New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-17
KANSAS.
MORE BORDER-RUFFIAS OUrRAGES-
sUFFERINGS OF THE FREE-STATE
SETTLERS-GOv. GEARY A LIAR.
zee Of The N. Y. Tribune.

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matter; relative to Kansas aud the struggles Of the
Free State nen |, without further preface send it
| you.
A Mr. Red6eld, u no came 10 with the party un-
der Colonel Eldrdge, ard Who with some twenty
others, have taken claims on the Pctawatame
River, arrived here to-day, with report that their
settlement was nightly disturbed and annoyed by
incursions Of Mis.ourians and Georgians who are
lingering about The neighborhood of Bull Creek,
deayorDg, by series Of insults and outrages, not
amounting TO an actual attdek, to discourage the
FIee.Sta.e men and make them abandon their
claims. Mr. Redfeld took back Quantity of arms
and ammunition for distribution among bis men, so
that it quite probable that the dabosm of these
scoundrels may yet cost them dear.
On Saturday last a company Of these Georgians.
staying with PiO-Slayery man by the name of
Jones, living on the Santa Fe Road, asssile1, wan
toDly and without any provocatiOn, Mr.. Sutton
free State), who was working peaceably on his
claim-shot at him, and drove him into his house,
where they left him with threats of murder.
Afterward, on the same day, this same party of
Georgans met man Whose name has escaped my
memory going to Westport for load of provis.
ions, whom on learning that he was opposed TO
the admission of Kansas as a Slave State one of
them Immediately shot-tbe ball entering has back.
near the region of the spinal column, and coming
out Just below his heart. He is not yet dead, but
lingering in excruciating agony.
The Committee have opened rooms in Lawrence
for the distribution Of the clothing and provisions
sent on here from the East 1t falls to my lot TO
assist in their disbursement, and can assure you
that have never had my heart so sckened with
sorrow as at the evidences Of suffering and wretch
edness and inconeeivabe depriyations which have
been thrust upon our people. From sunrise until
sunset the rooms literally siearm with applicants
for relief-men, women and children, haggard and
pale, and almost denuded with narrowing tales of
insult and outrage, and murder and destruction of
their little all by the onsets of these worse than
devils. Some have lived on TAXED squash others
alone on pumpkins, sone on grcon cora ground IN
cofse. mills, and some have been so hirassed and
hunted that they can hardly tell bow they have
lived Most of these applicants are exceedingly in
telligent, and some whose tatters rustic in the
wind, are so highly educated that they would do no
discredit to the most polished and gifted circles.
For Gods sake, Messrs. Editors, do all you can
to induce the North to send more food and cloth
ing.
The infamous Clark, murderer of Barber, passed
through our town to-day, escorted by about twenty
Dragons the despieabe wretch being too much
afraid to come among US alone. So true is it
that I" the wicked fee when no man pursueth."
Fifteen other Of the prisoners at Lecompton
were acquitted yesterday, eight Of whom We're,
however, rearrested on the charge of having as
sisted in the destruction Of Titus's house. The
seven who reached Lawrence came in to-day for
change of clothing-noble fellows, all of them-yet
in consequence of being SO hudded together in such
filthy hole as their prison at Lecompton, they
were physically, about the most lOathsome and
abhorrent set of men have ever seen-a fact which
needs no comment.
About week since, when Gov. Geary was in
the region of Osawatamie, he gave Martin White
| the ASSASSINATION of Frederick Brown, half dozen
| Dragons, that he (Wbte) might assist him in his
arrests of Free-State men, who are guilty OF no
earthly crime save that Of retaking from the Pro
| Slaveyists the property Of which they have been
robbed. This is pacification with vengeance
In The N. Y Times of October 2S, see tele
| grapnc account vi Uo'' ucdIy o ohCin "isP'toueS
relative to his arrest of COL Eldridge's party As
one of that company, appointed by Col. Eldridge to
assist him in conducting the train and being, there
fore personally conversant with the facts as they
trsnspired, have no hesancy in saying that if this
dispatch be correct version of Gov. Gearys official
statement, then Gov. Geary is official liar. 1t is
true that we had "nO oxen slong with Us, but
cannot well see how this is to initiate against us as
peaceful settlers, because our horses were much
more serycabe as beasts of draught, and assuredly
60 for the farming purposes to which they are now
| applied. As for the assertion that "there were
"no mechanics tools" it is simply lie, and Gov.
| Geary knows, or ought to know it; the soldiers
who made the search having broken open one box of
these specific tools. There were beside, some
boxes which were not disturbed. About the "sad
"dles sufficient for quarter battalion OF cavalry"
/ will simply say that there were twenty-five, all
counted and that these were brought along by Col.
Eldridse as property for private speculation.
Neither were we permitted to pursue our jour-
ney." We were arrested as prisoners charged
with an invasion of the Territory" and conducted
by United States troops to Gov. Geary, into whose
keeping Msj. Sibley was ordered BY Col. Cook to
deliver u.s. These were his " written instructions"
read by him to Colonel Eldridge, General Pcmeroy,
myself and one or two Others Neither, when We
reached Topeka were any apologies made for
our disregard Of Geary's proclamation" We
threw ourselves upon our constitutional rights,