Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1841-09-24
IMPORTANT FROM TIE FRONTIER.
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN KIDNAPPED
by TILE BRITISH

'''' -''i'f'SHhAN vi i IIEN hIDNApPEU
by TIE BRITISH.
The following outrage far exceeds anv
thing that has transpircd since the commence.
mcnt of the border troubles. If the peope
of the United States continue TO submit ,o
such lnvasions they are unworthy the name
| of freemcn.
=. Alburgh Springs, Sept. 20, 1871.
"H EDITOR A circumstance occurred in
this neghborhood last night, which in these
'imcs OF excitement, may be of sufIic,en, H..
terest to obtain place in the columns or vo,r
paper The circumstances were as folio,v,.
Last night about2 org o'clock an armed
force from the other side of,he line) olson,
twelve or fifteen men entered the house Of,
MIR. Brown, in search of one James Gropan
who had arrived at Browns "a brother Lave
OF hls) the previous evening; they first en-.
tered the bedroom of Mr.. and Mrs Brown.
who Immediately raised an alarm for
hired man and son of Mr. b. then in their lod.
glng room, the mob Immediately placed a
oayonet at each of their breasts threatening
that II they uttered another word they would
run them through, as soon as they found their
'"is'"ke 'hey then entered the room occu-
Pled by Grogan-gagged him, and drapped
nm IRON his bed to Wagon in the .,rce,
and made oilwt him towards the lipes I.,..
ing all his of his clo,hes hat, bavone, anil
handkerchief behind. These are all ,bo
| A..
acts to be obtained here. am told that tho
cause OF this treatment to Grogan, is that
he was connected with the firing of builJ;no,
on this frontier in the late rebellion. Gro-
gan has "a wife and large family of Children
at Lockport, n. Y from whenc he had lately
come to this place on business.
"A VISITOR AT TIE SPRINGS,
BY gentleman direct from the scene Of
this outrage, we learn that Mr. Grogan was
severely wounded in his attempts to escape.
having his thigh run through by bayonet
and serious injury inflicted in his side.
This occurred about four miles this side the
line. How long are the people of the United
States TO submit to outrages of this nature2
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TIE ABUNDANCE IN THE WEST.
= The following. from ,he R,o,o .,.
tiser, will give our readers some ;do, or H..
abundance OF the crop in the country border
ing on the great Lakes -
\ gentleman who has fora prea, mum, or Of vo,,.
IIe c inrgey engaged IN the forwarding business
to 60 to Chicago, On the steamboat he fell in with
! "A moi an yhn a L.
to dspaTore the S"sntls ' nnd oy no means inclined
Am2ns oh , things he said that between the close Of
less than three hundred thousand b. shell, of ysba, no
seemed So urrc a s, ,b at Chicago alone This
strong expression of disbelief and the conversation at
10 mans w"d no, ;SS mat TIE chea
my at mat port our forwnrdngiriend mentioned tho
assured HIM that according to ,her bes, n ,rl VINO
Would no, fail sboT If s,oTe at Ghc1so next spring
ana the uPshoi OF the matter was, he backed styght
W. ,oara ,,a.,
c,,o from, a;.,a.o.r 1-n ''''o N"'-
nrocos,o, ,f ,o,ms s 49,. , ""' wv
oos,or, n,,n '' ~ d"
s;rh, ria ,.hoa, "'D interesting
cors caI,od upr,;.;o ca,.,s WI"
caravar-for from ,ho i'''"
tho cou,,rv ,ho,, m ;.,, r'"' ~
I,,co . h. 'ui'''en''y
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