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London, England, 1858-01-12 00:00:00

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ClamPBachy tmops find in a Ft:lt e or,blocksde, had' Feen
captured by tht, r.tacii ',tiles ; but it Wore again retaken
by the former, and a atrong force of good treops were
stf\tioned at that point to defend it from further
assnl tlu
Advises from St. Louie, of Dec. 29, report, advisee
from Leavenworth, Kt.nsas, of the 25th, giving the
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vote of that city- as 238 fnr v And 9.aeainst -:
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it. Much excitement ' ,u, there being
many Missourians prase...L., .1(_. of whom voted
after swearing in their vutee. The form of ()Alt
administered is said to have been, "Are you at
this instant an inhabitant of the territory ?" Some
of the Missourians had been arrested, and Judge
Lecompte ha I iJsuel writs of habeas corpus fa.
their release. General Calhoun had been 'burnt in
effigy, and Eli Moore shot in the leg. It was
runioured that General Denver had signed an order
for the arrest of General Line. The Lecompton
people had adopted that Constitution, including
the.slavery clause, at the election on the 21st ult.,
by a reported majority of 69. The raurna received
were but meagre. At Shawnee the pro-slavery vote
765, at Ala•he 200, and at Lexington about the
same. It was reported at Lawrence that a body
of Free State men had gone to Lecompton to seize
the territorial arms. A letter from Lawrence,
under date of the 21st inst., states that General
Lane had gone to Fort Scott with the avowed de-
termination to deitroy the place, exterminate the
pro-slavery settlers, and carry the war into Mis-
souri. General Denver had assumed the governor-
ship of the territory, and issued an address exhort-
ing the citizens to appeal to the ballot-box for she
settlement of their difficulties. He had announced
his policy, and st dad that General Calhours had
invited himself and the preqsding officers of both
Houses of the Territorial Legislature to be present
at the counting of the election returns on the 21st.
No votes had been received in Lwrence, and the
poll-books were not opened at Topeka. A lettei
to the Republican, St. Louis, states that the Law-
rence Convention of the 23.1 ult. will decide whe-
ther or not to go into the January election fcr
Stat 3 officers. Many, it is said, favour such a course
with the view of crushing the Btate government.
Es-Secretary S•antots'e 1120110.-WCA mentioned for
Governor.

The Washington Union, of the 27th ult., pub-
lisbe4 a letter from J. Chief Justice of
lillisas„ which it char•icterises as a pltin unvar-

nished statement of aseartained facts, fint.l expresses
an opinion that the only remedy for the lawless-

miss and rebellion it exhibits is the admission of
K.foisas to tho Union.

Secretary Cass's reply to Governor Walker's
epinmunication, tendering his resignation as go-
vernor of Kansas, and which was accepted, has
been published.
The policy which it was expected Governor
Walker would have carried out is thus stated
" Ti:e question of slavery was the all-absorbing ques-
tion, and you were sent to Kansas, with the full
confidence of the President, to carry Ore, the principles
of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. With the question of
whether Kansas was to be a free or slave state, you
were not to interefere. You were to I,ecure to the
people of Kansas a lair and free election, to decide the
question for themselves. The President was therefore
happy to learn from your despatches to this department,
of July 1.5:11 last, that in all your speeches you bad
refrained from expressing any opinion 33 to whether it
should be a slave or free State."

Ad vices had been received at Washington from
the head-quarters of the army of Utah, dated Black
Fork, Nov. 5 :—The detachments under Colonel
Johnston arid Colon-1 Smith, together with the
supply trains, had united with the main body under
Colonel Alex-1114er, and the entire force had ad-
vanced to within 16 miles of Fort Bridger, en route
for Salt Lake city. The troops were in high spirits,

being plentifully supplied with provisions, while
the snow had fallen sufficiently to protect the grass

from fire.

The march was slow and tedious, ave-

raging 11 miles a-day. Although the road was
excalrent and the weather fine, it was not possible

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to make more rapid progress on account of the

broken-down conlition of the draught animals.
The trains, including the traders and merchants
destined to Salt Lake, which he would not allow
to go on, occupied, in as close order as they could
be made to travel, the space of from five to six
miles. No molestation whatever was attempted
by the Mormons, which may be attributable to the
presence of the cavalry.

. LATEST PER THE CANADA.
(Br TELEGRAPH ♦IA HALIFAX.)

NEW YORK, DEC. 31.

The excitement consequent on the arrest of
General Walker by Commodore Paulding is in-
creasing throughout the States.
The enlistment of Filibusters for Nicaragua is
progressing with much spirit in various places ;
800 men have left Texas for Nicaragua, and there
are about 1,400 here awaiting shipment.
A despatch from Washington says that Walker
demands that Government shall convey him back
to Nicaragua in a national vessel, and salute his
flag on arriving at the Isthmus I Walker is about
to proceed to New Orleans, where the excitement
in his favour is intense.

Commodore Paulding, by whom Walker's arrest
was effected, has beau ordered home for trial by
court-martial.

CIVIL WAR IN KANSAS.

A telegraphic despatch from St. Louis, dated the
30th of December, says that civil war has broken
out in Kansas. Several serious conflicts had oc-
curred. A fight took place between the Govern-
ment troops and a body of Pro-Slavery men, in
which several were killed and wounded, including
the United States Marshal for the district. Gen.
Lane, the leader of the Free-State troops, was in-
trenched with a large number of followers at Sugar
Mound, and was determined to engage with the
Government dragoons if they made an attack. At
the latest dates a battle was considered inevitable.