The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-06-30

solved on resistance, and mustered its six
teen Sharp's rifles, in addition to those 9
Cid Browns party, and when the Rui
fans sent in six of their men to sack tn
place, presuming there would be no resis
tance, they took four of them prisoners
and chased the other two back to thei
band, with bullets wbistllDg by their ears
They found the Ruffians eDcamped on tn
open prairie, but drawn out in line fo
battle, where they stood perfectly still a
the Free State men neared them, firing a.
they neared-to get the range of their ri
fes. As they approached, small ravin'
only lay betwixt them, but the two line!
could be and were distinctly counted OF
either side-fifty- men in rank com
posing the Slavery and twenty six the
Free State party. Soon, two or three o;
the Rufhans went down badly wounded
and one after another of their comrades
were seen falling of, making tracks fol
Missouri at 2:4O gait, until barely TWEEN.
ty.two of them remained, when Pate rails
ed white flag and surrendered at dis
erection, to just fourteen men standing in
the Free State array at that moment
Seven horses, two wagons we'll laden with
the punder of Palmyra, two drums and
about forty stand of arms were among
the 'spoils of victory" and though Col.
Sumner with his U. S. troops came down
on hearing of the affray, liberated the
prisoners, aud restored what they claimed
as their property, the booty taken from
Palmyra was left and restored to its
rigtful owners. Not one Free.State man
was killed or badly wounded. The
wounded Missourians were kindly nursed
at Prairie City till they were we'll enough
to travel, when they were recommended to
resume that wholesome exercise-a sug-
gestion which they gladly pro6ted by
Two of those who got away died of their
wounds. And, though there were many
alarms, and year of marching, camping,
scouting, riding, after that, to the de-
struction of all industry and progress,
Prairie City has seen no organized COM
pany of Border Ruffans at her doors since
that I'd day of June, 1856.
The road from that City to Law
rencr is miles) passes over rolling
country. mainly prairie, crosses the great
Santa Fe trail, now horribly cut up by
many heavy wagons passing in bad wea-
ther, then takes over high divide and
along limestone ridge which runs out
into the valley of the Wakarusa, and af-
fords a magnificent view of the country for
an area of twenty miles in each direction,
with the prairie in good part cultivated,
cleaning in sunlight on every bend, and
the Wakarusa with its belt of timber ma
king its way through them to join the
Kaw, with its still larger belt, on the
north. Spacious mounds or spurs of
limestone covered with soil and grass rise
10 blight of two or three hundred feet on
every side, on one of which, VISIBLE for
many miles on every side, flag, when
raised, used to give warning of invasion
and danger in the troublous days now
happily passed away. AT the base of
one of these spurs by the side of the Kaw.
'its Lawrence, clearly discernible from
distance of ten miles. Descending from
he ridge, aud passing over lower prai-
rie two OF three miles, We cross the Wa
zarusa "a moderate creek, hardly twenty
yards wide, but very deep and with high
steep banks on good toll-bridge, trav.
.rse its wide, wet bottom, here in good
part prairie arch, and pass over two
niles of superb prairie into the renowned
'itadei of Free-State principles, the first
BORN of Northern resolution that Kansas
hould not be tamely yielded to the slave
FOLDERS, and which does not deny its pa
Lawrence can only grow with the ore
borough development of the surrounding
ountry. Across the Kaw on the north,
large Indian reservation (tbe Delaware) +,
mpedes its progress, while town sites, and
cry good ones, are SO abundant in Kan. {
as, that no location but one where navi- {
,able water is abandoned for land trans :
ortaton can be Of very much account. t
should say Lawrence has now FIVE hun t
red dwellings and perhaps 5000 iDhab- |
.ants, and these figures are more likely t
D be over than under the mark She G
as magnificent hotel (the Eldridge G
ouse) the best, hear, between the
1issouri and the Sacramento-fa better, q
fear than its patronage will Justify b
lough it has nearly all that Lawrence f
an give. She rs 10 have great Universi- i
7, for which part of the funds are al c
aady provided, but | trust it will be 10. i
ated some distance away, SO as to give b
,ope for Model Farm, and for per-
'ct developme ent Of the Education of the g
rain and the Hands together. In our l
ID States, the cost of land is always as.
gned as reason for not blending La D
Or with Study authoritatively and system il
ically; here there can be no such ex- c
,se. | trust the establishment Of the o
awrence University will not be unduly f
urried, but that it will be, whenever it a
pes open its doors to students, an insti. s.
ltion worthy of its name. g
| passed into the town over "Mount n
read, considerable eminence on the n
on whose summit the Free p
tate fortress of other days was constroc- W
d. 1t is now dilapid dated. but is a place e,