The Anti-Monopolist du lieu suivant : Parsons, Kansas • 4

telegraphic! BKPRESKXTATI0X IX C0XGRESS. It is a pleasure to see one of the INDIAN DEPREDATION'S. Before Mr. Ross left the Senate FORT most influential journals in the GRANT'S POSITION. On the 1-ith instant the National Council of the Union League called upon the President.

Among those present were (lovernor Gea Abilene, Grasshopper' Falls ami Columbus, and Count Institutes in nearly every county. Other State make appropriations for holding Institutes of several weeks duration. Such mcetin-jjs are real- Till! 1STI-MW0L1ST. 'l in tisoAY, Jan. 20, VI1I1)TES FOR ASSOCIATK KDiTOK.

to visit Kansas, he secured the passage by that body of a bill which, if it becomes a law, will be The War. London, Jan. '12. The rumor that the Xcw York Times, urge that justice shall be done to the Gambetta. London, Jan.

22. Gambetta hi another speech at Lille, expressed confidence in General Faidherbey, to which he adde I that the General would continue resistance to the enemy and must end successfully. Gambetta also announced fresh levies to be made for the armies of France. His remarks oc-casined greDt enthusiasm among the London Conference has again of great importance to Kansas. been adjourned, is untrue.

ry, of Pennsylvania, President of the National Council of the Union benelicial to teachers and ele The bill passed the Senate without Bismarck has been promoted to a West in the matter of representation in Congress. The apportionment bill reported by the House udieiary Committee will, if adopt League Governor Newell of New Lieuteuant-General. vate the (standard of scholarship among them. Jersey, chairman of the Executive In Dourbon County there are 74 The country around Valenciennes has been inundated in consequence of the expected approach of the any opposition, and we think it will be equally successful in the Ilouse. The bill, as reported by Senator Ross, read as follows That it shall be the duty of the ed, keep the West tw years more Committee; Congressmen Asper of Missouri; Rainey of South organized school districts and 5,312 the people.

out of its due representation in An attempt by the French from H'isons of pcliool age T8 teach that body. The law is not to take Carolina Negley of Pennsylva Longuey to surprise the (iermaus at V. II. DODGE, Of Ci'itirford VtHOlft. Y.

II. CI.AKK, Of M'Jiit'jijiiurij County. ers are employed there are 18 nia Clark of Texas, and Messrs ell'eet until the next Congress, al 7 Secretary of the Interior to cause to be investigated, under such rules Chasmont, miscarried. (Jen. Tris- log, 41 frame and 5 stone school tlioumi we have a Congress Redstone of California, and Cook kow, who lias advanced from lieau- houses the buildimrs and trvounds ami regulations as lie may establish, all alleged claims for proper of the District of Columbia, mem gense, is reported to have captured have cost furniture the strongly fortified woods of bers of the Executive Commit ty unlawfully taken in Kansas, or Germans.

The mobilized national guard behaved badly in the battle of St. Quentin; fully 15,000 of them became panic-stricken and tied from the held in disorder. A despatch from Cambria, of the 20th, says there is a general panic among the people. The Germans are approaching, and the cannonading is audible. Gen.

Fair'herhe and stall' have gone to Douay, ami Gen. Tailles, Bailly and the village of apparatus school Til MIIOOLS OF K.tXSAS. tee. for damages sustained in said State AND house bonds issued by reason of depredations commit Peroase. Five ollieer.s and six men were taken.

The German loss is Governor Geary addressed the ted without the bounds of any In President in behalf of the commit I h'- lnH rolm rcjiort A- considerable. dian reservation since the 1st day recently elected which has not yet begun to act, and will not until March 4th. The term will then be a short one, the real business of Congress not beginning until the December session. Kansas, for instance, is entitled to three members of Congress, but she has only one and will have onlv one durir.T the next two years unless this bill tee, and said that they iiad called i. I tlic year is tliat the A despatch from Anion, 2Jd, says of January, 1800, by any of the to pay their respects to the Exec the bombardment of Longuey eon Indian tribes or members thereof it( Ihlt'lit I'lihllC- In.struc- n.

I-vi! Mr. Mc Vicar lias hecn utive of the nation and head of IB ok Favre to Lille. The whereabouts of amount of school district bonds outstanding average per cent, of taxes levied for school purposes, JfM received on taxes total receipts 1 amount paid teachers Si total expenses ,.02.47. tinues. Hie garrison reply ener located in the State of Kansas, the republican party.

