The Western Progress from Spring Hill, Kansas • 1

I THE WESTERN PROGRESS 1AKX5 WILSON, Publisher. A Weeklj Paper Devotid to the Interests of the People. YZAR, IK ADVANCE. VOL. 4.

OLATIIE, JOHNSON THURSDAY, JAN. '27, 1870. NO. lf. lemsle, total white native population, male and female, Ud.005 total white forsigu and native population, male and.

lemale, Total population ut shown bv the census, 1. UamtHfrutough'a Clthing Home, BOCIKTTER. Wc wish to stale to Johnson Co. friends, that we arc fully cquiped for the Fall and Winter trade, with the very largest QRASSIWrrERCOliS; WrtUau fcir tb. WaatSM taoait.

On toward the Vitiligo drove good farmer Brown With his young roun nnd old dapple jrrey With a fStrady, there, Roan," or "Lii-ple, get up He cheerily guided the way. He had willingly worked with his toil-hardened hands All that frosty but bright wintry morn; His waKon was heaped with the rkh golden sura, i But alas! it was grasshopper com. i Now the coat that long covered bis big bm ly form Was a many-patched, course, houie-spuu blue; But the heart that throbbed under, and lit the grey eyes Whs attei'tioiiitte, honest and true. He had tolled through discouragements, early and late, By the christian's filth always upborne; The harvest had come he was reaping ut last. But oh It was grasshopper corn.

His good wife had told hint the evening before That lite coal oil and coftVe were low That Uie siurur was out, as were Utile Tom's toes, And she needed some stocking yarn too; That Mary and Susie should have a new trowsers were looking torlorn; "I'll get all I can," he replied with lgh, "But, wu've nothing but grasshopper com." UHASSHOFl'EHS. There Is a strong likelihood that wa shall hear more melancholy reports next season of the ravages, of grasshopper in Missouri, Kansas ami Nebraska. Observations show that lust year's grssnhoppert deposited Immense mnnbsr of eggs, and when the warm weather oontesaud hatches them, devastation even worse than these section have previously known will be pretty sure to follow. Yet the fanner in these states, who have been blessud this year wltii abundant crops from the teed and supplies) furnished by friends from without, ure making it is said, no preparations for the expected pest, but are selling their crops and spending their money its usual, and if the grasshoppers come, they will have to make new appeals for help, lu Utah, on the other hand, where the suine danger is apprehended, the farmers, by order of Brighatn Young are. storing their crops in order to be lu rcudluesi for the possible losses of next season.

Bvttvn Journal, The above paragraph lui appeared In one form and another in many Journals between St. Louis and Bostou. We desire to relieve the anxiety of the Juurnnl by OKLAHOMA. Extract From a Lkttkk From Col. C.

Boi IMNOT. T. Hi. RJIIuV ol tbt Kanraa City Tmai i Wasiiimitos, I). Jan.

10th 1K7B. The number of bills proposing legislation for the Indian Territory, Introduced this of Congress, shows plainly the growing interest lu the affairs of thut portion of the United States. The most superllelal render of the signs of the times cannot ignore the fact that the sentiment lu favor of leveling the Chinese wall around tho garden spot of this continent Is growing stronger and stronger every day. The delegates of the Cherokee Nation have been in the habit of telling this deluded people Ht the close of every session of Congress, that the territorial scheme had received Its death blow through the skill und eloquence they and their attorneys had displayed. HON.

WJ. A. PHILLIPS. the distinguished soldier und statesman of Kansas, was one of these attorneys his ambition at tlrst was to turn Indian; he made formal upplleution to the Cherokee Council for citizenship. Koss, who wanted to be chief, but who never could get enough votes from the people, did what he could to iniikc I'hiHipsau Indian.

