New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-19
CENSUS OF OXFORD AND SHAWNEE.


From Our Special Correspondent.
LAWRENCE, X. T., Feb. 8, 1853.
cent several days ago statement of the report
of the Commissioner to take the census Of Oxford
Precinct, johnson County. The figures then
obtained were not exactly correct although the
difference is not at all material. The Commissioner
having Just returned, and having completed the
census of both Oxford and Shawnee Precincts, |
copy from it. His report will be made to the Le-
gislature to-day.
IL the report there are first the affidayits:
"Johnson Co., Territory of Kansas, Jan. 81, 1888.
Personally appeared Charles Mayo, and made
solemn oath that he would faithfully discharge the
duties imposed on him a. Commissioner to take the
in the townships Of Oxford and Shawnee under
taking the census in certain districts therein spec
fed, TO the best OF his ability and understandlng
Then follows the certificate of oath of Mr.. Cor
natres, the other Commissioner, which in the same
form. Their report is:
"The undersigned, Charles Mayo aud Samuel M.
Cornatres, Comm, siones appointed under the act
afore said to take the for the township Of Shaw
nee, hereby certify that they have discharged that
duty, and that the following correct list of the in
hsbants with the date of their settlement
could be ascertained."
Then follows list of ll5 names, with the dates
Of settlement-sOme Of these being in this year
some toward the close of last and nearly all having
settled since last Spring. The Commissioners sum
it up thus:
"Total, one hundred and fifteen (llj); Of thote
who had made settlement prior to April J, 1857, forty
eight (is)."
Then follow the names of 81 Shawnee Indians,
which closes the report, with the signatures:
"shaHEL shattELS NJ. neco6RRSArREs, COmmi''iOner','
Next occurs the census Of Oxford. II is pre-
ceded with similar affidavit and runs:
The undersigned, Ben +. Dare and Charles
Mayo, Commissioners appointed under the act afore-
said, to take the for the Township Of Oxford
hereby certify that they have discharged that duty,
and that the following correct list Of the inhabit-
ante with the dates their settlement, as near as they
could be sscertaiDed.'
Then follows list of AZ names, summed up thus:
Total number Of white male inhabitants over the
age Of II years, forty.two (42.
"Of those who had settled prior to April ), 1851,
fourteen (l4)."
Then follow the names of FIVE Shawnee Indians,
and the signatures of the Commissioners, thus:
"sHssl pfs. r. MaH2s bnRhs Commissioners"
By this report it appears that only IA were elgi-
bic as voters at the October election, when 200
voters were returned, and at Shawnee only 45 Of
such.
In addition 10 these items, learn from the Com.
missioners that not one of those representatives,
who represented johnson County in the LecOmptOn
Constitutio1al Convention, resides in that section.
The list ia the official record of this fact. Two of
them purported to live in Shawnee, and one in Ok.
ford Township. Danforth and McCoun live in
Westpsrt, Mo.-the latter being editor of The Star
of Empire of that place. Bait Jones, the third,
lives near Lexington. Thus do We find these facts
officially summed up and made matters of record.
The whole Lecompton scheme is thus proved to be
eminenty bogus. The position Gov. Walker would
have occupied had he received the irregular Oxford
returns last October, may now be appreciated He
did receive the Shawnee returns, the frauds Of which
carried the county officers of johnson County at
that time These are now proved 10 be equally
bogus, although not to 80 great an extent-not SO
informal on their face.