Manhattan Express from Manhattan, Kansas • 2

I. -lpwran wiiwwai Our Regular Correspondence. Bia Springs, August 14, 1859. Mr. Editor The survey of the Kan MANHATTAN, KANSAS Late.

from the Peak $4,000 in Treasure. Mr. Samuel Leonard, President of the Rocky Mountain City and Colonization Company, called at our office yesterday evening, immediately after taking rooms at the Planter's House. Mr. Leonard is just in from the Gold llegion, having come in in 18 days, with mules.

lie left hero on the 1st of April, and arrived at the diggings on the 25th of May, having gone out -with oxen. Theobject of his mission was to make a thorough examin wealthy and prosperous communities anyAAdiere to be found in this Union. With a full cultivation of our soil, the full development of all our natural resources and a proper system of railroads to convey our surplus to market, Kansas will soon become the most desirable country on the continent. Could the people of the older, less fertile and more densely populated States be made to understand the true excellence and superiority of Kansas, capital and labor AA'ould soon find us out and remove to this the best market for either now to be found Avithin the limits of the Republic. Very truly, ecc Kaav Valley.

Greeley 'Mongst the Mnons. We have received the Tan of July 20th. It contains a lol account of Horace Greeley's sojourn iHhe Valley of the Saints. Upon his -arrival (July 16th)he was waited upon by the Typographical and Press Assosiation of Great Sa Lake City, who tendered him a publhjrecep-tion. This being accepted, the CourtRoom of the Council House was arrand for his benefit in a style of great ruignifi-cence.

Horace, on being to the audience, made a long speq h. in which he dwelt mainly on the typographical profession. lie was received Avith great respect Lv the Mormons and frequently cheerei. Mormon leaders followed the Philosopher of the X. Y.

Tribune. Betv c-n their speeches he made a remark to tLc following effect HoAvever much I may like the Mormons, there is one thing that I haA noticed. I have read your journals often, and have met many Mormons; but 1 have neA'er yet seen an expr-ssionor heard a Mormon come outVlioldlyie cidedly as an abolitionist. 1 them much better if this thing cou.i, corrected. During the eveeing Mr.

Greeley called upon for a few remarks upon tin? Woman's Rights question, upon which he arose and said that he would dispose of that in a feAr sentmces He believed that AA'omen had the right to do what is right, that it was right for women to do eArery thing that was right, and that Neirt House Although Ken 'y and Tennessee have gbe largely i'r-iatic at the late election oh their the Op- position have gaim ll members of to the the districts. Congress in each, cratic divisions in A The South Amer' called, will haA'e qui' in, the next Ilouse and will wield the that body. putcd thus Maryland as they are Isome force esentatives, power in -r ay be com- .3 -X 1 3 ,6 .5 Virginia forth Carolina Georgia Louis'' ''i Ten v. 21 'Hi Democrats ayUI have sixty-six regu'ur members from the South, and enty-six from the North, making nine ty-two in all. Theru are six Independent Democrats elected.

The Ilouse on the question of organization Avill be thus divided 1 Regular Democrats Irregular Democrats South Americans Republicans 92 6 24 .114 The folloAving hig'il complimentary notice of us a-od lug young city, we clip from the Dodge County Citizen, printed at Bea-er Dam, Wis. The Cit izen is OAvned find ably edited by Mr. H. Wells, a brother of Thos. Wells, a much respected citizen of this county.

We add the Citizen, to our ex change list Avith pleasure Through the kindness of a brother residing at Manhattan, Kansas, Ave have recerved the second number of The Kansas Express, a seven column paper to be published in that place by C. F. de "Vivaldi, an Italian exile, and a Avarm supporter of Republicanism. Manhattan is one ot the most eligibly located toAvns in the interior of Kansas, being at the head of navigation on the Kansas river, and the probable terminus of the first Kansas railroad. It is an enterprising place, and The Express presents an appearance Avhich it mav Avell be proud of.

This is their' first newspaper and we hope it Avill be well supported." Miscellaneous Items. TAventy-nine years ago Chicago polled thirtT-tAATo votes, and a majority of these AA-ere by French, Canadian and half-breeds. The Lafayette Journal says that a mastodon's tooth, weighing tAvo pounds and an ounce, Avas found in the Wabash a feAv miles from that city, the other day. There Avere 137 persons arrested in the city of LeaA-enAvorth, during the month of July, of Avhich forty AAere arrested by the day police and ninety-seven by the night. Much excitement "h'as been created in Reach, Canada, by the- discovery in that vicinity of of a wild Avoman.

