Rogers; Tennessee, Bugg, Cullom, Etheridge (Emerson), Taylor; Louisiana, Hunt; Missouri, Benton (Thomas H.)—from the Slave States, 9. Total noes from Free and Slave States, 100. Absent or not voting, 21.

MAY 24.-The Senate finally passes the bill without a division, the call of the ayes and noes being refused. The vote of the Senate on the third reading of the bill was as follows:

Ayes-Atchison (Mo.), Badger (N. C.), Benjamin (La.), Broadhead (Pa.), Brown (Miss.), Butler (S. C.), Cass (Mich.), Clay (Ala.), Dawson (Georgia), Douglas (Ill.), Fitzpatrick (Ala.), Gwin (Cal.), Hunter (Va.), Johnson (Ark.), Jones (Iowa), Jones (Tenn.), Mallory (Fla.), Mason (Va.), Morton (Fla.), Norris (N.H.), Pearce (Md.), John Pettit (Ind.), Pratt (Md.), Rusk (Tex.), Sebastian (Ark.), Shields (Ill.), Slidell (La.), Stuart (Mich.), Thompson (Ky.), Thomson (N. J.), Toombs (Ga.), Toucey (Conn.), Weller (Cal.), Williams (N. H.), Wright (N. J.) — 35.

Noes-Allen (R. I.), Bell (Tenn.), Chase (Ohio), Clayton (Del.), Fish (N. Y.), Foot (Vt.), Gillette (Conn.), Hamlin (Me.), James (R. I.), Seward (N. Y.), Sumner (Mass.), Wade (Ohio), Walker (Wis.) —13.

MAY 30.—The Kaskaskias, Peorias, Piankeshaws and Weas cede to the United States the land given in October, 1832, excepting 160 acres for each soul in said tribes.

MAY 30.-President Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska bill. The following is copied from the act:

"SECTION 19. And be it further enacted, That all that part of the territory of the United States included within the following limits, except such portions thereof as are hereinafter expressly exempted from the operations of this act, to wit, beginning at a point on the western boundary of the State of Missouri, where the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude crosses the same; thence west on said parallel to the eastern boundary of New Mexico; thence north on said boundary to latitude thirty-eight; thence following said boundary westward to the east boundary of the Territory of Utah, on the summit of the Rocky Mountains; thence northward on said summit to the fortieth parallel of latitude; thence east on said parallel to the western boundary of the State of Missouri; thence south with the western boundary of said State, to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby created into a temporary government by the name of the Territory of Kansas; and when admitted as a State or States, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to inhibit the Government of the United States from dividing said Territory into two or more Territories, in such manner and at such times as Congress shall deem convenient and proper, or from attaching any portion of said Territory to any other State or Territory of the United States: Provided further, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to impair the rights of person or property now pertaining to the Indians in said Territory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any territory which by treaty with any Indian tribe is not, without the consent of said tribe, to be included within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any State or Territory; but all such territory shall be excepted out of the boundaries, and constitute no part of the Territory of Kansas, until said tribe shall signify their assent to the President of the United States to be included within the said Territory of Kansas, or to affect the authority of the Government of the United States to make any regulation respecting such Indians, their lands, property, or other rights, by treaty, law, or otherwise, which it would have been competent to the Government to make if this act had never passed."

Hale says:

"The Territory of Kansas is bounded on the north by Nebraska, on the east by

Missouri, on the south in part by the line of 37°, which divides it from the Cherokee country, and in part by New Mexico, and on the west by the highest ridge of the Rocky Mountains.”

KANSAS.-By act of May 30, 1854, formed as a Territory, extending from the western boundary of Missouri westward to the Rocky Mountains, then the eastern boundary of the Territory of Utah; and from the thirty-seventh northward to the fortieth parallel, excepting that part of the Territory of New Mexico north of the thirty-seventh parallel; area, 126,283 square miles. By act of January 29, 1861, that portion of the Territory east of the twenty-fifth meridian, 81,318 square miles, was admitted as a State. By act of February 28, 1861, the remainder of the Territory, 44,965 square miles, was included in the Territory of Colorado.-U. S. Census Report, 1870, Vol. I, p. 578.

The distance from the eastern to the western boundary is as great as the distance from Boston, Mass., to Sandusky, Ohio.

The part of the Territory of Kansas not included in the Louisiana Purchase was derived from Mexico. The Spanish title dates back to Columbus, Coronado, Ponce de Leon, or Cortez. The following is copied from Edward Abbott's "Paragraph History:"

"Hernando Cortez, a native of Spain, but for several years a resident of Hispaniola, landed in Mexico in March, 1519, in command of an expedition for the conquest of that country. After a prolonged campaign, marked by many battles and varying fortunes, he finally captured the city of Mexico, and completed the subjugation of the people. His character and policy were such, however, as to surround him with enemies, and, though he was made Governor of Mexico, his administration was brief, and far from prosperous or peaceful. In 1536, he explored parts of California, and of the gulf since called by the same name, and, returning to Spain, died in 1547, in comparative obscurity."

