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FROM KANSAS - BORDER RUF.
FANS INDIGNANT.


FANS INDIGNANT.
Gov. W alkeE, in Kansas, bids fair TO tread
in the footsteps Of bis illustrious predeces-
sOrs, Reader. Geary, &c. His recent proc
lsmatiOD throwing out the fraudulent vote
cast in johnson county, has excited the
whole hive Of Border Rufiians, who DEEM
ed that the certificate Of election shall be
given to the men who were not legally
elected. A correspondent Of the 0incin-
natl Gazette, writing from Quindaa, Oct.
p, says that an injunction from Judge
Cato to Gov. Walker and Stanton, CON-
manding tkem to give certificates of elee.
ton to the members that we're intended to
be elected by the frauds in johnson county
was served day before yesterday by a dep.
uty Sheriff At StaDton's residence near the
old camp, abou two miles east of Lecomp.
ton. Gov. Walker is staying out there
with Stanton, partly because he is not well
and partly because be IS afraid to stay in
Lecompton.
Maj. Sherman, who ia in command of
the troops that have been Quartercd near
Lswrence, has received orders from the
Governor to remove with bis whole COM
mand TO Leeompton at once. His isoth-
ermal Excellency feels that he needs the
protection Of the troops.
The following is a copy olJudge CatO's
injunction:
TEBRIToRY OF KANSAS.
To Robert j. Walker, Governor Of Kan.
sas Rerritony, and Frederick P. Stanton,
Secretary of the same, Greeting:
WHEREAS, Samuel j. Jones' William
Hall, Hiram Bledsoe, ]. II. Danforth, Jobh
y, EsLon, L. s. Belling, A. P. Walker,
William S. Wells, ]. C. Thompson, Thorn
as B. Sykes, and U. Windsor, have been
elected members of the Legislative Assem-.
bly, of the Territory of Kansas, to witt
The above first three named as members of
the Council, the remainder as members of
the House of Representatives oi the said
Assembly, appointed by law to meet on
tha first Monday of January, A. D. 1858,
for the counties of johnson and Douglas,
of the said Territory, to wit:-on the 9Th
and 9th days of October, 1857, and ought
TO be commissioned as Councilmen aud
Representatives by you; nevertheless, you
not being ignorant of the premises, but dis
regarding your duty therein, have not only
refused, though thereto required by the
said members elect to grant them thei
certificates of election, but yet do refuse 81
to do in contempt of US and to the grea
damage of the said members elect, as b.
their complaint we have understood.
We, therefore, being willing that speed
Justice should be done In their behalf, d,
command and enioin you that immediate
y after the receipt of this writ, you d.
cause tie said members elect to be grantel
: their certificates of election, aud do signify
the cause to us why you cannot or will no
grant the certificates as aforesaid, lest il
J default complaint should again come to u'
and how you have executed this writ, mad,
known to us at Lecompton on the 20tf
day of October, A. D. 1857, and have yol
then and there this writ.
"Witness my hand aud seal, this 20tE
day of October. A. D. 1857.
STERLING G. CATO,
Judge, I'd Judicial Dist. Kansas Ter.
A letter from Kansas, in the Cincinnati
J Times, shows how this fraudulent vote il
Oxford precinct was made up. He says
"On Governor Walkers return from The
precinct of Oxford, he halted at Lawrence
and taking out of bis portfolio a large roll
of paper said to the crowd that he would
show them a curiosity, if they promised
not to destroy it. He then unrolled the
returns of the precinct of Oxford, which
contained sixteen hundred and one names
all written 10 the same handwriting, and
which measured exactly fity-fcur feet in
length! All the names, except one hun
dred and twenty, were copied from "Wil-
liams's Cincinnati Directory" those CON-
meucing with the same letter following
each other as regularly as they do upon
the pages of that book!
1t remains to be seen whether the off
cial authority of the prO-slavery Judge
Cato, will be sufficient to induce Walker
to accept the ini1uitous return of the Ok
ford precinct as legal, and impose upor
Kansas pro-slavery Legislature.-O, s
Journal.