New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-19
KANSAS.
THE WEATHER.
IA or Own CoresT Ondent.

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ence has been unfelt, and all of u have suffered
intensely from the cold. The thermometer has
stood at 30 below zero once; at from Il to 20
thrice on different days; and every morning with
out cessation the mercury has fallen below zero
several degrees. Last year, at this time, fires
were unnecessary, it is said except for culinary
purposes. The Indians say il is the coolest season
they have any recollection Of. One day last week
| was obliged to walk three miles across prairie.
When I entered house | found that my ears,
nose aud cheeks were frostbiten, my eyeiashe'
frozen together, and my beard completely con-
cealed beneath covering of ice Ii II had not
been very painful it would have been very comic.
tried to laugh, but ny cheeks wouldn't stir, and
didn't feel bit like laughing when the Ice began
to tbaw. One man lost his feet aud is hardly ex-
pected 10 recover great number of horses and
cattle died in this vicinity from cold. Poultry
without legs might have been bought by the dozen
q few days since. Kansas, say the guide-books, Is
a mild and genial climate. Are their authors Es.
auimaux or from a. GIeenlands icy mountains =!
they must certainly be native to the North Pole,
Know NOthings, or men of heated maginatlons.
ANOTHER INyAsION-A PRESS DESTROYED.
You have doubtless received ere this the intor-
nation of the destruction Of another press by the
Border Ruffians. The telegraph from It. Louis to
Kansas is in the hands Of these mcn and as II Ia
more than probable, therefore, that false ac-
count of this outrage has been transmitted Last,
| sutjOin a true version OF II.
Leayenworth supported two weekly papers
The Hraid All ultra Pro-Slavery sheet ct Atell-
sons school Of politics. and The Ttrriioriat Regis-
ter a National Democratic journal, the organ,
until recently, Of the Administration, and an un-
faltering supporter of Judge Douglas and lls
policy | am intimately acquainted with Dir.
Delahay, the editor and proprietor OF The Regis
ter and for short time WAS associated with him.
This connection WAS brief, because our politics
conhcted. We belonged to the same party, but
TO different branches of it, mention this fact In
order TO show you that am accurately informed az
to Mr.. Delabay's true position, and that no North
erp journal may accuse him OF Ab0tl0nlsm, ana
thus cause conservative men 10 excuse TINS out
rage on the freedom of the press. Mr.. Delahay il
a political and warm personal friend OF Judge
Douglas. He advocated and defended the repeal
Of the Missouri Compromise; was the flrst man IN
Kansas to expound and eulogze the doctrine OF
Squatter Sovereignty; recognized the validity OF
the laws of the Barons of Kansas, and advised
submission to them uutil they were repealed or de-
clared illegal by the Supreme Court OF the United
States; ns lawyer, swOre to observe aud execute
them, and practice in Courts created by them;
denounced both publicly and private the doctrine
Of higher law, especially when acted out IN den
ance Of the Fugitive Slave bill, as in the Jerry
Rescue or the Personal Liberty Act of Massachu-
sets or the resolution by which manly Michigan
refused 10 degrade its character in future by aiding
in hunting iugitivcs from the south lie had no
sympathy with men whose opposition to Slavery
was based on moral or religious principles. lie
regarded all such opposition as fanatcism Ho
said to me frequently in private conversatlons-
and have heard him publicly express the same
sentiment-that he would throw up his hat Tor
whatever decision the actual residents OF Kansas
might make in regard to Slavery in our Territory
He was in favor Of Freedom in Kansas on two
grounds only: First, because our climate and
soil are not adapted to slave products secondly
because he wished to rear his children in COM
munity in which labor was honorable, and he
knew-havDg himself been STAKEHOLDER and
Southern man by birth and educatiOn-that where
Slavery exists work is ignomlnous
A more conservative paper than The Register is
not to be found among your exchanges. Published
in the City Of Ncw-YOrk, il would have been
called Pro-slavery paper. Compared WIN me
Territorial Register, The journal u Commerce ID
"frc-eating Abotios sheet"
But notwithstanding its conservatism 1t was OBJ
nOxious TO the Slavery Propaganda OF Piatte
County They have frequently threatened to
throw il into the Missouri but having done so pub
lcly, they always found the Free-State men pre-
pared to defend ii.
In the issue published before the nominating
Convention of the Free-State party met here, and
Immediately after 1.-the war" The Register an
nounced that David X. Atchison had been in the
camp of the invading army, and ironically regret
ted that he had not found it convenient TO return
TO Missouri via Leavenworth. in consequence,
doubtless Quoting his King Mountain letter., Of
certain duties, both of public and private na-
ture" This sealed its fate.
Next Saturday night, when Mr.. Deahay aud
the leading Free.State politicians of LeavenwOrth
were at Lawrence, armed company of fifty
Mssourans made descent on LeayenwOrth via
Kickapoo, threw the press and type Of The Regis
ter into the river. and destroyed the paper and
everything found in the Office.
Is there North If there is, why don't il re-,
enforce u.s. Indignation meetings aud patriotic
resolutions won't save Kansas. Send out as soon
navigation opens, earlier, ten thousand armed
men, mechanics, laborers, farmers, captalists,-
aud then let Congress act as il may, Kansas will
be Free State, and the mother of many more.
Until the North does so, the Slave Power will rule
u.s.
TIE CONSTITUTION.
The vote on the Constitution was small. This
was owing 10 the threats Of the Slave Power along
the border counties, and the war in the inte-
ror Of the Territory. IL is believed that the sec
ondary object of AtchisOn's design in invading
Kansas was 10 prevent large vote being cast on
the 18th of December. The leaders in the
Free-State ranks who intended to stump
every District Of the Territory were under arms
at Lawrence, when otherwise they would have
been engaged in advocating the adoption of the
Constitution. After the treaty Of peace Was con-
cuded there was no time 10 canvass, and the
Free-State soldiers tired out by their exertions.
night and day, at Lawrence, iaiied 70 turn out
u hon the time for votnc came