The Young America from Leavenworth, Kansas • 1

A ME RICA 0 t. I31DITOR IROPIUISTOTS INDEPENDENT OP ALL POLITICAL PAKTIES. "1 NO. 8. LEAVENWORTH CITY, K.

ffllURSDAY, OCTOHER 22, 1857. VOL. 1. them, but which, nevertheless, overtops work of Ids life, and to witness the total of that sectional tempest which threatened to whelm the Republic THE YOUNG AMERICA ii published nvr.nv Thursday, BY GEORGE W. McLANE, cnnon Ann pKopniKTon.

(KyOfnca on tho East'siTa of. Second street, bttwten Delaware and Shawnee in ruins. Both the great parties of the country have agreed to stand upon the platform which he erected, and both of them have solemnly pledged themselves to maintain unimpaired the worn: or nis energy, of unsurpassed eloquence, and of devoted patriotism, it would be strange indeed if different minds, ha they dwell upon the subject, were all to select the samo incidents of his life ns pre-eminently calculated to challenge admiration and respect. Sir, my admiration aye, my affection for Mr. Ci.AY-'-waa won--and' secured many years since, even in my school-boy days when his voice of counsel, encouragement, and sympathy was heard in the othdr ljall o.f this Capitol, in behalf of the struggling colonies of the southern! portion of this continent, who, in pursuit: hands.

I doubt not the knowledge of this cheered him in his dying moments, One Dollar nnd Flirty Ccnls per annum, in advance, land will not lie delivered, or mnileil to subscriber! unless tho twin are complied with. N. H. No discount to cluha. iiTAdverliMeiut'iits inserted on liberal Irrms.

and helped to steal away tho pangs of dissolution. Courting. "I don't sect why people can not do their courting by day-light, thereby saving un expense uf lijfht, fuel and forenoon naps." A breakfast table remark. Whew! preach that doctrine until your head is grey, and you aro as toothless nm new-born babe, and still the young folks will "set up" till the stars grow tired of watching and the roosters begin to crow There is a sort of fascination in it, a positive denial to tho contrary notwithstand ing. An indescribable, undeniable charm charm in being the sole occupants of a front parlor, with nothing to molest or make afraid; tho sofa drawn -up before the shining grate and the lamp regulated to a steady blaze that will not eclipse tho brightness of eyes, or made particularly pleasing in hearing the last pair of household feet take a bee-line departure for the upper chambers, and feeling that the ever-swinging parlor door will remain all the trees of the surrounding forest, Henry Clay, by his own inherent, self-sustaining energy and genius, rose to nn attitude of fame almost unequalled in the ago in which he lived.

As on orator, legislator, and statesmen, he had no superior. All his faculties were remarkable, and in remarkable combination. Possessed of a brilliant genius and fertile imagination, his judgment was sound, discriminating, and eminently practical. Of an ardent a ml impetuous temperament, he was nevertheless persevering and firm of purpose. Frank, bold, and intrepid, he was cautious in providing against the contingencies and obstacles which might possibly rise up in the road to success.

GeneroiH, liberal, and entertaining broad and expanded views of national policy, in his legislative course he never transcended the limits of a wise economy. But, Mr. President, of all his facul Mr. President, if I knew anything mnro that I could say, I would gladly ut Professional Cardx. tor it.

To me, he was something more than kind, and I am called upon to min of their inalienable rights, in imitation of? gle private with the" public gnet. i wish that I could do something to add to his fan e. But ho built for himself a monument of immortality. We pay to our. own forefathers, had tlifc banner of liberty, and regardless of consequences, had gallantly rushed into that contest where "life is lost, or freedom won." And again, sir, when Greece, rich in the memories of the past, awake from the slumber of ages of oppression The Girl With tho Calico Dress.

A fig for your upper-ten girls, With their velvets and aallns and lacea, Their dimonda and rubles and pearls, And their milliner figures and faces. They may shine at party or ballf.f Emblazoned with half they possess, Rut give me, in placed them all, The girl wth the calico drcH. She is plump as a partridge, and fair As the roae in its earliest bloom, Her teeth will with Ivory compare, And her breath, with tho clover perfume Her step is as free and as light As the fawns whom the hunters hard press, And her eye is as soft and bright, My girl with the calico dress. Your dandies and fopfings may sneer At her simple and modest attire, But the charms she permits to appear Would set a whole Iceberg on fire. She can dance, but alio never allows The hugging, tho mpiee.c and caress She- is saving all these for her spouse, My girl with the calico dress.

