Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-01-27
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Especial Correspondence Oftns c .heinn.'i Gazette
LAWRENCE. Kansas. Jan. lS, 1853

LAWRENCE. Kansas. Jan. IS. 1858.
Though the Territorial Legislature
has Exhausted bnt four or Eve days Of
its re- ular s%eseion. il is piunging intoi.s
cHcIal business with scnIe,IG. visor.-
Nearly serenity bills have already been
introduced, and many of them are being
put forward very rapidly. The following
are some of the NEST important measures
that have been iniliatad and are likely to
pass:
An Act declaring vacant the seats of
the county ofhcelso OF Levenworlh coun.
ty, aud ordering a new election. These
officers, it will be remembered, are Pro-
Slavery, and obtained their seats
through the Kickapoo frauds in Gcto-
Der. Under this Act, neither Delaware
nor Kickapoo has a voting precinct; the
citizens of both those towns, which poll
such enormous Pro. ~slavery notes al
every election. have to go to Levenworlh
to exercise the elective franchise.
An Act 10 take the census at Kicka-
poo, Delaware and MCGEE county. This
movement is 10 obtain on official and
aalheatic account of the extent of the
frauds perpetrated at those points in the
last three elections.
An Act dividing the Territory into
new judicial districts. Under this Bill
both LecoD,pie and Cato are sent off TO
hold their Courts in the greet. sterile, unin
haJited region, beginning thirty miles west
# Fort Riley. The third districts EN-.
braces all the inhabited portion of the
Territory, and is to be occupied By Judge
Williams.
An Act.incorporating the city ofLaw-
renee under the peoples charter, which
Gov. Walker kicked up such a row about
last summer, and Iegalizing all the action
taken under it.
An Act appointing Commissioners to
investigate and report upon all the frauds
perpetratsd at the last three elections.
A joint Resolution to sat once pro-
coed 10 the enactment of An entire code
of laws for the people Of the Territory.
which shall entirely supersede all laws,
or pretended laws. prior. to the special
session Of this Legislature, saving ali
vested rights acquired in good faith"
An Act removing the seat Of Doug
las county from Lecomp;on to Law renee.
and one removing the seat of Leaven
worth county from Kickapoo to Leven.
worth.
J. Garrett, one Of the election Judges
at the Delaware Crossing. in Leven.
worth county, on the All inst, was ar.
rested on the charge of making cut
fraudulent returns, a few nights since.
He was taken by a party of Levenwcrth
boys, and vas greatly frightened, as
they talked loudly about hanging him
on the spot. He insisted that he was
innocent of the charge, and stated under
oath that the original returns which he
signed showed only thirty fire votes and
that they were sent to Calhoun by the
notorious 'tJack Henderson," of Leaven
worth. Evidence was soon ATTAINED, il
is said. reducing it TO ga moral certain
ty' hat Henderson did lamper with the
returns. by placing a figure "5' before
the total numbers OF voters. making II
read. fOe Hundred and thirty fUe. The
party which arrested Garrett permitted
that gentleman TO escape, and immedi
ately started in pursuit Of Henderson,
They found that that worthy had con-
suited his personal safety by starting for
the East with Government dispatches.
A company OF nine men. headed by
U. S. Marshal Cowles, followed and
fouad Henderson yesterday in the mail
coach, near Westport, Ma. They stop
ped the coach, and stated their object.
Henderson refused to surrender. and
drew his revolver. But the instantsne
Gus cooking of nine similar Instruments
all pointed at his head. convinced BIN
that more than II could play at that
game. He succumbed, and was brought
10 Lawrence by the posse. Subpenas
have been sent for Garrett, Calhoun.
Gov. Denver, and the election returns
in question. Henderson's trial will
probably come off to- morrow. He is a
very violent pro slavery man-formerly
editor of the Lesvenworth Journal!-was
member OF the Lecomp;on Convention
s@indle, and is identified with m nv
past outrages of the border rufia IN party.
Last night, two parties we're out for his
rescue-one from Wyandott n one
fr. Kansas city. They secured the
Delaware Reservation, and searched
several Indian houses. But after they
learned that he had been brou tht here.
they abandoned the search and went
home.
LAWRENCE, Friday. Jan. Is Jack
Henderson is still here sin durance vile."
Judge Cato issued a writ of habsas corpus
for him, yesterday. and put it into the
hands of the Free State Sheriff. Capt
Sam. Walker. to serve. Walker came
oyer here with it, and appeared exceed
ingly anxious to find Henderson. Bat
singularIy enough. though that culprit
was in the hands Of n Of his deputies
all the tine, the Captain didn't find him.;
and | think he lost but lutte sleep on
that account. He will make a return
this morning. that Henderson was not to
be foundi
Henderson succeeded in sending a note
TO Calhoun, the day after his arrest
Very soon after receiving it, Calhoun
declared that no returns had been receiv3d
from Delapare Crossing; and he still pre-.
sists 10 the declaration. But he will not
be permitted to shield Henderson in that
manner.
The Supreme Court Of Illinois on
. Slavery.
The Supreme Court Of Illinois has
lately been called on to render a decis-
ion ofsome importance. A slave holder
of Missouri sued the Illinois Central
Railroad for the value of a slave who
was permitted 10 ride in their cars from
Cairo 10 Chicago.
The opinion of the Court is; in effect.
hat the constitution and laws OF lll'zois
recognize all men withia the Stats as
free men; that slavery is aD institution OF