The National Era from Washington, District of Columbia • 3

NO. 517. KANSAS. Wholesale Prisox, Lecomhtox. Wednesday, November 5, 1856.

fa Editor of the Nat ional Era: I Josed on Saturday with an account of the of the fifteen Hickory Point boys up to the rating of evidence. In this and other proved ings at court, I have been compelled to ber niv information from the prisoners, and officers of the court, as I cannot myk, be present, and therefore must be very brief. The pleading was commenced by District Attorney Grover, who was followed by his a small-brained simpleton, also for the p.ution. Putnam and Lamb followed for the latter continuing his speech after midnight. Both these men are The former is a Louisianian, and one of the enemy's lieutenants at Hickory PjinL He became disgusted with the course c'.

his party, and, in the spirit of a noble foe, his aid to his slandered and oppressed enemy. Mr. Lamb was also at that tight, though unwillingly, and has forever severed himself from the legions of law and order." He is the same that interfered and saved the of Pardee Butler at the time of the second outrage committed upon him, at Atchison. For this generous act, Stringfellow, too cowardly to -pet his antagonist in open manly battle, hired loy to secretly shoot to the boy $300 if he nicely performed his The boy made the attempt, but shot cocking his pistol in his pocket. No one could be found to take care of and nurse the boy, but Lamb, who attended him until he recovered, and to whom he told the whole story.

The forenoon on Monday was consumed by v-. Stevens in a masterly speech. In the afterMr. Parrott spoke an hour or two. fear of prejudicing the jury, neither Jed to any extent to the origin of these dift subversion of our Government, uJ the subsequent outrages, by which only the (iuvrmment forced upon us could be sustained.

Ia this. I think they erred; for I do not believe it would have had any bad effects, but perhaps much good. A. .1. Isaacs, Attorney General, closed the esse about dark.

The jury immediately retired, without any regular charge from the Judge, la fact, he gave none except a few gems now ami then concerning disputed points, raised during the examination, some of which I have already given you. At 10 o'clock, P. the iurv returned a verdict of not guilty." Le urutrcu mat ouuuiu u.ovu?ig ed.ssring that new bills had been found against i otuer seren. Those discharged were J. L.

King, P. Patrick, J. Ketcham, J. H. York, T.

ILwer9, J. Pyle, George Neff, and J. Conley. Some wags about town, who saw them make their exit, proposed to take a game of euchre ou their coat-tails. Those of the acquitted who remain, have all been subpoenaed as witnesses those yet to be tried.

They may make this: they may not. Kphraim Bainter has received his sentence. It is six years imprisonment I cannot tell where. He is yet with us. Mr.

lioak was yesterday tried and convicted of an assault with iutent to kill, for not letting a Pro-Slavery man, one of the grand jury, blow his brains out. His sentence is imprisonment for two years. hate Saturday night, auold man named Isaac was brought in from the Wakarusa country, arrested on a warrant, issued under an indictment for arson, in burning the shanty of a Pro-Slavery man. Mr. Davis has been a settler in Kansas for nearly three years.

He came from Petersburg, Mernard county, 111., where iie occupied an influential and honorable position. lie was considered one of the best men? nata the Wakarusa valley. For the list six weeks previous to his arrest, he had lift a confined to his house, and the greater put of the time to his bed, by severe sickness yet, during this time, and while he was iu the most dangerous condition from his illness, he is sliced to have committed this offence. He can neither get the benefit of a writ of habeas pus, nor a trial. But this is nothing new in Kansas.

Ai now, as I am writing, another is turned t- 1'pon inquiry, I fiud the facts to be these; About the time court opened here, Mr. Marsiiil that is his summoned to appear before the grand jury, on i lay, the 2 of September. Now, the 21st came on Tuesday, and which day to come was a puzzler; bo he concluded to go on with the gathering of his crops. But yesterday the marshal with tour dragoons made a descent upon him. He was escorted to Lecompton, and imprisoned indefinitely for contevtpt of curt.

He was formerly from Massilon county, Ohio. This is a Kansas edition to the Passmore Williamson case. Since I commenced writing, Adam Bauer, one of those tried and acquitted on Monday, hut retained on another charge, has been remaned, by what process I am unable to tell. 11 it the cause is not so much of a secret. Before.

several attempts were made upon his life the liveB of his family, his house robbed laid in ashea, his crops ruined, and his driven off, and lastly himself driven to the forests for a home. He was a quiet and 'hritiy settler on Stranger Creek. Many of those engaged in the commission of these outrazes have been hanging about court of late, sod some of them recognised him at the trial, snd, apprehending that he had recognised them also, and that he would endeavor to cause their arrest, they secured his release, so as to get him out of the way. Central McLane, Atchison's adjutant in the late iuvasion which resulted iu part in the destruction of Oaaawatomie, and now chief clerk in the Kansas and Nebraska Surveyor General's office, was in to see us last Sunday. The Delaware trust lands are to come into market in a tew days.

