I think I shall have sufficient force to protect me by to-morrow morning.

The force at Lawrence is not half so strong as reported.

If I am to wait for Government troops, more than two-thirds of the men that are here will _go away very much dissatisfied._ They are leaving hourly as it is.
It is reported that the people of Lawrence have run off those offenders from town, and, indeed, it is said they are now all out of the way.

I have writs for sixteen persons who were with the party that rescued my prisoner.
S.N.Wood, P.R.Brooks and Samuel Tappan are of Lawrence, the balance from the country around.

Warrants will be put into my hands to-day for the arrest of G.W.
Brown, and probably others in Lecompton.