The Kansas troubles.
--
Gen. Harney gone to the Scene. --
Governor Stewart has ordered
Brigadier General Frost to hold his brigade, consisting of the First regiment of the
Missouri militia, engineer corps, and artillery, in readiness to repair to the
Southwest border to repel the invasion of the
State by
Montgomery's band of outlaws.
General Harney left
St. Louis, Thursday, for
Fort Leavenworth:
Warsaw,
Mo., Nov. 22.--
Judge Williams,
United States District
Judge of
Southern Kansas, arrived in town to-night.
A meeting of the citizens was immediately called, and
Judge Williams delivered a calm and cool statement of affairs in the
Territory.
He has been for twenty-nine years a presiding
Judge on the borders of civilization.
Judge Williams said since Sunday night he had been upon the saddle.
he came to warn Missourian of the approaching danger.
Southern Kansas had been delivered over to abolition outrages, under
Montgomery and others, for three years and a half. He had been presiding
Judge there, endeavoring to maintain the supremacy of the law, and to that end had used his efforts on and off the bench faithfully, notwithstanding the evidence of marauders and lawless men, who were there for that purpose only.
He had organized and held courts in all the counties of this district.
These marauders and murderers are sustained by men who procure means from the States, under the pretence of aiding the sufferers of
Kansas, but appropriate them to carry out their designs of rebellion against the law. They are the same men who procured the passage of the amnesty and other indulgences, by their promise that they would maintain the laws and preserve order in
Southern Kansas; but this has only proved a respite, to enable them more effectually to prepare for the accomplishment of their designs.
A messenger of undoubted veracity had arrived, staling that yesterday one hundred men had entered
Missouri, fully armed, and had passed down the
Osage river to
Ball's Mills, twenty miles over the border, with four negroes in advance, with coils of rope, all armed.
The
Judge then made the same statement, in substance, as has previously been telegraphed, and closed by urging the people not to go into
Kansas, but to protect themselves within their lines and to send aid to the border counties at once, as they are at the mercy of these outlaws.
