Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-01-10
. Indians A leading citizen of Missouri was

| in the Fort on the following day, probably haV-
inc been sent for counsel. He promised unilm-
tied aid from the State He stated that COM
pany of so men was already formed IN Greeh-
VILE Dade county, for the purpose OF again IN
yadIng the Territory to kill Montgomery lie
was accompanied on his return home by some
of the Fort Scott men. Meetings have since
been held all along the border, which denounced
the rescue of Rice, and promising aid and sym
pathy to the Pro Slavery men and othcials IN
| the Territory. Many of the more tlmld of Inc
| Free-State men are leaving the Territory. 9th
ers 90 to the central and northern parts, where
no difficulties are apprehended, to remain until
neace is established All have begun 10 believe
| that a long war is being opened The Pro
Slavery men ia the Territory also took the same
panic. many of them leaving for fear OF being
| punished by the Free State men for the crimes
1 of other Pro-SlaYery men, and others to prevent
being mistaken and killed for Free state men
by the Missourians, when they should make
| their invasion. for the latter threaten to kill
every man and burn every house in the Valley
of the Little Usage.
To give confidence to the people OF the Terri
tory, and to prevent further flight, and to teach
Missourians the necessity of remaining at home'
| Brown determined upon an invasion OF Mlssou-
RI NiUht before last he carried out his pur-
nose by entering the State with two companies,
| one on the north side of the Little Usage and
the other on the south side. They visited all
the Shareholders they could reach in one night,
especially those who had interested themselves
in Kansas affairs, took them prisoners, and set
their slaves at liberty. A large number OF horses
were also taken. Arms, ammunition provisions
DC to a considerable extent, were taken. The
Shareholders were deprived ofevery ything of val
ue that could be carried away, except such as
were of immediate necessity to their families
Their WAGONS were filled with their slaves and
goods. their horses and oxen hitched to them.
and driven away.
When the Free-State men had surrounded a
house the inmates were ordered to surrender, and
then asked whether they would do SO or hight
But two chose the latter. One of them alter
ward reconsidered the matter, and, on seeing
the number of Free State men, surrendered
Another resisted, and was killed. Most OF the
Shareholders were released when the parties
left. Some of them were conveyed as prison
ers across the State line to Barnesvllle. They
we're then liberated and told that they might
raise force and follow as soon as they hkeu'
The slaves taken amounted to some ten or nj
teen in number
Where non-slaveholders were found at the
houses of Pro-Slavery men, they were told TO
point out the property belonging to them. Ihls
was left untouched. Some property OF tins
kind was in one case taken through mistake,
but was afterGard taken back and returned to
the owner.
A correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat
under date of Ossawatomie, Dec. 9th, gives
the latestdetails from the locality OF the border
difficulties. The writer states that both parties
were arming with the avowed purpose of fight
ing If out. and that there are some 1900 Mlssou-
rians collected for the avowed purpose OF inVa-
ding Kansas. Montgomery had some three or
four hundred men under command IN Kansas,
to repel assaults. Mr- David Cruise, the man
killed during Browns invasion of Missouri, was
brutsllv shot down in the midst of his family,
while endeavoring to defend himself We
quote
MANY of the citizens of Vernon county, OF
free soil proclivities, were ordered to leaves
among the rest, Mr.. Bloomfield, citlzen oil
Missouri for the last eighteen years, and
vesItbv farmer and trader He had taken q
yery active part in the overthrow of the pro-
slavery party at the last August election, and
in denonncing the Chouteau murderers and the
murder of Mr. Pope, near Papplnville, last
June This had rendered him very obnoxious
10 one Fail, bloody ruffian, who received at
his grocery, part of Hamilton's band, on their
, returning from their work OF butchery, treated
them and applauded their act, and who now acts
as a chief promoter in the deeds OF crime which
are being perpetrsted.
: Mr. Bloomfield had been frequently ordered
and advised to leave during the week, as the
Nissourians were collecting around Falls to the
, number of several hundred, but he persistently
refused to leave till Friday morning last when
| nj tn do
s7stqFghS, slgliigs tfsf 'fs meant to remain
as long as life lasted, his friend informed hlm
that Hamilton had already killed Mr.. Bailey,
and was on his way with a hundred and forty
men to kill him. Mr.. Bloomfield had been
: working and had his coat off; oking up
; he saw a mounted party approaching around
, his barn, about two hundred yards distant, and
, had onIy time to slip on his sons shoes, while
r his daughter threw him his coat as he leaL ed
over the fence and made his way to the woocs.
: After pursuing his way for a mile or so, MIR
Bloomfield obtained a horse of friend and
, reached this place yesterday morning, and in
the evening learned that everything that Ham
iIton could lay his hands upon had been given
to the flames, probably to the amount OF Sl5, ,OOO.
He has some 500 acres of land, and about 5 500
in cash buried, which he thinks the rutians can
not reach.
| w hat mas DecOlB Ol Ills ldiul1 llS AiOSS AOe
, know. He has two sons, men grown, who, If
they have not made good their escape, have
shared the fate of Bailey.
On his way to the town, Mr.. Bloomfield
learned that Montgomery was arming to repel
; the invaders and was confident of his ability to
overthrow Hamilton
l learn that Mr. Baily was a peaceable citi-
zen, and was wholly guiItless of the stealing of
r the negroes the Monday preceding, and had
) even gone so far as to go into Kansas short
! time previous and help to capture a runaway
negro But the fact that he was Free State
man was sufficient for the fend. Hamilton, who
, last Nav showed conc'usively that he maize no
determinations between active free State men
) and those who kept still.
What will be the upshot of this affair is i'm
! possible now to foresee, but if Hamilton should
get the upper hand, the most fearful conse-
r quences will follow, as can easily be imagined
4 by glance at his antecedents. This will all be
in reply to the killing of one man and the steal
Jug of those negroes, horses and mules. What
a contrast this will exhibit to the conduct of
; Montgomery, last May, when, after Hamilton
, had gathered up eleven white men from The pub
lie highway, the field, workshop and counting
house, and taking them into lonely ravine and
| there remorseless shooting them down, he
! Montgomery marched into West Point with
! one hundred and sixty men to demand that
Hamilton and his eonfederates should be de-
, Iiyered up not hair of the head OF 4 single
person was injured, nor an article of property
disturbed in town; while, at the same time, some
of the murderers were secreted in town aud run
of, in direct violation of the agreement then
and there made.
Mr.. HubbeIPs Interest Bill.