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Wm. Bayliss, 
A. D. Jones, 
E. B. Zimmerman, 
J. W. Stevens, 
Wm. Crosby, 
W. T. Burnett, 
J. K. Edsaul, 
S. Sparks, 
L. P. Patty, 
S. J. Campbell, 
B. P. Brown, 
F. A. Minardj 
G. Goslin, 
A. Fisher, 
Isaac Cady. 
The election for these offices was holden on the 15th January; 
on the same day M. W. Belahay was chosen representative to 
Congress. 
The Legislature was organized on the 4th, and the state officers 
took the oath of office. Everything was quiet at Topeka. No 
attempts were made to arrest any one, although Sheriff Jones and 
a deputy marshal were there to witness the inaugural ceremonies 
of the new state government. With the exception of the fears 
of one of the members, harshly wrought upon by some lovers of 
mischief, there was nothing exciting. Yesterday, a friend arrived 
from the East. He came up from Kansas city in company with 
some of the office-holders under government. They were partic¬ 
ularly anxious that the free-state government should not be 
organized. He also came up just in the wake of Gov. Shannon. He 
is, according to his report, highly spoken of by all the bar-tenders 
and others on the way, and had a grand reception at Lexington — 
which signifies, without any adornings of word or sentiment, “ one 
big drunk.” 
Bn mors came in to-night that a box of Sharpe’s rifles, con¬ 
signed to the territory, have been taken off the b6at at Lexington 
and placed in the warehouse to await Governor Shannon’s orders. 
Bumors fly as fast as autumn leaves, and we scarcely know what 
to believe. If, however, they have taken them, they will be useless 
to them as the slides are understood to be in another place, and it 
will puzzle them quite as much to use a rifle open at both ends as 
it did the one they threw away in December as useless, because 
there was no ramrod. 
31st. — The last of March, and still all quiet. The grass is 
growing everywhere, and the tiny flower-bells sway gently in every 
breeze. In many places they spring up without leaves, and in the 
dusty roads. 
