New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-11
Nsw9lork Daily Gribn,re
KANSAS.
THE LECOMPrON ELECTlON-vICTIMS
OF THE LATE MASSACRE-GOLD DIS
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Their chief duties, as learn are to appoin; cleo
ton precincts aud judges Of election. do not
suppose they will get through with that branch of
Their business to day. 1t appears that Wcis has
been removed, in which case his successor. Mr..
Davis, ought to be here to-day to meet with Board
Denver presides over the Board, and Secretary
Wash il its secretary. Thus not only majority OF
the Board bat all its executive officers are in the
interest Of the Administration, and hostile to the
Hishts of a nsjorty Of the people. There are al:o
current reports that Gov. Denver means to resign
Whether be is di.iDciaed to do the necessary
amount Of dirto work. is not considered equal 10
it, have not learned. Perhaps hs abandons hi,
post in sheer disgust, that is i he does so. He has
already shown bimself too plant to the wishes of
the Administration to bOggie a. any tnfe now.
Gen. Denver is expected to be here to-day, bu;
rs he b also expected to be the frontiers with
armv to resist the threatening cohorts of Missouri,
do not see how he can be, unless he 10 ubiquitous.
do not know exactly how he will figure as Gen.
Denver
Ex-Secretary Stanton is here. He looks very
well, and says he ia going TO stump the Territory
against the Lecompton Constitution. Many Free
State men having assured him that it was thelr con
yic;ion that this was entire y work of supererOgi-
top he gives assurance TO the contrary He ns-
sures the people here that the Administration Will
spare no means, nor bOggle at any frauds to carry
the I.ecOmpton Constitution thorough; that the Adj
minisrati was pledged TO this before the Southern
men would take the English bill. lie seems 10
think there is great danger, and, as have already
written TO THE TRIBUNE, If IT is designed TO carry
the matter by fraud, there IS great danger. FROM
what has already transpired, j think that such IS
the plot, and that so far from abandoning the Kan
sas violent and swinding game; that there Is con
spracy on foot for the great eliminating swlndle.
III So the end of the Kansas imbrOgllO is not yet.
There is but one way to abate "agitation and re-
move disturbance from the Territory, aud that
is to allow the people of the Territory to regulate
"their institutions in their own way" The Ad-
Ininistration corrupt few men and intimldste
otherp but such persons will lose their influence
with the mass when they thus succumb.
Yesterday evening" two OF the wounded men, sur
yivors of the Maras-de Cygne massacre, presented
themselves before the people of Lawrence. One of
them an old gray-haired man, Mr. Hairgrove, ad
dressed those who assembled to hear hun at Ma
sonic Hail. Both were severely wounded, and
hardly in condition yet for anything so tatiguing.
The old man, beside five buck'shOt wounds IN his
arm and body had severe pistoi-bullet wound
through his chest. DIR. Miner of this place dressed
the wounds. He told me that the pistol wound
would have proved fatal to nine Out OF ten men,
The ball had penetrated the side, under the arm
pit passed through part of the lungs, and indgd IA
the other side, where it still remalns Oli Mr..
Hairprove is Georgian by birth, although now
Free State man. He, however, remained Ma
fional Democrat" up to the time Of the massacre
ON SATURDAY. evening heard him narratiDg the oc-
rurrence to number of listeners The Old man
said he never had believed a word of the Kan.as
outrapes before he came to Kansas(h has only been
here a few mOnths), but, he added, 81 have not
word 10 saw now de belongs to that class who can
l. Cd Inv Briggs
family who could only be got to think OF religion
nv a rattlesnake bite, he has only opened his eyes
to the yilliany inStigaed by the Administration by
being made personal sufferer. With singular IN
consistency he seems very indignant because others
should remain incredulous after this. saw some
men who would like TO be Democrats endeayor TO
catechise the old man about it. Had he done
"nothing to give otlense to those men - Had he
not taken part in the disturbances below :" &c.
The old man eyed them very sharply while he re-
piled in the negative. Alas, his experience has no
vet taught him t. comprehend the amount OF rul
fiansm that the Oigarchs and their creatures, Inc
democracy" can sustain Nothing short OF such
a rattesnake to bite every member of the interest
ing family will ever awaken it to consciousness OF
Its atrOcty.
The and Office is busy with the contested cases.
The reinforcement of the land sales was only for
three months, and, | suppose, to allow time to
have the contested cases investigated do not
believe that even Iihl tiint VIII ot euhIC'uV III
such purpose. The cool aud showery weather
still continues. This season is very different from
the last two, which were 50 remarkably dry that
people thought this u very dry country
The Kansas River is lower than il has been, and
falling The small steamer Minnie Bell has been
ND the river for the past ten days. j believe the
intention was to 90 far rs the Fort. The worst
part of the river TO navigate Is the first forty miles
from IFS mouth. Business i'll the Territory Is still
comparatively dull. Real estate business certainly
~ Money is scarce. Perhaps II is the scarcity OF
money that has turned the public attention to gold
DIGGING The gold fever is still pretty general anu
partes ave sti starting out in quest of the Kansas
pacers. They fit up here in parties OF four or hVe
10 horse team with provisions for SIX months aid
mining implements. The out-iittlng expense per
man is from 800 to $3.50. Various descriptions
are given of the gold regions by parties VINO nave
been there during the Winter or last Fall some
describe il as living in the valleys like wheat.
Others that it is in TIE quarts alsO-to be obtained
BY washing Some Delaware Indians who were
there last Fall brought back specimens. MI. Co
nant Il merchant here, gave one OF these INDIANS
half-dollar for small piece Embedded III portion
Of quartz rock. He sent it oil and obtained - oU
for IT, A great many other accounts are gwen of
the abundance of the gold. There can be little
question but the discovery brings to light the fact
that there are valuable gold diggngs in Kansas on
the eastern slopes Of the Rocky Mountains. The
explorations for gold in that direction this Summer
will bring 10 light all the advantages OF that cont
psratiyely unknown portion of our country
That the land there is valuable for than gold
~ think. very likely. 1t WILL at all events, eX-
Mode the huInbug about the Great American
Desert which fabulous Sahara was supposed To be
somewbere tbereabouts. The most direct route 20
the diggngs is by the Smoky hlll valley.