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Wyandott City Register from Wyandotte, Kansas • 1

Wyandott City Register from Wyandotte, Kansas • 1

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A .1 i 7 i i wyiOTOT oit iovisrs as xEtmiTbinr, October 185 7. INTTMBEB GO. r.C JJ Sirnu Vou aiie Rioitr. hull. IHMt'l be a lint In lor.

Vntnm lniin ilnn'f Viva ti n-ut- tioyof run away from you parents lill you pro stjfe "yJiiig Wiaji tloprd with don't run away from you. Thin ad It' thO JjjIIC! Hotel, at LaLiynito, upon the in rival oTtelor lor. Osa in ie so-t' i 1 cd Mr. Editor') The suit whi'ili has occupied the rf''is' Hkuistsk la published every tbo Kl.lridjio House. Alan, keep Bear and Al, CnndiM on bund for aula.

The putronm-e of tha citizen of tht Yioinity is respeifolly ejlieitml. JOHN P. UHNRION, mj-ariMf Wvan-lott Cit.v.K. T. AND HcjiI Estate Brokers, Building, Kmw Arenas, vrvAJiooTT city, k.

1 Wyundult City, Kuueua PATON. 00 Via all eaaa In advance, 'itln-jed at tlit riplrutlou 'aymoiit hai beeu muds. Ndvertisiiis. Jean) firet Isaeitlou $1 00 60 5 00 8 00 13 00 40 00 C5 00 75 00 03 00 II be (on the v. Bust be of Uphola-Casea.

M.nf North- tor of the and ollioe, and any number of witnaNsea lor some lime, has Dean decided, as of riglit it shunhl have been, in fusor the Trutecs of the town. Tho has excited munh interest, as well on account of the value of the proporty hvolv-' ed, as of importanco to the town roprie-tors, generally, of discouraging adveiftu-rers from Iji inging suits that can result in nothing but daleul to ihqiuselves, annoy-ance to others and expense to all concern ed. There 'yvjio no loss than sixteen lawyers engaged iu the controversy and witnesses weio examined and cross-exam tiled with rigor only known to courts of law in older communities. But tho town title was invulnerable, and the decision was reudeied i'litAediately upon the closing of Ilia ooe. imporlant-prinnipla decided, ia that town sites located legally on unoccupied public land, whether sur-teyed or not, canwit be pre empted by sub-teqnent squatters, The town in question, was it projected long before the public sui veys were made, and the suits were brought upon the hope that the I.

tie was invalid or) that account, but the hope was fallacious, (he contestants have had their labor for their pains, and 0.awalo mis must now go ahead faster than ever. We regret to learn that Col. Mojre i. confined to his. bed by an attack of Pneu monia, so violent in its character as to tx oite alarm, but we hope, an 1 are sure wi hut echo tits sentiments of every citizen oi the Territory who jnay have had any bu siness relations with the Colonel, when we express the hope that he may be long spared to conduct the affairs of the laud ollioe witn the dignity and impartiality which have been distinguishing lea-lures of his administration.

Facts for ttiuigritiits lu Kansas. 1. Kansas hus an area of one hundred and fourteen thousand, seven hundred and ninety eight square miles. 2, It is fourteen times as largo as achusetts. 3, It is as large as Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, lthodo Island, Connec ticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland and South Carolina combined.

1 he land at present open to pre empi lion is large enough to accommodate sev enly five thnuiaiid families, or half a mil-lion of individuals, exclusive oMhe popu. a Irani from Indianapolis. A gentleman and lady, inspired with sudden recognition, were observed to rush frantically into each other arms and the fun of It was, that after a hearty embrace they discovered that both had the advantage." They wcro strangers) but the ludy. mistnking him for her doar cousin Charley," had embraced him, while he. with a halfdefiiied recollection of having seen lnr before, went In lemon, and got squeezed.

Their mutual embarrassment on the dis covery can well be imagined. A correspondent of the Doston Journal writing from Louisville, at the lime of the luir, says of the fat cattle exhibited there A Massachusetts gentleman of long experience as an agriculturalist expressed my own feeling to-day. when he said that the ratlest d.fne eTt'rsftw'tirMassaciiusrtsw3 poorer than the p6oreit ox or heifer exhibited under (he head ol fat cattle here today. It would seem impossible fo have put another pound of fat upon therm it law in lumps and udgesall over ihem they looked like moving mountains of fat. and they were groomed as sleek and glossy as the finest I lood re I ever saw.

