The Western Democrat

CRUELTY.--In the last six weeks, Gen. Jennison, at the head of a band of brigands, entered Jackson and Cass counties, Missouri, and laid waste the whole country in their route. More than seventy farm houses have been destroyed by fire--women and children have been turned out in mid-winter, and refused even a blanket to protect them from the cold--towns have been burned, after robbing the stores of everything they contained, and worse than all, 15 or 20 peaceable persons have been butchered in cold blood, in one case, a husband taken from his wife's side and shot down before her eyes.