New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-12
We find in the st. Louis papers of the 5th some
additional news from Kansas

additional news from Kansas:
Correspondence Of The 81. Louis Democrat
LEAvEswoRrH CITY, Nov. 90, 1s55-elam
slmost n gret that you sent NE TO Kansas to tell
/" the truth the whole truth and nothing shorter" as
the oath of the back woods Justice rendered it, In the
precedir letter | have tod the truth. | must now
tell the who's truth, and that, unfortunately, i. not
onte so excl ing Laurence IS in state of uHinter-
rupfed qaiei No cattle have been shot; the cabins
of the squate and the country are safe; Gov S1an
non has discovered mares nest vitl no eggs there
in; Mr.. Eastin and many citizens have been
"sodr Sheriff Jones is At Liberty and DR.. Robinson
il making pills How the mighty fallen -
"Oh what fall was there, MY country men :! =" DID
you ever No, never"
Alter wriiirg the preceding letter was told tina.
Mr. Conway, eI-knoSn citizen OF Lasrence, had
lust arrived in town. | waited on him inmedl sfeiy
and sscerianed the ante facts embodied In t1e
paragraph above. He left Lawrence yesterday a!
icon, ard every one was que ~ pursuing MS ou,i-
ness Ieither dreaming OF civil war nor preparing 10
besifpe Sheriff Jones zone thousand men were
not armed TO the teeth" 1or even 20 the chin. Not
ole of them had so much az a brick in his hst
Shapes rifles were lying unosturbed in their " hard
WIRE boxes. Greer rtigned IN warsaw
The rumor oIei nated in murder which has created
considerable excitement in thst vicinity, and IL not
promptly and thoroughly sifed, will leac TO dis lsrous
cor tquer c6s in the fuuie.
Mr. Dow, en- Informed, was citizen OF New
ENGLAND; had squ,tted on an uncccupi7d elsim; ex.
pended several hundred dollars in improving it, aud
tben ie uipod TO his Eastern home for his wife and
childrer lie left the farm in charge of a friend. Mr.
Coleman ii is stated, good deal OF tim Der from 1t
in ti. abserce and persisted in doing SO after his re-
turn. SIR Dow remoI strated Mr.. Coleman sho, him.
A gentle man OF Mr.. Dow's acqu4i9tauce-a warm
personal friend, il may be-in removing the bleeding
corpse of the young man, is charged with having
vowed vepges nee on bis murderer. For this he was
arrested on Mon6ay last, withOW a r0TTdM hdrtHg
been produced. In ridiag away with Sheriff Jones aud
his posse. he met ten horsemen going toward Law
renee TO atte1d the indignation meetilg. lie tod
them be had been arrested without formsty
Gone along with u.s. said one OF the horsemen
He rode out from the sheIiff's guard, who were az
numerous as the OF err but made no resistance.
Thee are the facts am informed, upon which the
inaammatory Geographic dispatches, the specid! mes
sepser from the Governor, the blood and-,hunderl'h
proclamaio1s of the Brig adier General aud the
full rumors of war and cattle slaughter have been
founded. In the Language of Mr.. Adams, It's too
bad.
1t may lead to bloodshed. Bloodthirsty men, pant
ing for vengeance their opponents In politics, are
PFC badly ere this on their way to Lawrence. They
will ftd peaceful but proud spiIited people there
who are no agrarians and cowardy asaiants OF oxen
but who i'll submit to DO nsut, and are as brave as
the bcldest of their border Rvader. Mag Heaven de
end he right and may the right keep It's powder dry,
and ave tie heaviest battalion. r.