Tecumseh Note Book from Tecumseh, Kansas • 1

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Ross Libeled. Select Is Friday an Unlucky Day? If the following data he correct, which we see no reason to doubt, surely this enquiry has no pertinence to the United States. Friday is then indeed tho lucky day which has led to all that is great and miraculous in the discovery, settlement and organization of this gigantic Republic. A journal answers this question in the following satisfactory manner On Friday, August 31, 1492, tnnscopw Columbus sailed on his great voyage of discovery. On Friday, October 12, 1492, he first discovered land.

On Friday, January 4, 1493, he sailed on his return to Spain, which, if he had not reached in safety, the happy result would never have been known which led to the settlement on this vast continent. On Friday, March 15, 1493, he ar- rived at Palos in safety. On Friday, Nov. 22, 1493, he arrived at Hispaniola, on his 1 second voyage to America. On Friday, June 13, 1494, he, though unknown to himself, discovered the continent of America.

On Friday, March 5, 1496, Henry VIII. of England, gave to John Cabot his commission, which led to the discovery of North America. This is the first American state- and, while the people of Paris were drinking their coffee and chocolate without milk, the beauties were literally swimming in it every morning, till it was discovered by tho police that parties were in the habit of buying back ihe milk, and selling it to their cus-tomeie, to he used for tea, chocolate, and coffee! Laughter. The whole account had teen published in the Journal des De-batsjot that date. The celebrated beauty, Madame Vestrisj'ih'oMer to'preserve' her charms and keep off wrinkles, always slept with a plaster of a peculiar kind on her face; and, as she prided herself on having the prettiest foot and ancle in Europe, she had a pair of satin boots sewed on her feet every morning.

She never wore one pair over a single day. Some beauties have adopted the plan of putting slices of raw meat on their cheeks on going to bed, in order to keep off wrinkles, and keep the skin soft and fresh. But what a sight for a lover to look upon Laughter. In the East, the principal articles used for preserving the beauty were the bath and friction. Various cosmetics used by fashionable women were here mentioned, amongst which was the celebrated creme de Enclos which was extensively used by the court fashionables in tho time of Charles II.

This fluid was effective in calling he crimson blood to the external surface. We understood the Countess to say that it was composed principally of the tincture of dandelion, inspissated with water. In Germany arsenic was used extensively to give a fair complexion. But when once the use of the poison was commenced, its use could not be dispensed with, except at the risk of life. Ladies, however, would discover that the use of cosmetics was injurious, and all sensible females would abandon them.

A woman to be respected must possess real merit of mind and heart without this, mere beauty would ultimately fail to be attractive. It conclusion, the lecturer said, in all her wanderings from St. James to St. Petersburg, and from Paris to India, she had invariably found that a wo man with an unpolished mind and an unloving heart, whatever beauty she might posses would fail to secure the admiration and respect of mankind. An elegant and polish ed mind, sweetness of temper, and an animated manner were the real source of womans beauty.

We have observed with a sort of pain very much akin to nausea, the reiterated and EngUna. O. F.id.j, S.ph 7, 1565, Melendez founded St. Augustine, was born illegitimately of a slave the oldest town in the United States by mother. Dr.

Ross has been of late, con-more than forty years. On Friday, Novem-1 WMous as an opologist for slavery, and the 10, 1620, the with th. Pil. gnms, made the harbor of Provincetown to poison, its arrows of controversy. It and on the same day they signed that august lnProtests at every repetition, that it respects compact, the forerunner of our present glo rious constitution.

On Friday, December 22, 1620, the Pilgrims made their final landing at Plymouth Rock. On Friday, February 22, George Washington, the father of American freedom, was born. On Friday, June 16, Bunker Hill was seized and fortified. On Friday, October 7, 1777, the sur- render of Saratoga was made, which had such power and influence in inducing France ft- to declare for our cause. On Friday, Sept.

