The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-11-30
The U. s. Court and Land Gfieo Brekea mp.
NONTG OnEKY THE Blu OK REP URET-
CAN AGAIN IN TI{B FIELD
Leayenworth. Nov. u.

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Leavenworth, Nov. u.
The state of affairs in Linn and bourbon
counties, Kansas, causes much talk and
speculation here.
Many rumorS are afioat here in regard
to Montgomery's movements.
A messenger reached Warsaw TO day
bringing the following dispatch, which has
been forwarded to the administration at
Washington.
Clinton, No, Nov 81.
The Aboltionsts with arms newly i'm
ported from Boston or the East, under
command of Capt, Montgomery, number
ing from 800 to 500 and increasing in
numbers, have attacked Fort Scott, Kansas,
broken up the court, compelling myself
and all the officers of the United States
District Court to fly for our lives. They
hava taken the towns on the Missouri line,
the Fort Scott land office, &c. They in
tend to invade Missouri.
Signed, J. WILLIAMS,
U. S. Judge Third Judicial District.
A military company will be organized
in this city to morrow to aid in the sup
preston of this outbreak.
At a meeting of the citizens of Clinton,
Henry County, Missouri, today it was
resolved to raise volunteer company to
defend their homes, and if necessary the
western border of the State. and COM
mi,tee was appointed to wait on the Gov.
of Missouri, and lay the facts before him,
and request a supply Of arms. The fol
lowing letter has been addressed to Gov.
Stewart:
Clinton, No, Nov. 81.
Sir: 7 am here to inform the citizens
of this place of the following, and have
been requested to present them to you as
| Governor of the State; The Abolitionists
under command of Montgomery and DR..
Pennison, to the number of from three to
five hundred, arrived with Sharpe's rifles,
dragoon sabres, navy revolvers and bowie
knives, have suddenly commenced war
of extreme ferocity on the law-ab;ding
citizens of Southern Kansas, in the coun-
ties Of Linn and Bourbon. These arms
arrived by the wagon load at or near
Mound City about month since, in boxes
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They are all new.
Montgomery has been in Boston during
part of the summer, and returned with
plenty Of money to enlist recruits. Many
of his men are newly imported. He has
taken possession of Fort Scott and other
towns of the border, near the Missouri
line
lie has murdered Mr.. Moore, grand
Juror, Mr.. Harrison, Mr.. Samuel Scott,
and Mr.. Kinds, and obliged All the United
States officers, including myself to fly for
our lives. His own expressed design, in
a pubic speech, as he said without con
cealment, is to keep possession of Fort
Scott and other places near the Missouri
line, to prevent fire in the rear while he
cleaned out southwest Missouri OF slaves
SO far he has carried out literally his De,
clared programme.
The citizens OF Missouri, on the Usage
aud Mermaton rivers, in Boles and Vernon
are flying from their homes into the int
rior. lie boasts that he has money and
means to equip and sustain one thousand
men. My Court was broken up by them,
! the u. 5. Court for the Southern District,
and suspect they have seized the records,
and also the records of the Land Office,
as be publicly declared he would do.
Yours, &c,
j. WILLIAMS,
U. S. District Judge of the Third Judi
cial District of Kansas Territory
Kansas City, Nov. q.
United States Marshal P. 7. Colby and
party, of Kansas Territory, arrived here
this evening. They left Fort Scott on
Monday, the 10Th, and bring the follow
ing particulars relative to the operation of
Montgomery and his band of Jay-Hawk
! ers.
Fort Scott, Nov. 10.
United States Judge Williams and the
officers of the court were obliged to flee
to Missouri, fearing an attack.
! Samuel Scott, of Linn county, was tax
en- from his house on the morning of the
18th and hung. Many prominen. citizens
! have been arrested. but their fate is as yet
unknown.
Reynolds d Co., of Fort Scott, Craw-
ford & Col of Chouteau's trading post,
and other merchants of the Territory,
have removed their goods to Missouri
The roads are lined with teams leaving the
/ Territory.
Mr. HotfnagIe, postmaster at Mapleton,
was arrested and threatened with hanging
but he succeeded in making his escape.
Kansas City, Nov. 81
Rumors are in circulation here of the
burning of Fort Scott, but they are not
generally credited.
Washington, Nov. 81.
The Government has just been officially
Informed that Captain Montgomery and
his party have commenced operations
again in Kansas, by hanging and killing
their opponents, and threatening to com
pei an adjournment of the land sales ad-
vertised to take place during the month
of December.
Several days ago letters were received
from responsible sources, addressed to the
proper authority, stating that Captain
Montgomery had force Of probably 500
men, with plenty of arms, that from time
warlike supplies had been received by him
from the Northern States. The writer
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