More than half of the settlers on these lands beyond the Stranger are Free State men, niue-tenths of whom have been driven trom their claims, and cannot return without treatly endangering their lives; ten or fifteen we prisoners here. Now, McLane tells a story that will probably be heralded at the Mast as a nal demonstration of the popular sovereignty of the 1 tela ware people. He says that the settiers on those a majority are I'ro Slavery, which is, of course, the case since the banishment of the Free State dubbed together for the purpose of preventing any one from bidding against the actual settler, but McLane, when pushed closely, was compiled to admit that this association will not rffrmite as actual settlers any one, especially 9 I ret Stale man, who is not now on the land. Speculators from Missouri will be allowed to buy such vacant claims, with all their improvements. This is a conspiracy that I have for along time been expecting, but I had never looked for one so perfectly organised as it now appears to be, nor for such boldness of avowal 00 the part of its founders.

I have been talking some with Colonel Titus our prospects, election matters, Xow that the great election is oyer, what relate cannot be doubted, on the score that it is prepared (or electioneering purposes. For this 1 am glad. The people of the North may now be induced to inquire into the affairs of Kan.gai: and when they once do so, they will find 'bat the half has not been told, Titus does not mteud to remain here. When asked if the of the Presidential election would not his course, he No!" 441 will live in a free State; but if Fremont is this will aurely be one; so I shall ieave; r'iile, if Buchanan succeeds, he will do my worfi Jor Titus is not a fool, nor does he speak "uadviaedly. 1 see it stated in F.astern papers that bills sve been found against44 Sheriff Jones, and others of the Pro-Slavery leaders.

there is no truth whatever in these No complaint has been made to the jury, and it would have made no difference if there had. I do not say that they will 'udict no Pro Slavery man for wrangling among enemy; and their avaricious design for rewards from the Governor may procure indictment and arrest of a few, as they have keady of one, whom 1 mentioned a short time but I do say that no Pro-Slavery man be punished for any outrages committed on Free State men, either before or since the Governor's proclamation. Mark my word for this. Jones is still at large, and not only so, but he is a member of Governor Geary's household. There are two companies of militia here, under Colonel Titus.

One iB commanded by John Donaldson, son of the United States marshal of that name. He was his father's deputy at the sacking and bombardment of Lawrence last May, and consequently the real leader of that whole gang. One Wallace is captain over the other company. These two men are on guard over us one day each, alternately. In company with Clark, when he murdered Dow last winter, was Dr.

Wood, now United States commissioner, who assisted in doing the deed, and shielding its principal perpetrator. All these men are now here in Lecompton daily, and daily they boast of their crimes. I might mention hundreds of similar cases, but these are of notoriety and if the actors are not punished, there certainly is no probability of the punishment of others. But the grand jury cannot be said to have been an idle one. In diligence it equalled the Shawnee Legislature.

But such diligence Today, a new bill was found against John Ritchey, for robbery of the mail. This morning, J. H. Kagi was indicted in two or three more bills. Although all the alleged offences are bailable ones, yet Judge Lecompte refused to admit them to bail in any sum.

Bail would have been useless for Mr. Kagi, however, as three new indictments were this afternoon found against him, for participating the battle of Fort Titus last summer. One is for arson. another for manslaughter, another for murder. This makes the number of indictments against him, in all, only eight, which seem to have also been found against over seventy others, for participating in the Titus affair.

For several days past, it has been common talk about tovfn, that Major Bickerton and a few others, probably myself among the number, are to be huny, whether convicted or not. This is no surmise. I have it from a Pro-Slavery lawyer, who, in connection with Parrott and Stevens, is employed by us, and who would be far from telling us anything liable to discourage us, if it were not strictly true. For the purpose of receiving an impartial trial, as well as for our safety both during and after it, we shall all, except twenty, who will go to trial to-morrow, apply for a change of venue to Tecumseh, which is mostly Free country around is altogether where, being only five miles from Topeka, we may stand some chance for justice. Court adjourns here next Saturday, and sits at Tecumseh the following Monday.

Geary has not yet returned, and will not be here until after the adjournment of court. He does not wish to be cognizant of its highhanded proceedings. Before he went away, many of the boys, not versed in law, expressed to him an aversion to being tried under the Territorial laws, but a perfect willingness to be tried by the laws of the United States. Geary told them that he had seen to that; and that they would have nothing to do with the Territorial laws that it would be as they wished. They could not be made to believe to the contrary, until the district attorney, during the trial, took up a volume of the Shawnee Statutes, and said, These are the lntrt fhnf trill hrinti linn dmnn.n the Governor meant to use downright deception, or whether he was really so ignorant of law as he must otherwise have been, I leave others and time to determine.

I state only the facts. A new stroke of policy has been determined upon by the Governor, more outrageous and damnable than, with my profound contempt for Geary, I had ever deemed him guilty of conceiving. He says, if, after a certain time, all persons by this he means Free State against whom there are warrants, who refuse to be taken, or persist in keeping out of the clutches of the marshal, shall be declared OUTLAWS, AND ALL (iOOD CITIZENS1 ORDERED TO SHOOT THEM WHEREVER FOUND." This Was unexpected, even to me, who have long since learned to be surprised at nothing. Let John W. Geary once attempt to put this threat into execution, and he will see scenes in Kansas, compared with which the concentrated terrors of all past ages would be but pleasant dreams.