22, 1780, the treason of Arnold was laid bare which saved us from destruction. On Fri- Knoxville, E.Tenn, day, October 19, 1781, the surrender at York- To the Editors of tKe VeriLnt Chronicle: town, the crowning glory of the American I arms, occurred. On Friday, July 7, 1776, His father, a man of great wealth, in Vir-the motion in Congress was made by John when a young man, puid the passage Adams, seconded by Richard Henry Lee, beautiful Portuguese girl, on her land- that the United States colonies were, and of right ought to be, free and independent. story: ing in America he became attached to her on account of her beauty and intelligence, and was married to her and she was the leaf. The lecturer then gave the names of the most beautiful women she had ever seen.

The most beautiful women were doubtless to he found in the ranks of the nobility. The most beautiful women she had ever seen were Engliswomen, Irishwomen and Scotchwomen. Amongst these she mentioned the Duchess of Sutherland, and Lady Blessing-ton, who, said the lecturer, had kings and nobles at hor feet. The beauty of Lady Blessington was of a higher intellectual style than that of tho Duchess of Sutherland. The present Duchess of Wellington, formerly Marchioness of Douro, was described as beautiful as a fine piece of sculpture, and she was cold and inanimate as sculpture.

The most beautiful family she had seen were the great Sheridan family. The two sons were regarded as the handsomest men of their day. The three daughters, the Hon. Mrs. Norton, Lady Blackwood, and Lady Seymour, were pronounced at the famous Eglinton tournament as the Three Graces of England.

The women of France were not generally beautiful, but very charming. The art of pleasing was the first idea of the men and women of France. The Empress Eugenie, when she (tho lecturer) saw her, was one of the most vivacious, witty, and versatile women in Paris. All the portraits in this country greatly exaggerated her size for she was somewhat of a small woman. The ladies of the imperial family of Russia were described as all exceedingly beautiful.

The wife of the Emperor Nicholas, when sho appeared in public, was greeted with shouts of applause. In Turkey, the style for beautiful women was an unwieldly fatness, and what was considered a beautiful woman, the lecturer styled a good load for a camel. Laughter To make themselves fat, they were fed on powdered rose-leaves and butter. The women of Turkey were treated as the gentlemen of Canada would treat their geese i. e.

feed them to make them fat. She (the lecturer) had visited the Sultans harem at Constantinople, on letters of introduction from Sir Stratford Canning, the English Ambassador, and had found there five hundred ladies of unwieldly fatness. Laughter. Had Lord Brouham been present, he would most assuredly have exclaimed, What a quantity! Laughter. The leanness of the lecturer was a subject of great astonishment and disgust.

The most beautiful women of the East were those of Circassia and Georgia. The East India women were beautiful from the years of eleven to fifteen. In that climate the flower soon withered, and at from twenty to thirty the women look as old as females in colder climates did at the age of sixty. The East India females were addicted to eating a conpound of tobacco and opium, which was a great distroycr of beauty. The Italian ladies were distinguished by ardent love, gesticulation, and intrigue.

Their husbands paid them but slight attention, and the wives had consequently to look elsewhere for what satisfied them. This state of things, remarked the lecturer, was a characteristic of some other countries besides Italy. Laughter. As a general thing, husbands may thank themselves if their wives affections wandered away from home. Nature abhorred a vacuum.

The women of Italy hod dark eyes and dark hair. A minority were blondes of this latter class was the mistress of Lord Byron, with whom she (Lola Montez) had the pleasure to meet in Paris. The Spanish women, in the northern parts of Spain, were generally fair and blonde. In the south, where the traces of Moorish blood were discernible, women were darker complexioned, and had deep grey eyes. The Spanish aristocracy were generally fair.