She is cheerful, warm-hearted and true, Ami kind to her father and mother She studies how much she can do For her sw oct little sister and brother. If you want a companion for life, To comfort, enliven, and bless, She is just the light sort of a wife, My girl with the calico dress. him the tribute of our tears. More we have no power to Patriotism, honor, genius, courage, and centuries of shame, and resolved have all come to strew their garland about his tomb and well they may, for "To call her virtues back, and conquer time and fate" there, over the plains of that classic land, above the din of battle and the clash of he was the peer of them all. Mr.

COOPER said: Mr. President: It is not always by words that the living pay to the dead tho sincerest and most eloquent tribute. The tears of a nation, flowing spontaneously arms, with the shouts of the victors and the groans of the vanished, were heard the thrilling and stirring ties, that of making friends, and attaching them to him, was the most remarkable and extraordinary. In this respect, he seemed to possess a sort of fascination, by which all who came into his presence were attracted towards, and bound to him by ties which neither time nor circumstances had power to dissolve or weaken. In the admiral ion of his friends was the recognition of the divinity of intellect in their attachment to him, a confession of his generous personal qualities and social virtues.

Of the public services of Mr. Clay, the present occasion affords no room for a sketch more extended than that which over the grave of a public benefactor, is notes of that same eloquence, excited by a sympathy which knew no bounds, wide as the world, pleading the cause of Grecian liberty before die American Congress, as if to pay back to Greece the Have associated themselves together in tho practice of MEDICINE and SL'iUJKKY, and offer their professional services to tho citions of Leavenworth and vicinity. vrrics on main first noon above the n.ANTF.n'.S HOTEL. fjTM night Dr. Ilenhk may be found at the i'Unler's Hotel, and Dr.

Jlcdell at his residence on Seneca street, third door from Main. Leavanwoith City, Sept. 3, 1857. tL DOCTOR L. HOUSTON, Ti'iidHM liia professional services to tlie citi-utim of Leavenworth and vicinity.

(JOtlicu on Second Street, 'between Ih-la-ware and Shawne, in the "Yocno America" kjilding. Leavenworth K. T. Sept 3.1, 1X57. tf.

7 wfl-UllinNS. H. T. lillKEN ATTOHNEYS AT LAW, an Solicitors in Chancery, VVILL practice in all the Court of Kan-V sag Territory. Office on Shawnee opposite the "Suawnee House." Lsajreuwtu jCityKept.

jhl, tf. A. MACA1I.AV.1 fit. II. SHANNON.

MACAULAY SHANNON, Attv'ft at aw, I. and Atct sits, (jyoilice on Cherokee street, in Dr. Day's In irk building. Lvnwortli Citv, Sept. 3, tf.

H. MILES MOORE, A Jt'y at Law, A tt F. I't A A MUST. Particular attention given to securing and allectitiir claiur. jJVOtlice on D-lawarc atrfft i'i Weaver i MARCUS J.

rAllROTT, A'l TV A i AW, 1 1 I Leavenworth K. i'. Sept. 3, 1K.V,'. If.

ATTORN KY AT VV. debt which every patriot and orator felt was her due. Sir, the lung and honorable career of the deceased, there are many events and upon which his friends and posterity will dwell his respected colleague Mr. Under wood has presented, it is, however, a more eloquent testimonial or his worth and of the affection and veneration of his countrymen, than the most highly-wrought eulogium of the most gifted tongue. The heart is not necessary for the fountain of words, but it is always the source of tears, whether of joy, gratitude, or grief.

