The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-07-10
VOL. Y.

several points men left, with an appearance n
concerted action. They reached Lexington =,
l03 o'clock and found crowd on the wh.rS
The boat was made fast by the Captain. WIKI
two hawsers and chain cable, Ming alaot
unheard Of on the TiUer, and prooing that n,
Captain acas, from the beginning, IN leo0. !
10Th tile MissourianS. This everybody WHOM .
/ have seen here admits.
"a committee of seven or eight came y.
board, aud requested to see the officers Of H.
Company, and told them they must have tbs;.
arms. The Chicago men appear to me 70
have behaved well, and to have unwill;ngIv
quiesced in the decision of their officers H.
debated the matter an hour, in the midst ne .:
casional yells of Impotence from the crowd .,
300 (mostly armed) on the wharf. Tbey s,v
three pieces of cannon, beside several on
steamboat across the river which, they wer-
told, would pursue them, even if they escanai
the mob. There were also 100 Missouriap,
actually on board the vessel. Finally. tbev
agreed 10 surrender their arms, on promise or
permission TO continue their .jouyney.
Tney continued on to Kansas CITY. Tbe,.
about fifty South Carolina and Georgia me-
came on board, armed at first with sida-arns
only; but after drinking while, they unpack
ed some rifles and bsyonets, and took tbai,
station on the boiler-deck, as if to preyent
egress.
Near Leavenworth, they were BOARDED bv
Atchison, Stringfellow, Jones of Weston. and
others, who asked to see the officers of tba
Company. The little Chicago band were then
informed that this armed party had been placed
on board to prevent them from landing in the
Territory, and that there would be armed men
on shore for the same purpose If they return.
ed to Alton, no insult or injury would be offer
ed them; otherwise there would be useles,
bloodshed, for which they would be responsible
&c. After some indignant argument, the Chi
cage Company had no choice but to yield.
The regular trip of the Star Of the We,r
was to st. Joseph's, but the captain put about
at Weston, and descended the river with the
Chicago Company. 1t is known fact that b.
was paid $500 for this by the Missouriap.
And this is public conveyance on a publ,
thoroughfare
AT Alton, the mean and cowardly Captaio
afraid to encounter the people there, land lust
ly, for there were four hundred on the whar
to receive him. put them on shore FIVE mile,
below, III a rain, taking their baggage back
st. Louis, to be forwarded afterward All th.
property (by the way was taken on shore A.
Leavenworth, and deposited till their retur,
down river, when it was restored, ercept som.
tents and other valuable articles"
Now, bear it in mind, that regular commu
nication between Atchison on the border and
his friends in Congress, is constantly main
tanned: that the former seems to be ALWAYS Al
prised in advance of measures to be pronosad
IN Congress, in relation to Kansas affairs: thai.
for some reason, the friends of the bill of NJ
| Toombs determined that, in the census to b.
taken, no persons in the Territory should be in
cluded, who were not inhabitants on the 9Th Of
July: that, about two months ago commenceds
system Of Terror, designed to drive out the Free
State men from the Territory, and about three
weeks ago commenced a system of esp;onag4
and armed organization all along the HIGHWAYS
to Kansas through Missouri, by which Free
State emigrants were disarmed and turned
back: bear in mind, we say, all these things,
and then Judge whether this fair-seeming bill
of Mr.. Toombs really means to secure fair play
in the Territory.
Meantime, let Free State emigrants shun Mis-
souri, AS they would the gates of hell. If there
is not civilization enough there to protect peace
full emigration, let its enriching tide flow through
Iowa. If the citizens of Missouri, while they
condemn such outrages, cover in silence before
"Border Rufiianism," let them look to it for
their reward. Already the route is opened
through Iowa to Kansas, and companies are
now passing over it unmolested. Eastern cap.
ital cannot be more proftably or beneGcially
invested than in opening a direct railroad route
to Kansas.
The Missouri towns will ere long understand
how much they owe to the Rufans whom they
encourage. A correspondent of the New York
Herald, who has manifested considerable sym.
patty with the Pro-Slavery party, writes, June
10th, from Tecumseh-
"Kansas City and Westport now begin to
feel the bad effects upon their trade occasional
by the late disturbances. Missouri, from her
abundance, has heretofore supplied the Calilo
MIA emigrsnts and Kansas settlers with wagons
horses, oxen, provisions, &c. The crops last
season were abundant in Missouri, and prepa
rations were made by mechanics, merchants,
and others, for heavy and prosperous spring
business. Horses and cattle innumerahle were
collected for the spring demands Of emigration.
"The trade on Missouri river is dull. Some Of
the boats have gone into trade elsewhere, az
passengers for Kansas are very few, and freights
comparatively unknown. There being no emf
grafton into the Territory at present. money is
scarce. The Westport and other merchants
along the frontier are doing nothing. The peO-
pie of Kansas dare not go to the State to trade,
and no one wants horses, cattle, or wagons, at
present. River freights are low, and trains
for Santa Fe and other places across the Plains
have been started to take out freight at % per
cent. less than was demanded six weeks ago.
Here is an extract from a letter in the St
Louis Republican, dated st. Joseph, Mo-, June
Il, from correspondent who is violent against
the Free State men:
al was informed at Leavenworth City, by au-
thority above suspicion, that, within ten days,
upwards of fifty wagons containing Eastern
emigrants, had crossed from Nebraska into Kan
sas, having come by the way of Iowa great
deal of the emigration which might have gone
to gil up Kansas has been attracted to the equal
ly fertile and promising but more beautiful fields
OF Nebraska. As "a consequence, towns are
springing up in the latter Territory all along
the Missouri river, and industrious settlers are
converting her blooming praries into welltilled
farms, where they may sit under their own
vine and their own fg,tree, and no man dare
make them afraid" Peace has brooded like
blessing over Nebraska, and plenty promises
TO reward her citizens"
THE NOMINATION.