Demoine courier., 1856-09-04
From The Gate CITY
News from Kansas.

A correspondent OF the Warsaw Boil
letin, writing from L~eavenworth City. ar
old Democrat and a reliable man. long a
resident of Hancock county. gives the
following statemen, OF the circumstance
which Ianspired at Franklin, the truth
of which he vouches for:
IL send you a copy Of the Leaven-
worth Journal, which exhibits the spiriI
of The Pro slavery 2ar,y-also an extra
just issued. The truth is, however. that
everything stated in the extra is false,
from beginning to end. The ci.cum.
Stances which gave rise to it are as FOL
lows: A company Of aboui GO Georgians
and South Carolinians part Of HE south.
ern standing army went out TO regulate
the Free State men in the n%eigbborhood
OF Franklin, and n Of their first acts
was to seize upon II couple of stage
horses used upon the line between West.
port, No., and Lawrence. X. Il. The
proprietor o: the line first sent one man
after the horses-,hey refused 10 surren-
der them, AMI he then SEM three other
men, with a like result. He then up
piled tn a company of about forty Free
State men to assis. him in recap,uring
his property. They started, and as they
approached TIE Southerners, they fled
and took refuge in a log house.
The other party sent one Of their
men with a white flag to the house de
manding the ,eturn of the horses which
was refused. and returned The frrlher
message that .hey should neither give
nor ask any quarters. As the man re
turned with the message, they opened a
fire upon him and the other Free State
men through the cracks Of the building.
The Free State men seeing tina. they
could moi cope agains. a larger number,
and they TOO under cover, procured an
old wagon, loaded il with hay anu fired
il, and then backed it up against the
house-the fire o o communicated to
the building. The braUoes Of the South
finding themselves in close quarters,
cried Justify for quarter, which were
granted, they handing over to the other
patty ,hsir arms, ammunition. &e:, and
were then permitted 10 leave. Thus
ended the battle. The FIRE was ex,in-
guished wiihou, much injury 10 the build
ing. Seven Free Stale men were killed
and wounded, one of whom was shot
dead. The other party suffered less in
jury.
These are the facts which / learned
from two persons, who we're near the
scene al the iime-one a Pro-Slavery
man. both substantially agreeing in re
gard to The facts. The engagement, took
place near Franklin on the 18th inst.
A gentle nan who arrived yesterday
afternoon from Weston. on the DAVID
Ta,um, reports that The mos, intense ex-
element prevails along the borders of
Missouri and Kansas.
At Kansas City robbery of horses
and valuables continued to be o. com
mon occurrence; and murders were al
nos equally frequent.
Atchison was on the borders tanning
movements against Kansas.
Lexington had five hundred men under
arms.
Jackson, Clay and Platte counties
we're each to furnish the came number.
Three thousand men from Missouri
were expected 10 arrive in the territory
in a few days.
Lecomp,on had not been Attacked
Our informant says thst no attack had
been made upon any place by the free
Stale men, and there had been no con-
ceited action on their part.