Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-09-24
From Our own Correspondent.
FROM KANSAS.

Il =
t. Report Is tonight that . battle WIS fought At
II Osaxatame, in which Cline With his company Of
= 20 and Rsosn with his company Of su oppo-ed
$50 Missourisas and held their ground for two
= hours. Capt Cline describes IL somewhat as,
3 follows:
The Missoarians appeared on the hill early IN
: the morning and commenced an attaek With
: three cannon and their small arms. Captiia
Brown and myself Immediately threw our men
I into the brush and kept up resistance until
4 some Of our men had put their last load Of an.
s muntion Into their rifles, when We retreated
G and in doing so had to swim the river, the bull
lets whstling around and the grape shot pour
!. ing down like hail. The MisSourians then went
4 into the town and burned everything it contain-
! ed. Brown and Cline lost four men and had
E several wounded The Missourans lost IL and
, about 20 wounded. Cline and his men took one
. . direction and Brown with his took another, and
has not since been heard of, but presume he
K is locking around ready to pitch into his enemy
wherever he gets an opportunity.
This morning the first regiment started to-
wards Topeka, TO escort some new recruits that
4 are on their way to Lawrence. 1t is expected
q that they will be intercepted on their way by a
large force which is now stationed at Lecomp-
4 ton. House burning and stealing is going on
at great rate and Stringfellow is at their head,
Titus Is getting better and will soon be able to
be about again among his old companions and be
i at their head in their midnight excursions
1 0. B.
4 tsas
September, lst, 1856.
/ Nothing OF importance transpired to-day, on
account of its raining all the forenoon. Last
night, the houses OF two or three free state men
were burned and some OF our scouts taken pr-
soners. The men who went with the teams to
4 Leavenwor,h last Wednesday were removed to
/ Lecompton, to-day and placed in the hands Of
the cut-throats in the camp at that place. Mar
ahal Donaldson is hard at work trying to get up
an excitement. Woodson has issued a procla.
nation calling out all the militia and commando
| ing them to rendezvous at Lecompton immeti-
| ately His proclamation was dated one week
previous TO its being issued in order that those
who had already assembled might have the full
benefit of it and be enrolled at once as the Reg .
uiar Constituted Militia Of Kunsas Territory, |
and have the privilege of running over the Ter
| ritory rummaging, ransacklng, plundering, bur-
ming and killing everything that comes in their /
way. We had ascertained that Dave Atchison {
was in the Missouri camp at Bull Creek, and that
it was commanded by Col. Golfer of Missouri
A large reinforcement arrived here tonight
from Topeka, numbering 100 under Col Cody.
Itisthe same that the FIRST regiment went up to
meet at Topeka yesterday. They had lett their
settlement and had formed in the northern por-
ton of the Territory to assist US in fighting for
our liberties At Tecumseh party had form
ed to intercept them, but it Immediately fed on
the approach of the first regiment to their aid.
They brought us some ammunition which will II
be great help at this time, Tor if ever an army =
was destitute this is and we are going to be in
tight place fear before our condition is bet
tered, unless have assistance from our north.
ern friends and they must assist US OF we shall
fail. 1t is impossible TOR US to hold out long v
without obtaining aid, for th,re has not been G
but $4,000 brought in this fall. The question a
now is Who ,uiA help use 0. B. C
b. September, 9. 8
Of Lecompton and camped at Coon Point. The
Topeka companies went home last night, and to- 1t Il
day they went down to Tccumseh and took pos
session of several stands OF arms, large
amount of provisions and gave receipt tor
them from the Central committee. We come
to the conclusion it will do starve as long
as the enemy have anything to support u.s. g
The attempt was made to ascertain who was
in need OF clothing and the necessaries Of life, d
when it was found that it would tane thousands "
of dollars to cothe our army in a comfortable
manner. l have purchased to-day over 500 II
worth of clothing to supply pants, shirts and
boots for those that have none, and have had al
application, for as much more from those who p
will have nothing in few days. 1t is certainly u
hard to see hundreds marching bare-iooted IN
the prairie grass when we have not the means y
Of supplying their destitutlon. Numbers OF
our men who appear well, or at least comtorta-
bly, dressed have nothing but what they have &
borrowed from their friends. And now what
would our friends in the north say if we would u
make descent upon Lecompton and Leayen- II
worth and appropriate everything we could mud
they censure us, or would they approve of our
action
lis evident that we must be supplied. Win d
ter is approaching and much suffering will en-
sue. Therefore, We would most earnestly Call up
on the north to lend US their aid and assist US
to maintain our present position. We would
ask them TO remember that we are not fighting
for ourselves alone but for the whole north. 1t
is u common cause and one which must be sup
ported The north thus far has done nobly.-
Let them do more. OBJ.
September, 8, 1856. t
We have received some relniorcements to- A
day and everything presents a favorable appear a
ance. A man arrived here tonight with a shock
ing bad wound in his under jaw. He says that +
in company with two others he was travelling on t
the Leavenworth road to this place when they a
were overtaken by party OF rangers, and ta' s
ken prisoners After few moments conversa- c
ton they were left in charge of three men who +
marched them along the road. They, thinking t
they would be released in short time, I
made no attempt to escape, when at given sig
nal all three were shot, the Others being Instant 4
ly killed and he receiving broken jaw. He &
Law perfectly still and heard the rufians remark ,
that they were all dead but as soon as they rode
off he crawled into the bushes, and bandaging 4
his wound started for this place which be reach
ed in 81 hours after the deed was done, without
any nourishmenl and without meeting with amy
one. The rufian who slot him stood SO close
that his face is blown iull OF powder and it 10
| nov swelled to an enormous size.
This is our return for the well treatment Of
our prisoners and sparing themselves. OBJ.
/ September 4, 1856.
Marshall Donaldson (poslscript-) came into
town to-day at the head Of 2uu o. S. troops and
made inquiries fora good many of our citizens