Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-01

front Of the forces. and hang to the nearest tree the
first wan from Missouri he meets. 1 am quite
confident we have had our last invasion"
The Cincinnati Gazette has this information:
"Gov. Robinson. of Kanzas. left Lawrence on
the 18th inst, for the East. The Free State
Legislature will convene on the first Tuesday in
January, but Lieut. Gov Roberts W II preside
over its deliberations. Gov. Robinson does not
expect to return during the period of its sessions.
Its deliberations will not, however be interrupt
( ed by Col Sumner or any other officer. Gov
Geary has given the members the fullest assur-
ance of protection. Verify, the administration
has backed down since the orders sent 10 Sum-
ner to cannonade the Free State Legislature"
A correspondent of the St, Louis Democrat
writes from Lawrence, Dec. 18th:
81 have just returned from Topeka, via Te-
eumseh aud Lecompton, and called upon the
prisoners. At Tecumseh fourteen are indicted
for mansaughter, and have the promise of trial
this week. At Lecompton I saw the convicts.'
nineteen In number, and instead of wearing ball
and chain, and working on public works. several
OF them are employed by the citizens and paid
high prices for their work. They are considered
the best mechanics in town, and upon giving
their word of honor allowed TO work at their
trade Notwithstanding the pro-slavery organs
cali them thieves and assassins,' and they have
been sentenced to five years in the penitentiary,
their word is sufficient guarantee to one of I'm
Gle Sam S officers that they be found when
called for.''
Who would have expected the present. attitude
Of the administration toward Kanzas, before the
election, or especially before the nomination at
Cincinnati, where President Pierce was behead-
ed The mighty power of one million three
hundred thousand votes, rolled up in one dense
mass from sixteen Free States, for Fremont, has
had potency other agency could have pro-
duced, in arresting the reasonable designs Of
the present Pierce and Douglas dynasty upon
Kanzas. The present indications of prosperity
there, now that rufian hands have been removed,
shows that all that was wanting for the peaceful
settlement of the territory, and its early erection
into State, was the afording to the people there
that protection which the constitution and laws,
as well as the very provisions of the Kanzas Ne
braska Act itself, guarantee to them.
The following letter from Rev. E. Mute, Jr., to
the Boston Telegraph, shows that a very differ
ent state of things exists in Kanzas from what
prevailed a year since:-
LAWRENCE, K. t., Dec. Is. 1856.
II had million of money / would invest eve
~ dollar of it in Kanzas, ami make it two mil
lions in few years-if not in one. What are we
to do for the spring emgrat ton We should have
good accommodations for several hundred new
corners, and we cannot give decent shelter to ten.
That fine stone hotel will not be ready for occu-
patton before next fall
Buildings rent in Lawrence for from thirty to
one hundred per cent on their cost. l know of
several that bring over fifty per cent, and one
that cost but three hundred dollars that rents for
six dollars per week. There are many here that
offer to pay three per cent per month for money
with which to build, and give security on the
building-furnishing part of the capital them
selves, in order to open large boarding houses in
the spring.
1t is probable that one large building of cheap
construction will be ready before spring for that
purpose. Just now the new settlement of Quin.
daro' and the proposed railroad between that
place and Lawrence, is of the chief affects of
interest. 1t would be great thing for us and
the whole terrltofy; and see not why it would
not pay and then what summary Justice to Kan
Eas City and Leavenwor. h. E. n, JR.
The border rufians do not seem to have
yet given up all hopes of eventually subduing
the territory, although present appearances are
against them A free State Missourian writes to
friend in Boston, that Atchison and his ruf1ans
have by no means given up the struggle to sub
jugate Kanzas. Atchison lately said, +" The
ID niger thieves think they've got Kan
zas; but they're d---dly sold, snd they'll
find it out" What the plans OK the ruffians are is
not known, but it is supposed that they rely
upon controlling the elections in Kanzas by
invasion as heretofore, until pro-slsvery coDsti.
tuition is adopted, and the territory is admitted
to the Union as slave state.