ARREST OF G. JENKINS AND G. W. BROWN. 
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table. The landlady’s ire was a little aroused, but the difficulty 
was settled without an appeal to arms. 
Monday morning, the 19th, the cavalcade, with a large addi¬ 
tional guard, making in all about one hundred men, started for 
the main camp, some twelve miles distant. This group of men was 
made up of all kinds. There were a few young men of education, 
accustomed to the refinements of life, and others brutal and igno¬ 
rant. Their dirty dress gave to them an elfish look, and many 
lookers-on declared they had not supposed God’s beautiful earth 
contained such desperate, brutal-looking men. They were obliged 
to pass along the prairie only a mile south of Lawrence, and, as 
they approached the long, steep hill on the California road, a 
quarter of a mile beyond Mt. Oread, they sent scouts all over the 
hills. They commenced whipping their horses at the base, and, 
as one of the prisoners expressed it, “ they v T ent kiting up the 
hill, and for nearly a mile after the summit had been gained.” 
Many of this posse had never been in the territory before, and, 
as they looked at Lawrence and its surroundings, of river flowing 
beneath the dim forests, the beautiful uplands and emerald slopes, 
and the distant highlands surging against the azure sky, like the 
deep blue ocean-wave, they broke forth in exclamations of rap¬ 
ture and delight But Lawrence, with her large stone buildings, 
and little homes, made rich in experience of the past and hope for 
the future, was doomed — yes, doomed to destruction! for the 
strong arm of the government so willed it, and the wail of its 
desolation has gone up to Heaven against its officials, who, by 
their base proclamations, had brought this infamous horde upon 
us. 
About tw r o miles from Lawrence, a Mr. W., passing near his 
home, hunting for his cattle, was made to dismount by the posse 
and give up his horse to them. They reached Judge Wakefield’s 
at two o’clock, p. m., and Oapt. Donaldson, w 7 ho seemed to have the 
command at this time, went into the house, then returned to the 
hack with a lady who was stopping there. She invited the ladies 
to remain with them overnight; but, firm in their determination to 
stay by their husbands until.forced from them, they declined the 
invitation, and went with the posse to the camp, one and a half 
