Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-05-09
Lnfest frnl,, Kansns.

Ihe LeaYenworth Herald of the 26tl
y and the Kansas City Enterprise, of Apr
! are at hand. They report the city Of Law
renee under Martial Law. The Herala-
Pro-Slayery organ-says:
Five companies, consisting of 800 mer
; have gone from Fort Leayenworth to tn
I scene Of disturbances, and it is said the
: will arrest the last offender and violator c
laws without any other trooTs.
The troops who have gone there consist Q
two squadrons OF. cavalry, commanded b,
-ICol. Sumner in person, composed of Com
: panies B., Capt. d. B. Sackef, and Lieut.
"A. -Colburn; Company G., Capt T. J
Wood, lst Lieut. A Iyerson, and I'd Lieut.
J. R. Church; Company G., Capt. W. S
Walker, and Company H, 1st Lieut.. E. A
Carr. First Lieut.. A. Ransom, Jr., Adiu
tant, and lst Lieut. j. EB. Stewart, A
Q. NJ. and A. A. and c. S.
The Enterprise had this queer and sin
gular improbable version of the affair:
He also informs us that Jones was acting
, under the authority Of The Investigating
Committee, sent out by Congress Wood
had embezzled some important papers con
nected with the Reeder case, and refused tc
appear before the Committee. An attach
ment was issued and placed in Jones' hands
who, with detachment Of Dragons, made
the arrest and it was while in the dragoon
tent he was shot. s-as aI
This is in direct and total contradiction to
accounts of our correspondents from the
ground, or, as we know them to be persons
of the strictest veracity, we may be permit
ted to say the above is a most outrageous
mistake, if nothing worse. Wood was to
be arrested on an old warrant, issued last
December, for resisting the authority of
the bogus Legislature.
The correspondent of the St. Louis Dem
Ocrat writes that, on the 25th of April,
Sheriff Jones was removed from Lawrence
to Franklin. He was accompanied by
Stringfellow and Whitfield, who pretended
that they dare not stayin Lawrence though
the town was in possession of troops sent
there to force the Free-State men to obey
the laws passed by their Legislature! The
Westport correspondent of the st. Louis
Republican, telegraphs that DR.. Mckee
Sheriff Jones' physician, wrote to him on
the 26th of April, that the patient would
recover. No fear was entertained that the
wound would provo fatal, and Jones was
resting easy.
Another correspondent of the Democrat
writes under date of the 26th, that SAM
LArTUs, Deputy Sheriff Of Douglas county,
has prepared writs for the arrest of more
than one hundred citizens of Lawrence,
charged with disobeying the territorial laws.
A military force will be kept at Lawrence
till all the proposed arrests are made, and
till the prisoners are conveyed to Lecomp-
ton, where they arc to be confined till their
trial. Col. Summer has declared that he
will, at all hazards, reduce the people to
obedience.
The same correspondent says
A meeting of the Free State men was
held on the evening of the 25th of April,
at which, speeches were delivered by Rec
der, Robinson, and others, in which the
shooting of Jones was severely condemned.
Robinson offered a reward of five hundred
dollars for the arrest of the guilty parties
1t is said that the tent in which Jones was
shot, was guarded by troops when the act
was committed, and that no Free State
men were permitted to come near it. This
circumstance Is a little suspicious. 1t
would seem probable that some hired tool
of Shannon or Stringfellow, tried to take
the Sheriff. life, in order to cast a stigma
upon the character of the Free State men.
Letters to the New York papers confirm
the arrest as detailed by our correspondents
One of them, referred to Jones and his au-
thoritv, says:
On Saturday, he returned with a posse
of men from Lecompton, and while most
people were in church, he tried to arrest
two or three Others, but, as he read no
writ, they refused to 90 with him. On
this occasion, as yesterday, no resistance
whatever was made, except by those whom
he tried to arrest. He returned that eve
ming, to Lccompton, and reported to Gov
Shannon, with characteristic veracity, that
the city of Laurence had resisted tile lar,
and that he must have tho troops to make
the arrests. Gov. Shannon sent a messen-
ger to Lexington, Mo-, to telegraph to the
President a reply was received on Mon
day night, and to day, Tuesday, "Sherif'
Jones returned to Lawrence accompanied by
a detachment of the United States cavalry
from Leayenworth, under command Of Lieut..
Mcintosh.
OF the feeling among the troops, another
letter-writcr says:
Our citizens never intended, nor do they
now intend, to resist any United States au-
thority, but Territorial officers they nerer
will submit to. Ihave been favored with
an extended conversation with Lieut. McIn-
tosh and his command. They are all Free
State men. Lieut.. Mcintosh stated before a
large crowd, that, never since he was in the
United States service, had he been ordered
upon disgraccful mission until now, but
that be must submit to orders. An intelli-
gent man, under his command, told me
that "never before had he flushed TO be
called United States Sol}ier"-and if
things thus progress, may l not say that
the time is not far distant when we may all
blush to be called American citizens.
Sandusky Register.