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KANSAS. 
On the last day of May, an attack was made by some Georgi¬ 
ans on the house of Mr. Storrs, who lived nine miles from Law¬ 
rence. Since the sacking of Lawrence, they had been encamped 
in that region. They came early in the morning, driving before 
them a man who lived with Mr. Storrs, and had been out to hunt 
the cattle, firing upon him three times. They demanded that a 
very valuable horse standing near should be given up. Mrs. Storrs 
asked, “ By what authority ? ” The captain of the robbers replied, 
“ By the authority of Gov. Shannon, and if she said a word, he 
would shoot her; he would kill every d—d abolitionist in the 
territory.” They took the horse. The family for safety moved to 
Lawrence. Horses were continually being pressed into the gov¬ 
ernor’s service, taken from teams on the highway, and in the fur¬ 
row. 
At one place, when the presence of some young ladies seemed to 
have some effect upon the chivalry, they declaring “ they should 
return to Alabama in the fall, and would like to take some wives 
with them,” the horses were left. They said, however, “ they 
didn’t know what the old man (meaning Gov. Shannon) would 
say, if he knew they did so.” 
Arrests are in no instance made of the men who commit such 
outrages; none of the Georgians attacking and destroying pri¬ 
vate dwellings, none of the Lecompton gentry who make midnight 
sallies upon quiet settlers, ever being arrested; but, per contra, 
warrants were issued for all who were known to be concerned in 
defending Capt. Walker’s house. 
Such is u law and order ” in Kansas, whose governor, drunken 
and debauched, insults women in their own dwellings, with lan¬ 
guage too profane for insertion here, and heads gangs for searching 
sett 1 ers’ homes. 
