Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-06-06
FIR o N K A N s A s.
Affairs at Lawrence.
Printing Omces Destroyed.
TOWN SACKED.

A special correspondent of the New
Tark Times, writing from Lawrence,give
the following account of the entrance of
the United States authorities into Law
renee, and what followed
LAWRENCE, May 21-9 P. NJ.
About o'clock this P. NJ, the Sheriff
and his chosen posse made two arrests for
treason. They were G. W. Deitzler and
G.. W. Smith. The first is guilty Of no
official act under the State Government
the latter none, except that of being
member of the Territorial Executive Com
mittee. They all took dinner very pleas
antly together, at the Eldridge House, and
about 3 o'clock new posse of ten or twelve
rode into town, preceded by Sheriff Jones.
He rode directly to the Hotel, and inqui-
red for Gen. Pomeroy. The General soon
appeared at the door, when Jones spoke
as follows: "I have come here, to-day,
to make demand of this town. l have
often tried to make arrests, and, the last
time was here, came near losing my life.
|, therefore, as the u S. Marshal for Kan
sas Territory, and as Sheriff Of Douglas
county, demand Of you all your arms.
Bring out your rifles and stack them in the
street, and carry your cannon to the field
yonder, where you zee our men. Bring
them all out and stack them together, and
As many Of you as can prove them to be
your property,to our satisfaction, shall have
them returned, and l will give receipt
for the remainder" He then gave US half
an hour to bring them forward, but when
the time expired We could only find one
mounted howitzer and three breach load
ing iron cannon, not mounted We had no
rifles that were public property. At this
they ...mad aisaatisfiad. and ona aantla.
man remarked that he had supposed there
we're rifles enoug b here to arm fifteen hun
dred men.
Simultaneously with this affair, the great
army Of Kansas-the embodiment Of
Southern chivalry-moved down from the
hill and planted their cannon, four in num-
ber, at the head of Massachusetts, street,
where they could rake the entire business
part of the town. About the time also
that the army commenced moving from the
hill, Jones made the remark, in couversa-
ton with him, that "the Emigrant Aid
Hotel must go down, and if Eldridge wan
ted to save his wife and children he mus.
get them out at once" Our people plead
with them to spare their property: but
Jones swore the Hotel should come. Col.
Eldridge, when be found that they were
determined to destroy the building, told
them that be had over five thousand dol
lars worth of furniture in there, and that
he should not move out one dollars worth
for them. The mob took out little of
the best furniture On hearing this state
ment-the remainder was left.
[The correspondent of the Missouri
Democrat adds
About five o'clock, three cannon were
placed in the street, twelve or fifteen rods
east of the hotel, and some thirty shots
were fired, sbattering the wall considera-
bly,, but proving altogether too slow meth
cd of destruction for these claw and order"
men. They then set fire to the building.
in different places, and put several kegs of
powder under it. The flames and smoke
soon burst out at the windows, and the
whole building was in blaze. The walls
trembled and fell, and the shouts and yells
of the mob proclaimed the triumph of
claw and order" in Lawrence. While the
hotel was burning, the house of G. ".
Brown was twice SET on FIRE. The floor
was burned through. The FIRE was finally
extinguished by some young men of Law
renee. The mob threatened to shoot them
but they were not deferred. If bis house
had burned, several others must certainly
have been destroyed, and there would have
been danger Of burning nearly half the
town. Atchison, it is said, advised mod.
Grafton. Col Jackson, of Georgia, with
many others, were opposed to the burning
of the hotel. In the evening, Gov. Rob-
in.on's house was set on fire, and burned
to the ground. And thus ended, for that
day, the execution of the "law" in Law
renee. One of the posse was killed by the
wall, but no other person was injured
The town was completely sacked by the
Executives lawless mob. They destroyed
both printing Offices and threw most of the
materials into the Kansas river. Every
house was broken into, trunks torn open,
clothes, books, keepsakes, provi-
sions, all taken away or scattered through |
the streets. The printing Offices had pre-.
viously been declared "nuisances," and
authority had been given the mob by the
now immortal Judge Lecompte to remove
them
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