In this department the exhibition could hot have been better. Thf. Empress Eugenie. She is as sweet end gentle a lady as ever it was our fortune to look upon none of her portraits do her justice, a point greatly In her favor for we remember hearing Sir Henry Rae burn say, No woman's face is worth any thing if it can be put on canvas "meaning that varioty and transitoritiess of expression were the finest parts of female beauty. Even in feature, she is statuesque and regular; ut na her bonny blue e'e was my ruin it was the soft feminine gracioiisness of look 8nd motion; the retiring, yet telf-possessed manner with which she acknowledged the sincere and hearty reception of the spectator and to us of my siros what mortal hand Shall e'er untie the filial band That binds me to thy rugged strand she had an indefinable charm, powerlass, perhaps, on the hearts of French, or even English.

She was the exact representa tive of the yellow haired lassie'" we read of in Burn's sons a refined Scottish ex pression about her mouth, winning and hu, morous, completed 7 A Pi-xuLiia Disk When cur HEART. Givo we ItlovIiijE henrt! 'Tit better fnp tlmn fume, Wbiob ia nt beet a fleotlng thing, The breathing of a nnme. For lnurcla pathcred fropb and grcon, Whore floweva in benuty Wlion bound around a inortnl brow, Soon wither In tbo toi-ib. Cite me a losing heart! More precious fir then gold, Or all the wealth that India boasts, Voit Indiu'f wealth twioo told. i For what are gold or pearls, Or kindly diitdoma, Compared with one true loving heart, The purest of earth's gem? Give me a loving henrt! To chner me on my wijr, Through this dork world of sin and pain, To one of ndlcss day.

For nought can culm the troubled breast, Oi holier bulm impart, To the life-wgary pilgrim hero, Th mono true loving hoart. Tub Camels 'im tub Soutu-West. A correspundcnl of the lliclimoiid Examiner, writing of the Souili-west expitlilion, speulisas lollutrs o( the Can eU which have been imported to do duty on that rouio The camels uied by are said to be very superior ones, and certainly present ft lur more sightly appet.rance ilian the miserable creatures which have been ex hibited to crowds in the strolling menageries that someiimes visit our city, Tney purchuiied for the uovernuient as a -e lot, and may doubtless be regarded capable of tes'iug tho utility ot cies in crossing iho wide-extended ig bctiveeu the Mississippi val- I'ttcifio ocean. pack saddles on, which noved, tliey stand about VTneir general lor-j ate great strength, do nut much, ii iui tlioir fitness result prove I 4eir capacity Vid water. gamiest- ni- BS JllU Wl! ut the word J.

kir and 'neck, or a pull assume the reed that when too 'e to rise, ana ut- have not seen one are uttered to 'ot dissatisfaction at i hall-suppressed, they je as the lazy grunt of a is rudulv disturbed but i it is much more wild, and lliet of a ilengal tiger when stirs him up with a long pole. ad ad about COD pounds of corn on fthem for the first day or two, alter Howard' ranche but eaoh day it by feeding until we lay in an lupply. They have worked adniir yell so far, and promise to fuliill our sanguine expectations in regard to Jsperunent. 1 Mr. A.

N. Staunton, a had charge of the caravan, assisted J. A. Worley, of Abingdon, and my elf. If care and attention will promote the enterprise, I leel confident ol its en ure success.

Oil Thursday, the 24ih of June, we left the ranc "osumed our journey The camel-. the rear, and ere ated no little exui.x- tmt in every settle- merit through which we passed. Men women aud children rushed out with al most IVantio energy from every hut to see them. Pell mell, harum scaruin, they be us on all sides." XThs Ahebicas Idea. When one idea T.

,1 strongly aoove an omers, nation's history. Tne great Ae. that which the child drank 'a milk, was dominion. uce is glory. In or the "vnd ol GIVE HE A LOVINO I :r.uid i i- I jianoii oi ciue, wuniiiu villages.

4. VVhefiflv tins as is as deiisuiyppulai 'd as England, it will contain a pop-da-jtion ol tlurty eight million, one hundred twit 4urz? -atwe. tnin fiarty six hud seated ihemselves ut the msy be regarded with contempt. The recent ensfcahows'fiieepuli'uo by a covered dish, something very unusu- cf Spaiu to amount to souls. i 1 'It is not y.w.

