New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-14

According TO recent accounts from Washington
the Government is determined to maintain large
force Of regular troops in Kansas, end even enter
tains the idea Of collecting in that Territory Q
number of volunteer regiments. What fort The
convenient pretense is the alarming accounts Of
Indian bostlt;es in the West-about az authentic,
we suppose as the stOry of an attack upon Fort
Riley, which gave Gov. Walker an opportunity TO
back out Of bi. bOotless Lacquer OF Lawrence We
cannot imagine any need Of regiments OF volunteers
IN he stationed in Kansas, unless it Is that the Gov
eminent thinks that the Border Ruflians may re-
ouire help in the October elections. Upon several
former OCCASIONS the Missouri intruders have made
their appearance 10 the character of Kansas militia
summoned to take arms by the Governors procla-
nhtion. Gov. Walker is hardly up to that,
and the experiment Of his late treason procama-
ton against Lawrence will probably maze bin
more chaYy than ever. II has been his way bith-
erto TO shift of responsibility upon somebody sse
and he would doubtless prefer that the next inva-
sior # Kansas should take place under the author
ity Of the War Department rather than his own.
But it is not, We conjecture, with view merely
70 the October election that this move is TO be-
made The late most Ubiquitous apportioDmeot OF
the Territorial Legislature to be elected in Octo
Der. tie making of which was de7olved by
Walker upon William G Matthias, Speaker Of
the late bogus House Of Representatives. and upon
Thomas johnson, President Of the bogus Council,
is 20 outrsgeousiy unjust that it can hardly fail 70
force even the most moderate OF the Free State men
to begin TO consider the expedency OF putting the
Topeka Constitution into actual operation. The
thirteen Council Districts arranged that eleven
Of tttm touch on the Missouri border thus putting
them within the power Of Invaders, ~hs will uied to
do no more than Just to the borde without the
expensive and, it might be, dangerous operation
Of penetrating into the interior. The Territorial
House of Representatives contains three times as
msIy members as the Council. OF these thirty
nj, members, three only have been assigned to the
country south of the Kaw River, which con.
talns nearly half the population Of the Ter
,tory, and is settled almost exclusively by
Free State men; while of the thirty six given to
Northern Kansas, twenty nine are to be chosen 10
districts so gerrymandered az, like the Council
Districts, to touch the border, ard go to afford
every convenience for intrusive voting. The whole
direction of the proceedings at the polls is to be
under the control Of bogus officers, but it is pretty
certain that, in order to sustain them ia their
projected scheme of packing the vote to suit them
seses, something more might BE- necessary than
the bogus law, or even the presence of CONSIDER
able bedy Of intrusive voters. AT the late Topeka
Convention, Gen. Lane was authorized to get up
a military organization for the protection Of the
polls and it is no doubt the idea of an Offset to
this organization so to fornish the bogus officers
with force to sustan them III rejecting resident
voters and accepting intrusive votes, that has led
to the scheme said to be entertained at Washington
Of quarteriDg volunteer army on Kansas.