Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-03

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Session Of the Legislatue.-Ort9snsa
Tiews and Opinions Coneera,aq hae
BoQss .Conyeation.-Free Fight on
Board Steamer Ogies6y.-
STEAMER ooLEsBr, Missouri River,
November 20, 1857. {
Ike rood steamer Oglesby is approach
i,o Jefferson City, with passenger list
embracing Hon. Robert ]. Walker, Hon.
]. II. Stringfellow, Hon. Somebody Of
South Carolina, and your correspondent.
Firstly, Gov. Walker came on board at
Leavenworth, with the most remarkable
lot of travelling apparatus ever seen on this
thoroughfare. Among other portions of
his outfit is his whole Kansas library, box
ed and secured apparently for long jour-
uey. In addition to this, he has about
two dray loads of miscellaneous freight,
comprising, should say, all the moyea-
bic property belonging 70 the Governor Of
Kansas. His Excellency has not been
communicative on the subject of his early
return to the Territory, whence his fellow
passengers have inferred that he does not
anticipate returning at ALL Navigation
will have closed before he gets back from
Washington, and the transportation of his
freight by land from Jefferson to Lecomp-
ton will cost somebody ten dollars per
hundred pounds-an expense which so
shrewd financier as the Governor would
certainly not incur in crisis like the pres
ent. :
There is to he no special session of the
Kansas Legislature. The Free State Ter
ritorial Committee met in Lawrence few
days before we left the Territory, and ap-
pointed committee of their own number
to wait upon the Governor and urge him
to call such session to take action con-
corning the monstrous proceedings of the
Lecompton bogus convention. This COM
mite divided itselfinto two embassies, one
going to Leeompton, and the other to Leav-
eDworth. The Governor was found at the
latter place, or rather at an embryo town
Just outside of Leayenwor;h, and just in
side of the Fort Leavenworth Reservation.
l am sorry to be obliged to record that the
committee found the Governor drunk
They waited till his Excelleney had slept
off po.ations, and then communicated their
business. The Governor said it was quite
clear special session ought to be called
but he doubted bis power to issue the call.
He would examine the law, and if he found
it within the scope of his authority, he
would act in accordance with their sagges-
tioR.
The Committee said they would remain
in Leavcuworth until the Governor could
post himself up. They called the next
day in season to learn the Governor had
taken passage on the steamer Ogiesby for
St Louis. So am informed by gentle
man who came on board Just as the steam
er showed off, The Committee which went
to Lecompton found Stanton, and urged
upon him the necessity of "a special session.
He agreed fully with their views, and
thought that course indispensable, but of
course declined to take any action on his
own part while his superior was in the Ter
ritory. Mr.. Stanton knows by this time
that his superior ran away from the respon-
sibility of either calling the session or not
calling it. The Secretary WHO is now Act
ing Governor, will doubtless avail himself
of some other eodge.
Gov. Walker has expressed himself very
freely during the trip concerning the franz
ers of the Lecompton Constitution. In
point of fact the Governor has been much
excited and horribly profane on this subject.
He says that these bogus characters are
s'fclons." He even alleges that they are Ii
able to Indictment at common law for con-
spiraey. A more beggarly and butcherly
crowd of sots, rufians and assassins, ac-
cording to the Governor, never assembled
together on the face of the earth. His Ex-
calleaey renews this theme every few min
utes with the utmost energy of cursing.-
/ happen to know that the Governors NAL
edictions are richly merited, but confess
both surprise and admiration at the faith
fulness with which they have been applied.
The exciting nature of this theme or some
other cause has impelled the Governor to
excessive drinking ever since we left Leav-
enwerth. ] shall not say how many times
he has visited The bar in the last half hour,
for fear nobody outside of Kansas will be-
lieyc me.
Among the passengers on the Oglesby,
as | mentioned before, is DR.. j. Ii. String
fellow, somewhat notorious in Kansas his
tory, though not quite SO prominent as his
brother, B. F. Stringfellow, late of the
Squatter Sovereign. Last evening, after
Gov. Walker had retired 10 his state room
inebriated, Stringfellow got into a dispute
with an ill looking customer who hailed
from South Carolina, on the fruitful topic
of the Oxford election returns. South Car
olina held exactly the opposite. Of course
the proper way to arrive at the truth was
to shoot each other Out came a couple
of revolvers, and bang went one Of them at
the head of the hereto on the other side
of the table. Fortunately, or unfortunate
ly, both weapons were struck aside, and
the combatant separated by the bystanders.
The excitement in Leavenworth on the
subject of the bogus Constitution is intense.
An Indignation meeting of Free State
men was held there last Saturday, and an
other will be held on the 2Sth, to decide
whether to vote at the Constitutional cleo
tion, or fight. 81
Yours, DC, ].
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