Ross was to be chief, and Phillips the attorney and delegate for tho Cherokee with salary enough for both. The Cherokee Senate, in which Hon' partisans were In a majority, were willing to receive hliu. His name was to be or Rntr and extensive preparations were made to celebrate the urrlval of this new "son of the forest." Alas for the plans of 'he hero of Fort Glbsont The lower Iloue of the Cherokee Parliament the House of Common Indians did not appreciate the said hero, and Col. Win. A.

Phillips fulled to become a big and went to Kansas fully persuaded that republics are ungrateful. PEKS, PAT PP.K8 I But I digress; my enthusiasm for Phillips has (twitched me off from the main Winter Cassinierc and IJcavcr Nuits-a full line of Beaver. Chinchilla, Melton, Worsted, Fur Beaver and Ulster Over-Coats. AH grades of Boys' Clothing, every quality of Flannel and KnU Underwear. We sell a good undershirt at 50 cts.

Wc also carry a splendid stock of Hats and Winter Caps, and a full line of Diagonal Coats and Vests to match. Wedding suits a specialty. Yunnjr men who intend to work in harness double, We can fit you ont with lillle exjmnso and trouble; Our (Motliin and Kuniisbintf (ioods aro pronounced the best, We have the largvst block of fine goodit in the West. Co. 403 410, Kansas City, Mo.

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A. lUnkln. our gn'. at Olathe, will receive Application, And parties In Johnson county wuntlnfr money should without di-lay call at his offlce In Clem-swads Gilbert's block, Olutbe, Kansas. F.

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1ILAKK, J. B. IIROWK. BLAKE BROWN, FURNITURE DEALERS AND XJ ndertakerQ Kurnltiire of all kinds for Houses; 1'arlors, Olllis, Ac, furnished at reasonable rates. Will keep on hand all kind of the latest and bent patterns at the very lowest prices.

UNDERTAKING A SPECIALTY jA fine assortment of COFFINS, BURIAL CASKETS, TRIMMINGS HEARSE FURNISHED AT ANT HOUR. PICTURE FRAMES OF ALL K1HDS. Repairing dona by an experienced workman. BLAKE 4 BROWN, American Bloek, LOOK JrlERE! Invest your money where It will brlnjr the best returns. At Geo.

II. Lawrences' store you will always 11 ml the best and cheapest stock of Dry Goods, Clothing for men and boys, Hats. Caps, Hoots and Shoes, of all styles and quullties.atprirea rttst defy enfn))Htion. A First Glass Tin Shop connected with the House, in which all manner of Repairing is done Promptly. New Tin work Made to Order.

CORNER OF PARK AND CHESTNUT STREETS, OLATIIE, KAN. stating concerning its paragraph, tirst There are few grasshoppers' eggs depo ited in the Turritory uuiued, and in fact In most of it absolutely uoue. Second There ure no reasons for expecting un immediate return of the hoppers, uceording to the seientillo observations of the best entomologists, as well a from their previous habits aud history. In justice to the people of the grasshopper terltory it should be said, that during the past tw years no people ever endured with greater courage the most disheartening losses, and overcame greater difficulties with such slight resources. The abundant crops secured have been husbanded with an economy and care never before known lu the West.

After the failures of two years many have bceu compelled to part with a largo proportion of their ci ops to pay debts that were pressing aud necessary to be paid. In many instance so far removed as much of this territory is from good cash markets, the extortionate price for transportation consumes tho prolit on the produce It is true, for which calamity fanners arc less to blame than Eastern capitalists. The Juumal should further remember while giving advice on the subject that the farmers of the West ure most of them Eastern men, and represent on the aver-ago as much intelligence, sense aud prudence as may be found elsewhere. A'an-ajr Farmer. We have received a bushel or so of carriers' addresses, As usual, they are ueutly printed, and ure perfectly aboininal.

t. facotl Monitor. MISCELLANEOUS. Miss Hikok is the Hikokoloruiu of Washington belles this winter. P.

