OCTOBER 9.- ELECTION OF A. H. REEDER, DELEGATE TO CONGRESS.

OCTOBER 16.- Proclamation by the Free-State Committee, giving the names of the following delegates to the Topeka Constitutional Convention: First District, Samuel Mewhinney, William Graham; Second, G. W. Smith, J. H. Lane, J. K. Goodin, C. Robinson, J. S. Emery, Morris Hunt; Third, J. A. Wakefield, A. Curtiss, J. M. Tuton, H. Burson; Fourth, C. K. Holliday, W. Y. Roberts; Fifth, P. C. Schuyler, J. H. Pillsbury; Sixth, James

Phenis, Dr. Burgess, N. Vandever; Seventh, W. T. Turner, Jas. McArthur, W. T. Morris, O. C. Brown, Richard Knight, F. Brown, H. Smith, W. G. Nichols; Eighth, Robert Klotz, A. Hunting; Ninth, M. F. Conway, J. G. Thompson; Tenth, Geo. S. Hillyer, J. Whitney; Fourteenth, Robert Riddle, M. J. Parrott, Matt. France, S. N. Latta, D. Dodge, M. W. Delahay; Eleventh, G. A. Cutler, John Landis, C. W. Stewart, D. W. Field; Thirteenth, R. H. Crosby, Caleb May, Sanford McDaniel, James S. Sayle.

OCTOBER 20.-Thomas J. B. Cramer commissioned as Territorial Treas

urer.

OCTOBER 23.-Constitutional Convention meets at Topeka.

The following is an incomplete list of the members of the Topeka Constitutional Convention:

OFFICERS.

ABSENT MEMBERS.

Messrs. Brown, Burgess, Field, France, Graham, Morris, Nichols, Phenis, Riddle, Hamden, Smith, Stewart, Turner, Vandever.

The Convention was called to order by J. A. Wakefield; prayer by Rev. Richard Knight; calling of the roll by Joel K. Goodin; twenty-one members, less than a quorum, present.

OCTOBER 23.— The Kansas Daily Freeman issued at Topeka. E. C. K.

Garvey, publisher; J. F. Cummings, printer. The Weekly Freeman was started in July. The Daily edition was printed during the sessions of the Constitutional Convention. Mr. Cummings still possesses copies of ten numbers of this paper. The size of the paper is eight by twelve inches, with three columns to a page. It was an evening paper.

- Sale of lots at Lecompton.

OCTOBER 24.—James H. Lane elected President of the Convention, receiving fifteen votes, to five for W. Y. Roberts, and four for J. A. Wakefield. Samuel C. Smith was elected Secretary, and Rev. H. B. Burgess, Chaplain. Samuel F. Tappan appeared as reporter for the Herald of Freedom, and John Speer for the Kansas Tribune. Lane's speech, on taking the chair, marked out very briefly the policy the Convention ought to pursue. Why he made the following assertion, it would be difficult now to tell:

"When the Kansas-Nebraska bill was before Congress, no one of its supporters claimed that Kansas could ever become a Slave State; all, from the highest to the lowest, discarded the idea that slavery could ever be extended within her borders. Our Southern friends were among the most prominent in pressing this position before the country."

James Redpath was given a seat as a reporter for the Missouri Democrat, Wm. A. Phillips for the New York Tribune, and Joseph L. Speer for the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Redpath was elected Reporter for the Convention. OCTOBER 25.-Samuel Collins killed by Patrick Laughlin, near Doniphan. Laughlin claimed originally to be a Free-State man, and became a member of the “Kansas Legion." He afterwards exposed this Free-State organization, and became a violent Pro-Slavery man. Gladstone thus

"Mr. Collins, who owned a saw-mill at Doniphan, was shot on political grounds by a violent Pro-Slavery man, named Patrick Laughlin. Laughlin came, it is said, originally from Ireland, and had rendered himself famous by an exposure, as it was termed, of the Kansas Legion. Laughlin was aided in this attack by three or four armed associates, and Mr. Collins's sons were present, and sought to defend their father. There was considerable interchange of bowie-knife cuts and pistol-firing on this occasion, and the murderer himself was wounded. But the victim being a Free-State man, the law took no cognizance of the murder, and Laughlin found protection, and was rewarded by a situation in a shop in Atchison."

OCTOBER 26.--The printing for the Convention was divided, E. C. K. Garvey, John Speer and M. W. Delahay each receiving a portion.

The vote on striking the word "white" out of the Constitution stood as follows: Yeas-Brown, Crosby, Hillyer, Hunting, Knight, Robinson, Schuyler-7. Nays-Arthur, Burson, Curtiss, Cutler, Delahay, Dodge, Hunt, Klotz, Lane, Latta, Landis, McDaniels, Mewhinney, Parrott, Roberts, Sayle, Smith, Thompson, Tuton, Wakefield, Hicks, Emery, Goodin, Holliday, Graham - 25.

OCTOBER 30.-John W. Whitfield receives his certificate as duly elected Delegate to the Thirty-fourth Congress.

NOVEMBER.- John Speer moves the Kansas Tribune from Lawrence to Topeka, and Wm. W. Ross becomes his partner in its publication.

NOVEMBER 5.—Josiah H. Pillsbury having resigned, J. H. Nesbitt was elected and admitted to the Convention as a delegate from the Eighth District.