Report of the special committee appointed to investigate the troubles in Kansas,: with the views of the minority of said committee.

KANSAS AmAIRS.
left there was stock in my store which Mr. Thomas S. Hamilton and
I estimated at $4,000, consisting of dry-goods, groceries, hardware,
queensware, provisions, and many other articles usually kept in a
country store,-many of them Indian goods, which were costly. I
had, when I left, on the premises, two large horses and two ponies.
I had also seven yoke of work cattle, and other cattle not broken, and
some cows and calves-about twenty-five head in all-and some hogs.
I had some ready-made clothing in my store.
JOAB M. BERNARD.
STATE OF MISSOURI,
Jackson County,
On the 9th day of June, A. D. 1856, personally appeared before
me, the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for the county and
State aforesaid, Joab M. Bernard, whose name appears to the above
and aforegoing statement, and makes oath that the above and aforegoing statement is true as therein set forth.
Given under my hand and seal this 9th day of June, A. D. 1856.
THOMAS J. GOFORTH, [L. s.]
Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MISSOURI,
County of Jackson, e:
I, John R. Swearingen, clerk of the county court within and for the
county aforesaid, do hereby certify that Thomas J. Goforth, esq., whose
genuine signature appears to the foregoing affidavit, now is, and was
at the time of so doing, an acting justice of the peace within and for
the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified; and that full
faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all' his official acts as
such, as well in courts of justice as thereout.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
. s.] seal of said court, at office, in the city of Independence, this
13th day of June, A. D. 1856.
JOHN R. SWEARINGEN, Clerk.
.Ajfdavit of Thomas S. Hamilton.
The undersigned, Thomas S. Hamilton, states, upon oath, that
Joab M. Bernard has been keeping store in the Territory of Kansas
for about two years last past. The store-house is situated on the Fort
Scott and California road, about thirty miles south of Lecompton.
I think it is in Douglas county. I was at Mr. Joab M. Bernard's
store-house, above mentioned, on Monday, the 26th day of May last,
for the purpose of taking an invoice of the stock on hand. I was
going in partnership with him, the said Bernard. We examined the
stock pretty thoroughly, but, instead of taking regularly an invoice or
inventory, we agreed upon an estimate- that estimate agreed upon
was, at first cost, four thousand dollars, including all the stock. I
had agreed to pay the said Bernard two thousand dollars for half, and
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