The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-25
(Special correspondence Of the Chicago DEM Press)
From Kansas.
LEcoMpToN, April |, 1857.
THE EMIGRATION.
THE EMIGRATION.

LEcoMpros, April |, 1857.
THE EMIGRATION.
IF the reader Of this should come to Kan
sas. let him bring courage or an umbrella
1t is generally dry in Kansas, but has been
raining for two days, and the ground, in con-
sequence, is muddy, and many tender-toed
emis rants have got homesick, and went back
I'M consequence. They came here probably
without knowing what for, and they are 60
ING back and will not know what for. Hum
dreds of emigrants arrive every day.. A
third or fourth 60 back within a weeks of
tn. ir arrival. 1t is but fair to state that many
Oh them have merely come to look at the
country; some of them go with the inten-
ton OF neutrality-suspicious. get discouraged by
bad accommodations at hotels and boarding
houses, or because they do not find beau
tiful vacant claim at the end of the first
street they come to. They complain of the
nlgn price of town lots, which are rapidly
rising everywhere. They forget that this
ouA hit to he a subject of graduation with
them. Some of the emigrants who arrive 20
,mme lately to the country and find claims,
or otherwise go to work others lounge
about idly until their pockets begin to get
lighter, and then leave in hurry, without
having chance to know what Kansas is.
find that there is very large number of
people in Lawrence. Business appears to be
active. A steamer is plying between this
point and the mouth of the Kansas river
Another will commence running between
this Joint and Quindaro IN few days. A
daily line of hacks will run between this
place and Quindaro, at. which place there is
good hotel and storage for goods and mer-
chandise. There is line of hacks to Leaven-
worth every second day. A large number Of
convcyanccs of all kinds are going and COM
ing from this place to every point in the
Territory.
1t is reported that Col. Lane has again left
the Territory. He was last heard Of at To-
peka, where lie made speech.
THE CENSUS.
The census, we suppose, is taken. We do
not know, and we are not sure that we ever
WILL The pro-savery officers have had it so
much to themselves that the people know
little about what they have done. 1t is
known that the census takers have called on
but few of the citizens. They have not tb-
served even their own law for taking the
census, in some of it's essential particulars
This ccnsus-taking will be one Of the great
est frauds yet perpetrated on the Territory.
Nothing is known of it except the boasts of
the pro-slavery men that they have large
majority. The population Of Kansas now
stands at least five to one in favor of making
this Free State.
SPRING COURTS.
The spring term of the Territorial courts
will begin at several points next week. Judge
Lecompte still presides over the First Dis
trict Court. Judge Cato in the Second, and
Judge Cunningham in the Third. Nearly
all of the business will be in the first two
districts
The high treason prisoners are to be tried
next week at Lecompton. Judge Smith,
one of them, who had gone to Pennsylvania
on visit, after he was liberated on bail, has
inst returned. They are all here AMI will
attend the court.
A great many other persons have been
indicted and held to bail on charge of being
concerned in the war of last summer. There
are no United States troops at this point, or
at Lecompton. The courts will only be al
lowed to go on, provided the settlers have
no objection, and do not throw obstacles in
the way.
TIE NEW GOVERNOR.
A great many surmises are made as to who
shall be the next Governor. Some say it
will be Richardson, of Illinois, and others
fear that the new administration will ap-
point some out-and-out pro-savery man from
the South. For my part do not think that
respectable slave-owner, provided he is not
a 'dcmagogue, would be any worse than
Richardson.
Of one thing you may be sure. The peo-
pie of Kansas stand on one side, and those
who pretend to be their officers, on the 9th
err If any man is sent to Kansas who will
endeavor to give these false officers and bo-
GU laws an influence and power, they will
never have amongst the people without
force that force will cause trouble, 1t does
not matter who the Governor he must do
right or he will not be Governor long. The
bogus laws are no better than dead letters
now. They cannot be enforced without tic
power of the general government. If the
general government tries to enforce them,
Kansas will not be Territory long.
The Free State settlers of Kansas know
ere this who their now Governor is, and their
worst fears are realized.-EDs. MIN.