New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

The St. Louis Republican publishes the follow

| The St. Louis Republican publishes the following
letter from the camp of Gen. Frost;
cAxg DAsIE u. Boor,f
In the hopes of having little private talk with
Capt. Montgomery, and seeing what was going on
| at Mound City, tx. To your correspondent yester-
day rode over thither taking the Especial" of the
| Democrat along as guarantee OF safety. The
distance from this camp is full sixteen miles, but
| over good roads and through as fine section Of
the country as one would like to see. Near the
| Pilot mounds, alluded to in former epistle, we
met party of twelve Delaware Indians decorated
in all the splendor of paint, feathers and beads,
delegates to the Cherokee Nation, 40 miles below
whittier they had been to treat for lands.
river, 10 miles above, (Which they left on the 9Th
| of Noyember) having been unsuccessful in their
mission Howard Ketchu2a, who gave us the in.
formation, and who seemed TO be the "blg lnjun "
Of the party, stated that the Council Of the
Cherokees had just adjourned and the chiefs gone
home 1t was too far to call them together again,
and the Cherokees declined therefore to have
another Council until spring, when they hoped to
meet in Council with two or three other nations.
Retchum saida that the party had passed Fort
Scott the preceding evening, when he heard that
Gen. Harvey was about to leave for Mound City,
| under escort Of company of dragons, his bat
terry having already left for that destination
At Mound City we found that the town-a place
of about three hundred inhabitants, mostly, if not
| entirely from the New England States-was full Of
United States troops and, on inquiry ascertained
that two companies infantry and two of dragoons
under Major Vessels, had reached there on
| Wednesday evening, from Fort Riley, being Joined
| the next day by two companies Of light artillery,
| which had come up from Fort Scott. The latter
| were accompanied by thrty.tive or forty men who
had volunteered from the neighborhood of Fort
Scott but who had Immediately returned on find
| ing that Maj. Vessels had arrived with his COM
mand. The four companies from Fort Riley were
| not full, detachments from each having been left
\ to garrison Pawnee Fork, where Maj. Vessels had
| been stationed during the summer, and from
! haI fair al of
| Riley when he received the order from Gen. Har-
ney to march to Mound City. The artillery COM
panies, which had accompanied Gen. Harvey from
| Fort Leayenworth to Fort Scott, and which had
moved up to Mound City, were full-eighty-four
men each. The six companies now at Mound
| y-encamped three or four hundred yards TO the
| west Of the place-number in all about 800 men.
Two additional companies, Cnfantry,) having been
ordered from Forts Ridgley and Randall, are ex-
| pected in afeW days.
From conversation with Major Vessels, at his
headquarters, gathered that since his arrival he
has done very little-his troops being principally
at the disposition of the Marshal Of the Territory.
Detachments from the artillery and dragons had
been out on Thursday night to arrest certain par
ties implicated in the border disturbances Mont
gomery's place, about five miles from the encamp-
ment, was visited, but Montgomery was not there,
having been absent, according to the statement OF
his wife, for two weeks. The Captain had built a
substantial block house of heavy logs around his
residence, to act fertilization against attack,
but whatever arms had been about the vicinity
had been secreted and were no where to be found.
Half dozen women and number of children
were the sole occupants. Mrs. Montgomery invited
the troops into the house, and conducted herself
the officers reported, with the utmost potenesi
and good humor. She said that the last she had
| heard of her husband was through paragraph il
| the Leavenworth Times, which stated that Capt
, Montgomery was recently seen one Sunday, il
Lawrence, several miles distant, where he had at
tended church service, morning and evening.
DIR. Jennison, the leader of the atrocious mol
which hung Rus Hines, has q law Office in MOUND
City, and warrants were in the hands of the U. S
Marshal for his arrest. A house where he sup
posed to be concealed in the outskirts Of the town
was pointed out to the officers and soldiers, wht
surrounded and entered it. A bed was found madt
up on the floor, a fire blazing in the room and
candle burning, but the bird was not there. Searci
had been made and was then making Throughout
| the country for number of individuals concerned
in the late rascates, but up to the time your cor
respondent left last evening, no arrest had beer
made.
The citizens of Mound City have quieted dow
greatly since the arrival of the troops. They
seemed greatly alarmed, having left their occupa
tons and taken to caucuses and consultations upol
the streets, their faces being as long as the mora
, law. But one sentiment prevails in the town, the
most rabid anti-sayery feeling being manifested
i on all sides. The people admit the killing OF Rus
Hines, Moore and Others and appear to glory in it
They will, OF course, offer no resistance agains
the quarterng of soldiers in their midst, but iron
the low buzz of private talk, it is plain that n
later than they are left to themselves again the,
will renew their unlawful acts with greater ven
geance than before. There can be no doubt Blu
that they have large quantities of arms somewhere
and only decline to use them now because they
know they would be overpowered.