But little sleep was had in this prison on Sunday night. The marshal had a few days before got for us a second stove, and around the two crowded over one hundred prisoners, wondering if the friends they bad left in the States, in the enjoyment of peace and luxury of every kind, ever thought of Kansas and her suffering children. Snow fell to the depth of several inches. Bitter cold winds whistled through the broad cracks of the prison, and all but froze hearts warm with patriotism, hearts which no danger could ever quail. There are ninety-six of us here now, representing almost every trade and profession in KCr, TKA.z, 4 i ucic oiu tmpcuiciBj blacksmiths, machinists, engravers, sailors, miners, merchants, painters, Daguerrean artists, printers, preachers, lawyers, editors, and reporters, besides many others.

But one for any length of time ever led a military is, Major Bickerton, who served many years as a gunner on board a ship in the United States navy. His services have been of very great value, in disciplining the citizen army of Kansas, especially the artillery portion of it. This is why he is singled out for vengeance. K. Wholesale Prison, Lecomptox, Saturday, November 8, 1856.

To the Editor of the National Era: I have already written you of the trial and acquittal of the Grst fifteen of the Hickory Point boys, and I believe told you that twenty more would go to trial on Thursday morning. At any rate, such was the case. As I feared, little care, or much less than was taken in the former case, was used in the selection of a jury. This was owing to too great couGdence, inspired by the success in the former one. In other respects, the trial was a mere repetition of the same counsel on each side, the same witnesses, and the same evidence.

The prosecution tried hard to get additional evidence, but were unsuccessful. Bribes and threats in profusion were offered to many of the prisoners, in order to induoe them to turn State's being made to enter a nolle prosequi in their cases, as an additional bribe. Only one accepted the offer, but he was not there for the purpose of Gghting. He was one of the men who waited on the Governor, and afterwards went in advance of Harvey's party, with a copy of the Governor's proclamation to the enemy, hoping that they would disperse upon reading it, so that no fighting would be doue. But they had already received it.

He then left for Harvey's camp, engaged in the battle, and became too busily engaged to make acquaintances and leaving the company before their capture by the United States troops that night for home, where he was arrested several days afterwards, he was unable to swear that these were, to his own knowledge, the same then on trial. So nothing was gained through him- stated that those who were acquitted at the other trial, but retained on new charges, were all subpoenaed as witnesses in this. Well, they were taken up to court, Friday morning, but refused to be sworn. After considerable parleying, to no purpose, the Judge (Lecompte) ordered that they should be separated front the rest of the prisoners, and placed in a tent out on the prairie, where they should remain without food, water, or fire, until they would be sworn and testify. One of them (Mr.

Folley) nobly replied, Well, Judge, you may put me down for about ten years." A second snow had fallen, and the day was the coldest of any we have yet bed. Their sufferings must have been extreme, but they hung out till late at night, and until the case went to the jury, when they were brought back. Every one of them would sooner have died than give testimony agnipst their comrades. The jury hung out until daylight next morning. The verdict returned was for manslaughter.

All had been indicted for murder in the first degree but the Judge charged the jury, that if there were no evidence to show that the prisoners had been in the fight, they could not find them gnilty of murder yet, if they realty thought the prisoners were there, they should find them guilty of manslaughter. Of course, the urv had an idea that they were there, and, agreeably with their own A THE NATION desires, gave a verdict in accordance with the charge of the Judge. I have remarked, that in this trial our friends were not so careful in the selection of jurors as in the first. Had there been no other cause, this alone might have been sufficient to account for the difference in the termination of the two trials. But I shall write you again on Tuesday, giving you a piece of information of the most shocking character, and which does not concern Kansas alone.

I have not time to give it now. All the other Hickory Point boys have obtained a change of venue to Tecumseh. I think they will be cleared there but if they remained here, all would be certain of being convicted. Updegraff and Dolman have gone out on bail. Haines and Lewis, vfhose names by some mistake were not included in the Hickory Point indictment, were discharged this morning, immediately after the adjournment of the grand jury.

The Governor, who had returned Thursday night, gave Haines bis Sharpe's ritle, bat refused Lewis his musket, on the ground that none but United States troops had a right to carry one. Lewis brought the musket from Iowa, and had owned it for years. Of the hundred rifles and fifty or more revolvers, scarcely one remains all have been stolen by the militia or their friends, or given to them. Judge Lecompte has declared his intention to confiscate the arms of all the prisoners, whether convicted or not. Marshal Davis, arrested for contempt of court, has been discharged.

Isaac Davis was to-day taken up to court, and informed that he would not be further prosecuted on the charge of arson, but was told there was another indictment against him, the character of which he could not ascertain. Beside this, one man from Topeka, four from Pleasant Hill, and four more from Prairie City, are kept here after the adjournment of court, although no indictment has been read to them, and several are not aware of charges against them. There is probably no charge at all against Mr. Sexton, of Topeka. It is rumored that the twenty-two already convicted will be separated and put at work next Monday.

This seems almost impossible, as the twenty have given notice of an appeal. But a Lecompte administers the laws of Kansas," which relieves all.surprise. A Pro-Slavery man, named Hay, was arrested day before yesterday, charged with the murder of Buffum. Your readers, perhaps, already know the particulars of that murder, but I will repeat them, to show that the language used by Geary in reference to it was not inapplicable. After Gov.

