The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-10-16

sr. Louis, Oct. It's Democrat lerne
from gentleman vho evea ID thus eAy]
this evening thAl on Tnrsds4 last . re-
port reached Plense Citl Mo- tnt fer.'
~ L Wakes erchas1e Of lstoa eaa
sold citizens of kanx9s N 4uantity
flour, a pase9M one hundred men march
ed to the cityN0f Weston to arrest the
parties implicated, and when they arrived a.
Weston they laid the case before b. r. String,
fellow, who placed himself at their head, anu
proceeded TO the store belonging to these
parties, and arrested Perry, denounced MN
"a an AboItsonist, aud threAtened to hang
him.
Perry anpe.led 10 the citizens of Weston,
who assembled and ordered the Platte party
I 10 leave 10 ten minutes, which they did. The
Weston people then publicly condemned
! Stringfcllow's conduct, and commanded him
TO leave the county in five days or sutisr she
consequences. cur
! PH,i.ApsIraiA, Oct. ll.--Geo. J. Conee,
recently editor Of the Democratic Argus, mas
reoudisted Buchanan and last night joined
the Fremont Democratic Club. He made o
speech fully identifying himself with the Ne
publican cause Mr.. Coffee has just return
ed from stumping the State IN behalf OF bu-
chnuan. He was the corresponding sccre,
tary OF the Key Stone Club, aocornpAnieu
that club TO the Cincinnati Convention, anu
was chosen to announce to bucnanan ni'
nomination. He was also orator on ths
fourth at Independence Square.
FURTHER OurRAGss ny THE Missouri ban
prrrI.-The telegraph On Thursday brought
intelligence of the sinking of tn. steamer
i Genoa, on the Missouri River, near Nebras
ka CITY, on the 30th ult. One of our csti
gems who was on board the boat ut the time
and who has since returned home across
Iowa, has given US the particulars OF fresi
, instance Of rui6an outrage that came unde
, his observation on the day previous, Sep
tember 90. The boat landed on that da.
at small town liltlc below Omaha City
: and had no sooner touched the shore than
band Of some twenty-five or thirty Missouri
marauders, headed by y 6erce-looking ruin
an bristling with pistols, q bowie knife an
revolver, leaped upon deck. The head VII
lain mounted box, and in coarse, insolen
language, interlaraed with oashs, dcmande
OF the passengers where the, were going
what their business was, &C., declaring ths
!, he should permit emo id abolitionist
pass into Kansas" He further declare
/. that they were determined to "drivs al 81
!, Free State men out Of the Territory" IN
passengers, nearly all of whom wero MOI
thern people, but not bound for kansa
paid no attention to the fellows haraugu
!. but Of course were annoyed by the unwe
!. come intrusion Of the gang, and were Apr
: hensiso that violence or plumber would
added to iusolence. Il happened that q
Hon. Howell Cobb, of Georgia, was {
board, and he undertook TO expostulase vi
the Lender, and finally succeeded in inducii
10 the party to leave without further modest
zion 20 the passenger.
= Our informant learned that tho who
: shore Of the Missouri was lined with ba
r dtt Of this description from Council Blu
downward, blocking up the entrance to
n Territory ut every point. AZ many M
{ leave as choose to DO so, but not ono 10
'' lowed to go in. We see from these FAC
that the old Atchison game Of making ka
2 sss slave State is in full progress all alo
lie the frontiers, while Gov. Geary, under Pr
tence Of establishing law and order within
il efficiently cooperating to the same en-
Let the people consider whether they y
permit these outrages to continue BY ths pt
petuation Of the Pierce Administration
m der Buchanan, or elect MAN to the FREE
=. dcncy who will put . stern veto upon .
. rule, and protect the people in their co.
mon rights rs American citizens.--lC bica
Dem. Press.