Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-09-03

sorne nore fighting "a ! few days, that vim !
/ 8 eee0 mat g lAsf night. O. b.
80 LAsfeDce Aug Ath 1885,
~. young man, By the name OF Meadow
boarding. With Proslavefy man south west
Aichlson IL miles, went to that pIsce in comp
pany With the man With whom be lives togcth,
Vim his wife, and while there some one aske
the woman who he vas, she told. and : p.r,
j. Immediately formed 10 make preparations fc
sending him dorm tie river on rsft; he Learn
.ae ed TIER intention and departed u IA. 4. h
70 could, not however without being chased.
The plan Ia Asehison q 10 lei no man escape
=. % who y opposed to them in principle Larp
s. numbers Of southern men are coming into til,
uy Territory every week; five hundred are ex pec,
40 ca this week At Kansas City in one company.
% man, lname unkno~n) was shot on til.
santetee road IL miles south west of here yester
day afternoon by some Of those living at New
: neorgia He was stranger in the country, and
was travelling peacably along the road To.day
: company has gone from the Tacharusa TO get
: his body. and also that Of Mr.. Hoyt. who was
:. Killed on Monday. Something viii BIO done to-
night, what do not know, but of one thing
am assured, that our leaders will keep us active
ly employed. was informed few moments
ago that one Of the wounded, "a proslavery mani,
: Of Franklin battle was dead OBJ
In camp, Rock Creek
Friday noon, Aug. 18th, 1856.
Left Lawrence last night at ten and arrived
here this morning at two. A committee was
sent to Maj. Sedgwick to inform him that we
should destroy the fort at New Georgia unless he
dispersed those assembled thers, and that we
should respect no force that should attempt to
protect them. The answer from the Major was
such that we were ordered to be ready TO march
Immediately after dinner.
! A scouting party went out this morning and
they report that the fort is built Of hewn logs
was well protected with entertainments. tina, |
there seemed to be large party at that place
ana that some OF the meu were our drilling. thai
| u would be hard matter 10 take it. They took
man prisoner who had been in their camp, and
he said they all intended to fight till they died,
and were well prepared for siege.
In camp, Rock Creek
Friday night
We left camp ut noon and marched to New
Georgia. The cavalry, led by John Brown, Sem.
OF Pottawattamie, we're ranged north of the
fort within musket shot--one OF the companies
OF infantry was stationed on their left fank--a |
party Of cavalry was stationed in cornield
south of the fort-the cannon was brought to
range on the main entrance OH the east side,
md tla ,,hI r.
east side about 200 yards from the fort. Capt j
Walker then rode forward to demand a s.rrend. |
er, and seeing no one called Col. Grover, who t
rode up, and they saw that the building had
been evacuated, and discovered negro who c
told them that they had formed in the ravine I
west of the house. The stubbs were ordered Il
forward to the brow of the hin, aud ordered to s
charge into the ravine S
The ravine through which they had to pass r
was very deep and broad, on each side an al t
most impenctrable thicket Through this the t
stubbs passed, formed again on the other HILL s
and returned to the fort, which had been well s
searched, without seeing man, and assisted a
IN burning 1t. We took 20 muskets, quantity o
OF ammunition, and good many supplies. A a
party OF horsemen started in pursuit OF those re-
treating, and pressed them SO hard that they p
dropped flag they were carrying. The flag
was one of those borne by the moo on the day II
Lawrence was sacked, and CONSISTED OF two II
chocolate colored stripes and three white ones, Il
also bearing in the Is stars, and had On b
1t an inscription "Obey the laws, also the Il
OF two women, "Mrs. Hall" and some other. u
1t was passed along the lines and received by a
each company with three groans. We marched u
back IN the same order We started to our camp IN
Oh Rock Creek, which we reached about sunset
A dispatch has just come in stating that 9 men "
had been taken prisoners last night, while on 81
their way to Lawrence from Topeka,) aud had III
been taken into Lecompton, and that the mob tn
there would hang them as soon as they heard st
New Georgia was destroyed. Five men Just th
rode through the camp dressed in the Uniform CT
d u 5. Cavalry, whether they were or not is III
but We would much rather they wo'd
20 through half dozen times than TO interfere
With the troops. The command is given to -,
march toward Lecompton at 10 o'clock, and be-
ore tomorrow noon that town will be lcveled o.
With the dust unless the authorities comply with :;
he demands of our officers, or unless the troops g.,
Interfere to prevent us, and they can't prevent %.
is IL they commence attack ON us. n
Our boys are not afraid but are ready to march .
light into the face ofanything. They have been
% well schooled by the difficulties here that they ..
ire ready for almost any hazard, and the more
he risk the better they seem to like it. u
In camp, Coon Point. w
Saturday morning, Aug Ii.
Left camp at ~ last night and marched about
miles, and some OF the men rode forward to j.,
ind water, they had not gone far when firing 49,
vas heard little to the right on another road -
which crossed ours short distance ahead Our
orce was ordered to prepare to fight and the r.
tubbs were ordered ahead to form on the road -,
o the right They did so, and could have eff.
eetually cut off the retreat of the enemy towards
1ecompton had not Capt Armstrong, (who had
barge Of the cavalry for the niglt) been scared
alf 20 death and rode up to our Lieutenant and ;.
old him that if he did not fall back to the main l.;
ody with his men he would have them all shot :
5 there was large body OF horsemen coming r.
p the road. We were Immediately ordered :.
Jack, where we again formed, and as the horse. -
zen passed we discharged volley at them, n
rounding one and taking one prisoner. The :.
rounded one escaped, it being so far that when =,
e fell he crawled off in the grass and hid before =:
We could reach the spot. We then moved for -,
sard to this camp and halted for morning. y,
Word has come into camp this morning that -,
he troops will not interfere with us, and that
asst night Gov. Shannon, Secretary Woodson ),
nd Postscript Donaldson left Lecompton and :.
vent out to the U. S Camp and s,aid. The cav .,
'lry have been ordered to go forward and sur :,
ound Col. Titus house, for the prisoner states :,
hat Titus was the man who headed the party :,
hat attacked us last night, aud that he has pre- =
pared his house for defense and has about 30 q.
men with him. His house is built OF hewn logs, 9.
md is situated about one mile from Lecompton. ;,