T. Buruuni had resolved to be a traveling showman no longer, but when it was announced that New Haven had a two-legged horse, his wife hud to hide his hat. Four wives in Virginia City celebrated New Years by christening their babies, aud a lifth wife being present, cried herself Into hysteric because she had no baby to celebrate. There's little difference between James P. Voorliecs, the young actor, and his father, One is the melancholy Dune and the other tho melancholy Dan.

One play Hamlet in Indianapolis; the other plays Hell, on the Wabash. Cincinnati Commercial, Tho newest of the royal babies Is cutting teeth on an ivory harness ring, aud has voluntarily said "gar" on several occasions without assistance from its devoted mamma. Out of 48 negroes arrested in Vicksburg In three weeks, 40 of them had razors lu their pockets, and the other two had brickbats. The colored man is neither a martyr nor a helpless chicken. When you have been so foolish as to tnkc exception to a lad remark, and she posing herself as If for debate, curtly ask "Why not just stop the conversation right there.

Remember that this is wido wide world, and there's always room enough to move on. Brooklyn Argus. Washington wasonco naked fodine with Judge Jouos, of Bostori. The ohiilr in which he would have sit If he had accepted this Invitation will be exhibited At I be Centennial. "You mean clastles," replied a Broad-' way clerk to nu old lady who asked for garters.

"It suppose some bighuoreii people cull 'em 'lasUeks," she mid, hut when I git too stuck un to ask for garter I'll not box my Susan ear for ylng hose when she means istockliiAfS'" She gft her gurtfts. Yk n. "Andpap," the youngest child coaxinglv nam A she climbed to her place on his knee, "To-morrow is Christinas, und oh can't you get Some candy for brother and me? We'd hang up our socks ss we did long ajro, Although they are very much worn, But mamma has told us t'would be of no use When we've nothing but grasshopper com." "I thought Santa Clans came 'round in a sleigh, With pretty white deersfora team; Tiny bells Jingling, and a full load of toys, As 1 saw him lut nb'bt lu mv dream. I thought he would surely stop here stud leu vp toys. As we'd tiud when we rose Christmas morn I'm sorry as can he he ever found out That our's was grasshopper corn." Into the village drove good fanner Brown, With a serious look in his eye As he thought of the comforts so needed at home, He expected with tliitt load to buy.

Out came the clerk lu a new suit. And a look of ineligible scorn, And turned as he said, we have orders to buy No more of this grasshopper corn." No better success did he anywhere meet, And never a purchaser tlini; And he thought, us hu cautiously picked out his way. That the streets were with corn wagons lined. Down to the stock pen drove good farmer Brown, With a countenance weary and worn And ten cents per bushel was all ho could get or that load of grasshopper corn. Oh! remember the little ones waiting at home, And the mother so hopelessly sad, With the coming of Christmas, the bright happy day That should make us so thankfullv clad Oil think of the wants In the homes of the poor, As yourselves and your homes you adorn, And give, If you pleaso, Just a little hit more Than ten cents for grasshopper corn.

SruiNti Hill, Jan. 3, 1876. C. S. Tiff; CUISESE QUESTION.

The question of Chinese Immigration is looming up la California. It seems that both parties la the Legislature have agreed upon a memorial to Congress to reform our treaties with China so as to make them treaties of commerce and to prevent the Influx of Chinese Immigrants. There is a great deal to be said on both sides of this question, but it Is difficult to prevent the immigration of the Chinese. On one side of the ocean we have an overflowing country, teeming with hundreds of millions of people. On the other side we have a country sparsely populated, with hundreds of millions of acres waiting for laborers.

Here is a eountry, as large almost as the Chinese Empire, with a population of not over half a million or a million at the furthest, Now, In the course of nature, the tendency will be for the crowded millions to Reek space on tho Pacillo coast. Nor do we see how any legislation can prevent this especially under our constitutional amend ment which forbids Congress to make any distinction in race or color. We can not keep tho Chinese away by lore. Many good people in California regard Chinese labor as underlying the prosper ity of the State. The diflloidty is that we decide these questions in our politics too often from passion or feeling.

