New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-26

floi : In, snd ,au fr-t, sout5 Cs.oiuisns come
ur c! Iost, march up 10 the ar,eal next morning,
sI cCt esCry iran a United Stale mt-Aet tnen lSUa
ga 20 camp Emory' % m>n and Miuer ~, '1Sa 1Sa
! C.'v, s,d v,ie de wcr,t looking sci oi ie',
l"ss ever saw anywhere. bm"ry Da1d
hads "a; and on one eide was buchanan anl SUN.
81 k-L.s. srl ca tie other "|lctorl or Dca'I'
Iie md Of lie flag Lad been dipped IN blood and
:, ,a!G tho, Men say tho; ihi- meant they wonld sho"
10 quarter. -av them cary this dag cnce up me
n'c hank some OF the nen tbcrs sari 1h1i tnefe
-. 6'ciher band of Bo.t,r Ruhians mat hai nag
sth " filroIC and Southern Rights" omit bat never
sew his. oc, Jay tive og ss o; Il, were sitting ma
Ia en- tnd nan cane in, very much scared Ike
ere AZ he Old 10, know whs 70 do, man had been
,i etd soeStd just ont there, close By his house
ho d'd hot IKE to touch him fer fear he would
e'' N cone trouble; and he lying in the
r'Hd' "ho,hF man bed loeu coming alon- with
ws-op and had found him lying with his foot
tangled IN ne rsbs o horse and hi- buggy. standing
9y NJ sSe. lie could not pass with his wagon snd 50
drs-ged he body To ore side and found 'hc heart stI
beating sui The blood running itom his wounds. When
The agon Lad made r,vm 10 pa, he came on TO this
mans house, who went 10 the CORPSE and then came
IN Leda,ey 20 Eavenworth. where law him 10 know
what was 10 lie done. Almost a. soon as he began
telling about it. one Of tie in the room ca,d out
"Uh, know who did that. II must have been that
d-'l rascal Fuset, heard him make bet of -
" atOut tTo houIS ego that he would have ID Abo-
lioni-- .cslp before night Well the man who
had como u said he expected was jurt him, orle had
l-en along by his house hat evening and stopped 20
talk ut then went the direction Of where the
cor-e vas found. lie was only few moments gone
ju.i shout long enough ~ reach that place
wlsn he heard shot. just little .hc
after, le wagner came to say there was
man dead up there. Some Of thought it
would b. better to let the corpse lie where until
tic Coroner saw it, but some thought il could b. no
harm 10 20 ard eauy il 10 the house. So we went up
ard ssw the body carried to the house andlsd tho
porch Il was the body Of a middle sized mau. The
cslp was cut of the whole top of the head and the
face and head SO bloody il was not easy TO know what
he had been like hut he sppeaed to have rather lgh:
hair and wbskers His name, learned, was Nopp
csrpercr rom Illinois. lie not long married, and
had come 70 settle in the Territory he had le,h his tool.
ard thipgs in Lea, enworth and hired buggy to take
HE wife 10 Lawrence to stay with her sister whiie.
The sister married to the Rcl. MT. Nute Melh-
ut-t Minister who liyed in Lawrence.
heard men ssy there that his wife applied to Per-
ser T. Smit for guard Of United States soldiers togo
and bury her husband, and that he refused. she dd
not him a1er be was killed. Am certain, for l
know some Of the men whO went ont the next day and
helped TO bury him II was also currently reported
that she applied TO smith for guard to see her safe
ont of the Territory, and that he refused However
this may be. Gen. Lane did send guard with her aud
her brother.inaw Mr. Nue. | was in the Leaven-
worth Hotel, on the bank of the river when DICK
Murphy the Quariorns,ter ot the Border Rutfans,
came running in all out OF breath, covered with sweat,
aud scEcsly able 10 sp'ak; When ne toos
"A bis hat h- head was all in iroh, and
a. room "a he could speak he. cried that
Lane men were coming. Emory came riding down tue
street calling every Pro.Savery man to arms and for
twenty minutes there was terrible excitement As
went up to my boarding house, saw some OF Emorys
ncn cone in with Mr.. Mute aud Mrs. Hopp prisoners
They were in buggy, and werc taken TO McCsrty'S
tavern aus kept there all night. Next day saw them
20 down TO a boat with E,ard OF Emorys men.
