The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-08-02

Sketches from Kansas -.
July 3Oth. 1855.

The present is a tine Of dull quiet in Kan
sas. The hct weather has put check upon
the tide of emigration. but which, no doubt.
like pent up flood will break forth with re-
newed force when tie weather grows cooler
towards fall.
The present prospect of crops here. is very
favorable for the announcement OF EN- grafton
The season has been all that any farmer could
desire, and there never was a better prospect
for crops In Kansas.
In the present dearth Of news, this paper
will be made up OF such 'odds and ends as
are afloat in the community. The would-te
Legislature of Kansas, met at Pawnee on the
Cd inst, and occupied three days IN becoming
organized, and then adjourned to the Shawnee
Methodist Mission where they are to meet
tomorrow; and since am placed, as 1t were,
under the caves of their palace, | Will fur
nsh your readers with such items as may be
of interest. The governor vetoed their reso-
luton ofad tournament. but they carried 1t over
his veto. Thomas Johnson, the missionary,
was elected President of the Council, and j.
II. Stringfellow Speaker OF the House. They
refused seats to those members who were elect
ed at the supplementary election, and admit
ted those who were elected at the first NJ.
j. Conway. who was elected a member of the
Council from The Pawnee district, the only
Free Soil member elect, resigned his place:
and in his letter of resignation TO the Governor
he takes a bold manly stand against this
Legislature, denounces the whole affair as an
ntolerable fraud, and declares his intention
utterly 10 repudiate its enactments, and opine
that he will not stand alone Samuel d. Hous-
ton, the Free Soil member of the House, from
Pawnee. was allowed to retain his seat on
condition that he Jehaue himself
A man, will not say a gentleman who
is, or has been assistant clerk of the Missouri
Legislature. made application 10 become clerk
of this, but rejected. He took this refu
sal to elect him in high dudgeon. and swore
that they might do their own voting in future
he would not help them. What pity that
other barbarians would not take the same res
olution.
The Frontier News, Of Westport Missouri
is to be the organ Of this Legislative cabal,
about to assemble at the Methodist Mission,
and is to be issued daily during its session
| imagine native fIoosier would be startled al
the tone of authority and dictation assumed by
that vile sheet, in the affairs of Kansas.
The contemplate beings who assumed 10 be
the Legislature of Kansas, have been on a
bust at Westport, during good part of the
past week. Thomas Johnson, though he may
not strictly participate in their Bacchanalian
froics winks at them. He has at last come
out in his true color. and now shows himself
to be the heartless hypocrite that many have
long believed him to be. He stated recently
perhaps in uncuarded moment that he
had justified the Mssourians in coming to
Kansas vote. and that he aoould again. 1t
is said that on the Sabbath pror to the elec
ton last spring, while he was officiating in the
pulpit, he had men measuring out grain TO the
MiSsourians. who We're on their way to the
election So much for one who Processes to
be a Christian Missionary. in the middle Of
the nineteenth century.
Tell the friends of freedom 10 cheer up
and bide the storm. with full assurance that
better day is coming. The cause Of freedom
is surely gaining ground in Kansas, and tho
dark clouds may now hang heavily over our
political horizon, a star Of liberty Will YET
break forth IN the brillianey Of day.
RICHARD MENDENHALL.
Kansas Territory 9Th no Is, %.