New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-11

the missouri, ana inc ihnnos""'o'
border and anxious for trade, have ende"vorod a.
much as possible to hold neutral POSITION ln0
Weston people, resolved to have no neusr.i''' GU
tered the town and required all able-bodied men 70
enlist into Atchison's army. light ensued III
which several men were killed and several houses
burnt. while more than fifty Of the inhsoitants were
compelled to fly for their lives on board the steamer
Polar Star. These fugitiyes had arrived al 81.
Louis, and as there were many among them wnom
there was no pretense even to call Abolitonlsts'
this Outrage cannot but have its effect 10 open inc
eyes of even the most violent Pro-oia'ery "en "
the true character of the invaders OF kansas'
Of the exploits of Gen. Richardson AZ the nea"
of the northern Border Rufiansrmy we near no'n,
ing. The ST. Louis papers inform us tha' inc gran"
attack on Lawrence is put on Tor VIVA VI
two. In the mean time they find consolation In .
story that Judge Lecompte had issued process OF
arrest against Lane for treason, and that Colone'
Cook. commanding fourteen companies OF " :"
troops at Fort Riley had been directed oy uener"
Smith TO act as a posse to the Marshal But ~
Smith in bis letter to the War Department, de-
c.res that the whole force under his command does
not exceed FIVE hundred men, these fourteen CON-
nsn;es must be rather thin 1t is an ingenious pro-
cess 70 overthrow ones enemy by arresting the
commander of his army for treason, but very mucn'
rs il seems to u.s. like catching birds putting salt
on their tails. We have our doubts whether Lane
can be disposed of in that way. In the mean time
what the beleaguered Free-State men want
money. and the relief that money can afford.
Among the Kansas documents which we publish
TO-DAY is letter from Martin Stowell, one OF the
leaders of Lanes army, so absurdly called ana
founder and chief magistrate OF the town oi Lex
ington. one Of the new settlements established ny
Lanes party on the road recently opened from Ne
braska CITY to Topeka 1t appears from this letter
that the employment Of these terrible soldiers OF
Lane, against whom, as invaders OF the Territory
the President is ready to employ all the forces oil
the United States in conjunction with the BORDER
Ruftian armies of AtchisOn and Rchardson-it ap'
pears we say, from hsletter, that the employment
of these emigrants about whom 80 many frlghtiui
stories were told, was Laying out town. secur-
ling wood claims, building houses, Piowing' secur'
oing hay, digging wells, making roads, &c. oucn
are the reasonable and insurrectionary employ
ments which, in the opinion of the President and
of Atchison, require the whole force OF the coun'
try, regular as well as Border Ruftan' 70 Dc eA'
erted for their speedy expulsion.
Another letter, copied from Boston paper and
addressed to Mr.. A. A. Lawrence Of that CITY,
gives new confirmation to the idea that the "wip'
ing OUT of the Free-State settlers is not 80 easy
an operation. The civil war has been weapon
that has cut both ways 1t drives out and is drlv'
ing out more Pro-Slavery than Free-State settlers.
The Pro.slavery settlers, as general thing, come
into the country not on motives of sentiment, but
merely to settle to advantage. The civil war Is In.
compatible not only with profit but with safety and
they are rapidly moving out Of the Territory. This
letter also confirms what we have already said
that what is needed to sustain the Free-Stafe men
in spite of Border Ruflians, whether in tho Ierri-
tory or at Washington, is money.