Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-29
From the New York Tribune Of Dec 22d.
FROM KANSAS.

We learn from Mr.. J. Willets, who arrived in
town yesterday from Lawrence. k. T., which place
he left on the 10th inst, that Gov. Shannon had
discharged his army Of Border Rufians, who had
returned to their humes, and that peace and quiet
once more reigned in Kansas. The ruiians were
very much exasperated at the Governor when they
learned that he had concluded not to use them in
an attempt to reduce the people Of Kansas tc the
vassalagc of Missouri. They charged his Excel
lency with peridy, and threatened to visit him with
their very particular vengeance at some future
time. Tie %rufian army, some, SEQ strong, whiie
stationed Mt Franklin. made prisoners Of all who
passed that way, either going to or coming from
Lawrence, and us a rule robbed their prisoners OF
such articles of value as they happened to possess.
They stopped The United States Mail, made a pris.
oner Of the carrier, and detained him about an hour,
when some Of the shrewder ones came to the con-
clusion that they might get themselves into diff
Guilty with Uncle Sam, so they finally released their
prisoner and let him 60 with the mail to Lawrence;
but Mr.. j. S. Mott, u passenger in the mail coach
OF wagon, was detained as Il prisoner and robbed
Of a railroad ticket or pass which he had procured
for use in returning to his former home in Michi-
gan. Mr.. Mott returned with Mr.. Willets.
Mr.. Wiliets assures US that not more than fifty
Of the Governors twelve hundred men were resi-
dents of Kansas; but to make a show of regularity
they come across the Missouri line into the Terri
tory fetching their arms with them Of course) be-
fore being enrolled into service. That they were
not residents is also evident from the fact that ai-
ter they had been dishanded by the Governor and
had drank up all their whisky. they took their de.
parturc to Missouri at once. They left their camp
on the 9th inst.
Thomas Barber, a worthy citizen residing near
Lawrence, and formerly from Gov. Sh0nnon's
neighborhood in Ohio, was killed by Clark, the
United States Indian Agent, on the 9th inst. Mr..
Barber, in company with n couple of young men.
was riding out on horseback unarned, when the
party were met by Clark, who was in n carriage
with DR.. Wood. The party in the carriage fred
on the others without prOvocation, hitting Mr..
Barber in the back, and killing him almost instant
ly. The horse on which one of the young men was
mounted was also shot. Clark is said to have
.ufian camp, saying that he had killed one id
abolitionist, that he saw the wool fly, &c.
Coleman, the murderer of young Dow, is still
at large, and during the invasion was promoted to
Office in the camp of the marnuders. Governor
Shannon excuses himself for the ridiculous figure
he has been cutting by saying that he did not I'M
darstand the position of the Free State mcn-in
other words the people Of Kansas-that the state
Of things had been grossly misreprcscnted to him
or he never would have issued his proclamation,
&c. Perhaps if he had sought information from
the people at Lawrence, instead of taking counsel
of outlaws and outbreaks, he might have saved
himself the modification of his present position.
Our informant is of opinion that had the Governor
led his rufians against tt e people at Lawrence he
would have been badly beaten. They were very
well fortified, had a forco Of about ! 900 strong,
with 300 Of Sharp's rifles capable Of discharginG
ten times a minute, and doing execution at a dis
lance of one mile; and from practice it had been
demonstrated that there were plenty of men in
Lawrence who could hit a mark the size of a man,
four times in five, at a distance Of half a mile. So
had the Missourians marched against Lawrence
they would have stood q right smart chance of
being cut to pieces by the 300 Sharp's Rifles before
comingin range of the 700 common rifles.
The story extensively circulated in Missouri and
the East that the people Of Kansas had rcceded
from their position as a condition of being let
alone is utterly untrue and without foundation; but
the story had to be told rs a cover for retreat By
the Governor and his party. Indeed, there were
decided signs of mut.ny in the Missouri camp I'M
til the rabble were assured by their leaders that
the people of the Territory had made all the con-
cessions demanded of them. The people of Kan
sas occupy precisely the ground they occupied be-
fore the raid, viz; that Of law-abiding citizens; but
they do not recognize as laws The atrocious acts Of
the sham Legislature forced upon them by the
Missouri invaders, nor will they recognize as law
officers tho appointees of that rufianly body
Governor Shannon is said now to be disposed to
side with the people of Kansas, and will probably
take up his residence at Lawrence.
CIRCULAR.