Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-09-10
The News From Kansas.

again invaded that territory with the
avowed intention of driving every man,
woman, and child, from the Free States.
The road from Iowa is entirely closed
by Missourians, and the emigranls have
been stopped, and turned back. Gov.
Geary who has been appointed in Shan
mons stead, is ordered to enforce the
laws of the bogus legislature. and TO not
only use for this purpose The U. S. troops,
but call to his aid the militia of Ken
lucky, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas
1t is plain that it is the determination OF
the President to force Slavery into Kan
sas at all hazards. Every kind Of out
rage is winked at, the robbery and muir
der of Free State men, and women, not
only 90 unpublished but are rewarded
with office.
Every mail brings news of the COM
mission of crimes of the blacklist dye by
the border rufians. Read the follow
ing from the ST. Louis Democrat, Of Sep
TENDER LIST:
Attack on the Quaker Mission.
A party of Georgians, some fifteen
in number, attacked the Quaker Mission,
which is situated OH the Shawnee Re-
serve, some six miles up the California
Road from Westport, on yesterday
They robbed the Mission of what horses
they could find, and used the most VIC
lent and insulting language, even offer
ing threats and insults to some OF he la
dies. Inundated by this violence and
threats OF future violence, the occupants
of that peaceful, religious house fled
from the mission 10 seek some place
where they might find greater security.
Just previous to our informant's leav-
ing Leavenworth, a German, from the
nelghborhood of Lawrence, who had
been taken prisoner, on his way in with
a team, in company with others on the
same errand. wrung himself out of the
hands Of his captors, and attempted to
fly. He was overtaken by a bullet from
a revolver, which killed him dead. The
unfortunate mans nIme was Bimoer /;
he was a farmer. and was guilty of no
offence except of daring to come to Leav-
enworth 10 buy provisions.
Mr. Hopp was murdered in cold blood,
By one of Buford's men, and scalped /;
the r%ufians exhibiting his scalp to his
friends, and his wife refused access to
his body, and lOrcibly sent of on a
steamer.
OF all the beastly, inhuman outrages
%pelpetrated by these hell hounds we
have read nothing 10 equal the follow
ing:
Correspondence y. Y. Tribune.l
Fiendish Outrage Upon a Young Lady.
LAWRENCE, X. r. Aug. 81. 1856.
1t is my duty to record one of the
most hellish outrases which ever dis
graced any age or country ; but which,
alas is not an isolated one in our beau
tiful Territory. Let this case be handed
down as an evidence of the demoralizing
effects upon humanity Of that cursed in
stitulion which our rulers are trying to
force upon US.
A Mr.. Henry Hyatt, with his wife and
family, moved from Milton, Wayne Co.,
Ind. 30 Kansas, and settled on a claim
on Washington Greek, about seven miles
south from this City. Accompanying
his wife was a young widow lady. a
friend of the family, who desired to emf.
CRATE to Kansas. Mr.. Hyatt COM
menced building a mill on his claim last
Spring, and, as extra hands were needed,
a pro slavery man WAS employed, who
boarded at his house.
1t was soon noticed that when any
news of the movements of the Free State
or pro-slavery party reached Hyatt's,
that this man after supper time, would
90 off to the rendezvous above, known
as Fort Sanders, which has since been
broken up. and there stay till quite late
in the night, and hat on Sabbath even
ings he spent all his time either there or
at the house of a pro-slavery neighbor
close by. At last Mr.. Hyatt's family,
whose feelings and sympathies are With
the cause of Freedom here, charged him
with being a spy, and the young lady
cited instances of his visits to pro slavery
places after the receipt of news by them,
with an earnestness very distasteful to
the Rufian. The result was that he left
Mr.. Hvatt's employment.
n ~ III. sc AN,l,oeI,u A,- on }
when all the family had gone to rest,
the young lady left her room and went
10 one of the o~utbu,ldings in the rear of
the house. On her return she was seized
by four masked rufians, and so over
come was she by terror that before she
could scream her tongue was choked out
of her mouth and tied with a string be
hind her head and around her neck
She was then told that if she made the
least noise she would Immediately be
shot; and a revolver was held to her
head while they tied her hands behind
her back. They then carried her a few
hundred yards from the house into a
patch of long prairie grass, and COM
menced their hellish deedS-three stand
ing guard while they each in turn viola
ted her psrson. She had swOoned from
fear, and had not returned to a state of
entire consciousness when this inhuman
assault was made upon her person.
After completing their infamy, they
kicked her in the side AMI abdomen, and
left her, it is supposed, to die. How
long she remained in a state of i~nsensi-
bility she does not know, but she vas
enabled TO stagger in the direction of the
house. On reaching it she was unable
to open the door, her hands being tied
behind her back, and she was also una
bic to speak, her tongue being tied with
a string and now swollen to an enormous
size. She was too weak to shout, and
in the effort to do so sic tainted. In
she overturned an empty churn
which stood zeal the door, and the noise
made by the churn against the siding Of