The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-08-25
Civil War in Kansas!
THE FREE STATE MEN VICTORIOUS.
Forts of the R u ffinns Carried.
THE LECOMPTON PRISONERS RE-
LEASED.
THE BoRDEREns RALLYING.

THE BOKDERERS RALLYING.
Sr. Louis, Aug 81.
Leavenworth City Kansas Journal of the
18th, contains lengthy accounts of another
battle in Kansas.
The Georgia and Carolina Colony Ca block
house) near Osawatomie, was attacked on
the 18th, by 800 Free State men the block
house carried, and the Georgians and Caro-
linians driven into Missouri.
Their houses were burned, and their pro-
perty of every kind scizcd-money, goods,
DC. Some men lost stockholders clio thing,
others houses.
One cannon, large amount Of arms, am
mnnition and provisions, were taken.
On the 18th, another colony in Dougbs
Co., (block house again) WAS carried. There
were 400 Free State men well mounted and
we'll armed. 1t is feared that most Of Tread
wells men have fallen.
The I. 5. troops were called upon for aid,
but they refused to act.
The Free State men are driving all the
Pro Slavery men ont Of Douglas co., seizing
their arms, ammunition, dc. fFudge.]
fight took place between the two parties,
which resulted in IA men being killed and
wounded.
Lecompton was taken on the 10th, BY 500
Of Lanes men.
Ths I. s. troops having Brown, Robinson,
and the other prisoners in charge, sure ader,
ed them without firing u gun, in the sb sence
OF the commacdcr.
The Editor Of the Southern Advocate, and
MIR. Stebin, were wounded.
Large bodies of border men are organizing
under Atchson and Stringfellow, at Weston,
and help called for.
Other reports of iights, and Of forces ON
the march.
The above account comes through Border
Kufiian channels, and is not altogether ac-
curate. That the block house at Lecompton
has been taken by the Free State men, that
the |. ;. soldiers refused to shoot upon them,
ind that the prisoners confined on charges of
treason have been liberated, is true, in oil
probability. But it is not true, as has been
ascer'ained fully, either that the Free State
men made any attack upon the T.. 5. soldiers
or attempted to take them prisoners or that
Gen. Lane was present, for he was not in
the Territory; or that the parties in these en-
gagemepts were, on the Free State side,
Of his men, Mt least bat in small
part, for they were made up Of old residents
Or thst robbcries of money, goods or the
were committed, for their opera
.ioJls were limited to the attacks upon the
block houses and those who herded in or
about them, whose avowed purpose was the
perfection of an organization TO drive oil
the Free State men out of the Territory, and
whose daily practice had been to drive Free
State men from their claims, take possession
Of their property, and plumber them, togeth-
er with the fresh immigrants especially, Of
al their useful and valuable property.
The Border Rufhans are indignant that the
q. s. soldiers refused TO act against the Free
State men. This OF itself is evidence that
the Free State men were justified in their
proceedings, and were fighting purely in
sclf-defence. This is the way they talk about
the soldiers:
Lecompton, Aug. Is, . o'clock p. M.--Capt
Trcadwell's company of AZ men, are sur
rounded by 3s5 abolltionists, who swear
that no quarter shall be gwen. Capt. Tread
Wells men are in a log building, aud have so
far held out manfully. They managed TO
get woinauto carry IA message TO Governor
shannon, asking for aid. shannon imme-
dia,cly called upon the L. S. troops, who re-
fused 10 act.
Now that the L. S. troops have turned
TRAITORS! and EDWARDS. /! we are forced To
act tor ourselves. Let US, then, be UP and
doing. Let there be universal uprising of
the Law and Order Party. Let no quarter
be given, but lei the untrue abolition horde
be swept from the Territory.
Six or eight hundred men strong attacked
Col. Titus near Lecompton, who mad about
80 men: battered down his house with can
non, his family having just left killed mum
Der Of his men, and took hum and the bal.
ance prisoners.
Ih-v attacked the guard of the l.. y. sol
diers who had in charge Robinson ADD the
other prisoners. who surrendered, laifho
firing stag!c gua, and arc now in tie hands
Ut Lanes men.
None Of the soldiers are in the hands Of
the FREQ State men. We have said before,
that there was no conflict between them.
Now as 70 the cause and character Of the
attack upon Leeompton. From all the va
r.ous accounts tina, We have been able 10
collect, the truth seems to be this An or.
,anizaiIon had been effected, las above and
elsewhere alluded TOY, to sweep oil the Free
State men from the Territory, by fire and
sword. They had erected block houses, or
reg liar forts, for the pur oscs of rendex-
'oas. at important points. At Cor rear) Lee
compton there was one Of these forts. At
hat fort an unusually large force was COL
ected, not only with view to cooperate in |
he main purpose, but with the avowed de-
ernlnation Of hanging the treason prison. |