They came, getically. also, to tender assurances of com with whom treaties of peace have been or mav hereafter be made. It i' (Mine iiicvf pmls have been 'iv- '1! lv a verv Li.rh order ol one division of the army is unknown. Gambetta has arrived at Lille. A A dispatch from Lille of the22d, plete support 011 the part of the says that Gamltetta, in reply to it shall also be the duty of the Sec League of the measures of the re H'iiiiv 1 1 1 nave ''iven broois on despatch from Lille reports the ut popular call, made splendid retary to cause to be investigated is so amended as to do justice not only to our State but to all the publican partv.

lie concluded by i I'liicuf ciiiiycient ions I.ilior, The permanent school fund of all claims made by any such In speech to-day, the substance of expressing the hope that the meas most consternation, and women and children are flying from the city. States in the West, which have L'l- dian tubes, or members thereof, which was that France prefers eter ures winch had so sue- i present oliiinc, of i- I'd- teiilh annual rcj it ol" tin cessfully carried out during the The troops are arriving in a pitiuble nal war to the surrender of any tor indemnity ior spoliations committed within anv Indian reserva grow so rapidly since the last ajt- 1 stat hilliili: M'uiiiiUnl lUIlas. IiclieT Territory. present administration would be port ionmeiii was mane ten years SB M0fi EDITORIAL RO OMS A later despatch, dated Lille, Sat The army of the North is rapidiy perpetuated ior tin- good ot the im; lint lew other topics ago. The 'Jluet says tion in said State by white persons not members of such tribe since the date aforesaid, and to report the State invested in bonds amounts to 1,7 T.

V. McKinnie, Superintendent of the Schools of Fort Scott, reports persons of school ages school is taught eight mouths seven teachers are employed; amount paid for teachers' wages urday, says Gambetta delivered an country for many years to come. resti niir organization. i iiiMiori.iin'e in 1 1 1 oi eiinca Classified as sections, the result address before an enthusiastic ti' ii, i' bestow Millie Sa YV bile he knew that everything was being done to preserve the the same to Congress, with the evi throng of people, in which be advo The Kn Klux at Work tn Georsia. i deuce taken in each case, together "i summary oi' thi tol cated resistance to the enemy to the 1 -Nkw York, Jan.

The Wash nrrf-c nm unwiTfP.MCNiTORREHQ NG R2 sms 1 will give the est nineteen additional members, the South nine additional, the Middle States six, and will entail upon New England a loss of one. In such a scheme with his judgment of its merits; 'm i-oiiilit ion of our schools party intact; the L'lvsident had their renewed assurances of fealty to the administration, and that the bitter end, and denounced the jmrti and hatever sum or sums may be ington special to file Tribune that accounts were received on Sat 3 an and cowardly cry of "peaeo at found to be justlyr due, when ai- total expenditures, 'oI. McKinnie says any price." Jle repudiated any in League would its usefulness and efficiency during the next two years. there is nothing of which any section can reasonably comi lain. And tetition or desire 011 his part for the proved by Congress, shall be paid bv the Secretary of the Interior, if The oast vear has been one of dictatorship, and urged the people ina'tir ol prune mi- 1 1 i i' in our citizen, but it is ol iIm' lirst illations askeil by 'i, v.

proposes to eoltie to -u "llai- villi jooil schools 1 1 i i i i I and will not iro to the total addition to the roll of against Indians, out of any moneys very hard work and poor results, ow ing to th.) inadequacy of school In his reply the President said and army to do their duty, and pro the House is not so large as to en due or to become due from the phesied a final triumph for the cumber it. Compared with the buildings, and the great influx of that it was very important that the Union party should be strengthen French arms United States as annuity or otherwise, to such tribe or tribes against urday, giving the particulars of .1 terrible Ku Klux outrage at Louisville, Jefferson county, on the 14th instant. A party uf masked marauders rode to the jail, broke it open, and took therefrom nine colored prisoners, five of whom had recently been convicted of offenses and were serving their terms of punishment the other four were awaiting trial. The victims were British Parliament, the number of population to our city; each room News from Paris to the 17th, re which said sums shall be found was crowded with pupils bevond ed and bound together. representatives will still be small.

