Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-06-05
THE KANSAS WAR.

The exaggeratons contained in the several tele-
graphic dispatches, published in our last issue,
have dwindled down to reasonable measure of
consistency, and We are at last enabled to get at a
true history Of the recent outbreak in Kansas.
From this statement our readers will be graft
fed to learn that the triumph Of law and order in
the Territory has been made complete, and at a
sacrifice of life far less than we had any reason to
anticipate We do not indulge the thought that
the contest has ended every indication induces
the belief that it has but begun But it has shown
the mette of the contending parties it has proved
conclusively the cowardice Of the loud boasting
vet craven hearted emissaries of Abolition-and
it has assured us that in the end the victory will
certainly be ours. Kansas will be slave State,
and in few months at best will applyas such for
admission into the Union. The st. Louis Re
publican, dated May 9th, has the folowing:-
According to the reports before US, early on
Wednesday morning the United States Marshal,
with the men who had obeyed his proclamation
calling for aid toassist in the execution of certain
writs in his hands, took possession of the mound
in front of Lawrence. They numbered from four
TO five hundred men. Between ten and eleven
o'clock the Marshal sent his deputy, Judge Fain,
into the town, with posse Of eight men, to exc
cute the writs They made four arrests, return
ed and delivered the prisoners to the Marshal, and
he dismissed his force. The Lawrence people
were disposed to exult over this result, declaring
that they did not intend to resist his authority,
although Reeder had set them the example of con-
temning it, and that of the United States Judge
z IL. liefn not Pnf1p phon hal
Donaldson had performed his duty, Sheriff Jones,
who had recovered from the wound received in
the attempt to assassinate him in Lawrence, ap-
peared on the scene, and summoned the same men
to aid him in like service. He took about TWEEN
ty men with him, and rode into Lawrence. He
stopped in front of the Free State Hotel-ftted
up, rs it is well known, as a fortifcation-and,
calling for General Pomeroy, demanded from him
NIL the United States rifles and pieces Of artillery
about the fort or hotel, giving him five minutes to
decide whether he would surrender them or not,
saving that he desired to effect this purpose pea
ceably and quietly. Pomeroy having consulted
with the others, agreed to deliver up the arms, and
fifteen minutes further time was allowed to stack
them in the street.
COL Eldridge, who keeps the hotel, was then
requested by Sheriff Jones to move his furniture
from the building, giving him two hours to do it
in. But this he refused to do, and the posse en-
tered, and removed most of the furniture into the
street. The artillery was then placed in front of
the hotel and fired upon it till the walls began to
fall, when fire was put to it, and it was left in
ruins.
The printing materials of the Herald of Freedom
Office, and of the Kansas Free State Office, were
then taken and thrown into the river. 1t was the
express order Of Sheriff Jones that no private pro-
perty should be injured and particularly that
Governor Robinson's house should not be touched;
but it became impossible to restrain the crowd,
and the presses, &c., were destroyed, and after
norton of the posse had left the town, Robinsons
house was fired, put out, and again set on fire,
and burned down. 1t was two story frame
This was the extent of the damage to property
One man, who was observed attempting to make
his escape from house, during the heat of the
excitement was fired upon and killed. and pro-
slavery man was dangerously injured by the fall
ing of a brick from the hotel walls. Another pro-
slavery man was accidentally shot, but he will
probably get well.
Sheriff Jones gave General Pomcroy a receipt
for all the rifles and cannon surrendered by him to
the authorities of Douglas county.
Jacob Branson, whose name has figured q good
deal in the affairs of Kansas, was arrested on the
18th, by Deputy Sheriff Fain and four Others
He was taken at his house. He threatened to
shoot the officers, and puta rife through the crack
Of the house, but did not fire. His wife opened