Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-09-03
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THE KANSAS OUTRAGEs.

Correspondence of the Charles City Intelli gencer.
THE KANSAS OUTRAGES.
., LEAvENwoRTH, AUG. oath, 1868.
FRIEND HnpRETH Il send enclosed
the full particulars of the late rebel
raid, and destruction of Lawrence.
The town was settled by Massachu-
sets people, and of course the bor-
der ruffians hate it, and have at last
succeeded in destroying it. Guam
trile was formerly resident of Kan
sas, and an Aboltionist and a jay
hawker. He came here in 1855
When he turned rebel, the Jayhawk.
ers were on An expedition to lndcpen-
dence, Mo. He betrayed the whole
party into the hands of their enemies,
and became leader among his new
found friends. "Quantrile," is an as
sumed name. His real cognomen is
Charles Hart. He formerly resided
in Lawrence, and hence knew the
prominent men and singled them out
and butchcred them.
The paper from which I take the
following is the organ Of the "Red.
legs and "Jayhawkers," and is down
on Ewing, but it has the only good
account of the affair, a reporter hav'
ing been sent to the scene. Quantrile
told Mr.. Stevens, a merchant of this
town, that Lcavenworth was his next
place of attack, and now business is
stopped every afternoon for the pur-
pose of drilling and making prepare
tics to receive him: AIrCH.
From the Leavenworth Conscrvative]
Quantrilc entered Lawrence with a
band of bushwhackers, variously es-
timatcd at from two to five hundred
in number. They approached Law
renee from the South by Franklin road,
and made their first attack on a camp
of recruits-white men and negroes
and killed many of them before they
were awake or could get arms.
Their first dash after entering the
city was for the livery stables, where
they took all the stock, and then set
the hay on fire. Stores were broken
open and robbed of all portable prop
crty, cafes knocked open and plum
dercd. Men were shot in the streets
as city marshal would mad dogs.
The Court House was burned, and
with it all the records. After the
gucrillas left, about nine o'clock in the
morning, one looking down Massachu.
sets Street could only now and
then sec wall standing out of the
blaze and ruins. The street was a
very handsome one, being filled with
fine blocks of brick and stone. The
buildings and their contents, on that
street alone, must have been worth
two millions of dollars.
So universally were the citizens rob-
bed, that Mr.. Montague, who came
here for Surgeons and medicines for
the wounded, found it difficult to get
few dollars TO dcfray his expenses
The day before, Lawrence was rich
and every man had more money in
his pocket than the richest could now
command.
When Mr.. Montague left, the town
seemed to be one sheet of fire. The
heat was intense, and persons could
hardly pass through the streets to re
licvc the wounded or collect the dead
The wailing of the women and orphan
ed children filled the air, and brought
again to the memory the days when
the Free State families were butcher
ed on their own hearihstones. We
wish their cries could have reached
the ears Of Gen. Scofeld aud President
Lincoln. They shall reach them.
General Lane had miraculous es-
cape. He heard the firing and saw
Willis stable burning, and made
tracks through large corn-fcld near
his house. Inquiries were made by
the gang for Lanes house, and Mr.
Spicer was detailed by them to show
his house. Placing a pistol to his
head they compelled him to pilot them
to Lanes house. They could not catch
the General, but burnt his house.
As soon as the citizens conld col
lect from the surrounding country
they were organized and headed by
Senator Lane, and are now in pursui,
of Quantrile, to the number of three OF
four hundred. The rebels left as they
came in, by the southern road, burn.
ing the houses of the farmers as they
went. The smoke Of burning residen,
ccs can be seen, as far south as 10
the Santa Fe Road.
The militia SO hastily organized by
General Lane have given Mr.. Guam.
trile a hard run, and Saved up" at
least twenty of his long haired beasts.
Quantrile continued his devasta;ions
from Lawrence to Brooklyn, where he
was overtakcn by Lane and subjected
to a running FIRE. Maj. Plumb, from
Kansas City, and Captain Coleman,
from Aubrey, Joined Lane near Brook.
lyn.
The chase continued all day by OF.
iowa, Jones, Stanton and Paola.
Troops went out from Paola and the
rebels were between two fires. Guam
trile went within a mile and half of
the town, lost several of his men in
the skirmish, and rushed on to Ma.
rysville and Walnut creek, four miles
below Squiresville, where he camped
Lane camped at Paola. ten miles
from Walnut Creek. Both parties
started at daylight yesterday morn
ing. and we wish Missouri Joy Of this
visit from Lawrence men and Kansas
soldiers.
Two cavalry companies reached
Olathe at IL o'clock yesterday and
went on to Aubrey. They came up
from Independence, Mo-. and burned
out all the secesh on the road. Not
less than fifteen hundred men were in
pursuit of the assassins yesterday.
and with good prospect of killing
the last one of them