The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-09-07
SHOCKING BRUTALITY ON THE DUKE OF
SUTHERLAND ESTATES.

The Northern Ensign Scotch pspsr) has the fol
lowing:
In small house in Tubeg skerrsy in the parrish
of Tongue, lived highlander and his wife, within
less than quarter of a mile of the house In which
they were both born and brought up and which their
fathers still occupied, to ants under the Duke of
Sutherland, MT Robert Horsbsrough being factor
Shortly before the occurrence which cur cotemoo.
lary relates, VIM. M'Kays wife was confined of her
fourth child. SIc still in bed and unfit to be
moved from If. Blu. on the 18th OF June, neighbor
informed Mkay that party of law officers were
hastsned to the house to inform his wife, and of
course console her. In an instant the messen ger at
arms, with his party, were at the door; tn cir speak
Ing was heard BY the poor woman, and she began to
tremhle cold perspiraton covered her body ali over
the fficers came in and soon cleared the house of
her newly born babe, must be turned out too The
midwife demonstrated, but in vain The law officers
said they would be required to execute their COM
mission. The poor woman WAS, in spite Of every
monstrance, doomed to be removed. These execu-
TONERS of justice had, they said. their Instructions
but, may It not be said, wanted the tenderness
which would suggest to them the delicacy and dan.
ger of interfering with q woman in such state?
They surrounded her in the corner in which she
lay, laid hold Of the sheet or covering which was
under her, carried her out of the house, and placed
her on the ground at distance, and sped back TO
the work of demolition; divots and cabers were
thrown in all directions; the hatchet cut down the
coupietfee and in worry short time the roof Of the
hut disappeared and SO did its desroyers They had
more work OF kindred nature to perform that day.
In an agony Of feeling, the husband ran off dis
tance of five miles to procure medical aid while his
wire, Will nef newborn inIanL, lay on ntCe straw
upon the ground aud it not till night that by
the kindness OF her poor neighbors, she and her
children were deposited 10 an empty barn. We can
not, pit in soms of our English poor law cruel
ties recall such circumstance which has occasion I'd
us deeper ndiguaton than the incidents OF this pain
full narrative, which demands stricter inyes.
tigatiop. In the former, have, indeed, had cru
city in its worst possible form far the acts them
selves are concerned
We caa understand the workhouse official snatch.
ed perhaps fro starvation by the salary he receives
aud eager to recommend himself to his employers by
an economising of his functions committing acts
of ofuhumsnty at which one fees Mortified. But that
such things can take pl lace under the eyes of the
Duke of Sutherland, fills us with much astonish
ment pain. 1t 10 not many month. since the ie-
dies Of England appealed to their sisters in America
behalf of the blacks, imporng them to their
influence to put end to the system of slavery; and
the first which the signature to that appeal
bors the mans of the Duchess of Sutherland -
VIII that woman look at home and think of poor
Wm McKsy's wife, carried in sheet cut of her
hut, and laid trembling on the ground, with her
born infant IN her arms? VIII she speak one elo-
qaent word OF remonstrance in favor of the poor
whites who have the misfortune at this moment, to
have their holdings her husbands estste2