Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-26
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Napoleon, Burbon Co, Kansas,
June 1st, 1858. {
DEAR FRIEND:

DEAR RIEND.
| am obliged to you for your favor
Of 9Th ult. aud ACCOMPANYING papers. |
thank you for the pains you have taken
for calling public attention to Kansas and
this locality.
Having to write by snatches, often
weariea by labor and excitement, you N st
not expect me to prove very regular
correspondent" nor must you look for any
thing fit for print.
I send YOU the Government Patronage
paper, Browns Herald Of Freedom, in
which, on fourth page, you viii find an ar
ticle about F. Scott from the pen Of w,
R. Griffith ("Cherokee'') of Marmaton.-
He ended in supposing any Fort Scott
Jurv would find bills against the "Tiolent
characters" there spoken of. The Grand
Jnrv found bills against the paacaable
Fee State men on the Little Usage as
well as certain "boys," supposed to have
caused a ,lisagracafnl defeat Of a company
dU. s. Dragons in Marmaton river the
29lh Of April last. The fresh troof $
charged with the duty Of making arrests
paraded among a's a few days without
soaring or taking anybody whereupon
Court adjourned until August.
Wednesday forenoon, the 10Th uit.,
about q or 80 Border RalIians mounted
and well armed, among whom was Ex-
Sheriff Hill; G. W. Clark, of the Land
Office. tie murderer Of Barber; Brocket,
who stabbed Bailey at Lecompton, and
the rest ofthe Fort Scott gentry, { | must
omit II .rIan, once student in Piatteyile
Academy sudlenly made their appearance
at Cboteau's Trailing Post, six miles from
the Mo. line and on the MEMS dc Cygnes
river opposite the mouth Of Sugar Creek
seized eleven pelceable and unsuspeet-
inc citizens who were at work in their
fields and shops, marched them into ra-
vine, surrounded them and fred. All fell
The RuGians then examined their victims,
turreltham over kickel thcm, leaving ther
boot heal prints in The faces Of the cofp~es
and Ming one who showed signs Of life
a pistol was applied 10 his ear for the par-
pose Of effectually flowing out his damned
abolition brains And yet that nan sur.
yiyed with no injury save a broken jaw
and laeerated cheek. The assassins mex
proceeded to take three men at work in a
blacksmith shop but they having guns
determined to sell their lives as dearly as
possible, and fred, killing a horse and
wounding 1T least one murderer supposed
to be Sheriff Hill w!lcreupon they his
sonrians) fled back to No. Of their vic
Tins in the ravines-strange to tell-only
five were dead, and one escaped entirely
uaharmed. Two have subsequently died
the rest it is thought will recover. 1t is
miraculous that any survived; the hand oil
God was in it. They met their sad fate
brayely and calmly. They faced their en-
emies boldly-none finched-ali were
shot 10 front. Two old gray haired men,
badly injured, one being Elder Reed s
Baptist minister, have been sent 10 the
Governor to state the facts of this sad bus
mess. B. B. Newton, Of this place, who
was at Lccomptoe when the news arrived
says the Governor was very much excited
a thinks vigorous effort will be made to
iutimdate if not to correct the murderers
A Mass Convention was held at Rays
steam mill, 8 miles below Mapleton last
Saturday for the purpose Of deyising
mears to restore peace to the country and
come to terms with Fort Scott The citi-
Gems of the Fort have been very anxious
for such a convention and anxious to com
promise. Judge Williams however hear
iug that his oft AMI earnestly expressed
desire was about to be complied with call
ed a convention the same day somewhere
over on the Marmaton.
Here we had a great turn out-some
seven hundred should thin k-and quite
a crowd of The conservative, national, fre'
state demagogues from the Fort among
the number.
Speeches were made aud a committee
appointed to draft resolutions; said com
mittee considered said duty too response
BILE asked to be excused and were accor
DINGHY excused. In the course of the dis
eussion it was sustained that Fort Scot
was nuiscence-a den of robbers, muir
derers and corrupt Government officials
on whom the citizens of the country charge
long list of outrage and wrong, that
Judge Williams is a tool of the Ruffian