New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-21
KANSAS.
Release of Buffum's Murderer.
CONVICTION OF THE FREE-sTATE MEN.
,ra.nee sf The St. Loui. Democr,.

corrc.rcrdenee If The St. Louis Democrat.
I,wRESCE, Kansas, Nov. 9, 1856.
The twenty young men couvi"t'd Of n,anaaugeter
the other day, aic sen''nH. $50 years imPrls)n-
mont. tSo Of which Is had - JG1se LecJn lts,
ere TO be put TO wors upon tho capitol building Ia lew
DAYS tnd at night 10 wear chain and ban attached
TO their feet. While in Ice1mpon, yesterday, called
upon the Governor at his office he has but recently re-
tuned from southern ksrsas, aud reported III 1t Tie
inv ading marsuGeTs have lcft the settlements wlefe
they ave been committing many deprcddticn' t'r soS-
ei nj weeks post aud have gone into Missouri. oay
one settlement IA nov troubled with them, and that d
in the vie nifty of For scott, where party CT robbers
from Arkansas have ttou stealing all they could lay
tltir hands on. The Gov, rBor had ordered company
of trOoys TO lie staGoncd there 10 drive tLem oul.
He expr sse' himself delighted with tue lenit0ry.
Sey eIs perse IN The Office when went III lie
Governor entered ito conyeIsation with me- cenoune-
ing some of the Lawrence people icr showing no DIS
rOeli II to do him jus icco give him credit for all hc
had done a citizen OF Lawrence was pfcsenr, and he
deit1ded the Tosde ais aud Free state Ten from the
cLaIees made dgainst them by his Ekceilcncy, and
stated his belief Tia. they dEpUSec 70 give Inn
credit cor al that were ilst, and projected TO
state that tLcy would donouDcc him for allowing he
so murderrs OF David Bualn 70 escape arrest shen
he had had them ia rs power. Inc Governor SAID IN,
eco men referred to NCr, ga0Zed AZ the Tcrrlto
Militia ard were called into service by the acting Gov
crnor at tie Tune, AID that lie bad no right 81 i1tre!ee
with Ilcn. lie also remarked that tie mudcor OF
Buium had been aflotcj aud az now IN prison await
ing uAl On a charge OF marder that II mai COST hun
seyeral bundled dollars 10 DO ~ bu. u .d been dOuc,
ard UOthI he sfid AZ u, IL Dy Inc i.aNrcilcc
peope TIE man from Lawrence again spoke up and
reprdiatd the iusinuaion OF the GoyoInor, and staic
hat the Of tie IuuereIs errost had hot reached
this city vi en- lie lft and t9Ht tins was the first otvr-
mat receiS ed Of tie affair, AMI that It Should be
made Public a. soon possible TheGovernor seemed
dIrosCd n chs,gc upon tie leC Je u tins city dspo
stoI dse, nrd his acts IL their favor, and TO take
10 Office OF them.
A, his time Vim. stephens eau CT Mansfield, Ohio,
now Cpgagtd counsel or the prisoners, informed tue
GoyGEor tltt Hay1s, tie murderer OF Builom had
been admitted 10 bail 10y Judge LecomPte.
A !1ce-State man pie sent remarked: There that
Us t. Ills is the sided icsuce We are accus-
"tcucd TO hSNe here II k'Isas
Ii, Governor excec6n, f. perple1ed and s,onishcd
thet ibis oowardiy murderer had been released on ba,
exposed him eli in az cmphac anu eloquent L.anncr
against ii, was Justly M gnan a. III Oura,c and
in oI1 .oIc o voice lie proceeded ~ stale the fol-
lowins:
"Iiow in tie devil could that msn he released on
bail! lie wac committed for MURDER. ilc has had n
trial l. is Oh outrage The tTaud JaIy ny, .cd u
a tre bill against Inn. No Free Slte man would
have been released Oh bal, aud you Know l.. 1tle-
mon. will investigate the mater within twcny-iour
hours; and will report 10 the world wth my nam,
attached ard il viii have an eiicC:. don't say ts
in Il bracCadocia IneHnlr, but an Governor; al
determined 10 wssh my hand- clesr il III cOnneciion
with the outrage AMI tie President can remove ne
he 81 oos,s. Tie world vii sustain nie-my coa.c.en;e
viii sustain mt and 10y God VII sustain me- IL va
The ioulest murder ever conn itted The murdered
man was poor cripple. All b. saId Wa, DON'T take
nv norst- ana III WIS e.ltt I'LL W., -
ctareod by the Fee State And sun tho ASSASSIN
has bc. al I,ed TO bail. Ii is outrage lie shah
again lie arrested ard iI.ed. say il openly 10 al con-
cened. care not what Lawyers or judges are pres
eni ] would sey il il Lecompte was here, hiGselL
Col II }. Titus tLen remarked. that perhaps the
man wa, innocent Of the charge alleged against hin
Then he should have been discharged thundered
IL. Goverpor. "IIow can Il murderer De admit ID 10
ball He has had no trial. tie Grand Jury ioa1d
true bill ssainst him. and he has had 20 tIal IL Is
an outrrgc II is enough 10 make ones hsir stand on
~ I Ssi nubish II t. the world. will mtke Tie
Seps,c trcle; it is an outrage. No Free state IN in
md have been admitted 10 bail be would be ," II
pison. | an Governor, and this Hayes 'adA D. al
| 7, s,Cd and have his trial. II
Ste,iG Samuel J. Jonts At this time entered the
room The Governor ASKED, How is Il, Jones. seoa II
| tbis man Hayes :" r
| ar one Of lis Londsiner.
What is the smouHt !" again asked the G,yernoe
"T,n Thousand dollars" replied Jones. Il eV "s
| si,O that foT him at an tine He Is goo, ieuow;
"lhere |; u cen Lenen" salt the G~rofnot. "