Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-11-30
OUTBREAK I'M KANSAS!
Fort Scott Taken by MOmtg 0mery
aNE his Band!
SEVERAL MURDERS REPORTED!
United States Court Broken Up, and Judge
Williams Driuen into Missouri!

| WARSAW, Mo-, Nov. 2l.-A messenge,
reached here to-day bringing the following
dispatch, which has been forwarded to the
Administration at Washington:
"Clinton, Mo-, Nov 21.-The Abolition.
lists, with arms newly imported from Boston,
or the East, under command of Capt. Mont
gomery, numbering from 800 to 500, and
increasing in numbers, have attacked Fort
Scott, Kansas, broken up the Court, com.
pellng myself and all the officers of the Uni
ted States District Court to fly for our lives.
they have taken the towns on the Missouri
line, the Fort Scott Land Office, &c. They
intend to invade Missouri. j. WILLIAMS,
gu S. Judge Of Third Judicial District" "
A military company will be organized in
this city tomorrow to aid 10 the suppression
of this outbreak. .,..
The fol owing letter has been addressed to
Gov. Stewart:
"Clinton, Mo-, Nov. 21.-Sir-I am here
to inform the citizens of this place of the
following facts l have been requested to
present them to you as Governor of tn State:
The AbolitioniStS, under command of Mont
gomery and DR.. Pennlson, to the number Of
500 to 500, armed with Sharpe's rifles, dra-
have suddenly commenced war of extreme
ferocity on the law-abidng citizens of South
ern Kansas. in the counties of Lynn and
Bourbon. These arms arrived by the wagon
load at or near Mound City about month
since, in boxes marked as donations for Kan
sas sufferers. Montgomery has been in Bos-
ton during part of the summer, and re-
turned with plenty of money to enlist re-
cruits. Many of his men are newly import
I'd. He has taken possession of Fort Scott
and other towns of the border, near the Mis-
souri, line. He has murdered Mr.. Moore, a
Grand Juror, Mr.. Harrison, Mr.. Samuel
Scott, and Mr.. Kinds, and obliged all the U.
s. officers, including myself fly for our
lives.
ellis own expressed design in public
speech, without concealment, is to keep pos
session of Fort Scott and other places near
the Missouri line. to prevent a fire IN the
rear while he cleared out SOUTHWEST Mis-
souri, of slaves. So far he has carried out lit
orally his declared programme. The citizens
of Missouri, on the Usage and Mermaton
rivers, inBales and Vernon, are flying fiom
their homes into he interior. He boasts
that he has money and arms to equip and
sustain one thousand men. My court was
broken up by them, the U. S. Court for the
Southern District, and suspect that they
have seized the records, and also the records
of the Land Office, as he publicly declared he
would do. }oJrs, J. WILLIAMS"
KANSAS CRY, Nov. 2l.-News from Fort
Scott is to the 10th:
U. S. Judge Williams and the officers of
the Court were obliged to flee to Missouri.
fearing all attack.
Samuel Scott, of Quiun county, was taken
from his house on the morning of the 18th
and hung. Many prominent citizens have
been arrested, but their fate is yet unknown.
The roads are lined with teams leaving the
Territory.
Mr.. Hof'nage, postmaster at Map!eton,
was arrested and threatened with hanging,
but he succeeded in making his escape.
KANSAS CRY, Nov. 21.-Rumors are in
circulation here of the burning of Fort Scott,
but they are rot generally credited.