She was discovered by a party of gentleman A-ho were hunting. The whole neghbor-hood are in pursuit and a capture must be the consequence. Ten thousand revolving rifles are noAV manufacturmg at Col. Colt's armory, in Connecticut, for the British GoATernmeut. These are sufficient to arm six regiments.

Tennessee Elmctiox. By a dispatch from Memphis, dated Tuesday, August 9th, AA'e see. that Emerson Ether-idge, Opposition, is elected 'sure, making seven Opposition members chosen. The Louisville papers note the death of Victor? F. Ward, aged twenty years.

He AA'as the boy who AA'as whipped by Butler, the school teacher; Avhich Avhip-ping was the first act in the Mat Ward tragedy. Chicago has iioav eighty-six establishments exclusively 'devoted to the sale of drugs and medicines, of Avhich tAveh'e are AArholesale establishments, and tAven-ty-four are the stores and shops of druggists and apothecaries. A physician in LouisA'ille has discovered that by living principally on butter milk, a human beirg may prolong existence to the period of two hundred A'ears. Mrs. Paschair, Avife of the senior edi tor of the St.

Louis Republican, died at her residence on Vine street, on the 4th in the fiftiet.Vyer)r a long and painful illness. She Avas a most Avorthy and exemplary Avoman, and her husband has the heartfelt sympathv of his cotemporaries in his bereavement. The tAveuty-fifth anniversary of the emancipation of slaA'es in the British West Indies, was celebrated by the fu gitive negroes in Canada, at SandAA'ich, near Detroit. Scv-en thousand colored persons participated in the demonstration. Among them Avere the thirteen negroes from Missouri, whom Old BroAvn run through to Canada, on the U.

G. R. seAeral months aaro. It is said the darkies conducted themselves on the occasion.Avith much decorum and order. Mr.

Raymonjjpfiting from Lombardy, pays the following compliment to some of his I do not believe that any fire company, or body of KeAv York A'olunteers, ever Avent out for a sin gle day on a target excursion Avithout exhibitinsr more roAvdyism than the whole French army has shoAA'n during the Avhole of the Italian campain." A terrible gale has prevailed in the Northumberland'-' Straits, at Pickton, Prince EdAvards Islands, and numerous Cotillon Party A Good We were invited to attend a social cotillon party, to he giA'en at the school house, on Friday evening the 12th and although Ave cannot "Trip the light fantastic toe," (that branch of our education having been sadly neglected,) in accordance with said invitation, we were "on hands" at the appointed time. The weather being so bad, (the rain having commenced pouring down in torrents about 8 o'clock,) it Avas feared by some that the affair would be abandoned, but at 9 o'clock the hall Avas crowded with, as merry and light-hearted a company as one could Avish to see. The music furnished Avas of the very highest order, and kept the Avhole com pany continually in the highest spirits On account of the rough state of tW weather, no regular sunner Avas orotten up, but the thanks of all prent are due to Mr. George Wisneraiid his estimable lady, for the -cTlcious. ice cream, soda, cake, ancfher refreshments served up duringfthe evening.

When the Wee Pia' hours came on atwa'," the party hfefc? an everybody Avent awav erf! -cA ad -feeling: that it Avas titter rood 'a Avoid, it was the most recherche affair of the season. May we have many more of the same sort. Who i3 Ha? The Local of the Junction Sentinel has been going off into hifalutin in a grand style. Whether he is a resident of this mundane sphere, or the seventh higher and holier sphere, we are not able to state. But hear him and judge Our mind instinctively wanders to the spot where the gushing soda-fountain grace the bar of the Red, White and Blup.

