New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-11-26
Montgomery's Raid Upon Kansas and nIls-
souri,


WARSAW, Mo-, Nov. 2i.--A messenger arrived
to-day bringing the following dispatch which hal
been forwarded to the Administration at Washing
ton:
Clinton, No.. Nov. 2l.-The Aboltionists will
arms, newly imported from Boston or the East
under command of Captain Montgomery, number
ing from 800 to 500 are increasing in numbers ant
have attacked Fort Scott, Kansas, broken up the
Court, compelling myself and all of the District
Court to fly for our lives. They have taken the
towns on the Missouri line, the Fort Scott LAND
Office, etc.
: eignsd4 \ WILLIAMS.
A military company will be organized in this city
to aid in the suppression Of this outbreak.
AT q meeting of the citizens of Clinton, Henry
county, Mo-, to-day, it was resolved to raise vol-
unteer company to defend their houses if necessary
and the western border of the State
committee was appointed to wait on the Gov.
ernor Of Missouri, to lay the facts before him and
request supply of arms.
The following letter has been addressed to Gov
ernor Stuart:
CLINTON Mo-, Nov q 2l,-Sir-Iam here to inform
the citizens of this place of the following facts and
have been requested to present them to you, as
Governor of the State:
The Abolitionists under the command of Mont
gomery and DIR. Pennison, to the number of from
800 to 500 arrived with Sharpe's rifles, dragoon
sabres, revolyers and Bowie knives, and have sud
denly commenced war OF extreme ferocty on
the law-abiding citizens of Southern Kansas in the
rived by the wagon load at or near Mound City,
about one month since, in boxes marked as dopa.
tions for Kansas sufferers They are all new.
Montgomery has been in Boston during part of the
summer and returned with plenty of money TO en-.
list recruits.
Many of his men are newly imported He has
taken possession of Fort Scott and other towns on
the border, near the Missouri line. He has mur-
deren 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 public
speech, as he said without concealment was to
keep possession Of Fort Scott and other places
near the Missouri line to prevent fire in the rear
while he cleared out Southwestern Missouri of
slaves. So far he has carried out literally his de-
clared programme.
The citizens of Missouri on the Usage and Mer-
maton rivers, in Bates and Vernon counties, are
flying from their homes into the interior. He
boasts that he has money and arms to equip and
Sustain 1000 men. My court was broken up by
them; also the U. S. Court for the Southern Dis
trict, and suspect that they have seized the re-
cords, and also the records of the Land Office as
Montgomery publicly declared he would do so.
s. Judge of Third Jud District, K. r.
WASHINGTON, Nov. a. - The Government has
just been officially informed that Captain Mont
gomery and his party have commenced operating
again in Kansas by hanging and killing three oppo.
nents, and threatening to compel an adjournment of
the land sales advertised to take place during the
month of December. Letters have been received
from reliable sources, addressed to the proper au.
thorities, saying that Captain Montgomery had
force of probably 500 men with plenty of arms and
and that from time to time war-like
supplies had been received by him from the North.
The writer says that the demand to adjourn the
and sales was mere pretext for raising an armed
orce; and that the real object of this lawless or
5anization is raid on the frontiers of Missouri and
5hen on Arkansas and the western borders, to
avenge the punishment of Abolition emissares
Gov. Medary has recently communicated some
important particulars relative to Capt. Montgom-
sry's reported alarming movements. Orders will
Ne forthwith dispatched ordering United States
roops in Kansas to such points as may be neces-
ary for the protection of the land officers in the
performance of their duty, as well as any public
property that may be menaced, including Fort
scott.