Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1858 — JACK HEN DERSON. [ARTICLE]

JACK HEN DERSON.

This rather notorious individual, whose efforts in the ballot-stuffing and directorycopying way have made him one of the most prominent Democratic leaders in Kansas, was arrested 60irie time ago charged with falsifying election returns, and other like conduct. His participation in the frauds perpetrated under the Lecompton State election, and his “candle-box” connection, gave abundant material for the charge. Judge Lecompte, a full participant in all these villainies, released him. This decision produced some excitement in Leavenworth, as u i II appear from the following letter to the St. Louis Democrat : “The news of tlus decision spread rapidly, and long und loud euises instantly arose. A meeting was called at the City Hull. It met at half past seven. Mr. McCracken, one of our solid men was called to the chair. Captain Dixon, also a merchant—he who led tho boys on Kickapoo and captured the cannon there—was addressing the meeting as I entered the hall. He was advocating the expulsion, instant and unceremonious, of both Henderson and Judge Lecompte. The boys loudly applauded him as he spoke and concluded. The chairman and others offered their policy, protesting against the expulsion of a Federal officer, but making up for their timidity in that respect by earnestly urging the ejection of Jack. “Alter a good deal of talking, the meeting unanimously resolved to visit Jacket! masse, and set out with that patriotic purpose. The steamer Minnehaha was lying at the wharf. news reached the boys that Jack was aboard, and down to the wharf they went and boarded her. There was to be a dance in the cabin—the ladies and the invited guests from the city were preparing for it. Jack, it is said, was one of them, but saved himself by hiding in the colored chambermaid’s berth. The boys did not like to intrude on the lady or her paramour, and thus he escaped for the night. “This (Saturday) morning I am told he is walking the streets. If there is spirit enough left in the people here, he will be dangling in the air by night. Ido not think that it will be right to do so, but it will prove, after their threats, if he is not hanged, that the citizens of Leavenworth are a lace ot braggadocios.” - 5 Accidents. —Quite u serious accident occurred at Michigan City, at the celebration on the Fourth. A Mrs. Sherman, wife of Dr. Sherman, while attending the fireworks in the evening, w.as struck in the neck by a portion of a sky-rocket, inflicting so severe a wound that she is not expected to recover. On the same day, at Lapcrte, a Mrs. Meeker received a severe wound in the head in the same manner. In celebrating the 4th a man had his hand blown off at Ligonier; another, suffered the same way at Mishawaka, besides receiving other bodily injuries. fever is prevailing as an epidemic in New Orleans.