The West ami South are chiefly ports Jules Favre as being quite ill lue and whatever sum or sums Hi faith was in the mission of its seating capacity, and with this and the incomplete gradation of 1 1. 1 unless I am certain MMielt i an be well cdu-We have heard these 'i and know their The victims of the bombardment shall be found to be justly due to interested in this measure. They that partv, and until its work was Killed and wounded already Indians lor spoliations by whites completed he would be the enemy numbered thirty-nine children, not members ot any Indian tribe, have already voted as a unit on the various preliminary questions, but, forty-nine women and seventy-two of all dissensions or plans to di then such sum or sums shall be taken a short distance from the schools little pro-1 gress was made during the school year. Bonds to the amount of were issued late in 1800, grounds secured for a public edifice, and the building is now in men. paid out of any unappropriated vide the party.

With reference to town and unmercifully whipped. Post Office J31gcIi, as Congress is now constituted, they have invariably met with de Favre held a consultation with 'i li bile to funk back ii-. was admitted I 'tii'iii 1hi1 lunds in the Ireasury oi the Lmted From seven of them the ruffians the Union League, he had upon the mayors of Paris as to the pro States, upon approval by Congress, cut off one ear from the eighth feat. It may not be altogether other occasions given the Execu as aloresaid. both were taken, and the ninth was healthful to Eastern interests for tive committee assurances of his priety of his proposed visit to London.

The mayors were found to be divided in opinion, and no decision Mr. Edmunds and Mr. Sherman broujght back into town and there Wall Street, jPaxt Scott, BZsxis. process of erection. It will contain twelve rooms when completed, and will .10,000.

We hope to occupy this building early in the West and South to become ac lin 'Sirs ago ton day. i iln'ii -17 organized li iricts in flic State there objected to the bill in this form on shot, receiving nine wounds, the confidence that organization, and lie would now reiterate what has been made in the matter. most of which w-ere fatal, the oth customed to voting together. The East can avoid such an issue and the ground that it directed an ap lanuarv, have tune he had before said, that he desired ers were turned loose. rs iar as propriation.

Mr. Sherman moved teachers at work have secured heard from none of the marauders such a combination by doing tis it should succeed, and hoped it have been arrested. War Sews. Versailles, Jan. 20.

Under cov he ser ices of well qualified Normal teachers, and their influence is TTfF HAYH IN CONNECTION WITH THE MONITOU JOB 1 1'ri utinir Otlice one of the best Binderies west of New would receive the support of the republican party throughout the and solii jjt the patronage of any having work in our line. er of a dense fog to-day, the French country. troops again massed near Fort Mt. Valerien, and attempted a sortie. Kansas and California.

Blank full justice, and doing it in time. We cannot wait till the Forty-third Congress. The Times says The intent of the Constitution is clear. The representation being regulated by the population, it is proper that the readjustment should take place at the earliest Colfax fur Grant's Ke-EIectioii. looks for Count The Prussian position at Lamoe was already being icit.

In the Primary schools we have adopted Leigh's riioiietics. We may remark in passing that the city of Leavenworth paid last year for her schools 154.74, and that the value of her school Treasurer'; And TIic People's Favorite Route In the last Tihpeuhtt, Vice Books, District taken by surprise by the French Court I In re were then divn of school a'e in here are now 12 n-' of more than one i hoiisaml, and a niimber I i li-. the whole popll-our te at that time, nl Me ii paid to teachers '17 now it is i i the total value hool lioiises Was years afterwards it It would be by an ligures to show pi- the wonderful Slate, ami that that Kas. Joseph fc Council Bluffs yesterday, but the works were subsequently retaken by the Prussian to so amend the bill, that the judgment of the Secretary and the evidence furnished shall be submitted to Congress, striking out the appropriation. His amendment was agreed to, and the bill then read That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to cause to be investigated, under such rules and regulations as he may establish, all alleged claims for property unlawfully taken in Kansas, or for damages sustained in said State by reason of depredations committed without the bounds of any Indian reservation, since the 1st day of President Colfax who, it will be remembered, has announced his positive retirement from public life It VIl.KOAD HIVE Tux liooks 9th division.

The total German possible period after the enumeration. And the fact that there is buildings would now amount to Forms the connecting link between the Southern ami Eastern Through Lines termi loss on both affairs was twenty offi at the close of his present term nodifliculty in ascertaining official briefly reviews the noble record of cers and two hundred men. Prisoners taken by the Germans say there nating at Ai the (Jreat L'nioii untl Central 1'aeijlc Lines terminating al San 1 ranciseu. ly the results of the census in time lor them to take effect inthe For A l.io.ooo exclusive of her great Catholic schools. The rest of the volume is filled with reports from higher institu the Republican party, and adds are to be other attacks upon the investing lines, but assert positively What wiser, better platform can ty-second Congress, is conclusive in favor of legislation with that AND ALI) KINDS OF OH11 PUBLIC RECORD.