Geary had coaxed the two thousand seven hundred Missourians before Lawrence to leave the place, the greater portion returned to Missouri; and a small or two up to Lecompton to join the militia. Between these two places, they passed the house of Buffum. One of the Ruffians took a liking to Buffum's horse, and went into the field to get it; and being remonstrated with by Buffum, he deliberately raised his gun and shot him. The Governor came along a few minutes after, and wrote down the dying words of poor Buffum, and pronounced it the most base and cowardly murder of which he had ever known. This was the same company that afterwards passed by us while we were prisoners in the dragoons' camp, flying over them the flag of pirates.

Well, a man said to be this same base and cowardly murderer was arrested, as I have told you. He was kept with us until this morning, he was released bail. Let this be contrasted with the cases of Ritchey, Mitchell, and Kagi. When the latter was held on nothing but a false charge of robbery, the same court refused to admit, him tn hail TiitnhoTr and MIfnLall "are now held on charges of robbery, and of assault with intent to kill, and the same Judge (Lecompte) declares they shall not rb released ox any rail, he cares not how larue. Pro-Slavery murderers are set loose upon people, while all prominent Free State men, agaiust whom any petty charge, however false, can be trumped up, are to be confined indefinitely in this loathsome, death-generating prison.

These things are producing a great disaffection among the Government troops; indeed, such has existed among them for a long time, but it has increased of late to a great extent. When the Prairie City boys were in the custody of the troops, the officer who had command of the detachment several times told them to go home, and the guards did the same thing. At one time, when they stopped for the night, they gave the prisoners revolvers and guns, and sent them out alone to kill chickens and get other game. The prisoners did not leave, simply because they had committed no crime, and therefore expected to get an acquittal upon an immediate examination, and then return to their homes, without fear of a re-arrest or further molestation. But in this they were sadly mistaken, as the sequel has shown.

Some of the militia even have caught a passing streak of virtue, and swear terribly about the onesided business of arresting. Last Wednesday, I spoke of the representation of the various trades and professions. Since then, I have looked around among my fellow prisoners, and find that there is not one among us who cannot both read and write. There is scarcely a man who has not an excellent common school education 5 fourteen are graduates of colleges. What more is wanting to show the high character of the Hundred Free State prisoners Among us, there is a boy only fifteen years old.

His name is Walter Florentine. Several times he has been offered his liberty if he would give evidence against the rest, but each time he received the proposition as an insult. He has a brother who is oue of the chief musicians at Fort Riley. On the Governor's recent visit to that place, this brother importuned him in tears for the release of Walter. On the Governors return, his private secretary, Mr.

McAlister, visited the prison, and asked Walter if he wished to be released. He replied that, dearly as he loved liberty, he asked no favors which would not be given to the others. Noble boy He has fought bravely beside his fellow prisoners, and now if necessary he can die with them like a man, as he is, despite his age We have at last got a small room, between the guard room and tho prison, for a hospital. Only four are now confined in it, although there is scarcely a well one among us. I am barely able to walk, and many others are in the same way.

The fbur who are in the hospital are afflicted with the consumption, which they have contracted here in prison. One of these, a cupper, Mr. Fisher, from Pleasant Hill, knows not the charge against him. He lay so long on the floor before he was taken to the hospital, that the skin became worn from the joints, so that the bones now protrude through the flesh, presenting an aspect truly deathlike. Away up the Grasshopper, on whose beautiful banks he had commenced what he thought a happy home, suffer his wife and child, for he is a poor man, and his daily labor, now robbed from him by the minions of Pierce, is the only recourse he has for the support of those loved ones at home." His wife is sick, her cabin neither chinked nor daubed, and his only Free State neighbors? destitute as herself.

1'his is life in Kansas, nnder Geary's rule. The family of Mr. Hicks is in a similar situation. Mr. Hale has no family.

The other is S. rratt, a piano torte maker, formerly from Boston. He was one of the fonnders rence. The fight at Uickdfy Point is the only one iu which he has been engaged in Kansas, ife wa3 always known as one of the most peaceable, conservative men in town, and went on that expedition only because he thought the safety of Lawrence and the liberties of Kansas demanded it. An affecting incident took place last Sunday, on the visit of his wife and their four lovely children.

It was the only time he had been able to yisit him, for qhe too had been marked by consumption for a victim, and is now in the last stages of that disease. Both husband and wife will soon meet in another world. They will there, in each other's love, enjoy that happiness which this Government has driven from them by the sword, and consumed by fire. As they parted, he kissed his alciostorphan children, and then they embraced. Ah, Stafford," said his wife, we shall peyer meet again on earth 5" and none could doubt, who witnessed the sorrowful night.

The Governor was implored to let him be carried home, that he and his wife might die together. But of what use are our implorations Whatever may he the medium, tyranny has no leniency. It is time for the people of Kansas and of the country to know this. We have had bat one opportunity to bathe since our imprisonment; that was six weeks ago. We had a large tub of onr own whop taken at Hickory Point, which we might bate used for this purpose; but this too has been stolen by those who have taken onr rides.

They will neither return it nor give as another. Bolide cooking our own food, we have also to do AL ERA: WASHING' oar own washing. This we have been compelled to do in small same we kept our water in for drinking, until a day or two since, when Mr. Caldwell obtained leave to loan us a tub. Mr.

