The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-11-03

! The RUFFIAN ELECT1oN.-This ridiculo,
farce was again re-enacted on Monday. Il
LIST inst It is useless to state that the mol
were again invaded, by armed hordes fro,
Missouri. Large numbers appeared at a
the voting places near the border and ca,
their votes fer Whitfield, the ruffian cand
date. AS already stated, there were "a
illegal votes cast at Wyandott. This was
precinct in the Indian Town of Wyandott
within two miles of Kansas City, establishe
| for the accommodation of foreign voters. A
Franklin there were about 80 votes polled
Lawrence Al. Lec6mpton lO2. There wer
no foreign Votes at this place, at the othe
places mentioned, there were quite d humble
foreign. From all the information ne ca,
gather from the various places of votins. ",
would be very safe in stating that fully two
thirds of the vote for Whitfield were foreign
This is now the third time that these out
RACES have been rerpetrated, yet Governo;
Shannon is still disposed to justify, all. We
cannot understand what has got possession
of the Government officials, that induce
them to openly justify and encourage such
outrageous conduct as has been practiced on
the actual settlers of Kansas.
No honorable, sensible and patriotic man.
could blame the people. of the Territory ii
they should revolutionize and endeayor to in
stitute a government of their own, since thew
can get ho protection whatever from the
General Government, at all. We are now
prepared for every thing that will relieve us
from the opposed condition in which we are
placed by the Administration.
Mo hovo loo r,1hI that Al.
261 votes polled at Leavenworth about l6I
were illegal. About 500 votes were boiled
at Shawnee Mission, which, according to the
census, contains about so legal voters
Kansas Free State, Oct. g.. 600 ~.
INGENIOUS THEFTs FROM LETTERs-Rob-
berries Of bank notes and securities contained
in letters, have long been frequent in the post
office of Prussia, but it was always easy to
see, by the state Of the seal, or by rents in
the paper, that the letters had been opened.
Recently, however several merchants of Ber-
lin received letters which had contained treas
ury bills, but which bills had been extracted
with such skill as to leave not the slightest
trace on the letters capable of being detected
by the most practiced eye. The police hay
ng made investigation, arrested few days.
ago letter-carrier to whom suspicion point
ed, and they found on him large sum in
treasury bills, for the possession of which he
could not account, lie at last confessed that
be had taken them from letters but for a
ong time he would not say how he had con-
trived to do SO without leaving the trace be-
hind: At length he stated that he had done
so by means of long needle, which he in
PRODUCED into the letter-and stuck into the
folds Of the thin paper inside. He then turn
ed the needle round and round, CARRYING the
paper with it, until he had brought the whole
INTO the form of a small roll, and then he had
no great difficulty in extricating the paper
from the letter on the needle. He was COM
nitted for trial.-Galignani
In becoming the lion" of patty does
A man necessarily lave to make beast of him
self?
e. The New York Mirror says that it
is rumored in that city that Grinnell, Min
turn & Co., hsve received an order for $780,
300 barrels of flour from the British Govern
ment. This is pretty large order
WITHDRAwAL.-It is rumored that Judge
Dom Piatt, Secretary of Legation at Paris,
has signifed to our State Department his de-
sire to be relieved from his present post, and
requests that successor may be appointed
as soon as convenient. Trouble between the
and Mr.. Piatt, in regard to
postal matter forwarded through the en-
bassy's bags, is said to be the cause of the
VERMoNT.-The Vermont Legislature, in
Joint session elected Charles W: Willard,
Secretary of State, on the 10Th inst: Also
the following:
JUICES of the Supreme Court.-Isaac F.
Redfed, CHEZ Justice; Pierpont Isham, LIST
Assistant Justice; Milo L. Bennett, I'd As
sistant Justice. ~
Circuit Judges.-Robert Pierpont, let Ju-
dicial Circuit; Abel Underwood, I'd Judicia,
Circuit; Asahel Peek, Sd Judicial Circuit;
Luke w. Poland, Fourth Judicial Circuit.
Auditor of Accounts H. Pingry.
State Librarian-Charles H. Joyce.
Bank Commissioner-Jason Steele.
Adjutant and Inspector GeneralEGeorge
B. Kellogg.
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