The Press.
London, England, 1856-09-20 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

of the New York Daily Times, writing on the 20th
of August, says :
This morning we hear by a Government train just
in from Lavenworth, that about two tnilos out from
that town they discovered the dead body of a man,
who had been shot through the head and scalped.
From a man who has since arrived, and who stopped
at the house to which the body was taken, and saw
it, we learn that the murderer, after the deed was
committed, went into the town of Lavenworth,
among his murderous associates, and, holding up the
scalp, cried out, " Here is the scalp of a abo-
litionist. I started out for one, and by G— I have
got one."

Another correspondent from Chicago, on the 27th,

says :

The ease of a man being scalped near Leaven-
worth is a literal fact. He was a hiotlier-in-law of
Rev. Mr. Nute, and just arrived ; his name is Wm.
C. Hopps. He was alone—though there are wit-
nesses of the deed. The murderer returned to
Missouri, and displayed the reeking scalp in brutal
exultation to the Clerk of Platte County.
One of the most atrocious deeds (he continues)
occurred near Lawrence. A lady, living a short
distance from the torn, had been there to nurse a
wounded relative; and during her stay had made
some statements touching the murder of Major
Hoyt, which are supposed to have been reported to
the ruffians. On her return homs, she stepped out
of doors in the evening in her night dress, and was
immediately seized by four men with blackened
faces, who gagged her by a handkerchief drawn
through her mouth, and tied round her head, and
carried her some distance from the house, where
they stripped her naked, bound her limbs, drew out
her tongue, tied a string round it and round her
neck, and left her ! After some time she succeeded
in getting back to the house, and by means of knock-
ing her head against the window attracted attention,
and gained admittance.
A gentleman has just come down who had the
temerity to pass through Westport. He was taken,
and his captors hesitated whether to hang him or
put him into a sack and throw him into the river.
(The peculiarities of Turkish punishment are to be
revived in America.) But finally, a man whom he
bad attended while sick I,he is a physician) suc-
ceeded in saving his life. He had taken some money
to Kansas to invest, but finding no chance, was going
back to his former home in the State of New York;
and dividing 5,000 dols. he took half himself', and
gave the remainder to his wife, whom he sent by the
way of Leavenworth. Her 2,500 dols. she secreted
in the hem of her petticoat, and saved ; his, the
"law and-order" men seized and kept, and ordered
him to leave the country for ever. He now thinks
that he shall go back. On his way down he saw a
little girl lying dead; her brains had been dashed
out ! She was not yet cold. It seemed to him that
the savages must have taken her by the heels and
perpetrated the horrid deed, and then fled.
A letter from Lawrence of the 28th says

Last Monday a man named Hopp, recently from
Massachusetts, with his wife, was murdered and
scalped near Leavenworth city, while on his way
there from this place. A Mr. Jennison, who has a
wife in Massachusetts, was similarly treated near
Westport last Tuesday, and his team and load of
freight taken by the notorious M‘Gliee.