New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-10

| Lawrence, wounded hve-having three Of their
own party wounded-tOOk twenty-One prisoners,
and recovered good many arms and other things
stolen from the Free-State men. On the Sd Of
June another attack was made on another Pro-
Slavery marauding party which had established
| itself at Franklin, four and half miles from Law
renee The attack was kept up all night, when
the assailants reiterated, carrying off, however, q
wsgon.load of ammunition, arms and provisions,
from store.house of the enemy, of which they
had possessed themselves. In this affair one of the
Pro-Slavery party was killed and two wounded
the Free-State men escaping without loss.
Meanwhile, Whitfield, the late Bogus Delegate,
advanced into the Territory with strong body Of
Missourians, to the aid and support Of the discOm-
flied Ruffians; but Colonel Sumner, who had already
released the prisoners taken by the FreeState men
at Franklin, compelled him to retire. A party,
however, of these men, joined by some OF the
released prisoners attacked and pundered the Free
| State town of Osawattamie These Ruffians on
this occasion, pillaged all the houses, rObbing even
the women of their earnings, destroyed printing
press, stole large number of horses, and carried
off all the arms they could find BY great exer-
tons on the part of Sumner, the larger armed bodies
| in the Territory were dispersed and broken up,
many of the Prostate men being deprived of their
arms so that he had leisure on the 4th OF July to
turn his attention to the dispersion of the Free
State Legislature met at Topeka, for which he has
since been superseded by his mean and sinking
employers at Washington, who have thus paid him
of for his disregard of their secret wishes driving
| back Whitfield and his army of Missourians. But
though fighting large scale was intermitted for
few weeks, Kansas still remained the seat of war.
| Everybody went armed. Little was thought of ex-
ccpt defense. Robberies and all sorts of Outrages
were frequent. While access through Missouri was
forbidden to emigrants from the Free States, new
hordes of hired vagabOnds continued to arrive from
the South whose only means of subsistence was the
| plumber of the Free.State men. With this object
they established themselves in numerous bodies, at
certain armed posts, and spread their ravages in
every direction. 1t was this state of things and
the resolution of the Free-State to submit to it
| no longer which has led to the recent renewal of
| military operations on large scale, and which i'm
| mnently threatens more violent and bloody col
| lisiOn than has yet occurred
The following is q connected view Of these later
operations down to the latest Geographic dates from
Kansas: On the 9Th of August, in consequence of
repeated calls from the Free-State people of Osawat
TAME to be protected against the plumber and brutal
tiles of post of 160 GeOrgians established in their
neighbOrhood, party of Free-State men marched to
attack it. Osawattamie it will be recOllected, is a
State settlement on the south side the Kansas
river not far from the Missouri frontier and quite dis
tant from Lawrence, Topeka, and the body of the
Free-State settlers. The marauders got wind of the
design to attack them and fled before the arrival of
the assailants, who destroyed their blockhOuse.
Another party of these marauders had established
themselves on Washington creek, branch OF the
Wakerusa, about twelve miles from Lawrence,
where they had been living on plumber for some
time foraging almost every night in the corn fields
and poultry yards of the Free-State settlers.
Those settlers asked protection from the officer
commanding the dragons at LecOmptOn, and were
refused. They then appealed to the people of
Lawrence to aid them, who sent Mr.. HOyt unarmed
to confer with the Georgians. On leaving their
camp, Mr. Hoyt was brutally murdered. 1t was
then determined to drive these rufians away; first,
however, attacking Franklin, only four miles from
Lawrence, occupied by another party of these
marauders, who had cannon and large store Of
stolen arms. They had entrenched themselves
with a piece of cannon in strong blOckhOuse;
but after three hours fight by moonlight, in which
the Prostate men had one killed and six wOunded
in defect of artillery, Q load of hay was backed
against the bOckhOuse and set on fire. The ruff
fans, who had four wounded, then asked for quar-
ter and brass cannon, stolen originally from
United States arsenal, and formerly employed to
batter down the Free.State hotel at Lawrence
fifty United States muskets and number of rifles
and other guns, besides fifteen horses, known to
have been stolen from Lawrence, fell into the hands
of the yictOrs, who were saved the necessity Of
attacking the rufians at Washington creek by their
running away. This occurred on the 18th of
August.
The only other post of the ruffians in the imme
date neiehbOrhoOd Of Lawrence, was one held by
a Colonel Titus, who had formerly been connected
with fllbustering expeditions to Cuba, and who
had now established himself in fortified house
within half mile from LecOmptOn, from which he
had lately driven Free-State settler to whom the
claim belonged, and whence, with gang Of ruff
fans at his heels, he perpetrated all sorts of out
RACES On the 14th Titus's house was battered
with the cannon taken at Franklin, and shOtted
with the type which the rufians who sacked Law
renee, had thrown into the river. Before the can
non came up four Free-state men were wounded,
one mortally After six shots from the cannon,