Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-10

before q United States Commissioner il is
true that they were chained, for security on
the journey. But it is lie that they walked
sixty five miles, or any distance, on foot while
chained. They travelled in wagon, guarded
by true and veritable specimens of the red
shifted Border Ruffian. / was in Tecumseh
when they arrived and during their entire
stay, and can assert that they were treated
far better than they deserved They were,
OF course, strictly guarded day and night, in
room in the hotel; brought down regularly to
their meals at the hotel table; in fact, treated
with every indulgence consistent with safe
keeping. All this time they were in the hands
of those terrible Border Rufians, so graph
cally described by the New York Times and
Tribune, as blood thirsty monsters with hands
constantly stepped in the innocent blood of
Abolitionists and Free Sellers Two of those
men were sons of that atrocious monster, John
Brown, GEN., better known in the Territory as
Ossawatamie Brown" the captain of that
band Of rufians calling themselves "The
Army Of the North" who had so recently
committed a number of the most diabolical
murders, each individual case attended with
acts of barbarity far exceeding anything ever
perpetrated by savage Indians in the worst
time Of border warfare In fact, all of the
prisoners were well known to have formed
part of this monstrous company ut the time
those atrocities were committed; and would
I
zens of California under similar exciting cir
cumstances, would have speedily obtained
their deserts, ga short shrift and a merry
leap" from a limb of the nearest tree
As to the case of Tucker of Topeka, who
happens to be a lawyer and not q doctor, |
was the person who arrested him in my capa-
city of Deputy Sheriff, in the act of removing
a horse, which had been concealed the night
before, in thick piece of brush on the lands
Of settler living near Topeka. He was
caught at 10 O'Clock at night removing horse
with saddle and bride, all proved to have
been stolen on the previous day from a man
named LIE Hay, oslavery man, living six
teen miles east of the Abolition town Of To-
Fska. Four witnesses proved to the fact of
his coming to remove the horse from its place
of concealment, and t1cO of his comrades from
Topeka proved that he had not left town on
the night the horse was stolen which was the
night previous to the one on which he was ar
rested This is tho aLtbi which, according to
the Times correspondent, was proved by five
or six witnesses. He was held to BAIL with
two securities for $500 each, to answer the
charge of horse stealing.
Since his committsl, three persons have been
discovered who met Tucker and an accomplice
on horseback, within q few miles of the scene
of the robbery, about nghtfall, on the 10th of
June. On that night, two horses wore stolen
from LIE Hay, and the house Of neighbor Of
bis, with all its contents, burned to the ground
The custom and example Of Illinois and Mis-
souri, in their early days, and of California
and Oregon at the present time, would have
justified US in hanging Tucker from the near
est tree. Had pro-slavery man been de.
tected in tho act Of horse stealing by party
of Free-State men, his doom had been a short
one. Such is the difference between the SO.
called " border rufians," and those much-in-
Jured, innocent Free-State men. The former
party have simply .endeavOred to enforce the
laws and keep peace and quiet in the country
while the latter have been setting law and
order at defiance, numbering, under cover of
night, isolated and defenceless settlers, but
never daring to meet their adversaries in a
fair and open field. Lying and bOasting Of
their intention to resist the laws, but whenever
an official Of the law came with an armed
party, resistance was no longer spoken Of
their object was accOmplished-a good case
for lying was made out for the abolition pa
pers. Those individuals who are keeping up
excitement in Kansas, cannot possibly care
one fig whether it becomes a free or slave
State, each and every of their acts tell against
their own interest and the cause they pretend
to have at heart. If they really wished to
make Kansas free State, they would have
cultivated peace, and peace only Fighting
Is not Their fOrte-they know nothing Of it, and
had better never have commenced it.
Iremain yours, &c, WIZ GEoGHAN, N. d.
The Merrimac's Boilers.-As reports have
been put in circulation against the boilers of
the United States steam frigate Merrimac, we
publish the fOllowing-these boilers being
constructed on the same model with those Of
the United States steam ship Susquehanna ::
A letter has been received from the Chief En-
gineer Of the United States steamer Susque-
hanna, speaking of the satisfactory perform
ance Of her engines and boilers also, copies
of her logs for four days steering against light
head winds without any assistance from her
sails. Her average speed was two hundred
and nineteen miles per day, with an average
consumption Of thirty-One tons of coal per day,
showing a saving of more than thirty-three
per cent. over her former cruising, under the
same circumstances, with her old boilers
Being Consolidated.-The various Offices
CLERKS apartments) Of the different bureaus
of the Treasury Department are being con.
solidated. Up to this time they have been
scattered over the Treasury building, and
some of them in other buildings in the vicinity
of that one. The recent removal of the Land
Office bureau from the Treasury building has
afforded the Secretary an opportunity to sys-
tematize the location of his subordinates, of
which he is availing himself; drawing in his
Offices located elsewhere and placing the clerks
of each bureau in immediate juxtaposition
with each other, by which means much really
unnecessary labor and many vexatious delays
in the transaction of the business Of the De.
partment will be hereafter dispensed with.
Mr. Balls Resolution.-We understand.
from gentlemen engaged in the construction
bureau of the Treasury Department that they
are glad indeed that the accusations against
the integrity Of their Office which have been,
as usual, whispered around by disappointed
applicants for contracts and their drummer
and agents, have at length assumed definite