New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-19
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OXFORD, Joa1son Ca, X. T., Aag. Q, 1853.
Political esoDoui,:s :e.l 20 Ia. the AVE vhco
to7er7 popzls.o1 ire fIsi AID irre7srs-ole, el:
we.t poIti:i ce1sonis. cocli .trsS a7y Ish. On
.he population Of "OIfoy3.' Last Fsi Is re-
nowoed city tsrice .srew, or p,ofesssa 20 bare
thrown, Law s11 Order vote of i,2c0. AZ
pre,ebt election, u1der circumstances more CT ie,s
emt.rss,iDg, L tas ex1ioitsd vote cf IL for tie
Lecomp.oa Coa,:..1tion, .ad 10 sgsias.. Twenty
0ine al told, sad OILY Of Border Rlfs1 or
Democratic" majority. This, from critical ex-
animation Of the capacities Of :he place s p:1oaoy
lust about wha. il conl3 snd should throw. And
yet il is rather comical declen-ion and another IL
lustratiOn OF tie mJurnidi decay VI ali Border
R1Aian things.
Oxford, unlike ts great -amesake is rot fimous
as a seat of learning II is stuck Ike b.rnscle oE
the Missouri border and 3 rather small ba-nacle,
az that. L. looks cut On very beautiful prospect
on TIE Shawnee county, reserve once, now the
home Of many squa,ters, who are mixed Il win the
Indian population, the Indians taking the timber
and the white men the prairie. 4 lew grocere-
form the business staple, and feT shantles the
town. thi3k i has reached the maximum OF lts
glory There is nothing 10 and little 20 describe
about the place. The landscape is certainly very
UI'. Away " LIT II q Niu-.'' VI -
the Shawnee Mission, where some Of the earlier
Border Ruflian acts were perpe:rated. Westward
before us is succession OF prairie and woodland,
a scene Of Italian beauty, already dotted with the
cabins of the squatters. IL u very fax specimen
OF Ksnsss scenery.
The tota vote of this Johnson County is j7j, of
waicb 42j are for proposition Rejected aat
$50 for Proposition Accepted After all the
Herculean efforts Of the Wes.por. Shawnee Asso-
ciation,' which once thought i had completely
monopolzed this county, this Il rather poor
figure. II shows what the most systematic efforts
OF the slave propagandists, IN t1e way ci coch|!ng
can accomplish.
] learn that Bait Jones, Wniorth, &C., &c,
expressed themselves as disguised with this cleo
ton. They said ii was altogether not worth
trying" which, | suppose, means that II was IN
expedent 10 bring il Cincinnati Directories Ihey
declare with suspicious adroi.ness, that this elec.
ton settles nothing, and tiat tie Administration
has 10 sustain the issue Of admitting Kansas during
next Congress with the Lecompton Constitution,
and uuM The ordinance adopted by the ConcenioH.
That IL must DO 80 or back down from the South.
Speaking OF oxford and "OXford matters,
reminds me of the return made Ia Il October election
of 200 votes from Niece County. learn that
an old maD, one Of the Judges OF Election az
that time and who certiie1 and sent of the poll
books via Westport 10 LecOmptoD, states that the
list recorded only Il votes, that only that number
were p0Iled, and tlat II any more We're returned
that neither he, any man in McGee County
knewl thing of the matter. These are some
amusing "reminiscences Of expiring Border Rufiian-
ism.
We have had Summer of rain and swollen rv.
ers, ami mud and musketoes, and now We have the
burning August sun blazing down like an autocrat.
see clouds OF dust, even, rise from the Sante Fe
road which winds great commercial serpent amid
the green prairie highlands 70 the westward IL Is
l.t Lnt. hot. oh m Ii. nuaf nt mn
too or Java. The OK teams crawl under the glaring
sunbeams with shrinking look OF dusty misery.
Politics and business are burden. The Lecomp-
ton Constitution il dead" Oxford Is in " col
"apsed state, and Border-Rufiians are past all
sid from the devil or the Democratic party.