New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-07
TIE WAR.
Prem Our Special Convspondent
VALLEY or THE MARAIs DEs CYGSEs, X. T.,
Nav "a 1879

May % 1853.
wonder if Kertch and Balakaya looked peaceful
and ierene while the walls of Sevastopol were
lery, This new cloud Of war in Kansss has no
doubt sent many an alarming rumor back to the
States and the readers Of these may picture Kansas
as the fiehtful scene of carnage aud intenecine
strife. All 10 quiet enough here All 10 quet
enough in Lawrence, or in Kaw Valley, or north Of
the Kaw river. There you would hardly know that
such thing a. another Border warfare existed. AZ
you approach the scene Of action, you certainly fnd
the people more interested in the tragic events that
have occurred and in several points hear the border
strict watch is kept to prevent any surprise should
the threatened invasion be projected. think that
such vigilance is quite unnecessary north Of Sugar
Mound. The MissOurians will be very cautious hOio
they venture over, and rhre they venture over. At
Osawatamie they are on the qui rire. There is no
danger of attack there now. / learn that Capt.
II. II. Williams and his company are preparing to
start to the point threatened with attack. The
men ON the Potawatamie, at Hyatt, Greeley, and
Sugar Creek, are aroused, and the var spirit is
sgan up. =,
Mechanics and Montgomery are not now in the
field with any force, but they are ready at mo-
ment's notice TO muster their forces. Different
opinions prevail as to what course il is better TO
pursue in order TO secure the murderers. Should
the Missouri forces now being drummed up, cross
the border or muster near it, there will be tight.
The Free. State force which mustered and went TO
West Point Immediately after the atrocities was
about $50 strong. After they fell back they were
obliged to disband for want of provisions and store
for such force, and wait until some opportunity
presents itself, or until it has been determined what
Al
esd of Bourbon COunty-that it s unnecessary for
a large force to muster or to proceed to Missouri
after the murderers, but that small parties OF two
or three should quietly pursue them and search
them out. Should the threatened invasion by a
Missouri army be carried out, it will considerably
change any programme. Sheriff Walker OF Doug
las County has gone down with writs after Brocket
The United States Marshal has gone south OF this
somewhere, suppose, but have not heard from
him. hare heard, however, of Gil accident To one
of Lis aniabe National Democratic deputies
named Stewart, who halls from Fort Scott. IhIs
gentleman started out from that place With about
dozen writs for Free-State men, including Mont
pomery He was found travelling in the disturbed
locality and was arrested by man who belongs to
Montgomery militia company, and carried before
the captain. Stewart, under the circumstances,
was very placid and accommodating. He delivered
over the documents be had brought from Fort Scott
and after considerable conversation was sent home
on a promise to let such business alone for the
future
Two Mssourians riding along the Barnesville
road were captured the day before YESTERDAY snd
carried to Montgomery. When taken they asked
who commanded the three men who took them, and
were told Montgomery" THAT is the very man
We want to see" said they. They proceeded to
where Montgomery was staying, and gave hun IN
formation concerning some of the party of murder
ers They said that some OF them were at Butler,
and others skulking about few miles over the bor-
der They expressed Willingness and even anxiety,
to aid in the arrest and punishment of the assassns
They tod Capt. Montgomery that when the lntelll-
gence of the affair reached them, as It had really
occurred that a meeting had been called IN their
nerhborhood aud resolutions passed, strongly con-
deunatory Of the assassinatlOns, and pedglng them
selves 10 aid in putting stop to II, and arrestng
these men. They said there were two parties IN
Missouri, aud the peace-Overs were n0t gong 10
allow themselves TO be implicated IN any such traIs-
actions Committee Of Four had been appointed
70 cross the border and seek Montgomery and the
other Free.State men and offer them their assist.
ance The other two members OF the Committee,
when they got to the border, were AFRAID to venture
over even ON such an crrand, for fear of retalls-
ton. and went back These two had come on
These men were well received and taken 10 the
wounded men TO be ar the story from them. Finding II
still worse than they had heard they returned home
greatly horOr-struck. Hopes are entertained that
the murderers may be arrested IN this way. Some
small parties have been instructed to 90 To Missouri
and search Still il is rot to be denied that the
fire eating Pro.Sayery element is dominant on the
border Ii is also true that men are being mus
tered near the border with the view of invasion, and
the adventures of small peaceful parties may ou'y
lead to further Outrages.
! learn some further particulars Of the sad na'.
sacre II appears that all of the men who crossed
the border with Brocket aud Hamilton were
not preUared for tie atrocities that were COM
mtted. In my former statements. a. made up
from reports. | had understated their numbers.
Nearly forty had come over, in TIE hrst place;
but when the cold -booded murder OF Tue PR
soners Was proposed many Of them forsnok the
party. and left their whlom comrades 70 com.
init tle horrid cline alone on tie men they hhu
helped them To arrest. Only 23remalned 10 do the
bloody work. Even they were scarcei! ei'idl u
the atrocity. The order 10 i" Fire on the prison
ers vas given several times before it was o0eyed.
When the men refused, old Hamilton, VINO gave
the order fred himself, and then MS son. ana II Was
only after the bloody scene had thus begun ana inc
attempt 10 resist and escape which TINS shooting u
course created amopg the prisoners, that Lle h'ng
became general. Eren Bracket, the cold-olCoded
Bracket. be WHO bias Lot scrupled TO shed the oOo1
of his fellow man before on seyerd! OCCASIONS,
quailed at the commission Of the feariu' Cr,nes ~
Which he was thus an active parry "" -
firing began be ayerted his lace IRON lhe
scene snd quailed beneath the fruits oi MS own VIZ
lniny, awed not by right bat by his coward con
science But cowardy, or ruthless, or shrnaiag
or desperate the deed was done: 1t wa another
massacre TO intimldate the "A0ohti'h's,s ani
drive them from the Territory. II was tne crime
of such men as Dave Atchison, and ines were
merely bis tools Shall we not say Ina' pecnan'i
Nho has thus kept the question open III ueTano' -,
q = s.ttb .a a..
the hopes Of The small Pro-SlayeTy faction Is al
sccomphce. l.. cr,r,,
How quietly the valley of the Marai' de' Cygn..
looks HE clear water ripping over Us saaIio"'