Kansas Radical from Manhattan, Kansas • 2

JOLltf RADICAL It 9 Manhattan and Surroundings. Manhattan was first settled upon Hot at IScmc A couple of anecdotes of the" visit Complimentary, A gentleman of culture, from Irving', who visited our town and Agricultural College, thus writes to a country paper1, of what he sav "I have lately returned from a trip tioa of houses and fences. It is good limestone and is easily converted into the best of lime. Brick is readily made from the soil. A-fine brick building is now in process of construction here in town, made from the clay hereabouts.

FRUIT. a good joke, digest a sound sermon, or annalyze a solid lecture as pithily, as accurately, a3 most people who have" traveled eo little and saw so much. If this article falls under the eye of any who wish to leave older States for anew country fall of promise and. opportunities, blessed with advantages and overflowing with attrae- of the South Carolina railway delegation to this city, are worth relating. General Sherman happened to be here and was invited to' drop in where the South Carolinians w6ro entertained, and give them a call.

The General said all his time wTas fully occupied, olina that I called upon, and did not ina them at home, and that they now owe me a call." Mr. Trenholm was duly informed that an old friend of his was in the city who perhaps would havo called upon had some time since endeavored to see him and could not find him at home and indeed he was led to believe that Mr. Trenholm had purposely avoided seeing him. Mr, T. could not remem ber any conduct of his that would justify an accusation of discourtesy of il.

J. I mat ivuiu aim inquired what the name the mend might bo. He was told was "a Mr. Sherman." "Mr. Sher man said Trenholm, and upon his word he had quiet forgotten, there must be some mistake.

The name of Major General "William Sherman being mentioned, the South Carolinians admitted that they had heard of him, and some of them recollected that they were not at home when he passed that. way. 'lne other incident is that of an ex change of views between an Ohio politician, who has devoted himself to the preaching of the political gosr.el according to Calhoun, and one of the prominent citizens of -Charleston. The Ohioan indulged in eloquent indorsements of the doctrine of State Sovereignty and the right of seces sion. "I have been accustomed to hear that kind of doctrine advocated on the stump.

It sounded welL I Dcuevedinac iuny. mvt when we came to try it, it did not work well The theory was pretty, but tho prac tice was destructive. We do nt want- any more ot it our generation. have buried it. Cincinnati Com mercial.

The names of. Colonels Anthony, Blair and Houston, have been men tioned connection vrith the Gover norship of this Etate, but Ave think Gov. Crawford stands a good chance for re-election. There seems to be very little opposition. lie has made a good, honest ofneer, and we see no reason why ho should not be elected this fall.

-Tray Reporter. Ngw Advertisements. GENERAL AU0TI0IT SALE Every Satsirtlay aftcrnson tit tlic Siocli. mid Sale stable or TSOSIPSOX PECK. TIIE UNDERSIGNED 7ILL OPEN A uenerai 01 all kinds 01 stock, every Saturday afternoon, in Manhattan, Kansas Any person Laving Horses, Cattle, Wagons, ness, Buggies, lo sell, or who Tvisii to buy anything of that kind, should attend the rpsruhir gales every Saturday afternoon.

TLe sale will be conducted nt the Livery fetatjle. THOMPSON TECS, ctf Manhattan, Kavsas. THE POPULAE E0TEL KAN. $2 JPJSIi DA SHERMAN HOUSE, Lawrence, Kansas. 371, ILaslier Co.

rEOPRIETOKS. This Hotel will be conducted, as hereto fore, on First Class Principles, and to th entire satisfaction of every one of its numer ous patromzcrs. n2-S CITY MEAT MABKET. Van Antivevp Zadd. HAVE ESTAMJSnED A Meat, Vegetable and Provision Market, In Manhattan, oa Toyrjtz avenue, next door to the Livery Stable.

Fresh Meat, Vegetables, Provisions, kept constantly on hand for table use. Call and see them. n2-lv S. M. FBR a USOIT, BLACKSMITH AND SHOP, KANSAS.

