Member of Congress during the Presidency of General Jackson, where he proved himself one of the warmest supporters of 'Old Hickory's' administration."

The above is copied as a statement of Gen. Lane's in regard to the place and time of his birth. He was generally believed to have been older, and he sometimes created the impression that he was born in Indiana; in fact, it was the prevailing opinion of his friends here that he was born in Indiana. Lane's affidavit is published on page 143 of Proceedings in Impeachment Cases; he swears, April 29, 1862, that he is in his forty-third year. This agrees with his statement to Brewerton, and makes him twentyfour years old when, in 1846, he became Colonel of the Third Indiana Volunteers.

MARCH 4.-Meeting of the Topeka Legislature. Senate.-Officers: President, W. Y. Roberts; Chief Clerk, Asaph Allen; Assistant, W. L. Brigdon; Sergeant-at-Arms, J. M. Fuller; Assistant, Harris Stratton; Transcribing Clerks, J. F. Cummings, J. C. Dunn; Chaplain, Paul Shepherd. President pro tem., J. Curtis. House.-Called to order by J. H. Lane, Chairman of Executive Committee. Speaker, T. Minard; Clerk, J. K. Goodin; Assistant Clerk, Sam'l F. Tappan; Transcribing Clerks, J. Snodgrass, G. T. Gordon; Sergeant-at-Arms, J. Mitchell; Assistant, J. Swain; Chaplain, C. H. Lovejoy. The State officers are sworn in. Message by Governor Robinson, giving a history of the Free-State movement.

Speer and Ross publish the Daily Tribune, at Topeka.

The Message of Governor Robinson is an able

now,

paper, and very valuable historically. It is published in full in Mrs. Robinson's "Kansas." The following is a list of the members of the Legislature: Senators.-- Adams, J. M. Cole, J. Curtis, J. Dailey, Fish, P. Fuller, J. C. Green, Benj. Harding, Geo. S. Hillyer, H. M. Hook, J. M. Irvin, D. E. Jones, S. B. McKenzie, B. W. Miller, J. H. Pillsbury, J. R. Rhaum, T. G. Thornton, W. W. Updegraff—19.

Dunn, L.

Representatives.-S. N. Hartwell, J. B. Abbott, John Hutchinson, H. F. Saunders, James Blood, C. Hornsby, E. B. Purdam, J. McGhee, M. C. Dickey, W. R. Frost, W. A. Sumnerwell, S. Mewhinney, S. T. Shore, S. R. Baldwin, David Rees, D. W. Cannon, Isaac Landers, J. M. Arthur, H. H. Williams, H. W. Labor, A. B. Marshall, J. D. Adams, T. W. Platt, Rees Furby, B. H. Brock, John Landis, E. R. Zimmerman, W. T. Burnett, L. P. Patty, F. A. Minard, Isaac Cody, Thos. Bowman, John Brown, jr., Henry Todd, J. Hornby, Abraham Barre, Richard Murphy, Wm. Hicks, B. R. Martin, Wm. Bayless, J. W. Stevens, J. K. Edsaul, S. J. Campbell, S. Goslin, H. B. Standiford, Isaac B. Higgins, T. J. Addis, D. Toothman, Wm. McClure, J. B. Wetson, Wm. B. Wade, Alex. Jamieson, A. D. Jones, Wm. Crosby, Stephen Sparks, R. P. Brown (deceased), Adam Fisher-57. Three commissioners are appointed to prepare a code of laws. James H. Lane and Andrew H. Reeder are elected United States Senators, each receiving 38 votes, with none opposing.

A memorial to Congress is prepared, asking admission into the Union. MARCH 8.-Adjourned to July 4th.

MARCH 12.—Senator Douglas submits a report extenuating the outrages committed in Kansas, and severely denouncing the action of the New

England Emigrant Aid Society. Senator Collamer presents a minority report.

MARCH 19.-The House of Representatives, at Washington, votes to send a Special Committee to Kansas to inquire into the validity of the pretended Legislature, (the "Bogus," of 1855,) and of the election of Whitfield. The Committee consists of Wm. A. Howard, of Michigan, John Sherman, of Ohio, and Mordecai Oliver, of Missouri.