Instantly, as if impelled by magic, we find our body throw off its wonted languor, as Ave stand beside its sparkling jet, quafiing the elixer draught that gives new existence to the inner man." And again To say nothing of onions, cucumbers, that have glided o'er our palate and inspired our soul." Of course they Avill! Taos whisky, onions and cucumbers are enough to inspire the soul of an ostrich But listen again "During the excessive heat that intervenes between the reA'ivifying showers which our city has lately been blessed with, and while exhausted nature seeks repose beneath the cooling shade, or Avanders, pensi-e, to our neighboring hills to catch the gentle zephyr from the high prairie, or along the vine-clad banks of the neghboring streams "while gazing upon the pelucid flood beneath our feet, and longing for a drop to cool our parching tongue." thou great, thou mighty, thou immortal Local! who art thou? Breathe but a Avhisper of thy Avhereabouts on the ambient air, and the enchanted Avinds Avill AA-aft thee to eternal fame Selah. Yours Respectfully. We are again under obligations to a number of our patrons for their kind, but not lasting, tokens of friendship. Those of our readers who knoAV how to appreciate the little delicacies of this life, will knoAA'how sincerely we thank our "next door neighbor," Mrs. Sarber, for a couple of jars of grape jelly, of her oAvn man-ufacture.

May she, her worse half," and their family, long Kve to enjoy just such and other luxuries, which she knoAA's so Avell hoAv to prepare. Our thanks are also due to Dr. A. Hunting, for some choice corn, tomatoes and other vegetables received at differ ent times. May his shadoAv never grow less." A great many more of our friends hae placed us under obligations to them for melons, cucumbers, and other products of their farms and gardens.

We are, in fact, literally rolling in the good things of this world. Who wouldn't be an editor 1 Copper Coin as a Legal Tender. It has been supposed by many that copper coins are a legal tender, to a certain amount, but the idea is erroneous. The folloAATing letter from Hon. James Ross SnoAvden, Director of the Mint, has been elicited by recent inquiries upon the subject JIixt of the United States, Philadelphia, July 2Q, '59.

Dear Sir The new cent is not a le gal tender for any ssecified amount; neither AAas the copper cent of former issues a legal tender for any sum. They are laArful coins," and authorized to pass current as money," but they are not expressly made a legal tender in the payment of debts. The Constitution of the United States prohibits the States from making anything but gold- and silver a legal tender in the payment of debts. This prohibition to the States does not apply expressly to Congress, but the principle perhaps does. At all events, Congress has made anything but gold and sih'er a legal tender.

Very truly, James Ross Sxoavdex. Schools for Colored, Children. The colored children of Mrs. Bum-ham's school, in Leavemvortli, had a pleasant picnic on the 1st of August. The Evening Dispatch, of that city; speaks as folloAVS of Mrs.

Bnrnham For some three months, Mrs. Burn-ham, a colored woman, has been teaching a school for negro children, on the corner of PotaAvatomie and Third streets, and at the expiration of the first quarter, she very properly concluded to giAe them an agreeable entertainment. While Avhite folks haA-e been wrangling as to Avhether colored children should be admitted into the public schools, Mrs. B. has gone to Avork and provided a channel through which they may receiAe instruction, and we believe she has been very generally seconded in her efforts bA" the eolored population of the city." sas Central Railroad has progressed as far as Topeka, and on Monday morning the engineers w-ill cross the river at that place and proceed to locate the road on the north side' by Avay of your city to For.t Riley.

The country, so far as the road has been located, is eTen more favorable than the most sanguine friends of the enterprise "have expected' it to be. Our engineers assure me that $5,000 per mile is a full estimate for the whole cost of grading and bridging, Avhilst the whole valley abounds in timber and stone that can be placed upon the road at an exceedingly moderate cost. Railroad meetings haTe been held lately at Lawrence, Tecumseh, and Topeka, Avhich were well attended by the people of the toAvns and country generally, all of Arhom manifest a deep interest in the great Kansas enterprise that of constructing a trunk road along the rich valley of the Kansas a route so cheaply constructed and so very ac cessible to all parts of the Territory, both north and south, and an enterprise that they look upon, not as a mere local improvement, but as an entering Avedge, a beginning, a necessary preliminary to the full development of our Avhole Territory and future State, by a system of lateral roads, easily and cheaply constructed, on lines marked out by nature, and upon which nature has performed the labor of thousands of hands and saAed the expenditure of millions of money. The people of all parts of the Territory, many of Avhom I hare had the pleasure of seeing and conversing Avith since I left home, manifest a deep interest in the railroad question, and particularly in the trunk road, Avhich all agree must be the precursor of all others the mother from Avhich all others must emanate. Fancy politicians are fast falling into discredit, and the people are beginning to look to the material interests of the country, to its develojnnent and improvement, and will hereafter expect those wlio ask their suffrages to present some other qualification except that of great ability in proscribing negroes, or in raising them to a political or social equality Avith Avhite men.

