New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-21
KANSAS.

Prom Our Special Correspondent
LAWRENCE, h. I July ii, 1857.
A formidable military expedition has been planned
by the War Department. 1ts avowed Interior OBJ
i. ct is Utah. 1t is to concentrate IN Kansas.
Col. Sumper, with force of nearly 1000 men, is
out toward Platte River in advance of the rest.
Major Sedgwick, with several hundred more, is
north Of the great bend of the Arkansas River.
Meanwhile other troops are concentrating at
Leaycnworth, and a heavy force is destined to
march westward by the Goth inst. In all probabl-
ty it will be the LIST Of August before they get fairly
started
Such are the aspects Of the case that present
Themselves but there is something in all its features
worthy of serious attention. As to the relative
merits of military expedition against Utah have
nothing to say. Let me direct attention 70 another
pont Toward the close of the Summer, when the
grass is whitening and drying up when the streams
are dry and the plains scOrched and arld' large
military force proposes tVundertake march that
will require nearly three months. During the whole
of that time this fatguing march would be carried
On NJ great distance from the base OF supplies.
Allowing that they encounter no delay, or are not
hindered by being obliged to keep the Indians In
check, they would arrive in Utah about the ISL
of November. Their horses ana .ealiS mou.u pe
exhausted, if many Of them did not persn, on the
way. The grass will be gone. There Will be no
pssturage nor needed proyender. They VIII De en-
crced by black mountain ranges. IRAN ior Tue
horses. food and cothiBg for the men, ammunition
all of the immense supplies that such force require,
must be conveyed over a dreary, snow'covered
Wa ate in Winter. OF course every rational man
will see the utter folly Of such an enterprise. Nor
do think that the War Department seriously con
templates anything Of the kind ] think that the
excitement about Utah is made blind to cover
something else believe the design is to concen-
trate large military force in Kansas this Eau and
Winter. I'm confederation of this learn that at
Fort Riley the contracts for cutting hay have been
Given out, and for much larger quantity than ever
nsed before This too, in the face Of the fact that
there are no troops there at present 1t the same
elsewhere. The same extensive preparations are
being made to maintain a large military force IN
Kansas the ensuing Fall and Winter
This may not mean anything, but it looks sus-
picious. The Pro-Slavery Convention which will
assemble at Lecompton will frame Constitution,
and. believe, will send it to Congress without sub
hitting il to the people fairly" or even submitting
il AT all. The language recently held by Douglas
was sipnifcant of desire to further legalize what
these men proposed to do. The present attitude of
Gov. Walker 10 hostile to the Free-State men, and
has partisan leaning to the Rufiian party. Her
culesn efforts are being made, through intrigue and
corruption, TO induce the Free-State men 10 aban-
don their position under the Topeka Constitution
Is il the design to break down the peoples COnstu-
top. so that the other can be accepted when it is
cut of the way! 1t looks very much as If this was
the design, and as il the concentration of military
force in Kansas at such time was foreshadowing
some contemplated villainy. After all that has
been done. We may we'll view AL such suspicious cir
eumstances with distrust