The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-01-11

| FIRST DEVELOPMENTS or LEAP YEAR.-A par
~ OF twenty-five ladies aud gentleman, iron
Rockville, CT, visited this city on Friday, in the
capacity OF sleishng party, dining and iakins
supper at the Massasoi House, and visiting The
Amory and other Of the prominent features o.
Springfield The ladies acted as escorts for The
gentlemen, ordering the meals, paying the bills
aud furnishing the comforts Of the trip generally
Springfield Republican Jan 5h.
From KANSAS. Waalington Jan 4. A let
ter from the staff officer Of the Free State forces
at Lawrence. claims a bloodless Triumph oyel
Gov. Shannon, in the recent treaty. they having
yielded no principle at issue The letter also
stHes that Governor Shannon and Sheriff Jones
talk Of resigning u TIC people OF Missouri do moi
keep quiet and mind their own business.
The Free State party, at their convention on the
22i Of Dec, nominated Charles Robinson for
Governor, MIR. Roberts for Ii. Governor, and N.
W. Delaney for Congress. The election takes
place on The 81 Tuesday OF January Col Lane
was Nc. Robinsons opponent for the nomination,
and was defeated by a vote Of IS 10 %.
DIn the formation OF State Government,
for California, Col Fremont was among the most
urgent 10 have clause prohibiting slavery inserted
in her constitution. lie was opposed, he said, TO
having domest icaied on the new aud fertile terri.
tory OF the Pacific an institution which had prov
ed such u burden and curse TO many OF the older
States on the Atlantic" Col. Fremonts views
on this question are understood TO be very nearly
the same as those Of Col. Benton. Having been
reared in u Southern State. he knows all the evils
connected with slavery, aud deprcaies their cx.
tension and perpetuaiion. -ksnnHbee Journal.
KANsAs.-A correspondent, Of the N. Y. Times
writes that before Gov. Shannon leit Lawrence,
he enrolled the Free State Volunteers as the reg.
uary organized militia Of the United Sta,es.-
On the lllh December they received their official
dismissal and discharge, each soldier receiving a
written discharge. Gen. Pomeroy, who has ar.
rived from Kansas, says in the Tribune
"a little incident in regard TO the rifle practice
Of the Lawrence boys, made, perhaps, q more
decided impression on the ruiIans than the speech.
es OF Aichison and Shannon. One OF the Miss
ourans had been over 10 Lawrence and witnessed
target performance, at which seveniy.fye men,
with Snaps rifles, fired at a mark Ia medium
sheet Of paper) 10 by ~ inches, one mile distant
by measurement, and disfigurcd the sheet with
the marks Of sixty two balls" t
~"The Abolriionisis (of Kansas) have come
the Yankee over us this time the Governor has
betrayed us. He has betrayed himself the South,
and the whole OF the pro.slavery party. We had
them jus, where we wanted them, and he spoiled
all, Mex uine we must pan 1Or Ourselves q.
Thus nouns the immortal Stringicllow over
the rou, Of his associates. But IL was neither the
(" Aboliiionists,' nor the Governor, but Shapes
Rifles which came "ihe Yankee over" the
"RuiIians." Prepared saltpetre is even more
"vianous I" than Yankee "Abolonisis ;" and
but for the appTehended results likely TO aowl
from it, there would have been n massacre ID
Lawrence.-ABany Ersning Journal
"PREJuDcIAI +, Coon ORDER"-The Presil
dent informs us in his message that some acty(
prejudicial to good order have occurred in the
territory Of Kansas. II is plain, then, that the
President regards violence at the polls breaking
ballo. boxes, destroying votes, and driving away
Inspectors at the point OF the baynet, "prejudi.
cijl TO good order" Doubtless the invasion OF a
territory by The armed citizens Of another State
comes under the same head Of mild and gentle
rebuke. Nothing. however, Of the kind could
"jus,ify the inlerposiiion OF the federal cxecui.
i've" II is only when excuses are committed on
the other side, when men, defending their consii.
tutional rights, meet violence with violence and
defend themselves against foreign irrupaon, that
such inlerposiuon becomes jusilfabe.- Provi.
dsnee Journal.
CoRosER's VERDlcT.-The jury summoned by
Coroner Smith, in the case Of Phpbc Ann Nor
gan, who died ai The office Of DR., Emery, dentist
BrCmhrld street, on Saturday last, after the in.
hrlaion Of chlorolom, have rendered verdict
that she was, before taking the chlorolorm, in a
good state OF bodily health, and that her death
must be traced directly TO the application Of the
chorfcrn, which, according 10 DR.. Jackson, had
changed her blood 10 q substance thin us water.
II appears that she had taken chloro(om before,
aud at that time experienced trouble from it,
On the present occasion the chloroiotIn was pure
and was administered with sponge in The usual
uuantity The Jury caution the public against us.