New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-03

cent. Blu: the people q hah.er, TX INST
planned. were then tod thst il was lac, and must
Be enforced by the whole power Of the Executive,
Until tie courts set them sstae. Quite . d'nef en-
view of the case seems 10 have dawned nPcn - n'
present perceptions Of executive wisdoms iso
militia law was no. orly thus rudeiy eet ASIDE W
executive interference, but actual tnreAts "e.o
made sgsnst the legal officers apPoln1eo oy %" !"
carry It out, and proclamation OF the uo'efSoi 10
saed against that law. Now, the Governors eecre.
tary. or man Friday. comes out with card, givIng
list Of the prominent laws passed ias' se''''''' ""'
says no such laws were passed. ~.
Among these is the law giving certain lursue
ton to the Probate Judges. presume Inc oseen
that neither Gao nor Lecompe shall be ROBBED OF any
If their jurisdiction. But this is done very ahtoty'
Denver never energies from his she'll An irresPvn1'
sble private Secretary gives the mint 10 Tue ~
and the matter relspses into its original stiffness
The function of the present Executive seems 10 DC
that it shall not be an ereeutire. The people here
will soon forget there il such thing as lerrtohai
Governor. The only action Of this Executive on
the new Constitution was trade oil abuse on IL, III
which he misrepresented il in the stree" OF tn's
goodly city. The late Legislature appointed fuo.
lie Printer; they also appointed superintendent a
of Public Printing; but Denver ANONYMOUSLY ais-
missed the legal officer refused to Yet bum have
copy of the laws and lie now getting the laws tor
such of them as he il CONSIDERABLY inclined 70
aUou to be laws) printed. He has given the Job TO
the editor Of The National Democrat Of this place
paper whose earthly mission is to abuse and ms
represent the people of the Territory and back up
the Administration, and which would starye imme-
diatey if dependent on the support it could get
here The publisher of a notorlously recreaht
State paper gets part of the job, for that J0nr
nal 10 able to do more mischief to the ree-ohtt
paffy than The National Democrat. In doing all
this Denver has shown his shrewdness lie not
only rewards and sustains partisan press, but by
Al of PRINTING
able to publish as laws just what he peases. Now,
| do not know what kind of an official oath the
person who at present nomiDaly holds the office OF
Governor took. ! suppose he must have sworn 10
obey the behests Of Jimmy Buchanan. III would
be- very dsrespectuI to him 10 suppose that he had
taken an oath to execute the laws. His MISSION
here differs only in this from that of the early Gov
srnors. They were to enforce the laws because
they were violent irregular, and not made by the
people. His mission is to render them perfectly
nupatory. because the people made them II is the
Circumlocution Office revived. think they must
have taken the hint from Dickens. They show the
world " how not to do it" IN splendid style.
I find here in LecOmptOn that the Pro-Savery
men are in open hostility to the new Constitution,
a are the agents of the Executive. The Executive
itself is shrouded in mystery, not visible to the
naked eye.
From Leayenworth learn that Gen. Lane spoke
the night before last. An attempt was made by
Pro-Slavery rOwdies, backed up by other rowdies,
to prevent him from speaking. Ii failed however.
have alse been informed that at Leayenworth and
at other points the ProSlayery men have interiered
with the primary meetings OF the Free State party,
TO nominate delegates for State Nominating Con-
yentisn under the IeavenwOrth Constitution. Some
of them voted, and they went with the would-be
Democrats to make black law ticket.
Every thing is remarkably quiet here. The only
thing that has the slightest symptom OF life Ii the
Land Office. 1t is busy chiefly with the contested
cases. These will not and cannot be all disposed Of
prior Ito the land sales. The Kaw River is falling
and the weather is more pleasant
have had my attention called to the following
incorrect and unjust paragraph, which Is gong the
rounds of the Eastern press:
Capt. LeOnhardt, prominent German in Kansas,
was shot dead a, Geery City on the 18th ult by an,
other Free. State map. LeOnhaTdt druuk, and
provoked hs fate by firing Unfortunately into ball
ROOM
The captain that wounded was g Len
hart" not LeOhhardt, the Hungarian The latter
is member Of the Good Templars, and otherwise
esteemed. Capt. Lenhart is young printer. He
was captain of the first FreeState guerilla party in
IS, and is a very bold youth. The paragraph is
somewhat incorrect in regard to him. He war not
klt d. and although be- was wounded IN n personal
difficulty, it ia not true that lie =" fired promscu'
ously in ball room.
SPRING HILL. johnson Co.. April "a, 1855.
/ remember that the Rev. John Pierpont, when
| in Kansas a year ago. said, that although God Al
mighty could, no doubt, make finer country than
Kansas, he did not think be ever had. The Spring
season of grass and flowers, and little baby leaves,
il here again; and, in its young freshness, the land
scape is certainly very beautiful All parts of Kan.
sas differ from the fiat wilderness of prairie that
to be found in some parts of the West, and which
could be fketched BY level and ruler. The sur
face undulaes quite sufficiently, and the traveller 10
rarely more than or two miles from timber, the
feathery outlines of which vary the landscape. Most
of people on seeing for the first time 60 into rap
lures about il; if they merely enthusiasts they
90 off in rapture about Italian scenery, &c.
and if it is a mere plodding emigrant, he digs his
heel into the deep black soil and merely dreams Of
''bushels to the acre
I During the last twelve months this " johnson
County has pretty well settled up. A number OF
settlers have even got the land selected Tor the
absentee Shawnee indiana, and will, OF course, have
10 get of again. There is a newness in all the set
Elements The cabins small aud the farms are
vet small too although there has been large
amount fenced in and broken this Winter and
Spring. Some three-fourths Of the population are
Free State. although there is still sprnkling of
the Pros avery element near the WestpOrt border.
But il is diving out The settlers here are from all
States in the Union.
The people of johnson County prepared for
complete organization under the LeayenwOrth Con-
stitntioD. Under that instrument, nearly all the
county officers are provided for, without leaving
that ss n subsequent stage under law, as was the
ease with the Topeka Constitution. This county
has nominated candidates for all the Offices and
find that what il called the radical element is
dominant so far as see, the Constitution will be-
generally voted for do not hear anything about
the word white " here.
There is one rumor in some parts of the Territory