Caldwell is the same man spoken of in our memorial a few weeks ago. By an error of the compositor, the name Marshall was connected with his. Mr. Caldwell is city marshal. He is about the only human man in Lecompton.

No one is allowed to see the convicted prisoners. Mr. Hurd, of Lawrence, a brother of one of them, was here this morning, but could not obtain admission; nor was he allowed to speak to him from the street, or send in a message. I am closely watched, and will hereafter have greater difficulty than ever in getting out communications. My becoming known was the only cause of the eight or ten last indictments found against me.

Let this work. I shall still do my duty, notwithstanding their threats. There is a good time coming, I yet hope, for it's a long Lane that has no turning. k. Wholesale Prison, Lecompton, Tuesday, November 11, 1856.

To the Editor of the National Era: Last Saturday I promised you the key to the causes which produced the different result in the two late trials of Free State prisoners. I now proceed to fulfil my promise. Colonel Titus, it is well known, was an old Cuban filibuster. Major of the once resided in Nicaragua, remarked, in presence of Titos, a few days, previous to the first trial of Hickory Point prisoners, that he should like to return to that country, and inquired if some of the others would not accompany him. Several expressed their willingness to go, in case Kansas became a slave State, and a few said they would go anyhow, for the sake of adventure.

At this, Titus unfolded himself, and said, Well, Major, if any of your boys wish to go to Central America, ifs all right. I have just received a letter from General Wheat, of New York, who is about to raise an expedition destined for some of those parts. Read it to the the do not let it go out of your hands. Keep the matter secret." Now, that no one else may suffer on account of my desire to furnish the Era with the latest news, filibustering and all, I will tell you how I obtained a copy of the letter. After Bickerton had once read it aloud to the prisoners, I called for a second reading, and at this took advantage of a pretty thorough knowledge of phonography, and reported the letter, verbatim.

It did not go out of the hands of Bickerton, nor is it now published with any complicity of his. Here it is: New York, Oct. 4, 1856. My Dear Sir Having heard time and again that you had been killed, I am glad to see by the papers that you still live. I see that you have a large command, and am' glad of it.

I am now organizing a brigade to go to Central America. I have made my arrangements to be in New Orleans by the 15th or 20th of November. I have ample transportation for two thousand men. I have about 200 from Keniortft tuuivjr uuiu cuncooccj tiuui iuiooio' sippi, 300 from Louisiana, and abont 200 from Alabama. Now, I want to know whether you can furnish 500 men, such as you have now under your command? If so, I will furnish them with transportation to New Orleans.

If they will bring their arms with them, it will be better. Should you decide to go, write to me forthwith, and let me know. Write me how many men you can get, what number are armed, and how. 1 am not going to Nicaragua, but to a place where there is plenty of money, and just enough of fighting th make the time pass of pleasantly. As as I hear from you favorably, I shall start immediately to join you at such point as you may indicate, so that we may lose no time in embarking the men.

I wish you, of course, to command the regiment, organizing it upon United States regulations. Direct your answer to me at Louisville, Kentucky. When we meet, I will be able to give you some details, and would do so in the letter, but am afraid it might fall into other hands ere it reached you. Suffice it to say, that you have my word for it, that it is the best expedition that I have ever been engaged in. I resigned my commission of General of Brigade in Mexico to take command of this.

Fortune invites. Shall we decline? No! Then write me as soon as this reaches you, and give me the glorious answer yes." Should you meet General J. 0. Anderson, from Georgia, remember me to him, and tell him I should be delighted to have him along, with some of his brave boys. If you can get 1,000 men, I can take care of them.

Now, as ever, your fellow-soldier, C. R. Wheat. The italicizing is all my own. It was on the 13th of October that Titus showed us this letter.

From that time on, to within a day or two of the second trial, he visited us almost daily, and never left without enjoining us to keep in good spirits." He sent General J. G. Anderson to see Gen. Rich ardaon, who was also implicated 111 the affair, to get what money he could, for transportation and other purposes. On his return, a few weeks since, Titus tells us he had secured typo hundred thousand dollars I that he was to be in St.

Liouis with his ipen by the first Monday in JJecember. He said that nearly all his militia had agreed to go, taking with them the United States arms, I suppose, of course. He said that the Government toas implicated in the matter, and if Buchanan was elected, it would remain so; and that therefore peed have no feara of being apprehended by the authorities while on the way. He said, that when they had once conquered Nicaragua and San Salvador, (the latter I have since learned is the destination of the expedition,) everything was arranged to strike a blow at Cuba. Several times he told us that he would use all the influence in his power to get us released but if he coqld not do it in court, he would let us 90This accounts for the acquittal of the fifteen who were first tried.

We let him flatter and make promises, while we did neither. I betray no confidence or trust in giving you the particulars of this affair. I would have given them earlier, but I knew Titus would become enraged, and do my comrades much injury as he wopM otherwise be capable of doing them good, and did not wish to imperil my friends. But ndw a change of affairs pas taken place. Titus has read the Appeal to the American People," sent out by the prisoners a few weeks since, and now declares himself our open enemy.

