New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-29

MERE wss evcat disturbance and division in tbs
Msscurian camp on the return Of Goverrcr Shan
ron and bic freDds Some we're for 6ehtinr anv.
how. spd few were willing 20 abide bv the result
oftbe deliberations. This ram NAV have had n
GOOD effect upon them; but while write il lo,ks
IKE clearing of 1t is dificult 10 get dispatcbqs
Of, Is the city Of Lawrence is completely
hemued IN. Judge johnson, who had been bat a
short time IN custody has gone up 20 Fort Lesvcn
sorth to BEG lhe trOapS 70 c0Ge do Gn E. stop the
hsJ. He may be captured apa'n. A rumor res shed
bere last night that force Of 900 or 2, coo men
gere marching from Iowa to the aid Of Lawrence
bat It is qDite incredible
Gov. SbsLDon was ~ have been here before this
tine but 1t 10 possible they may have prevented
Nm from coming, The M,ssouIians still commit
great outrase,, stealing provisions and cattle
THE NIGHT OF DECEMBEG EIGHTH
Fen ous Special couespondcE,.
LAWRENCE, X T, Dec Q, les.
Negotiations were passed. There was pros,
pet Of peace The Governor had warned lis p.e
pc Of the dagger they might spprehend from the
force he WAS about to disbaud, aud had gone do vn
10 "rse has i.fSeRos" 10 get them 10 dispersc, and
TO discharge their leaders. NIGHT set in 1T was as
dsrk as Eroeus. TIE wind had blown from tba
south ell day, and threatened raia; at dusk il
wheeled TO the north, and came down With lev
verom and driving snowy sleet I. was fear
hl bieht I he wind blow almost a hurricane AZ
II knows bO1 to blow N Kansas. / had pass4d
through the inner lire Of guards, and had given
the coGnferslgn pitch in which bad been Issued
BY the gsllsnt Adjutsnt General DIetzler in ,he
temporary Sbsence Of Gen. Robinson. I passed
through the outer line OF guards, having given the
EoId and Occas inaliy saw patrols OF hOrsenen
rsiDg here and there Ike shades In the gloom, or
SILVER ne at their post IN thai bitter and element
pi1bt SO wildly swept ;he wind and the driving
,lfet tfst ] had often 10 stop while held nv hat
with both hands, ard swayed in the blast. AWAY
over the plain the lights OF lawrence we're twiat-
lirc ia the gloom. from windo rs, or the Lanterns
Of the citizen s0l6iery who watched the earth
works during that inclemeDt night lest they might
fall into the hands OF toe enemy.
But Lawrence was tame sight that night
matched with the Missouri camp on the Wa1ka.
rusa. In the bitter cold Of that night the adven.
turers stocd around their camp fires or tired to
nestle under the wagon covers that Tapped, or
were overthrow by The furious wind. Logs were
piled high on the camp FREE, AID the wild gale
swept the flames and sp9rks up through the
cparled limbs of the old oaks aud wslnuts in the
Wsukarusa bottom Shots were beog fired in all
directions, and Necessarily in the camp, the wild
nOife being suited to the taste of those Border
crusacers, ami being pertly intended az that time
Isuspect, as sort Of intimidation TO the " Yam
tees,h as some fears were entertained tina. the
Prostate men wOBld attack qheir camp, now
that they were stripped Of al legal authority.
But even pOltl Is could not be slenS on that
dreadful night The peace mskers were advising
them to 90 home, and the wari.ko that they should
"wlip the id Yankees anyhow" Atchison was
there, the recreant ex-Vlce- President Of the Ma
tioDal Senate. But he, TOE, was with the peace
makers low. He urged thai they should and could
do nOilibg they had l9st their authority, and be-
sides if they were now to march on l.ywrence,
ait would ruin the Democrats party" Blessed
are the peace makers