Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-09-24

i caution to hare = few bomb shells along Il
would have given them ! hoist and learned th,
J that an uncovered fort would not protect thu
against abolition Yankees
A better position could not often be found
= beseiging army than We then had possession
Jus. as all was ready Lane sent demand for
surrender and while the messenger was out he
came force Of 600 @. s. troops and shr
pieces Of artillery which we're immediate
wheeled into line. Before We were ready
pitch in, Col. Cook Gu. 81 asked what We d
manded. Lane said the surrender Of all p'
soners held by the rufians and that the Kans'
Militia should disband and move home. Coo
answered that it should be done, and after SON
delays and discussions, an understanding va
effected and wc again returned to Lawrence. /.
While negotiations were going on betwee
Cook and Lane, Kramer, dept. U. S. Marsha
came up in . great bluster and demanded {
Cook that he should arrest Lane immediately
Our boys laid hold of Kramer, disarmed him an
Cook told him he had better take another da
for that job. Cook also told Lane that the fre
state party had everything in their own hands
and if they only used due precaution all woul
oe right.
We heard to-day that the settlements of Ply
mouth and Lexington founded by our friend
this fall on the Nebraska City and Topeka roa,
had been burned by the rutiians. 0. B.
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September, 6, SO.
:All is rather quiet to-day, on account Of ou
army being quite tired and are desirous Of rest
A messenger ras sent to Col. Whipple thi'
morning ordering him to open the roAl from
Topeka to Nebraska 80 that our supplies woult
not be cut Oft.
Col. Richardson came into town to-day as he
said to try and effect peace. He had assurance
from Mr.. Hutchison who was prisoner at lie
that if he yentured into Lawrence he
would not be harmed aud by his coming among
Is paid US the highest complement man could.
70 show that he could place so much confidence
II US (aiter being our worst enemy and leading
he rLffian band against us twice. as to put HIM
elf entirely in our power. He as well as any
,ther man in Kansas knows that one of our lead
ng men could not have done that in one OF
nelr towns. He stated that lie would see that
he Kansas militia went to their homes in Mis-.
ouri. Mark the language well. Although the
in chet of the Kansas Militia, yet
e says they live in Missouri. ..su ......
z A y,, ,pDo;ptaj ,y,;t m Col
'ook and ask of him to open the road from
ere to Leayenworth. He said he could not
o it. Our commander then told him we should
o it ourselves. OBJ.
f .~ September Z.
To-day is Sunday and everything is quiet in
.ansas. But one fight has occurred on the
treet to-day. sa,
1t has been decided in council to move to.
ards Leavenworth tomorrow. The prisoners
ON Lecompton arrived to-day, and "Old Pot
Brown has again turned up and as
e rode into town the shouts were most deafen-
lg. He had not been heard of before since
,e battle of OF Ossawattamie. Tomorrow the
'a Of Robinson l. Co. comes on. O.B.
utrages In Kansas upon a former cite
izen Of Dcs NIOines County.
Rev. George Lewis, formerly minister Of the
Telsh Christian Society, on Flint Creek in this
ounty, emgrated to Kansas about year and
halt ago, and made valuable claim near Le-
,mpton. A letter recently received from him,
ives an account of the burning of his house by
le Border Ruffians on Monday night, the first
September We give some extracts from the
tier. 1t is addressed to the Rev. W. Salter,
astor of the Congregational Church in this city:
SUNDAY NIGHT.-The U. S. soldiers conveyed
ord to my family that there was an mention
burn my house. Ny family moved away and
'ok what they could off with them to the o. S.
imp, and then Monday morning my family
me back and moved nearly every thing away.
I'd Monday night my house, with three others,
as burnt to the ground. l had to leave home
lturday evening, because l thought it unsafe
r me to remain, and am still convinced that
did not leave any too soon. for had remained
home till Sunday l would have been taken
'isoner or pressed into service by them, for
icy came to my house and one Of them said to
y second son, who is in his 10Th year, II know
ou are an Aboiitionist," and taking out his re-
Diver and cooking it, said, II aciH shoot yom
he boy, upon hearing such threat, tall to the
'ound, when another, who either had little
ore humanity about him or was not so much
1der the dominion of King Alcohol, stepped
rward and told him, "If you shoot a little boy,
shall shoot you," and the boy was saved. Some
me on Sunday understood they rode through
y cornfeld as though it were public thorough
re, and ever since then have been riding thro'
4 the time. Iprcsume all my corn is destroy
!, which was all had for the next winter to
epend upon for the support of my family.
n now left without house and without any
ling to sustain my family.
The pro-slavery party are still gathering in
,eir forces at Lecompton; they go in squads
trough the country, and burn and plunder
henever they can Fl I'd an opportunity.
Since writing the above the Freesoiers went
Lecompton and had not the U. S. troops in
.rfered, fight would have oeen the result.
n interchange Of prisoners took place and the
rmy returned without any shedding of blood.
T..en the officer of the U. s. troops came to the
reesoil army, he enquired: "How rs at that
te Missourians call on as to interfere for them
nd you have to do your oa. .fghtiag." The U.
. soldiers have become SO much enragcd at their
onduct that the officers can hardly keep them
rom pitching into them, the Missourians.) The
roops can Judge for themselves, and see who is
0 blame. ass5a .a-.
have seen my wife and found out what was
aved when my house was burned. She had
ot off the most valuable books, clothing and pro-
isions; but many books, periodicals, and pa
ers, were in the house when it was committed
D the flames. The house and everything which
sas lost with it. had cost me about $500 at
east, but the loss I would consider more tnan
hat Then my corn field, which l have no
loubt will be an entire loss to me, would have
,een worth $500, could have saved it. am
low farther back than was year ago; then
was in fair way of getting logs for the house
,,.d had rpoxns tn on IN nov have M mo a nj