The proprietor is prepared to do all kinds of blacksrnithing, shoeing, wagon ironing and repairing that his customers may bring him. Work promptly done and charges low. n2-ly Iealcr in Glass and Britania Ware, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver, and Plated Trunks, Stationery. Toyntz aTenue, between 1st and 2d street, No. l-6iu Manhattan, Kan.

Mrs. JEWELL, illLLINER AND DTIESS MAKEE, Informs the ladies of Manhattan and vicinity that she keeps a large stock of Mijlinery Goods a band, of tbc laiest styles, liats, Bonnets, Trimmings, Room pver SiJ ver's clothing store, ManbatUB; Kansas, ttltf as nc proposed to go to by the next train, and besides, said he, "tell the gentlemen from South Car- fea a town site in 1855, by two companies, known as the Boston compa ny and the Cincinnati company. The Boston company occupying all that portion of town north of Poyntz av enue, now the principal business street, and the Cincinnati company selecting all south of that street. LOCATION. The city of Manhattan is located immediately at the junction of the Kansas and Big Blue rivers, the banks of the rivers forming a part of the boundary of the town site.

Approaching this junction the Kansas runs for some distance nearly north and the Big Blue runs south. The fertile bottom lands of these rivers lie to the south, west, east and north of this place, thus making it the center of large valleys of inexhaustablo farming land. Added to these valleys we may enumerate the smaller valleys of Eock creek, Spring creek, Mackentire creek, Carnahan creek, Mill creek, Baldwin ereek, Fancy creek, Sweed creek, Wild Cat, Deep creek, School creek, McDowel creek, Clark's creek, Tlumbolt creek, "and many others too numerous to mention, all emptying into the Kansas or Blue in this vicinity. These creeks are all quite well settled and improved, and their settlements all tributary to Manhattan. The timber of this country is mostly confined to the im mediate vicinity of the streams, and hence the settlements are first made there, and consequently along them lie3 most of the population at pres ent.

The town is also located immedi ately upon the Great Pacific railroad the depot being not more than one hundred yards from the main street, that is now beinsr built irj most air line from St. Louis to the Pocky Mountains. There is also already in prosess oi organization a railroad com- pany contemplating the building of a railroad Irom Manhattan up the Blue river to Omaha in Nebraska, lne certincato ot incorporation is filed with the Secretary of State, and charters are now before the Nebras ka Legislature, which is in session, securing the right of way through that Territory. "When this is built, and the road down the Neosho Yal- ley is built, Manhattan will be at the cross-roads of the railroad system of tho west. soil.

-The soil of the surrounding coun try is not surpassed in fertility by any in this State. In fact it is the remark of those who have visited this section this the crops in this portion of the State are morp promising than any east of us, even into Illinois. A farmer, the other day informed us that his wheat would yield forty bushels to the acre. uorn never looked better any country than it does here now. All the crops usually raised in the west do well here, and are one hundred and twenty-five miles nearer the mineral markets of the west than the Missouri river valley.

TIMBER. Various kinds of timber grow here; enough to supply abundantly the present demand and that of the next twenty years. Oak, Black "Walnut, Cottonwood, Hickory, Ash, Maple, Locust, Blackberry, and other varie ties abound. These several varieties grow spontaneously wherever the fires are kept off the prairies, espe cially on the bottom lands. Osage 1 Orange for hedging is used success- fully by many farmers.

The Black "Walnut is used principally by our mechanics in the manufacture of fur niture. STONE. The bluffs that border on the streams are full of white magne limestone. Some quarries that have been opened admit of a polish equal to marble. Some specimens have been selected and polished and for- warded to the Paris Exposition, as geological specimens from Kansas Tho commissioners who have 'charsre of the erection of the State Capitol, which is now under process of con- struction at Topeka, havo selected the stone in the bluffs at Manhattan, out of which to construct the build ing, on account of its superior qual- ty.

