The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-08
MORE EXCITING NEWS FROM KANSAS.
Our Kansas Ci,y CORE : pon.lence.
KANSAS CRY, NO., May %, 1856.

two sons were brutay butcbered by the free State
rusps Saturday evening last TEis gentleman states
that the and statements OF poor woman
are hsarittndiIg. She says they all In bed and
asleep; were awakened BY soma persons demanding i'd
mission at the door, and opened IT, when sixteen
armed men entered and ordered her husband and two
sopsto accompany them their prisoners. The unfor
'tunate not pc rmitted to put on their
clothss-,hey informed that 1t not necessary
The poor pleaded for their lives, saying, son.
have you wife children of your ownp To
this ono brute replied, "No, by God, have not"
Another, however, said he had. Them" said she
ooh, think what would be their feelings if they
TO % placed IN the situation that about TO DO
But 1t was Of no They dragged from the
after having been beaten with svitch. Not satisfied
in she would be safe but she dared TO step outside Of
the door shs would be murdered too And she thus
left with tsls boy and girl, while these devils in ha
man form dragged their cspves just side the dwell
Ing and Than the report Of two pistols, groans and
unavs,lng prayers for mercy we're heard sOh," said
she, there are the last cries Of OF my family"
Her little child the GIRL tried to comfort her. The boy,
. lad OF fourteen whom the ends wished to take pri
sonsr also. had, in the meantime, been sufsrsd-by
Let the fanatics OF the North imagine tbs feel
ss Of ,n but few - S ~ wife hI and
band and her two sons Got some one and twenty
II pe p snS 10
degree 81 which even Indian would shudder
Tie windpips Of The old man for instance Vas entirely
OF the young men ha, the face and head scaraed and
the hands are cut and chopped up with owle knife.
These poor boys not at Lawrence at the time the
Free State Hotel destroyed They innocent VIC
TINS to the policy OF the free SAFE men.
Another Of the murdered men-for there were eight,
in all ked-was mutilated and thrown into the creek.
Their ears were cut of close to their heads.
A free State man, named Moss. is presamsd to know
who tbese assassns are he is In custody and viii do
well to make clean breast Of it. These bru'es-
cannot call them men-are presumed to ,pg to an
organized prominent
part which they have played lately free State politics
and Theodore Parker school OF Kansas theology.
But the day Of vengeance is at ELECTROMAGNETIC are
raising in every border Thirty marched from
WespoIt this afternoon; they carry coil OF rops with
them and will long hear Of that stern revenge
which the Of the border will take for their violated
lection redress and the 'sBoIder rufhans" win
soon prove, il such things these TO continue,
that they will deserve their name.
KANSAS Cry, May %, 1856.
zhe Outrage and Murder Committed BY the Free State Men
Upon the Pro slavery Inhabitants
We in the midat of terrible state Of things.
warfare which would disgrase the brutal Indian is
being wsged by the free State party in Kansas. know
that will be difficult to induce people to believe the hor
which have to communicate but In view Of al the
testimony their truth, must say decidedly, that
have every evidence short Of ocular demonstration
convince that these things are So
had learned verbally, at Indian Creek K ia point
the Santa Fs trai-that eight pro-slavsry had
been brualy murdered upon Pottowstame Creek, in
that neighborhood, but unwilling to credit the
port beirg rather disposed to consider it the thou
sand which nerated by the intense state
Of excitement and uncertainty In which We ive but
Boone, the acing in Westpor and which dated
atPaola K May &c, 1856, puts the matter bsyond
Barber, borh very responsible men, Its contents run
thus
nsmy pair full duty to inform you hs. Alien wiinson is
Il O'Clock Saturday might party of
and sa
cd
They then wen, TO Mr. shermans where they murdered
The bodies Of de murdered terribly muulaed.
The despatch to STATE that the only tia
cowardIy State rufans IL tnis-that their un'ortu
mate vic inns would have been Witnesses against them
in the Tsr,toIy feresore sesame necessary to 81
isnce them; and hence this eutchsry:
But the most horrible portion Of this tragcal story re-
the bed and Of his shrieking wife, who wa very
sick with the measles These free State cut this
poor woman's with their knives she striving
with her weak hands to her husbands lite: but all
in vain-shey dragged him just far enough from the
prayers for pae,ey and there cut Of his ears and arms
tiD weary OF ,crtrIing him, they kindly gave the final
blow ana suffered TIE split OF me sun ,rsr to
such men tho Rev. Henry Ward Beecher pre- l TO
serve. Another woman hal her husband and two
sons dragged from her side and similarly butcher
ed. One lad OF sxtess, after havog bean tor
tured, bad his head quartered. Bot turn from
recita Of th SO horrors Ny heart sckens ana my pen
treInbes with honest indignation as write And these
the children of the Eastern EmIgrant Aid ,;etie
the happy result Of free State subscription ant free
State enthusafm, and excited meetings, aud womau's
AYE, even manifestations IN the East. ga IN
Eastern an; but write me down "oordsr rafau" from
this day hencefortb.
These, however are but . tiths of the outrages to
which the pro-biavery men had been subjected. Ihs
you some intelligence, which is coro aorated BY the
testimony Of the themselves veil tneir wives
with whom re nave conversed:-'rhs women inform us
that they, too, threatened. Others have told
that they awakened at two O'Clock in the morning.
directed 10 leave their BEDS and depart at be
killed. We have ourseu, seen two women and eight
little children travelling 10 lumber wag flying
om these midnight assassins after having been obhge1
to all they had in the world at the mercy of these
robbers.
KANSAS CRY, No., May 20, 1855.
The recent free State barbarides upon PottawAtome
Creet 10 miles from the free State town of Ossowoto-
rnis, X. T., still the theme pom every tongue
We have had conversation this morning with Judge
]. W. Johnson prominent lawyer in Kansas City,
gives the following information ia relation to Mr.. VIII
hinson OF the murdered Judge johnson spent
three days at Dir. Wkinsons house. Porto ~a.omie,
only four weeks Mr.. wilkinson (says the Judge)
in his Goth year; he native Of Tennessee. He
has been resident OF Kansas about two years; his
wife, of 25 years Of sgs, = native
Illinois She ia represented being lady of intelligence
and refI emsnt. They had two little boys-one
of seven and of Eve years Wilkinson had . good
alam ard had built himself snug cabin, in which he
had in adei his farming avocstion, kept little
store also the United States Postmaster for what
is called the Shermansville Post Ocs-tns place
named after Sherman, another of The murdered men.
wilkinson was IN ambitious and had managed t.
get little money together, with which he had ssnt to
st. Louis and purchased some law books and having de
voted himself the study Of that profession oxsnn
I'd admitted to the bar b. Judge Cato OF tue
district Judges for Ksnas Territory. only about va
weeks ago, immediately appointed TO the off %
Of public for the county of franklin He
pro slavery but has never been out In any OF the
jiIfcuhies In the Territory He enph sticaliy q
.thome man. he vas not talking man; mis- pleasure
was in being with his family his wife little children
Wilkinson YVES, as We think we have already stated,
member CT the first Legsia'ur OF Kansas Territory,
chat the free party cal the Mssou,i bogus Lsgs
lature.v Ia this in ell human probability, consisted mis-
crime which hs bAs expist.d WIN his lits Wilkinson
bis cnt entirely outlite.ally pulled ont -