New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-17
KANSAS.
LETTER FROM McCREA TO HIS FATHER
IN-LAW,

LFAvEywoRTH, kansas, SEPT. 81, 1855.
DEAR FATHER: have by a former letter told you
that the court met last Monday l no" propose %
give You a history of the proceedings Forty-eight
Grand iurors were summoned; out of these The Judge
selected sixteen publicly, who beiog duly sworn aud
impane}ed, retired 10 their room. lie e'terwsrd
r,rotelv added three TO their number making nine
teen, who on Thursday came into court several tmes
for instrc ions but instead Of giving suoh osrucuons
publicIy the Judge each time sent them back to their
room and sent such persons as he thought proper
to lecture them in private. Once he sent IL.
X. Rees, the chairman Of the committee that
outraged Mr.. Phillips. Still the jury continued
TO be agitsted divt ed, and to force their foreman
10 lead them into court, who becoming excited, ex-
claimed in open court that the jury could not agree
os there were three in favor Of finding for murder five
for mapslaughter and eleven opposed to finding any
bill sgeinst me. Again the judge sent them to their
room without instiucting them that they IN 'uch
case should report the bill back to court isdorsed
"Not found" and thus the grand jury continued I'LL
Saturday vaply endeavorng TO get the foreu an TO do
lis duty in returning the bill TO court indorsed Not
found when the jucge, fraudulently cooperating WIN
nv eyemes on the grand jury adjourned the court tall
the second Monday of next November, and am, IN
violation of all law and justice deprived OF my liberty
This poor weak judge makes my case as much 4
party question as the infamous Strugfeuow wsua
his hands cannot tell. Another application WIN 10
few DAYS be made by writ OF habeas corpus and error
taken on that TO tie Supreme Court at sshing'on,
which think is my Only chance Of ever getting out
by lar. oo,o,,o, n tbs ci,v IA
all awake and in arms several suspicious scoundrels
having appeared assembled about the streets in the
evening ia onyersaton with the bar dit Hughes, who
was Iss night seen prowling about the house OF Mr.
PbiGns with a gun in his hands. II is supposed that
there IA a company of rufians from Missouri assem-
bled in the bushes the city, and there is force
of at least three hundred men well armed now ready
TO receive them nshe of CITY II sqPPosed
II at they conteu plate assault upon several OF the
citizens including myeelf aud the democratic press 10
this civ The Kansas Territorial Register. Senti-
nels al posted at every part of the Town and in every
corr or with signal. have head several persons
saw they would shoot Hughes. LIE was shot at last
night by o man who was passing by who 50" nun
watching for Philips, but missed
The people are determined not TO be disturbed By
him and lis associates much longer and finding that
the Judge sides with those ruans having of them
for clerk have c,nc uded to take the law into their
own hands; this Hughes was captain OF the band OF
rufiians who mobbed Phillips, and unless he leaves
tbis town very soon some daring hand will certainly
drop him INTO his grave. Matters are progressing
toward the formation Of State constitution. Mem.
ber' Of the convention will be elected on the second
Tuesday of next month, and we meet in convention
ON the cath OF the month, to submit it to
the people before the session Of Congress.
The political aspect is fast changing. The people
almost universally repudia.e the laws passed by the
late legs ature All respectable pc sons appointed by
that body TO office r5sgning The cocks are crow
inc and hsye heard no shot fired. The city never
was 30 still as it is tonight. hope shall never again
have occation to allude to such night as this |
believe that the present demOnsr 8ton viii have good
effect upon rufians both here aud across the river
rather Gu, they vii not think i. prudent to pay Us
another visit from Missouri.
To THos RArrRAY Esq, Dubuque, lowe.