Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-06-21
MATTERS IN KANSAS.-SEVERAL BAT
TLES-DESPERATE TINES.


TLES-DESPERATE TINES.
Matters in this distracted section of our coun
ry are as unsettled as ever. The o-slavery
men are becoming frightned because the Free
State men have come to the conclusion to defend
themselves. Hear what the Kansas Enterprise
| says:-
What desperate state of affairs is the Ter
ritory struggling under Murder! the watch
word and midnight deed of scattered and scouting
band of Abolitonsts who had courage only to
fly from the face eff wrOnged and inSulted people
when met at their own solicitation. Men peacea-
BILE and quiet cannot travel the public roads OF
Kansas without being caught, searched, imprison-
ed and their lives perhaps taken.
No Southerner, it seems, dare venture alone
and unarmed on her roads! All this is true, too
true! And there seems to. be no law of our land
or moral restraint to govern and check them in
their mad course. They ask for none, they seek
blood, not suasion, in their attempt to make
that Territory a free State. How long will it
last? Awake, prO-slavery men of the South If
such is their purpose and their actions proclaim
it every day we must awake, and not look idly
on. We may safely say the time has come for
action 1t is forced upon us. And in responding
TO the call, two of our nObiest men have fallen
NJ. &. Pate md James McGec. Their blood has
been split to foster the institutions of the South
The South has her interests at stake the North
has not. If remain in iethargv, we are
doomed in the end ,and the chain which now b nls
the states of the South prosperity and welfare
will be snapped asunder by Abolition fanaticsm.
Shall it ever be done?
JUNE g
Mr. Banks has just arrived from the scene of
war this morning at o'clock. and he reports that
the parties had been fighting for three hours: sew
cral Pro slavery men wounded, some killed, and
others taken prisoners. The AbolitOnsts num-
bered three to one.
The Kansas Herald announces the shooting Of
U. S. soldier and two horses by the Free State
men.
The Enterprise Of June Sd says that the battle
between Capt. P's. company and the Abolition
lists lasted four hours. He lost two men and
three wounded. Loss on the cnemy's side not
ascertained. The Abolitonists numbered between
10 and 50 strong. Capt. Pate was wounded, as
reported before.
The Enterprise continues -
Cannot adjacent counties furnish horses ? IF
they will they will find many true and warm
friends of the South ready to mount them and
proclaim 'Southern rights" over the dead bod
les of the Northern fanatics who seek to crush
their ri ghts in that territory by midnight assas-
nations and secret plots
Z. S. Since the above was written, we have
learned that Capt. Pate's company had second
fight AMI thirteen Of his party were killed. Capt.
Z. and Mr.. james NJ Gee fell victims in the bat
tie.
LATER.--We learn since the above WAS put in
type, that nine AbolitioniSts were killed at Black
Jack, four pro-saverv men were wounded. two
(reported dead above) mortallv.
Capt. Longs company of Wyandott Indians
were united with Capt. Pate's command and
fought with great valor in their original mode
of warfare.
Mr.. Wilcox of the steamer Genoa saws that on
his passage down an intense excitement was perva-
ding the river towns and counties, and 1T nearly
every landing numbers Of persons pressed eager
ly on board to gain intelligence from the Terri
tory.
lie also reports, that companies were forming
at Lexington aad Boonville, and from other
points, volunteers in squads of from five to ten
were departing from some other points in wagons.
Mr.. Donaldson, L. S. Marshal, and seven men =,
were attacked while riding quietly along the road,
by about fifty Abolitoni>ts who were secretcd in
and about a house near the road. short con
hict ensued, which resulted in the wounding of
several of the Marshaps posse and several horses.
Mr.. Slade, pro-slavery. had his horse shot from
under him in the fight.
Mr.. ii. Nj. Carly, ust in from the Territory,
states that about eight men of the company he
belongs to were attacked mt or near Hickory
Point, and all seriously injured. lie received II
wound in the ear Mr. Carly came in for the
purpose Of raising men and horses and % of
BufOrd's men will start this evening or in the
morning to the rescue. They need horses badly.
Capt. Pate's company Went to Hickory Point
to suppress further ou'ragrs by the aboltionists,
ami was attacked by about one hundred and fifty
of the latter when two of his men were killed.
\ second conflict was expected, and the mes
senger thinks that if it happened the probability
is, that all of MIR. P's party, which nunbcre
forty or fifty, were killed.
1t should be remembered that the above ac-
count is from pro-slavery journals. Considera-
bic allowance, therefore, cln he made for the
Free State men.