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quent. Mr. Mace, residing a few miles from Lawrence, the 
evening after having given in his testimony concerning the ill 
treatment he received at the hands of the Missourians at the elec¬ 
tion in the spring, was shot. Hearing his dog bark, he stepped 
out of his house, and reports of pistols resounded in the air, a 
ball striking him in the leg. At the same time, he heard one 
of the assassins say, “ There’s another d—d abolition wolf- 
bait ! ” 
A young man, living on the Wakarusa, has been for many days 
missing. He had been seen to enter the timber bottoms, on his 
way to Lawrence. Soon after, a pro-slavery man was also seen 
taking the same course, and a shot was heard. Mr. B.’s horse 
was found with saddle on, in the woods. The Stubs, of which 
young B. was a member, searched for him, but failed to find 
him. 
The second week in May, the First District Court held its ses¬ 
sion at Lecompton, Judge Lecompte presiding. The congressional 
committee also held a session at Tecumseh, twenty miles above 
Lawrence, for the better accommodation of witnesses in that 
region; and of General Whitfield, who had declined to bring 
his witnesses to Lawrence, promising, however, to have them at 
Tecumseh. 
The weather being lovely, the doctor proposed that Mrs. S. and 
I should accompany him to Topeka, five miles beyond Tecumseh. 
A little later than the committee we left Lawrence, our Scotch 
friend, who had just returned from the states, accompanying us. 
A little way on the road we passed T., who was again going to 
Lecompton for trial, making the third visit there for the same 
thing. 
We reached Big Springs near noon. A collection of houses 
and a store were here, upon exceedingly high ground. The site 
gained its name from a number of springs of excellent water in 
the deep ravines near the town. 
A mile further on was Washington; unlike the Washington 
with its broad avenue on our eastern slope, where Congress-men, 
fresh from gambling-hells and deeds of sin which the darkness 
hides, shoot down their fellows ; where our senators, for words of 
