The Press. — 1856-09-20 (London, England)

THE PRESS.  of the New York Daily Times, writing on the 20th of August, says : This morning we hear by a Government train just in from Lavenworth, that about two tnilos out from that town they discovered the dead body of a man, who had been shot through the head and scalped. From a man who has since arrived, and who stopped at the house to which the body was taken, and saw it, we learn that the murderer, after the deed was committed, went into the town of Lavenworth, among his murderous associates, and, holding up the scalp, cried out, " Here is the scalp of a abolitionist. I started out for one, and by G— I have got one."  Another correspondent from Chicago, on the 27th,  says :  The ease of a man being scalped near Leavenworth is a literal fact. He was a hiotlier-in-law of Rev. Mr. Nute, and just arrived ; his name is Wm. C. Hopps. He was alone—though there are witnesses of the deed. The murderer returned to Missouri, and displayed the reeking scalp in brutal exultation to the Clerk of Platte County. One of the most atrocious deeds (he continues) occurred near Lawrence. A lady, living a short distance from the torn, had been there to nurse a wounded relative; and during her stay had made some statements touching the murder of Major Hoyt, which are supposed to have been reported to the ruffians. On her return homs, she stepped out of doors in the evening in her night dress, and was immediately seized by four men with blackened faces, who gagged her by a handkerchief drawn through her mouth, and tied round her head, and carried her some distance from the house, where they stripped her naked, bound her limbs, drew out her tongue, tied a string round it and round her neck, and left her ! After some time she succeeded in getting back to the house, and by means of knocking her head against the window attracted attention, and gained admittance. A gentleman has just come down who had the temerity to pass through Westport. He was taken, and his captors hesitated whether to hang him or put him into a sack and throw him into the river. (The peculiarities of Turkish punishment are to be revived in America.) But finally, a man whom he bad attended while sick I,he is a physician) succeeded in saving his life. He had taken some money to Kansas to invest, but finding no chance, was going back to his former home in the State of New York; and dividing 5,000 dols. he took half himself', and gave the remainder to his wife, whom he sent by the way of Leavenworth. Her 2,500 dols. she secreted in the hem of her petticoat, and saved ; his, the "law and-order" men seized and kept, and ordered him to leave the country for ever. He now thinks that he shall go back. On his way down he saw a little girl lying dead; her brains had been dashed out ! She was not yet cold. It seemed to him that the savages must have taken her by the heels and perpetrated the horrid deed, and then fled. A letter from Lawrence of the 28th says  Last Monday a man named Hopp, recently from Massachusetts, with his wife, was murdered and scalped near Leavenworth city, while on his way there from this place. A Mr. Jennison, who has a wife in Massachusetts, was similarly treated near Westport last Tuesday, and his team and load of freight taken by the notorious M‘Gliee.