It liter improve your lifnlm, beauty. Marry as you can mi-lto it corj. venient, and as you can simps your allUirs to support a wife. Bat when you mnriy don't fall in love with a face instead of a woman, Remember that common seine is a rare viitue, much better than silver and gold and fashion. Don't court and marry crinoline and monry bags, simply becauae it is crinoline or gold in plcmy; but look for sound practical sense in a wo-man first; ti.

at is the fouclutono to try her other qualities by. When you have (hat a.l else comes. Your wife that is to be, if she is full of common senro, will grow your way of thinking and make muke you grow to here. A woman who has womanly love in her heart, will find ways to -make yopr fove towards- hergrow as th-t years go over you boihl And another ilhgiu-eJs to be heeded, and ihuTls a common sense woman is not to be found where fashion insists upon diagging young females into a whirl, where there is siinpiy Idle gossip and little brain. Young manl don't stand looking after that young woman who has the distin- guisueu am, uie reputation ol a nirt and a belle, and whose father has a heap of cash ior is noi possiuie mat while you aie straining your eyes that way, you may be turning your lack upon some unobtrusive little damsel whom nature has cut out for your other halt', and who may be just that pleasant faced, placid tempered, lovable, little creature who will think enough of you to go with you to the end of the world and stay by and comfort you when you get gray and fidgety, Marry young gentlemen and keep yourselves out of scrapes.

Have some, tuing to live for. A man alone isn't more lial a mmf andlhe worU wallta en. tire men. So mend yourselves and be happy. And you shall have reason tossy it is a good tiling you resolved to marry and refused to be a solitary, beer drink, ing, pipe smoking bachelor if you sue.

ceedas well in your effort as he who, once a young man like you, is now simply the old. and computable. Life I.luslralcd. The Eepana positively denies, on in for-nation obtained from the best sources, that any secret treaty exists between the Ui-iid States and Mexico. What has given rise to tha rumni nf IliA oxisfp.nnn nt' nne i.

ir sayg that nn undemanding exists between iome American and Cuban hllibusters, but declares that the projects of these pm lies Tils BaiGitr Points of Ecbopk. A London letter glancing at the condition of affairs in the European world, thus aums up the bright and cheering points. The fate of the European silk crop is pretty well ascertained and the result, although bad, will scarcely be so bad as last yr.r. Yet we have already sent to India and China an amount of silver immsnsely larger' than that which we had dispatched up to the period of 1356. The grain harvests on the continent promise the most brib Hani results, and in some of the Southern districts of France and elsewhere it is al ready being secured.

The v'ntage likewise is expected to be better than for mitiy years, Poweh of a Word. I was told a story to day a temperance story. A mother, on the green hills of Vermont, stood at her garden gate, holding by her right hand a son of sixtoen years, mad with love of the sea. 'E lard," said she, tliey tell me that the greiftemptation of a seaman's life is Promise me before you quit your mother's hand, that you will never drink." Said he--for he told ms the Story I gave her the promise. I went the broaj -ilobe over Calcutta, the Mediterranean, San Francisco, the cape of Good Hope and for forty years, whenever I saw a glass filled with liquor, my mother's form by the arden-gate of the hill-side of Vermont rose up before me, and to-day, at sixty, my lips are innocent of the taste of liquor." Was not that sweet evidence of.

the power of a single word And yet it was but half for, said he Yesterday there came into my room a young man of forty, and asked me Do you know me No," said I. I was brought, once," said he to my informant, diunk in yotlr presence, on shipboard you were a passenger the captain kicked me aside; you took me in to your berth, kept roe there till 1 had slept off the intoxication, and then you asked att if had mother. I said that I never knew one I never heard a mother', yu" at 6f twen.y years later, 1 am mss- of one of the finest packets New Vork. and I came to ask you to come and candle throw. -1Vcndcll rhillips.

A patent medicine advertiser winds up a flaniiii" puff cf his pills by declaring a- hat rthere a no nunmug auom u.e.n Nt vice is worth a year's subscription but we will give it gratis. A giginno enterprise is now going on in Holland, namely: the blocking up two arms of the sea, and replacing them by a navigable canal for merchant vessels of the largest burden. Dy this operation, an extent oflund of 14,000 hectacres 35,000 acres ol the finest quality will be gained from the Scneldt. Tim Physicians in the IIouso of Correction, at Mass report it almost impossible to treat delirium tremens successfully new, in consequence of the ut ter prostration of the nervous system of drunkards uy the strychnine so generally used in the manufacture of vaiious liquors. A provincial paper mentions a rumor that the object of the Gov.

Genoral's visit rt(J England is" tbtriiisuft a -oi' a union of the IJritish North American provinces under a king, to be supplied from the present bountiful royal stock. 'How many asked a hospital. physician. 'Why, I ordered medicine for 'Yes, but one would'nt take A Nobth Casolina paper says; 'Tltcre ire a great many people who live in ignorance for the want of a newspaper. Last ivinter, while traveling between this place ind Raleigh, we met a man who conversed intelligently abrit farming, but who had nut heard of the death of John C.

