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(Copyrighted 1000. All rlghli reaerred.) Hy CHAPTER VII CONTINUED (31) Notlco that tho school attached to tho Otoo and Omaha mlnaion Is about to bo transferred to the Iowa and Sac mission, noar tho northern lino of Kansas, appears In this Issue. Tho samo paper, of December 20, notes that thnro aro In tho Qtilncy Colony Fontcnollo "about thirty persons who camo on and commonced tho settlement late In tho fall," and aovoral houses had boon erected. Tho Palladium of January 10, 1855, explains that "gos-noo-Hah," Is equiva lent of Omaha, and means "Blldlng,' "which Is a favorite amusomont with tho Omaha youth by whom wo aro sur rounded." Tho sled was a cake of Ice about ten Inchos wldo and ilfteon inchoB long rounded oil at tho onds. Sometimes In Us rapid descent tho brlttlo vohlclo would go to plecos, when a catastropho would happon to the Indian boy passenger as precipi tate, though not as fatal, as tho rcBitlt of tho bucking automobllo of our day. Tho Issuo of January 17 describes tho great beauues of tho site of St. Mary, "on the eastern shore of tho Missouri river, four miles above tho mouth of the Platte, and nearly op posite tho Council Bluffs agency, Bolloviow, Nebraska territory. . . Tho town is Btirroundcd with scenery or unsurpassed beauty. On tho cast the green bluffs, rising nearly two hundred and fifty feet above tho lovol of tho river two miles back, stretch along to the north and south until they disappear in tho distant horizon. On tho north the Mosquito creek, Bklrtcd with beautiful trees and rarms, appears at a dlstanco of half a mllo. Tho south presents an open view. Tho bluffs back of tho town aro covered with beautiful groves of olm, oak. hickory and black walnut." Tho aux iliary embellishments ot this picture In unimpaired beauty are still visible from Bollevue, but tho ambitions town site itself long since "moved on" and now, no doubt, forms an Important part of tho delta of tho Mississippi. St. Mary was tho eastern terminus of the considerable ferry traffic across tho river. On tho 7th of March thoro is notlco that a postolllco has been established at Bollevue with tho editor as post master. Malls are to arrlvo and de part twico a week; but tho postmas ter gives warning that "As wo are not authorized to expend anything be yond tho avails of tho ofllco for car rying tho malls, wo hopo our cltizons will come forward and maKo up tho deficiency, and thus sccuro prompt ness and regularity In tho mall serv ice." In this number thoro Is notlco of a mooting of tho democracy of Ne braska to be hold at Omaha on tho ,8th of March "for tho purposo of ef fecting tho organization of tho demo cratic party." Tho mooting appears to havo been held to further tho as pirations of B. B. Chapman to bocomo dologato to Congress and to dlscrotllt tho Bitting member, Mr. Giddlngs. No actual organization of tho party was practicable until 1858, when tho Re publican party began to tako form, thus Influencing tho domocrats to united action. In tho issuo of March 21 tho follow lug announcement appears under tho Heading "Bellovuo": "Tho friends of this place boing do BirouB of changing tho orthography of Its namo, so as to correspond with tho French, from which it is derived, wo havo concluded to adopt that moth od of spoiling." Honcoforward, tho old spoiling, "Bolloviow," is dropped. It was tho duty of tho governor, undor the organic act, to organizo' tho territorial courts, provisionally, this organization to contlnuo until super seded by tho act of tho territorial leg islature. Accordingly, by Governor Cuming's proclamation, Fcnnor For ruBon, chlof justlco o.. tho Bitpromo court, was asBlgned as Judge of tho first judicial district, which comprised Iho counties of Douglas and Dodgo; Edward R, Hardon, assoclato justlco, was assigned to tho second judicial district, ombracing nil that part of tho territory lying south of tho Platte river; nnd James Bradley, tho other associate Justice, was assigned to the 3d district, comprising tho counties of Burt and Washington. A term of tho supremo court was to bo hold at tho scat of government boglnping on tho third Monday of February, 1855. Tho first terms of court In tho sev eral districts wero to bo held as fol lows: First district, at Bollovuo, on tho socond Monday in March, 1855; socond district, at Nebraska City, on tho third Monday In March; third dis trict, at Florence, on tho first Monday In April. Thereafter tho times and places of holding tho courts woro to be rogulatod by tho general assembly. "Accordingly, on Monday, March 12, 1855, tho first court of record ovor held In tho torritory, tho district court of tho first judicial district, with juris diction practically like our presont dis trict court, was opened at tho mission house, Bollevue, by Fennor Forguson. chlof justlco; Ell R. Doylo, marshal." Tho Palladium (March 21, 1855) in forms us that, "Tho court was "organ ized by tho cholco ot Silas A. Strlek land of Bollevue, clork. Sovoral for eign born residents mado their decla ration of intention to bocomo citizens. No other business of Importance com ing up, tho court adjourned to April 12." But this wns not tho first bos eion of a court of record in Nebraska. The first sosslon of tho supremo court, according to tho governor's proclama tion, mot in Omaha on tho 19th of Mtstor of authentic, Complete courtesy of Editor nnd Publlehr re ol Morton's Hlatory, the Publlahera Newspaper Union of Lin coln, Nebraska, It permitted Ha reproduction In papen of February; and tho Palladium (Febru ary 21) tells us that, "Tho first ses sion of tho supremo court of Nebraska Is now being hold at tho capltol. Hon. Fennor Ferguson, chief Justice, pre siding. Tho court convened on Mon day, tho 19th Inst. J. Sterling Morton, of Bolloviow, has been appointed clerk of tho court. Hon. E. R. Harden is provented by indisposition from at tendance, sinco tho first day of tho session. He is at his lodgings at Bollo viow, where every attention to his health and comfort Is bestowed." Tho efllorcscont rhetoric and per functory bombast, which prccludo apt ideas, and perhaps disguise or illus trate tho inherent dulncBS of many of tho addressos at theso formal judicial openings, almost excito tho risibility of present-day matter-of-fact readers; and they show that the judges of theso courts exported surplus political ma terial of tho older states were, as we should expect, not Infrequently men of commonplace parts. CHAPTER VIII. Second Legislature Second Congres sional Campaign Political Condi tions. Thero was little diversion In the territory during the year 1855, from the time of adjournment of the 1st legislature, except tho small politics of tho aspirants for tho offices to bo filled at the fall elections. The dreams of Mr. Henn and others of tho or ganlzors about a rapid Increase of population had not como true. The first, or Cuming census, fur nishes no data for comparison ex cept to Illustrate its unreliability. By that census the first district, which comprised substantially the counties of Pawnee and Richardson, waB credited with a population of 851. After the lapse of a year, during which there was some Immigration, theso two counties yielded only 441 pooplo to the census of 1855. On the other hand, while the counties of Forney i and Pierce in 1854 had but G14 people, In 1855 their successors, Nomaha and . Otoo, had respectively 004 and 1,188. Otoo no doubt felt plenary satlsfac 1. .i i i . i . . ..i.. iut....t.. ' lion in so (U'cihivimv uuisu iiu"" Douglas, her rival of tho North Platte. But the nctive colonizing on the part of both slavery and anti-slavery in terests diverted most of the immigra tion to Kansas, which as early as Feb ruary, 1856, boasted a population, such as It was, of 8,601. Undor tho act of tho 1st legislature tho governor appointed Charles B. Smith as territorial auditor, B. P. Rankin, territorial treasurer, and Jas. S. Izard, librarian. Minor officers for tho Boveral counties were also ap pointed by the governor, and tho terms of all theso officers continued until tholr successors wore elected In No vember, 1855.. On the 15th of October, 1855, Governor Izard Issued a procla mation announcing that an election would bo bold on tho first Tuesday In November of tho year named to choose a dologato to Congress, a ter ritorial auditor, treasurer and libra rian, twenty-six members of tho lower houso of tho general assembly, and in tho several counties a probate judge, sheriff, county register, county treas urer and county surveyor; and each precinct should elect two justices of the peace and two constables. A district attorney for each judicial district of tho torritory was to be olected also. Tho first district em braced all tho counties south of tho Platto river; tho second tho counties of Douglas and Washington; tho third the counties of Burt, Dakota and Dodgo. Tho legislature had loft the task of making tho apportionment of tho mem bers to tho governor, and ho estab llshed the ropresontatlvo districts as follows: Burt and Washington, joint ly, 1; Cass 3, Cass and Otoo 1, Dodgo 1, Douglas 8, Nomaha 2, Nomaha and Richardson 1. Otoe 0, Pawnoc and Richardson 1, Richardson 1, Washing ton 1. Tho act of 1855 provided that tho number of members of the houso should not exceed twonty-nlno; but tho governor did not see fit to change It from tho original twenty-six. Pawneo was tho only one of tho sixteen now counties, whoso organization had been authorized by tho 1st legislature, to tako advantage of tho act and become ontltled to representation. Tho proc lamation also called for tho eloctlon of threo members of tho council to fill vacancios; and Samuel M. Kirk Patrick was chosen In placo of Nuck olls of Cass county, who had resigned; John Evans In place of Dr. Munson H. Clark of Dodgo county, deceased; and Allen A. Bradford In placo of