MERCANTILE BOOKS! AVE INVITE TIE ATTENTION OF MERCHANT'S. KaNICEU-v Manufacturers, a Motel to our facilities fur the Manufacture of the best kinds of THIS IS THE BEST be devised for the present time that the national guards will not tions of learning, linker Univer end in view. Precedent passes for than the terse, compact, irrefuta fight. nothing 111 cases like this. Justice in he direction of sity, Methodist, a.

Baldwin City, ble one embodied in the conclusion January, 1800, by any of the Indian tribes, or members thereof, The Prussians imposed a requisi has 1 to students. AVashburn Col of President Grant's message i itii'I reliueinelit. tion of 40,000 francs upon the people 1. Thorough enforcement of ev lege, Topeka, re mow iii the State located in the State of Kansas, with whom treaties of peace have been, or may hereafter be made. of Yuetah Havre as a punishment for the sympathy displayed by them ery law.

i lit teacher has 1.1 students the property of Only Direct Ttonte From Fort Scott, Baxter Spruisrs and Southern Kansas, to Leavenworth, Atchison, sl. Joseph, Nebraska City, Council Ulufl's ami Omaha. Salt Lake City, Sacramento, San Franco and. the 1'aoitic Coast. Also the most desirable to Denver and all t'oints In Colorado.

INVOICE ROOKS, DAY ROOKS, LEDGERS, JOURXA LS, SHIPPING REOEII TS, SALE ROOKS, HOTEL REGISTER LAWYER, DOCKET; 2. Faithful collection of every for the French cause. It shall also be the duty of the the institution is valued at ii our schools two rcgi- The Mayor of the town of T.albec tax. 3. Economy in disbursement.

Secretary to cause to be investi 000. 1 1 has been taken as a hostage by the ni. The total amount a ring securities ot the Lane University, at Lecompton, is everything. The highest wisdom is always that which recognizes the identity of expediency and right. Congress ought to amend its hill and pass it immediately.

Many Legislatures are now in session, and, were the new apportionment made, they could district their States this winter, and Congressmen could be elected in time to attend the December session. After 4. Prompt payment of every Prussians. Three Passenger Trains daily leaving gated all claims made by any such Indian tribes, or members thereof, for indemnity for spoliations com has students. It is under the 11 debt ol the nation.

Union Depot, connecting hind deposited At Atchison with Central Branch Rail 5. Reduction ot the taxes as auspices of the United lirethrenin Ti usurer is ss 1 1 road for Centralia. Irving. Waterviile and all points in Central Kaiisas. rapidly as tuC requirements ol the mitted within any Indian reservation in Said State bv white per At Joseph witn Hannilml St.

Jo Christ; value ol property, The Hartford Collegiate In country will admit seph K. It. lor tiuincy, and the East. recommends the sons, not members of such tribe, at the date aforesaid, and to report ith the Savannah Branch of the City. St.

Joseph A Council lllulls K. H. stitute, Methodist, has so students; 6. Reduction of taxation and to be arranged as to afford the greatest relief to the greatest for Savannah. Mary ville, Norway.

Ac. .1 he laws requiring the same to Congress, with the evi Wit ft the Joseph Denver Citv It. for Troy, Watheua, Seneca, and points lan.v books lor the re- that the West could take care of deuce taken in each case, together number. witlrlns judgment ol its merits- oi' districts, and the itself and would lie no longer 7. Honest and fair dealing with MAGAZINES ROUND IN PLAIN OR FANCY RINDING, AT the lowest figures.

Ri ruling of all kinds and styles at the notice. All Kinds of Ruling Promptly Done Orders Siespectf it illy Solicited, Au.lnvs MONITOR PUBLISHING CO. Port Scott, Ka nsas -Nonnern ivansas. At Hamburg with B. M.

