New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-19

ipt,isues for this dodge election. Some OF :bs
strongest men they have will take the stump, no: 90
mueh 20 make converts as b be an apparent e1pa-
nation Of the kind of election they Eill bsve.
Free-State Convention will pO~ be called -
determine what action !. is bes. 70 take N view oil
these tlectcns
There has been some excitement Inc pas. week
about Degro-hunts. Several days ago, some con-
psDies of dragons went up wits civil officer h
Topeka. seeking runaway negroes from Mssoun.
A similar party had been up there week before On
the same errsbd, and had considerably outraged
D. puar sentiment by their violen. mode Of searching
houses. On this latter occasion, the civil officer re-
ferred to was our old friend Butcher, exSherlf OF
Douglas County, who received the Office 81 Deputy
Nar,hal from the good Democratic flnctonary sent
here By Buchanan. Mr.. Butcher, true to his in-
stincts, led company Of drsg)o up to Topeka
in his egrchuntirg operations. Having conceiVed
it to be necessary 10 the success OF his mission, ne
left part Of bis military force, and, taking SIX ORA.
gooDs. proceeded to the house Of Mr. Rsche OF that
place, and there demanded admlttance Mr..
Richie, having idea Of squatter sovereignty OF his
own, threatened to shoot any one who might
venture to come in Upon this, the interchangeable
Butcher went after the remainder OF bis Dragons,
and proceeded TO force open the door and make good
search u the premises. No negro WAS found.
however, there or elsewhere, and bootess aud
neeroless the " Democratic E" party went the way u
came. Upon the whole, think il will be better for
the elegant Butcher and his contemporaries TO con-
duet these Democratic proceedings IN mllder
form, unless they want to get into trouble.
A considerable amount Of feeling is exhibited by
the Free. State men at the result Of the ProSl4yery
LecomptOn Convention. feeling of rage Is toe
most COMMON. At Topeka, when the citizens got
intelligence of what was done, some of them openly
tailed fight. The Free-Sta.e men bad bien tenn
pOrarily lued into security by supposing that they
lad in the late struggle settled the matter. You
may nseipe their feelings, thep when they see the
fruits of the October election thus jeoparde3, and
their impudent enemy stepping in to rob them even
yet of their rights
Cold, bleak weather has set in. Yesterday,
slight snow fell. Kansas River is very low; it is
already frozen up toward its sources. Building is
still carried on brisk'y in Lawrence, and consld
cradle amount of business 10 done. The CONNER
cisl difficulties do not seem 10 affect business ma-
terially. Prices of everything are high-mHch
higher than at this season last year. Provisions are
likely to be dear this Winter. The Missouri River
navigation will probably close in few weeks.
There is not much doing in real estate or town
speculatiOns, although prices are nearly the ssne
Do not be uneasy about the runors which tell you
that Gov. Walker and Secretary Stanton are likely
to be murdered by Border Ruffians. They are per-
fecty safe, in that quarter at least. also think
that The hoWhDg about Goy. walker Oh the part OI
fre-eaters elsewhere, is merely part of the same
scheme to cover up the iniquity of this Constitu-
liz nal movement.
observe that some Of the Eastern Democratic
journals take up aud circulate report that armed
men came from Nebraska at the October election
and voted the Free-Sta.e ticket. This was like
good many of the stories that the defenders Of Kan
sas Democracy get up. The story was very
stupid one. BY referring to the results its absurdiy
will be seen. The three counties bordering on Ne
brasks are Brown, Nemaha and Marshall. In
Brown, only some 80 votes cast in all-nOt one
third of what the county could have po!led. In Ne
maba only l75, one-third of which are Pro-Slavery
In neither county was the full vote out. In fact
there were only some two or three precincts opened
in both of them, consequently many votes were lost.
In Marshall County, the result shows 26l Pro-
Slavery votes to one Free-Stste Now, in which of
these counties did the "three or four hundred
armed men from Nebraska" vote y About the Mar
shall County vote have learned, what | at first
suspected that the FreeState men at the Black
Vermilion and another precinct threw between two
and three hundred votes. At Msrshal, where there
are not twenty voters vote of 20 was m de up ADD
returned and, as the county officials got hold Of the
returns from the other precincts, they suppressed