Lane determined at once to leave the Territory, and sent a message to that effect to Capt.

Harvey, who had arranged to unite his command with that of Gen.

Lane in an attack on Hickory Point; but the messenger failed to meet Harvey, who made the attack alone and captured these robbers.

But Harvey's men were in their turn taken prisoners by a company of United States troops and were conveyed to Lecompton and kept during the winter as treason prisoners.

But while the Free State forces were thus being scattered, disbanded and taken prisoners, by virtue of Gov.