Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-02-02

NAVItE DokDEh huFFIANISM IN hANzAS.--
We learn from the Lawrence Herald of Free.
dom of Jan. 10Th, that an election for State
officers under the new constitution of Ka1zas,
seaS held i'll the Leavenworth district The
City Council of Leavenworth refused to have
the polls opened in that city, but they were
opened by the judges at the house of Mr.. L.
A. Minard, some twelve miles from the town,
where the voting was done. The Herald of
Freedom says:
1.-The night previous an attempt was made
to get possession of the house, probably de.
signing, if they could do SO, to control the
election as on former occasions but thew were
prevented from doing this they then endeav-
ored to take the principal Free State men in
the vicinity, and blocked up the highway
leading to the place Of election. In all these
movements, they were frustrated by the in
domitable energies of the friends of free ION.
All day Thursday, parties of pro-slavery men
We're seen flying through the country, and
watching apparently the movements of Free
State men. The polls were closed Just at dark
and the ballot box was sent away under an
escort several miles distant. In the edge of
the evening, charge was made upon the
house, by party of probably thirty men, or
upwards, who were resolved to take the bal.
lot boxes at whatever sacrifice hut they ere
repulaed, and retreated under theinAuence of
superior numbers, who were convened in the
house for Its protection"
When the free State men in the house
finally started for home, three of them were
pursued and surrounded by the border ruffians
and there was battle-several on each side
ere wounded. Mr.. Z. p. Brown of Leav-
eEworth, leading free State man, went to
the assistance Of his beleaguered friends, but
there was no chance OF success against the
thirty or forty scnundrels who assaied Final
ly, Mr. Brown and others were taken. The
Herald tells the fate OF Brown, as follows;-
cat night they took Mr., B. out after re-
leasing the others-for the purpose of hang
ing him, having their ropes and implements
ready for the work. Some proposed com.
promise-that they lynch him and let him go.
This was agreed to, when several persons
sprung upon him with hatchets and bowie.
knives, and commenced stabbing choppng,
beating and kicking him until be was ielled
to the earth, after receiving three mortaIs
wounds in his head with hatchets, and nm
merous other injuries, any Of which would
have probably caused his death.
After laying upon the cold earth for a while
consciousness seemed to return, when he ros e
and attempted to escape, but he was again
taken, beaten, kicked. and dragged to wag.
on, which he was thrown into like dead
brute, AID in this condition he was carried 10
miles to Dunn's GROCERY, in Salt Greek val
ley, where the demons went through the farce
Of attempting to dress his wounds. Finding
that he must die, and human nature begin
ming to get the ascendency, he was carried to
his own home, three fourths Of mile dis
tant, ana gwen in charge of his wife. She
Intercepted him as to how he had received
the injuries, and he responded family, though
audibly,' 1 have been murdered by gang of
towards, in cold blood, without any cause r.
Immediately after he expired"
The Herald says that it now seems to be the
purpose Of the border rufiians to murder the
leading Free State men, one after another
1t adds
4" How long will Congress leave us thus ex :
posed to barbarous inroads, without either
vesting us with the power to defend ourselye s,
or sending US reiefs Have they determined
to wait until civil war bursts upon the coun.
| try in al its fury, and fire and sword COM
mence their work of devastation and death
| We cannot remain inactive much longer -
The President refu es us aid The Governor
has joined with the mob from Missouri, and
we are without protection Had a citizen
been thus slnin by party of Kaw Indiana
the tribe would have been exterminated"