Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-06-21
LATEST NEWS.
LATEST NEWS.
IMPORTANT NEWS FROM KANSAS
ARRIVAL OF THE COMMISSION AT ST.
u LOUIS. 81
A GREAT BATTLE EXPECTED
TOWNS SACKED BIZ THE RUFFIANs.


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ST. LOUIS, June IL.
The Kansas Commission Messrs. Howard,
Sherman, and their officers, Hanson, Lord,
Townsend. and Upham, arrived here this even
ing in the Polar Star, and will leave for the East
tomorrow. They report Kansas to be in criti-
cal condition at the present moment. When they
lett, large numbers of MissOurians were pouring
into the Territory, determined on fighting. The
Free State men were mastering and equally
anxious for battle.
ST.. LOUIS, June IA.
The officers on the steamer Polar Star, which
arrived from the Missouri last evening, and
brought down the investigating Committee, fur
nish our papers with late Kansas news. They
state that affairs in the Territory have reached
the extreme crisis which must speedily result y
the supremacy of one party, and the extermina-
ton of the other, by general fight, unless the
presence of the U. S. troops should be sufficient
to avert such calamity. 1t was reported that
there were about FIVE hundred men on each side
in the vicinity of Hickory Point, and Tuesday,
the 10th, was fixed upon, by general consent, for
the fight.
One hundred and thirty men marched through
Westport on Monday, TO join the prc-slavery
forces at Hickory Point. Shannon was at Kan
sas City, Mo-, but would Immediately proceed to
On the authority of Maj. Oliver, Shannon would
issue proclamation on Wednesday the llth. re-
quiring the United States troops to disbapd and
disarm all companies of armed men wherever
found, and in case of refusal, giving the officers
power to fire upon them.
Eight companies of troops are now in the
Territory, and it is reliably stated that Shannon
would order out those still remaining at Forts
I.eavenworh and Riley, and proceed personally
with them to restore order in the Territory.
letter in the Democrat says that the town Of
! Ossawo tamic was sacked on the 9th by a party
| OF prO-slavery men, who stole horses and took
away everything available even to the ear and
finger rings of the women.
Sumner had disbanded force Of Free State
men in the neighborhood of Palmyra, which as
soon as known was sacked and pIllaged by the
Rufians in a manner similar to OssawOtamie.
The Council at LeavenwOrth, which has been
driving Free State men out Of the Territory, has
been dissolved by Col. Sumner.
ST. Louis, June IA.
A letter to the Democrat, dated Lawrence,
June Sth, says the report that Gov. Robinson had
been hung by mob, is untrue. Robinson,
Brown, Smith, Detzer, and Jenkins are still
| confined at Lecompton, guarded by U. S. drs-
goons. Several ladies' from Lawrence have been
permitted to visit them gentlemen are not al
| lowed that privilege.
Report says two Pro- Slavery men were killed
anu StVtTdI Nounueu Az the Dattle Oh FRANKLIN;
none killed or wounded among the Free Slate
men. At Palmyra FIVE Pro- Slavery men killed
and Sc, eral wounded; three Free State men were
wounded, but none killed. Several wagons, on
their way to Lawrence, hal been stopped at
Wcstport in Missouri, searched, ana stripped of
their contents, by persons not citizens of that
| town. The printing press had been destroyed 1T
OssawatOmie.
Ii is reported that the mails have been forcibly
searched in Franklin.
j. NJ. Barnard, reported killed, is alive, hut
had about six thousand dOll,rs' worth of mer-
chandize, horses, and oxen taken by party Of
Free 5 ;ate men.