New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-11

thing else was sunerm&, Al OF "hcn cV~~ -.
stll Il bore the marks OF what would % prospef"y
under happier circumstances. 49,,
Iheard many grievous complaints, and Listened
10 statement after statement Of the losses BY the
recent sscking of the place BY the Westport ana
Independence RufiAns. first thought Of puo-
lishine list of these losses but at this, lapse OF
time from the Transaction, felt that the space
would occupy would be too great Tor report rom
such fertile field for outrages in Kansas. iiound
men who had been robbed OF tneir al, quo mhv,
while scarcely able to remain, were yet unable 70
leave. Some of the more delicate minded were
timld. and evidently felt like being quiet nom
resstent under the fallscious hope that they, as
individuals, might happily escape the observation
of their enemies, q hope that their experience mas
already proved to he false, and which, till every
man 10 aroused to stand by the rights ne wouh
wish defended, will prove to be iaise, ana San-
Qerous illusion. The fiat has gone FORTH the Free
State men are to be driven from the Territory by
the minions VI the Slave Power, and lite corrupt
tools who coyet their places and the dispelhng OF
such vain and false hopes as leave them exposed
and comparatively detenseless, will be their best
and only security.
Immediately on the high prairie, to the back OF
Osawattame, the white tents Of the United States
troops are visible in fair array. These had been
camped close to Osawattsmie until the morning OF
the day when the town was attacked and plum
dered; that morning they left, and marched OH on
some other duty, and although many messengers
implored them to 90 to the point Of attack, they
never cot 10 Osawattame until four days after the
sacking Of the place. Even then there was camp
composed of some Of the men who had engaged In
the outrage on Bull Creek, only eight miles dis
tant but no attempt to follow them was made, nor
did the drag ever recover particle OF the
property taken, or arrest single one OF the per-
petrators, although some one or two Pro-Slavery
residents of the country adjacent bad engaged with
| the Missourans in the affair. There is never an
arrest made in Kansas, but of Free-State men, no
matter how henOus the crimes OF their enemies
| Capt. Pate the correspondent Of The Missouri
Republican, besides sending specially -colored NOR
| aizipes about the troubles in Kansas, has fair
| show in making them. He resides near Westport,
| No. but comes up every now and then in warlike
| or plunderng excursions, helping to make his
other vacations more profitable by taking hand,
aiding and abbeting, stealing from the DID
Abolitionsts." Capt P. was at Osawattamie dur
| ing the sack, and he and his men did much to re-
treve the reputation furnished on the field Of Pal
| myra. They carried with them many interesting
| relics of Osawattamie. 1t was this company who
| burned the houses of the Browns-these pieces OF
| incendarism having been committed while travel
ing with the Dragons the latter only being snort
| vayoH, The Dragons alsO received from them
the Free. State prisoners that Pate captured while
| thew were helpless on their claims. Although
| these men were taken without the shadow OF legal
process. the dragons chained and guarded them
In their campaigning them thus for weeks until
the bogus authorities had time to trump up charge
and il dictments against them.
OF the sixteen horses taken from Osawsttaine,
| two have been recovered. These belonged 10 the
| maagent between WestpOrt and Osawattame.
| Their being in Osawattame at the time, suffered
from being in bad company. Through the kind In
| strumentaty of Col Boone, now Postmaster IN
| Westport (the successor of Sheriff JOnes), one Of
the horses was recovered; it was found, believe,
with the Hon. Milton Magee, of Westport, and
was persuaded back by the influence of the Post
| master The other was yet in possession OF Capt.
| Reed of Independence Capt. Reed was chief in
command of the Osawattamie robbers. lie Is
now candidate for Congress, one OF the grandees
ofIndependence, "a Southern Rights man to the
| core" Ste transit gloria
| twas in Osaw attaInie that first heard OF the
| atrocious murder of Mr.. Gay, the Shawnee Indian
Agent ] got the particulars minutely from one
Who WAS acquainted with the murdered man, and
who has lust got to Osaw attame from the scene OF
the transaction. Mr.. Gay was recently appointed
by the Administration at Washington He was
| from Michigan. He had been National Demo-
crat of the Douglas discipeship, but an honest
| one and had come to Kansas prepared to disap-
prove of the steps taken by the Free-State men to
defend themselves from the attacks of Slavery but
tiled to reconcile this with desire to see Kansas
| Free State. | think the scales of the "Squatter
Sovereignty" delusiOn must have fallen from his
! eyes ere they were brutally closed in the long
| sleep of political martyrdom for Freedom. Bu-
| fords company had camp in the Shawnee Re
serve. This camp was composed OF Southerners
| and volunteers from around WestpOrt. Being in
the lower part of the Reserve, and having no
| Free-State men to plumber save an occasional
unlucky traveller, they commenced operations on
the Indiana, killing their hogs, and making them
| selves at home in a variety of ways. This was
| going on while the troops were camped some
| twenty miles up the Reserve, for the purpose OF
| driving them out. Mr.. Gay, as was his duty, hay
ing been complained to by the Indians went to
Sumner, and requested that the Shawnee property
| be Tended. 1t was then that Sumner drove out
this camp and they, when they first saw the SOL
diers lOisted their flag and prepared for action,
but seeing the artillery, and the strength Of the
| dragons, hauled down their tag and left. This
was undoubtedly the cause of Gays death.
| My informant, while going from Westport to
| Kansas City, last Saturday, met Mr.. Gay and his
| ron going toward Westport and on conversation
| learned that they were going toward the Shawnee
Reserve; alas! they never reached it. They had
| gone through WestpOrt and had passed on the
great California road, and had just reached the
State line, when they were met by three men, two
| of them belonging to Buford's camp, aud one be-
| ing resident of WestpOrt. They aceOsted Mr.
| Gay and his son. and offered them something to
drink; the son tasted the liquor, but Mr. Gay told
| them he never drank. Upon that they asked him
| whether he was Free-State man or PrO-Slavery
| man, and he had Just said he was a Free-State
man, when one of the villains drew his revolver
| and shot Mr.. Gay in the breast. The wound was
desperate, ard would probably have proved fatal
but the victim had strength and courage to seize
bis assassin, drag him from his horse and throw