Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-05-31

OUTRAGEs ON UNION MEN IN ARKAN-
sAs.-A Little Rock (Ark.) CORES
pondcnt of the New York Herald, !
writing May 10th, afirms that there
is no safety for Union men in that
State, and cites the following cata-
logue of outrages in proof:
"Only few days ago two men
were hung in Chicot county for their
Union sentiments. They were taken
from the field in which they were
peacefully at work, and after five min
utes being allowed them to prepare
for death, hung from q limb of a tree
and left there. The rebel despera-
does who committed the deed, seeing
that they had been discovered by an
old man and boy, committed anoth-
or double murder 10y hanging them
also. The four bodies remained hang
ing five days before any persons dared
meddle with them. The grand Jury
recently in session in this city had
this case under investigation, but fail
cd to discover the guilty parties
Two soldiers going from here to Ark
adcIphia in an army ambulance were
murdered on the road, and their
bodies after several days found in the
woods. In Dallas county an old wo.
man had her breasts cut off because
she wonld not tell where her husband,
who was charged with being a Union
man, was, aud from the effects Of her
injuries died. A grandchild, boy
eight years old, because he refused
to tell, had all his fingers and thumbs
chopped off with an axe. In this same
county and Pope county several have
had their feet burned off; and so fire.
quently has this been done that the
gang-it is said to be the. member;
of certain gang who DO it-are call
ed feet burners. In Craighead coun
ty man who had been in the Fedora
service came and settled there. III
was quiet and well-behaved, but hi
being Yankee was an act of felony
in the eyes of his neighbors, and so
notwithstanding his assertions that HI
would leave the country if they would
spare his life, he was taken out int,
the woods and hung. In addition t.
this two men have recently been killeC
in Clark county, two in Washington
county and one in Prairie county
and all because they were Union men
! am told of a man living in the SAM
county who joined the Federal service
during the war, and coming back t.
rejoin his family found his life threat
ened, and to save it had to keep him
self concealed in the woods. A Uniol
man telling me this circumstance
says he and other Union men knew
his place of concealment, and managed
both to furnish him provisions an,
stand sentries to give alarm if occa
sion should require, the suppositio
being that he has left the country
For agents ofthe Freedmen's Burea
to be shot at is no uncommon occur
renee. have beer told of two haT
pening recently, the subjects of thes
murderous compliments being Lieu
Barton at Pine Bluff, and Lieut.. Tay
lor at Hanley. Not very long sine
General Ord, in an official order Gale
attention to gang of desperadoes j
Woodruff county who, according t
all accounts, have evinced a capacit
for any crime to be found in the New
gate calendar The band is made u
of men belonging to various guerril
companies during the war, and the
are still prosecuting the same specie
Of warfare on their own hook. burnir
the houses ofUnion men, stealing the
stock, and where one is known [
have money, giving him the choice G
handing It over or be shot or hung