New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-06
KANSAS.
urNn1su OUTRAGE UPON A YOUNG
LADY

outrsses which ever disgrsced any age or country
hut v h,ch alas s not an isolated one in our beau.
tiful Territory. Let this case be handed down as
an evidence Of the demOrsziDg effects upon hu
mainly OF that cursed institution which our rulers
are tying to force upon US.
Mr. Henry Hyatt, with his wife and family
moved from Milton, Wayne County Indiana u
Rsusss, aud settled on claim on Washington
Creek, about seven miles south from tns CITY,
Accompany ing MS wife vas young WIDOW LADY a
friend of the family, who desired to e@srate 70
Kansas Mr. HYATT commenced building MIL on
his claim last Spring and, as extra bands were
needed. a Pro Slavery man was employed, WHO
boarded at his house.
/. was soon noticed that when any news oi Tue
movements OF the Free S!a'e or Pro-S'1''ry par
ties reached Hy-'ts, that this man a'' supper
time would 20 off 10 the rendezvous above, hao"h
as Fort Sanders. which has siuce been broken up,
and there STAY tl quite late in the night and that
IN Sabbath evening he spent all hls time either
there or at the Dou.e ot Pros avery helsoor
close BY. ct asr Mr. H. atts family, whose feet
ipgs shd sympatbcs are with the cause OF Free
dom here, charged him with being a spy, and the
yourg lady cited instances OF his ylsits to Pro-
SLAVERY places aftsr the receipt OF news by them,
with Nh earnestpess very distateful to the Ruff IN.
TIE result was That De left Mr. IIyatt's employ
ment
On the night of Wednesday, Aug. 20, when All
the family had gone to rest, the young lady left
her room and went to one of the Outbuldlngs IN
the rear of the house. On her return She was
seized by four masked ruians and 50 overcome
was she by terror that before she could screa her
tongue WAS chOked out of ber mouth and tied with
a string behind her head and around her neck.
She was then told tfat if she made the least noise
the would Immediately be shot, and revolver
was held 10 her mead while they tied her hands
behind her back. They then carried Ler few
hundred yards from the house into patch OI
long praiIe grass. and commenced their heilIsh
deeds-three standing guard while they each in
turn violated Ter person. She had swoouel from
fear and had not returned to state of entire con
sciousbess when this bhuman assault was made
upon her person After completing their infany,
they kicked her in the side aud abdomen, aud left
her, it is supposed to die. How long she remained
in state of insensibiliiy sle does not knO v, but
she was enabled to stdgger 10 tR direction OF the
house On reaching it she was unable to open the
door, her has DIS being tied behind her back, and
she was also unable to speak, her tongue being
tied with string aud now swollen to an alarming
size She was too weak to shout and i'll the effort
to do so she tainted. In falling she overturned All
empty chuIn which stood near the door, and the
noise IL ade by the churn against the siding Of the
house awoke Mr.. Hyatt and his family, who found
her in the condition described.
On Sunday last, the 23o, she took, at the request
of DR.. Avery somc nourishlng food; but her case
is nearly hopeless. She has had several fits of
convulsiont, and, though her friends believed last
night II at she would die before os morning, she
stlilv,s. 1t is supposed that the Pro-SlaSery
hired man and tree of bis associates weto ths
perpetrators of this v'llniny
The facts OF the above case were given TO me by
DIR. Avery, WHO stteDded the lady professionally,
and who accompanied the Richmond company in.O
this Territory. Ga his statement 1 have the most
Implicit reliance He is spoken # by the Buffalo
CONVENTION Committee in their report as being
ga wise, discreet and accomplished physician"
and as he made professional visit 10 the lady ne
knows alt about the case. Aud yet with all these
most iDhumsn Ouuages before their eyes, there dfe
cla.s of men, even in the North, who process to
believe that negro Slavery eleyates the character of
the whites.
It's needless to say that thee villains are at
large, and, like the murderers of Hoyt and others,
always will be. the bogus laws having been made
for the punishment of Free-State men only.
Reliable information reaches US tnat the NOrihe n
e has hear dirid p1 I'm Al
three OF four Companies of over one hundred each,
and that they are scouriog the Territory from
EsrtOn TO Delaware on the river; that they are
driving Free-State settlers from their claims and
putting men on them to hold them till after the
"war' This rum0r was cOrroborated by the ar
rival yesterday in this city of seventy Free Safe
men from the waters of Big Stranger Creek some
OF whom had been driven from their claims; others
had had their horses and cattle stolen This mo'n-
ing hundred men vOlun eered 10 go back with
them and see them righed.
The fac. that the leading Ruihans haze been try
Ig (and rumOr Gays they have succeeded 10 some
extent to induce the different tribes Of savenold
ing Indians to join them, while it is an evidence of
the deep determination To make this terrible and
final struggle for Slavery supremacy, also shows
that the border counties are not SO alive 70 their
appeals as they were last Winter, during the Wa
karusa war. Another evidence of this determine.
tion is the tone of the border newspapers. Take,
for example, the following paragraph from The
Kansas City Mo Enterprise, Aug %:
"Ttere has been DO tine since the commencement
ef the X apsas troubles wherein we have noticed 40
deep and settled u purpose in the public mind as has
been manifested for the p,st ten days. There seems
to be a led determination 70 stop the occurrence OF
su,rae, for the future The fact that smsl army OF
f,,,d soLf,ers have been gent from ; ae> aud