New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-01
KANSAS.
From Our Special Correspondent
THE SIEGE OF LAWRENCE.

LAWRENCE, n. l., July 20, 1901.
Reader, have you ever been "sojerl" If not,
it is altogether improbable that you feel 1.-THE
OF the enthusiasm which animates the horde of gen
tlemen of various nationalities who under Walker
Cook, the star spangled banner" Buchanan and
Co., have invested the City Charter Of rebellous
Lawrence. The thermometer ranges somewhere
about hundred in the shade. The weather and
the soil are as dry as Sahara. Whisky is fortu.
pately abundant Where it comes from is almost
a. profound mystery as "whither it goeth;" suf
fee to say that it seems to exist in blessed CO.
tempOraneous abundance with the United States
army. All the elements of martial greatness are
here. ~ will subdue you, socks its chin defiantly
ut the Charter. We have the "rat tattoo " IN the
morning; drunken Dragons throughout the day, and
the "sentinel on his lonely round " at night.
Gov. Walker is growing confirmed splrltuast.
believe Governors are always sober. Ii this be
true, Gov. Walker is, of course, sober He is
merely endeavOrng to come at the best way to catch
a myth of q city charter. The fragrance of odd
b urbOn may quicken his nasal perceptions, so that
when he enters Lawrence he may be able to ex-
claim
smell a eli the The blood bloc Of an alderman"
An antiquarian society was about being instituted
70 try and discover some trace Of "Squatter Sow
ereignty" and the Fright the people have to govern
themselves" but has been abandoned because no
charter had been obtained from the bogus or State
Legislature for such purpose, and it is "tresson
against the United States Government for the peO
pie to Originate" anything The regular army has,
10 this present writing, mercully "averted the et-
sion of blood" No arrests have been made. The
Charter hasn't been caught. PrOcamatons are be-
coming stale; Governors are ut discount. II Is,
indeed, seriously doubted if Governors are much
better than mere common men. But it is generally
al hat ats Of ne
is about the poorest Of all. Doubts are even enter
tanned as to the proprety of the President and his
Cabinet "solcitously urging anybody who does
not "personally desire to come to Kansas to do
90, merely to "sette the question satisfactorily and
"preserve the peace Of the Union"
The people of Lawrence are divided in sentiment
"a to whether they are indebted for the present Fed
eral attention to the old raccOOn at Washington, or
the young raccOOn at LecOmptOH. Is 1t blunder I!
or isit polcy7 In Kansas matters, 50 much of the
ormer has got mixed up with the latter that 1t il
at all times difficult to determine between them.
Much doubt as to the future course OF Gov.
Walker prevails. Some think he will arrest some
body. Others suppose that he will 60 to collecting
taxes A few contend that nothing short of another
proclamation relieve the Governor OF all that ID on
his mind. Dark hints are being circulated that ne
means TO seize and strange Lanes militia for the
defense Of the balot-box," ere it be fairly born.
Another class of prophets predict that be will "drink
himself to death'-Or commit suicide in less fash
ionable way or, worse yet, pull up stakes aud run
away. Your correspondent vibrates between the
three latter phases of opinion. -,
1t is an "'in wind that blows nobody good, and
I candidly think, if the troops remain here all
Summer, and the stream of provisioning wagons
between this aud Fort Leavenw0rth has to be kept
np, the ferryman will make his fortune. have no
doubt but what he thinks treason a pretty good
thing And this reminds me Of a question l have
meant 10 put TO the Supreme Court, since it has got
through with the bred Scott decision. What is
treason ma,c-a-days that's the question. 1t is i'm
portant, too for as expect to be hanged one OF
these days, should like to have the satisfaction OF
knowing what il is for.
The water sprinkler still perambulates the streets
in defiance of Gov. Walker, Law and Order" and
the Union" A dead COW has been REASONABLY
dragged beyond the city limits. Two traitors, who
MIGHT well be called "levelers," have made
"fanatcal" estimate of the cost Of grading the hill
Sincere prayers have gone up to the city fathers TO
have the drunken Dragons that very irregular por-
ton Of the regular army removed as nuisance. IL
wac impossible TO deny that this complaint was well
founded, but as the camp is Immediately outside OF
the city limits unfortunately civic authority cannot
reach them.
Gov. Shannon is growing respectable. Even
WOodson is being regarded as not such bad fellow.
Gov. Shannon is reported TO have said to Gen. Lane
two days ago:
done great many bad things; now ask you can.
didly il ever did anything ridiculous as this ?"
You never did, was Lanes response.
i got into conversation to-day with a Pro-Slavery
man. who came TO Lawrence out Of curiosity TO see
about the war.
What g Gov, Walker s-goin' to do I" he asked.
"In tell ye what think, he added :" I think he's
Alabama. Father had been sbearing his sheep and
~. k,nho tho shasys There was no chance 10 mend