This is evidence of its immense superiority over any other material in the Kansas valley. The distance to the capital from this place is fifty- five miles, and the commissioners in- tend to transport the rock upon the cars to Topeka. Suffice it to say that there are inexhaustable quanti ties of this rock rn this immediate vicinity, all of which can be had for the quarrying. The rock lays near the surface, quarries readily from layers, is very soft, yields freely to the chisel, and makes a very cheap building material for the construc E. C.

KAXXIXG, I'niblisliesV every Saturday, at 3IAXIIATTAN, KANSAS. SATURDAY, JULY 21. Untied States Senator jjfw! 2 Present. CONGRESS TO AOJOIX. Conrcss Passes tkc Frcctl- Pi tsidciit'sj Ytto tlurraU fertile Bacfc-lJoije Congress The latest ne-ws from the Capital, state that the Governor has concluded not to appoint a Senator to fill the vacancy, at present, since Congress is going to adjourn soon.

The following is the latest telegram from Washington: "Washington, July 18, 18G8. "Wa l.orm to adiourn lv the 23d inst, but may be delayed until the 25th -we shall certainly leave a few days. J. ilendeeson. The President vetoed the new Freedman's Bureau Bill.

It was so framed as to avoid all his former ob jections. A special despatch informs us that Congress passed it over his head. The Senate vote was 33 yeas to 12 navp, the House vote was 103 to 43. Let all loyal men rejoice A. IfSoses Jolmsoii.

The political news from "Washing-ion look rather bad just now. Postmaster General Dennision and Attorney General Speed have resigned, and there are rumors of other chancres. Plarlan and Stanton will go out when compelled perhaps before. "Worse than thi3, comes the rumor that Seward counsels, and the President contemplates, recognizing the Southern Confederacy in a round about way, by calling the Senators and Members from the Southern States, and the Copperhead Members from the Northern States together and declaring them the legitimate Congress of this land. "When he does this wo' may look for hot and short work.

J. will find himself in manacles and boarding at the same hotel with Jeff Davis. Grant will be Commander-in-Chief for the time be ing and the present Vice President will be inaugurated. A little blood may flow, but the sooner it eOmes the better, if flow it must. The loyal people of this land are long-suffering and patient, but if driven to madness nera'm.

their wrath will be terrible and their vengeance deep. T2ic Agricultural College ILaistls. It is a mystery to us why the Ag ricultural College lands are not put in market. If our memory serves us right, the bill provides for the imme diato appointment of an agent and the peremptory exposure in market, of the land donated by Conrress. The season is a good one, settlers are com ing in, and lands are wanted.

They will never sell better. Ought they not to be advertised and put npon the market at once Is there a rea sonable excuse? Show your hands gentlemen. It is likely that tho supervision of all Indian affairs will be put under charge of the "War Department. A bill is now before the House, it having passed the Senate, providing for the change. The Atchison Coal Company's shaft has now reached a depth of three hundred feet.

They have passed through several veins of coal of ex cell en quality. The new State Legislature of Ne braska is now in session. They elect two United States Senators before they adjourn, and a lively time is an ticipated. A gentleman just from above the Salt Marsh on the Republican, in forms us that none of the old settlers havo left that section through fear of the Indians and only a few new and timid ones have retired. One hundred and twenty-five miles of the Omaha branch of the Pa cific E.

E. is completed and in run ning order. Hallow ell, the editor of the Kansas City Journal, has been turned out of the Post office at that place. The route of the Lawrence and Pleasant Hill railroad is being sur veyed. ESTABLISIOIEIT.

BzJob "Work neatly and promptly executed. OFFICE Up stairs, over Baker, Flagg Co. '3 store, in Manhattan. Uroe Tar Iy the single -wagon load, or per hundred bushels, at the lime kilna of Ko. 1-lt fc A.

M. 13CRXS. STOVES AUD HARDWARE. Are prepared to furnish any amount of Hardware to the settlers of this country, from a teaspoon up to a cocking stove. Tbey offer superior jndaccraents to die public, being deterniiiu'il thft no one west of the Mississippi need go anywhere for their hardware, exeept to tueir etoro in Manhattan.

