And now this simple-minded Gov.

Shannon, Ex-Governor of Ohio, who had come to Kansas to waste in a few short months the ripe honors he had been so carefully hoarding up for a life-time, bethought himself that it was time for him to go and look with his own eyes after this rebellion he had so foolishly and recklessly stirred up.
We have already remarked that Gen.

James H.Lane was the most conspicuous figure in the defense of Lawrence.

It is proper to pause and consider the character of this man, who shone for a time like a brilliant meteor, and then had his light quenched in the blackness of darkness.
He had now been eight months in Kansas.

He came out of the Mexican war with a good reputation as a brilliant and dashing officer, and a man of approved courage.