In Germany she had seen some of the most beautiful blondes In the world they aro as fair and clear as snow. Tho beautiful women of Germany came between tho English and the French styles of loveliness. The lecturer thon proceeded to give a history of female attire and decorations, and enlarged at some length on hoops, crinolino, whalebone, high-heeled hoots, padding, false hair, and enormous head-dresses. She recommended a looso style of dress as not only conductive to health, hut as rendering female claims still more attractive. The history of fashion was traced from the time of the Norman Conquest, and some severe animadversions were mado on tho flimsy style of dress worn by tho frail beauties of tho court of Charles II.

This was followed by some remarks on the deportment of young ladies, in which romps were severely handled, and a dignified reserve recommended. Tho three golden rules for preserving beauty were temperanco, cleanliness and cxeroiso. The tepid bath was strongly recommended to he used daily. Artificial artifices to keep up and show off female beauty woro then referred to. During the lecturers resdienoo in Paris, bathing in milk bad been indulged in by all tho fashionable women who could afford tho luxury.

So extensively had this been done as to causo scarcity of milk for domeitio purpose) 1 I A i V) TECUMSEH NOTE BOOK IS PUBLISHED EVEBY THURSDAY EVENING, SAMUEL G. REID. Single Copy, for One Tear, -'Ten Copies, or More, to One Address, JS9-PAYMENT REQUIRED IN ADVANCE." 2 RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square, (ten lines, or less,) one insertion, $1 00 Each subsequent insertion, 50 One Square, three months, 5 00 One Square, six months, 8 00 One Square, one year, 15 00 Administrators Notices, 6 00 Announcing Candidates, 5 00 Special Notices, per line, Liberal Deduction will be made to yearly advertisers. Advertisements not marked on the copy for a specific number of insertions, will be continued until ordered out, and payment exacted accordingly payment awniKED ra advance, in every instance BUSINESS CARDS.

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R. WHITAKER, Civil Engineer and Land Agent, TECUMSEH, KANSAS. Would respectfully refer to Francis Wayland, late Prest Brown University, Providence, R. I. James Barnes, Civil Engineer Springfield Mass.

A. F. Edwards Chief Engineer, Sockets Harbor and N. Y. Saratoga Railroad.

A. R. Troy and Greenfield (Hoosock Tunnel) Mass Railroad. T. Willis Pratt, Chief Engineer New York and Boston Railroad.

John Newell, City Engineer, Cairo, 111. July, 16th 1857. 1-tf. JOHN MARTIN. ROBERT WHITE, MARTIN WHITE, Land and Real Estate Agents, TECUMSEH, K.

WILL attend promptly to the buying and selling of Land, Town Shares, Lots throughout the Territory. Particular attention paid to the collection of rents, paying taxes, Ac. Office in the basement of the Court House. July 16th 1857. 1-tf.

JOHN R. BOYD, Slttfmu i) at Ctutr, GENERAL REAL ESTATE AGENT, DONIPHAN CITY, K. T. WILL practice Law in the Courts of Kansas, and adjoining Counties in Missouri, and attend to all business connected with the Land Office at Doniphan. pir- Will also buy and sell Land, Town Stock and Lots, Land Warrants, for a small com- Suly 30th 1857.

2-tf. W. P. LAMB. AVT08BSY LECOMPTON, K.

T. jB3Will give particular attention to contested Claims, locating Land Waurants, and furnishing proofs for Pre-emptors. Office, East of the Land Office July 16th 1857. 1-tf RUSH ELMORE. BEN.

J. NEWSOM, ELMORE NEWSOM, OFFICES, AT TECUMSEH A LECOMPTON, Kansas Territory, jul 16-1-ly WM. 8. ROMIGH, a and Heal Estqte Agent, TECUMSEH, K. T.

attend promptly to all business entrusted to him. Office, Room No. 6, Court House. July 16th 1857. 1-tf.

C. B. CLEMENTS, Attorney at law and land.agent,To- cUmseh, Shawnee County, K. T. jlyl0-l FRANCIS GALLUP, IMPORTER AND DEALER IN Clocks, Watches, Jewelry WESTPORT, MO.

pSf-Watches and Jewelry carefully repaired and Barren August 4th 1857. SABINE, Watchmaker and Jeweler, KANSAS CITY, K. T. July 30th 1857. 2-6m.

