Gov.

Shannon left the Territory a disgraced and ruined man.

He had proved himself, both to the Free State party and the Law and Order party, a broken staff that pierces the hand of him that leans on it.
Mr.Woodson, who took his place as acting Governor, showed himself hale fellow well met with such spirits as Sheriff Jones and Judge Lecompte; and this faction made piteous appeals to the Great Father at Washington to give them a man after their own heart, and this they found in John Calhoun, Surveyor-General of Kansas and Nebraska, whose official patronage made him a man of considerable influence, and whose freighting outfit, kept for his peculiar business, would have made him eminently useful to this party in the transportation of military stores.

But their appeal had been denied them, and instead of Surveyor-General Calhoun, Mr.Geary, of Pennsylvania, had been appointed.
That great party, of which the President was the official head, was convulsed with such internal feuds and contentions, consequent on these very Kansas troubles, as threatened its existence.

A Presidential election was pending, and attention must be paid to this fact, rather than to the desperate schemes of this Kansas faction.
John W.Geary was, therefore, announced as the appointee of the President.