He read it a day or more before triaj of the twenty prisoners who were convicted, and declared he would do all in his nqwer ty bring about fMuli, said tie would uu uia uiiyuiipew vo Miu nuug uii. he Toolishly thought of making money out of ua, he offered to kt us go, in case the court would not. But when we dared to tell the truth in danger, he promises to hang us. Some may ask, why we did not keep still, and procure our release by an implied assent to his desires? Simply, because wo rather die uge any moral deception. We afe imppfonud tor honorable deeds; and if pver we are released, it must be by honorable action on our part.

1 may give you more about this expedition hereafter. Gov. Geary knows that snch an expedition is on foot here, and in all probability knows many of the particulars concerning Titus's connection with it yet he has taken him cipher to his having a few days ago appointed him, one of his quia. The Qoyernor is now at Fort Leavenworth, for the purpose, it is said, of preparing a pUpe for the Free State convicts, who are yet herein charge of" Sheriff Janes who is drunk fourfifths of his time. I learn that one company of the militia will be disbanded next Saturday, and regular troops brought to guard the convicts and the prisoners who were unable to get a chauge of venue to Tecumseh, until taken to the Fort white the other company will guard the fifty prisoners to Tecumseh; ana while there.

John Wilson, of Prairie city, was yesterday released, by giving bail of one thousand dollars, to appear at the next term of court in this Elace, although there is nd indictment against im, as I week. There was no rOK, D. NOVEMBl charge mgainst him. There are three others here from Prairie city, in the same situation. Wilson's wife died during his imprisonment, i and some of his friends came up as bondsmen, he might see her once more before she was laid in the blood-saturated soil of Kansas.

One cause of her death was her anxiety for her husband, but Geary is her murderer. A proclamation has been issued by the Governor, fixing upon the 20th inst. as a day of thanksgiving for the peace which reigns throughout Ka nsas." What damnable and inexcusable sacrilege! Last night, Capt Donaldson brought in a which he read to the prisoners, i this was at the request of the Governor, he alone, perhaps, can Bay. The boys groanej it down; and why should they not? It was most cowardly and disgraceful insult that ever been offered us. Had I seeu it, 1 shoufcl have snatched it from him, and committed it to the flames, even at the risk of my life.

Ask us to rejoice at our own enslavement! The day will come when a sweet revenge will wipe all such wrongs as these. 1 haye just learned tLat some of the militia, a few clays ago, arrested a Free State man np towards the Nebraska line, and that the prisoner was afc erwarda rescued by a large body of his fellow-citizens; and that the Governor will send the point at which this occurrence took place the whole disposable force of the army in Kansas. This may all be a mere have not time to inquire into its truth at present. If it iroves true, the war has again commence 1. is eagerly expected by our people and the officials are beginning to look for him with a large army.

He was to leave Philadel- Ehia the night of election, come by railroad to Turlington, and from there toTopeka by relays of hon es, already engaged. He is looked for Wednesday night, the 12th. I do not think there rill be any immediate change in affairs on thv) account. k. KANSAS NEWS.

St. JjouiSy Nov. advices from Lawrence to the 10th inrtant. Last Saturday, twenl of the prisoners taken at Hickory Point were "ied, and found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to five years imprisonment at hard Chicago, Nov. dates from Kansas are to the 10th inst.

Hayes, the murderer of Buffutn, was released by Judge Lecompte on the 8tja on his giving bail in the sum of $10,000. Sheriff Jones was his bondsman. 1 Governor Geary ordered his re-arrest, but he had already escaped to Missouri. Gov. Geary has threatened to hold Marshal Donaldson responsible for the recapture of Hayes.

-IREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. Dates to November 8. is little important news by this arrival. Additional symptoms had manifested themOnlTO. nlnoa i w4 vtvov uutuu ucbnuvu jl' loutcj lvuooiaj and 'russia.

It would appear that France supports the unconditional admission of Russia and to the second meeting of the European Conference, while England is said to oppose the admission of the former, and Austria of latter. Treaties of commerce between Russia and France, and railway treaties between Russia and j'russia, were in preparation. Neapolitan affairs continued without change. Tijere had nothing of interest been received On Thursday evening, the 6th instant, the Directors of the Bank of England held a protracted sitting, in the course of which they deliberately considered the expediency of making a further change in the rates of discount, with a view to arrest the continued outflow of gold to the continent. The withdrawal of a considerable amount during the last four days, and the certainty that the demand must continue, unless it be interrupted by large arrivals fron.1 Australia, are understood to have engaged (be attention of the Board, and the to make any change for the present was arrived at by a majority of only one.

The condition of the Bank of France had shown no improvement. Rumors continue of a probable modification in the Ministry. It is said that M. fje Persigny's visit to the Emperor is connected with these rumors. The Emperor continues the revels at Compeigne, where his third and last batch of guests have just arrived, including the Ministers of Rassia, Sweden, and Holland, and Marshals Pelissier and Baraguay D'Hilliers.