I. O. of O. F. SHAWNEE Lodge No.

1, I. O. of O. meets in their Hull in Tecumsnh, Kansas Terri lory, every Tuesday Evening at 7 oclock. HENRY W.

MARTIN, N. G. Ben. D. Castleman, Secy.

July 16th 1857. l-3m. J. R. WHITAKER, CONTRACTOR IN ALL KINDS OF BVLsya aso aAmsun TECUMSEH, KANSAS.

July 19th 1857. 1-tf. The Black Republicans having failed to refute the position, so ably maintained by this estimable Divine, infavor of Slavery as a Christian institution, have, with strange inconsistency to the rest of the world, for several months turned their attention to tho circulation of a report, that he is of Slave parentage. This statement, if true, could only strength-tho claims of Dr. Bose and liis causo with all reasonable people, since, it were in that case, the testimony of one who having experienced the workings of the system and risen to distinction under its guardianship, should be, of all others, best qualified to judge of its beneficence.

But the report turns out to be a slanderous fabrication, and the party which has so zealously circulated it might give the public one act of its existence in favor of truth and justice, by as zealously circulating this correction. Ed. N. B. From the N.

Y. Dr. Rosss Parentage. Dr. Ross none the less for any circumstance of his birth no very extreme concession but affords and can afford, no valid apology for violating the sacredness of purely private misfortune, and wounding the tenderest feelings of an individual and a Christian brother, in order to point a moral.

The act looks certainly more like malice than anything else, although we cannot believe it to have been so prompted. We are glad, if only to point the rebuke which conscience must administer, to seethe follow. nir letter contradicting and explaining the whole mother to all his children. Such a union of course excited prejudices at that day in Virginia, and many, and gross, pervertions of the truth were circulated, and have been handed down by tradition, now for about a hundred years, for Dr. Ross is sixty years of age, and was the youngest of twelve children.

But, notwithstanding, all the sons and daughters, who reached maturity, married into families. North and South, of the highest respectability. Dr. Ross himself, Has always moved in the first society in Virginia, and everywhere else. Nay, few men have been so courted and admired, as he ever has been, and is now.

The accident, related by the Chronicle and other prints, as to Dr. Rs brother, is untrue, without a show of foundation. And so of the rest. Will the Chronicle and other Northern papers publish, in justice to the truth of history, this statement, on my authority 7 W. E.

Caldwell, Ed. Pres. Witness, Knoxville, Tenn. Suicide of a Prince. A letter from Rome in the Constitutional, says Prince Annibal Simonetti has put an end to his existence, by throwing himself out of a window of his palace at Ancons.

As he was in possession of considerable fortune, and surrounded by every thing to render his life agreeable, the cause which led him to commit this rash act at present remains a mistery. Prince Simonetti had been called by Pius IX to the Ministry of Finance, during tho constitutional regime. He was the first secular minister, and succeeded the Prelate Horiehini, who is now Cardinal. The Prince on resigning his post was replaced by Count Rossi. What Makes a Bushel.

The following table of tho number of pounds of various articles to a bushel, may bo of interest to our readers Wheat 60 Corn, shelled CS Corn on the cob 45 Rye, .....56 3C Burley ..40 Buck-wheat, Iri-h potatoes, ....60 Sweet potatoos, .....50 Onions, 57 Beans, 7. 60 Bran, 20 Clover seed, 60 Timothy seed, 45 46 Hemp seed, ...45 11 1 Blue grass -r Dried peaches, 33 I The first paper mill erectod in Araor- ica was at Elizabethtown, N. which Win, Bedford, royal printor of New New Jersey, and Pennsylvania purchased, in 1827. SONG E0R THINKERS. BY CHARLES SWAIN.

