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IMPORTANT FROM KANSAS
THE ELECTION ON THE
4TH OF JANUARY.
TREMEND GUS FRAUDS.
LITTLE OXFORD DOING SERVICE
AGAIN.
FREE STATE TICKET PROBABLY DEFEATED.
Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Gazette.
LAWRENCE, Kansas, Jan. 7. 1858.

Correspondence OF tho Cincinnati Gazette.
LAWRENCE, Kansas, Jan. 7. 1858.
THE LEGISLATURES.
The Territorial Legislature met at Ii
compton on Tuesday, and adjourned immt
dialeIy to meet here at noon to morrow
In the Interim the members of it who bt
long 10 the Topeka Legislature also, hay
gone up to Topeka to participate in th
organization OF that body.
RESULT OF THE ELECTION
The returns thus far receiaed from tn
election Of Monday, are 50 vague that an
estimate based upou tbem must necessariI
be somewhat Ioose. In this town, thong
there weIe upwards ofseveu hundred vote
given against the Constitution, there wep
only about two bundled polled for Stat
Officers. At Topeka and many other il
terror points, the Free State men refused t
vote for State officers.
The pro slavery men seem not to hay
recognized the election upon the Constltr
ton. Very few Of them voted at sll uade
it; hence the result will show a majority
from, s, 0O0 to 10, 900 against the Coust
tuition.
ENORMOUS FRAUDS.
Though there were troops stationed {
most Of the voting precincts in the TerritC
ry, tue frauds which have already come I
Iight eclipse altogether. those of the Oclt
her election.
At Kickapoo, more than 900 votes wei
pslled between 600 and 700 of thel
fraudulent,
The Captain of the Dragons statione
there, refused to obey the Deputy U.
Marshal though he had explicit orders I
do 50 from, General Harney.
At Delaware CITY, a majority of nearI
800 pro.slavery votes was given II
Judges received the ballots through sma
aperture in the window; aud whenever
Free State vote was handed to them the
would drops pro slavery vote into the baIlt
box! This trick was not discovered uni
nearly night One ofthe Judges fled imm,
distely tO Missouri, and the other is no
under arrest. The Kickapoo Judges al
also Srrested--the fact being notorious thl
they permitted many who were not citizer
to vote, and some Of them to vote two
three times.
At Oxford there we're many Missouriau
voting. Over 1900 votes We're polIel-a
least 1900 of Vhem bogus. The Free Stal
men who attempted to challenge these wei
ordere laway,snd pistols were drawn upo
them. According to the statements of I'll
Marshal, the troops :here also refused t
obey his orders, but as Harney's orders I
the ,ptans of tie Dragons in each il
stance were to follow the directions of tn
MTshals the story seems doubtful w
shall have "mOre light" on that suljeC
soon.
At the delaware" Crossing o. the Kan
sas river a new precinct very convenient t
Westport had been established BY Gal
houn. Probably not dozen men in th
county [ (LeavenwOrth) knew ofh. Their
are just twelve white settlers and fe,
WyandutA Indians in the precinct, vet 50
votes were given, nearly all pro slavery,
gentleman from Texas, who WIS there jus
before dark, tells me that he was invite
to vote, and was assured that by ehangin
some articles Of his dress each time, b
could vote as often rs he wi,hedl The nc
iolious Jack Henderson Of LeavenwoTl
was Gu the ground throH sh The whole day
Unless these and the other frauds ar
thrown out BY Calhoun ia counting III
votes, il is almost certain that the Fro
State party rs defeated, both in tie Leris
hture and the State ticket Great excite
ment prevails. The Probate Judge o
johnson county, who signed the fraud ulen
returns in 0c,Oler, is now ksre under al
rest awaiting bis t,ial.
~Thc new Treasury Notes arc enpra
we'd aud will soon be in 0iIculatien'