The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-02-13


s....t Farther frem Kansas:
The Missouri. Democrat Of to "rN.s-.
,ha ret,,rn Of the Kansas corresicha -.
sssar rom kansas, and that ne fepo'r sh au'e'
e, ,,., rerrtory no further o"'raees ee'ns 'esf
!, !, ls.st. uutI the assembling on 'he i4egislat
-. :. a,onek a. on the firsi OF Mareh next The
,hor,,ometer had. for six weeks before BIS depar
s...,,ed from q degrees below zero to 10 de-
tnre, shexe IL. "Two thousand stand of rifles
49, ..antv breech1oading cannon had been re-
sN.;,,ad AZ Lawrence; they were brought secretly
,brong h Iowa and Nebraska
a letter from Lawrence to the New York Times,
dated January 2th chronicles the arrival there of
a number of fugitiyes from Leavenworth for pro-
lection. When Lawrence was besieged recently
by the In aders, these Leavenworth people refused
to aid in Its defense. Some Of the fugifives have
been badly frozen in their fight. The same wri-
ter SAYS that secret military organization exists
al westpori and all the prominent Missouri towns
on the border, pledged for fight with the Free
Sellers in Kansas and that they drill every day
Alarmed ut this, the people Of Lawrence are again
under arms. They have received halt ton OF
lead, and nearly as much powder, and two more
wagons were on the way with material aid while
provisions are coming in for the aPprehended siege
The writer proceeds thus
Last night about sixty men were detailed from
the different companies. and party put al eaen
Of our FIVE Notifications. Cabins were hastlly
thrown no within the entertainments stoves pre-
pared and they are now boarding themselves, IN
soldier like order The fort at the foot OF Massa-
chusetts street is circular about 100 feet in diane
ter made Of earth and timbers thrown up about
seven feet high, with a walk about four feet wide
upon the top Upon this circle we have soldier
in full uniform walking night and day, giving our
town something Of military appearance
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Proclamation by the President on Kansas
. Affairs.
The Washington Union of yesterday contains a
proclamation from the President in regard to Kan
sas affairs. The proclamation sets forth that ndi
cations exist that the public tranquility and supre
macy of the law in Kansas is endangered by the
reprehensible acts or purposes OF persons both
within and without the territory. who propose to
direct and control its political organization by force
that combinations have been formed therein TO re
sist the execution of the territorial laws, and thus
in effect subyert, by Violence all present eonstitu
tional and legal authority; that persons residing
without the territory, but near its borders cOntem
plate armed Intervention il the affairs thereof
that other persons, Inhabitants OF remote States
are collecting money; engaging men and finding
arms for the same purpose; that combinations
within the territory are endeayoring, by the agen
cy of emissaries, and other means. to induce in
diyidual States of the Union to intervene in the
affairs thereof in violation Of the constitution OF
United States.
All such plans for the determination of the fu
ture institutions of the territory if carried into ex
ecution from within the same will constitute fact
of instruction and if from without that of inva
sion or aggression; and will IN either case justify
and require the fOrcible interposton of the whole
power of the general. government, as well to
maintain the laws of the territory those of the
Union.
He commands all persons engaged In unlawful
combinations against the constituted authority o.
the territory in Kansas to dispense and retire
peaceably to their respective abodes and warns all
such persons that any attempted insurrectiOn il
the territory aggressive Intrusion into the same
will be resisted, not only by the employment o.
the local militia but also by that of any available
force of the United States, to the end of assuring
immunity from violence and full protection to per
sons properly and civil rights of all peaceable and
law abiding inhabitants of the territory.
IL in any part of the Union the fury of faction OF
fanatcism nhamed into disregard of the genera
principles of popular sovereignty. which, undeI
the Constitution are fundamental in the whole
structure of our institutions, is to bring on the
country the dire calamity of the aIbitrament Of
arms in that territory, it shall be between lawless
violence on the side and conservative force on
the Other welded by the legal authority Of the
general government.
The President calls on the citizens of both ad-
Joining and distant States to abstain from unau-
torized interneddling in the local concerns of the
territory admonishng them that its organic law
is to be executed with impartial justice. That all
Individual acts of Illegal interference win incur
condgn punishment; and any endeavor to inter
vene by an organized force will be firmly with
stood
He also invokes all good citizens 10 promote or
der by lending obedience TO the law; to discounte
nance and Hepnise the counsels and instigatoDs OF
disorganizers; and TO testify their attachment to
their country; their pride in its greatness their
appreciation of the blessings they enjoy and their
determination that republican institutions shall not
fail in their hands, by cooperating to uphold the
majesty of the law and TO vindcate the sanctty of
the constitution
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THE SEARCH FOR THE PACIFIC.--No tidings
have yet been received of the steamship Pacific
Two steamships, the Alabama, Capt. Schenck,
and the Arctic. under the command of Lieut. Hart
stein. United States Navy, have been despatched
in search other.
1t is thought that the Pacific took more north