Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-28
VOL. 4.--N0. 10.
THE KANSAS ELECTION.
Cerresponaence Of the New York Tin,e

Lawrence. Kansas Oct. 9, IS57.-The late
returns are somewhat more Pro-Slavery than
those first given as, and the Lecomptonltes are
claiming majority in both Houses from the
figures. Brown, Nemaha, Atchison and Don
iphau Counties they feel sure OF, and we grant
them all but the last, which may yet be doubt
full. In Franklin County they had no County
Commissioners whose duty IT is to appoint
voting precincts, beside the county seat.
Therefore, the people in convention decided
to vote at several other places Now, il proves
that all the votes cast in the county except
those polled at CeGtropolis, the county seat,
will be thrown out. Here was county OF
over a thousand voters, with only one precinct
granted them, while Johnson County, on the
border, where We cannot have over from two
to four hundred legal voters, has seven or
eight legally appointed precincts for the spe-
ciai mmodation of Missouri. These are
some of the beauties of the arrangement pro-
vided US by that party which claims TO be the
| incarnation Of Squatter Sovereignty.
Some OF the returning outlanders passed
through here yesterday on their way hack TO
Missouri with negroes even in attendance. A
| train from New Mexico also came through our
town, and some of the families said this was
the first town they had seen for seven years
One of our most reliable public men in Kan
sas is just in from hicaapoo, who says he wa,
there on the day of election, and sa,r The els-
plant. Gov. Walker was there in person with
4 company of dragons. Now mark the Sc
| qnel. 1t was apparent to all that large force
of imported voters was there from Missouri,
and Walker was applied to, and asked 10 in
terfere to prevent it, What followed ma
| jority Of 500 Pro-Slavery votes were cast in
town of about 200 legal voters, and instead of
Walker giving US protection high-mind-
ed and honorable dispenser of an important
public trust he permitted the invaders TO ia
dulge their most INSCRIPTIONS propensities for
voting and worse still, he told The soldiers 10
rOte, and they did r.te, in riOfation Of ia,r o.
Congress. This is most unparalleled outrage.
4 Now let US sec who will attempt an apology
| for it.
P. S.-A messenger just in from Lecompton
states that several gentlemen have arrived
there from Johnson County, with official re-
| turns, and they claim to have carried the coun-
| ty by 800 majority. If true, it gives them
| all the members in both Houses for this dis
trict. do not vouch for its correctness, but
| it is probably true. RANDoLpH.
| This pretended 81 800 majority'' is sent in
! from county in which not hundred white
men live, and these are there in violation of
| treaties and in defiance of our laws II this
bogus ssl 500 maiority'' is to be treated as any
thing but joke, the Pro-Savery yoke is again
| fastened Kansas, and by frauds more bare
| faced, if possible, than the original. Shall
this villainy be allowed to prosper7
The Germantown Telegraph says that the
operations of cotton and wooden mills, print
works, DIR! ing establishments, machine shops,
foundries, furnaces, &c., were never re-
stricted, perhaps, as at the present time. At
Manayunk, FIankford and other manufactrr-
ing localities, the works are either entirely
closed or running but half time. A large
number of hands are consequently thrown
out of employment, either wholly or partially;
and unless they have provided for rainy day,
which we hope many have, there is suffering
awaiting them. The Wakefield mills at Ger
mantown are also closed. The extensive WOOL
en- mills at Crescentylle are partially closed
and those along the Wissshickon, with scarce
ly an exception, have ceased operations. TIE
number of workmen thrown ont by all these
suspensions is very large. I
a MAN TURNED TO SToNE.-A report has
been spread through our town for several
weeks past, that a man residing somewhere
in Perry county, turned to stone, as a
visitation on him, for blasphemy We have
not learned whether he has become marble,
limestone, or s'perfect brick" Some say
he is a fair specimen of marbleized iron. Nov,
if he had turned TO gold, he would have been
of use during the suspension; his friends
could have chopped up his fingers and toes
into small change. and discounted the balance
of his corporation on time; in that case one
would consider his hand 'sgood for sixty days"
But if the man has turned to marble, We don's
see he is of any use. except TO make tomb
stones for the dying Banks and business peo-
Harrisburg Telegraph.
INTERESTING ExHIBrTIoN.-Abou: twenty Of
the most ncorrigible thieves In San Francisco,
California, were recently exhibited on the
Plaza by the police. They were fastened two
by two to rope, which extended about thirty
yards, and the exhibition was attended by
about three thousand of the citizens.
a RIcH INvENroR.-Mr. Huntz, patentee of
an improved yellow metal for sheathing of
ships, recently died in 5ssgand, and left per-
sonal property, wholly irrespective of his real
estate, amounting to IS ,e0G, 900.