Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-12-12

on The fourth laCRlns % Vi an olSSssSsAi''
The opposition vote was divided between
fifteen or twenty gentlemen Campbell,
of Ohio, receiving S.; Marshal OF lA en-
lucky, 80 !; Banks, OF Mass chpsetts e
Fuller, of Pennsy lYahia, ~; and others
from 4 down to 80, q "a.
z AFTER four netfectual ballots the House
adjourned I'LL to-day at IL; and today
at f2 it met again and ballotted Till 3
without, .electing Speaker, the result
being about the same as yesterday ex9
cept that Fuller came down and Bapks
rose ten or twelve. Nobody pretends to
predict who WILDE Speaker.
Five ballots were had to-day; in all.
nine and the House stands adjourned
till to; morrow at l2. HARHtsoE'
Disturbances aud BIoodshed in Kansas.
By telegraphic dispatch dated st.
Louis. Nov. 3oth, we have the following
We have accounts from Independence
to. day, stating that the armed free States
men had attempted to drive Mr.. Coleman.
a pro.slavery settler, from his claim near
Hickory point.
Mr.. Coleman killed one of his assail-
ants, when mob gathered together,
drove him and other settlers off, and then
burned down their houses. The ring
leader in this was arrested by Marshal
Jones, and taken to Lecompton. 'sat
Gov. Shannon has called out the militia.
Many citizens from independence,
Weston and st. Josephs have gone to Of
fer their services to the Governor to res
store order The people of Lawrence are
in arms, and have five pieces of artillery.
A number Of houses have been burnt
in Douglas county. and several families
driven to Missouri for refuge. $50
The law and order people of the Ter
ritory are rallying in large numbers to as
sistthe Sheriff in the execution of the laws.
Sixteen houses were burned at Hickory
Point, and several of the citizens wore
missing.
Further accounts say that it is com
mon occurrence there for rival claimants
to drive each other from 'claims," but
as the parties in this case belonged to
opposite political parties, unusual impor-
lance was givenit.
Another dispatch dated on the Sd inst,
says
Later adyices have heen received from
Kansas, Of startling character. Gov.
Shannon has telegraphed to the President
the condition of affairs {: One thousand
men had arrived in Lawrence and rescued
q prisoner from the Sheriff of Douglas
county, burned several houses and des.
troyed other property. The President is
asked by GOV. Shannon TO order troops
from Fort Leavenworth. TO aid him in the
execution Of the law.
Dispatches from Weston announces
startling intelligence from Atchjson. The
free State officers had taken pnssessionEol
important papers. and an attack on Alchi-
son was anticipated. Word had been
sent to Weston, for fifty armed men.
Anotherd dispatch dated on the 5th inst,
says:
Further accounts from Kansas state
that an officer Of military organization
OF free State men was captured at Atchi-
son with written orders in his possession
to burn the town and murder McLaugh,
lin. AS most OF the male population had
gone to LecOmpton under orders from the
Governor request was sent to Weston,
Mo, for assistance and a party left last
night.
The Kansas Free State" papers give
their version Of the difficulties, from which
i appears that a young man named Dow
was shot down by NlissouriRn named
Coleman, who was rescued by his friends.
A meeting of citizens was held on the
spot, which pronounced the act cold
blooded murder and implicated some Of
the abettors. Sheriff Jones arrested Ja-
cob Bronson, in whose house Dow lived,
but he was rescued by his neighbors,
whereupon Jones sent TO Pawnee for aid
declaring that the Governor had assured
him ofassistance to the extent Of ten thou
sand men, il needed.
We fear that there will be a bloody
time in Kansas. but have no doubt that
the result will be the triamph OF the law
and order party,
Origin Of the g Dark Lantern'' Society.
In the I" School History Of the United
States," by a. Bernard. a. new work,
highly recommended by. Bishop Potter,
and other eminent scholars, we find the
following on page 1911. Il occurs in the
account given OF the battle of Bunker
Hill:
It was rumored in the American
camp that on the night of the 18th Of
June, General Gage Intended to seize and
fortify Bunker's Hill The Americans
determined to anticipate him. On the
evening Of the 18th June. party oftroops,
commanded by Col. Prescott, assembled
at Cambridge, ready for the work. Az
ter prayer from the President Of. Har-
ward College. they then went ON their
march, Provided with working tools,