JUNE 5.—The Miami Indians cede to the United States the land given them in 1840 and 1841, excepting 70,000 acres for homes, and 640 acres for school purposes.

JUNE 13. The Leavenworth Town Company organized, at Weston, Mo. Mr. Gist, President; Major Macklin, U. S. A., Amos Rees, and L. D. Bird, Trustees; Joseph Evans, Treasurer; H. Miles Moore, Secretary.

JUNE 24.— Commission issued to Saunders W. Johnston, of Ohio, as Associate Justice; to Andrew Jackson Isacks, of Louisiana, as United States District Attorney.

JUNE 29.-Commission issued to Andrew H. Reeder, of Easton, Penn., as Governor; to Israel B. Donalson, of Illinois, as United States Marshal; to Daniel Woodson, of Lynchburg, Va., as Secretary; to Madison Brown, of Maryland, as Chief Justice; to Rush Elmore, of Alabama, as Associate Justice. Mr. Brown did not accept the appointment, and Samuel D. Lecompte, of Maryland, was appointed.

JUNE. —A new Emigrant Aid Company organized in Massachusetts, of which Amos A. Lawrence, Eli Thayer and J. M. F. Williams are the Trustees.

JULY 7.-Governor Reeder takes the oath of office before Peter V. Daniel, one of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court, in Washington.

JULY.-The Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society obtain a charter from the Connecticut Legislature, and operate under it until the next winter, when they procure a new charter from the Massachusetts Legislature. JULY 17.—The first pioneer party leaves Boston for Kansas.

JULY 18.-The New York Legislature charters the Emigrant Aid Society of New York and Connecticut.

JULY 22.—An act of Congress creates the office of Surveyor General of Kansas and Nebraska.

JULY 24.—Eli Thayer, Amos A. Lawrence, and J. M. F. Williams, of Massachusetts, Trustees of the Emigrant Aid Stock Company; Dr. Thomas H. Webb, Secretary.

JULY 27.-The Atchison Town Company formed in Missouri. Peter T. Abell, President; J. H. Stringfellow, Secretary; James N. Burnes, Treas

urer.

JULY 29.—The "Platte County Self-Defensive Association" holds a meeting at Weston, Mo. G. Galloway, President; Benj. F. Stringfellow, Secretary. It was an aggressive Pro-Slavery organization. Similar meetings were held at other places on the border.

JULY 30.-Charles H. Branscomb, of Massachusetts, arrives on the border with the first company of Eastern immigrants, to found the city of Lawrence. Two weeks later they were followed by a second and larger company, with whom came Dr. Charles Robinson and Samuel C. Pomeroy. JULY 30.-James Findlay appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court. JULY 31.—William Walker, of the Wyandotte Indians, signs a letter, which is published in the papers, as "Provisional Governor, K. T.”

AUGUST 1.--The first party, of thirty, led by Charles H. Branscomb, arrive at the Wakarusa.

AUGUST 2.—Treaty with the Shawnee Indians.

AUGUST 21.—A book published with the following title: "Kanzas and Nebraska: The History, Geographical and Physical Characteristics, and Political Position of those Territories; an Account of the Emigrant Aid Companies, and Directions to Emigrants. By Edward E. Hale. With an Original Map from the Latest Authorities. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company." The book contains 256 pages. Mr. Hale's is the ablest of the books on Kansas, and many a year will probably go by before any other book on our State is written by a man so eminent and patriotic as the author of "A Man without a Country." The following is copied from the preface:

"I have followed up, as carefully as I could, the memoirs of the early French travellers who first opened to the civilized world the valley of the Missouri. Of more use, in the view in which that valley is now regarded, are the more recent travels of our own countrymen, a body of official reports which deserve very high praise for the skill and gallantry displayed in exploration, and the care with which their history has been written. I have made such use as I could of the travels of Lewis and Clarke, Captain Pike, Colonel Long, Mr. Breckenridge, Major Bonneville, Colonel Fremont, Colonel Emory, Lieutenant Abert, Mr. Parkman, Major Cross, Captain Stansbury, Captain Gunnison, Governor Stevens, Lieutenant Williamson, and others.

"I have used some recent letters published in newspapers, and have been favored with personal narratives of agents of the Emigrant Aid Company.

"In my sketch of the Indian tribes I have followed the invaluable treatise of Mr. Gallatin, the spirited sketches of Mr. Catlin, and Mr. Parkman's interesting journal of his sojourn with the Ogillalah, besides the notices in the travellers I have named.

"It will not be long, I suppose, before historical societies and antiquarian institutes in Kanzas and Nebraska will be collecting materials far more abundant for their his

tory and geography. I shall watch such collections with great interest, as well as with the pride of being the first collector in the field. Working with the disadvantages of a first collector, I have simply tried to make this book accurate as far as it goes."