Hiram P. Bonnet, who resigned for the pur poso of becoming a candidate for dele gate to Congress. Tho hold-over mom bora woro Dr. Henry Bradford of Otoo, formerly Plorco; Richard Brown of Nemaha, formerly Forney; Charles H. Cowlos of Otoo; Benjamin R. Folsom of Burt; Taylor G. Goodwill, Alfred D. Jonos, Origon D. Richardson and Sam uel E. Rogers of Douglas; Joseph L. Sharp of Richardson and James C. Mitchell of Washington. Tho mombors of tho houso woro John F. Buck, John McF. Hagood and William Laird of Cass county: Thom as Gibson of Dodgo; I.envltt Bow on, William Clancy, Alnxnndor Davis, Lovl Harsh, William Trlmer Jr , Wil liam E. Mooro. Genrgo Ti. Miller and Alonzo F. Salisbury of Douglas; Wil liam A. Finnoy nnd Samuel A. Cham bers of Nomaha; John Boulwaro. Dr. John C. Campbell, James H. Dockor, William B. Hail. J. Sterling Morton and Mastln W. Rlden of Otoe; Ama- Itoebraeha their Issue zlal M. Roso of Otoo and Cass jointly; Abel D. Kirk of Richardson; Dr. Jo romo Hoovor of Richardson and Ne maha Jointly; Charles McDonald of Richardson and Pawneo jointly; Pot ter C. Sullivan of Washington and William B. Beck of Washington and Burt jointly. Comparing this second apportion ment with the first wo find that the audacious stuffing of the North Platte counties of Burt, Dodgo nnd Washing ton by tho deft hands of Governor Cuming is acknowledged by his suc cessor; for In place of her two full representatives allowed by Cuming, Burt Is now tacked to Washington to divido one with that county, which in turn is reduced from two members to ono and a half. Dodge is cut down from two to one. Cass county retains its threo members and divides another with Otoo, which has six of Its own a gain of one. Douglas holds to Us original eight, lint since Governor Izard's census awards a population of 712 to Cass, 1,028 to Douglas, 1,188 to Otoo and 604 to Nomaha, tho prin ciple of Governor Izard's apportion ment Is still paBt finding out. Tho rightB of Cass, Otoo and Nemaha are shamefully abused to tho profit of Douglas. Councilman Sharp's very keen appreciation of tho responsibili ties of a pioneer census taker in 1854, in tho case of Richardson county In 1856, to bo at all presentable, had to be discounted at about 40 per cent of its face value; though with a popula tion of only 299 that county still hold on to ono representative and shared two others with Nomaha and Pawneo respectively. It has been pointed out that In an addendum to his census returns Mr. Sharp admitted that tho number of voters in Richardson coun ty, excluding the half-breed tract, should be reduced from 236 his cen sus figures to about 100. Beck, tho joint member for Burt and Washington, lived at Tokamah. Burt county; Roso. tho member for Cass and Otoo. lived at Nebraska City, Otoe county; Hoover, member for Richardson and Nemaha, uvea at Nemaha City, Nemaha county; and McDonald, member for Richardson nnd Pawneo, lived In Pawnee county. So that In the popular adjustment of the apportionment Burt and Washington In fact shared alike with ono momber each; Cass retained her original three and Otoe gained two, making three in all; nnd Richardson retained her original, number two. With 34.4 per cent of the popula tion the North Platte is awarded 42.3 per cent of tho representatives. Tho hold-over council, with 54 per cent of Its members from the North Platte, proBents even a worso travesty of de cency and justice. In view of such a piece of his handiwork as this tho Impartial judgo must demur to tho modest disclaimer of Governor Izard's homo paper (tho Helena, Arkansas, Star) that ho was "not endowed with shining talents," and must also ques tion Its ascription to the governor of tho compensatory vlrtuo or probity. The 2d legislature convened at Om aha, Tuesday, December 18, 1855, at 10 o'clock In tho morning. Tho tem porary officers of tho council wero Orlgen D. Richardson, president; John W. Pattlson, chief clork; Lyman Rlcti ardson, assistant clerk; Samuel A. Lewis, sergeant-at-arms, and Nlles R. Folsom, doorkeoper. Tho regular or ganization consisted of Benjamin R. Folsom, president; Erastus G. Mc Neely, chief clerk; M. B. Roso, as sistant clerk; Charles W. Pierce, sor- geant-at-arms; Henry Springer, door keeper; Lo Grand Goodwill, pago. The houso was organized by tho election of tho following temporary officers: Speaker, William Larimer, Jr., of Douglas county; chief clerk, Joseph W. Paddock; assistant clerk, H. C. Anderson; sergeant-at-arms, A. S. Bishop; doorkeoper, Ewlng S. Sharp; fireman, Patrick Donahue. In tho permanent organization Pottor O. Sullivan of Washington county was olectod speaker, his principal oppo nent being Abol D. Kirk of Richard son county. Isaac L. Glbbs was olect ed chief clork; H. C. Anderson assist ant clerk; A. S. Bishop, sergeant-at-arms; E. B. Chlnn, doorkeeper; and Rev. Henry M. Giltner, chaplain. From tho council wo miss Hiram P. 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