Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-05-10
HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM KANSAS
LAWRENCE UNDER MARTIAL LAW
THE MILITARY ENFORCING TIE
BLOODY CODE.

1.-THE Westport correspondent of the 81. Louis
Republican, telegraphs that DR.. Mckee, Sheriff
JONES physician, wrote to him on the 10Th OF
April, that the patient would recover. No fear
was entertained that the wound would prove fatal,
and JONES was resting easy.
Colonel SUMNER arrived at Lawrence on the
25th, with his whole command, and threatened
terrible vengeance against those who had fired
into the tent of his Lieutenant. lie was very stern
in his bearing and demands, and expressed a deter
mination to reduce the people to obedience. ROBIN
son and REEDER charged the act on the pro-slavery
party, and maintained that they had instigated
every act of violence. Colonel SUMNER said that
the charge was utterly false, and that if Governor
SHANNON would leave the whole matter to him, he
could very quickly settle it, and teach the restless
and heads!rong people a s~alutary lesson.
"The correspondent of the 81. Louis Democrat
writes that, on the 25th of April Sheriff Jones was
removed from Lawrence to Franklin. He was
accompanied by Stringfellow and Whitfield, who
pretend .hat they dare not stay in Lawrence +;
though The town was in the possession of troops
sent there to force the free State mon to obey the
laws passed by their Legislature I!
A CUNNING TRICK.
Stringfellow went before the Congressional Com
mittee of Investigation, and demanded the privilege
of procuring counsel and examining certain wit
nesses in relation to the commencement of the
Kansas troubles. MT. Howard, CHAIRMAN OF tho
Committee, said that it would be impossible to
grant such a strange request, as the object for
which the came, was, not to establish
an inquisition, but to examine the condition of
affairs, and to investigate the alleged election
frauds. There was no time for delay and if the
Committee constituted itself a Court of inquisition,
it would defeat the object Of its mission, without
making any progress whatever in the business.
MARTIAL LAW.
"Another correspondent of the Democrat writes
under date of the Goth, that Sam. Lattus, Deputy
Sheriff of Douglas county, has prepared writs for
the arrest of more than one hundred citizens of
Lawrence, charged with disobeying the territorial
laws. A military force will be kept at Lawrence
til, all the proposed arrests are made, and till the
prisoners are conveyed to Locompton, where they
are to be confined till their trial. Colonel Sumner
has declared that ho will, at all hazards, reduce
the people to obedience,
PUBLIC MEETING.
"a meeting Of the free State men was held on
the evening of the 25th of April, at which, speech
es were delivered by Reeder, Robinson, and others.
In which the shooting of Jones was severely con-
demned. Robinson offered a reward of five hun
dred dollars for the arrest of the guilty parties. 1t
is said that the tent in which Jones was shot, was
guarded by troops when the act was committed,
and that no free State men were permitted to come
near it.-This circumstance is q little suspicious.
1t would seem probable that some hired tool of
Shannon or Stringfellow, tried to take the Sherif7s
life, in order to cast a stigma upon the character of
the free State men,"