R. R. for Chicago and the Fast. At Council Bluri's with Iowa lines for Des Moines. Iowa City, Keokuk.

Dubuuue. value of projierty Wt more Institute, l'resbyterian, at Irving, has 12-1 students; value of property The Ejiiscopal female Seminary at Topeka has On motion of Mr. Tipton, "and i of school libraries. all other people, that war, with al suppliant. was added wherever liev cs thai an Uuuhrid tirinnell.and all prominent points in Iowa.

its blighting consequences, may be avoided but without surrendering the word "Kansas" occurs, and 1 ic! lonarv should be 11 students: value ot property THE LEGISLATURE. The Chairmen of the Ilouse any right of obligation due to us. the bill, with these two amend 8. Reform in the treatment of The Emporia Normal chool has 'J to students. The Committees are as follows Indians, and in the whole civil ser ments, was passed by the Senate.

Its title was so amended as to read: vice of the country. Judiciary, Webb; Ways and wiin moux eity ana racihc K. li. lor Sioux City and up the river. At Omaha with he Great Union PaciSc R.

for Cheyenne, Denver, and all points in Colorado and the mountains, and for Salt Lake City, Sacramento, San Francisco and the Pacific coast. Passengers should reniemlier they can take the Cars at the Union Depot and cros the Missouri River on the new Railroad Bridge. Ask loryonrt-ickets via the Kansas City, St. Joseph Council Bluff Through Line Pullman Palace Cars on night trains. Leavenwiu'th Normal School has 9.

Securing a pure untrammeled "A bill to authorize the Secretary til students, and 7 1 pupils in Mo- of the Interior to cause to be in From Paris. Loxdox, Jan. 23. News from Paris of the 20th is received. Letters say that the line of battle on the lSth reached from Montretout to La Celle, and that the French numbered 100,000, supported by a powerful force of artillery.

General Trochu in his report of the battle says The day which commenced successfully did not terminate as could be wished. The enemy were at first surprised, but subsequently concentrated great masses of artillery and infantry. At o'clock this p. m. our left receded.

At nightfall we resumed an offensive movement, but were unable to hold the heights which we had taken. The struggle was sanguinary. We have asked for an armistice. m. French Losses.

London, Jan. 22. The Emperor William telegraphed the Empress under date of Versailles 21st, as follows: "Yesterday evening the enemy entirely withdrew into Paris. Fifteen officers and 200 men were captured at St. Cloud.

The number of unwounded prisoners captured at ballot, where every man entitled to cast a vote may do so just once Schools. Means, Sells Federal Illations, Vcale Apportionment, Welch Congressional Districts, Murphy State A tl'airs. Butts; Assessment MONITOR The University of Kansas, at Lvvreuce, has students value vestigated claims arising from depredations committed by or upon Indians in Kansas and Nebraska." at each election, without fear ot molestation or proscription on account of his political faith, nativity or color. and Taxation, King Retrench of property Llif.Ui'.i. The State Tickets for sale at all prominent ticket offices.

A. L. HOPKINS, A. C. Dawks, Cieii'l CJen'l Pass.

Agt HI. Joseph, Mo. St. Joseph, Mo. ment and Reform, Libby Bail Agricultural College, at Manhat Is it not a striking fact that, out WHEAT COMING IP.

When the war broke out be roads, Lindsay; lianks and Cur tan, had -OS students. In closing this abstract of Mr. tween France and Prussia the price of breadstuff's immediately ad- i ci seiiool room. Seperiniendeiit believes -s of school lands should -tiicliy guarded in order 1 1 pvin may be reeeiv ed, several ainendiiu'iits law. The condition 1 1 i land-; Indian rescrva-i upon at length, but a ii is iae already seen the arriv ed at, given in the Mcs rigc.

Those more ly interested will read it ot the report with pecti-: It shows that Mr. done ail in his power 1 our the 10th anil M-etion in every township, or of Indian or any other 1 importance of this ef-v. be fully appreciated by 1 rs "ii such lands. We i t'oilow lie' rency, J. C.

Wilson; Corporations, Kedtield Public Institutions, Overstrcet Public Lands, Mahr McVi'-ar's report we are obliged ot all our forty millions of people, no critic has been found, of any party, who has attempted to antagonize a single one of these nine points embodied in the President's platform to make the samo criticism that we Public I uildings. Page; Elections, lid in a similar article last year. vanced. But the belligerents were found to be very well supplied and the hisrh figures were not AND ALI A "IiOUTE EAST. INDIANAPOLIS SHOUT LINE.

