Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-06-17

are WaGford and Radcliffe.
They pretended at first that they mere-
! " wanted to ascertain what clock it was,
and were going to ball.
Both of these gave contradictory ac-
counts of themselves
Next morning, Mr.. Wauford confessed
the truth. He said that they had met
him on the way, and asked HIM TO accom-
pany them. They told him that they were
going to burn down Walkers house, but
would offer no violence to his wife or fam
/ lily. If they caught Walker, they said,
they intended to hang him.
He is native of New York, and had
/ sometimes been accused of Northern pro-
clivities. Fearing, he said, to confirm
these suspicious by refusing to go with
/ them, he had consented to accompany the
/ party.
Next morning, the party who had as
sembled to protect Mr.. Walker, on leay-
ing the house, found one Sharpe's rifle,
one United States carbine, one revolver,
four bowie knives, two saddles, pair of
spurs and coat-tail with flask of whis-
key IN 1t, lying on the road along which
the guerilla had SO suddenly retreated.
None of this guerilla party were Geor-
gians.
Did Walker and his friends do wrong
IN defending the house!
| Answer and then read-but not till you
reply.
Next day Gov. Shannon with a COM
pany Of United States troops, came down
10 Mr.. Walkers house TO arrest him
/ Writs had been taken out against every
man who was known to be IN the party
| who defended the house.
Among them was Judge J. A Wake
/ field man of unblemished character. and
an old solder-buta Free State man, and
an emigrant from a Northern State
They searched every house in the
neighborhood for arms, and were employ
ed all aay-Gov. Shannon assisting with
his own hands-in feeling mattresses,
/ peeplng into closets, emptying trunks, look
ing under beds, and prying in lofts for
ammunition and rifles. Whenever they
found a Sharpe's rifle they took it. In
| the States we would call this action bur
blary and robbery; but it has a different
name at Lecompton, and in the /" law and
order" counties of Missouri
! Shannon was 50 drunk when he was
acting as Chief of this Smelling Military
Posse-which throws Joseph Hiss com
/ pany into shade-that he staggered,
caught hold of furniture to steady him.
self, and used language which he would
have been shocked at in his sober mo-
ments.
He asked Mrs. Hazletyne where her
/ husband VASE
She said she did not know, and asked
! what he wanted with her husband
! IF | CATCH HIM" said the drunken
/ blackguard, 'I'LL cur ms DAMNED Blaze
! HEART OUT or HIM, AND YOURS, roo, MAD
AN, IF YOU DON'T TAKE CARE
II this statement is denied--and / con-
fess that If lived remote from Kansas |
would hardly credit i'll will forward at
fidavits of every assertion | have made,
or may yet make, about the Governor
Shannon and his posse entered Mr.
! Walkers house in the forenoon, and re-
manned there several hours.
Gov. Shannon was engaged in stealing
/ private property all the next day. The
property consisted of Sharpe's rifles and
ammunition. Shannon called them public
arms.
\ party of these men, who travelled
within sight of the Governors posse, stole
a horse from Mrs. BARRIERS house-Mrs.
/ Barber, the widow of the martyr of Law
renee. They said they were told by the
I Governor 10 take them.
! poor hoy from Ohio, who had recent
/ " come out and landed at Leayenworth
/ City without cent, was robbed in the
Delaware Reservation on Friday, by "a
guerilla party, who said they were South
/ CarolinIans.
He worked for pro-Slavery man at
I Lsayenworth about week, but was dis
charged as soon as his employer found
that he was IN favor of the Free institu-
lions of the Northern States.
They took three dollars and sixty cents
and his clothing from him.
In justice TO the Carolinians, It is prop
er to add, that parties known to be Miss
ourians, have often called themselves Cit
liens of Alabama and other far Southern
! States.
Two detatchments of mounted men,
twenty-five squatters and thirty invaders
met on the road between the town of
Palmyra and Prairie City at three o'clock
4 tins afternoon.
4 The Free State boys Were commanded
by Capt. John Brown, senior,-a remark
able character, Of whom shall have much
to say if the war continues-and the IN
/ vaders- Misseurians, South Caroiinians
and Alabamians- Shy Mr., Ii. Clay Pate,
| OF WeStport, the Kansas correspondent of
the Missouri Republican.
Three Free State men, prisoners in the
hands OF the Invaders, who compelled
1 them TO stand In the front rank, unarmed,
when the conflict commenced, were wound
ed by our boys-one Of them lly-and
I live Mlssourians were injured, Of whom
three, at least are not expected to recover.
Two Free State boys, under Capt. Brown,
1 are reported slightly wounded,
Thirty horses-all of them stolen from
Free State men-forty or fifty rifles and
reyolvers-aimost a hundred blankets,
/ tents, cooking utensils, bowie knives, pro-
F. VISIONS and amuDition were found ia the