Take the Spade of perseverance. Dig the Field of Progress wide Every rotten root of faction, Hurry ont and cast aside Every stubborn weed of error; Every seed that hurts the soil; Tares, whose very growth is terror Dig them out, whereer they toil Give the stream of Education Broader channel, bolder force; Hurl the stones of persecution Ont whereer they block its course; Seek for strength in self-exertion; Work, and still have faith to wait; Close the crooked gate to fortune; Make the road to honor straight I Men are agents for the future; As they work so ages win, Either harvest of the products of their sin Follow out true cultivation Widen Educations plain From the majesty of nature, Teach the majesty of man 1 Take the Spade of Perseverance, Dig the Field of Progress wide; Every bar to true Instruction, Carry ont and cast aside; Feed the Plant whose Fruit is wisdom Cleanse from crime the common sod So that from the throne of Heaven It may bear a glance of God. Select JRiscellani). LOLA MONTEZ ON BEAUTIFUL WOMEN. The notorious and world-renowned woman known as Lola Montez, or Countess of Landsfcldt, made her debut before a Hamilton (Canada) audience a few days ago, in the capacity of a public lecturer.

The interesting theme chosen for the occasion was Beautiful Women, and howto develop and preserve female beauty. There was a large attendance, amongst which was a fair sprinkling of ladies The time announced for the commencement of the lecture was 8 oclock, but the Countess did not make her appearance, though anxiouly expected, till half an hour after that time. On ascending the platform, says the Hamilton Banner she was loudly applauded, to which she returned a very gracious bow We were very much astonished at the feminine and very delicate appearance of the fair lecturer, who has figured in so many chequered scenes in Bavaria, Paris and Lon don; in New York and San Francisco and whose exploits are so well known to our readers. Her face is thin and pale, and her eyes black and sparkling. She has evidently at one time been a beautiful woman.

She has a nervous, unsettled motion, and it is quite clear she must he in a ceaseless activity. The lecturer commenced her address, which was read from manuscript, by an attempt to define in what beauty consisted. She, however, acknowledged that it was a difficult task; for what was considered beauty in one part of the globe, was regarded as monstrous ugliness in another. In one country five or six scars on the face was regarded as essential to a beautiful countenance. Thus, from a mere accident connected with valor, has arisen the custom of slashing the faoe into gashes, as a mark of beauty.

With other nations, a greasy skin, thick lips, and a flat nose were looked upon as auxiliaries to beauty. Fatness was requisite in some parts of tho globe to constitute a beauty. The six Graces by the painter Rubens were all fat. Red hair had once been regarded as a characteristic of beauty, and, as examples, Mary Queen of Scots and Cleopatra were reforred to. Yellow hair has also been regarded as a beautiful ornament, and from this had been originated, by the Duke of Buckingham, the ordor of tho Golden Fleece.

Further illustrations wore given of tho fickleness of tho standard for what was considered beautiful women. In Africa, lips an inch in thickness were requisite in China, small feot and lips so thin that they could scarcely be called lips at all; in Circassia, a straight noso in Tartary, which was only divided from the last named country by a mountain, flat noses, and eyes three inches asunder. 1 To show how difficult it was to define a beautiful woman, she might mention thut Cano va had no loss than sixty different women to sit for his Venus. Stanzas in praise of beauty wore quoted from Homer, Ariosto, Tasso and Milton. Sho (tho lecturer) once enow a nobleman who frequently said, when he saw a beautiful woman, that she would ero long got old and wrinkled and this was sad truth, for tho most beautiful girls would got wrinkled and wizened as their grandmothers had done before thom.Laugh-ter.

Tho lecturer hero drew a somewhat gloomy and overdrawn picture of old ago, when the charms of youth had faded like a Thus, by numerous examples, we see that, however it may be with foreign nations, Americans need never dread to begin on Friday any undertaking however momentous it may be. Dewdrops of Wisdom. Truth, bv whomsoever spoken, comes from God. It is, in short, a divine essence. The mere imitator is no more an artist than the mere chronicler of events from the gazette, is a historian.