The negro question to the exclusion of all other interests has had its day and is about played out." The country through AA-hieh I haA'e passed for the last tAATo AA-eeks presents on all sides the unmistakable evidences of thrift and industry. Our farmers are farming in additional lands, and turning up the ATirgin soil preparatory to the sowing of a large stock of fall wheat. The great success of Avheat for the tAvo past years, has eonA-iuced all that there is no country in which a better quality of AvheJit or a more abundant yield can be groAvn. The corn crop now maturing is very large, perhaps double that of last year, and Avill yield, even if passa ble, more per acre than the immense crop of last season, thousands of bushels of Avhich is yet in the hands of farmers by reasou of a lack of facilities for transportation to market and of stock to consume it. This defect Avill be to a great extent obviated during the coming season by the great increase of hogs all oer the country, and from present appearance I should say that "the Territory Avill produce a large surplus of bacon.

The cattle up a thousand hills present to the eye of the traA'eler the most treatsome picture of the many charms of Kansas. Many of our farmers haA large stocks and the poorest of our people, who commenced Avith but a feAV coavs, are fast AArorking into large herds, the yearly sales from Avhich in a feAAr years Avill yield a revenue of thousands of dollars. The cattle are generally of Avell bred stocks, and from the yearling to the old Avork ox are as fat as the eye of the most exacting farmer could desire. All OA'er the broad prairies you find cattle of this description jeedjner unoji- natural meadoAvs, the one thousandth 'part of which'" they Aviii be unable to consume. In A-ieAA' of the fatness of these herds and the millions of tons of grass that will rot upon the ground for Avant of stock to consume it, and the exhaustless market for eA'ery hoof that Kansas is capable of producing," Iioav much the friend of Kansas deplores the lack of capital to reap the rich harvest that nature soavs annually upon the broad plains and that is lost to the Avorld for Avant of stock to consume it.

Hoav much would the sympathies of mankind be excited should a dcA'astating army, or fire, or flood, destroy a feAA- million of dollars AA'orth of property in Kansas every year. The half million destroyed by our political troubles of 185-5 and '56 yet furnish half the newspaper articles for the journals of the day, and yet eA-ery year this rich annuity of millions, given by nature, is alloAved to up and be utterly destroyed for want of capital to gather it and to comfert it into a substance essential to the necessities and comforts of man, and Ave have no noteg of svmpathv. We want nothing in Kansas but la bor and capital, to. make one of the most delightful couutrieH as well as the most SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, ISSD. FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS, MAR US J.

PARR OTT. Republican State Convention. The Republican Electors of Kansas are requested to choose delegates to meet in State Convention, in the city of Topeka, on Wednesday, the 12th day of October next, at 12 o'clock, for the purpose of presenting1 candidates to be supported for the offices of Governor, Lieutenant GoA-ernor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruotion, and to elect delegates to the National Republican Convention, and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the Convention. The following shall be the basis of representation to said Convention Doniphan county 4 delegates Atchison Brown 1 Nemaha 1 Marshall and Washington 1 Clayl; Riley Potawatomie 1 Dickinson 1, Davis 1, Waubonse 1, Shawnee 4, Jackson 1, Jefferson 3, LeaA'en worth 9, Douglas 7, Johnson 3, Wyandotte 3, Lykins 3, Linn 3, Bourbon 3, Allen 2, Anderson 2, Franklin 2, Woodson 1, Madison 1, Coffey 3, Osage 1, Breckenridge 2, Moms 1, Chase and Butler 1. Arrapahoe 1.

Each delegate attending the Convention must bring his credentials Avith him. S. C. rOMEROY Chairman Central Committee. A.

C. Wilder, Secretary. TVe're an jjditcL Yes, Ave Avant it distinctly understood, that we are a live, full-groAA'n editor the editor-in-chief having gone to the riA'er on business connected Avith the office. When he mounted the four-horse vehicle that Avas to bear him aAvay from all that he held near and dear," he informed us he would be back in a week but who can tell 1 Leavenworth is a wicked place, and he is young and unsophisticated "Angels and ministers of grace defend" him! We've a notion to change the politics of the paper to our 'own views as a certain editor in Leavenworth did not a great while ago, "just for the fun of the thing," but Ave received instructions of such a nature, that if Ave should but just intimate that AA'e were not a sound Republican, off Avould go.our editorial head, instan cr We would bloAv some person up, but cannot find any one to vent our wrath" on, as eA'erybody treats us AA'ith the due respect becoming our high and exalted position But, gentle reader, do 'nt let these exclamation points, that we haA'e been sticking in here so profusely, frighten you We 're not dangerous but we are of the opinion that ice, too, should be called "Col." Extension of th9 Telegraph Line. We see by the Leavemvorth dailies that the Missouri Hiver Telegraph Line is iioaa' completed from that city to Atchison.