These protracted country entertainments give offence to the Parisians, and among the placards surreptitiously posted on the walls are some headed Le Roi Semus." The event of the week is a semi-official editorial in the Constitutionnel, on the questions at issue between the French and English Governments. This article speaks plainly, aud says The presence of the naval squadron of England in the Black Sea, and of the Austrians in the Principalities, are henceforth only an arbitrary and violent means of preventing a solution of the difference which Russia has been the first to propose in offering to submit the question to its natural judges. Is it desired rather to hft.ve rannnrao ormo 9 Ta moe re a i desired Does the English Ministry itch to enter again upon hostilities without France? not certainly to assure the execution of the treaty of Paris, but imprudently to rend it in pieces in the face of the world, with the object of satisfying an ambition that had been for the moment disguised? We repeat, it now depends upon the Cabinets of London and Vienna to put an end to the pending disputes, and to terminate the anxieties to which the present sit- nation give3 rise. Let the consent to the re- assembling of the Plenipotentiaries be given without making arbitrary and inadmissible exclusiveness a which would completely change the character and be 1 an additional breach of the treaties. Let us add, that if a peaceful solution is desired, thij is the only proposal fop that puvpoae that can Hx Recently It has been rumored for some days back, in that the French fleet was about to proceed to the Black Sea.

This, however, is not certain. Tie fleet may perhaps leave Toulon, but it is probable that it will go so far. Should S. to the Black Sea, it iq difbcqlt to suppose its object could be co-opeyation with the itish squadron. -The celebrated painter, Paul de Roche, is He was 59 years of age.

Sjyain. A plan of finance will be laid before the Council of Ministers without delay. as yet is decided as to the creation a Ministry of Colonies. The Espana, a Ministerial paper, decrie3 the alliance, and recommends the of Spairi with the Northern powers. It was said that the dispatches received by tie Government from Rome represented that 8) negotiation about to be entered into with Holy See would be conducted in a friendlv gj frit by the latter.

1 The law of th? press, requiring a heavy de- fCfc'-t as surety money, has been re-established. "A meeting of political notabilities had been in the house of Gen. for the purpose re organising progressionist party. The wfsult is not yet the Neapolitan difficulties we have nothing more definite than the followif from the Paris Patrit: 11 The Neapolitan difference, if we may believe reports published by the Belgian journals, are on the point of entering on a better phase; aAd although the King of Naples has, it is said, his representatives in France and England to demand their passports as soon as they s'lould be informed of the return of the Baron I remer and Mr. Petrie, it is thought that an a will be come to through the friend1' interferences of the Russian Minister at Na p)es.

We shall soop know what we may exnect on thjs subject, for a manifesto from the Government is every day expected; 0 ad if that document should not be of a ooncil- character, it is probable that the Neapoli- will take their passports, According to the recent agreement with the a i 'ope, the Austrians are withdrawing their I 'oops from several of the towns is the Papal i i legations which they have for some time past At the same time, they are making Reparations for an overwhelming display of 1 jihtary force in on the iron- i ier. The ports evacuated ire immediately reccupied by Papal 9wiss regiments. Bologna -od Ancona are now the only points held by the instrians." say that the relations bpween France and Prussia becoming closer, here being of hat two of Russia, and Prussia, against England i Ind Austria; such talk, however, is of little falue, i a ER 27, 1856. It is also said that a new treaty of commerce is settled between Russia and Prussia, with a view to international railway communication. Private statements say that Prussia agrees with France and Russia in requiring that the Austrians shall evacuate the Danubian Principalities and the Euglish fleet leave the Black a letter from Vienna in the Cologne Gazette, we learn something about the diplomatic correspondence which resulted from the intention of Russia to erect new fortifications on the Finnish coast in the Bothnian Gulf.

We are told that this matter has come to an amicable understanding, as far as the relations of the French Government to Russia are concerned but the British Government, it is said, still maintains that in these fortifications there is an invasion of the articles of the treaty of peace, by which the erection of fortifications on the Aland Islands is interdicted. Count Morny is represented as having declared to Prince Gortscnakoff, in reply to a direct question, that France had no objection to the erection of the proposed fortifications. Mount Vernon Nov. The bills of the Mount Vernon Bank, Providence, are selling here at fifty cents on the dollar. THE THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, AS FAS AS ELECTED.

THE members.) Term expites. TYrm expires. alabama. Albert G. Brown 1809 Clement C.

Clay, jr. 1839 Michigan. Benjamin Fitzpatrick 1881 A Republican -1863 Arkansas. Charles E. Stuart 1850 William K.

Sebastian 1859 Missouri. Robert W. Johnson 1861 A Democrat 1863 connecticut. A Democrat 1861 James Duron 1863 Hampshire. Lafayette S.

Foster 1-61 John P. Halt 1850 california. James Bell 1861 Vacancy -1863 new tore. Vacancy 1861 A Republican delaware. WUliam H.

Seward 1861 a Democrat 1863 ww hkl-v A Democrat 1850 A Democrat Florida. William Wright A Democrat 1963 north Carolina. David L. Yulee 1861 David S. Reid 1859 gkoroia.

Asa Biggs 1801 Robert Toombs 1850 ohio. Alfred Iverson 1861 Benjamin F. Wade 1863 Indiana. George E. Pugh 1861 A Democrat 1863 Pennsylvania.

A Democrat 1861 A Democrat 1861 Illinois. William Bigler 1863 Stephen A. Douglas 1859 khodr island. Lyman Trumbull ls6l A Rejiubliean 1863 iowa. Philip Allen Geo.