MARCH 24.-Topeka Constitution presented in the United States Senate, by Lewis Cass.

MARCH 29.-Nearly every boat coming up the Missouri river is overhauled, and searched to see whether there are articles on board which have been pronounced contraband by the Pro-Slavery pirates. All such goods, owned by Northern men, are stolen.

APRIL 5.— In the office of the Milwaukee Sentinel, E. G. Ross, foreman in the job office, receives the present of a rifle from his fellow-printers. It is inscribed to him as an earnest of their good wishes for him, and for freedom in Kansas.

APRIL 7.-Senator Cass presents the Memorial of the Topeka Legislature asking for the admission of Kansas into the Union.

-Topeka Constitution presented in the House by Daniel Mace, of Indiana.

APRIL.-Major Buford arrives with a large body of men from Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina.

APRIL 12.-The Free-State Hotel, Lawrence, begun in April, 1855, is finished. It is to be kept by Col. Shaler W. Eldridge.

-The Squatter Sovereign says: "We understand that the grand jurors of Doniphan and Atchison counties have found true bills of indictment against all the persons acting in the late disorganizing election in their respective counties. We hope the other counties will follow suit, and teach the Abolition traitors that the laws are now in force, and that all attempts to ruin this country will be strictly dealt with by law."

APRIL 16.-E. B. Whitman and A. D. Searl, of Lawrence, issue a map of Kansas.

APRIL 18.-The Congressional Investigating Committee reach Lawrence. APRIL 19.—Sheriff Jones attempts to arrest S. N. Wood, in Lawrence, charging him with aiding in the rescue of Branson, in November. Mr. Wood refused to give himself up; he did not recognize the authority. An attempt to take Wood by force failed. On the 20th, Sheriff Jones returned, and called upon a number of the citizens to aid him in making the arrest. They did not answer the summons. On the 23d, Jones returned, bringing with him United States troops. The Lieutenant in command read a letter from Col. Sumner to the Mayor of Lawrence, saying the troops are sent to aid the Sheriff in executing writs. Jones then arrested John. Hutchinson, E. D. Lyman, G. F. Warren, J. G. Fuller, F. Hunt, A. F. Smith, and others whom he had summoned on the 20th to assist him. No resistance was made to the Sheriff. About ten o'clock that night Jones was shot and wounded. A public meeting was held on the 24th, and the shooting of Jones severely denounced.

APRIL.-A book published, called “Six Months in Kansas. By a Lady. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co. 1856." The writer was Mrs. Hannah Anderson Ropes, who came to Kansas from Massachusetts in September, 1855. The book contains 231 pages. "Fourth thousand" is on the title page of a copy owned by Leslie J. Perry. It is made up of letters from Mrs. Ropes to her mother, and is admirably written. No little of Mrs. Ropes's time is spent with the sick; and the sufferings of pioneers who live in cabins, deprived of nearly all the comforts of life, even in the "city" of Lawrence, where she lived, are only too truly told. The following account of the funeral of Barber is copied from the book:

"I believe I have forgotten to tell you that the funeral of Mr. Barber was deferred, on account of the important business this week to be attended to. Another week has closed, and the Sabbath calls all people out to pay the last tribute of respect to poor Barber's memory. A December day, but clear, cloudless, dreadfully bright, and windy. The whole neighborhood seems astir with people, picking their way to one centre, the Hotel, where not as last Monday evening, for rejoicing, they come together, but to mourn with the sufferers of a great sorrow: a widow, made so by violence wholly unprovoked; brothers, bereaved in a manner never to be forgotten -never to be thought of in years to come but with the smartest twinges of pain. The room we enter is a long dining-hall. The walls are of limestone, rough and unplastered. Seats of plank stretch in rows, closely packed, through the whole length, with the exception of a narrow space for the clergyman. The seats are all filled. The atmosphere of the assembly is of the truest sympathy. Each soul seems personally aggrieved and afflicted. Silence is the only, and most emphatic, expression given to this grief. The first break upon that silence is the tread of many feet and a smothered, broken sob, that will not be wholly choked down. Working his way through the crowd, appears a tall man, with white hair, large blue eyes, and a very benevolent countenance. You see at once that he is a Methodist. He has clinging to his arm a small, veiled figure,-everybody knows it is the widow; 'a widow indeed.'

