New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-15
KANSAS.
From CTR Special Csrsspssdent -, ,e..

inadequate to the emergency. Under tne inani"N
late Wood,on We have had three weeks of COM
psrative tranquility, e1celEng in quiefness 'he
palmy days Of Gov. Gesry's peace. Game
here expecting to find hidden plot IN all 'n''
" mastery inactivity" and have found that sPe-
cies Of consery stism has assumed mild, epideinic
form. The fact s, the bogus Territorial Govern
ment, Federal Executive, and all have been shaking
in their boots. The Federal troops have gone anu
the bu,ness Of arresting Free-State men has ceas'
ed. We still hear an occasional Rro~i ana 'no
noise of Furnishing arms from Border Ru'flandom
but they come not; the grass has not grown, anu
am not very sure that it would be a safe thing II
il was The little Pro-Savery oasis in this WHISKY
drinking capital is ike q" black diamond III the
desert Of freedom. A very slight heaving OF the Po
htica elements would, in all human probability o!oV
il out from the map. The PrO-Slavery authorizes
appear TO be profoundly impressed with these con
victons. They are not bit better than tney nave
always been, but they well aware that the rec
State men will not hesitate to fight II legallzed OUT
RACES again begin. They not exactly ready lof
a fight, at all events those in LecOmptOn are not.
When they get regiment of United States dra-
goons on one side, and BOrler-Ruffan brigade Oh
the other, they will play different tune -,
While some few Of the Free-State men who stu
have little faith in the late Governor still look Tor
his return It is clearly evident that Gov. Geary hI
self when be left, thought that he would not be al
lowed 10 come back, determined not 10 DO
80. The course he pursued, by having statements
published in the ST. Louis papers, has obtained for
him the intense hatred Of the Border Ruffians DE
has "put bis hand 10 the plow and looked back.
He was too good 10 make useful Border Rfian
and had not nerve enough or love Of right sufficient
10 make great moral hero. He had too many
masters 10 serve, and too anxious 10 serve all OF
them. He made conyusiye effort 10 keep on the
fair side Of the Pro-Slayery mobocrats, and now
YOU may fancy them coming over and digestlng his
revelations at st. Louis | had supposed they
might feel anxious to the effect of these revela-
tions when poured into the Of Buchanan by an
old political friend. On the contrary, they seem to
entertain no doubt but that they will get Gov
ernOr after their own heart next time.
According 10 the bogus law, the census to be-
taken WAS to have been concluded yesterday |
suppose il has been but the facts are and will like
" remain a mystery. We have, indeed, some very
positive statements about it from the ProSlayery
men. The census has proved that there are some
three or four thousand majority Of Pro-Shvery
men, they assert. How they have been able TO OBJ
tain SO much information at early date IS equally
obscure with the taken to ascertain the rela
tive strength of parties II is utterly Impossible tbht
they can have had full or very general returns
from all parts Of the Territory already, and the CEN
sus.takers had nothing TO do with the majority OF
the Pro-Sayery party; still have no doubt but their
lists will show something of the kind. No inconsld.
ersble number of the Sherifs and their deputies live
in Missouri themselves and that their ideas on the
subject of Kansan citizenship should be rather mixed
up is perfectly natural. That the census list will
show re.urn like what is stated, is think,
beyond doubt The statements of the Pro-Slayery
men in regard to il resemble the prediction of The
Ufston (Mo) Rtporfer of March % 1S55:
"Our minds already made up as to the result oi
the election in Kansas tomorrow. 1he Pro-Siavery
party will be triumphant, ~e PreSUme IN nearly every
precinct Should the Pro-Slavery party fail in this
contest il will not be because Missouri has failed TO
de- her duty"
So far from being inclined to abandon their former
yllainOus course, the Constitutional election VIII De
the most unmitigated piece OF rascallty. Tins CEN
sus il private pocket affair; the census-takers
have it all their own way An English taX-gatherer
going into thu, indigo fields Of the indies to collect
the tribute for his masters, is no more an neroplng
foreigner than these "eDSllstakers. Their mission
not being general, every community has not occa-
sion to complain Of their visits but where they have
gone, they have come into the communities where
they were to take the census strangers to the peo-
ple; not Of them nor accredited by then-ihe
mipious Of ,Isurping and foreign legislators, and
the fit tools to do their bidding The people look
IN them with suspicion and contempt and they re-
GARD the people az enemies. The census law Itself
is a fraud but il il joke to the frauds grow
ING out of IT, Not one half of the old Free-Sate set
tiers are on the lists, while the emigration ot this
Spring, even the early part Of ii, is altogether g-
nOred Some days ago the census-taker came to my
house in Lawrence, and positively declined to place
ON bis list some gentlemen who were staying there,
and who had been in the Territory before the 10Th.
OF this fact I'm prepared 10 make an affidavit, and
two other witnesses can prove II. told him that
regarded the law under which he acted the census
and his pretensions To being an officer, as purely
bogus, and that should not pay the slightest atteu
ton 10 the farce of an election, hut told HIM
that so long as he acted rs an officer under that
law il was his business 10 see II faithfully car
ried ont. He admitted be- had not seen the law,
but said be had got bic Instructions from the County
Court. told him that the law required him Ia
insert the names of oil the "sctual residents be-
tween the Ist of March and the LIT of April. lie
said that he was instructed To take no transient
entrants. and would take none who had not been
here by the 18th inst Neither was he "oblged To
take aH." He "was not going to hire man who
"kuey, everybody to hunt up people To make
this stiI more delicious he replied in answer TO
UIestion. that johnson County and the one inme-
J;.telv .o,tb of il were the most densely popl.
Lated counties in the Territory" had told him
that the law making these two counties each full
d;stricts was contemplated fraud, and the above
was his answer | rejoined that be must be we'll
aware that these counties were Ill reserve not Yet
open for settlement, and that there We're mol twenty
So lsg,, voter. in both He said would see,
and vent of in a rage The census-takers in these
hoaus counties, in listing few thousand Missouri
""s under the pre,ense that they have taken claim.
in ,he Territory. can hardly be considered as falling
Thin the rule of taking transient enigrantS, as
few of them were ever in the Territory, unless il
WAS 10 fight or vote formerly The lmpudence of
tb bom,s fYicial about transient emlgrants y was
n,r. ,.onI from the fact that he mistaken and
hnd no mean. of knowing whether the parties re-
G.rred y, had been in the Territory d week OF