John is a Kansas man, a disciple of Jim Lane, and, I suppose, would carry the war on on Lane's principles, or rather, Lane's want of principle. We all recollect Lane's marches in Missouri last year, when he was playing brigadier-
general, and was so patriotic that he charged the Government ' nary a cent ' for it. We know that millions of dollars' worth of cattle, horses, and mules were driven off, but no one will pretend to say that one dollar went to Government. The Osceola bank lost $8000 ; scores of ladies lost silk dresses : Lane sent his wife, just afterwards, $1000 in gold, a lot of silk dresses, and other women fixings, with a letter cautioning her to be careful about using the money and articles, and not attract too much notice ; afterwards returned to Leavenworth, paid his debts, walked the streets with his hands full of gold, but Government did not get a dollar.