The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-10-09

day that he recovered his senses enough to make
his way TO this place. When he arrived, he
thought he had been out week. 1t is proba.
BILE that he will recover.
Information has just arrived, do not know
that it is true, that Governor Geary has ar
rested eight men of the Kickapoo Rangers, for
the murder Of Buffum.
Pro-Slavery men have peeled and robbed the
Free State settlers to such degree, that much
suffering viii eusue. Houses have been burnt,
stores and houses robbed, and crops destroyed.
In some cases, our party has retaliated in all
these ways. Still the Free State men are the
chief sufferers.
We published, some days since, an appeal
to Governor Geary for protection, by some of
the unfortunate persons driven from Leaven-
worth. The following is the Governors rather
non-committal reply:
EXECUTIVE DEP T, LECOMPToN, h. t.
September Is, 1856.
GENTLEMEN: Your communication of the
9th instant, dated st. Louis, has Just been re-
ceived, and carefully noted. You state that
you were peaceable, law-abiding citizens, qui-
city prosecuting your lawful business in Leav-
enworth city, up to the I'd instant, when you
were forcibly driven from your homes. You
desire protection to your property, and the
privilege of returning. / have already taken
measures TO ascertain the truth in the premi
ses, and will take such action respecting your
cases as circumstances may seem TO require.
Very truly, yours, JOHN W. GEARY,
GooernOr Of Kansas Territory.
To Messrs. s. Norton, NJ. d., M Il. Clark,
Wilson Nc Cracker, John Randall, W.
Hduer, John 4. Ddcies, Nm. Engles-
mann, and +. Englesmann.
Miseries of the Kansas Civil War, as described
by Border Rufian Press.
From the ~. Louis Republican, September 25.
COMING Down FROM KANSAS The misgu-
ded emigrants who crowded to Kansas early in
the spring continue to leave that Territory in
all directions. They are to be met in scattered
companies, looking half starved, sckly, and
miserable. Many of them, having spent all
their money, have gathered up their little eff
fects, and crossed the river to Iowa, on their
way TO their homes, or to locate themselves in
some secluded corner Of the wilderness, or
patch of prairie, where they will be at peace.
Every boat which comes from the Missouri
has among her passengers some OF these peo-
pie. We saw them once before, in the early
spring, when they went up the river, with
money in their pockets, hope in their hearts,
health in their blood, and the world before
them.
They were then in companies Of hundreds;
they had family circles, and looked happy;
they took quarters in the cabins of STEAMBOATS,,
and partook Of the luxury of repcse and a
plenteous table. They were thrifty-looking
emigrants, who would do honor to any new
country. We now see them in squads of tens and
twenties, crippled, sickly, and apparently pow
erty-stricken, crowded upon decks of steam
boats, almost begging their way back to the
homes they left but few months before. And
civil war in Kansas has wrought all this mis-
chief-doomed many hopeful heart to despair
and death, and embittered the lives of hun
dreds more, whose piteous stories the world
will never know.