But sincere, truthful, and eloquent, as they are, they leave no permanent record of the virtues and greatness of him on whose tomb they are shed. As the dews of heaven falling at night are absorbed by the earth, or dried up by the morning sun, so the tears of a people, shed for their benefactor, disappear without leaving a truce to tell to future generations of the services, sacrifices, and virtues of him to whose memory thev were a grateful tribute. But with satisfaction and pride, but none sufficient to say, that for more than forty years he has been a prominent actor in which will preserve his memory with more unfading lustre to future ages than the drama ol American affairs. During the course he pursued in tho Spanish- the late war with England, his voice was more potent than any other in awakening the spirit of the country, infusing American and Greek revolutions. Mr.

CLEMENS said: Mr. Iinr.siDKNr: I should not have "ClIILDHEN' IN IIUAVKX." Weill) JlOt recollect of having ever met with anything1 more touch ingly, tenderly beautiful than this little hymn Il'ho are they whose little feet, Pacing life's dark journey through, Now have reached that heavenly seat, They have ever kept in view "I from Greenland's frozen lands "1 from India's sultry plain "I from Afric'a burning "I from Islands on the main." All our nrfhly journey past. Every tear and pain gone by, Here together meet at ladt, At the porUils of the sky Each the welcome awaitfl, confidence into the people, and rendering available the resources for carrying on thought it necessary to add anything to what has already been said, but for a re the contest. In our domestic controver sies, threatening the peace of the coun closed until one of the party cornered choose to open. 7'alking of courting by daylight! Think of laming one's arm by quick, hasty withdrawals from around a certain waist at the incessant ringing of the bell, or seeing the puff-combs and curls fly in every direction at the souud of coming footsteps.

Imagine proud lover at the feet of fair lady, puffing forth an elopient, long avowal, with extraordinary expressions Hitting over the face; and, at the same moment, a puzzled countenance peering through the folding door, wondering what makes Mr. "pray with his eyes wide open," and, more disagreeablu still, have "mamma" open the door without the prelude of a rap, of course, just at the moment you have ventured to test the temperature and sweetness of her daughter's lips. Margaret Verne. for October is a usual good. Wo take from it the following: A shrewd countryman was in Gotham some days ago, gawky, uncouth, and innocent enough in appearance, but in reality with his eye-teeth cut.

Passing up Chatham street, through the Jews' quarter, he was continually encountered with opportunities to buy. From almost every store soma one rushed out, in accordance with the annoying custom of that street, to seize upon and try to force him to purchase. At last, one dirty looking fellow caught hiin by the arm, and clamorously urged him to become a customer. 'Have you got any inquired the countryman, with a very innocent look. 'A splendid assortment, sir.

Step in, sir. Every price, sir, and every style. The cheapest in the street, 'Are they 'To be sure, sir. Step in, resumed the countryman, with perfect gravity, "put one on, for you need The rage of the shopkeeper may be imagined as the countryman, turning upon his heel, quietly pursued his way. Bulwer says that an awkward tie of the cravat is very annoying to the wearer." No doubt it is, especially if the cravat is a hempen one.

quest preferred by some of the friends of the deceased. 1 should have been con try and tho integrity of the Lnion, he has always been lirst to note danger, as tent to mourn him in silence, and left it to other tongues to pronounce his eulogy well as to suggest the means of averting it. When the waters of the great politi What I have now to sny shall be brier very brief. cal deep were upheaved by the tempest of discord, and tho ark of the Union, fieighi- Mr. PictsiiiEST, it is now loss than ed with the hopes and destinies of free three short years ago since 1 first entered f'l'inpiTnr n'-r death and tin! Lift yo'ir bends, ye golden gate, Let the litt lo travelers in.

this body. At that period it numbered Corner of Secord ami LFAVLNM'ouiii Citv. K. T. tuj.t.

3, tf. DAITIEL'L: HEJJIlYr Attoriiy and Counselor at Lair, Leavenworth I'ity, Kansas Territory. on Main tip stairs over Roes, Kilth A. Co's Store. among its members many of the most illustrious statesmen this Republic has ever dom, tossing about on the raging billows, and drifting, every moment nearer to the vortex which threatened to swallow it up, it was his clarion voice, rising above the storm, that admonished the crew of im known.

