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MARCH 8.-Governor Reeder issues a proclamation for an election, March 30, of thirteen members of the Council and twenty-six members of the House.

MARCH 13.-Dr. Charles Robinson leaves Boston for Kansas with about two hundred persons.

MARCH.—A few days before the 30th, John Ellis, owner of the Weston and Kickapoo Ferry, had the following bill printed and tacked upon his boat:

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NOME illy-disposed persons have tried to injure my Ferry by stating that I refused to cross persons, last fall, to go to the election. This is false; it will be difficult to find one more sound on the "goose" than I am.

MARCH 30.-About one thousand Missourians, under Samuel Young and Claiborne F. Jackson, arrive in Lawrence to vote, and vote. Mrs. Robinson says: "They were armed with guns, pistols, rifles and bowie-knives. They brought two cannon loaded with musket balls."

RETURNS OF ELECTION OF MARCH 30, 1855, BY DISTRICTS.

ELECTION OF MARCH 30, 1855, BY COUNCIL DISTRICTS.

ELECTION OF MARCH 30, 1855, BY REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS.

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APRIL 5.—Election returns opened by Gov. Reeder, Secretary Woodson, and Clerk Halderman.

APRIL 6.-The Leavenworth Herald announces the result of the first Legislative election in these words:

"All hail! Pro-Slavery Party Victorious. We have met the enemy and they are ours. Veni, Vidi, Vici. Free White State Party Used Up."

"The triumph of the Pro-Slavery party is complete and overwhelming. Come on, Southern men; bring your slaves and fill up the Territory. Kansas is saved. Abolitionism is rebuked, her fortress stormed, her flag is draggling in the dust! The tri· colored Platform has fallen with a crash; the rotten timbers of its structure were not sufficient to sustain the small fragments of the party.”

"Kansas has proved herself to be S. G. Q.”

Those letters meant: Sound on the Goose Question.

APRIL 14.-The Parkville (Mo.) Luminary destroyed by a Pro-Slavery mob from Platte City.

APRIL 16.-Gov. Reeder calls an election, May 22, to fill vacancies in the House and Council, in the 1st, 2d, 3d, 7th, 8th and 16th districts, on account of irregularities in the previous election. The Legislature is ordered to meet at the town of Pawnee, in the 9th election district, on the first Monday in July, "in the building which will be provided for that purpose."

APRIL 17.-The Governor leaves for Pennsylvania.

APRIL 30.-Pro-Slavery Vigilance Committee appointed at Leavenworth. Nine resolutions were adopted, the following among them:

"Resolved, That we recognize the right of every man to entertain his own sentiments in all questions, and to act them out so long as they interfere with neither public or private rights; but that when the acts of men strike at the peace of our social relations, and tend to subvert the known and recognized rights of others, such acts are in violation of morals, of natural law, and systems of jurisprudence to which we are accustomed to submit.

"Resolved, That a Vigilance Committee, consisting of thirty members, shall now be appointed, who shall observe and report all such persons as shall openly act in violation of law and order, and by the expression of Abolition sentiments produce disturbance to the quiet of the citizens or danger to their domestic relations; and all such persons so offending shall be notified and made to leave the Territory."

The report of the meeting in the Leavenworth Herald says: “The meeting was ably and eloquently addressed by Judge Lecompte, Col. J. N. Burnes, of Weston, and D. J. Johnson."

APRIL 30.- Cole McCrea kills Malcolm Clark, at Leavenworth. The Congressional Committee (1856) reported:

"Your committee in their examinations have found that in no case of crime or homicide mentioned in this report, or in the testimony, has any indictment been found against the guilty party, except in the homicide of Clark by McCrea; McCrea being a Free-State man.' ""

McCrea was arrested and imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth, and in jail. The Grand Jury in September failed to find a bill against McCrea. Mrs. Robinson says:

"At the adjourned term of the court, in November, Judge Lecompte had added seven new members to the Grand Jury, and a bill of indictment for murder in the first degree was found against him. Four of the counsel within the bar, and officers acting at this tribunal, including the clerk of the court, were connected with the lynching of Phillips, on the 17th of May."

McCrea escaped from jail, and made his appearance in Lawrence Dec. 1st.