The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1856-08-23

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from other States and preyen, their 70.
turning. We have done az they wished
but hundreds Of armed me n rom NILSSON
y and South Carolina are stil hers
oha u we wait longer for them to be driven
out oy the authorities or shall we do !,
onrselvess u.
BRUTALITY OF COL. TIrus
we learn from reliable source tina, Col,
Iltus-Gov. Shannons right hand man
and the same one that offered $500 for
the head of Capt. Walker--a few dsvs
ago, attempted to take possession of a
claim' belonging 10 Free state man bv
the nine OF Smith. who resides neal
Lecompton, and was one of the first set.
'lers. Titus took advantage of Smith
absence, went to lis claim, tore down
the house, and erected shanty of his
own; on Smiths re,urng and finding his
house demolished, he relied -, few n
his neia hbors and regretted It ; he had
no. much more than 60. i, up however,
oetore Titus came along with few Of
ms crew. ane ordered him off. which
oider he dindt seem to be very hasty
about obeying. Titus became impa.
tlent, and seeing tina, he YVES much the
largest man. both in regain to hulk and
gas, andSas he had plenty of his crew to
PACK him' ne concluded it wonld be per-
ecsly safe IN attempting a fist fight,
Alter pounding Smith TO his hearts con.
tent and leaving him helpless npon the
ground, he ordered one of his men 10 GO
and set fire to his building the man was
rather reluctan, about obeying SO tvran.
meal mandate, when Titus drew his
,e'oiver and threntened to shoot him un-
less he obeyed. he accordingly Sc, fire to
the building which was burned to the
ground.
shannon's attention was Immediately
called to these facts by Smiths frieds ::
he Promised that he would attend 10 it..
and he did so the day following, by or.
derlng on a compang Of u. S. dragons,
TO defend Ii'us IN lis assumed right TO
the claim and Improvement.
PUBLIC LANDS.
We have several times heard it intimated
OF late, that the lands in Kansas would
be brought into market much earlier than
1t has been generally supposcd-that a
trap OF this hind is about to be sprung
upon the Free State settlers, in order to
take them unawares and unprepared.
While the Blue Lodges and other secret
orders on the borders will be prepared
with money to purchase the claims from
under the Free Safe men, the mou ent it
Into maret, as they are being supplied
With funds from the south, by lecturers
who are now there making appeals to
them in behalf Of their peculiar ins,i,u-
tons. Time only can determine whether
there Is any truth 10 those reports or not.
We know, however that it would be in
accordance with the ideas of Fierce, Dou-
glas and Buchanan, and il they could by
any such means torcjbIy eject the Free
State settlers from Kansas, instead q.
numbering them in cold blood as they al
first designated, we suppose ,ba, it would
answer their porpose tul as well mas
much as ttey fac II not very easy i'll
ia drive freemen from the homes which
they have made with their homes, toll.
MvNL kutsIASIsm.
On Friday 'he 18th inst, Lame man
who was leaning for Mr.. Barr.clo, from
Pal,nyrao Kansas City, was taken by a
band oil rafialns headed - Coleman,
the murderer OF Dow, WI assumes to
De their caplain--his load consisting ol
provisions, which cost one hundred dol.
lars in Kansas City, was taken from
h1m, and barely escaped with his life
The curses and threats of determination
Of the Free State settlers were long and
loud among them.
Several others have been robbed 81
both provisions and money. Horse steal
ing is carried on by this band Of desper-
does on such wholesale scale that there
is now hardly any horses in the hands oil
the Free State settlers, in that vicinity;
not only do they stop, and plumber teams
farm houses, &c, but severai attempts
have been made to murder. We are IN.
formed that last Thursday evening, Mr.
ID. A. Clayton lr,, who is known TO be
an incorporating Free State man
just after returning from Lawrence
while picking out bis horse, was fred Al
by two rutlians, who secreted themsel-
YES in some brush near the path, were be
proposed feeding his horse. Mr.. Clay.
ton very promptly returned the fire,
when The raifians took the brush, one 81
them hmplng as he went,
This Coleman has erected log fort
al the head Of Bull Creek, which bout
fourteen miles east OF Palmyra, which is
manned by about ninety armed men and
three cannon. 1t is q, this place that a.
the plander in the shape oil provisions,
guns, &c., is deposited, by their Gu.
erila parties. And what makes the
case still more aggravatlng Is, that
Company /, OF the U. S. Dragons, who
have been enrolled BY order Of the Adj
ministra,ion, from Col. Buford's CON-
pany, who conducted themselves so gal
lantly at the destruction of Lawrence, thai