Their consists in pirt of STO VKS, TIX VA RE, LO CKS, FILES, SAWS', CHAINS, UTL Ell OL TS, and HARD WARE, TEA PS, ivC. They execute Job Wovk of all kinds on short notice and 'at cheap rates." Give them a call. Manhattan, Kansas. 7n. 1-1 MAEYSVILLE, KAN, Is prepared to Ho r.l- kinds cf MacksmitLinf, repairing and ironing tf wagons, new and Old.

All orders rroiiirtly filled. nltf J.G. SCOTT. II. A.

MClIirR. SCOTT METjZljSlt, DniG GISTS DEALEUS IS rTOi, MdVeinrs, Chrtnicnls, Liquors. Taiats. Uji-Mniu. r-rrnm'-ry, Ordvrs from th-i c-Iuntry FoMtitf 1.

No. K. cor. iiniu aod Washington sv Xo- 1-ly St. Luuif JIc no LIT.

Late Consulting Snrirern to tho New York Eye, Eir AS ESTAHLISIIKM AV i II. 1 Aid U- Lbi JXiMAiL I Corner Third end Vine Streets, St. Gilis, 2Io, AH 'nissas-M of tha Eva. Ear, Liiiijjr. Thnwt and CaiarrU, Xuihs anti Uiicliui 03 frotu K-ir and Head tiniteil Snirir Artificial lijvs al.r.

Artiilcit! Kars fer persons wiiiv? ivariisa 1 it-stm-rd constantly ou that will iiajTuv tli artificially. Adilrcss Eli. EOKT. Ci-r. at.

Tine St. L-juis- XSEnclose etamjps fjrreturr; pasttro. So. 13 Ta fcl rrS Is prepare 1 with a jroJ pfock of leather, wh'eli he lins jiict oqrfct in the Eastern m-ivket, suJ with the best thtt ciri he fouud ia the eoimtrj-, to ExrccTi: ox ALL OKPF.53 IN Ji'S Li.VH. II13 stock crns'st3 cf HARNESSES, SADDLES.

BRIDLES, HALTERS, HEADSTALLS. BOOTS AND SHOES Ma-la to order, of the best material nn in the latest stylo. Ilc-pairiri dons on short notice. o. 1-Gui JlarysvHTo, Kansas.

MAllCUS L.JOHNSON VMMm Binder iI II Gil MANUPA CTUR Uoolis Tor County, and 3allroa.i!s jlatls to Order. MusJj and Bnand. "03 Topeka. No. 1-1 A.

WILSOX. h. TOS0U. BRQ, MANUFACTURERS OF XX DEALE23 1 Saddles, Erjdles, Ilaiters, Collars, Spurs, Fly Xetts, And a variety of other articles too numer-i ous to A kinds of work made to order. T.c- pair ng done at.

short notice, ana in mo best stjle. rlease call and see us, examine our irors and satisfy yourself. Shop next door to Caker l-lagg's etoe. Manhattan, Kan. nl-ly THE HOME LIFE JTirc a tUlarln niSUEAITCE COMPANY.

OCIcc--Xo, Delaware Street, LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. CAPITAL, 100,000. DIRECTORS: I). H. Anthony.

rre'Mcnt. M.n F. llicluirds. Vice President- Ji hn Kerr. l'r id-nt irt National Hank.

W. C. Merchant, 55 57 Cherokee H. 1). Kash, MercliHiit, n.

or. Cherokee and 4tU. M. S-2 Delaware St. K.H.

Durfeejl crchiiat. 48 Mnin st. K. II GruU Itaukcr, No. 5 Delaware st.

M. 4S Cherokee st. Fcnioci, Merchant, Fort Leavenworth. II. S.

Heof-, Surveyor Gen'I, Kan. anil e- J.huC.Grund, Krcwer, e. cor. Welaware anJ6tL. YV.U fronth Leavenworth.

