Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-01-01
Latest from Kansas.


The news of WhitfeId's rejection by the
Uouse having been received at Lawrence, ana
no intelligence of his subsequent admission, the
ueople fred salute of thirty-two guns IN
honor of the event A man who had just ar
rived at Lawrence from OSSawatomle reports
all quiet in the southern part OF the territory.
The GREAT land sale at Leayenworth continued
to pass off quietly The rivers Missouri ana
Kansas were frozen over, and navigation closed.
A special messenger had arrived at LeaVen-
worth from Washington, with dispatches from
the President They contained, among other
things the official information to George w
Clark. the notorious Indian agent tor the Pot-
tawattamies, that he had been removed, and
Isaac WinSter, of Culpepper county, Va, ap-
pointed in his stead This blow was quite
unexpected to Clark, who has got much eX-
cited about it, and swears revenge on all who
were instrumental in his removal. Coi. Titus,
while at Kansas city on his way east, was
served bv the Sheriff with capias issued IN
suit against him for an unpaid board bIll AT
Westport. The Colonel cursed the whole
town as composed of abo!tiOnists, refused to
obey the writ, and the Sheriff did not arrest
him He AID his men were ont OF money
The road from Kansas city to Jefferson, Mo,
is now so much travelled 10y persons going East
and South that it is lined with broken down
stares and other vehicles At the land sale
on the Sd inst. l25 claims had been purchased
br suuatters, covering "a, $40 acres, and l24
claims by spectators, embracing 19, I94 acres
Governor Geary has refused to allow the free
State prisoners to be diSgraced 10y the ball ana
chain. A formal demand on him by Sheriff
Jones was declined in writing. Through all
the trials suffered by the people OF Ossawa-
tonne, the two faithful clergymen of their only
church have remained with them, laborlng
amid perilS and hardships, and though their
church and school buildings and library were
DESTROYED by the Mssourians at the time the
town was burned, religious services are still
held there regularly every Sunday. Ot the
six free State prisoners captured i'll that neigh
borhood lately by the L. S. officials, three
have escaped. Nine-tenths Of all the settlers
within ten miles Of that place are said to be
free State people, numbering in all about five
hundred souls. There has been much suffer
ing there. One benevolent Quaker living near,
gave to the sufferers literally as long as his
own stores lasted, but at last he got sick him
self. and was then destitute, and was obliged
TO deDend upon relief from others. An old
man. 70 years of age who had migrated from
Wisconsin with 81 900, has lost everything in
the course of the war, had one son killed in
the attack on OSsawatomie, and is now about
70 return, desponding, to his old home. The
new railway project from Keokuk, Iowa, to
Kansas city, Mo, has given great impulse to
the latter and the towns in Kansas near it
A project of another railway to connect with
this has been started in Kansas, to proceed
from Kansas city along the Kaw river to
Lawrence. $4,000 have been subscribed to
it. Governor Geary has, it is said, sent let
ter to Gov. King. of New York, in which he
is understood to take ground satisfactory TO
the North. The trial of Partridge, one OF
the free State prisoners from Ossawatomie
had been POSTPONED at TecunSeh, owing to
the absence of the free State witnesses. They
all refused to attend believing it merely trap
10 arrest them Partridge had found means
to convey to them accounts of the inhumanity
with which he is treated. Very few, except
residents are now remaining in the territory
The land sale has produced an excellent effect
in exciting spirit Of enterprise and friendly
feeling between the two parties before IN
known Judge Elmore and some other con-
seryatire pro-slavery men have visited Law
renee, and made overtures for peace and union
upou the basis of true popular sovereignty
They talked with Governor Robinson. 1t was
conceded that the bogus laws ought to be re-
pealed, and that the dispute between the two
parties ought to be referred to genuine cleo
tiop. when none but voters of three months
residence should vote, aud every possible pro-
lection against fraud should be given. 1t is
said that plan was agreed upon by which
both parties Of genuine residents should unite
in an appeal to Congress to pass bill drawn
up on this plan. Persons recently from the
territory say that pro-slavery is worn out by
the long contest, and that the free sollers pre-
ponderate in the ratio of ten to one. A large
northern emigration to the territory is looked
for in the spring. The Kansas Committee at
Chicago puts forth statement to this effect,
Access to the territory is now perfectly unim-
peded.