Mr. Hale's purpose was to send Northern men here to make Kansas Free. He was one of the Committee, with Richard Hildreth, the historian, who reported the "plan of organization and system of operations" of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company, on the 4th of May, 1854.

AUGUST.-A pamphlet of twenty-four pages printed in Boston, by Alfred Mudge & Son, entitled: "Organization, Objects, and Plan of Operations of the Emigrant Aid Company: Also, a description of Kansas for the Information of Emigrants." The officers of the Company are given as follows: Trustees-Amos A. Lawrence, Boston; J. M. F. Williams, Cambridge; Eli Thayer, Worcester. Treasurer-Amos A. Lawrence, Boston. Secretary Thomas H. Webb, Boston.

AUGUST 23.-Congress appropriates $25,000 for public buildings in Kansas.

AUGUST 26.-John Calhoun, of Illinois, appointed Surveyor General. AUGUST 29.-Thos. J. B. Cramer appointed Territorial Treasurer. AUGUST 30.-John Donaldson appointed Auditor of Public Accounts. -Father John Schoenmakers, of the Osage Mission, now Neosho county, reports a grasshopper raid. They "came down like a fall of snow." They hatched in the spring of 1855, and destroyed all the crops and “all the grass on the prairies," in that vicinity.

SEPTEMBER 1.—The second New England party arrives at the mouth of the Wakarusa.

SEPTEMBER 15.—Appearance of the first newspaper in Kansas, the Leavenworth Herald. It was printed under an elm tree, on the Levee, near the corner of Cherokee street. It was a Pro-Slavery paper. In 1861, it was discontinued. No file of it is known to be in existence. lard, of Virginia, was at one time its editor.

H. Rives Pol

SEPTEMBER 20.-Chas. Aug. Williams appointed Executive Clerk.
SEPTEMBER 21.- First sale of city lots in Atchison.

SEPTEMBER 28.- Daniel Woodson takes the oath of office as Secretary, in Washington.

OCTOBER 1.— First sermon preached in Lawrence, by Rev. S. Y. Lum. OCTOBER 3.-Commission issued to Samuel D. Lecompte, of Maryland, as Chief Justice.

OCTOBER 6.-Lawrence is the name given to the "New Boston," "Yankee," or "Wakarusa" settlement, in honor of Amos A. Lawrence, its benefactor.

OCTOBER 7.-Gov. Reeder arrives in the Territory, and establishes the Executive Office temporarily at Fort Leavenworth.

OCTOBER 9.—First sale of town lots in Leavenworth; amount realized, $12,600.

OCTOBER 15.-This is the date of the Kansas Tribune, of Lawrence, the first number of which is printed in Ohio, by John Speer. The articles were written in Kansas, by Mr. Speer. It is a Free-State paper.

-Rush Elmore takes the oath of office as Associate Justice, before Gov. Reeder, at Fort Leavenworth.

OCTOBER 18.—Gov. Reeder, Judges Johnston and Elmore, and Marshal Donalson, go into the Territory, "to examine the same."

OCTOBER 19.-Robert L. Ream appointed Chief Clerk of Surveyor General. Miss Vinnie Ream is his daughter.

OCTOBER 21.-This is the date of the first number of the Kansas Herald of Freedom, published at Wakarusa, by G. W. Brown & Co. It was printed at Conneautville, Crawford county, Pa., where Mr. Brown had been publishing the Courier. No. 2 was printed in Kansas, and is dated Jan. 6, 1855, Lawrence City. No. 1 is a handsomely-printed and well-edited eightcolumn paper. During a part of 1855 and 1856 the paper was reduced to seven columns. A wood engraving in the centre of the head of the paper has been closely followed in our State seal. This number records the arrival in Kansas, on the 6th of September, of "the second Kansas party." It left Boston August 29th, was conducted by Chas. H. Branscomb, and contained between one and two hundred persons. They were publicly received at Albany and Rochester, New York. At Rochester, a Bible was presented to the emigrants, inscribed "To establish civil and religious liberty in Kansas,” and an address delivered by Hon. Wm. C. Bloss. Bryant's poem, "The Prairies," is copied in the Herald, and the following poem written by Whittier:

A letter written from Kansas by Samuel N. Wood is copied from the National Era. Two files of the Herald of Freedom, neither complete, have been examined in preparing this book. One was bought by Chief Justice Kingman of Judge George W. Smith, of Lawrence, and one by Hon. David Dickinson, State Librarian, of James Christian, of Lawrence. Both files are now in the State House, and accessible to the public.

OCTOBER 26.—Birth of Lawrence Carter, the first child born in Lawrence. In June, 1875, the Atchison Champion published the following: "A BRAVE LAWRENCE BOY.-Yesterday morning an accident happened down the