Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-05-01
The Kansas Election.

The great problem whether Kansas is to be a
free or slave State, has been partially solved by
the election which came off in the Territory on
the 3lst ult. The pro slavery ticket is triumph
nut by an overwhelming majority, proving that
the pro slavery feeling is emphntcully predomi-
nant. We know not how to account for it for
previous to the election, swarms of settlers from
the North, n majority of whom were supposed 10
have been sent out by anti slavery societies, and
all Of whom we're counted on rs reliable anti
slavery voters, were passing up the Missouri
river destined for Kansas. Several thousand
might be reasonably set down having passed
by this city. Yet not one anti slavery Represen-
tatiyo or Councilman has been returned to the
Territorial Legislature, and that body is com.
posed entirely of pro slavery men.
Even in those districts which we have regard
ed as the stronghold, peculiarly, of anti-slavery
sentiment, and the rendezvous, exclusively, of
anti slavery se,ters-even in these thu Free
candidates have been left in an emphatic and
hopeless minority. In Lawrence, the New Eng
land settlement, the pro slavery vote runs mp to
77S, while the Freesoil reaches only to 255 Other
districts exhibit more marked contrast, and
show Il greater preponderance of pro. slavery
votes.
With these figures before us, cannot think
that the emigrants from the North have been true
Il tho pledges under which they were supposed
to have come out. Indeed, the opposite party
in Kansas boast Of having, with unlocked for
readiness, converted scores of Northern cmigrnnts
and induced them to vote the pro slavery ticket.
And the results show that the bonst is not without
ground
We think that on the 81 Il of March, there
were in kansas more settlers from the Northern
States than from the Southern. But il seems that
all tho Southern settlers were pro slavery men.
The candidates of the latter were undoubtedly
the better canvassrrs aud more experienced cleo
tunrcrcrs, bat even this will not account for
the grent disparity prrceptiblr in the vote be-
tween the two parties, and forced to he
licve that the Free sellers are Responsible for
their own defeat. Large numbers of them voted
for the very men they were sent out to vote
against, and if the result i dstastefu to those
in the North who desired I" max" Kansas n free
Statr, let them make olit what they can. There
wus no bullying. no trickrry, underhand
means, used by either party that we have heard
of,-no excitement "r lighting. Everything
passed off quietly, and the result is as we hnvo
stated.-Sh Louis inteHigencer
WONDERFUL ESCAPE FROM DEAru.-A few
days ago, during thunder storm, tho lightning
struck the chimney of the dwelling of Ira Skill
lng4 near Oswego, n. Y. descending the stove
pipe to the stove and thence difused itself in eve
ry direction, passing cat Though the floor and
on ono side of tho house. MIR. Skllings was
thrown down senseless upon the floor, his clothes
torn in tatters side, and the right side of
his body severely burned and paralyzed A little
girl who was in the room apparently was not in
jurod but what il almost incredible. she was
thrown down and the boots which she had on were
torn apart around the ankle, and the foot of the
boots forced off from her feet with the stock
iugs and thrown some six feet distance, leaving
the boot legs entire the girl. The chimney
was nearly torn to pieces and bricks were thrown
some eighteen rods distant; the floor was torn ~
in several places und ono side of the house was
much shattered.