John A. HaUUrrnian, Attorney, Shawnee st. Henry Smith. Merchant. A.

Stettauer, Merchant: IT IVlawtre St. Farle 4i Delaware st. A. McDuuaiU, Merchant, 54 Main bt. This institution is now fuliy organiied, with a capital of one hundred thousand dol-lars, paid in according to law, and is pre? pared for the transaction of business.

tVi'b solid men as Directors pnd ownerg of the capital stock, and a bona fide capital, iti3 hoped the Home will at once take its rank as The Ccnspany entitled to credit, and that Kansa3 men will patronixe home institutions. A. I. NIEMANN, Src. II, Ag't, Manhattan, mm to Manhattan and Lawrence.

At tho former place I attended, as a visitor, the commencement of the State Agricultural College. The occasion was one of great interest. The Col- ege is doing a good work. The President, Dr. Denison, is a fine ed ucator, and a charming christian gen tleman.

foiessors Iludre and regents aro uevotcu mends ot education. I cannot close this communication without paving a tribute of well mer ited respect to Prof. Goodnow, our worth' btate bupermtendant of Pub ic Instruction. Jiansas is fneatlv indebted to him for his energy and devotion in the cause of education. He found it in poverty and disorder.

lie has made it prosperous. Man hattan ows him much. I presume that no one, except his worthy and co-operating knows tho risks, abors and sacrifices with which ho assisted in founding, nourishing and establishing the State Agricultural College. May his successor possess his energy aud spirit. Ben.

Loan's Bill granting lands to the Northern Kansas Railroad, as it passed the House some days ago, has massed the Senate and is now a law. We give place to this intelligence af ter one half of cur adition is worked off. JZarysville Enterprise, The above is good news for North ern Kansas. That enterprise is now upon a live and promising tooting. "We take stock in it.

Tho interests of that section of tho State, so long the foot ball of politicians, obtained vitality from the action of its mem bers in tho Xegislaturo last winter. and since then has been rushed to a permanent footing. TSie Wit eat Crop The last report of tho Commis sioner of Agriculture contains infor mation indicating prospects of three fourths oi an average total yield ot wheat. Indiana seems to nave suf fered most from winter killing -br appearances 3-1 per cent: Ohio four tenths, but Indiana has four-tenths more spring wheat than usual. This should give each, oi spring and win ter together, a total ot nvc-tenths.

Illinois promises three-fourths of a crop, though the appearance of win ter wheat was seven-tenths. In "Wisconsin the appearance of winter wheat is six and cne-third tenths a prospect of at least three-fourths of a crop. Iowa, view oi the breadth of spring wheat, should give a ful crop. Kansas will have fifteen tenths of an ordinary cron. Missouri and Minnesota will hava more.

The dis trict west of tho Mississippi, taken toaictiier, promise aeeideaiy more than an average. New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania each mai cate eight-tenths of a crop. In New England, the injury to winter whe was less than one-tenth New Hamp shire 1-4 per cent Mama one-tenth in Massachusetts threo-tenths. "In the Senate on Saturdav, Mr, Trumbull repor tied from the Judiciary Committee the bill to regulate appointments to and removals from office. It provides that no officer appointed by tho President, by the advice and with the consent of the Senate, shall be removed without tho consent of the Senate.

Disabled or defaulting ofiicers may be suspended, and others temporarily assigned to duties during the recesses of Con- rrcss but these eases must be sub- mitted to the Senate at the opening of its next session. No officer appointed for a fixed period shall be allowed to hold his olnce for a longer period than GO days after the expiration of the time for which he Avas appointed. The fourth section provides that the President shall not be authorized to fill vacancies during the recess of the Senate, unless they happen during the recess by death or other circumstances not depending on the will of the President. Tlie Tray for Low, Some boys were playing cards, recently, in a hay mow in the country, during a terrible storm of wind, rain and thunder. When the war of elements was at its height, a tree near the old barn was struck by lightening, and at tho same moment a sever blast of wind upset the upper story of the barn and tumbled the card players to the ground, amid a perfect wreeic 01 ooaras, Deams ana ratters The first thing that was heard above the din of tempest was the voiee of one of the boj's, as he crawled out of the debris, holding fast to the cards, "Eemember, boys, I played the tray for low." That chap will be a Lieu tenant General if we ever have anoth er war.

The wifo of John 'Michaels, of Bethany, JN ew 1 ork, finished hoeing potatoes on 1' nday, and on ALondav gave birth to three daughters -one weighing eleven and a half, another eleven and a quarter, and the third ten and three quarter pounds all as lively as Guinea pigs. Thirty-three pounds jeight ounces in all is the weightiest humanity we have ever known at one income. Conservative Hthe potatoes were as wellcultivar ted as the woman was, there will be a big "crap." We are informed by John Pipher, Esq. of Manhattan, that the settlers on the Eepublican are coming in, for fear of the Lidians. The Governor will arm them, and take such other measures as are necessary to protect the trontier.

1 bpeka Record. it Those who have had time and sur roundings to facilitate them in fruit culture, are satisfied that the country good for fruit raising as any in Kansas, excepting, perhaps, "Wyan-dotte county. Mr. Burnes; near Man- hattan on tlie lue ba3 out two Hundred, varieties oi grapes under cultivation. Several kinds have borne, and that well.

Berries of all kinds, when cultivated, do well. Many varieties grow well wild. WATER. I'OWER. The principal source of wealth up- 1 1 on wiacn we rely tor permanent prosperity, and to which the farmers must look for a home market, is the water power of the Big Blue river.

Three miles above this point the own ers of a mill site are improving it by constructing a very costly darn. Heavy stone abutments are built up on either side of the river, and the dam itself is to be of hewn timber arid plank. The timber is all upon the irround and framed. The whole. structure rests upon a smooth rock bottom.

This improvement is upon the Big Blue, at Avhat is known as Rocky Ford, about three miies from town by land, or about six miles to follow the devious course of the river, Engineers have exainined the ground between here and the dam, and re port in favor of a race being cut from this place to the dam; for the pur Vose of bringing the water hero for manufacturing purposes. The fall is said to bo about twenty feet. Upon the completion of a race bringing the water down to town, factories could be established alonjr the bank of the Blue, to enable the water they used to fall into the river, for a mile from the depot to Blue Mont. The day is not far distant when fac tories for the manufacture of woolen goods for the mountain market, and for the manufacture of our ricultural implements, a paper mill (since the Blue is the only stream in the State whoso waters are clear enough for that purpose), and in all probability the machine shops for the Union Pacific railroad, as welPas other important manufactories, will be established here. This water power, when improved as it may be, will surpass anvthinsr of the kind west of the Mississippi within this latitude.

There are several other mill privileges on the Blue, more numerous as one ascends the stream. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. The State Agricultural College is located here and is now in a satisfac tory and prosperous condition. It is endowed by the General Govern ment with ninety thousand acres of land, and has received by donation considerable in the way of library, aparatus, musical instruments, Its appointments and faculty are all that could be desired in so new country. The College is a three story stone building, of such dimensions as to accommodate all who may come situated upon elevated ground, over- looking an extensive and romantic landscape.

Four Professors and a teacher of music have been there of late, with about one hun dred pupils. CHURCHES. There are four stone churches built this place one lUethodist, one Baptist, one Congregational, and one Episcopal; and five churches organ ized. The Methodist numbers about one hundred members, the others do not number quite so many each. The Disciples have an organization and service regular.

LANDS. Thousands of acres of land can yet be obtained in this county under the Homestead act. The land is nearly all good for farming and stock rais- ihg purposes. No timber can be ob- tained under that act, as all, the tint- ber is entered. But it can be bought in small parcels at reasonable figures.

