The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-06-06
Civil war in Kansas.
ST. LOUIS June /.

~. OF. LOUIS juno "a.
| We have the following from Leayenworth
City, under date Of May %:
Anexsiting Extra Of the Wcstport News.
headed "war!! war.!!" reached tlll
city this forenoon, and threw the p.o..loy-
cry men into great excitement. They held
a private meeting, and appointed commit.
tee Of Vigilance, TO watch Leayenwor,h. and
let no iiec State man pass, and determined
to make lawlcss arrests OF obnoxious par
ties.
A company Of men. armed with u,uskets
and hayonets, ~. s. nrms) have bocn par.
aiding all the afternoon, making arrots.-
They took as prisoners clerk Of the Com
mission Of Congress, named Conway, and
two witnesses that had been subpGned, Mes
srs. PARROT aud Miles More. Warren Wilkes,
Of South Carolina, headed the party. A
Moore, one of the murdercn Of Brown,
helped to make the arrests.
Messrs. Moore an PARROT were arrested
while converting with Mr.. Sherman. Mr..
Sherman asked If Il was ly legal process
they had taken one Of the Clerks of the
Commission. Mr.. Wilkes said II was not
that he had no legal authority, but that he
would arrest the men down on his list.
Many Others have been taken. The town
Is excited, and the Commission fear thcy
must leave r. ann If1Sf iIt
Alarming extras are sent from westport
to the Border towns
flight is expected towards Passowatom-
10 Creek. Some pro-slayery men tried to
drive free State man from his claim, but
he, refusing to 20, they took him and were
about to hang him, when his neighbos came
to the rescue, and shot some Of the pro-
slavery party. 4 civil war is inevitable.
Another despatch TO the Democrat, dated
Topeka, 18th, Gays: .
The U. S. District Court has adjourned
till the second Monday In Sept.
Judge Lccompton refused to admit Mcsrs.
Robinson, Smith, Deitxl.r, Brown, and Jen-
kins, to hail, and they will be held prisoners
By the Marshal.
Gen. Pomeroy has gone 10 Washington.
lie is delegate to the Republican Conyen-
ton, which Is to assemble at Philadelphia.
II is estimated that the loss sustained by
the. citizens Of Lawrence, by the recent ut.
tact, will amount to 100000.
Mr.. Parroit, q prominent lawyer OF Kan
sas,. has just arrived from l.eaycnworth.--
He informs that ON Wednesday last no was
arrested by party Of 20 men, bearing U.
S. muskcts, under the command Of Col.
Wilkes. of South Carolina, and taken before
the Vigilance Committee. Leayenworth
was surrounded BY picket guards, and no
one suffered TO enter or leave the town.
Col. Wilkes had list Of the principal
citizens. whom he intended to arrest. lie
had already made three arrests. Ii was
stated the whole territory would be placed
under military surveillance.
Tho Republican publishes on extra OF the
Kansas Herald, of the 18th ult., which con-
firms the report previously tclegnhed Of tho
murder Of eight pro-slayery men, on Passa-
wa,omic Creek, by party OF free State
men. The victims were most horribly mu-
tilated. In some instances, after their
threats had been cut, their legs had been
chopped of, also their arms, and their eyes
sougrd out. All tho pro.slayery families ut
Hickory Point were driven OF at the point
of the 6ayonet, and their horses and pro-
visions stolen by the free State men.
This is u pro-slavcry account, and UNI
ques,ionably in many respects false