The Pioneer Through Line and Shortest Route to New York. His faith that General Grant will Welsh Militia, Mowroy; Education, Legate Roads and High Why are not the Catholic Schools included They have school prop- Are mm- rcf to 'till orders for all kinds JOB OEK maintained. But the change has again lead the Republican party to ways, Gandy Priming, Whita ty which amounts to several victory in 1872 is thus emphatical come and will attect the grain market of the whole civilized hundred thousand dollars, and ly expressed ker Fees and Salaries, J. L. Williams Counties, A.

S. Wilson St. Quentin is 9,000, besides 2,000 hundreds ot students are under world. With such a record, and on tha their charge. A report of the IN A MANNER The surplus of wheat on hand platform already written by the schools of the State ought to in County Lines and County Seats, Speer Agriculture and Manufactures, Hudson; Claims, Peckham at the four chief markets of the clude all, and one denomination is President hand, with whatever additions the intervening two years no better than another in such a world in January, 1870, and 1871, may prove essential to the national wounded taken in the town.

The total loss of the French is 15,000. The enemy withdrew to Valenciennes and Dovay. We have again occupied The bombardment of Paris has been uninterrupted for the last few days. Fire has been opened on St. Denis.

summary. Hut, in spite of this compare as follows Accounts, 1). 11. Johnson Engrossed Bills, Snead Enrolled Bills. 1 omission, the report is an exceed a reaction in the pub- weal, General Orant (with some one of the many prominent Repub ingly valuable one, and never be icranl to the disposal Luse State Library, Veale Im I.I I Liverpool, New York, 1H71.

Hushels. licans East or South, whom all fore did a new State make such a BuKhels. in itcscrves mere lias migration, Dennett. Chicago, noble record. to the common school Milwaukee, of the Slate durin 1 1 Total, TUB LKtilSLATlUE.

Terry Fuller. i.mr vcars oy acts 01 t.on- The following resolutions have appmved April 10, Isii'i am Colonel Perry Fuller, widely 1 I known throughout the country. Treaties Sanctioned. Munich, Jan. 21.

The Bavarian Chamber of Deputies to-day sanctioned the federal treaties by a vote of a hundred and two against IN THE STATE OF KANSAS. OUR MATERIAL COMPRISES ALL THE latest designs, and we have established in Jort Scott a Job Office, which, for been adopted by the Senate: Jii it nsoliuul li the llme of Tic confide in and will delight to honor, associated with him) will, I sincerely believe, lead the Republican phalanx, as he has so often led those under his banner, to a signal and auspicious victory. And it will be a victory that will give stability and rest to the country, by ending forever, as it will, ali hopes of a Democratic reaction against the results of the war as embodied in our Constitution and laws. nrtxtHtatirm ofjo.ntx, the Senate died suddenly here this morning at his residence, No. 12 North street.

Early in December he was attacked with paralysis of the heart and for some days his life i'oii iti-rini, That our Congression 1 county, eo-bo eoiilily, 1 lni-l ,1 biuitr -iied I le-el'vc, 1 1 1 va Mis locateil Pive Trains Daily Leave the Ticket Office northeast corner Fourth and Chestnut Streets, a-s follows 7:40 a. m. (Sundays excepted Chicago Ex. Srlo a. m.

(Sundaysexeepted; Day Kxpress This train is one hour faster to New York and all Kastern cities than any other morning train from St. Ixuiis. A reclining car runs through to Louisville without change, and a close connection is made with a train of the same cars for Cincinnati. 3:40 p. m.

(Sundays excepted) Accom'tion 6:40 p. 111. (Saturdays excepted) Through N. Y. Express.

111.. Atlantic Express. Pullman's Palace Drawing lloom and Sleeping Cars. Run in this train via Columbus, Titts-burg and Philadelphia, to New York without change. A sleeping car also runs from St.

Louis to Cincinnati, and Irom St. Louis to Louisville. This is the only lioutc Punning Trains Through to Kew York. All trains for Chicago and Indianapolis run through without change of cars. Close connections at aud beyond these points in Union depots.

The track of this road is well ballasted, smooth and in perfect condition; its equipment- is new ami first-class, and it will at all times off er the public better accommodations and faster time than any other route to the East. Tickets for sale at the Mo. F. S. O.

.11 li. Depot, Fort Scott, Kansas. GEO. CLARK, Ticket Agt. And at the M.

K. T. Depot. II. H.

COLE, Ticket Agt. Geo. B. Hail, Wes. Pas.

