, 1862-09-13

Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribune1
I,EAyEswoR7a, Kansas, September 9, 1862.
Last Sunday night this highly excited COM
mnnity was thrown into new fever Of COM
tion by the arrival Of several citizens OF Olathe
with the news that Quantrel and his gnerillas
had sacked the town the night before {Satur-
day. DR.. Thomas Hammel, one Of the pris-
oners taken and released. gave me the follow
ing details: Olathe is the county seat of John
ston county, Kansas, and is situated about
twenty miles southwest from Kansas City, Oh
the Santa Fe New Mexico) road The town
contains $50 buildings, including stores and q
hotel, kept by one Turpin. A son Of this
Turpin belongs to the gueEllas and he led
QuaDtrel into the town, he being well ac-
qnaln1ed with the localities, &c. The guer-
llas entered place about 2 O'Clock g. n of
Sunday. They first surrounded the town With
plckets; the Inhabitants were slnmbering, IS
they supposed, in perfect security, when they
were aroused BY about 200 OF the gang riding
into the town. AL the inhabitants were ta-
ken prisoners, tcgether wi.h about thirty five
or forty new recruits for one Of the ne@ Kan
sas regiments. Tie guerillas broke open the
. t1Ge A4u G1Slt pt1fakV AH@AuE1 CA-EHL LIE
dwellings Of those who are in favor vita the
Confederate States Of America. The pocket
OF every Iuan was riiled of what money he had;
every 'ruLk was broken open; all bureau-
drawsls we're hsu1ed ont; every closet Was
ransacked and ill 7aluahles stolen, including
tic silk dresses Of women. Sig wagons were
loaded With goods and carried oH; twenty
five CT thirty horses, {aH there wtre III the
place about S., ,Gl0 il cash, and other prop
eHy, worth about $l20 They wantonjy
troke iuc1i1nre and destroyed the records OF
the c< unty, By tearing out the leaves Of the
pGtks ard scattering item about. They also
d. 61rryed the accounts Of the storeketp :rs.
They Carried OF all the arms Of the .uple
:al=o the United States arms in the hands Of
the recruits. The recruits we're marched of
IS prisoners Of war, but the ln5a5itants were
dismissed. Quansrtl gave orders to his men
not to disturb private pJope:tr,{tls said be is
coIolcl in the Confederate States Of America
army, aud must conduct the war in g proper
nanner,) but they scarcely took any thing else.
The TACT is, these gueli'las are nothing but
COMMON rob5ers, and tnat is their peculiar
mission, but they hold comm5ssions from
larchard, citizen OF Spring Hill, a town
n+aF Olanthe j FL: rick Bean, an Irishm,n
citizen Of O!an,be; Pmlip Tiggins, and air.
Skinoer, Two Of the new recrui S.
The people OF Kansas residing on the bor-
der are not ouly excited but Md. The gov
erment anurcs no protection, and the Kansas
troops Who are used to border warfare, are in
Mississippi, Everybody interested in having
tue State protec'ed from those robbers, ex-
press their desire in words tor the return Of
Col. Jtnni5on's old regiment, the 7dh Kansas.
This regimen. is mad. up in plrt of the men
who t5u-ht the border rutfians pnder told
John Brown and Gen. Lane in SO aad '57,
ana Understand guerilla warfare There are
mary rualors and reports on subjects inter
es ing to sour readers, II true, but as I pro.
p.se to send you OILY authenticated facts, I
say Eo' hing about them, Z. Il. S.
T. S.-The culorad regiment, row called
1tt kapsas 1st colorci, in camp uear leaV-
enwortb, have removed their camp to Wyau-
not {, and art increasing in Numbers. Gen.
Blnht w;.s here few days ago, but has gone
10 Fort Scott. He will lie heard from soo1.