Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1858 — From Kansas. [ARTICLE]

From Kansas.

St. Louis, May 26, 1858. A dispatch from Leavenworth of the 24th says that the second column of troops, under command of Colonel Monroe, which has been encamped on Salt river, four miles below the Fort, since the 20th, resumed their, march yesterday. The third column, undercommand of Colonel May, is still encamped in the vicinity of the Fort, and will notunove before the 27th Three companies of the 7th Infantry will reach the Fort on Sunday. Incomplete election returns indicate a majority of seven hundred and fifty in favor of the Constitution. The utmost apathy is manifested in regard to the result. The Pro-slavery vote is very small. A dispatch from Nebraska City of the 23d says that intelligence from Galt county, Nebraska, says that a conflict had just occurred between the settlers and Kiowa Indians, in which one chief was killed. A number of stolen horses were captured. There is much complaint of- Indian depredations in that section of the Territory. late'R. St. Lours, May 26. A dispatch from Leavenworth City, dated the 24th, says the stage has just arrived from Lawrence, which brings the Republican extra, containing a letter dated Maneka, Linn county, 20th, stating that, on the 19th, a party of Pro-slavery men from Missouri came into the trading post situated on the road from Fort Scott to Leavenworth, where it crosses the Osage, taking two men, Andrews and Campbell, prisoners. Further on they captured a Mr. Stillwell, recently from lowa, and a man named Reed; continuing on the road toward K nsas city, till they had taken twelve meiU—when the party halted in a ravine, where the prisoners, with the exception of Andrews, who had been dismissed from custody, were formed in a line and fired upon. Five were killed, namely: t tilhvell, Ross, Colchester, Robinson and Campbell; six were wounded. After the accomplishment of their bloody work, the ruffians made off. The affair has created intense excitement at Lawrence and the neighborhood, and a force was being organized to pursue the perpetrators of the outrage. Jim Lane was at Lawrence, hut it was not known whether he would participate in the pursuit. The sources of information are considered entirely reliable. The contested Probate Judgeship was decided to-day by Judge Lecom'pte in favor of Gardner. latest. * e St. Louis, May 27. The Republican's Westport correspondent gave totally a different version of the affair reported from Leavenworth. It appears that Captain Hamilton and some twenty others who had been driven from Linn county b. Montgomery’s men, after placing their families safely in -V issouri, determined to return to the Territory to look after and protect their property. Approaching Chouteau’s Trading Post on the morning of the 19th, the party was notified at that place, arid mistaking them for Montgomery’s men, came out to meet them, when they were all taken prisoners. From one prisoner Hamilton learned that a number of robbers were stationed at Snyder’s, a fortified house a short distance from Chouteau’s Post, under promise that they would return home. The prisoners were disarmed and released. Hamilton and party then proceeded to Snyder’s house, situated in a ravine, flanked by rock-walls. Divided into two parties, they approached it in opposite directions, and hearing a gun fired on the side of a hill, charged on the spot, where they found the men they had just released, who had pa - tially armed themselves at s §. neighboring house and taken a short cut for Snyder’s. A fight ensued, resulting in the death of ten. The robbers, amongst whom is Captain Reid, one of the Montgomery’s -Board of Commissioners, before whom all prisoners are on trial, in a few minutes, by ifiain force in S.nyder’s-housc, rushed to the woods and escaped. This correspondent distinctly states that not a Missourian took part in the affair. All of Hamilton’s party were men who had been driven from the Territory a few days before. still later. St. Louis May 30. The Democrat's Kansas correspondent gives rna. y rumors and conflicting accounts of the recent troubles in the Southern parts of the Territory. It is stated that some two hundred settlers were organized near Sugar Mound, and still a larger party of Missourians were encamped a short distance from them, and it is thought that a battle would ensue. Gov Denver has commissioned Sheriff Samuel Walker to proceed to the scene of disturbances and report to him, when it is thought active measures will be taken to restore order. The latest news from Ossawattomie states that that place was threatened by three hundred Missourians. Messengers have been despatched to Lawrence for arms. It appears from correspondence emanating from head quarters of the Kansas Militia, published in the Lawrence Republican, that

'Captains Montgomery* and Payne were deprived of their commissions on the eighteenth of Fepruary. The Ossawattomie Herald confirms the accounts of the murders in Lynn county, on the 19th. It is rumored that Brockett’s party are now besieged, at Fort Scott, by the FreeState men, who are waiting reinforcements, to take the place bv storm. A dispatch dated Leavenworth, May 28, says that more recent accounts from the south fully substantiate previous reports of the murders in Lynn county. Col. Monroe’s corps was encamped at Walnut Creek, on Wednesday night, fifty miles distant; the column was progresaing finely. Col. May’s column marched this morning. The Republican learns that Gov. Stewart has sent Gen. Parsons to Bates and Cass counties to ascertain the extent of troubles there, and whether it vri.ll he necessary to call out the militia to protect the border counties of Missouri from the depredations of Montgomery’s band of robbers.