The following article appeared in the[Spartanburg, S.C.] Carolina Spartan, 4 Sep 1856, p. 2, c. 5:

"Although not so ___ [illegible] as other news from Kansas, the following extract of a letter from A. R. [or P.] Sanders, which we find in the Unionville [S.C.] Journal, provokes [?] local interest, as it contains facts in reference to some of our friends in Kansas. It bore date August 3, Leavenworth City.

'Our company is stationed at Leavenworth City, and will remain here until our services are needed. Four of our company are now on a scout in the territory -- Capt, McKissick, Col. W. D. Camp, W. L. Lipscomb, and J. M. Mills, with fourteen others, under the command of Capt. Butler, of Carolina. We have heard of them once since they left. They were attacked by the abolitionists -- we can't learn how many. We have sent nineteen others to their relief, on good horses, and armed and equipped for war. The abolitionists who attacked Capt. Butler's company have burned several houses and killed several pro-slavery men within the last few days. I did think we could have peace for a while, but there is no peace here -- we don't know what that is in this territory; and I am afraid we will not know what it is until we have a general war, and that is now close at hand, from the report that is now afloat. We will in a few days have to march to our friends' aid. Not only what few men we have here, but you at home will have to move this way, or we will be lost. Will Carolina do any more? Will she send any more men here to help us fight through this struggle, this glorious struggle? You must know at home, we need your assistance here. We will ask of you once more, to come to our aid. We have kept the abolitionists down so far, but we can no longer do it -- they are overpowering us,; and you know when we are overpowered we must sink. But we will fight them as long as there is one of us left.

The Leavenworth Journal of the 13th ult. contains the following particulars of our friends:

'FOR THE INTERIOR! We understand that Capt. Fleming, of Columbia, S.C., started on Thursday last for the "Big Blue" to secure claims, with the following company:

Captain D. G. Fleming; 1st Lieutenant L. W. Jones; 2d Lieutenant W. B. Anderson; Orderly S'gt. J. A. DeMour; Privates W. A. Lipscomb, S. Jones, A. J. Sanders, P. C. McMakin, T. W. Johnson, W. T. McArthur, F. M. Armstrong, I. [Ibsen] J. Rice, J. A. Brown, Ed. Statin, J. M. Folsom, S. C. Turner, Thos. Clyde, J. J. Foster, Thomas McGill, A. S. Bailey, G. W. Moore, W. L. Lipscomb, J. J. Brown, Mr. Kimbra, Mr. Ware, Mr. Suttles, T. G. Dendy, K. R. Page, J. G. Kendal, P. Kelly.'

'This Company is composed of the right kind of material, and we may look for favorable accounts form them. They are men of tried and known calibre, and are an honor to the Territory. They will prove an invincible barrier to the assaults of the Land Pirate Brown and his minions. They bear with them the best wishes of the community.'