New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-13

GtAt EDlIOhbNtO I'M i>N'
ATTACK ON THE WISCONSIN hM,-
GRANTS MURDER THE GO'EhNOh
AND HIS CONFEDERATES- SoUlH
KANSAS LEFT TO THE MEkCi VI
MISSOURI.
From Our Special Correspondent
Minnie OTTAWA CREEK, Nov. 3, 1856.
tn. occurrences now transpiring in the southern
nort;on Of the Territory are of startling import
a,ce whether they are regarded for their direct
rs.y,ts or the consequences that may flow from
them. Peace cannot be said to exist in the region
immediately south Of this; and even here the mo-
le.tation of the Pro-Savery Ruffians gives fatal
and fearful insecurity TO the settlers. Missouri and
her conederates now in the Territory, have evil
IDENTIFY determined that the Ffee-State settlers on
The Usage, the POtawatanie, Sugar Creek, and
indeed all the settlements down to the Neosha,
shall be driven out, and their places taken by Pro-
Slavery men. The most determined effort is now
making to consuInmate this result
A ceaseiess persecution of the Free-State set
tiers has been going on for weeks, indeed, ever
since Gov. Geary's arrival. Parties of armed Pro-
Slavery men ride about the country to plumber and
intimdate. Written and verbal intimdations I" to
leave have been served on the Free State settlers,
while the armed bands in question ride about the
houses Of the parties thus notified and intimidate
them. thus intimdated, plundered of much which
they could i'll afford to lose, large number of the
Free-State settlers in the region to which refer
have been obliged to forsske the homes they were
making and flee from Kansas. In their places
Pro-Slavery men are moving in. In one
settlement a few miles from this, four families,
each with a number of slaves, have moved in. In
deed, from all have seen and heard, have every
reason to fear that nothing can prevent the foe
portion Of the Territory to which refer from be-
coming Pro-slayery region, unless matters take a
sudden turn. Armed bands from Missouri are con-
tinually coming up. On Sunday week band OF
them rode toward Sugar Creek, and after threaten
ing and bullying all the Free. State settlers they
could fnd finished by stealing some horses and
going back. This was while Gov. Geary and his
dragons were in the neighborhOod, or only few
miles off. On Friday last party of seventy armed
and mounted Mssourians entered the Territory,
and after rummagi0g about the POtawatamie and
Little Sugar, got scared by the report that Capt
Brown was coming (who, by the by, was not there
abOuts), and retreated precipitatey to Missouri.
Immediately after the emigrant train that was
stopped and plundered by the dragons under
Geary got into Lawrence, some fifty of these who
were from Wisconsin, started down toward Osa-
Watamie to locate in that section. Their guide, or
superintendent, was Capt. c. E. Redfeld, recently
a member of the Wisconsin Legislature. l have
seen the Captain and conversed with him on his
squatter experience. The design of this party was
to select claims as near each other as possible
TO secure safety to themselves, if possible, during
the present crisis. They had been in the Osawat-
annie neighborhood for few days, and as only a
part of them had got claims and none had time to
have houses built, they were in camp in the same
order as they had Travelled. Such their position
when they were attacked one night by large party
who commenced firing upon them. AS soon as they
could get their arms they returned the fire brsky
as possible, and their assaiants retreated taking
two horses with them. Luckily none of the emf
grants were hurt whether any of the others got
hit, they had no means of ascertalnlng. A few
hours after day next morning. one OF the horses
taat had been stolen returned, having got away
from its csptors This furious and lawless attack
was resumed next evening, and ended pretty much
in the same way. Since then they have not been
attacked, but the effect of these attacks was, OF
course to impede their progress in making claims.
Capt Redfeld said that the emigrants in question
were poorly armed, and had little or no ammunition,
and he was DESTROYS TO secure more of these if pos
sible, before another attack, the probabilities of
which appear to be very good as Gov. Geary has
left that portion of the Territory completely ex-
posed to the mercy of the enemy.
On Bull Greek, some miles southeast of this,
and toward BattiesviIle, there is PrO-Slavery
settler named Rogers, whose establishment is and
has been a sort Of Guerilla headquarters for rowing
Missourisn Georgian or Carolinians. There is a
lot of Georgians who make their headquarters there
now. Some teams .ers who were going TO West
port one day last week, found man lying near
Bull Creek who had been shot. He was not dead.
They put him on their wagons and took him with
them TO Westport. He told them that he had
been going to Westport with his team, after provls-
ions, when he was attacked by the Georgans close
TO Bull Creek. They demanded his money, when he
raised his gun; just at that moment one OF them
shot him, the ball entering his alb iomen and lodg-
ing in bis side. They robbed him and left hlm
living on the road where the teamsters found hiu
He died when he got to Yves port. On Saturday
last Free-State settler named Sutton, started
from few miles below this to go to Westport for
provisions. He had got close to Bull Creek, when
he saw party of armed men approaching the
road as if to intercept him. He immediately
turned back and fed; they pursued him but he