"There comes another smothered sob as she is borne along to the far end of the hall. The man of white hair stoops over her, and tenderly whispers words of peace to her. I do not hear them; she does not. Now she sinks into a seat. A hymn is read, and the crowd sing the tune of Martin Luther,' so familiar to everybody, and stretching back over the whole length of the oldest life present. What a relief it is! how it gathers up and rolls away the pent-up emotions of the multitude! Now the white head sinks down over bended knees, to the floor, and his voice utters its prayers and supplications, while the tears course down the cheeks of the speaker and his audience. The sobs of that broken heart grow fainter. Does she find a relief through the channel of other hearts? I believe so. Then follow short speeches from Colonel Lane and General Robinson, and a sad sermon from the white head. All the exercises are remarkably good of the kind. Even Colonel Lane did well.

"The services are over, and the people form a procession. Men with arms reversed take the lead; then the body and its friends; then the whole crowd, mounted in carts drawn by oxen, wagons led by mules, and carriages of every pattern, form into a solemn line, stretching far along the open country. Up over Mount Pleasant curves the road to the ground appropriated for a burial place, two miles away. What a sight it is! One like it could hardly be got up anywhere else, or under any other circumstances. This grand old country, with its lofty trees, its smoothly-terraced hills, its serene repose! The tread of the white man is fresh and new; but to-day the grand old prairie witnesses the burial of its second martyr! Now the soldiers make a wall on either side, with lifted hats, for the mourners to pass through. Gently the coffin is lowered to its last rest, while the words, 'Dust to dust,' 'I am the Resurrection and the Life,' are broken by the wailing wind, and lost to the ears of the audience by the fast-coming sobs of that forlorn, childless, earth-stricken widow! The soldiers now approach; the audience and friends fall back, giving place to them; while, standing about the grave, at the signal of their commander, one division after another bury the contents of their rifles in the last resting-place of their much-loved and honored comrade."

APRIL 25.-Governor Shannon asks Col. Sumner for "a military posse, or guard of thirty men," to be stationed at Lecompton. At later dates troops are asked to be stationed at various places.

APRIL 30.-Rev. Pardee Butler returns to Atchison. He is stripped, tarred, and covered with cotton.

MAY 3.-The Union started in Lecompton, by A. W. Jones and C. A. Faris.

-P. O. Conver edits the Kansas State Journal, at Topeka.

MAY 5.-The Grand Jury of Douglas county recommend that the Herald of Freedom and the Kansas Free State newspapers, and the Free-State Hotel, be abated as nuisances. Robinson, Reeder and others, who had participated in organizing the Free-State Government, are indicted for high

treason.

MAY 7.-While Governor Reeder was with the Investigating Committee, at Tecumseh, he was summoned to appear before the Grand Jury, at Lecompton. He did not obey. The next day, at Lawrence, with the Committee, a writ of attachment was served on Governor Reeder for contempt of court. He said he was privileged from arrest. If any man laid hands on him to arrest him he did so at his peril. He was not arrested.

MAY 9.-After the attempt of Deputy United States Marshal W. P. Fain to arrest Reeder failed, Governor Reeder hastened to Kansas City. Col. S. W. Eldridge, of the American Hotel, secreted Reeder till night. The Governor was then shaved and his clothes changed to those of a laborer. Thomas B. and Edward Eldridge then rowed him in a skiff to Liberty, Missouri. Governor Reeder took a deck passage, with the laborers, on the first boat that came down, in due time landed safely at St. Charles, and then made his way across the country to Illinois.

