The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-10-30
The Eiss tfon Ina TX Ikunsas.-proclam ma q !.
tI0n OF Gov. Walker.

~ mas been announced that Gov. Walker had
thrown out the returns from Oxford nreeincr
oonnsoh county, hansas, because he believed thorn
~ pe spurious ihe-' proclamation" with which
ne accompanies tie act, is long one. but NAV he
understood u a few extracts from a. We y;ys
than: "e si'e
what ,arrort TO be the returns Of thu election
.'e'd t tE-t precinct ON the 9th aud 9th instant
nave teon received by the Secretary eontninirs,
sixteen a.narel aud twenty-eieht names Of nros
tended Sters. " nearly onelalf the number given
~ .he "hoio representative District. The dispo-
en- son 70 De made OF this supposed vote ia rendered
u. 'hporta.t by the iact that the political char
as'sF ei tue Legislative Assembly will be controI
p sa oy Tue addition of three Councilmeu and eight
representatives TO the strength of ous party or
sb according to tho adoption or rejection Of
'o'u'us ~ question. An examination of thi,
oocumenf, conscientiouly and impsrtialIv r,aS
. oLoaght as To the conclusion that the retnrns
NIL, ~Viu precinct IN Johnson county ;aust he
"no.'S rejected for the following reasons;
~. ~ does not appear on the face of the docu.
- - - esehteu To us, or in any other manner TIA,
uo tuuseS oi election took the oath imper.tiv.Iv .
disrharca ~ statute TO secure the impartial
"I ~, se oi their duties according tn Law
"a 1t does not appear that the oa,ar '
:. .S ""H one OF the two original poll.books tent
~ ~ .no eieclion, as required by law: but on III
nI n1i, ~ a'es appear, from unmistakeable inter
h"I evidence, that the paper is either a Coz -,
some other document has been made mn tas ~ .I W
OCCASION and Is not the genuine racnrs ~ ~
votes taken at the election. The law rennres on.
N"N fNAA ~oOhh 10 DC returned Ia fba
the m other To be deposited with the Clerk NJ a.
"oaiu ol commissioners. of tue proper county
'e' ns tue vote OF each election was tn he ra
0" ''i eaeh one OF twenty-five candidates. and
tIat ~ 'iHh huHdred cases, for TWEEN y.iive and
@.hat @ by ezra roce vote, it WAS physical imno.s,
biiity taat the number of votes pretended 10 hava
been taken on The second day being mora tLa,e
ll'eeh hundred, with the name of the voter writ.
ten, ana each OF twenty-five candidates pronarIv
designated, could have been taken and recordaJ
"ltliih the time prescribed by law.
sun. IL Is an extraordinary fact, tending TO
throw distrust upon the whole proceeding that of
the sixteen hundred .snd twcnty-eight votes only
one Is given to the delegates elect to Congress- ana
only one hundred and twenty-four are recorded as
having been cost for the local candidates of the
township.
influenced by these considerations and impress
sed with the grave responsibility resting upon us
IN regard to the fairness OF the election and its
freedom from aI fraud susceptible of detection and
presention within the scope ofour duties we oud
deem 1t essential to truth and justice that We
should ascertain every fact calculated to refute or
confFm the conclusion derived from the face of the
papers.
Accordingly we went to the precinct Mt Oxford,
(which is village with six houses includinv stores
ana without tavern) and ascertalned from the
citizens OF that vicinity, and especially those Of
the handsome adjacent village OF New Santa Fe, il
Missouri, separated only by street, aud contain
ing aooat twenty houses, that altogether not more
than one-tenth the number of persons represented
to have voted were present on the two days of the
election, much the sDlalier number, not exceeding
thirty or fJrty being present on the last dav
when more than fifteen hundred votes are repre-
sented n5 having been given. The people OF OK
lord, as well as those of the neishborng village of
santa te, were ast0unded at the magnitude Of the
returns; and all persons, of al parties in both
Piaces treated the whole affair with dersion or in
utshation, not having heard the alleged result un-
Ill several days after it had occurred.
The proclamation created much excitement
among the pro-slavery men, though they had taken
no action with regard to it. The notorious free
state man, Jim Lane" about the 18th instant at
tempted to get together his army to break up
the constitutional convention at Lecompton. A
meeting Of free state men discountenanced the
idea, and Jim being frightened issued "orders, !"
countermRnding his former commands, though, not
so ehectually as to prevent the assembling of some
200 at Lecompton, who entered protest" against
the proceedings of the convention