Cal noun or General Jackson! He expressed ijrottt regret at their departure, anil could not imagine what the country' would do without ihenv He was told that Gen. Pierca had kept tilings pr jtty straight, when he actually Who is Ax anecdote rented at Constantinople shows how much the toman Porte etijuys the presence of the foreign representatives. As his Highness was taking a ride iu one of the suburbs of hw capital, accompanied by a single aid de. camp, he perceived on the street two Franks, who showed in a very lively manner t'jeir joy at meeting alter an absence of many years. The Sultan inquired about them; from whence they came, and who was their embassador lb his court.

'We are they replied, 'and have no Minister 'Oh haojjy exclaimed tl Sultan as he rot! Tt'" reconuy put up at a log Wisconsin, was awakened by i a voting man, who commenced a sere-' Oh, Sally I've called you 'wico. And yet vou lie and snore, I pray you wake, And see your Jake, And ope to him the door; or winder, don't care much which, for It makes but' lit tie difference To either you or I Big pig', tit le pig. or die!" A Virginia poet, James Fiti while describing the scenery of the Old Dominion, goes into the following poetic fit, which maybe set down as a hard grindi Extensive cotton mills are here. W'ith a fine water power; And some are making cotton goods, Aud some are making fi jur. i The Most Ubautifui.

Hand To charming women were one day discus, sing what it is thaf corTslifirter beauty in the hand. They differed in opinion as much as in the shape of the member whn merits they were discussing. A young gentleman presented himself, and by com-' mon conseiK the question was referred to him. It was a delicate matter. He thought of Paris and Ihe three goddesses Glancing from one to the other beiutilul white hands presen'ed to him, Ir.

the way, he had cunning to hold for some time in his own, for the purpose of examination, he replied at lat, g-ve it up, the question is too hard for me; but ask the poor, and they will tell you that the moat beautiful hand is that which IS ToW.Y Vt'tnt A PocKiiT FULL OF RoCKS A Tennessee planter lately visited New Orleans, and stopped at the St. Charles hotel, and in the course of a week created a prudigious sensation, He was a stout, plain-looking old-fellow, and on the trip down from Memphis confived to get very drunk, so that from ihe time he landed in the city, until he left, he carried on like a crazy m.n. paying fifty or a hundred times the value of everything he bought He gave a colored barber 820 for sliavinp him. and refused to lake any change pant half a dollar for a class of liquor, declined the change, and cave the bar keeper S20 additional, ss a fiee cift. On the latter being rejected, the planter crumpled up the bill, threw it behind the counter, and walked off in a rase.

He had all his pockets stuffed with bank notes of the de nominations of hundreds, fifiies and twen tie, which lie threw awey recklessly, ll lie ran against a person, he dashed handful of bills in his face Not aMisfied with thia be paraded about with a linen bg so full of Ker that it bent him down to carry it. Wherever he had a chance. he paid for drinks. with a handful of half dollars. After a three days' tour of this description, he packed up and traveled back tf Tennessee, where he belonged.

He is etii to be quite wealthy The aueltere about town are believed to have reaped a rand l.arvest out of this IS. Lota for Bale In all the iirlncluul towua of i. ....1 I Cuih paid I8J7. T. HCMT, lur Wealoru Luudaand Town f.

rm I.I.I pi. r. n. rKrn F. A.

HUNT Iteceiving, Forwarding, and ommis5ion iHcrcljanb, Stcaiiibo.il and LniidAscnls, 1 Hliarf Hour, WYANDOTT, AND LAWKENCE, K. T. K. B. Tlinn wWilnulo fmiriiril lIcTclKiidhp thruimh tt Ui ny of the Intwlur Inwiu In IliU Tfrrltury) or muke liiveMtiniMiU In Ileal Kniaia or IriiUo, a III pitaaa riirrc-lUclr oouiiuuulcailuiu aud jiacloigea to A.UUNT Wvandolt City, Kunaiu Territory.

Majr 1857. SUTRIl, tfmlilhiiii.ii 1). G. (THOMAS B. SUI8B.

i I.UKR hm. IXl'HBU II, SMOOT. S.tlOTT, Itl Stl.l. CO, xors, RRIT0EY. y-tk NuiPa, ami ror tlie Cur, Kn ll she, limlrumcoU iaM.ware, Dye alufTi syrupa, Finer Ar oiarktt rata, and war- I.AZ.