MAY 10.-Governor Robinson, on his way East, with his wife, is arrested at Lexington, Mo. He is taken to Westport, to the Pro-Slavery camp near Lawrence, back to Kansas City, to Leavenworth, on a boat, and then to Lecompton. He is arrested for treason.

-The Herald of Freedom says:

"Kansas is again invaded by armed ruffians. They are gathering in by tens, and fifties, and hundreds. Shannon has regularly enrolled them as Territorial Militia, commissioned their officers, etc. At any moment they may commence the work of devastation."

MAY 11.—Israel B. Donalson, United States Marshal, issues a proclamation. It says the citizens of Lawrence resist arrest, under judicial writs, and law-abiding citizens are commanded to immediately appear at Lecompton "in sufficient numbers for the execution of the law." Citizens of Lawrence ask the Governor for protection.

MAY 12.--Governor Shannon writes to the Lawrence Committee:

"There is no force around or approaching Lawrence, except the legally constituted posse of the United States Marshal, and Sheriff of Douglas county, each of whom, I am informed, has a number of writs for execution against persons now in Lawrence."

MAY 13.-A meeting in Lawrence declares the statements in Donalson's proclamation to be false; that they are law-abiding citizens, but will resist an invading mob. A new Committee of Safety is appointed..

Free-State men are arrested on steamboats and on the prairie, and anar

chy prevails through the Territory. The force of invaders around Lawrence constantly increases. It is the Free-State headquarters, and its citizens are constantly accused of warlike and treasonable intentions.

MAY 14.-The citizens of Lawrence make another protest to the Governor and Marshal.

-During the second week in May, the First District Court held its sessions at Lecompton, Judge Lecompte presiding. Mrs. Robinson makes the following quotations from Judge Lecompte's "extraordinary charge to the Grand Jury:"

"This Territory was organized by an act of Congress, and so far its authority is from the United States. It has a Legislature elected in pursuance of that organic act. This Legislature, being an instrument of Congress by which it governs the Territory, has passed laws. These laws, therefore, are of United States authority and making; and all that resist these laws resist the power and authority of the United States, and are, therefore, guilty of high treason. Now, gentlemen, if you find that any person has resisted these laws, then you must, under your oaths, find bills against them for high treason. If you find that no such resistance has been made, but that combinations have been formed for the purpose of resisting them, and individuals of influence and notoriety have been aiding and abetting in such combinations, then must you find bills for constructive treason."

Mrs. Robinson says: "To make the matter so plain that even the dullest of his hearers may not fail to comprehend his meaning, he states that some who are 'dubbed Governor, Lieutenant Governor, etc., are such individuals of influence and notoriety.""

MAY 14.-Gaius Jenkins and George W. Brown arrested. On the 22d, they were taken before Judge Lecompte, at Lecompton, to answer to the charge of treason. Bail was denied, and the cases were continued till September. Gov. Robinson, Judge G. W. Smith, and G. W. Deitzler, were similarly held. John Brown, jr., and H. H. Williams, were arrested soon after, being taken in the field, for bearing arms against the "Government." All were confined in the same camp, at Lecompton.

MAY 15.-Josiah Miller, of the Lawrence Free State newspaper, arrested for treason by South Carolina soldiers, is tried in a military tent near Lecompton, defended by James Christian, and acquitted. The following is a copy of the pass given him, on leaving Lecompton, to prevent his arrest by Ruffians:

LECOMPTON, May 16, 1856.

The bearer of this, Mr. Josiah Miller, is desirous to pass out of this Territory, and in doing so, desires to stop in the town of Lawrence to transact some private business for a short time. He designs going to Kansas City, and thence by boat or horse and buggy at that place. He is now in this Territory not to participate in the rebellion, but to settle up some private business.

Now, therefore, all persons are requested to let the bearer, Mr. Miller, pass without molestation or delay.

WILSON SHANNON,
Governor of Kansas Territory.

Armed Missourians pouring into

MAY 17.-C. W. Babcock, Lyman Allen and J. A. Perry, a committee appointed by the people of Lawrence, ask the Marshal to put a stop to the depredations committed by a large force of armed men in the vicinity of Lawrence.