The editors of the two cities have been "dropping a line" to each other. The folloAving is from the editor of the Freedom's Champion to the editor of the Daily Times: ATCinsox, August 15. Champion T'aiighan -Another link in the girdle Avhich Puck was to put around the earth in forty minutes, is completed. Its first message, in October and November, Avill bring to you the news of the success of the Wyandotte Constitution, and the majority old Atchison intends to give Parrot t. J.

A. Martix. The ansAver: Leavesavorth, August 15. To John A. Martin Your greeting Avas welcome.

Accept my warmest congratulations. The LeaA-eirworth Republicans are harnessed for the liberty-fight. Success to your city, your journal and our common cause. Champion Vaugiiax. Crops.

From our exchanges Ave hear that full assurance of a great harest is noAAr felt in all quarters of the counrry. Wheat, cotton, hay, corn and sugar promise greater yields in the aggregate, than eA-er before. The wheat crop is carefully estimated at 200,000,000 bushels, against 150,500,000 bushels last year, 000 in 1857, and 100,000,000 in 1S50 and the total value of this immense production of this year nt one thousand million dollars. At last acuonts, AArheat AA'as selling in Cincinnati at $1 10 for prime red, and $1 16 for prime AA-hite, being firm and in good demand at these In Xcav York on the 5th, 8,000 bushels were sold at $1 SOal 36 for red, and $1 55al 56 for white. FiA-e thousand bushels Avere on the same day sold in Philadelphia at $1 28a 1 30 for red, and $1 35 for Avhite.

Railroad Appropriation. At an election held in LeavenAA'orth on Monday, the 15th the people decided, by a vote of 1013 against 7, to give the city credit for 6100,000, to aid in the construction of a Railroad from that city to Ft. Riley. This is exactly right. It shows that they are in earnest on the subject, and Avill secure for them the confidence of monied men and Railroad builders in the East, Avhose assistance they Avant and will receiA-e, since they have commenced the work so nobly themselves.

Judge Johnson Nominated. Just as we are going to press, we learn that Sanders W. Johnson, of Leavemvortli, has been elected candidate to Congress, by the Democratic Convention Avhich assembled at Topeka on the 17th for that purpose. We are sorry for this Judge J. is a good," cleAer gentleman, personally, and AAe hate to see him so badlv beaten, as he is sure to be.

The First Baptist Church of Manhattan Avill have- services regularly at the School Ilouse, at 10 o'clock Sunday ation of the geography and geology of the Itocky Mountain region irom ort Laramie to Santa Fe, for the purpose of ascertaining the extent of the gold bearing region, and to select the most suitable and elegible location for the establishment of a colony for mutual protection and for a trading post to furnish supplies to the miners. He pursued his examination from the Fort through the heart of the mountains and mining country, as far south as on to the streams of the Colorado. We will here state that Mr. Leonard is one of the first geologists of Missouri, and that himself and party were sent out by tli is Company in consequence of his geological attainments. Having on his arrival at the Colorado ascertained all, and more than he went put for, he retraced his steps and final selected the site for his trading post at the mouth of Clear Creek, where it passes throusrh the moun tains.

(liiuiuiG 1.1.-5 nidi nt: iouuu. in all the streams, that have their mountains, and that in these streams the quantity of the gold was about the same. Some streams being larger than others, "brought down larger deposits but as a general thing, the quantity of gold in these streams was about the same. In the streams that headed near the base of the mountains but little gold was found, and it was upon these streams that the prospecting of the great returning crowd of emigrants "was done. Of course they were disappointed and being like all hasty and greedy fore-runners in a great enterprise, without means, mind or energy, they came back.

