New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-02

The weather, which las here sofore been pleas
ant, has turned raw and cid to-day. am now
writing in cold room, Without fire and not quite
so clean as Gee would relish. The idlers, who ap-
pear to Ee al abundant class in all the river towns
Of NsfoIri, svep upa continual racket, and but
for lite being 80 confoundedly slow, would almost
like to be on board of the Genoa again; but no
tbs lie Kan,as. Like the ancient prophet OF Israeli
can zee the promised land and it is goody to the
eve. with the indian farms studding its slopes.
Unlike him hope soon to press my foot upon its
coil, but not TO lay my bones there
SHAWNEE Mission, X. T, Oct %, 1855.
think in my letter of Saturday, dated at Kan
sas stated Whitfeld's vote at the first election to
be twenty-three hundred and twenty-five, and as it
Was tsenty -four hundred and twenty-five | take
tits earliest opportunity to correct sn uninteD-
tionsl mistake. At the first election Whitfelds
friends only voted-that is, with slight exception,
for Reeder got few votes then at the second
election called by the people, who would not recog-
ue the usurpatiOns Of the otringteOw legislature,
the votes thrown were all for Reedef. Thus the
two parties avoided coming 70 collision az the polls,
ard tie vote would have been fair one under the
circumstances. az it stood between them but for
two confederation. Ia the first place, large part
of Whifeds vote was imported from Missouri,
a. has always been the case with the party who
wish lin to Tepresent the Territory, charge
which il is impossible t. bring against Reedef's
votes for the bulk of his voters came from dis
lance, The trayersiDg Of which was pretty good
guarantee Of bona 6de intention to settle. Again,
Hbile those who voted for Reeder remained per-
fectly ttill and Ieacesbe while the Whitfield vote
was being polled, the Pro.Slayery men resorted to
every means to intinidate the Free State
men from voting In spite of all, as
have already written, Reeder by the
election returns already in, has four hun.
dred votes more than Whitfield received, counting
all the latter got, good, bad and Indifferent :
and the time the returns are all in from
the northern part of the Territory, there
is no question but the majority will be
six hundred. Wherever polls were opened
at the second election and it done through the
bulk of tie Territory, the poll-boOks were regular
" kept and the election conducted according to
regular rules, instructions having been sent by the
convention that ordered the election. In some
few precincts and localities the instructions were
not received, and through that cause as well as
from intimidation, the polls were not opened 10
some places where Reeder would have got good
many votes. In the precinct in which am now,
and it is large one so far as territory is con-
cerned, though not pOpulOus-there was no poll
book opened AID votes taken at the second
election although there were six votes cast for
Reeder here at the first election, which of course
were lost In the first election Whitfield re-
ceived upward of one hundred aud fifty of his votes
here. How he got them would be puzzle to me
if the Missouri State line were not within mile of
Shawnee Mission and only some three or four miles
from the leg church where the vote of this
section or precinct is taken As this is in the
Shawnee reservation, which extends some thirty
miles, there are of course very few white resi-
dents, and, Indeed, not so very many indians
There are perhaps a dozen voters around
the Mission here, including Government Off
Gals; if there are two dozen, ! certainly
do not know what can have become of them
now, for | have not found more than a third of
that number, although Governor Shannon and
Secretary WOodsOn had just started up to the site
Of the new State capital before Igot here. Looking
upon the matter in the best light can, | can find
very slender basis for hundred and fifty, and
Reeder got six votes in this section, which beyond
all question were genuine. Gen Whitfeld's place
is mile and half distant from where am writing,
snd about quarter of mile from the Missouri
State line Isuppose he would also have few voters
there who would be legitimate enough. All the
government people here arc for Whitfield. One of
them, very respectable man, told me (and he
seemed to take it for granted that there would be
nobody hereabouts who would take different vie "
of politics from the powers that be- that he feared
Breeder would get his seat " Indeed" he said,
I" all that can save it is good sound Democratic
majority in Congress" which, he added, he
feared we would not have" He said, however,
if Reeder got his seat there would be awful times
for there were good many desperate fellows that
would be for running the abolitiOnsts" out of
the country. This latter was plain enough bat
what he meant by the sound Democratic major
city" that whould refuse the seat to the man who
had the most votes, was puzzler
The country back of Kansas City, after you get
fairly away from the river breaks-and til sy extend
very short distance-improves rapidly. The soil
assumes a darker hue and is deeper, and il ia only
where the wheels have cut pretty deep that the sub
soil is visible The timber is heavy and of good quail
ty-oak chiefly white oak black walnut poplar, elm
and hickory. As you approach the prairie the tim.
Der grows lighter and finally merges into hazel and
other bushes, with here and there scattering tree,