Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-07-12

bSshp we give DelOW, TUtn the DOSlOH OSt,
an account Of those innocent lambs, sent out by
the Emigrant aid Society to Kansas to con-
quer peace.
Another Kansas Man Returned.
DR.. Geogban, of Albany, who went to Kan
sas in March 1856, hasFeturned, and the atlas
and Argus says he brings favorable accounts
of the state of affairs. He was driven from
Topeka by the Free State party who had or
ganized band of sworn men, forty in number,
to kill every member Of the marshal's party.
But this state Of disorder and instruction is
confined TO Topeka and Hickory Point and
Lawrence. Col. Sumner is driving before him,
| with great vigor, all armed bands. Bufords
men, compelled to retreat to the Indian reserva-
ton, were driven from there by the u. s. troops
The country is infested by marauding and pre-
datory bands, who commit some gross outrages
in the name Of the "army of the north" Their
main object is theft; but when they take horses,
Expressing for the army of the north" they call
it, they lay hands upon whatever is nearest;
and if resistance is made, they do not hesitate
at murder
The Hickory Point murders-6ve men mu-
tilated and tortured with worse than Indian
cruelties, in one night, and afterwards killed
we're perpetrated by this party without proyoca-
watomie Brown" One Of these murders was
particularly atrocious, the victims nose and
ears being cut off before killing him. The
Atlas says:
"Dr. G. went to Kansas without any preiu.
dces against the so-called Free State men. In.
deed, he acted with them, until they took trea-
sonable ground. II they had obeyed the laws
and gone on quietly, he is sure they would have
had majority of four to one in the territory
The northern States were sending in an emigra-
ton of from ten to one. The first emigrants
from the South came without slaves; and had
no desire TO introduce them. But the treason
able Topeka movement drove these men, and
great number Of the northern men into the
ranks Of law and order. Those have been
denounced abroad, and assailed az proslavery
men and, doubtless, at the time that party was
in the majority. But the State is destined to be
a free one; and there would not have ever been
a question of this, at this day, but for the
criminal folly Of the SO called Free State men,
From the Lecompton Union, June 90.
MORE ATTEMPTS AT MIDNIGHT ASSASSINATION.
The outlaws of Lawrence have on two diffe-
rent occasions attempted to assassinate Deputy
Sheriff Haney, who resides in that place,
choosing, as they always do, to commit their
diabolical deeds under cover of night. A week
ago last Saturday night they fred upon the
house of Mr. Haney with Sbarpes rifles through
the windows thereof, but fortunately the balls
passed little too high to strike Mr.. Haney,
who was asleep at the time with his wife and
children in a bed near the window, Morning
daunted, however, by this failure to murder Mr..
H., the assassins renewed the attack on the fol-
lowing night, by breaking open Mr.. Haney's
house, armed to the teeth, and firing at his bed.
Fortunately, however, Mr.. Haney and his wife
and children we're not in the bed, but on the
floor unobserved by them, and whilst they were
firing at his bed, in order to murder him and bis
family, he shot one of the demons man by the
name fHopkins, well known in Lawrence dead
in his track, upon which the others fed. The
assassins bad each red blanket thrown around
them, and after breaking into the house, fred
at once at Mr.. Haneys bed, yelling at the same
time like Indians. Eleven balls were found the
next day in Mr.. Haney's bed clothesl