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The circuit court should have met last week at Lecornpton, but 
after keeping the prisoners there all of the week, the judge not 
then appearing, the court was adjourned until the March term. 
Some of the rescuers have given bail, but T. and S. still refused to 
do so, as it would be recognizing the Missouri territorial justice. 
Getting weary of waiting for Judge Lecompte’s appearance, the 
patience of the border ruffians at Lecompton was exhausted. They 
even went so far as to threaten his removal, and cursed him in no 
stinted terms. S., with his love of a good joke, said, 
“ If you want to get him removed, I ’ll tell you how you may 
easily do it.” 
“ How is it ? ” asked the renowned Sheriff Jones. 
“ Why, get him to join the free-state party.” 
Another outrage has been committed at Leavenworth. During 
Col. Delahay’s absence, while attending the convention here, his 
press was thrown into the river. It looks singular, as he is a 
national democrat, and a personal friend of Stephen A. Douglas. 
He has also always been wonderfully conservative, and ever 
counselled no resistance to the laws. He was, with other leading 
men at Leavenworth, so fearful of doing anything to offend the 
border men, that he declined to do anything for the defence of 
Lawrence. Some of them said, “ They have got into a scrape ; let 
them get out the best way they can ! ” and one of them, a bache¬ 
lor, said, “We must stay at home and defend our own wives and 
children.” Col. Delahay, however, was a member of the consti¬ 
tutional convention, and it may be for this that the Missouri mob 
treated his press so rudely. 
29 tk. — Doctor arrived home from Kansas city. He had, in 
addition to his heavy fur coat, fur gloves, and fur-lined over¬ 
shoes, a heavy shawl and mittens, and was very cold even then. 
On his way down he suffered so severely from the cold, that with 
assistance he went into an Indian hut to warm, and for a half hour 
lay fainting on the floor. The cold at Kansas city has been even 
greater than here. It is apparently quiet along the border, yet 
the press in the frontier towns, as well as those papers of pro¬ 
slavery sentiments in the territory, are endeavoring to inflame the 