Improved land can be bought at from tive to twenty dollars per acre. Un- improved wild land can be from three to ten dollars. BUSINESS. bouht Mercantile business is good and we cannot better speak of that than to refer our readers to our list of adver tisements. There is a steam flouring mill and saw mill in town, and some other manufactories not represented in the columns of the paper.

INHABITANTS, The inhabitants are mostly of New England birth or origin. brought their early habits with them and established old customs and usages as time developed the oppor tunities, they are more civilized than most people. They can appreciate tions, let them keep Manhattan and vicinity in their eye. Tlie Atclilscm Piiic's Icali LTow 'that the question of route is settlod in favor of the Smoky Hill line of the "Union Taeific E. itbe- comes apparent that the Atchison P.

P. railroad must seek a con nection somewhere either on the Platte or Kansas rivers. It's one hundred miles aid v.Tould not enable it to reach tho Platte anywhere, even on the shortest lino directly north; hence wo conclude that it must come to the Kansas valley branch. The company receive aid in the way of bonds and lands for oflo hundred miles and such aid that it becomes a speculation to build the road whether it ever pays a dividend or no. Consequently we reason that the company would build the road just one hun dred miles somewhere.

This place i3 about one hundred miles west hy south from Atchison and on a direct line between that place and the New Mexican trade. It is also or twenty mile3 shorter line from here to Atchison than from hero to Leaven worth. Senator Pomeroy has had, and still has tho management of that road, lie has also managed and perhaps wisely to make himself President of tho company. It is not unreasonable to suppose that he is not unmindful of future honor and power. Yg speak tho sentiments of our people, when we say that ho would meet with little or no political opposition from this section, if he would divert his road from its pres ent impractical course and make a junetioii Jicrc withtlio U.

P. R. 11 4- oi2ieOiisis ETust toe 12 id. The Editor of the Emporia News has an eye to bur-iness. lie says that all tli9 Senators and Congress men heretofore have ignored the "great Ne(h)osho Valley," and that in the coming political squabble, that section will look out for number one lie is very much dissatisfied with Pomerov's course towards them on railroad matters, and thinks that lo cal interests are cf more importance just now than imaginary political YvTe quote tho following closing paragraphs of his article "The Atchison branch, which is of no.

possible account to anybody ex cept those living along its line, was endowed as a compromise between Lane and Pomeroy, If there had been a Senator or Representative from Kansas interested in the south half of the State, who does not know that we, with our superior claims. might have fc branch of that road as well as Atchison The Neosho Valley united and de termined, can hold the balance of power Conventions and Legisla tures. Shall we not unite "for the promotion of our interests? Let's elect men ior delegates and members of tho Legislature upon material is sue men who will have a care for our interests, and notbe led to betray or iorgct them. should nave a Senator or Representative in Con gress from our midst, there are men in the aney luny as competent as any we havo ever sent to Congress Let's unite on them. Let's have a Neosho Yalley Eailroad man in Con gross, as we have had Kansas Yalley Iiailroad men heretofore.

The change won't hurt us. Jjet's try it. Sink minor differences and resolve not to be longer tho dupes of politicians, who build themselves up at our expense. CJood. folio win iris tho latest The news land from the Xcosho Yalley E.

grant. hope the grant may be obtained and the road built. It will be of great advantage to Manhattan "Washington, June 80, Editor Union The 'Bill in favor 01 the union Pacific liailway, South ern Branch, passed the Senate to-day by a unanimous vote. Ave hope to secure its passage the House next week. The bill was taken up on motion of Senator Hendricks of Indiana, and hence the unanimity of the vote.

E. McBltATNEY. The county of Davis is about to issue 20,000 in bonds, to build a bridge across the Smoky Hill river near Junction City, counsel of Jefferson Davis have finally abandoned all application for his release on parole. The prisoner does not complain of his treat ment. JUK.

Neither does anv other traitor un- der this latter day Mosaic dispensation, A great saltpetre cave has been discovered near Eolla, Missouri, which for vast extent; scenic beauties and mineral wealth is not excelled'in the.