The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-16

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The Kansas Border RumansLThe --latest
R.scAIIties OF 10th PArties-The Manifest
Duty OF CongIcss
From the letters Of our special Kansas cor
respondent, published in yesterdays HERALD,
our readers will have been informed of the
latest rascslities Of the border rufisns of both
the testimony thus communicated corroborate
the worst that has been said Of the reckless cha.
racter of the vagabond politicians and spoils
and plumber jobbers of both the pro-slavery and
no slavery parties. Their plots, tricks, frauds,
and high handed outrages, corruptions and
usurpations all the way through, have in the
language of Gen. Cas-, been "a disgrace to the
utilization of the age"
ITO recur to the latest disclosures concerning
the artful lodges and corrupt appliances of
both these border ruflian parties Of Kansas, we
find that Mr.. ID. b. johnson, Of Little Usage,
gives dreadful report Of the filibustering ope-
rations of the prc-slavery border ruffans at
Fort Scott. One valiant Captain Oliver p.
Wayne encloses this statement to the free State
Commander-in-C Chief of the Territorial militia,
Gen. Jim Lane, endorsing its correctness,
and says further, that the Marmon
citizens have called on me for pro-
lection. They are threatened TO be extermi-
mated They must be protected. l am deter
mined to protect them. want one company
and one cannon from Lawrence. Have them
here 10y the fret OF February" In response to
this appeal il was supposed that General Jim
Lane, like 1.-THE King of France, with his twenty
thousand men," would "march up the hill, and
then march down again"
Secondly, il appears that the Board of Com
mistioners appointed by the Territorial Legis
lature on the 22d January. to investigate all
election frauds, have been actively engaged
since that time. In pursuance Of their labors il
appears that, upon complaint Of Henry J.
Adams and others Of the commission, addressed
TO Hon. Josiah Miller, Judge Of Probate of
Douglas county, search warrant was issued
by said Judge, authorizing a regular search Of
the official premises Of John Calhoun, in Lc-
compton, for certain election returns alleged TO
have been concealed somewhere about said pre-
mises. Armed with this writ, Sheriff Douglas,
with his posse contq,s set out for Lecompton. and
in due season returned with box dug up from
the ground where il had been buried under wood
pile, on the premises Of the aforesaid John Cal
houn, the said box being filled with the very
election returns which we're especially wanted
viz. those doubtful returns in reference to the
new State Legislature elected under the Lee
compton programme.
The box was opened, (said TO be an old
candle box,) and the Commissioners then called
Gov. Denver and the presiding officer Of each
branch Of the Territorial Legislature to prove
that they were election returns and they were
so identified, including the missing returns from
the decisive Delaware Crossing. Of $40 votes
Our correspondent Gays these last are repre-
sented a. evidently fraudulent that the man in
whose handwriting they are said TO be is under
arrest; and that "a requisition for John Cal
houn upon Mr.. Buchanan " had been presented
to Gov. Denver for bis signature, and that it
was supposed he had signed IT,
This will do US the latest disclosure against
the proslavery managers Of popular sove
reignty" in Kansas; but there is an account
equally interesting against the unscrupulous
spells and plumber jobbers on the other side.
The Territorial Legislature free State party
have passed an act locating the State capital at
a new paper town called Minneola, in Franklin
county. The site q 400 acres) was first pur
chased at nominal price by the company
concerned, including many members of the
Legislature as stockholders, and some influential
outsiders. When the bill was introduced
the shares we're held at $500 per share
of twenty acres; when the bill passed the
House the shares could not be had at $500
and il is supposed that within six months they
will command five thousand dollars share
Should Gov. Denver veto the bill Il is believed
that 1t can be passed over his head by two
thirds vote, and that the free State party win