Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1855-12-19
WAR IN KANSAS.

much interest in the political world; and that
our readers may fully understand the origin
of the difficulties, and the present position Of
the belligerent parties, we subjoin the follow
ing extracts in relation thereto, from the N
Y. Tribune of the 7th inst
The KANSAS REBELLION like
Justice, is accustomed to limp little, and
especially since the invention of the telegraph
lis often outstripped by Falsehood. How
ever in the long run, she is apt to win the
race, and that she now seems likely to do even
in the case of the famous Kansas rebellion,
of which we give to-day full account in the
letters of our special Kansas correspondent
and in extracts from the Lawrence papers.
The disturbance, it appears, was begun by
the shooting in cold blood of young man
by the name of Dow by one Coleman, at
Hickory point, place twelve miles south of
Lawrence. The young man having got into
some alteration with party of border ruff
fans at blacksmith's shop, left them, when
the opportunity was taken by Coleman to
shoot him in the back. The murderer fled
to Lecompton and put himself under the pro-
lection of Gov. Shannon, probably with the
lie in his mouth-which has been telegraph
ed through the whole country-that an at
tempt had been made to drive him from his
claim, which by the way he had stolen from
another man; and he shot Dow in self defense,
and that subsequently his house had been
burned and his family dispersed.
Listening, we may suppose, to these rep
reservations, Gov Shannon orders Jones, the
sham sheriff for Douglas Countrywide is
also, it seems, Postmaster at Westport, Mis-
souri, where doubtless he lives to arrest a
Mr.. Branson and to oblige him to give secu-
rites to keep the peace-the only offence
committed by Branson being that Dow had
been lodger in his house, and that Coleman
seems to have stood in fear of his testimony.
AS this sham Sheriff was carrying off Bran
son, he and his posse of fifteen armed men
were intercepted by a party of fifteen of
Bransons neighbors, who released him from
arrest; of which circumstance advantage ap-
pears to have been taken by Shannon to is
sue warrants against Mr.. Pomeroy and. a
number of other leading Free State men of
Lawrence, who were accused of having been
concerned in this rescue. AS Jones, the
sham Sheriff, gave out that Shannon was
ready to back him with "ten thousand men, y
and as the people of Lawrence did not
choose to allow their town to be entered by
that or any other number of border ruffians,
who, under pretense Of putting down resis-
tance to the law, might rob, burn and mur-
der at discretion, they mustered with their
Sharp's rifles, which fact being communicate
ed to Gov. Shannon he forthwith calls upon
the Missourians for aid, and telegraphs to the
President that Lawrence is in rebellion !
All sorts of extravagant and ridiculous sto-
ries are spread through Missouri, and thence
through the Union, and the border ruffians
muster in force under Shannon's Standard
Their invading march however, is speedily
arrested by the apparition-more terrible
to their guilty dreams than that of Mack
beth's dagger to him-of 1000 of Sharps
rifles and five pieces of cannon, presenting to
these intended murderers not their breeches,
but their muzzles--wamed by which dream,
these valiant volunteers think it best to wait
for regulars from Fort Leavenworth. Such is
the whole story as stated by our special cor
respondent in the Territory, for whose accu-
racy in this and in every other matter we can
fully vouch, and who, in this instance, is con-
firmed by every other respectable authority.