Jones south Carolina. James Harlan 1861 Josinh J. Evans 1850 Kentucky. Andrew P. Butler 1861 John B.

Thompson 1859 Tennessee. John J. Crittenden 1861 A Democrat 1863 Louisiana. John Bell 1861 Judah P. Benjamin 1830 texas John Slidell IsOl Thomas J.

Rusk -1863 Maine. Sam. Houston 1830 A Republican 1863 Vermont. William P. Fessenden 1850 Solomon Foot 1863 Massachusetts.

Jacob Collamer 1861 A Republican 1863 Virginia. Henry Wilson 1859 A Democrat 1863 Maryland. R. M. T.

Hunter 1859 Anthony Kennedy 1863 Wisconsin. James A. Pearce 1861 A Republican 1863 Mississippi. Charlts Durk.ee 1861 Jefferson Davis 1963 recapitulation by FIGURES. Democrats, (in Roman) 36 Opposition, (in Italics) -24 Vacancies and doubtful 2 Total members 62 THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Two hundred and thirty-four members. ARKANSAS. 1. A. B.

2. Ed. A. Warren. DELAWARE.

1. William G. Whiteley. FLORIDA. 1.

George S. Hawkins. ILLINOIS. 1. E.

B. C. Thos. L. 2.

J. E. Farnsworth.f 7. Jas. C.

3. Owen Lovejoy.f 8. Robert Smith. 4. William Kellogg, 9.

S. S. 5. Isaac N. Morris.

INDIANA. 1. James Lockhart. 7. John G.

Davis. 2. Wm.H, 8. James 3. James Hughes.

9. Schuyler 4. James B. Foley. 10.

Sam. 5. David Kilgore.f 11. John U. 6.

James M. Grigg. IOWA. 1. Sam.

R. Curtis.t 2. Timothy MAINE. 1. John M.

4. F. II. Morse.f 2. Chas.

J. Gitman.f 5. I. Washburn, 3. N.

Abbott.t 6. S. C. Foster.f MASSACHUSETTS. 1.

Robert B. 7. N. P. 2.

Jas. 8. C. L. 3.

W. S. 9. Eli 4. L.

B. 10. C. C. 5.

A. 11. Henry L. 6. Timothy MICHIGAN.

1. W. A. 3. D.

2. Henry 4. D. C. Leach.f MISSOURI.

1. F. P. Blair, 5. S.

H. Woodson. 2. Anderson. 6.

John S. 3. Jas. S. Green.

7. Sam. 4. NEW JERSEY. 1.

I. D. 4. John Huyler. 2.

G. It. 5. J. R.

Worteudyke. 3. G. B. Adrian, NEW YORK.

1. Oohn A. Searing. 18. C.

B. 2. George Taylor. 19. Oliver A.

3. Dan. E. Sickles. 20.

O. B. 4. John 21. H.

5. Wm. B. Mae lay. 22.

H. C. 6. John Cochrane. 23.

Chas. B. 7. Elijah Ward. 24.

A. P. 8. Horaoe F. Clark.

25. Ed. B. 9. John B.

Haskin. 26. E. B. 10.

A. L. 27. J. M.

11. Wm. F. Russell. 28.

Wm. H. 12. John 29. S.

G. 13. Ab. B. 30.

J. W. Sherman, 14. Kra8tus Corning. 31.

3. M- 15 Elward Israel T. Hatch. 16. Qeo.

W. 33. R. E. 17.

F. E. OHIO. 1. G.

II. Pendleton. 11. 2. W.

S. Grovesbeck. 12. Samuel S. Cox.

3. L. D. 13. John 4.

M. H. Nich.ola.*! 14. Philemon 5. Richard lib O.

B. Thompson.t 6. R. Cockerel. 17.

Wn. Lawrence. f. Aaron 18. Benj.

8. benj. 19. Edward 9. Hall.

20. J. R. Joseph Miller. 21.

J. A. PENNSYLVANIA. 1. T.

B. 14. Q. A. 2.

Ed. J. 15. Alison White. 3.

James Landy. 1G. John J. Abel. 4.

H. M. Phillips. 17. Wilson Reiily.

5. Owen Jones. John R. 6. John la.

John Renry Ohapiaau. 20. Wm. To to. si.

9. A.E. 22. S. A.Purviance.*! yj.

23. Wm. Stewart-! 11. Wm. L.

Dewart. 24. J. L. Gillii, i.

J. L. Montgomery. 25. John ,3.

Wm. JJimraick. SOUTH CAROLINA. 1. John 4.

P. S. 2. Wm. P.

Mills. 5. James L. 3. L.

M. 6. Wm. W. Boyce VERMONT.

1. E. P. Walton.f 3. H.

E. Royce.t 2. J. S. WISCONSIN.

1. John P. Potter.f 3. C. 2.

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EMMA D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH, The celebrated American Authoress, been engaret) to write exclusively for THE NEW YORK I.RDt.HK and all the Novelettes that she after the 1st of January will be published in no pnper but THE LED(1KR See TllE LEDGER advertisement, in another column. TREEMOUNT SEMINARY, OIXTEF.N miles northwest from Philadelphia, wear Norristown.

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