The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-10-27

ms at Pottawattomie creek, in the nighttime,
and shot dead. The pro-slayery party charged
this deed upon old Brown, while the free State
party asserted that they could prove him in
Lawrence. forty miles distant when it happen
ed and that the horrid deed was perpetrated
by Buford's Georgia Ruffans," supposing
/ that the victims were Frees State meB.
| The news of this massacre reached Westport,
Missouri, the place of rendezvous of the /" Dor
der rufians," the same evening that the Kansas
commission sent out by the United States House
of Representatives arrived at that place, The
excitement was intense, and was induced almost
as much by the appearance of the Commission
as by the news of the massacre. The ruffians +"
swore vengeance upon the members and officers
of the Commission, declaring that their blood
should recompense for the slaughter at Potta-
wattomie creek, and but for the intercesson of
Mr.. Oliver, the pro- slavery member of the Com
mission, and others, it was believed that the
Commission would have been attacked 1t was
at this time that the notorious FL. Clay Pate
organized band of men in the streets of West
port, Mo-, with the avowed purpose Of entering
the Territory and capturing Old Brown."-
He raised about thirty men, and went into the
Territory about twilight one evening ard was
surprised at sunrise the hext morning by "Old
Brown" who was in command of nine men,
armed as stated above. Pate sent flag of
truce to- Brown who advanced some rods in front
Of bis company, and ordered the flag bearer to
remain with him, and sent one of his own men
to inform Pate to come himself Pate obeyed,
when Brown ordered him to lay down hslarms.
Pate refused so give the order to bis men, when
Brown, drawing revolver, informed him that
he must give the order, or be shot on the spot.
Pate Immediately surrendered up himself and
men, and they were disarmed and marched into
a rayine near by, and kept until liberated and
sent back to Missouri, by Colonel Sumner, a
few days subsequently, who also ordered (" Old
Brown ito disband and go home. The latter
agreed to do So if the Colonel would also agree
to protect the settlers in that region of the
Territory. This was the celebrated Battle of
Blackjack Point" made famous by the IL
G. Pr Kansas correspondent of the st. Louis
Republican, who was the heroic commander of
the surrendering party. Captain Brown was
not much heard from again until the notorious
Captain Hamilton made ahis incursions into
Southern Kansas from Missouri in 1858, when
he raised another company. and, with Captain
Montgomery, drove Hamilton and his compan-
ions back to Missouri, and marching his men
into that State took possession of one Of the
villages shot one or two men, and liberated
several slaves. This course of Brown was repu-
dated by Governor Robinson, and the leaders
of the free-State party, in and out of Kansas,
which caused Brown to publish letter explain
ing his position, in which he assumed the entire
responsibility of his acts, and relieved the free
State men from any share therein. This letter
was called the Two Parallels" on account of
the peculiar distinction made by the writer.
Captain Brown very strong believer in
the doctrines Of the Presbyterian Church. He
was fanatical on the subject of anti-slayery, and
seemed to have the idea that he was specially
deputed by the Almighty to lberate slaves and
kill Shareholders 1t was always conceded to
him that he was q conscientious man, very mod
est in his demeanor apparently inoffensive until
the subject of slavery was introduced, when he
would exhibit feeling of indignation unparal-
eled. After matters subsidized in Kansas, Brown
ntimated to some Of his anti-slavery friends that
he contemplated organizing an Instruction
amongst the slaves in Kentucky and Tennessee
This fact becoming known to some ofthe leading
anti-sIayery men of the country, they refused
him means with which to go ON, and discoura-
ged his proposed undertaking. He spent
portion of the last summer in visiting different
Northern cities, and was rendered sums of money,
with the understanding that he wished to secure
little farm upon which to settle in his old age
1t is supposed that he employed the money thus
obtained to hire the farm near Harper's Ferry,
which he used as rendezvous for the insurrec-
tionists.
WASHINGTON GossIP. w AsHINGToN, Oct. 90
The official communication from England in
relation to the San Juan difficulties is exceed
ingly pacific and conciatory. The dispatches
through Lord Lyons to the State Department
are the authority for this.
Henry Clay Mudd, connected with the clerk
ship of the House of Representatives, has in
hand, it is understood the publication of Judge