The whole region of country about the mountain range had every evidence of volcanic eruptions, and all the fragments of the crust were found inclining towards the summits of the main ridge. In the plains the claims were paying from one to ten cents per pan (a pan being about a gallon of earth.) These claims are not worked, but to the geologist they are used as evidence of the extent of the deposits. Previousto his departure the Jefferson Quartz-Lead Mining Company had appointed three Commissioners to determine the paying quality' of the quartz rock in claims offered for sale, and they found them to run from twenty-fiive cents to $1,50 per pound. In one instance the quartz yielded $5,00 to the pound. The great object to be attained by these Commissioners was to get a fair average of the whole lead.

Mr. TV. II. Bates, President of the above Company, came in with Mr. and is also stopping at the Planters.

They both wait here to get their crushing apparatus, which will be made at our city foundry, and be ready for them in about twenty days. Mr. Leonard had in his carpet-bag eighteen pounds of gold dust, which we Lad the plesure of seeing and handling. This gold was all from the mountains, where claims average from 25 cents to $2,00 per pan. These are the main features of the information given us by Mr.

L. We Avere so engrossed and taken up with the good news he was giving us, that it is impossible for us to make a more accurate account of his statement. Mr L. will leave here to-day or to-morrow for his home in Louisiana, Pike Missouri, about one hundred miles north of St. Louis.

Leavemvortli Ledger. Excitement at Iowa Point. In the early part of the present week, excitement ran high in Iowa Point. Some time last week several horses were stolen from the vicinity of Highland. Pursuit was made, the thief, (named Woods,) caught and taken to Iowa Point, on Saturday, and confined in a room.

After dark, a number of persons rushed into the room, put out the lights, and cried, "Hang him!" "Here with the rope!" at the same time seizing him and attempting to put a mpe aronnd his neck. He was a stout man, and had managed to conceal a knife about his person, with which he commenced slashing among his assailants. Charley Blakely, the leader of the gang, was dangerously if not fatally stabbed in the region of the liver. Two other persons were severely cut, but not dangerously. Sunday was all excitement, and it Avas near, that on Monday the fellow Would be hung.

On MondaAr, people croAvded into IoAva Point from eery direction, from this side of the river and from Missouri. But prudence got the better of excitement a meeting Avas held, speeches A-ere made on both sides of tho question, and it Avas decided not to lynch him. A Constable from Highland appeared in the eArening, and demanded him, and he Avas giA'en up. He Avas taken to Highland for trial. It is said that the thief exjiosed a number of accomplices in this portion of the Territory, but refused to bloAv on all avIio are engaged in stealing horses and harboring the thieA-es.

This affair may lead to startling developments, and be the means of ferreting out one of the most extenf, iA'e and hvwless gangs of horse-thieA'es in the United States. But the day is past, when men are to be hung up indiscriminately, without hearing or trial. If all avIio attempt such proceedings would haA'e their insides someAvhat stirred up, as Avas the case at IoAva Point, people Avould soon learn prudence, and conform to laAV. White Cloud Chief. Great Horse Race.

In the two mile trot in harness between Flora Temple and Princess, for a purse of 1000 dollars, Avhich came off August 16th over the Eclipse Course, Long Island. The former Avon in two straight heats. Time, 4 minutes, 50, and 5 minutes and seconds. Come to Time." The other even-ing Judge Pettit ga-e the folloAving pointed charge to the Jury Gentlemen, if you are not here at 8 o'clock in the morning, precisely, I will fine yon, fifty dollars each." We reckon they'll be Lea v. Ledger.

The Sea Serpent Caught. The Yarmouth Register says that the far-famed sea serpent has lately visited that port, and Avas chased up a narrow creek and caught. He turned out to be a horse mackerel, measuring OA'er eight feet in length and weighing 316 pounds. The Register says It is the opinion of experienced fisherman that this is the fish that has giAen rise to the belief in a sea serpent. When it is running at its ordinary speed in search of prey it moves along iwt under the surface of the wave which rises upon a Jl" rugations for about 100 feet in a straight line, before it falls off into the ordinary AA-ake produced by a body moving thro' the Avater.

This appearance in moderate Aveather so closely resembles that of a huge serpent moving OA'er the surface of the Avater that it is difficult, even for those accustomed to the appearance, to realize that it is nothing but a Arave, and it is not strange that AA'hen seen for the first time it should strike the beholder with terror." Indians in Southern Kansas. We learn from a merchant of Emporia that trouble is anticipated with the Indians in the counties of Butler and Greemvood, in Southern Kausas. There seems to be a collection of Ararriors from the Osage and Comanche "Xations en the Little Arkansas, and their object has been' anticipated to be hostile to the whites. A skirmish had been reported near Eldorado, in Avhich some of both sides were killed and AA'ounded, but this report needs confirmation. Another mnrmation.