Of tne hvmg, it is not my pur OUW OKI EASED ST ATKS.TIEX. We purpose publishing (in their order,) the eulogies delivered in the nose to speak: but in that brief period, pending peril, and counselled the way to safety. death has been busy here; and, as if to mark the feebleness of human things, his Senate and House of Representatives of k. ati.s. i i.K.

hi.i.m r.iv: But, Mr. President, devotedly as ho nrrows have been aimed at the highest, the mightiest of us all. First, died Cal loved his country, his aspirations were not limited to its welfare alone. Wherever freedom had a votary, that votary no un. And well, sir, do I remember the deep feeling evinced on that occasion by him whose death has been announced had a friend in Henry Clay and in the struggle of the Spanish colonies for independence he uttered words of encourage here lo-day, when he said "I was his senior in years in nothing else.

In the ment, which have become the mottos on course of nature I ought to have preceded him. It has been decreed otherwise but I know that I shall linger here only a short time, and shall soon follow him. It was genius mourning over his younger the banners of freedom in every land. But neither the services which he has rendered his own country, nor his wishes for the welfare of others, nor his genius, nor the affection of friends, could turn BEES, PAYKTER SEES, ATTY'S AT LAW. ly Office on Main rtreet, up stairs, over Hie Store of ltees, Keith, Co.

Lavnworth City, Sept. 1S57. tf. MATEIA3, ATTOKNKYS AT LAW. All professional linsiii'-ss carefully attended t.

Office, Corner of Main and Shawnee LtavenwortU City, K. T. Sept. 3d, tf. wn, a.

coke jr. CLAUDIUS MUUIVEnN. COLE McGIVERN. ATTOHNKYS AT LAW. Office on Main Street, up atairs, Third door North of the Post Otlice.

Leavenworth City, K. T. 11 f. HALDERM AN STANLEy7 ATTORNEYS AT LAW, LKAVKNWOKTH CITY, KANSAS TERRITORY. Sept.

3d, lSf.7. ly. brother, and too surely predicting his own aside the destroyer. No price could purchase exemption from the common lot of humanity. Henry Clay, the wise, the great, the gifted, had to die and his his Every man ought to have a wife.

If a is man is happily married, his rib worth all the other bones in his body. tory is summed up in the biography whica the Russian poet has prepared for all, kinds and serfs as homage paid to virtue is an incentive to it, it. is right that the memory of the good, the great, and noble of the earth should be preserved and honored. The ambition, Mr. President, of the truly great, is more the hope of living in the memory and estimation of future ages than of possessing power in their own.

It is this hope that stimulates them to perseverance; that, enables them to encounter disappointment, ingratitute. and neglect, and to press on through toils, privations, and perils to the end. It was not the hope of discovering a world, over which he should himself exercise dominion, that sustained Columbus in all his (rials. It was not for this he braved danger, disappointment, poverty, and reproach. It was not for this he subdued his native pride, wandered from kingdom to kingdom, kneeling at the feet of princes, a suppliant for means to prosecute his sublime enterprise.

It was not for this, after having at last secured the patronage of Isabella, that he put off in his crazy and ill-appointed fleet into unknown seas, to struggle with storms and tempests, and the rage of a mutinous crew. It was another and nobler kind of ambition that stimulated him to contend with terror, superstitution, and despair, and to press forward on his perilous course, when the needle in his compass, losing its polarity, seemed to unite with tho fury of ihe elements and the insubordination of his crew in turning him back from his perilous but glorious undertaking. It was the hope which was realized at last, when his ungrateful country was compelled to inscribe, as an epitaph on his tomb "COLUMBUS has given a new world to THE KINGDOMS OF CASTILE AND LEON," that enabled him, at first, to brave so many disappointments, and at last, to conquer the multitude of perils that beset his pathway on the deep. This, sir, is the ambition of the truly greatnot to achieve present fame, but future immortality. This being the case, it is befitting here to-day, to add to the life of Henry Clav the record of his death, signalized as it is by a nation's gratitude and grief.

It is right that posterity should learn from us, the contemporaries of the illustrious deceased, that his virtues and services were appreciated by his country, and acknowledged by the tears of his countrymen poured out upon his grave. The career of Henry Clay was a wonderful one. And wdiat. an illustration of the excellence of our institutions would a retrospect of his life afford! Born in an humble station, without any of the adventitious aids of fortune by which the obstructions en the road to fame are smoothed, he rose not only to the most exalted eminence of position, but likewise to the highest place in the affections of his countrymen. Taking into view the disadvantages of his early position, "born, living, dying, Quitting the still shore for the troubled wave, It is said that great minds like pictures, are seen best at a distance.

