M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-07-24
How Matters stand in Kansas.

| Inc Albany wv. IL dUaS anu argus,
publishes a statement Of DR., Googhan, who
resided in that city until March, 1856. when
he went TO Kansas. He has just returned
and reports in substance as follows;--
He was driven from Topeka by the Free
State party, who had organized band Of for
ty men sworn to kill the U. MarShal'spar-
ty.
The state Of insunecton and disorder is
confined to three points-Topeka, Hickory
Point and Lawrence. Col. Sumner ic dri.
wing with grca; vigor all armed bands out oil
The territory.
But the great bulk Of the ou irages have
been committed by the Free Stats men, as the
maraudiug and predatory bands call them
selves. There main object is theft; but when
they take horses Expressing for the army oil
The North" they call it) they lay hands upon
whatever isnearest; and ifTesis,ance is made
they do not hesitate at murder,
The Hickory Point murders--fve men
muliated and tortured with worse than In.
dian cruelties, in one night. and Afterwards
killed-were perpetratea by this party with
out provocation under the lead OF an Ohio
man, "Ussawatomie Brown" One Of these
murders was particularly atro;ious.
These maurauding parties generally go out
al night, when they burn houses and fire in.
TO dwellings, and generally succeed in esca.
ping. On the 18th Of June, Haney, living in
the precintcs of Lawrence, deputy Sheriff,
was attacked by band Of nine or ten maur.
auders, under command Of Hopkins, OF Mich
igan. They had lired into his bed the night
before, and he lay on the the floor in the cen
ter Of the room.
This time .ney discharged their pistols and
guns so close that the bed was no fire. Han.
ey hsi only horse pistol, which he fired at
lie leader. who was seeking 10 disguise his
person in an Indian blanket. The shot was
a fatal one, and Hopkins fell pierced through
the heart, and the Others fed; but Haney had
to take refuge in the camp Of Col. Sum-
ner.
They had in their possession large num-
Der OF stolen Tor "pressed") horses, which
they had arranged With the lerryman to take
across the river.
This Hopkins was captain Of one Of the
Lawrence companies.
DR.. G. says that the reason why the Law
ence Hotel was destroyed, was because it
was an armed fortress. 1t was concrete
building, the walls some two feet thick with
strong roof, sufficient to bear the weight ol
several six. .poUnders, a parapet three feet high,
pierced for cannon. the loop.holes concealed
BY thih coating Of mortar. 1t was regu-
lar fortress and depot ofarms, and was on.
ly destroyed after il had been so pronounced
by the grand jury and declared nuisance.
DR.. e went to Kansas without any preju-
dices against the so-caled Fee State men. In
deed, he acted with them until they took trea-
sonable ground. lfthey had obeyed the laws
and gone on quietly he is sure they would have
had majority Of four to one in the territory.
The Northern States were sending in an emf
gratiun Of ten to one. The first emigrants
from the South came without slaves, and
had no desire TO introduce them. But the
REASONABLE Topeka movement drove these
men and a great number Of the Northern
men into the ranks of law and order. These
have been denounced abroad AMI assailed as
pro-sIavery men; and doubtless, at the time,
that party is in the minority, But the State
is destined to be free one; and there would
not have ever beeu question Of this, at this
day. but for the criminal folly Of the so call.
ed Free State men.