The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-10-29
Latest from Kansas.
LAwRENcE, X. T., Oct. Ia,

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OF all the frauds in Kansas, there has never
been one SD damnable, as the one practiced al
the Oxford precinct in Johnson County. Mer
were sent from this place aud Wyandotte tc
the precincts in Johnson County to bring NJ
the result as soon as the polls We're closed.
was in Wyandotte and saw men who did no,
leave until the polls we've closed in all the pre-
cincts in johnson Comfy. They produc ed
the result. giving the proslavery party two
hundred and fortv- one majority. On my arr
rival nthis place corroborative news was in
circulation. No one doubted FOR a momen,
but what this district, which inclades Douglas
and Johnson Counties, had gone overwhelm-
ingly ir favor of freedom. r..., ..as
Last night the official returns reached Lee
compton, and to the surprise Of all but those
who were not implicated manuscript inst 80
feet long was unrolled, containing I.624 votes.
all from one precinct, known as Oxford on the
little Santa Fe. . tsy ss...s.s,.-..sa ....f s.t
This nentralizes the entire Free State vote.
ard gives this district, which elects three
councilu,en and eight representatives. to the
Proslavery party. At this rate they will have
majority in the Legislature. aa ,..s .-
Johnson county ?olled over 1900 votes, and
not one third Of the Inhabitants can be found
in the county, to say nothing of those who are
entitled 10 the elective franchise under the six
months prescription. The election was piva
poce. and nowhere in the territory was over
500 votes cast in one day.
1t is an utter impossibility to write the
names IT, two days for sixteen hundred votes.
yet Oxford overdoes it. The truth is this, the
polls were closed until the news reached them
from Douglas County, in order that il misht
be ascertained how many ballots il would re.
quire to throw the scales in favor of the mo-
slavites, and all the intervening time up to the
return of the pol-books, has been consumed
IN adding new names to the list.
The fraud is so bare faced, that even briggs.
The editor of the Lscompton National Demo.
crat, spoke denunciatory of the proceedings,
and declared that Stanton would never permit
the Certificate to be given 10 any but those cleo
ted by the legal voters-the Free State candi-
dates The rufians were aware that the cleo
ton could not be carried by fair means, and
consequently have resorted to fraud.
When Intercepted concerning the certif
Gates, Secretary stanton said he believed the
whole transaction at Oxford to have been con
cocted preparatory to the election, and that !,
was base fraud from beginning TO end. and
that he should within I'D them until evidence
could be adduced to prove it as such, unless
that number OF nen-sxteen hundred and
twenty-four-did actually vote at Oxford pre-
cnct, and then the proper tribunal was the
Legislature. The fraud is so palpably un;ust
that it even makes Walker tremble in his boots.
There is no doubt bnt wha. the Free State
men will have the Legislature At st. Mary,s
in tie Blue River precinct, one hundred and
sixty votes were polleh, and one out of the
number Free State. Not over twenty voters
live in the precinct. Ia Atchison county out
rageous fraud was committed. At Kickapoo.
Walker was seen to hing drunken soldier ant.
say, Il am under very many obligations TO
you for voting" The Governor was slightiv
"salubrions." At the Kckapoo precinct three
hundred Illegal ballots were cast. .-..r
Parrott's majority is about five thousand
Obsercer.