The Weekly Kansas Chief

District No. 60, (which is in the Western Hemisphere.) Feb. 17th, 1874.

"Afflictions, though they seem severe,

Are oft' in mercy sent;

They've stopped the prodigal's career,

And caused me to repent."

Now that I am suffering great mental affliction, my mind has been directed to your imprisonment, and I feel inclined to forgive you the evil you have done in former years, and send you some token of sympathy, hoping thereby to gain relief from my grief.

Has anybody manifested sufficient sympathy for us, for the last 2 weeks, to pass the Republican into your cell! If so, you are apprised that there is a farmer's club in District No. 60; and you may have been informed, before your affliction, that they didn't git nary an office last Fall, on account of some mismanagement. But as the Spring election is approaching, I hoped that there mite be some chance for a member of our club to git the patronage of the people of Center Township, if we did fail of gitting the patronage of the inappreciating citizens of the County last Fall; and with an eye that end, we reorganized the club, and lected the very man for Secretary that I was in hopes would git an offis; and you kant blame me, ef I tel u why! He is owin me $6, that he borried three years ago to pay hiz tares with, and if he kant git an offis, I am afeerd he can never pay me; and I felt grately incouraged, unth last nite, when I wuz bro't to a stait of almost hepelis dispodency. We had set him up to raze a row with Stout, jest in order to inable him to display his tallent, thinkin that in that way the pepl of this Township naight find out his ability, and give him an offis, so i might git back mi $6 that I lent him to pay hiz taxee with thre years ago. He rit the resolution against Stout purty good, and had it published in the Republikin; and the Republikin, net noing my apkaiety to git him into offis, took up fur Stout, and kriticised upon tbe resolushun, and we had mity hard work tu git him to rite a reply to the kritisism. But he got started, and it takin to the offis, and publisbed; and bi this time, he had gained a leetle grain of advantige over his modisty, and bi the time the klub had collected last nite, he had rit another reply, and was prepared to pre-zent it in regnlar military stile; and if there had not been no i there but the members of the club, this sad kalamity mite not hape nod, for we cud have fully snstained our Secretary, and if he cud a got this repli published, Stout mite a been compelled to resine, and this klub wud a got the kredit of freein the Legislatur from so corupt a politishun, and we mite a got our Secretary appinted in his sted; and as he wud net aksept a free ralerode pass fur himself, he mite a sent it ta me for the $6 be borryed of me 3 years ago to pa his taxes, which wood of been better than nuthing atal atal. But just at the critikal time, the scool clerk (who is not a member of the klub) was notised whiaperin around amung the motnbers, and as the matter turued out, it is a most sertin that be was tellin the members not tu vote to hav his reply published; fnr i member oppcsed it en account that it was political: another that it stated much about speculashun, that it mite make Mr. Leland and Tracy mad with the klub; to which our Secretary promptly replied, that be node Mr. Tracy and Leland longer than any of them, and that all both of them wood recommend the klub in doin justice to ourselres Li upposin koruption, and gittin the tax penalty posponed uuntil he cud sel his hemp, and that he kuode Mr. Tracy and Mr. Leland wond kredit him jest as well after his makin a specch or ritin a article in favor of nnsettlin a sistim that has workt so injestly to the tacks payers aa tn inable Mesars Traey and Leland to rize from the condishun of pore laborers 2 b worth each 50 thousand $s in less than 10 years, when the farmin clas had gone down bill, so that sum of ns ware not able to borry money to pay our taxes. This speech kreated soine inthusiasm, and proba bly saved the artikle from bein lade on the tabel. But about this stage of the kase, I felt another shok of onez ziness, far fear that if the article did git thru the klub, and the Republikin did git your paper, so he eud have paper enuf to publish it on. (fur it is az long as the morril law) and if Stout shud have 2 give up his seet in the Leg: islature, then thcre mite be competition in the klub, and the Secretary mis gettin the vakant seat, and after awl, I will luse my $6 I lent him to pay his tacks with 3 years ago. Fur at this juncture, a beerdless yuth riz, with al the dignity of a statesman, and maid a unotion to lay the artikle on the table, which indikates that ever sinse the klub axed Mr. Stout to resine, the members have been drillin fur the Leaislater, which aint fare play, after I have made such sackrifiecs to git the Secretary into offis, to inable him to pay me the $6 I lent him 3 yeare ago tu pay his taxis with. I looked towards the Secretary: he was abont to rize to make a speech in repli tu a member that had made a grate loug speech, in which he had reck. ommended Leland fur byin hogs and Traey for byin whete just as cbepe as thev cud, and also sed that if the tine of payin paxes was changed from the winter to the spring, so as to inable farmers to no what amount of grane they had 2 spair, or to pack there own pork and ship it down the Missouri river, avoidin the extortion of the ralerodea, and therebi reopiuep an additiopal line ov coprmerce, enablin the Bur-Oke farmers to sel! there wood on the bancks of the river, instid of holin it awa out to Troy, and giviu it awa to a lazy set of korupt politishuns, who were all the time studdyin how tu swindle the pore, hardworkin far mer out of his whete and korn, subjeetin the kuutry tu a famine, prorided our craps falo ownly 1 vere, instid of im. ployin their capital and iatcligence in bildin up manufack: tures, thareby bringing the pro:lucer aud konsumer klose together, that they woud not do it. The vote to lay on the table rezulted as follows: aves, Miller, Mix, Mansfield, and Lewis-4: navs, Wackert, Mackall, Pfeining, Perry, Trant, (which is our Secretary)-7. Motion to lay it on the table wan lost. The Secretary sezed the oppor. tunity and mado a brief speech, to the point, which fired the klub with patriotism, and another member on our side roze, and got so excited with inthusiasm, that he stove his hat upon the floor, exklaming, at the same time, that this government was az rotten as h-l! The artikle was re. ceived by a large magority. (which mite a been done at the start, if the skool klerk bad stade at home,) and the meetin adjurned.

A FREE MORAL AGENT.