We know thousands of little persons that we liVe best at a distance. Struggling with atorin-clonds, over shipwrecks flying, And casting anchor in the silent grave." But though time would not spare him, there is still this of consolation: he died peacefully and happy, ripe in renown, full of years and of honors, and rich in Contracting a name sometimes lengthens the idea. Kean speaks of an actor, named Lancaster, whom his friends usual-, ly called Lanky "for short." Many a man imagines every little matter that affects himself, of great importance to the world. rumbling of his own bowels he fancies an earthquake. the affections of his country, lie had, too, the unspeakable satisfaction of closing his eyes whilst the country he had loved so much, and served so well, was V.

B. YOUNG, ATTOBNEY AT LAW. fjOfTice, corner Main and Shawnee streets, over Sinoot HusselH ACo's liankin House, Leavenworth citv, K. T. Sept.

17. ly. ATTORNEY AT IJW, LEAVENWORTH CITY, KANSAS, JSP Will practice in all the Courts of tho Territory, and the adjacent Counties of Missouri. Sfpt-jh), 1850. tf.

CLAYTON SWIFT, F.NaiNEF.n, SunvEYOiis Akchitkcts, Leavenwortli City, Kansas Territory. gT Office on Main Street, between Delaware and Shawnee. Sept. 1857. tf.

POWELL CLAYTON," COUNTY SURVEYOR, still in the enjoyment of peace, happiness, the Congress of the United States, on the the country's greatest Statesmen, Camioun, Clay a.njj Weuster. These eulogies should be read and reread by every one, and treasured up in the hearts and memories of the American People. Deatla of Mr. Clay. Mr.

HALE said: Mr. Piiesident: I hope I shall not be considered obstrusive, if on this occasion for a brief moment, 1 mingle my humble voice with those that, with an ability that I shall neither attempt nor hope to equal, have sought to do justice to the worth and memory of the deceased, and at the same time appropriately to minister to the sympathies and sorrows of a stricken people. Sir, it is the leaching of inspiration that "no man liveth and no man dk.ih unto himself." There is a lesson taught no less in the death than in the life of every man eminently so in the case of one who has filled a large space and occupied a distinguished position in ilie thoughts and regard of his fellow-men. Particularly instructive at this time is the event which we now deplore, although the circumstances attending1 his decease are such as are calculated to assuage rather than aggravate the grief which it must necessarily cause. His time had fully come.

The three score and ten marking the ordinary period of human life had for some years been passed, and, full of years and of honors, he has gone to his rest. And now, when the nation is marshalling itself for the contest which is to decide "who shall be greatest," as if to chasten our ambition, to restrain and subdue the violence of passion, to moderate our desires and elevate our hopes, we have the spectacle of one who, by the force of his intellect and the energy of his own purpose, had achieved a reputation which the highest official honors of the Republic might have illustrated, but could not have enhanced, laid low in death as if, at the very outset of this political contest, on which the nation is now entering, to teach the ambitious and aspiring the vanity of human pursuit and end of earthly honor. But sir, I do not intend to dwell on that moral which is taught by the silent lips and closed eye of the illustrious dead, with a force such as no man ever spoke with; but I shall leave the event, with its silent and mute eloquence, to impress its own appropriate teachings on the heart. la the long and eventful life of Mr. Clat, in the various positions which he occupied, in the many posts of public duty whkh he filled, in the many exhibi-im which hi hHnry fTrh of wiring union, and prosperity still advancing in Prnv dnn't monl ion it." ns tho man all the elements of wealth, greatness, and said when he was told by the tax-collector that his rates were due.

power. I know, Mr. President, now unequal I have been to the ppparently self-im approaching end. He, too, is now gone from among us, and left none like him behind. That voice, whose every tone was musie, is hushed and still.