Agt. Kan. City. F. Cha.M-U.ek, Uen.

Ticket Agt. St. Louis. al delegation be instructed to in acre; 'JO, fso 177,777 I1 1 troduce and urge the passage ol I lil'IIICO ATI TIT on WORK. Destruction of the Army or the Sorth.

Brussels, Jan. 23. The details which have come to hand of the an amendment to the act making appropriations for the current contingent expenses of the Indian de was despaired of. He recovered, however, sufficiently to attend to business, and last evening was around as usual. Early this morn defeat of Gen.

Faidherbe, show that the French army of the North suf three dollars per acre, partment, and tor iulhlling treaty stipulations with various Indian ing he had a lresh attack and died corn at which the law an- fered a terrible blow, from which it about four o'clock. Mr. Fuller ti sab' school lands cannot he l.y any of the offices in our larger cities facilities for doinir Decorative Printing tribes, for the year ending June 1 7 1 and for other purposes, was born in Illinois in 1826. In mil to ts or at can hardly recover. The retreating army into the city of Cambria was Falling off, As soon as navigation opens there will be a decided advance in the prices of wheat and flour and even before that time.

France has been so overrun by hostile armies that her old crop has been eaten or destroyed and she has had no opportunity of putting in a new one. The demand made by its forty millions of people, as soon as peace is declared, will be simply enormous. And Prussia has lost the labor of about one million men who have consumers instead of producers. They must look to America for food. We urge every farmer in Kansas to put into spring wheat and into corn every acre of land that he can possibly get cultivated.

By so doing they will reap a golden harvest. Another Kansas Colony. We 1854 he removed to Kansas, where which shall allow settlers on the of liv dollars per acre, thus added will realize to he took an active part with the Osage Diminished I teserve to en said to be a scene of disorder, the troops being shoeless and in rags, free State men against what was ii on school endowment of ter and prove up their claims in and an army fragmentary to a great over two and a half mil- known in those days as the Mis v. Ui ill 1 Ii land t.i.c com I Slab I' iloii Tlre at i.cav i any shape in which they may have claimed them by legal subdivisions; are such that ve can fill orders on the notice and degree. souri "border ruffians." After Kansas was admitted to the L'nion he held several positions under the also that the said settlers may be allowed two years from date of actual survey by the government are now Normal Schools nvvorlh and Ksnporia, and Interior Department, in connection with the Indian Bureau.

He sub to prove up and pay for their All Quiet along the Lines. Vehsailles, Jan. 20. All quiet this morning the troops on both sides are in their positions. The loss in the recent sortie was the French about as heavy.

They IT REASONABLE sequently went into business in RUES claims. tin' report the policy of establishing permanent Normal Schools at central points in the Two husbands and two wives eloped from New Haven, each husband taking another man's wife and each wife another woman's husband. The two women left together saying they were going to Cleveland, and the next day the two men left in company saying they were going to Indianapolis. All four met in New York and illustrated the fitness of things by all leaving together for Chicago- Gov. Fairciiild, of "Wisconsin, in his annual message, declares for civil service reform in emphatic terms.

He recommends the Legislature to send a memorial to Congress, asking for such laws as will correct the present system of farming out the offices. He believes that the people demand this of them. Kansas with Alexander McDonald Resoh-cJ, That the Secretary of "GARDEMNG I PBOFIT" "Practical Floriculture." now Senator from Arkansas, and Mate be instructed to forward a State, with suitable grounds, edi- amassed a considerable fortune, copy of the resolution to the mem hers of our Congressional delega ii 1 apparatus and libraries, own In 18G8 he was appointed Collec have asked for an armistice of forty-eight hcursforthe purpose of re Our Rook Department is replete with everything necessary fordoin first-class by and under the control of the tor of the Port of New Orleans by tion at Washington learn from the Prairie Farmer moving the wounded and burying the dead. rresident Johnson, but was not ate. Thk St.

Louis Journal of Com that a colony has been formed in confirmed by the Senate. He iradeil hoots have proved so mtrcc says: "The Laclede and PETER HENDERSON, The form er detailing the system of Market Gardening: the latter Descriptive of the modes of Commercial Floricalture, as practiced in the vicinity of New lork. Mailed, postpaid, for each. managed to hold the position Chicago, under the general man 2L "VST 3. icccssiul in our cities that Mr, however, until General Grant was Fort Itailroad still drags its slow length along.

