Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-10-01

other in rapid uccession and the fourth will close
the series. The present one opens with con-
tinuation of the New Jersey Campaign, after the
affairs at Trenton and closes with the going into
| Winter quarters of the army, in '76. The
thor had expected to complete the work in
three volumes, but the theme expanded so I'M
expectedly under his pen, that another volume
is necessary. This will not be regretted by
the reading community who will thus gain ad-
ditional volume, of an author whose productions
are always so eagerly sought. The present vol
ume contains a fine portrait OF Gen. Putnam,
with fac Simiie of his signature. For sale by
Thompson & Co.
Pressing Necessities ofthe EmiSFnnts in
kunZas.
In opening the services at Music Hall, Boston
Sunday morning, Rev. Theodore Parker said he
had designed to read as the study of the morning
one of the Epistles of James; but having newly
received letter from his friend in Kanzas, Rev.
Mr.. Mute, he would instead read an epistle from
the Apostle Ephraim. The reading of the letter
produced deep impression on the audience, and
the appeal for relief made by it was promptly an
swered by the collection of $3.50. We quote such
paragraphs of Mr.. Nute's letter as give interest
Never did word of good cheer come to
mortal man more opportunely and with warm
er welcome than that contained in your note
Of the Sd. had just escaped f.om the hands
of my enemies, the enemies oi-God and free
dom, with whom had suffered fortnight of
the most harassing captivity. l fed first to
Fort Leavenworth. L claimed protection
from the officials there, both civil and military,
and was Ill both instances denied. The Off
Ger OF the day at the fort, Lieut.. Drum, refer
ed to by Gov. Reeder in his speech at the
New York Tabernacle, told me he could give
US no harbor, and ordered me, with hundreds
of others, with women and children who had
sought refuge at the fort, to leave the govern
ment reserve before 3 o clock of the next ddy.
Some Of these refugees had fled from blazing
homes, women and children leaving hus-
bands and fathers weltering in their blood,
their homes and their all persisted in the
flames. Still this officer SAID there was no al
Tentative, he must compel all to submit TO the
inhuman order which had been issued and re.
peated by Gen. Smith.
Gov. Geary told me that l must submit
to the banditti who had me then in their pow.
er, and whose captain then stood before us,
though they demand me to be hung, RI was
then prisoner on parole), because that BAN
dith was the regularly constituted militia of
the territory, and all those murders and
house burnings and outrages of everykind had
been committed by the authority of the crea-
ture then acting as governor of the territory,
and because until he (Geary) could get to
Woodson and supersede him, that authority
would be valid and paramount. l then
mounted government horse and rode muck
through the enemies, going around 50 miles
by untrequented ways, aud reached Lawrence
last Wednesday the 10th.
" l found myself nearly broken down in
health but am fast recruiting, and mean to
be heard from, as far and wide as l can, soon.
For the greater part of the time l have been
forced 10 sleep on the bare ground, without
wholesome or regular food, sometimes in close,
crowded, filthy dungeon into which l was
thrown when l was SO sick that could hard
ly stand. Three times 1 have had every rea-
son to suppose that my last hour had come,
both from the intimation of enemies, and the
warning of friends. Once / was saved only
by quarrel and a scutfie, in which the weap-
on with which was to be shot was wrested
from the hands of an Infatuated ruffian. But
enough, am yet alive, and more alive than
ever before, and with keener sense of the
value of freedom, for which cause do count
all prosecutions as unspaekable gain, and my
self truly blessed IN being permitted to receive
them. l assure you the confidence that this
cause is Of Almighty God, has sustained me
through it all, and my heart has not for mo-
! ment failed me.
"a young man who rode with me was
shot dead IN the most public street in Leaven-
worth, few hours after we were taken, and
the body laid there for the rest of the day
Another noble-hearted man, Phillips, was
hunted like a woolf, and beset at last i'll his
| own house, wherehe fell pierced by dozen
balls lighting so the last Another, his broth.
| er, was shot down and terribly mutilated and
| is probably dead beforesthis time. The man
! gled bodies of many have been found between
this and Leavenworth dnring the last three
week and buried by the dragoou, who went at
the call of the Indians, to afford the protec-
ton which they have not been permitted to
| give us.
It's estimated that over sixty families have
| been burnt out of home many of them losing
their all-in some instances all the males in
the family butchered. l found my wife had
been suffering the bitterest anguish during the
| whole time of my absence, hearing no def
mite word from me, and in honrly expectation
| of an attack on the cabin, for several were
burned within three miles of her. AT one
time she had all our effects hid in a ravine,
and fled to neighbor, but returned after a
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| be some protection to the house.
hoped to have had comfortable shelter
for the winter, but here we are in much worse
| plight than we were last fall my house hav-
ing been sacked of every article of warm cloth
| ing or bedding, and the structure more rick
| city than ever before, because of my having
torn away to make preparations 10 build
Now have spent my salary three time over,
since l first started on this Kanzas mission,
and spent nearly all that l had or could raise.
But what is my case to that of hundreds of
Others who have lost their all Aid must be
raised for them, or there will be sore distress.
| There are men who have been in arms, away
| from their home, in the hardest service, for
three or four weeks, repelling the Zoe Wild
have been threatening us with utter extermi-
nation. Some of these return and find in the
place oftheir homes nothing but heap of ash
es, and their families, racked with terror, liv-
ing on the charity of neghbOrs Nearly four
hundred dollars has been entrusted to me for
relief purposes, since last left the East, and
l am now engaged in discussing the last quar-
ter of it, which l had hoped to retain to the
time ofyet more pressing need on the approach
Of cold weather."
VESSEL WRECKED ON LYNN BEACH. The
schooner Spark, Capt Ephraim Carlisle, from
Bristol, Me-, for Boston, loaded with wood, came
ashore on Long Beach, between Lynn and Little
Nahant, Tuesday morning, by mistaking the
light on Little Egg Rock for Long Island light
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