That clear, bright eye is dim and lustreless, and that breast, where grew and flourished every quality winch could adorn and dignify our nature, is cold as the clod that soon must cover it. A few hours have wrought a mighty change a change for which a lingering illness had, indeed, in some degree, prepared us but which, nevertheless, will still fall upon the nation with crushing force. Many a sorrowing heart is now asking, as I did yesterday, when I heard the first sound of the funeral bell "And is he gone? the pure of the purest, The hand that upheld our bright banner the surest, Is he gone from our struggles away? But yesterday lending a people new life, Cold, mute, in the coffin to-day." Mr. President, this is an occasion when eulogy must fail to perform its office. The long life which is now ended is a history of glorious deeds too mighty for the tongue of praise.

It is in tho hearts of his countrymen that his best epitaph must be recorded. In that deep love of country which distinguished every period of his life, he may not have been unrivaled. In loftiness of intellect, he was not without his peers. The skill with which he touched every chord of the human heart may have been The iron will, the unbending firmness, the fearless courage, which marked his character, may have been shared by others. But where shall we go to find all these qualities united, csncentrated, blended into one brilliant whole, and shedding a lustre upon one single head, which does not dazzle tho beholder only because it attracts his love and demands his worship 1 scarcely know, sir, how far it may be allowable, upon an occasion like this, to refer to party struggles which have left wounds not yet entirely healed.

I will venture, however, to suggest, that it posed task of presenting, an appro There are two kinds of family jars into one you put your sweet-meats, and into the other you put your foot. rILL promptly attend to running Open Lines, establishing Open Corners, and all The hardest situation for an habitual grumbler to be in is, to feel like grumbling, and have nothing to grumble at. I am passionately fond of paintings, as the young beau said, when he kissed the rouged cheek of his sweet-heart. priate manner, trie morns or tne illustrious deceased. But if I had remained silent on an occasion like this, when the hearts of my constituents are swelling with grief, 1 would have been disowned by them.

It is for this reason that of giving utterance to their feelings as well as of my own that I have trespassed on the time of the Senate. I would that I could have spoken litter words; but, such as they were uttered by the tongue in respose to the promptings of the heart. A distinguished politician was hung in effigy in Alabama on the 20th ult. Up to tho 30th nobody seemed disposed to cut him down. The winds of heaven were still sighing dolefully through his ribs.

A potitical opponent says, that, if we are not disposed to stand his abuse, we can demand satisfaction. 7'he abuse itself is satisfaction to us. A manager said to an actor the other night, "Do pay a little attention to your So I do," was the reply, as little as I can." ther businca connecteu Willi tlie County nur-reyors Office. 0. M.

Tennyson, W. Clayton and B. W. Cook are qualified deputies; all others acting in that capacity, do so without nulhority, ami tiia public are hereby cautioned against em-floying them as such. Sy Oflica on West side of Main St.

between aware and Shawnee, Leavenworth City, K. T. Sept. 3d, 18:7. 1-tf.

jJAaVEY "DAY, nci.r,ii iv fyoficK on Cherokee street, one door trom Main, in Brick Building. Leavenworth City, Sept. 3, 1S57. tf. REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE, J.

N. CO. NorthweBt corner of Second and Cherokee at. Leavenwohtii, Kaksa.i. disadvantages against which he had al ways to contend, his career is without a parallel in the history of great men.

To have seen him a youth, without friends or fortune, and with but a scanty educa Tl gentlest task-master we ever knew is a blacksmith, who says every evening to his apprentices. Come, boys, let's leave oil" work and go to sawing wood Let a woman le decked with all the embellishments of art and nature, yet. if boldness be read in her fac', it blots out all the lines of beauty. tion, who would have ventured to predict for him a course so brilliant and be- nefieenU and a fame so well deserved und enduring Like the pine, which sometimes spring up amidst the rocks on the mountain side, with scarce a crevice in Will devote particular attention to buying and selling Itcal Estate. Locating Land War-rante, A.c.

P. S. Evaminatien Til rd Is if i Law is like prussic acid a dangerous remedy, and th dose is gener-h'Iv titficiciiti should be a source of consolation to his friends that he lived long enough to see he full arcnm pli- hinnt of tho yrcat Bin Taste. Pretty injf I'M wid-vTr'-- e.ii-1reti. wbHi fix it roots, sil to.