New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-07

'eag e1anited y ag ii end especable physlc,as
40 ba' sp' Oog lie ir the border coosie, si
Msopri, ever since isl5l and who kno 80 nearly
eVer! bocy. lie gave b., tSs' iGony IN q diga.iei
firm way lie identified very lsrye nambes u
these Missouri voters, ' TX .her places OF resideace
with other particulars II certainly loxcd supreme,J
RIDICULOUS the face of such mountain Of test nosy.
ios Whitfield to make such appeal Tor "slsaderea
Missouri" The General Is serstveiy Jealous OF the
repuia' on Of his coAstiistRcy.
! pr Noble was at the November election in isS&
fo delegate TO Congress there was great crowd st
the pol.: witnes. bad srea, diff ,uty 'o.ias; Asi
TO squeeze himself in much the lager ncnoer pre-
eut were from No. Witness here identified soas
nsu.e; Mr.. Howard said. sfer the mention cf few.
that i, va. unnecessary to the lrt. wtaess
mentioned ore gentleman VIII, hsi been in Lesves-
worth that ia, who d:d no, vote. be told witsess
that be DID M, come over to vote, but tAere
other business, and would not yots, and thosght n
very wrvpg to vote.
IL bis cross questioning Of this witn,s s Gen. Witt
ft,c WAS yery III happ,. lie only succeeded estab
lshing some ugly facts against himself that had not
b.. sufficiently clear before. EDdesvorng to sheso
t.at Mr. Flenniken 4 candidate for Congress, nSA
a resident Gen. hithrj asked where he res,isoA
Witness Gid Ne, know where any Of them resided-
Whafod Fltunikcn. or Wakefield q. What We
the Common rumor sbout FlenEkeu' 4. Well, Geo.
eral the general rumor about ell ot them was this;
Eltmken said to bc really resident OF Pcnnsyl
vana and the candidate OF the Administration; yos,
q, neral had never seen; you were said 10 be Mn
souran " ho m,rel, ID the Territory IN Indies
AgeLt ard that You wanted to in cducs Slavery n@o
Kansss; Mr.. Wakefield a resident of the rcgri-
tory and had &c into the Territory with his 10 nly
| Aud he was in favor Of Kapsss being Q Slave StAss.
THOMAS HoDCT> $50 n-lAves in Missouri, sevca
miles north ri Wtston, heard his neis gibbons talk II
c, ming over into the Territory to vot- aud sa~ them
stAit over in parties Others OF hs no hbWs told hun
they hsd been This latter was ruled outs ID. ).
R,k-y of Platte River tried to nducc witness 20 20
ever and VOTE and offered BIN five dollars If he woad
20; there wss ls,ge number If persons going and
conir toward the Territory the day OF elcct'oa.
and about that time did not them cross the dver.
the place ~here they sed beng soue distance ifcm
IN, i,sdence man, of these told him they wee going
10 vote and ON their return said they had voted; they
went to all Of the Territorial cions, but chiefly 70
the March election, all of Witness peighbor, re-
turned from the election uex day; they told witness
that they had a right TO vote under the Kansas
Nebraska bill, and that they determined to make
Karsas a Slave State. On crosse xsninstou, II hs
had r,luntsered to cone ard give testimony no
REPLIED No; that he had been over to Lesvenworth
on business, and had been ciught. Q Who caught
YOU A. That red whskered fellow pointing to Nc.
| Uptor, the Sereeant-at-Arms).
| ALEXANDER CLH,N swom-Resides in ksnsas
! City Mo-; i. in the mercantile business. To Mr Whn-
field: There were good many emigrAnts arriving u
the Spring Of 1855; he thought they were mostly
Eastern people; they were going into the Tcrntoy.
sold Bufalo robes and blankets to parties OF ten or
fh cen sometimes, going up some OF them a~ked W.T.
ness what be would give them for them on their 70
,u,n in two or three instances individuals said they
were going up 10 the election aud told hun they
int, n5ed to come back after it great many Of the
same persons that went up return they stayed VARIOUS
lengths Of time; the Spring emigration OF 1888 was
diff rent from hat has been this year there were tow
| women and children with those early parties To
| Olver-There were good many companies went ap
| that Spring considerable numbers returned. To
| Oliver on the question " Did the Misourians assign
"as reason for coming over at the Kansas election
"that the Eastern and Northern men were coming 70
"vote and make Kansas u Free State '"-witncss
would not state positively about the voting, bat heard
men Of Missouri ssy that the Eastern aud Northern
men had been beatsn at their game; there arc
men in the neigbborhood Of Kansas City who desire
tot tear down the American Hotel; il Is a oOmmos ~
nor that the American Hotel belongs to the Emgrsn.
Aid Society; has heard it eo1tradcted BY the persO,
now keeping it, Mr.. Edrdge, who claims that it Is biz
own property; and il was this statement on his part
during the difficulties last Fall that prevented |. from
being torn down.
g. W WErHERILL, swJrn-Cstne b. the Territory
in 1885, settled il the City OF Layepvorth; was Clork
Of Election, held December 1885, for the purpose "
| voting Oh the State Cony.ntiOn opened the polls
about O'Clock; voting continued without interup-
| ton until noon; Capt Chas Dunn came TO ths Wiz
| dow in a very boIsterous manner and demanded tho
ballot box the judges tried 10 remoIstrate with suA
| cosjuct; alteration ensued, when the window w0
broken I'M Judge and Clerk had left prior to this
attack; crowd came ponrng n st the broken window,
and tho two Judges and Clerk went out by door
into another room used ~ bar-rootn; witness
took tho box AID followed themi threw the
box under the counter when hs passed through tho
room; as he stepped into the street. seized by ths
neck BY Dunn who pushed him against the wall Of tho
building. and demanded tho ballot box Dunn struck
witness ~ the mouth, and some else in the crowd
struck hun; witness then fe or was pushed down by
the crowd rushrg on hin; jumped upon him, kicked
his head snd side; Messrs. y. r. Brown, SOFT An
tbony and some Others came ard rescued him. sal
carried him Of; witness severely bruised; wN
about day or two afterward but not well iftff-
ward and was taken down sick about the lat Of Jsnu
ary snd has never been very well since after the A.
| tack the election was suspended. To Gov kins-i
drew no pistol; had no weapons upon me.
J. h. EyAss swom-To Gov kns-hesides ~
W,.top. Missouri in the Spring Of 1853, came up tne
ny., twice; came up with a large number Of "'e"-
gers, one Of these times sad u Dc 10 thsy hsa
lsrg. lot Of baggage they were morIy men, 'h'S
got Of the boat At Ksn,as; had htte e'n'ef''.i'a
with them; this was in March some 10" days "'e'
that. not more than week witness vent a'~n Oh 'n'
New Lucy, Company Of 80 came on osHfa a. ,"'"
ca, ~ .,d A. different times that thsy had besa
,hs Territory and had voted; witness under