The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-17
NO. $50.
KANSAS NEWS.
Lynch Law at Leavenworth,

lust as the steamer Omaha was leaving
Teayenworth, Kansas, on Thursday last, on her
tim TO st. Lcuis, preparations were being made
Lr the people for the immediate execution of
Two men, named Gordon and Gillespie, for the
murder, for the sake of robbery, of man
name6 Wall, who had been stopping at The
Planters Ho'el. in that city. Wall had been
xayla:d. stabbed, and robbed, the evening pre-
IONS. and bis body thrown into the river. Cor
6on. being suspected, was caught a rope placed
around lis neck, and he was hoisted short
distance from the ground, when he made a con-
fe..ion, duplicating Gillespie, who is said to be
$ gray headed old villain, well known at St.
Louis. and ore O'Brien. They then dragged
the body to the river, rihed the pockets aud
threw il into the water. The two murderers
were 20 be hung within an hour after the Oma-
IA left Leaven worth, efforts being made in the
moan time to find O'Brien, so that all three
mi III: swing from the same tree.
Kansas.
4 letter from Kickapoo to the Charleston
Courier says that. excluding all doubtful men,
forty.one out Of sixty members of the Constitu-
tionsl Invention of Kansas will vote against
admitting the Constitution, when framed, to
popular vote. This is explicit; and as the au.
thar is Southern man, apparently known to
the editors of the Courier, We presume his state-
ments may be relied on. Another circu,n-
stance, mentioned in a letter from Kansas TO
tire 81. Louis Democrat, is confrmatory of the
irath Of the above. The writer Gays that q
Virginisn, who was sick in a hospital at Leav
enwcrth informed Free State man that he
had been probate judge under the Territorial
laws, at Osawkee, and a candidate for member
CT the Constitutional Convention; but having
Ia A. L
in favor OF submitting the Contitution, when
framed, 10 a popular vote, he was declared a
trailer, and forced to leave Osawkee at once.
The Lawrence Herald of Freedom speaks
discouraeingly of the crops in Kansas Territory
Cora Is likely to be light, and provisions will
have to be imported from neighboring States
this winter. A mine of bituminous coal had
been discovered near Geary city, which, it is
supposed, viii prove source of great wealth.
The Missouri Democrat says it is estimated
that the expenses of that State in the war on
Ksnsss-more particularly stated, the expenses
of the Border Rutfisns in their forays into he
Territory of Ksnsas-were about 81, 500 900.
A leading merchant in Independence stated
recently that he could not have continued in
business six months longer, had the Kansas in.
vssioDs been kept up. The demands of the
leaders Of military companies were more i'm
perious, aud more dangerous to be refused,
than these of any despot in Europe. A captain
would come in and demand a barrel of sugar.
a quantity of meat and clothing, or anything
which one might have. If it was refused, the
person was stigmatized as id abolitionist,
and he became at once marked man, and his
store and good; common plumber. The mer-
chants, although In favor of the war when it
be- Al, were obliged to oppose it's continuance,
il order TO save themselves from bankruptcy
and rum"
General Whitfield, the late Kansas Delegate,
is in New York, and has informed the Journal
Of Commerce that all is quiet in that Territory,
AID no farther collision is spprehended. The
FOR Congress-, cannot poll the Southern vote !;
collection of taxes was going forward and no
murnuring had anywhere been made, except
IL Lawrence. Gen. w. thinks the elections
will be conducted quietly, and the Free State
party will succeed. The Journal has also
letter frop another person of similar politics,
who says OF Ransom, the Democratic candidate
tast forts are being made to shove him of
the field, and substitute r l.. Stevens that
the Republicans will vote at the election, and
the signs are that the new State will be carried
by the Republican party.
Marcus j. Parrot, the Free State candidate
for Delegate to Congress from Kansas, is a
South Caronian by birth, and graduate of
Yale College. He was raised in Ohio, where
his parents now reside, and was member of
the Legislature of that State in 1854. He went
TO Kansas member of the Democratic party,
bus could not sustain the Pierce Buchanan
policy, aud was driven into the Republican
ranks. He is a gentleman of fine talents. an
admirable speaker, and said to be the best law
yer in the Territory. He has engagements to
meet the people at various points, from Septem.
Der / to October 3. The election will take
place in the latter named month. Nothing but
Border Rufianism will keep him out.