New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-03
tered againss the i'd Eae-belfy Yankees g,ee.,

VI eXlfe0 before. but fYiVh,-
fol an extent ss at this moment.
BAD as the present, 1t .l no. stop the Free state
investigation, nor has il eubdued or epyed the YAM
kee spirit- While caution and prudence govern the
Northern man III conversation, he still is nerved for
the conflict, and will not surrender his purposes
Business ia at a complete standstill Merchants
here who have been in the receipt Of $500 and e50o
day for goods, are now receiving literally nothing.
By late messengers from Lawrence, we are in pos-
session OF all the facts in regard 20 the seckng of that
place. Early on "Wednesday morning the 2lst, Cspi-
tol Hill was covered with the forces of the enemy
This bill hes southwest from the hotel DESTROYED ab ,ut
half a mile II il high bluff commanding the town
and the country around for many miles On this spot
stood RobinsOn's house.
In the course Ofthe morning these forces numbering
from COO TO 500 men, were Ora xn up in military posi-
ton. The United States Marshal, attended with
posse Of 90 to 80 men, entered the town about 10,
o'clock, and demanded the surrender of certain men
He was told that obstruction would be put in the
way Of their arrest and help rendered in doing il
by bis ORDER -Four arrests WERE made, two Of them
were afterward liberated.
The Marshal then lef With hs men ard prisoners,
and as it ia reported discharged his posse. Jones the
Sheriff, having recovered from his wounds, ap-
p6ared with considerable company of men and haul
ed up before the hotel and stated that the Grand Jury
had declared the hotel and the two printing Of
fices to be nutsonce, AID he had come to
de.troy them. But the arms Of the citizens
must first be given up He was told that be was at
liberty to take all the be could find; but that
they would not aseist or oppose him. He found some
dozen or twenty rifles, and a cannon. He then told
the proprietor of the hotel Col. Eldrd2e, TO
his furniture from the house. The Colonel declining
he ordered his men to remove very little Of it, and
then commenced cannOnade against the north
wall. Not affecting the walls much, they mounted
the building and commenced throwing down the
stones, one Of which struck the head Of one
of their own men and killed him instantly.
This being too much labor COR Southern hands,
they endeavored to blow it up with powder Accord.
irgly blast put into the cellar which amounted
10 great smoke aud the sbvering of few windows.
The torch was then applied and the fine "Free-State
Hotel" Of Lawrence, the only building worthy to be
called hotel in the Territory heap of ruins,
very nearly the entire walls falling to the ground.
The two printing Offices, The Herald Of Freedom,
and The Free State were next honored with the re-
spects of this valiant amythe whole force from the
Hill having entered the city before the attack was
made the hotel The presses were broken to pieces,
and the type cases and paper were scattered through
the streets and thrown into the river.
Then commenced the pillage and robbery of private
dwellings; money and articles of value sought
for and obtained One Moro, a recent settler, lost
$4,000. Jewelry, fine clothes, everything portable
and of value was freely taken. The people avoided
contact with the mob az much as possible. No other
bBdipge i'll the town were mjnred
Before the attack upon the hotel dinner pre-
pared by the proprietor for company of these men.
After eating sumptuousy they arose from the table,
divided into different rooms, opened drawers and
trunks filed their pockets with such things as they
could frd.
On their return TO the hill they burned Robinson's
house.
The next morning company, numbering from sixty
to one hundred persons, came down, and wished to
pass through the town to the ferry, as they stated for
Ltavenworth City. No disturbance offered on
either side.
1t is reported that this company and another are to
visit Topeka; and after displaying their gsantry in
the sackng of that town, they then to visit this
place for the same purpose.
1t will be most distinctly that their purpose of
collecting this pretended posse WAS not to enable the
officer to make his arrests for the citizens, distinctly
and Immediately after the Marshal issued his prooa-
nation, informed him that obstacle would be
put in his way in serving his writs The act
of pllagDg and sackipg the place only proves long
precOncerted and determined plan. The shooting of
Jones by some uDscrupuOus assassin, for which the
citizens should not be held accountable and the resist
alce of Reeder, were seized as preteXts to hurry
forward the design aud make it more barbarous in its
execution.
One of the proprietors of the Lawrence Hotel has
lust arrived He says their loss in furniture, stores,
&c will amount to so, 900, aud the conduct of the
mob in destroy ing private property, opening trunks,
tearng in pieces the dresses of the women, and scat
I, ring them through the street, was more revolving
than can be conceived and this, they claim, has al
been done according to law
An espionage set upon the Free state men, by
which every movement of the prominent ones to be
noted as well their conversation. They are to be
worried and hunted from point to another so as to
perpex aid harass the business men, mghten the
tmid and eft ctualy stop emigration from the North
Tie Southern men are held in check ana suDordinh'
ten by the promise of punder and the succession to
tbe CLAIMS of the Abolitionsts; and ali this Is to be
done under the sanction Of Jones, with the approval OF
the President and his officials. r.