The grading is Cold Weather. New York, Jan. 23. Dispatches elected PrSsident, when he was re MoVicar m-'cs a similar system principally done in I jaclede county, I 1 1 agement of Rev. K.

R. Pierce, pastor of the North Star Mission church. Through him there have been selected about 1 8,000 acres of land in this State, situated on And with a finish unsurpassed by any book publishing honse in the countrj-. Having in our establishment the celebrated moved. Within tho last year or from all points speak of the in the arneuiuirai oisiricis, anu and work is being done in Dallas so he was considerably embar tensely cold weather.

Polk, and Vernon. The whole line rassed financially, and many suits iicves that it can be effected by iicentration ni.d er-operation. wo, three or four school districts were brought against him. He the Missouri, Kansas Texas railway, near the corner except Cedar county, is under contract, where nearly enough stock is Establishment of a Camp. had many friends at Washington who were shocked at his sudden Losdox, Jan.

20. The establish subscribed to warrant the letting, mil oin-n eoiisoiiuaie lor me death. Ar. Y. Herald.

Meanwhile, Times of Cedar county ment of a Belgian camp at Lamoe, is discussed at Brussels. The bom ol. nunntammg a graueo Our Annual Descriptive Catalogue ot Vegetable and Flower Seeds, containing two new aud Beautifully Colored Plates, is now ready. Also, Catalogue of New and Rare Plants, Illustrated with Colored Plates and Engravings. Both will lie mailed on receipt of Twenty-five tfentK, or sent with either of the above Books free of charge.

Henderson Seed Merchants and Growers, jan25w4t Xassau New York. l.o,.l w-bli vi.rw beet. rpsnlt.H bardment of Longuey vigorously of Dickinson county. Already 55 families have joined the colony, and a portion of them are on the ground. The whole number is expected to be there by March 1st.

New families are daily joining the colony. Commonwealth. and Leader of Laclede county are each devoting about one column per week to the ventilation of the Directors' mismanagement' and Taxes. The Commonwealth says The total receipts of revenue ic present law should be so mod- 1 11. i mat 11 mav ie made practical continues and he town is on fire Fire at Mllford, Mass.

on taxes during the year 1869, child's as they are pleased nd eiiective. ins sinrcestion we amount to $679,735.09. The county to the acts of different ofticers. If Nonpariel, Gordon, and Taylor Presses We can furnish all kinds of COMMERCIAL PRINTING, sneh as BILLHEADS, CIRCULARS, HAND BILLS, BANK CHECKS, LEGAL BLANKS, LETTERHEADS, NOTEHEADS, PRICE LISTS, LABELS, CARDS, eU. In a most beautiful style and Uh astonishing rapidity.

Adtea MONITOR PUBLISHING CO. Tort Scott, Kansas. nsi will receive the earnest atten- The question of woman suffrage came up in the House on Friday, on the motion of Senator Cox to strike out the words "male" wherever it occurs in the statutes defining who shall be voters in the District of Columbia. There was much merriment in the House, but the proposition received 55 votes, to 115 against it. The advocates of that measure can endure the jeers and sneers while their cause makes such substantial progress.

that pays the largest taxes is Leav A Western obituary "Another those interested would spend their Bostox, Jan. 23. A fire in Mil-ford this morning, destroyed the 011 the legislature. It is lul- enworth, amounting to the grand time in grading the road instead of stalwart tree fell last evening in Bav State and Alhainbra blocks, rfc-grading each other, tney would aggregate of $98,773.26. The next its autumn prime, in the persra of TOHJf B.

CAMPBELL, ATTORNEY AT accomplish including eleven 'stores and the highest is Douglas, being Major J. W. Cullem as unique and law ana real estate asteut. tort Scott upper portions of two dwellings, remarkable character in his way as was ever wrought out from the the next highest is Atchison, $43, 313.25 the next is Doniphan, as irnporUuit as the. election of naiors.

Normal District Institutes have en held at liiirlington, Iola, Gar-tt. Mound City, Olathe, Irving, The Ohio Democrats have de eided to hold thwir State Conven Kansas, will practice in the courts of Bourbon and adjoining counties, buy and sell real estate, examine titles, make collections and pay taxes for non-residents. also, fisheries, stables and seven horses. Mrs. Newton was burned rugged latitudmananism of the 099.41, and the next is Shavnee, Office in Campbell's book store, So.

5 tion at Columbus on the lal 0 IScott avenue. to death. frontier..