New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-09

| Int the farmers back; bat they are working
n;olt and day TO make up f'r lost time, aDd Will
Get in their crops ID season yet
ARREST OF q. w BROWN.
You are aware that G. w. Br0wo, proprietor
ard editor of The Herald Of Freedom, was arrested
BY mo at Kansas City aud detained in Missouri
for some dave. and finally, without any writ being
served on him or requisitiOn being made on the
Governor of Missouri was removed by detach-
uept Of non residents to Lecompten and impfis-
oped until a writ was made out against him by the
United States Marshals Of postscript" ct
ctters" celebrity.
have had an interview with Mrs. Brown, who
furpbes the facts in the subjoined account OF the
arrest and removal.
Mr.. Brown landed at Kansas City. Missouri,
Monday before last, and entered his name in the
register of the American Hotel. He went up to
room, but found it already occupied by Mr. Brown
of OsawattOnie-a member Of the Kansas Constr
tutonal ODveDtioD.
He went into another room without changing the
number iD the register.
Shortly afterward mob entered the hotel and
sent up party to arrest Mr.. Brown. They opened
the room indicated iL the register and found Mr..
Brown of OsawattOmie engaged in writing letter.
J hey asked him bis name. lie said it twas Brown.
I hey told him he must come with them.
Cant you let HE finish my letter first ?" he
asked.
looked over bis shoulder as he wrote the signature.
He signed it Brown, without any initials.
They took him out of the hO,el and told him that
they had arrested him for publishing Abolition arti
cles in The Herald Of Freedom. He told them they
had arrested the wrong man; and with cOnsldera-
Bile difficulty convinced them that they were mis-.
taken.
Meanwhile the keeper of the hotel called on the
Mayor for guard to protect it. 1twas furnished.
The mob placed an outer guard around it, so as to
render the escape OF Mr.. Brown impossible.
About o'clock Oh Tuesday morning two horses
were procured for Mr.. Brown and Mr.. jenkins,
another citizen of Lawrence, who had also been
threatened They rode out of town for Lawrence
by moonlight.
AS thy were riding along a lane, about two
miles from tOwx three men suddenly sprang cut
from the bushes seized the reDs of the horses and
presented loaded pistols at the heads VI the gen.
tlemen. They had two dOuble-barreled guns as
we'll as revolvers. MIR. Brown and Mr. jenkins
deemee it prud, mt to surrender. They were dis
armed and imprisoned under strong guard, at
the house of Milton niece, one of the three men
The news reached Lawrence at late hour on
Tuesday night. Early on Wednesday morning
Mrs. Brown left Lawrence for WestpOrt She ar
rived there on the following morning.
She found her husband in room at the Harris
House, guarded by a party of armed mtn, who
her to pass in. They were allowed to remain un
molested till the following evening-Or molested
only by visit from Robert S. Kelley of The Squat
ter SOrereign-the same youth who tarred and
feathered the Rev. Pardee Butler and said he
"thirsted for the blood" of DR.. Cutler, when that
gentlemen was prisoner and invalid in the camp
Of the MissouriaHs who invested Lawrence last
autumn. This young ruflian entered the room with
q companion and commenced a conversation for
the purpose of irritating Mr.. Brown, in which he
spoke cODteDptuousy of "AbOlitOnists,' and
savsgely spoke of the fate awaiting them in the
Territory. He said he had come all the way down
from AtchisOn for the pleasure of taking MIR.
Brown prisoner to LecOmptOn.
Mrs. Brown in describing him. sad ~ went
"out Of the room for moment and saw young
"msn leaning over the bannisters OF the stairs:
81 did not know him, but as soon as l saw ~ MN !
90 felt cold shudder run over me. lie did not
speak, but he had such blood thirsty look that
81 inyoluntarily drew back when saw him. lie
"lo0ked at me and walked into the room where
"my husband was."
On Friday evening a meeting WAS held Tor the
purpose of discussing what to do with MI. Brown
Some one, while the meeting was going on, handed
10 an anonymous letter, in which the people OF
Westport were advised to look out that night for
their prisoners.
This letter was read aloud and produced great
excitement. 1t was expected that an attempt at
q rescue would be made.
patty rushed up stairs to the room in which Mrs
Brown and her husband were imprisoned. They
had gone to bed. The ruffaDs stood up on chairs
outside and looked through the panes at the top OF
the door. This brutality did not satisfy them.
The door was locked on the outside by the guard,
and bolted on the inside by the occupants OF the
room. The door was broken open. Two men
rushed in-one with candle, which ne paced on
| table while the other went to the WINDOW ahd
carefully examined it, They then retired-but left
the candle burning All that night, at intervals OF
from FIVE to ten minutes one other OF the guards
opened the door and thrust his head into the room
utterly unconscious apparently of the fact that
profound respect for wOinanly mOdesty was tne
root of ancient chiyalry and that the Border hui,
fan has recently been held up to the admiration OF
the rising generation Of Southern youth as tue most
perfect ideal of modern chiyalry.
On Saturday afternoon Mr.. Brown was requested
to come down stairs. As soon as he descendee'
| he was forced into carriage with Mr.. jenkins,
and surrounded by party of fifteen armed horse
| men. Mrs. Brown. suspecting that something was
wrong. came down into the street as the carriage
drove off, A brother of Mr.. jenkins, who had
taken out writ of hsbeas corpus at Kansas CITY,
| drove up to the hotel to serve il few minutes
sfterward. Mrs. Brown and Mrs: jenkins got
/ into his buggy and gave chase to the party VINO
had carried IF ther husbands. They soon over
! took them.
The party halted about three miles from West.
port, near the Shawnee Mission. The matronly
pursutrs halted also The Missouri gang used
every arppment they could think OF, but inefec-
tually, to induce the ladies to return: Ihey
intended to stay there all night they said, aud It
was no place for ladies. The ladies answered
not in 60 many words but in spirit, that the httest
place for wives to occupy when their husbands
were in danger was by their husbands side. They