New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-31

AUdlIs is gwen III Iuil vi duuiuCt puSts
TIE accounts which we gave yesterday in letters
from our own CORE spondent and in statements COL
lected from various printed sources have sup
piled at length a connected aud authentic account
| Of affairs in Kansas down to the sack OF Lawrence
en- Wednesday of last week.
The ball was put in motion by Judge Lecompte
in bis charge to the Grand Jury, advising them to
find bills for high treason against all those who had
| been connected with the Free-Srate movement.
In contempt of Congress- and with an evi'
dent view of ObstructiDg the inquiry which
they had ordered, Governor Reeder was
summoned to appear before this Grand jury
| and when he neglected this summons, process
was Issued against him for contempt Supported
by the opinion of the Committee, he insisted upon
his privilege as contestant for seat in Congress,
aid refused to submit to arrest, whereupon Don
al ison, the Marshal Issued his famous proclama-
ton, declaring Lawrence in state Of nsurrecton.
ana calling upon all law abiding citizens to assst
him in serving processes.
| The secret Blue Lodges Of Border Rufians had
long been in anticipation of this CALL aud hordes OF
| armed men were soon on the march for Lawrence,
| q day having been fixed week or more ahead
| when that town was to be destroyed.
As these bands Of armed rufiaDs approached that
devoted town, they perpetrated along the road
and in the vicinity all the outragss of the pre-
vous invasioh-stoppiDg travellers, entering houses,
Sc zpg arms, stealing proyiiions, and committing
occasional murders. Meanwhile the citizens Of
Law,ence-not willing to como into collision with
i - H.. atGth vIuitA
and nj der pretense Of serving the process Of
Court organized under an act Of Congressman
r. peattd me sssges to Donaldson, declariog their
n adpeas to assist him in serving his warrants but
| deprecating the entry into the town Of an armed
and furious mob. TO these representations they
| cot no answer but sDeers and an expression of the
Marshals determination not merely to serve his
warrants, but to disarm the inhabitants and to
compel them to promise implicit submission to
the authority Of the Bogus Legislature.
They then appealed to Colonel Sumner, who was
in the vicinity with bis dragons it utterly
unnecessary, except for purposes of nischief, for
Donaldson to summon his Border.Ruf posse
but Sumner was strictly bound to act only under
the orders of Shannon; and Shannon. upon being
appealed TO- refused to do anything. In fact, he
had taken an active part in getting up the attack
ON Lawrence, by distributing the United States
arms, furnished to the Territory, among the bands
of South Carolinans and Georgians recently
arrived in the Territory, who were thus organized
as part tf the invading force, and who, Shannon
ssid would be satisfied with nothing abort Of the
destruction of the hotel and the surrender of all
arms into their hands.
As the forces of Donaldson gradually drew in
upon the town. the larger part Of the male inhabit-
ants retired leaving the women and children be-
hind with Gen. Pomeroy and few men. Early
on the morning of Wednesday, the 2lst of May,
large force Of the invaders occupied hill close TO
the towp, and in the course of the forenoon den.
uty marshal, with eight men, came in, and having
summoned several inhabitaI ts to aid proceeded to
make two arrests for high treason the prisoners sub
hitting without any attempt OF resistance, conceal
mept or escape. His arrests made, toe Marshal had
10 lorger any warrant for keeping up posse. He
dismissed them; whereupen Sheriff Jones appeared
upon the scene, summoned the assembled Border
Rufiisns to act as his posse and rode into the
tlwn with body Of armed men, the whole seven
or eight hundred soon following bin. 1t does NOT
appear tbs. be had any warrants to serye, and IL
he had. as there was no resistance show Of re-.
sistsnce, there wss no occasion nor authority fur
his entering the town with sE armed posse.
We suggested at the first, that the alleged shoot.
ing of Jones was sham and trick. 1t Low An.
pears that bis pretended mortal wound aud paraly
sis Of his lower extremities were al moonshipe.
Here be was, lively as ever, at his old business. He
rode up to Gen. Pomeroy ard gave him five minutes
in which to surrender all the arms in the town.
taking out bis watch as he did when be gave the
Judges Of Eleeios (as testified to before the Com.
mitke,) tive minutes within which to resign Or be
shot The arms having been delivered up, he Or
deI,d Col Eldridge TO remove his furniture out of
tie hotel, as Judge Lecompte's Grand Jury,
| the same THAI found the indictments
| for high treason, had declared it as wei as the
printing Offices nuieance. and on that ground be
was determined to destroy it end them. The hotel
vss battered viii cannon ard afterward set on
FIRE and in The mean tine wac entered and plum
dered By the assembled rpffisns. The printing.
efEcee were also destroyed, the tpes being thrown
into the rver ard the house Of the editor Of one Of
the papers Get 90 Ere - also the house Of Governor
Rotiu.oa. TIE women and children ded fot thsir