Description
Clippings and Comments. - - One of Lane's brigands writing to a Cincinnati papers, writes of the stealing his company has done, and intends to do. The people of Missouri have suffered terribly and as a specimen of the robberies they have sustained, we give an extract from the letter of the jayhawking thief:
The Jayhawkers have captured, confiscated, and destroyed not less than $250,000 worth of rebel property in the period they have been in the field.
In addition to the above schedule, they have given liberty to not less than 300 slaves, whose united worth would average $100,000, even at the lowest rate rates at which such "property" sells now. (text omitted)
General Hunter has given Platte County 10 days to capture Sy Gordon (Silas M. Gordon) and his gang and hand them over to him. If not done at the end of that time, the Jayhawkers move across.
Platte is a rich county, full of "secesh" and well deserves the punishment which it has not yet obtained, and may avert. The probabilities are that Sy Gordon (Silas M. Gordon) will not be taken, but that Platte County will.Date(s) of Creation
1/9/1862
