Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-08

hANzAs MATTERs.-Ihe correspondent of
the N. Y. Tribune, writing from Lawrence,
July Goth, says:
have just learned that the " Law and
Order men about Leavenworth are greatly
exercised. A report reached that place, by
boat down the river, that several hundred
men-six hundred and fifty it was reported
had crossed from Iowa into Kanzas. Fiery
plaeards, calling the Missourians and pro
slavery men generally to arms, to drive out
the Abolitionists, were posted up. Men
armed with muskets and bayonets were pa
rading about, and parties starting and getting
ready to start for the northern frontier. If
they go in that direction they likely to
have good time Meetings were held Ill
Leavenworth every day, and several of the
most prudent of the " Law and Order" men
suggested that General Smith be requested tie
drive them out, and to get them 10 help him
to do it. l hear that General Smith has sent
for another company of dragons to Fort
Riley. What he intends to do with them
do not know. If he goes up toward the Ne
braska line he will find that all the emigrants
that have come in are at work, have taken
claims, and have brought agricultural imple
ments and tools with them. All L have
feared is, that the troops would go up to inter-
cept them, and as they are obliged, IN coming
in, to come in parties large enough to protect
themselves from the Border Ruffians of Mis-
souri,, who are clustering up there that the
troops would take the pretext that they were
an armed body and refuse to let them come
in. fear this is the game, as both Sumner
and Smith have been heard to declare against
tits Northern emigration through Iowa, de-
claring it was an -" armed body" &C., as if
anything but an armed body could get into
II 1. Il A.
thing is certain--a considerable number of
armed bodies of Southerners, toIial pro-
slavery men, and Missourians, have gone up
toward the Nebraska line, with the avowed
purpose of driving back the Northern emigra-
ton. OF this fact 1 do not see how Gen
Smith can be ignorant, and yet there have
been no steps taken against them.
Some forty or fifty Southerners armed with
muskets and bayonets chiefly, came up from
Westport to the Territory few days ago, and
held caucus or convention in Hickory Point,
at which they nominated candidates for the
Legislature, to be holden under the bogus
laws early in October. Another party of
these scamps had gone rather further up the
Santa Fe road to the house of Capt. Sanders,
pro-slavery man, where similar nominal
ing convention was to be held yesterday.
A young Southerner. recently imported,
has been officiating as tax collector and asses
sor in the neighborhood of Palmyra
The Southern bravoes are beginning to feel
the situation described in Godsmth's "Club''
when the announcement is made that the
"reckoning is drunk up The last fifty
thousand dollars sent from the South has just
disappeared, and they are rather interestingly
located in the present case. These fellows
are now at different points in the Territory
and Missouri, and as class, do nothing but
drink and gam ble-that is, except warning on
the abolitiouists.
Another letter dated st. Louis, 3lst, says:
"On the oath inst. Mr. Wilson and daugh-
ter, of North Carolina, travelling in the stage,
having been on visit to Lecompton, and when
passing through Lawrence, had an alteration
with a man by the name of Chapman, cti'
zen of that place, about the hire OF a buggy,
and while in the act of stepping into the stage
Mr.. w. was struck by Chapman with heavy
club, which felled him to the ground A
physician was called in who made light Of
the wound, said he wonld soon recover, and
recommended the passengers to put hun in
the stage. They did so, and he died half an
hour after his arrival at the Harris House, in
this place. His amiable daughter is III great
Distress far from home, and among strangers,
b~@ 7'i,lt plenty of friends. Mr.. Wilson was
buried by the Udd Fellows, and The vitizene
eenerally attended his burial. A party start
ed from this place that night to arrest Chap
man. They succeeded, and he is now at Le-
compton, in the hands ofthe authorities, who,
no doubt, will take good care of him.
The man Chapman, the alleged murderer,
was member OF the bogus Legislature of
Shawnee Mission, and is one of the three or
four pro. slavery men who choose to live at
Lawrence. l am glad the people of West
port, Missouri, have begun to arrest pro-
slavery murderers in Kanzas. 1t to be hoped
that they will continue in this good work till
Clark, the Pierce Indian Agent, Coleman, the
murderer of Dow, and others, are brought to
Justice.