New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-23

- -, vo,ed whose name Is not on the
~ = ,..;ds,t. a few days before the dec.
80, .,noanies going westward through HE
.s...io,. ,hsv ,ajd they were going 10 take claims.
80, ed Iandis were the Free-Sts,e csnfdates;
Co., ofeIlow aid Kirk the Pro Slavery. Whitfield
80 an eL,r at the cro,s examination but although
~. ~itness locked ntiulidated (he WIS at Leaven-
WORTH nothing was made Of it Witness having
.tat,d that some of the Free State residents
from Missouri, Whitfield replied that "that was
"hsrd thng to prove from seour'
Nsj. Gen. RIcBARDsos, sworn--Came to this Ter
ritory first in lsH. To Oi,rer-Came 70 the election
two or three weeks before the first election in Noven-
ber 1884 and bought claim; @ candidate for the
Council at the election held March 20, 1865, in the
XIVth District. Witness examined q deposition
made bya witness relative 10 his being a resident
of hssoun; witness denied the statement and said
that be was not resident of Missouri; witness said
he never heard about having been shot at that
eleciiCn witpes. stated that there grest many
Hsoursns at the election that day, some said from
three 10 five hundred; knew many Of them to be resi-
dent, of Missouri and many of them he did MT see;
witness dtd not see any Of them vote the FreeState
candidates Withdrew about hour before the cleo
ti0n; witness received 234 votes "was not well &C
quainted with the actual residents, as they are
"called' tBaddak prccinct); witness was satisfied
that there was majority of Pro Slavery men 10 tho
district aud " told our Missouri friends not to vote
witness said he got come Free-State votes witness
was satisfied that he would have been elected if there
lad been Free-State candidates; had c0nyersed with
the MssOuriass preseUt; they told him that they had
heard that Free-State emigl alton Of 10 wa e1
pected and they had come over to cOunteract It; in
reference 10 the speech he had made on the OCCASION
witness admitted that be had sad thet che would get
UP in the night and walk over the frozen ground
mile TO strike at Free SOer's principles, but did
not say biz person. fJ-He has farm and a
bOuse over here in the Territory goes to Missouri on
Saturday night, and comes back Sunday night; has
several thousand dollars worth Of stock and property
in the Territory; his wife and child reside over in
Missouri; about the fights, be did not see them"
they had been eating and drinking, and the boys
wanted fight he got over the fence, AMI did not 20
back to sec what the fighting was about the election
was as orderly any in " Old Buchanan County"
DO. To Sherman-Came from Missouri; lived on
place in Buchanan County generally known as his
fam his property was there; his wife and dsugh
ter hved in Mlssouri--they live there now; there
were from three to FIVE hundred Mssourisus over q.
Are you & member Of any secret society for the
extension OF Slavery into any United States Tern
tory! Witness declined 10 answer Q. Is thsre such
q society in existence Declined. Q Would the
rules and guations Of this society submit you to any
penalty or would they submit you to enlargement Of
life if you TO that question, would 1t
crimi1a'e you7 "A No, Sir, | think it would not,
but decline answering all such questions, not be.
lievipg the Committee have the right TO ask
them" Q. By M. Skerman-One more question:
How many members of the Territorial Legislature and
Council are members Of the secret Lodge referred to
Declines TO answer. Here the afternoon session adj
jourDed Whitfield promising to have testimony in the
morning. Nr. Oliver present ard Mr.. Whitfield
but Reeder was alas fugitive, and merely to keep
the peace, and at the instance OF others! There arc
sOue points in The testimony Of Major Gen Richard
son, (elected TO the chief command Of the militia Of
the Territory by the Missouri. Kansas Lesislsture
which / would have Members Of Congress aud the
public generally to note-l make no comments. HIS
testimony is rcbuttng and there ia evidence record
to Prove that which it s Intended to disprove. In
detailing hi. evidence, he received some Free State
votes, about twenty. He ssys that his Pro-SlAvefy
opponent, Mr. Whitsrave who received ~ votes,
received the Free-Stat votes principally,
and did not get more Pro-S'avery votes
than vit,ess Free-Statr votes this would
make Free. state vote Of - polled. He states that
oil the Free State candidates retired from the contest,
and that many Of the Free state residents did not vote
On being ssked by Oliver, be said that Is, perhaps
more, of these went away and did not vote lthls, al
IS, makes 90 Free State voters Again, he sates,
while demonstrating that he would have been elected
il no Mssourabs had voted that there is majority OF
ProSavery residents in the precinct OF at least %,
Others say more. This would make aggregate vote
for the precinct of :36, while the census only shows
$50 voters in the district and there are three precincts
in the district Again with regard to his residen'e,
II Was sworn TO by other witnesses that this member vi
the upper branch Of the Bogus Legislature was resi-
dent Of Missouri. IL his own testimony be stated ua'
he was resident OF the Territory, but IN the croS'oh
animation by Sherman, he admits that ms vile ana
only child reside in Missouri, that they live on the
place known generally as his place, that he property
is in that house and that be hss transferred the isrn
TO his sou-insw; but also adds tina, he returns there
eyery Saturday night to spend the Sunday lie stated
this lsst fact several times. generally, that he went to
IN. State on such occasons once however he sad he
went home on Saturday night but as tins evident
" an oversight it IT, perhaps, unfair to mention It.
take pains to point out the pecuaiteS of ths reout-
ting testimony a. it is the first of the kind aud /"
Mnor.Gene1s Richardson o the Kan'a Militia IS
distinguished personagc.l
LEAvYswoRTR CIR, X. T., May IS, 1856
Gen. RIcH.RpsoS recalled-From the poll books
gave testimony relative TO the number OF votes IN MS
inn ediatc neighborhood. The testimony was vague
did give full idea Of al the yose~ IN the pre-
circt; related only to his ueighborhood aud at the
rate given would have Indicated much larger popu-
ston than testified to by other witness indie by
the census. Another question was put by Mr.. Sher-