dollars per man,” Mr Hale wipes his eyes over. But, as the ‘otal of a soldier's receipt from the government for @ yoarfor pork and ‘beans, pay and clothing, amounts to $212, and admitting be rpends Tt which ts a very unfair so ition, what becomes of The remaining thirteen hundred doliara’ Who gete i? Where does it go to? The truesecret of the large expense of the army lies ty the fact that the neces- fities of tbe service throw large bodies of men from one extreme to the other. One man does the work of five, crushed to pieces. ‘was algo injured internally, and | thoee days was a constant on the side of ba- although promptly attended to by Drs. MeCarty and New. | manity. Tae realous ge Sh also & is Fecovery is extremely doubtful. He was removed | humanitarian, Thars times are not remote We home last night, as were bis mother and sister. A | need go no further back than the times of Wilber- scene fe -%, —_— residence be for a ny ‘and Thornton, and Zachary Macaulay, to . what 8 different being our modern reli professor Mrs. Mary Hamill, a widow indy, residing at You might despise or sneer at the creed of thove tea, Dat No. Si Cutter street, war in the Necture room, | their unceasing protest against all tyranny on the earth, and when she saw the flash, attempted to es: | and their advocacy of the slave, of the oppressed, of the cape, She was caught, however, by the falling | mieerable and , secured them a in every boards and seate, and alinost complotoly buried in the | heart that was not dead to Ye impulses of humanity. But roing. When taken out, it was found that the bopes of the | bow is it now? Our modern saint right foot had been crushed, as though cut thi hand | van of the great battle of hnmanity; they make no col- = by some heavy iron inatrument Her wounds lective protest inst the most giant evils. bay g | io were dremed by Dr. Woods, wo whose residence, epposite | the sunshine of patron) least those of them the church, she was immediately removed, and whose | who belong to the State chat "7 vee the abottors of ag is shown by tbe Invest Committee of the Com mon Council, now in session at the City Hall. A case can be instanced of a former judge of one of our courts re ceiving from @ well Known milliouaire contractor the sum ip hand of $4,000, to declare legal an act which had been Soya Ape through the Common Oyuneil by the contractors and pack | y lady rendered ev ble Bde Loo oflen becomes disgusted with his horse labor Snoortna Arrare at tae Parser Hover, Bos | aid of rf ‘Aga dCiALe® . Against rende: every porsible assistance. Mrs. H. will | wrong more than the opposer And rune Away, Bot, however, without creating extra ex tow — Yesterday afteraoon, about two o'clock, the usual ] ® abuses, legalized and countenasced by those high in vroba aa wee T amputation of the foot. Let us just take a few instances, and J whether pense to fill bis place. Any thinking man can see how quietness which pervades the Parker House, School | office, what security is there for the owner and ‘tm, Hamill @ son of the Iaet named, a smal! iad, was | they do not make good Ve " ere i ® our it! pediy Cut in the lip, and was otherwise bruised about the | great talk about promoting Christian: ‘% in India. But ox. yen) Amine the speeches made at same of Mr. T. D. Williams, residing ‘at 167 Front street, stood’ | that purpore, and you will find thatthe importation of just inside the door when the explosion occurred. He was | certain doctrines into India, and the option by lown into one of the side rooms,» distance of some | the natives of a certain worship, is tho aimed at—not twetve or fifteen feet, but received no other injury than | the manifestation by the government of Christian benevo- the spraining of the left foot. A son of Mr. W., who | lence and mercy and truth. What voice hae proceeded was standing near at hand, was somewhat bruised in the | from them in condemnation of our unrighteous seizure of face. —of our wholesale and iniquitous Mr. Harris, residing on Fichth street, opposite the park, | Not even the publication of the torture report haa el . eter pub- taxpayer? I purpose here showing some of the early ope rations and workings of this system of street opening, as prectised at as oe As & first step in the mat ter the law 2 Se ee Se eee Counsel to give public notice of openings through daily street, was disturbed by the discharge of a piatel. We jearn that a gentleman from New York, Mr. F. Birge, had occasion 10 go to a privy, and while there Mr. L. D. Merrill, of this city, went there, forced open the door, epat several times in Mr. B.'s e, and then, cate! expensive & small force must be, per man, if itis made a Species of touch and go for an immense surface of country. ¢ juatioe of overworking (he auital in this way I my motlung about Look, for «xampie, at the Fifth ni From Texas 4 miles in a ship to times the Big Cypress Swamp, lily Bowlegs; thence two thousand | |, . nworth, and thence in « long | A¥’e. for Nov...82) dwastrous march of twelve hundred miles over the | Dec . pia « to ite frowen nest jo the mountains. No wonder the z 1 Pass & nm de by the bundred—fierh and blood was sothewbat injured in the face, but not seriously. any collective or protest from the seco eaniene "But whose fault’ The Preaisent'er lie. The most evidences of rapacity and crusity ag Disonacerrt, Ov We jeara that near the | jeoustrunss of the lenders offs rons aennd fosy ave Fut *h is not assailed alone for ite ex fe L pTRAGE.—-We 4 qwhee \ renponagete aly i © omall degree, but’ for Close of Mr. Kalloch’s lecture on Tuesday evening, at | highfavor just now with him who has been profanciy styled Devoy wo Kansas! Much North and some South join in Norobega i, some one obtained necess to the ‘man of God," and cannot afford to pet in jeopardy the Poor Kansas? She is made to father (excuse the gas metre and turned of the gas 4a to leave | court favor and ministerial pat by any unpleasant re ok) @ multitude of contrarities, She bleeds inf Gemenstretion. rll hed Se ) more outside than inside, which, perbaps eer ce, Ae juat pow ae is as dry ~ tered bere on the rine ¥ © Ate! timer noted ip rs UNEP Sippel. oluton Stteussexeseye