New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-16

1t would seem by the accounts from Kansas
which we publish to-day that the scheme of Marcy,
Gushing and Davis, of giving the Border RuAians
of Missouri free scope for "wipiDg OUT the Free
State men of Kansas, does not succeed and that,
if they wish to accomplish that favorite object,
they must now take hold in person and do it by
means of the United States troops. 1t would
appear that the Border Rufians, with those some.
time since introduced into the Territory from
Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama, as well as
the fresh army raised in Missouri by StringfellOw
and Atchison, in spite of the cruel murders and
villainous Outrages which they have perpetrated,
have totally failed in their leading object and have
been driven out of the Territory, or back to its
extreme borders in total disgrace.
A new letter which we publish to-day from one of
the Free-State men of Osawattamie about com.
pletes the account Of the attack upon that town.
The result of Atchison's campaign, at the head of
fifteen hundred men with eight pieces Of artillery,
may be summed up pretty much as follows: Forty
houses and steam saw.nill, two stores and the
post-ofice and mail-bags burnt at Osawatta-
ME; three Frec-SOil men killed, FIVE wounded
and seven taken prisoners, two of whom
were afterward barbarousy murdered in cold
blood. On the Border. Ruffian side, FIVE wounded
In addition, they burned the house of Mr.. Jones,
civilized Indian living under the protection of the
United States on the Ottawa reserve, stole from
him ST. 900 in silver, and destroyed his property to
the amount of several Thousand dollars more beside
attempting to kill sick man in the house by cutting
bir throat, an enterprise in which they did not
coed. They also attacked house at Prairie City,
but took to fight without doing any mischief, upon
being told by woman that there were hundred
men in it, whereas there were but five. Upon the
approach Of few hundred men under Lane, the
whole force rapidly retreated till they found them
selves within the Missouri border, where they have
since dwindled almost to nothing.
There is one feature Of the attack upon Osswat-
TAME, to which we desire to call the particular at
tention of Secretary Marcy. From his recent in.
st1uctions telegraphed to Governor Geary. it would
appear that while he looks upon murder and arson
at least the murder of Free-State men, and the
burning of their housewife perfect cOmpOsure,
not with secret satisfaction he regards an attack
upon a pOst-Office as horrible crime. Now, Mr..
Marcy will please to take notice or if he does not
the public willy that in the attack upon Osawatta-
ME, the mail, which had just arrived, was seized
upon, and the letters broken open and destroyed.
The unfortunate town of LeavenwOrth, where
the greater part of the FreeState men were of but
half-andhalf sort, has been the greatest sufferer.
Two men have certainly been killed there and
probably more. Nothing has yet been heard of the
Rev. Mr. Mute, and there is great reason to fear
that he has been murdered. More than hundred
persons, including probably much the larger part of
the active business men, have been driven away,
leaving the town in state Of desolatiOn; the re-
naming population, in dread Of an imaginary attack
from Lane, and exposed to the robberes and plum.
der Of body of rufiians led by one Miller.
Of the exploits Of Acting Governor WoOdsOn
and his troops collected at Lecompton, we only
know that they have burned all the houses Of Free
State men within their reach, and have seized as
prisoners all the Free-State men on whom they
could lay their hands. They have, however, been
held in check BY the forces at Lawrence and To-
peka. Gov. Geary arrived at Leavenworth on the
9th We shall soon see what he intends to do.
The Free State forces, it appears, detained only
Of the Santa Fe trains the proprietor of which
is person who has been very active against them.
The other two trains they allowed to pass, though
they might plausbly enough have detained the
whole as pledge for the large amount of Kansas
property seized and now detained in Missouri.