The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-01-01
OF rHE DIspArcH.
wAsHIsaroN, Sunday night, Dec. 30.

e. NM. ~ WASHINGTON, Sunday night Dec 30
s General Thomas Shankland arrived In this city
last evening, bearing dispatches from the Free
State party at Lawrence in Kansas Territory -
lie has been mentioned. in the late accounts As
( having undertaken this perious enterprise and as
having succeeded in it, through the practice of con-
siderable adrotness. He left Lawrence at the mo-
ment when things were widest, and found himself
in the mldst OF the Border Rnffians" in their de.
: parture He was mistaken by them for a gentle
man of his nanae who is q preacher in that region.
and il is this mistake that he Is indebted for his
safety. He says that his travelling companions
were very desperate in their disappointment and
cbagrin and that GOV. Shannon was most bitterly
denounced for having made any arrangement with
the resistants at Lawreaee; and not only this but
that was openly declared among them that he had
been bribed by fee of twenty thousand dollars -
This was OF course but the coinage of their imagi-
nings but 1t shows the spirit of the men whose
purpose 1t was to fight and who could but poorly
br ok any disappointment in their mission The
fact 49, however. that Governor Shannon got no
great advantage in his treaty, for although tbp
Lawrence people disayow the rescue of a citizen
= under arrest and promise obedience to the laws
and aid In their enforcement tits also conceded
by Governor Shannon that any person arrested
shall be examined by the Z. s. District Court IN
Tie ielcR and admitted to BAIL and he also disa
vows having given authority to the Missouri forces
then in the territory and acknowledges that he has
no authority do so; and in conclusion, it is ex
pAained that no opinion is meant to be expressed
IN the instrument respecting the validity of the
VS. enacted by the Legislature of the TERRITORY,
General Shankland is himself well known in
washington He has passed portions of every
CONGRESSIONAL season here for number of wears
past and has always been understood to be = cor
respondent of the New York press Heis nreeisa.
" inc man to appreciate the fun Of an enterprise
o. tue KIND ne has just passed through; but cen
fcsses 10 some dismay at the manner - go so,
peculiar TO the army of Invaders, which was far
Motse .han InaI described by Uncle Toby as prae-
sesa Dy our army IN Flanders. He says that
1nghsing was usqaestionably the purpose Of each
parry and that but for the arrangement made 3D.
would have teen the saddest kind of 49, 'AeIe
sees noreoxer that The less of horses aud arms On
Srhe part Of the army of invasion was very ra..
and that every man in that army has elas s
vi oh tat somebody must make good these los.
and pay for the services performed but thai tbsr
ideas do not appear very clear as to who thai some
IL is worthy of remark that since the forna,o,
OF the general government the average attendanea
q nlemosss has never been equal to what is
shown by The records of the present unorganized
body. 1t Is also worthy of remark and wonld
have been deemed so even in an eccles;asfic body
twenty-five years ago, that there is not a member
of this House whose personal appearance oiyes
iaoi . VI an incorporate life A. b. C. |