New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-04


AND SEVERAL WOUNDED.
FROM Our Special Correspondent.
LEAvENwoTn, X. T., April -, 1855.
Ihsye lust received from Bourbon County intel
Ggence of somewhat startling nature. 1t appears
that the United States tolders have not yet left
Fort Scott. They were under marching orders NJ
the time l hearl they had gone and would probably
have been at Fort Leayenworth, but for the rise OF
the streams Brocbet, with the other Fort Scott
Rufans had returned to the Fort, and matters there
had been much as usual Deputy Marshal Little,
son of Blake Little the Regent pro tenn during the
absence of Calhoun has been usDg the troops as d
posse to make political arrests until the settlers IN
that section have lost all respect for the uniform oil
blue and white bunting Ever since the murder OF
Denton and the others on the Little Usage, three
weeks ago, there las been determination on the
part of the FreeState settlers there that the INST
ter should not go UNPUBLISHED. The reader will re-
member tina. this fellow Brocket, from Fort Scott
with party of fifteen men, mostly from the lott
but few from the Narrator, visited the houses
several Frees men on the Usage IN the night
deliberately murdered two and severely wounde
another Hendricks was i'll bed with his vile an
child when the assassins burst into the room Gu
fred at him, some of the bullets going through to
hea6board of the bed and some woundlng him.
that time the Free State settlers were told to leave
and that they, the PrO-Slavery men, had made up
their minds that Free.State and Pro-Savery men
could not live together They had evidently calcu-
lated that the dreadful tragedy would intlmdate
and drive of the Free State settlers. The result
proves they were mistaken, and has taught them
lesson. II
The presence Of the United States soldiers al
Fort Scott and the fact that BrOcket and MS asso-
cistes kent close there under protection OF that
force is probably all that prevented another attack
ON that last citadel Of Border Ruffanlsm. Ii was
current in that vicinity however that several vi the
pro-Slavery men ON the Marmaton had either as
| sisted AT the Little Usage massacre, or were pr'y
| to it.
Such was the state of affairs last "Wednesday,
when band Of seventeen men, armed III mlscei-
| sneous way entered the valley OF the Marnatoh
and proceeded 10 make some domcDlary visits on
certain obnoxious Pro.Slayery men. The parties
went in broad daylight. They did not burn any
houses or modest any individual, as they did not ma
| any one against whom there was positive evidence
| of participation in the murders referred TO; Dut
they told the parties thus visited that the doctrine
had been enunciated that the Pro-Slavery men ana
Free.State meO coald not live together, ana tnat
they had no,o subscribed Ia il, and would monty
| them that they had lust twenty-fours in which to
leave. Some seven or eight PrO-Slayery sqlatters
were visited in this way. The party took arms ana
| ammunition from those they visited wherever they
| could find them. They proceeded quietly up the
valley. Some Of the men thus visited went To some
| Of their Free State neghbors on the Marma.on aud
told them Of the occurrence, ard added that all OF
| the party were strangers 10 them. Most OF the
| Pro-Slavery squatters fled to the Fort or TO the
Missouri frontier in dismay.
The MsrmstOn is large creek, tributary to the
Usage. Toward its mouth, and only eight miles
from the Missouri border, stands Fort Scott, on the
| right bank of the creek. 1t was in the valley oil
| the Marmaton, Immediately above the fort, that
| these visits were paid. The first persons visited
being those nearest the fort, immediately fled there
and reported the matter. At this, Deputy Marshal
Little, without waiting for any legal process, TOOK
with him company of twenty-five United States
| dragons, under command Of Capt Anderson-i
think Company +, dragons. This Little, although
| Deputy Marshal, is the leading Pro-Slavery Kui-
fan Of all that section and his exploits in arrestlng
FreeState men lately with posse Of United States
soldiers have aroused bitter feeling against him.
which is likely to cost him his life. At the same
time, il has also provoked contempt for the United
| States Army, which was perverted ~ such Petty
tyranny.
Ii happened that on the same day on when the
occurrences nsrrate took place, that the free-
| State men of the Marmaton Valley had convention
10 elect delegates to tie State Convention. 1hey
had not the party that visited the Valley, as
understand it, when the troops with Little proceed
ed to the place where the meeting Was held, tninh.
lng, perhaps, that some Of those they sought might
be present. Ii had been reported some days before
mat the Fort Scott were coming out TO prevent
The Convention, when those in attendance on u
"a" Little coming with the troops they supposed
that Was Their errand The troops were drawn up
| N iront OF The house where the meeting was held,
| and Little with ole Of the Pro Slavery squatter-
! who Lad beer vsited and wbo Vas with them, ell
ahmed itose pres Ut and found that ncne 1t tto-e