The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-10-23
KANSAS.

We print on our first page another very in
teresting letter from one of the Free State pris
oners at Lecompton.
The Philadelphia North american CLEANS
the following additional items:
CA letter from Lawrence, dated October Sd.
says that another large company of emigrants,
under the lead of Colonel Aldridge and General
Pomeroy, was at the Nebraska line, on their way
to Kansas, and that Gov Geary would not in.
terfere with them. They carried with them
money and clothing for the sufferers by the Mis-
souri, depredations. Many of the previous trains
of emigrants had settled on the Big Blue river.
near the northern line, and the Iowa farmers
had agreed to furnish them with provisions du.
ring the winter. Another letter from Lawrence,
dated September 18th, says that, during the
week previous, road was opened from Law.
renee to Leavenworth, by party Of Free Sellers,
with twenty teams, escorted and protected by a
company of United States dragons.
II. Miles Moore, one of the leading Free.
Sellers, Attorney General under the Topeka
Constitution, and Aid to General Lane in the
recent troubles, having arrived at Kansas city.
Mo-, by stagefr from Lawrence, was arrested there.
by directions of John Calhoun, United States
Surveyor General for Kansas. Two of Cal.
houn's clerks then hired hack and conveyed
him to Wyandott city, Kansas Territory, where
he was confined in Calhoun's Office. A mes.
senger was then sent to Leavenworth, and four
writs of arrest procured for Moore When the
people of Kansas city, Missouri, heard of the
manner in which Moore was carried off. thew
caused writs of arrest to be issued against the
kidnappers. Kansas city has suffered severely
by the loss of trade during the Kansas disturb.
ances, and, like the people of Weston, they are
determined that the Free State men shall be
protected there.
From the New York Daily Times
Monday, October 9, 1856, the Territorial
election for Delegate to Congress and for Rep.
resentatives to the second edition of the Shaw.
nee lnqulsition, came off in Kansas, big "a
ilfe.' 1T Lawrence had been all the world that
day, }: w. Whitfield would have been elect.
ed such Delegate; for it is fact established
beyond all cavi, that he has received seren votes
in Lawrence. . One of them was cast by Sheriff
Jones, who opened the polls as required BY the
miscalled La'cs; two by the two Judges of Flee.
tons; another by one Of the candidates for Rem.
resentative; and who the other three are. the
world is not yet informed.
"The paper they carried was headed sLaw
and Order Ticket For Congress, J. W. Whit.
field They might add, of Weston, Mo. Then.
for the first Representative they have Displayed
Joseph G: Anderson, who is resident Of Lex.
ington, Mo-, but COMES into Kansas whenever
we have any buildings to be burnt, presses to
be destroyed, and the like. This is all consist.
ent with the general policy of Missouri, as will
prove ~ the following pebble gather from the
last number of q Westport paper.
Our hotels are crowded with travellers
among whom are a great many Southerners.
VINO are waiting the election in Kansas, intend.
ing 70 vote, and then return South,
:And yet Oliver 4 Co. viii pretend TO DENY,
on the door of Congress, that Missouri ever in,