It Is really a gravg problem ono of the gravest In our polities V- T. track of my subject. I was about to al lude to the great expense the Indians have incurred in killing dead, over and over Airain, the Oklahoma bill. In November, 1S7J, after Phillips wis nominated for Congress, and after, I think, he was efcet'rci' to Congress, the Cherokee Council appropriated the sum of iecen thouaml. floehun dt-ed dMart lor the beucllt of Win.

A. Phillips, the following year the Council appropriated to pay other attorneys who had rendered signal services In braining all schemes to organize a civil government over the Indian Territory. AT LAST. It is quite probable, that from 1SC9 to the present time, the Cherokee Nation of OOfl souls nave paid over $130,000 to dele-gales and attorneys to defei.t the Okluho-: ma bill. This is exclusive of tho other i four nations.

Yet. after squandering $150-' 000 to defeat the Inevitable, the project to 1 give the civilized Indians of Oklahoma a i life and property, to elevate them from the condition of wards and subjects to the rank of citizens of the United States; to give them an absolute Individual title to their lands, lu place of the insecure title In common they now possess; to send the numerous delegates which swarm the cor ridors of the cupilol and departments, at the expense of hundreds of dollars a day to their poor people, back to thoir homes, and In their stead to open tho doors of Congress to it delegate at the expense of' United States, who shall be the oillcial 1 peer of any member of Congress is now fairly before the country. CEZSUS OF Ays AS. The census shows that 4S7 of the residents of Kansas came here from the State of Louisiana, 1,174 from Mai no, from Maryland, 7,341 from Massachusetts, 9,935 from Michigan, 7,873 from Minnessobi, 682 from Misslssldpl, from Missouri, 7S1 from Nebraska, 122 from Nevada, 610 from New Hampshire, 7.08:) from New Jersey, 13,300 from New York, 1,322 from North Carolina, 388 from Alabama, 3,135 from Arkansas, 876 from California, 773 from Colorado, 098 from Connecticut, 111 from Delaware, 57 from Florida, 059 from Georgia, 91,170 from Illinois-, 30,322 from Indiana, 48,873 from Iowa, 9,194 from Kentucky, 32,303 from Ohio. 149 from Oregon, 13,209 from Pennsylvania, 391 from R.

10(1 from S. 3,640 from Texas, 003 from Vt 3,452 from Va 1,393 from W. 12,441 from 1,720 from I). C. and 4.548 from Germany, 1,368 from Ireland, 3,424 from England and Wales, 433 from Scotland, 4,078 from Sweden, Norway and Denmark, 374 from Franco, 384 from other pan of the north of Europe, 32 from Italy, 3,194 from other parts of the south of Europe, 4,178 from Brinish America, 3,208 not tared.

There were 123,851 born in Kaa. The total whito male population is 208-084, female, The totid wh Ite native population is, male, 231,130 female, 312,855. Tho total white foreign population Is, male, 30,1134, female, 30,729. Total colored population, male and female, total foreign population, mr and OYSTER RESTAURANT GKO. ALGKR, WILL furnish the citizens of Olathe and the public jftMierully with the very best Baltimore brands of FUESH OYSTERS.

They will be furnished by the can or dish In any style. ALSO all kinds of Confectionery, Frtiltx, Clears, Ac. constantly on hand. East side of the Public Square, Olathe, Kansas. JOHN HARTUNG, 1 MANUFACTURER OF SILVER MOUNTED AND WAGON HARNESS.

DEALER I SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS, WHIPS, SPURS, And everything In the Ilarneas and Saddle line nan be foil ml at his shop, on I'ark street. UenulrliiK substantially don. if you wsnt No. 1 llariieHSRn to llHrtung'ssbop No. 11 lie guurnntee satUfsution to all.

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