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KANSAS. 
Col. Eldridge, with his brother, being desirous, if possible, to 
save the new hotel, of which he was the proprietor, went to Le- 
compton on the 18th, Sunday. Gov. Shannon talked with them 
of send mg for the troops, to have them stationed at Lawrence, to 
protect the citizens from the marshal’s mob, while they made the 
arrests; thefr arms to be given into the keeping of the troops, 
until the search was over, and the posse gone. This proposition 
was to be made to the people of Lawrence, and the Messrs. El¬ 
dridge were to return on the morrow to report their decision. This 
they did. The proposal had been acceded to by the citizens of 
Lawrence. 
Gov. Shannon declared, on the 19th, that their arms must be 
delivered to the posse; that the hotel and printing-presses must 
be destroyed ; else— let the reason of this wise execution of the 
law be taken note of—“the South Carolinians will not be satis¬ 
fied.” The Messrs. Eldridge immediately replied, that “ This the 
pepple of Lawrence will never do ; they will fight first.” When 
this partisan governor, the weak tool of South Carolina and Mis¬ 
souri, leaving the room, said, “ Then war it is, by G—d ! ” 
On Monday also word came into Lawrence of the murder of a 
young man by the name of Jones, the support of his widowed 
mother. He had been to Lawrence for a bag of meal, and, return¬ 
ing, was ordered to halt, by a band of the marshal’s posse, near 
Blanton’s Bridge. He obeyed the order of the ruffianly assassins, 
and they disarmed him. Then they ordered him to proceed, and 
as he did so, two of the posse exclaimed, “ Let’s shoot the d—d 
abolitionist! ” Suiting the action to the word, the balls sped on 
their swift errand, and the recording angel wrote against the 
names of some high in power another murder. 
Several young men immediately left Lawrence to go to the spot 
where young Jones fell a victim to the bloody tools of slavery • 
and about a mile from Lawrence they met two men from West- 
port. Another ball did the bidding of the slave interest, and 
another witness appeared against its supporters in the high court 
where perjury enters not, and packed juries are unknown. 
The body of young Stewart, so lately come among us, was 
brought into town, and laid in the hotel. So sudden was his pas- 