Another messenger reports that it is doubtless the obiect of the warriors to other nation, and that thev vj. ivi lauk jjuijv3 uuniutio leal, i-i i i jJ, several tnousands, and that if anv misn lias been liacl Avitli the white set- tiers, it is not of a serious character. Lear. Times. Wonders of the Mississippi.

The difference of IeA'el betAA'een high and Ioaa-water mark at Cairo is fifty feet. The width and depth of the rirer from Cairo nn.l Mnt.liia tn XW Orln 5 nr.t vn. 1 terially increased, yet immense adaition are made to the quantity or Avater the channel by large streams from both the eastern and western sides of the Missis- sippi. A he question naturally arises, what becomes of this A'ast added of Avater It certainly neA'er reaches XeAv Orleans, and as certainly does not evaporate and of course it is not confined in the clwxnnel of the riA'er, for it Avould rise far aboA the entire region south of it. If a Avell is sunk anyAvhere in the Arkansas bottom, AA'ater is found as as the water-level is reached.

When the Mississippi goes doAvn, the water sinks accordingly in the well. The OAAiier of a saAv mill, some twenty miles from the Mississippi, in Arkansas, dug a well to supply the boilers of his engine, during the late flood. When the water receded his went down till his hose Avould no longer reach the water, and finally his Avell was dry. lie dug a ditch to an ad Hie question naturally arises, jacent lake to let Avater into his Avell 11 the lake drained and the Ave II dry again, having literally drank ten acres of AVuter in less than a week. The inference is, that the whole valley of the Mississippi, from its banks to the highlands on either side, rests on a poms substratum which absorbs the redundant waters, and thus prevents that degree of accumulation Avhich would long since have SAA'ept New Orleans into the Gulf but for this provision of nature, to Avhich alone her safety is attributable.

IILxts To Farmers. This being a leisure month for farmers, a feAv hints may not come amiss. Noaa' is the time to pIoAA' AA'heat or oat stubble, if you expect to cultiA'ate it in corn or potatoes next season by so doing you enrich your land, you prevent the weeds from seeding your land, and'uy exposing new plowed land to the rays of the sun and frost of winter, it effectually destroys 4.1 ii j. -i -i? it the.iuseetsa.Hl doea not take halt the labor to cultiA'ate the crops next season This month is a very good time to erect sheds, of prairie hay or straAv, for stock. If you neglect it until Aveather, you may have to take the advice of Horace Greeley and Avork Sundays Avhich is hard on the conscience, unless it is the conscience of a.

politician. This mouth is the proper lime to prepare wheat laud, aud soav in the first Aveek in September. Put the Avheat in well, either Avith a harroAv, cultiA'ator or doubled shared pknv. One bushel and a peck is sufficient per acre. I cannot urge in too strong Irnguage the necessity of planting and soAving largely, but not more than you can cultiA'ate well.

Correspondence Herald of Freedom. Extensive Fire. The Ontario Grain EleAator, in OsAvego, OAA-ned by Fred erick Covington, AA'as entirely destroyed by fire on the. morning of August 17, with the exception of the engine building. The ware house contained 150,000 bushels of Chicago spring wheat and corn.

The loss id estimated at 150,000 which is iiisured mostly in New York insurance offices. Counterfeiters Arrested. Various parties Avere arrested in TrojV N. August 16, for counterfeiting. All the apparatus Avas disco Aered.

$80,000 iu counterfeit bills captured. The prisoners were taken to Auburn. i i i I attack some lvu nll iiiA couett- they had, or ought to haA'e, the right to do Avhatever thev could do right. Ahrhj bfetrtUxments. E.

L. PATTEE, 31. Physician and Surgeon, offers Lis professional services to ihe citizens of Manhattan and vicinity. Office ia the IV--t Office I'Uiidiujr, up Kcfers to Prof. Chas A.

Lee, i. I'rof. II. II. Child, PittsfieU, Mass.

lT ADMINISTRATORS' XOTICeT" THE undersigned having been appointed Administrator of the estate of David Gillam, deceased, and letters of administration having beeu granted to him on the d.iv of August, 1809, all persons having claim? said estate, are requested to present them settlement, and all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make pavnient without dclry. DA VII It. GILLAM. August lo, OJJice of li'ttern Land District, (. Ogden, K.