Wien she went MP the plank. 1e wa going up otter
hcr, but Dick Murphy stepped before ,d nun IN, ana
So they took him bnck TO McCarty =, ana l
Leard tlom saying they would take him our
TO the camp, try hm and hang hsn. This was Friday.
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on the next Monday and il was univ ersally conceded
that the Free.Stse ticket would be elected II some
thing was not done; So, on Saturday, Emory fncn
came into town and held meeting s.tn as" rec
slavery citizens. At this meeting Conlmittes was
apuoinied TO warn the FTec-State candidates not to
run OIL if they did, they would be shot {" driven ont
OF tho Territory and that day it was understood ell
though town that they would not run. On sunday
eyeniny about half hour before sundown, part OF
Emory band rode in past our house on horseback:
Az car as eouli count thcse wcIe about lw and and
M mo spfuc riIrc could scc ano'ler ser OF tncul
| coming in another direction. We cnlcuiated tnas,
altogether there $50, and thought some mischief
% be pvns Ih,' put u, 1nan ny,'st .tsp4eS 'S .fynnnd
the city blowing the buge, and calling upon all good
citizens 10 out and enTo Themselves to protecs
their property, for Lanes men would be IN on tSen
TINT night Every Pro-Slavery man and som0 Sree-
STATE men turned out, aud all theh names wore taken
down M,si OF ihe Frce-sat" men refused TO co. and
tlo.e who did go appeared to be frightened INTO =.
Ih,y maYcled around the city with Emory AZ thoir
head: tl,n hc pcs td guard and set them around the
sone Of 6e own men esd some FreeStai~ men.
On Monday morning found they were all GONG down
toward tle river and went down. Msjor CLARKE wes
ll Hing them and when he was dono lie called item To
lder ard thoy stood along in rank two deep, when he
start. at one end with roll OF tickets In his hand ana
gave each MAJ ticket, telling him ne must 20 10 tne
1olls and put ii IN, ard syins Z" IL You sso caught
= putting in Any other ticket you wLI be dealt with
accordirg to our rules" he ard him dstlnctly say
| this and him give the tickets. was sitting az
n window in the Ieuvenwo oIth Hotel with Nv. Funk OF
! Uarrisburp Pa. when saw and heard thu. After
this. Clarke went back to the head of tho column,
! and putting hLs lips close to the ear u each Pro-
| Slavery man appeared TO whisper something.
Uc then ordered them TO take their muskes and stack
them in an uI-.tairs office just opposite the hotel, and
Will, they wcic obeyng he called Capt. Emory and VI
of hi- men Oh horseback. He got them all IN row,
| md went round and whispered something to each
man. and they all started up the street at trot the
iootrn-n ait,r them. started up to zee what was IN
the lind and heard firing in the direction OF our
hon e. and met of the iootmcn running buck say
| in, Lanes men were come; some of them saw run
pa. where their were Some OF the Humans ran
and hid in the bushes by the river. hurried mp snd
coming in sight Of our house found and Phillip. holse
surrounied 10y the horsemen saw one OF them fall
o h. horse ,hot from the inside OF the house went
| mn ard looked in. Saw the MIR. Phillips, who hsd
| IT, IN mohbed lyng all riddod with balls ard dead
Is1r the men had The other out he was bleeding a,
hoth lid, profus,ly and Judged ball had passed
through his chest from side TO side Ihey TOOK nun
over into Kclers hou.e. ny thLs time some oi tle
| Seotmen had got up with muskets, and ring was
cornel around tho two houses. They pushed me away
;,b ,ieir nl-kets aud went over to our house and
n,eJ N 90 in but was told by the guard could not
I'D had come clothes there tis. would like to got
but Capt. Emory came up and ordered these men to
,.L ue 10 the river and if was not out Of the Ter.
80 in twenty minutes 10 shoot me down. ThoypTe-
.snt:d their mu-kets at and told me to march, aud
&c went down to the river and got on boat which
Rad lust landed. That morning before went down 70
,he Tner had taken of belt containing SJoo IN gold
and len il in my carpet-bag thinking il would be safe
there. Th. Iw~ forced to leave with my gun and
clo,hes. one thing forgot to mention IN "fder one
| J.v Mr.. Franklin Of Iowa and myself, were walking