Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1859 — The War in Southern Kansan. [ARTICLE]

The War in Southern Kansan.

i i’he Kansas papers state (hat the outrniges by Deputy Marshal Russell and hk ! posse are causing an intense excitement I throughout the Territory. ■ The Marshal being a citizen of Arkansas, and his beat being the Cherokee neutrallands, is out of his jurisdiction, and his fobs ■lowers are Missourians. He presents no • writs, but persists in seizing all who are found with arms,.and drugging peaceable from their houses without sliowinoj his authority for so doing, tie claims that | his principal object is the capture of Monti gomery. Tiie indignation which these lawless acts , aroused, rapidly increased until the 21st ult., i when the first actual c fllls’on occurred. A party ol ten citizens, wh > had gone out as scouts, were passing by Paris. ; n U nu •comity, where Russr.JJ was Encamped wit:? one hundred and sixty-four men, when they were discovered by a detachment oi ab itif sixty ol the iiivad -rs, who immediately "ave a yell, fired upon themj killing one fmrso and wounding i ion, an ‘ comman.iiu - them to .surrender! line o: the v. uande. , 1 ;i son ot’ Mr. Snyder, who was shot last s ir!mr by Hamilton, was captured. The Marshal boasted that he hud killed one man, for ho saw him drop. The posse, however, fared worse than the scouts, about sixteen of them being reported dead and wounded. Two other collisions occurred about the same time, in one of which a citizan was killed. The Parisites, as the Marshal's forces are styled, are constantly levying contribution* upon the neighboring farm houses, carryin g away provisions and property.