NOBLE rC i thirty-six souls. fi. Kansas is the crardon of the United -ates. 6. Its climate is genial arid healthy, aud its soil ol unsurpassed fertility.

7. It haswojU enough tor all practica ble purposes." r'' 8. Coal bans h.ive been discovered in several districts of the Territory. 9. It is intersected in evsry direction by running streams; pure water is tound at a moderate depth, in every district of the, territory J.v' 10.

Lvery male adult or widow ts en. titled, under the laws of Congress, to preempt one hundred and sixty acres; and they are not required to pa lor it until the the day of public land sale. 11. '1 hose men tree state men who cannot raise $200 when their land tans due, will find ng-jJilfioulty in borrowing it, or in mortgaging thuir farm. 12, All the Indian are triondiy to the Free slate men.

13. There are at present, at the lowest calculation, six Free Siute men iu Kansas as for every friend of the domestic iniquity of the Southern States. 14. Stone masons, carpentors, black. smiths, plasterers, wagon matters, gun.

smiths, cabinet nuken, teamsters, brick makers, brick layers.shoe makers, tailors, painters, and men willing to work at any manual labor may emigrate to the territo ry, and find little ditliculty in procuring steady woik and remunerative wages. 1 6. For the service ol respectable young women as teachers, domestic helps and seamstresses, mere is a great ueuiauu in every new country, and especially so iu Kansas, 17. Wyamlolt is the best point on the Missouri Uiver, in Kansas, to laud, it has first rate landing, and depth of water suf ficient to accommodate the largest class of boats at all times during boating seasons. There aref'iur good hotels, in VVyan- dolt, and several guarding houses, where emigrants can be accommodated until they can provida for themselves with homes.

Theru are several largo stores also in town u'lmrn imnila nf every deSCription'OBll 06 -4 bought ut eastern prices. 19. Ileal estate can be purchased in own by settler, at most reasonable prices, great inducements are held out to inein make Wyandott their home. JO. Fire wood, timber aud building- are abundant in and around Wyan- ha town site is to thirds covered Ijeavy growth cf timber.

Vandott i situated on very high frecirom the mianmat- esot the lever ana egue.uis- horrible case of precocity heard of is noted at Rochester tiirwte son of a young woman, ee, sis years old, now lies in toe Iraving with delirium Iremtn, along conunuta course oi al at a Chinese meal. On a cerla'n signal the cover was rem. ived and presently the face of the table was covered iali juvenile crabs, which made their exodus from ihe dish with -nil possible rapidity. The crab- els had been thrown into a plate of vine gar just as the company sat down such an immersion making them more brisk and livnly than usual. But the sprightly sport.

of the infant crabs was soon checked, by each guest seizing what he could and dashing it in his mouth, and swallowing the whole morsel without Determined to do as the Chinese did, I tried this novelty also with onewith two. 1 ucceed, finding the shell soft and gelatin ous, for they were tiny creatures, not more ti an a day or two old, but I wa compelled to give in to ihe third, which had resolved to take vengeance, and cave my lower lip a nip so -sharp and so severe as to make me relinquish my hold, and likewise desist from any further experiment ot this nature. Life in China. The Bamsti Possessions is India. The following particulars respecting India will not be without interest al this moment: Nearly a million and a half pounds sterling are paid unless some of them have lapsed within a few years in pensions to conauered native princes.

The King of, Delhi (the Mogul) receives jj I SU.UUU the Nawabof Bengal, the Na- wab of the Carnatic, 1 16,550 the Ra jah of Tanjore and others on an equally munificent scale, the untlsti territory in India is equal to the whole of continental Europe, Russia excepted, cov er an area of 1 .26 13 miles, with a pop ulation, according to tho latest corrected returns of 1 58 C74 06 3 and now estima ted at about 200 000.000. The territory is distributed into four governments Bengal, Madras, Bombay. and Agra, Bengal is the seal ol Uover-nor-general and Supreme council Mad ras and Bombay have eaoh a governor and connc.I; and Agra has a lieutenant governor without a council. The total military force al the disposal of the gover nor reneral is about 322 000 men. Of a ny nauve contingents.

mX cers and available under. treaties, uut oi the 322,000 only 49.000 are Engli.li. Grea works of public improvement are Jn- built by the English. The Ganges fanal has already cost 900.000. The! JS 450'mileslongisin p.greesin A r.iM.naia 1.002 I i milei; and from Bombay, to Agra, 731 mile.

One railroad is built, others arj projected. A line of telegraph, now ex tending 82 miles, wiU soon be increased to 3 1 50 miles. 8 poor inebriate's folly..

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