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are to be signed will be made out to-night, and signed by both 
parties on the morrow. 
The governor sent for troops from the fort this morning at three 
o’clock. He wants to gain time, and delay signing the papers, as 
he said that “he could not control the force he has brought 
against us.” “ If they knew a treaty had been made, they would 
at once raise the black flag, and march against the town.” So, as 
he is hoping Col. Sumner will send his troops for the defence of 
Lawrence, this delay is made. When our citizens sent to him 
days ago for aid, he refused, because he had no orders from the 
President; and the question is, will he come now? 
About three o’clock the governor and suite, consisting of Col. 
Boone, of Westport, Col. Kearney, of Independence, and Col. 
Strickland, also of Missouri, with Col. Lane, dined with us. 
The governor is a gray-haired man, tall and well-proportioned. 
He has coarse features and a hard-looking face, generally. Nature 
must bear a part of the blame, but the weather and bad whiskey, 
doubtless, come in for a share. However, mild eyes, and a good 
height of forehead, show that naturally he is not a cruel man; but 
his head lacks firmness, as we speak phrenologically, and his 
course here, as well as elsewhere, is evidence that he is vacillat¬ 
ing, weak, ill-suited to be the leader of other men; that he is 
credulous, and easily made a tool in the hands of base men; that, 
in brief, he is the exponent of the purposes and actions of the 
men, or party, with whom he is most thrown in contact. 
Crowds of horsemen were passing over and down the hill. 
Some of them were our mounted guard — others were from the 
camps of the invaders. The enemy have now nearly surrounded 
us. The camp on the Wakarusa, just south of Lawrence, cuts off 
connection with the southern settlements. There are strolling 
bands of men all through the Delaware Deserve, while quite a 
body of them are camped in the woods just opposite the town, 
preventing people passing to and from Leavenworth, and other 
colonies north. They still have camps at Lecompton, and below 
Franklin. 
Yesterday, two of our ladies went out some ten miles, and 
brought in two kegs of powder. The guard of the invaders 
