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April II, 1851.
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KANSAS.
ARRIVAL OF SECRETARY STANTON.
rresnondence of lie Y. Y, Tribune.

Correspondence Of Tie " Y Tribune.
LAWRENCE, K. T, April 16, 1857.
Mr.. Stanton, the new Secretary of the Terrific
ry, has just arrived. He came into the Territory
by the back door, via Kansas City and West.
port, Mo. So did Shannon, and SO have several
of the Pro. Slavery officials. 1t is a trifipg mat
ter of etiquette, but good taste might have dicta.
ted Decentralization Quindaro or Lesvenworth.
He is portly gentleman, and looks respectable.
He will be acting Governor until Gov. Walker
arrives. do not suppose he is endowed with
any extraordinary powers, and the likelihood is
that he will keep very quiet till his successor ar
rives. lie was greeted in a kind and respectful
manner by several of the men of Lawrence, and,
in reply to a courteous invitation promised to vs-
1t us next Monday.
TExAs,-The bogus county Judge has been in
Lawrence to- day, and threatened that Sheriff
Jones will be down to collect the taxes, or to seize
property therfQr. The bogus officials are getting
so excessively exalted on account of the appoint
ment Of Border Ruffians to all the Federal Offices
that they eau scarcely keep within prudent
bounds. The Lecompton URaOR exults in the ap-
pointment of Walker.
Missouri INTERFEEENCE.-Ayo young Free State
squatter, who lives down on the Pottawatomie
Creek, was recently seized by band of men from
Missouri and carried TO that State by Violence
He is supposed to belodgo1 in prison theNabouts.
His friends went to Lecompton to get'the author
tiles to interpose. They could get no satisfac-
ton the authorities would do nothing in their
favor
| Missouri PREPARATIoNs.-Th brass cannon
which was taken BY the U. s. troops at the time
the Hickory Point prisoners were captured, last
Fall, and which has been in Lecompton ever since,
until lateIy has been removed from that place, by
the connivance of the authorities and is now on
the Missouri border, close to Westport. 1t is
doubtless the intention to have it there to be ready
in case an invasion should be necessary. 1t ought
to have been taken from Lecompton by the Free
State men, and would have been, but for fever
sh anxiety to avoid doing anything that might
be regarded as wrong by the unduly sensitive.
THE LAND OFFIcEs-Amoug the other means
by which Gov Geary succeeded in gaining the
good will of the people Of Kansas, was the prom
isa, on bis part, that the new Land Offices should
be fairly located, and at points which have been
made prominent by the flow Of emigration and
enterprise. Manhattan was to have been one of
the points. Now, it is ascertained that the new
Administration has exhibited its fancy for Border
Ruffians in the most abject way. While there are
many thriving and real towns in Kansas, the Land
Offices have been located at bogus towns, the Gre
atures of bogus legislation, where there is no en-
terprise, and where the settlers do not 60, and will
not go; town speculation owned by Missouri, as
afe the laws and local officers of Kansas. Ofthis
stripe would enumerate the town of Ogden, on
the Kansas, and the town of Fort Scott, in the
south part of the territory. Not content with gi-
wing the land offices to the Rufians, the new
President has sent the land Offices to their paper
towns, to the inconvenience of the people and to
build up the men who rob and oppress Kan
sas,