New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-02

"n the aw of treason and cuisance will be oon,si,ed
10 make additions TO their works under those titl,
Lceit I've understood by the whole country Aha,
even The machinery put in the hands of the Slavery
fanatics of Kansas by the Missouri invaders is soue
"hat deiective that with all the power of the United
states 10 back them in the bona fde and male fde en-
iorcement of the laws passed by the socaled fer.
nio'ih Legislature, resort must still be had TO tho
moet contemplate and dssraceful legal shifts and pre-
tenses. fhe charges of treason against Robinson and
others, and the alleged action of the Grand
jury in declaring the hotel in Lawrence nuis
anoe ETC. would be simply l.ughable, were it
not Tint they are actually used as means to
destroy ard crush an opposing party Who
20 great fool as not 10 that the sworn officers of
The law are but the per urcd agents of violent and
srprncP'cd party Can II be that the people of this
country, of the North in particular will permit a gem
erous people to be crushed by such system of
law" The remedy is in the hands Of the people
OF the North. Let US -ee il they will apply it.
Coue.pondsn., of sbe Missouri Democrat.
ST. LOUIS, Monday, May eG, 1856.
left Lesvenworth Friday last, and regret to say
that great excitement prevailed in that city in
quence of the sackng of Lawrence and other ontrages
that have been committed in Kansas. About 300
United States dragons left Fort LeavenwOrth and it
was supposed they were destined to Topeka. Peace
and searched, and all those that had arms had them
taken from them. This treatment Of travellers betwees
Leavenwoith and Lawrence was very common. 1.-THE
so-caled marsbaPs posse wanted horse and they met
traveller, he made to give il up stand the
sequences The Congressional Committees lives
threatened daily by the rsbble
Report says that the regulators falling back TO
TOveka ana tbrt ats had been made that they would
burn that city also. majority of those who sacked
Lawrence were virtually nOn-.esdents-they were
from Missouri. ,ome FROM Georgia and Aabamt
Corrcspotder &C Of Tie Mi soun Democra'.
NICHOLS House., TOPEKA. May lG, 1856.
Early this morning a company Of about fifty men
marched VITO this city fally armed and equipped Tney
70 Lawrence to prot ct it from being destroyed.
Yesterday afternoon these men received Information
Of a cont mplated attack upon "YankeetOwn," by
the posse -uIomoned by United Staes Off als. Each
one should red his rife bid adieu to his wife and little
ones rallied together, and in less than two hours after
word was 6t received Of o contemplated attack, they
were eD-rOnte, and after king all night over very
wet and muddy road they reached this city here to
await further intelligence.
a company under command of Mr.. Brown, came in
last night. Mr. Brown and a member of the company
e rLawrence, to get the news and further orders ia
the mean time the company remain here.
wagon containing supply OF OF arms tor the people
pretending to act with and by the authority of the
United States Marshal and they stop all teams on the
way Lawrence, examine their contents, and If arms
are found, appropriate them to their own use.
Travellers stopped on the road near LecomptOn,
by body Of men eamped there who under pay Of
the Uritcd States, the Marsbals posse, and asked
insulting questions, taken away from them, and
held as prisoners of Mr.. Josiah Miller editor of
The Fee St0te, published at Lawrence, was taken
by them to-day at LocOmptOn, and is now held as a
2 soner.
CsneGI on snoe of Tt Missouri Dsn,cra..
FRIMOET HOUSE, TOPEKA, kansas, May II.
Yesterday afternoon, Messrs. Brown and Todd of
Brownvlle, DIR. Root and NJ. Mitchell of Vaubousa,
lett Lawrence together for til, city. The four gentle
men were riding horseback, and as they passed the
eLcaInpno of the United States Marsbars posse To-
Gated eight or ten miles this side of Lawrence
cane ont from the camp and commanded the
psrty TO halt This command refused TO obey
but put spurs tOthir horses. in hopes to escape. Ii
after dark, AMI tie regulator seeing the party
going off stated after them and discharged their
pieces. The two Brownvile men reached here in
sifty. end nothing was head of Dr. Root or air;
Mitchell uutii this noon, when gentleman came III and
reported that he heard the men in camp b'astng OF
having chased four id Yankees aud shot two OF |
them. TIE opinion prevails here that the two men |
have been murdered aud many circumstances con !
nected with the affair 60 TO confirm such conclusion
The two Murdered men were members OF the New
Haven colony anc arrived here about one month |
since ard with the colony made settlement at Vau-
bOusa. They ON their return from Lawrence, |
where they had been q day OF two on business, ana
they have been murdered in cold blood by men called
together by Mr.. Donaldson, United States Marshal,
who has Civ his posse instructions to station theh
seves on the diff rent h hways leading from Lawrence,
and stop, question ind di-arm all Free-Stste men
travelling over the roads. Many outrages have boon
committed by these men-cdttle naNhlS oeeh eho'
Wagons stopped on the road and tulpptd OF ther coA
tents iii sarned and held az prisoners oi war;
and two of our beet citizens murdered
CotrcsronS-uoe Of TIE Missouri Democrat ~
FRTMoNT HOUSE TOPEKA, May Is, ls16
Two young men. but just arrived from ILLINOIS, we're
taken pr BY the Marshals posse, near Lecomp-
ton end he Id as such uut they both promised to leave
the STATE and ne yer return. Ga getting from these
Young men such promise the MarshaFs regulators
allowed them to leave the camp with the understand
ing that if they were taken prisoners agan by
then, they must suffer death. ~
military company, cOmmaGded by Judge W oOu'
worth, arrived this afternoon from Mshhattal' en
route for swreuce, the seat OF war lhey were e''
corted 10 town by the Topeka Dragons, and re-
ceived w toe citizehs IN front OF the 1aIVey nou
Can't Woodwork, in behalf of the Manhattan com
pany mao a peat speech which was responded To ny
the oitizers generally who gave three hearty cheer'
and The crowd separated for supper ~
From The Occidental Messenger, published at inde-
penseoce No, we CLEAN the following:
"Ihc hotel and printing offices were destroyed u!
virtue of authority from the Grand jury OF Douglas
county, Tie Jury had declared the hoel and pilntuS
oces "a uujsauccs and 80 decrced their destruction
The patty attempted to destroy the ho'e Nih cannon
and oyGer bat at length set on ire 'sthe most eN-
n.dtious way of deslroyi it. Dr. Robinsons house
Yyas also buIned. but not by authority. After Robin
sons house had been fired some mau was observed 10
mn ont from Il he ordered to hat, but hot uo'nS
so wa. shot down. This the only person killed, rs
far as we could learn, except one OF tne iTo-SaVery
men who met his death IN most SsguItt niuue,'
n. fired a rife h 4lr at the chimney OF Robinson :
Iorse the hall shattered one of the stones of he chin
nov a piece Of which e and struck hip on the hea
and killed h,m We learn that large qulntiy III
rTovi,ion- were in the hotel when Il WAS burned No
kurther damage done TO persons or properly thAu
,be shave 40 far : could learn. Men under eA-
cemort are apt TO commit excesses, and in this case
-. he ctccedcd their duty, but we glad TO