FEBRUARY 23.-The Leavenworth Herald says: "Five months ago there was not a building in the place. The town had just been laid off and the brush cut down. Leavenworth now has a hotel, a saw mill, a tailor's shop, a shoemaker, a barber, two blacksmiths, three carpenter shops, several law and two doctors' offices."

A correspondent of the Liberty (Mo.) Tribune says: "Lawrence is the resort of about 400 Abolitionists."

FEBRUARY 26.-Gov. Reeder issues a proclamation defining the judicial districts of the Territory, and assigning the Judges to them. The First District embraces the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and eighteenth election districts, and is assigned to Chief Justice S. D. Lecompte; the courts to be held at Leavenworth.

The Second Judicial District includes the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventeenth election districts, and is assigned to Rush Elmore; courts to be held at Tecumseh.

The rest of the Territory, including the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth election districts, is made the Third District, and is assigned to Saunders W. Johnston; courts to be held at Pawnee.

The terms of the courts are prescribed by the same proclamation. FEBRUARY 28.-Census completed; 8,501; voters, 2,905. Governor Reeder divides the Territory into eighteen districts, appoints judges of election, and orders an election for a Territorial Legislature to be held March 30th.

FEBRUARY.-John Brown, jr., Jason, Owen, Frederick, and Salmon Brown, sons of John Brown, come to Kansas "early in 1855," and settle near the Pottawatomie river, eight miles from Osawatomie. CENSUS TAKEN IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1855.

MARCH.― Dr. Thos. H. Webb, Secretary of the offered a prize of fifty dollars for a Kansas song. sented; the following poem obtained the prize :

7, 161 408 151 192 8,601

Emigrant Aid Company,
Eighty-nine were pre-

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:

HOME illy-disposed persons have tried to injure my Ferry by

election. This is false; it will be difficult to find one more
sound on the "goose" than I am.

Signed,

JOHN ELLIS.

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.

5

670

8

217

10

10

10

10

7

11

6

1

1

ELECTION OF MARCH 30, 1855, BY COUNCIL DISTRICTS.

ELECTION OF MARCH 30, 1855, BY REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS.