hunting and bewailing their dead, and inquiring for some new city of refuge.

Ex-Governor Robinson, had risen early, as is his habit, and gone to his farm on Mount Arrad. He there saw the entrance of the bushwackers, and was enabled to remain concealed. General Deitzler was a guest at his house near the river; but the fact was unknown to the bandits. It is probable that his house owes its safety to the minie rifles of the soldiers on the north bank, which covered it completely. General Deitzler would certainly have been shot, if taken, as would any man known to be a Federal officer.

Quantrell stated to the Hon. R. S. Stevens, one of the Eldridge House prisoners, that his force was four hundred and fifty-three men.

That this was false, I have no doubt, and I am satisfied that the whole number could not have exceeded two hundred. He also stated to different parties that his rendezvous on Wednesday night, was five miles from the State line in Kansas, and that his force then scattered, and came within fifteen miles of Lawrence, where they again rendezvoused, and rested till Monday morning. From that point, he stated that he came to Lawrence, and entered the place in four columns, by as many different streets. Partly corroborative of this, I learn that parties coming to Lawrence from the Missouri line, on Thursday, report that they saw numerous horsemen, singly, and in parties of two or three, travelling in the same direction. They had no suspicion of a hostile movement. Quantrell boasted of having completely outwitted General Ewing, and seemed greatly pleased at his own strategy.

That it was previously resolved to show no quarter, seems hardly probable from the facts, though it is cer

tain that it was determined to shoot down every man who was seen, previous to obtaining complete possession of the town. Had the gang entered the Eldridge House at once, making no conditions, it is my opinion that every man in it would have been shot, as soon as seen.

But Quantrell could not believe that the building was entirely defenceless, and having no time nor artillery for a siege, and no wish to be shot from a window, he demanded the surrender of the house.

This was made by Provost-Marshal Banks, and the prisoners were promised protection.

This promise, I think, Quantrell did all in his power to redeem. Individual instances of atrocity or clemency grew immediately out of the temper of each ruffian respectively.

Messrs. Griswold, Trask, Thorpe, and Baker were called out of their houses, and promised protection, and then shot down in the street in the presence of their families. On the other hand, the Rev. Mr. only spared, but was asked if he was not a Baptist missionary preacher; and on answering in the affirmative, was allowed to keep his money and one or two watches.

was not

This case differed widely from that of the Rev. Mr. Snyder, a Methodist preacher, who was murdered by the gang at his house as they first entered the town.

Elias Loomis, a stage-driver, in compliance with the entreaties of his wife, was promised protection, and was told to bring from his house anything he chose before it was burned. As he turned to enter, he was shot twice, and falling into the cellar, was consumed by the fire.

I was told by the wife of a prominent citizen, that she saw three men near her house attempt severally to escape, each having in his arms a child. All three were shot down, but the children escaped.

The wife of one of the victims threw herself before him, and clasped him in her arms, but the fiends coolly fired over her head, and instantly killed him.

Judge Carpenter, attempting to fly, was pursued and shot. His wife and sister strove to protect his body with their own, but the assassins placed the muzzles of their revolvers between the persons of the women and discharged the contents into Carpenter's head.

Women were torn from their husbands, and the latter shot in their presence. The instances of utter inhumanity and atrocity are sufficient to swell this narrative into a volume.

The loss of life, contrary to the usual experiences in similar cases, was at first greatly under-estimated. As I close the narrative, I am informed by the Hon. M. J. Parrott, who went over as chairman of the relief committee, on Friday night, and returned early on Sunday morning, that the number of corpses buried before he left was one hundred and eighteen.

Undoubtedly, bodies will continue to be discovered, and I think it not unlikely, now, that the number will be swelled to one hundred and fifty. The loss in money and property has been estimated at two millions of dollars.

Should that calculation at all follow the course of the loss of life, the sum will prove to be immensely greater. So far as its present business is concerned, Lawrence is as much destroyed as though an earthquake had buried it in ruins. It has left but a single small hotel, and one store, minus its entire stock of goods.

All its mechanics' shops are gone, and the best of its dwellings. Not a newspaper office remains. Most of the leading citizens may be said to be financially ruined. Sympathy has been prompt and abundant. Immediately on the news reaching Leavenworth, every citizen

seemed to vie with his neighbor in giving substantial aid. Committees were appointed to proceed to the scene of disaster, and others to raise money in aid of the wounded.

It is stated that ten thousand dollars have already been procured to supply the necessaries of life; and teams have immediately. started over with food, medicines, clothing, and coffins. The chief Quartermaster at the Fort gave government transportation.

Governor Carney issued a proclamation, and himself gave one thousand dollars in money. Mayor Anthony exerted himself to the utmost, officially and privately, in behalf of the sufferers. And the Hon. M. J. Parrott and A. C. Wilder went in person to render service. Sympathy and vengeance divided the public sentiment.

Such was the catastrophe-such the wickednesswhich was suddenly let loose upon the inhabitants of this defenceless and unprotected town. Man, when unrestrained by the ties of law or morality, is a monster of cruelty and injustice.

MURDER OF MR. LEWIS PIERCE.

MR. LEWIS PIERCE, being sick, was stopping at Mr. Johnson's house, in Clinton county, Tennessee. He was so ill as to be scarcely able to leave his bed. One day, shortly after the Home Guards had been disbanded, hearing the tramp of horses, and the voices of men in the road, and suspecting that it was Champ Furguson—that cold-blooded murderer, and his band of assassins, who had come to take his life—as was natural, he endeavored to escape by getting out of bed and running from the house; but being weak from sickness, he was soon over

taken by Furguson, who ran him through with the knife presented to him by General Braxton Bragg (then commanding that department), cutting him in a shocking manner. This not killing him instantly, two of Champ's imps of crime seized the poor man's legs, while a third, stepping up, drew his knife and commenced disembowelling their already dying victim. His entrails were then laid on a log, and the body thrown violently on the ground.

While these fiends were carrying on this work of blood, Champ and his band applauded them for their bravery. Such is the manner in which the Union men of Tennessee were treated. It was worth the life of a man in many localities even to be suspected of being a Union man.*

VIOLATION OF A FLAG OF TRUCE.

ON the 27th of March, 1863, as the United States bark Pursuit was lying off Gladsdin's Point, in Tampa Bay, Florida, on blockading duty, a smoke was discovered on the shore, and shortly afterwards three persons appeared on the beach waving a white flag. The commander of the Pursuit, Act. Vol. Lieutenant Randall, supposing they wished to communicate with the Fleet, sent out a boat, in charge of Acting-Master H. K. Lapham, with a flag of truce flying.

On the boat nearing the shore, two of the party were seen to be dressed in women's clothes, with their hands and faces blackened so as to represent negroes. One of

*Dr. J. D. Hale. of Tennessee.