Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-05-21

s. s, EI,onshs 20. ri. Dow, Free State
s.s,s "a Isss1as va 10 bwn IN the highway
~ Hic11s Hoint, sans9 By CclHlari. Pro
UaverVse - luvsh 1rmed at the tune
and Id no manner threatening OF moicsnng Col-
-Neitlsss shseJs s. aathositiesin ksnsns
nor those pretending 10 hold Office under the LIS
sourians Legislature have offered . reward LOT
the arrest Of the murderer, or taken any step
calculated to bring him to Justice. But they
did arrest Bronson, Frec-State man with whom
Dow boarded, on Z trumped-np charge OF having
threstened afhelife Of Colmaas and were taking
him to prison when no was rescued by number
Of his fellow citizens.
I Three Or four weeks later, Barber, o Free
State settler from Southwestern Ohio, was RIDING
home from Lawrence to his cabin on the prairie,
three miles off, when he was shot dead from his
horse BY Pro Slavery U. s. Indian Agent. No
attempt has been made by the Federal or Terri
toral authorities to bring this assassin to jussce
Still more recently, the Free-State party were
holding an election at Easton, near Leaven.
worth, when they were set upon by an armed
Slavery party The Free-State men muster
ed in such strength that their adversaries recoil
ed from the conflict and left the Eree-State men
in undisputed possession of the ground The lat
ter soon after scatteredto theirrespective homes,
supposing all danger of collision was over.
But the Pro-Slayery party had kept together and
were lying in wait for such portion of the Free
State party as they could attack with impunity.
Mr.. Brown, q leading fFree-State settler from
Ohio, fell into their snare. He was surrounded
captured, chopped to pieces with knives and
hatchets, and at length driven home in his own
wagon and laid down at his door to die, which
he did soon after. His wife into whose pres
ence he was thus thrust is now maniac. No re-
ward was offered; no attempt to convict the per-
petrators of this fiendish murder has been made
by the Federal or Territorial authorities, up to
this hour.
But at length Pro Slavery man, the bogus
Sheriff Jones, has been shot, by some un-
known person, but who is probably Free State
man. Heiwas in Lawrence, seeking to bring on
collision between the Free State men and the
Federal Government, by arresting persons in the
| name and by authority of the bogus Territorial
| Legislature. Every man in Lawrence was ready
| to submit to the service of any process emanat-
| ing from the United States authorities, and it
would have subserved every purpose but one
to have had these writs issued by the United
States Judges, but Jones evidently sought not
| to be obeyed but to be resisted. Finding the
people indisposed to recognize his Shawnee Mis-
sion authority, Jones sent to the nearest fort for
o. s. troops, and, with them at his back, arrest
| ed whomsoever he pleased. Intense excitement
! andindiSnation pervaded the town, and that eve
ming Jones was shot as aforesaid. Thereupon
the Free State party held a great meeting con-
demned this cowardly assassination, and resolv.
ed that the perpetrator should be brought to
! justice. Gov. Robinson promptly issueda proc.
lamation, offering reward of $500 for the de-
lection and apprehension of the culprit. And
| we have high hopes that he will thus be detected
| and punished aa go
Such is the contrasted course of the two ad
verse parties in Kansas, with respect to the
shedders of blood among them. We trust it
will continue so contrasted to the end.-1N. Y
| Tribune.