Perfect love reposes on the object of its choice, like the halycon on the wave, and the air of heaven is around it Contentment gives its own complexion to every day occurrences, and imparts light where otherwise there would be darkness. Fine art has nothing to do with imitation, its principle is to produce in the mind the same ideas which the things sought to be represented produce, but always in another way. The only books we really learn from, are those which we are unable to judge of, understand and criticise. The author of a book which we can appreciate and criticise, it our scholar, not our master. The perversions of the best things can be turned into the worst, as in the most wholesome roots and herbs there is some component part which can be extracted and subtilized into a deadly poison.

It was said, and very beautifully said, that one mans wit becomes all mens wisdom. Even more true is it that one mans virtue becomes a standard which raises our anticipation of possible goodness in all men. A man of a weak, complying disposition, whom no one fears, no one will be at the trouble to oppose while a man of strong and fixed character will be liable to opposition, at least from those who expect to do-rive a certain kind of importance from the dignity of their adversary. A Joke for tiie Selfish Husband. Lord Ellenborough was once about to go on the circuit, when Lady Ellenborough said that sho would like to acoompany him.

He replied that he had no objeotion, provided she did not encumber the carriage with bandboxes, which were his ahhorence. During the first days journey, Lord Ellenborough, happening to stretch his legs, struck his feet against something below the sent. Ho discovered that it was a band- box. Up went the window and out went the band-box. The coachman stopped, and the footman thinking the band-box had tumbled out of the window by some extraordinray chance, was going to pick it up, when Lord Ellenborough furiously called out.

Drive on! The lyind-box was accordingly left by the ditch side. Having reached the County town whore he was to officiato as Judge, Lord El-cnborongh proceeded to array himself for his appearance in the Court House. Now, said he, wheres my wig whore is my wig My Lord, replied his attendant, it was thrown out of tho carriage The Giant Darden. Miles Darden. Some weeks ago wo gave a few facts in regard to the weight and dimensions of this extraordinary man, and promised our readers, through the courtesy of a friend in Henderson county, farther items of interest.

The friend we referred to was Rev. John Brooks, whoso veracity we believe, has never been questioned by any one. He writes as follows Mr. Darden was born in North Carolina in the year 1798, and departed this life at His residence in Henderson county, on the 23d day of January, 1857 in the 49 year of his age. He joined the Baptist Church in early life and shortly aftor emigrated to where he connected himself with what is called Christian Church, but had not been a member of any Church for years hut was moral and fond of conversing on religious subjects.

He was a kind, obliging neighbor, and fond of company. About fifteen years ago he joined the masons. He was married twice. His children are very large but probably nono of them will ever be more than half the weight of their father, He was quite active and lively, and labored until about four years ago, when he became so fleshy that he was compelled to stay at home or be hauled about in a two horse wagon. In 1849 he made a contract with a tailor to furnish him with a fine coat for $50 the cloth was to cost five dollars per yard.

Upon measurement it took twelve yards of cloth. So the tailor lost ten dollars and the making. The tailor states that threo men, each weighing over 200 put the coat on battonod it around them and walked across the square at Lexington. In 1850 it took 13 1-2 yards of flax cloth, yard wide, to mako him a coat. It took 16 yards of cambrio for his shroud 24 yards black velvet to cover his sides and lid of his coffin 125 foot of plank to make his coffin.

1 1 His coffin was 8 feet long. Across the breast 32 inches. head 18 foot 14 Its dopth, 35 lie weighed in 1845, 871 pounds. Ilia hight was 7 feet 6 inches. Ilis weight when he died as nearly as could be ascertained, was a fraotion over one thousand pounds.

West Tennessee Whig. (5T A lady has commcneod a civil suit against a dry goods merchant doing business in Broadway, Albany, for kissing hor against hor will. Tho damages are laid at 5,000. 8 4 J- -C, T-vJ -vrr f. '') fff WWTO wWvw retro 'I.

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