Aug. 17, Join. TIlO Wm. Hemsiey You arc hereby notlci-d JL that on the 2oddav of August, at lu o'clock. Jy, John II.

Kcdmau av ill offer proof bt fore Cll You being an adverse claimant lo Inml, own- us af this office. S. LI GAREET. Re; 1IXDLEY PATTERSON, Receiver. Oi ICE OF WeSTCKX LaXI DISTRICT.

Ogdm, K. August la. I85i. TO William YVhittacre You are hereby not- i lied that on the 2uJ day of JiT9. at at 8 o'clock Andrew J.

Ilalstead Avill oner foot bCxore us at tins office 111 support ct las riirlit to preempt the east half of tiuth cast aiid Laif of north eat of section Town iss, Jht-sixtu. principal uieridiau. Averse cUiiuaut to 1 -r 5. B. GAR RETT, Register.

1j7-1 FlSDLEY FaTTEIInos, Receiver. Ojice of Western Land Dhtrict, I Ogden, K.T., August 13, a 10 Herod Root You are hereby notified tiiat on the '-Jd ef August at 9 o'clock Andrew J. llalsted wiii otter proof before is at this office in support of his right, to preempt lie east h.iif f. south east quarto-rot section "i-, and south half of north east quarter ef section 'S6 town 1 si, range ef the tisui principal nteridiaii. You being an adverse claimant to a jiart sf said land, will be to olfi-r counter-proof bcfoiv ns at that time at this officr- S.

GARRETT, Register. n7It F1XDLEY l'All'EROX, Register. Office of Westerx Laxd District. I Ogdcn, K. T.

Aug. Jo, i TO Jediithun ii.Wisiier and Stephen C. Tnit-blood--You are hereby notitied that on August at 12 o'clock, A. lSo'J, Jeus Peter Ipsen will offer pirtcf before tis at this i. nai of soutii west quarter of Section 23, Town 'j a.

Kotvh. 7 East of the sixth liit'i'ioiaii. You behig adverse clainiants to said lanil. be permitted to offer counter-proof before us at that time, at this office. S.

B. Gauuett, Register. 7-1 I- inesley Patterson. Receiver. 7 Office of Westekn Laxd District, OgJen, K.

Aug. 1, 1850. rjO David B. Strait You are hereby notified JL that August Sj, at lr. o'clock a.m., I8i9, Conway Aviil oiler proof before us at tliis 9 office iu support of his right to pre-empt the north-Avest quarter of section 34, town lo south, range 6 east if the sixth principal meridian- You being an adverse claimant to said land will be permitted to offer counter-proof before us at that time, at this office.

IS. B. Garrett, Register. 7-1 Fjxdley 1atterox, Receiver. Office of AVfstfjix Laxd Ogdeu, K.

Aug. 13, 1S39. I TO William llemsley You are hereby noritit that on Ausrnst at 8 o'clock, aJu- Rich" ard DMobley will offer proof iK-foreus at this of- fiee inpp right to pre-empt lot 5 ia i section lots 1 aud 2 of section 13, town 1lnth iSeastof the sixth principd meridian. You being an adverse claimant to" said 4and, will be permitted to offer counter-proof us at that time, at this office. S.

B. GARRETT, Register. -Fixdlev Pattersox. Receiver. td 3II.

Ci. 1 AKK, "Wholesale and Retail Dealer iu Druss and 31c Jiciacs, Chemicals, Stationery, PAINTS AND PAINTERS' MATERIAL, Oils, Burning Fluid, Varnishes, Putty, Window Glass, Brashes, Dye Stuffs, TOBACCO, TATEXT MEDICINES. Pure Liquors for Medicinal Purposes, PERFUMERY AXf: FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. No. 53, Corner of Third and Delaware Sts LEAVES AVOKTII Xn-" GEO.

BURGOYNE'S AMBROTYPE PICTURE GALLERY! I WOULD iuform the inhabitants of Ri' and adjoining counties that I am preparf-to take Correct Likenesses of any Size, And at moderate charges. Gallery on Avenue, between Second and Third. Manhattan, July to, tf us at tlus 111 support of Ids nght to pre- enspt lots 1 aud ot section JJ and lot a of Ht tJou 12) nvn 21j rau2re i)f sixth al nieiiuian. AATecks have been caused. It is said that fiftAr liAres bAve bfien lost.

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