Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-01-20

|
north side of the Little. Usage and the. .oth4s
! er on the south side. They yisitediall the
shareholders they could reach in one night,=
especially those who lad interested them.2
selves in Kansas affairs took them pris-
oners, and set Their slaves at. liberty. A
large number of horses were also taken.-
Arms, ammunition, provisions, &c., to a.
considerable exsentaa The y slavelIofdes>l
were deprived of everything of value that
could be carried away, except such as were.
of immediate necessity to their families.-'
Their wagons were filed with their slaves
and goods, their horses and oxen hitched
to them and driven away. ~ So q
When the Free Slatemen had SURROUNDED
ed a house, the inmates were ordered to
surrender, and then asked whether they
would do so or fight. But two ehosethei
latter, One of them afteryagd reconsider,
ed the matter, and, or seeing the, number
of Free State men, surrendered. Another
resisted, and was killed Most 7of, the
Shareholders were released when the parties
left Some Of them were conveyed as
prisoners across the State line TO: Barns-a
vile. They. were. then liberated and told
that they might ~raise-a. .foEce and follow
asasoon as they liked. The slaves taken
amounted to some ten or fifteen in nuns
ber., 80, t.....,.r.;.s,. ..f.s--..-,,.. =.
Where non-slaveholders were found at
the houses of Pro- -Slatery men, they were
told to point out the property belonging
to them. This was left untouched. Some
property of this kind was in one case taken
through mistake, but was afterward taken
back and returned TO the owner. .,.,s-,-,,
A correspondent of the ST. Louis. DEM
ocrat under date Of Ossawatomie, Dec
27th, gives the latest details from the To-
caliiy of the border difficulties. The writera
states that both parties were arEing with
the avowed purpose of fighting 1t out, and
that there are some 1900 Missourians col
lected for the arowed purpose Of invading
Kansas. Montgomery had some three or
four hundred men under command in KAN
sas, to repel assaults. Mr.. David Cruise,
the man killed during Browns invasion Of
Missouri, was brutally sho. down in the
midst of his fqmily, while endeavoring to
defend himself. Wequote: - a' 'zs's
Many of the citizens of Vernon county,
of free soiL sproehvities, were ordered to-
leave; among the rest, Mr.. Bloomfield,
a citizen of Missouri for the last eighteen
wears, and a wealthy farmer and trader
He had taken avery active part in the
overthrow of the pro-slavery party at the
last August election, and in denouncing the,
Chouteau murderers and the murder of Mr..
Pope, near Pappinvile, last June. This
had rendered him very obnoxious to one
FAIL, a bloody rufian, who received at his
grocery, part of Hamilton's band ontheir,
returning from their work of butehery,
treated ahent and applauded their act. and
who now acts as a chief promoter in the.
deeds of crime which are being perpetrated.
Mr. Bloomfield had been frequently ordered
and advised 10 leave during The week, as
the Missourians were collecting around
Falls TO the number of several hundred,,
but be persistently refused to leave till;
Friday morning LIST, when a pfo-slavery
friend came and urged him to depart in
stautly. While conversing with his pro-
slavery friend, stating that he meant to re-
main as long ,as life lasted, his. friend in.
formed him that Hamilton had already
killed Mr.. Bailey, and was on his way
with hundred and forty men to Kill him.
Mr.. Bloomfield had been working and had
his coat off; looking up he saw a mounted
party approaching around bis barn, about
two hundred yards distant, and had only
time to slip on his sons shoes, while his
daughter threw him his coat, as be leaped
over the fence and made his way to the
woods. After pursuing hiss way for q
mile or so, Mr.. Bloomfield obtained a horse
of a friend and reached this place yesterdad
morning, and in, the evening learned that
everything that Hamilton could lay his.
hands upon had been giyen to the flames,
probably to the amount of $4,000. He.
has some 500 acres of land, and about
Sl,sOO in cash, buried, which he thinks the
ruffians cannot reach. s.. ,.-....-i.l.... .--
What has become Of his family he does.
not know. He has two sons, men grown,
who, il they have not made good their
escape, have shared the fate of Bailey.zad
On bis way to town, Mr.. Bloomfield,
learned that Montgomery was arming to
repel the invaders, and was confident of
his ability TO overthrow Hamilton. a' oJ
iaI-learna that Mr.. Baily was aopeaceableb
citizen, and was wholly guildess OF tho
stealing of the negroes the Monday pre-
'ceding, and had even gone so far as to go
into Kansas a short time previous and
help to capture a runaway negro. But the
fact tina, he wasa Free State man was,
sufficient for the fiend, Hamilton, who last,
May showed couclusively that he made no
determinations between active Free State
men and those who kept still. 'a rl.I
What will be the upshot of the affair is
impossible now TO foresee, but if Hamilton
should get the upper hand, the most fear,
ful consequences will follow, as can easily
Be imagined By a glance at his antecedents.
This will all besin reply to the killing Of
one man and the stealing of those negroesr
horses and mules. What contrast This
will exhibit TO the conduct of Montgomery,
last May, when, after Hamilton had gath
cred up eleven white men from the public
highway, the field, workshop and count
ing-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
confederates should be delivered up, not a
hair Of single person was injured, nor an
article of property disturbed in town; while,
nj the Same time soma of tho murrlers