New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-15

,rn.r,s. ",be census had died natural death,
and that "the whole thing had been Abandoned as
ir-nrartieabls:" and that "the Pro-Slayery men
had given up the hope Of making It Slave o'a'e'
Bsppy delusions.
e,pe backwards and forwards 20 different Poll'S
within thirty miles of il until had approached the
Saline. on the Smoky Hill Fork, and was consid,
erahly west Of settlements. could hear OF sllail
settlement of Pro-Slavery men on the Smoky I'M
ForL further west but there are no actual settle
mems beyoud where was, | believe, and do not
think anything save prospecting parry nav Pene-
trated thithrr. returned on the noEtn siue vi 'a'
Kaw river Ill l reached Manhattan, ana theh pro
ceeded ND the Blue which is large stream. and has
one ofthe finest valley in Kansas traced both big
and Little Blues up toward the Nebraska line
and kep. the latter beyond settlements, and until We
reached within DAVIS journey of where wal, party
of Cheyennes were said 70 be. Thence east, oacA'
ward and forward south Of the Nebrasks hne.
toward the Missouri River, aud then inland ana
south down the tributaries and main stream oil the
Grasshopper toward Lecompton where | arrived
last evening with feet that felt as II they might nave
been undergoing the bastinado. | travelled from
thirty 10 forty miles per day, and day went
fifty. The incidents, with description of all the
different psrts visited will condense into few
letters from my notes.
During the whole trip was only able to find one
census list IL was in what is called Nemaha
County. and had only some two hundred voters on
it, OF these a large majority were Prostate men.
The Pro.Slayery men there were very ANXIOUS that
all should vote. II was 50 easy Tor the free-Ss.e
men Of that county Ito beat" Beat-beat what
They won't even be entitled to one delegate and the
inference is they would be oyerslsughed by the an
nexed County of Brown, where the census has PROB
ably been conducted after different fashion, II VIII
be remembered that the appOrtionment of repre-
sentation is to be made from the census
lists The time has already passed for
making any change in these census lists. In
very few parts Of the Territory have these
census lists been posted up for public investigation,
as the census act directs. In no case OF which
have been able TO learn, (and | have made no CON-
mon effort To ascertain, has the County Court re-
manned in session from the 10th of April I'LL the LIST
of May to correct the lists. Scarcely an important
requistion Of that census act has been complied
with. And yet there is no remedy; there was NO
remedy provided for compelling the bogus officials to
do their duty, and there is no penalty attached to
any of these officers for neglect or pcryersion
of duty. II is only when the election Is to take
place that penalties begin to apply. An cleo
ton held in Territory by band of usurp-
ing adyenturers, most of them foreign to its soil,
might we'll arouse doubt Ms to whether that farce OF
election would be tolerated, whether an indignant
people would vomit out their mpudent and auda-
cious oppressors. To prevent any such popular
outbreak bogus laws and bogus penalties step in.
The census has been perpetrated in fraud a most
bareaced piece of rascalty, yet there is no provision
in the serpent-lke folds of the census act for punish
ing such iniquity. 1t is DONE and is tinaity 50 far
as rufiianism and Federal Endorsement can make it
fnaIity. The apportionment is TO be from the
census and the voting under the safeguards OF the
lists" and bogus officials is to be guarded against
any violence or other frauds by the only penalties
that grace the census bills