Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-19
Correspondence of The N. Y. Tribune.

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Thursday, Aug. 81, 1854.
The emigration into this Territory is belev-
| ed to be protecting at greater rate at the
| present moment than at any time before. On
two days of last week five hundred men with
axe and gun crossed the ferry from Weston to
Fort Leayeuworth in search Of claims. Very
many Of these are from points in Missouri,
not hundred miles distant from the river,
| and it is supposed that when the hemp crop
| shall have been secured, the Missouri element
will be even larger The tone of Platte Co.,
which arrogate5 to itself species of soyer-
! eighty over this domain of Kansas, does not
become whit less violent iii the matter of
Freedom or Slavery III the country. Some of
| the Western Missouri papers have lately con-
tanned very ferocious articles on the treatment
that "ngger-stealers' and Northerners (for
the terms are convertable) should receive on
their entrance into Kansas. Albeit the zeal
is much stronger than their power, aud that
barking dogs are not proyerbial for carrying
their pugnacity into acts, still believe that
the attempt to rescue Kansas from the slave
power will cost much greater efforts than are
generally anticipated. l do not withdraw
from my previously expressed opinion, that
Kansas will be free, because | believe that
the North are neatly unanimous in their in
tenton that such it shall be, and that they
time use it, The tactics Of the South are to
press the question to a speedy settlement, be-
cause they know that from Missouri and Ar
kansas, ten to twenty thousand nonresident
voters will be thrown into the country, at the
time of the decisive election, and that such
number will be sure TO carry the day. The
rumor of a Northern Aid Emigration enrages
them, and leads to more strenuous and reso-
| lutte measures than would have at first been
| thought of. 1t becomes the freemen of tho
| North, therefore, to be on the alert, to act
promptly III this matter of colOnizing Kansas,
| and to send on without delay reliable emil
! grants. From such information as l have been
able to gather, the preponderance Of senti-
favor OF a free State. But it is a decided ma
iority of Anti Slavery voters that we want
otherwise the victory is not secure.
Meanwhile, the town. makers and specula-
tors in eligible locations are not idle. The
men of Weston are busy with the building of
| the town of Leavenworth, two miles down
the river from the fort. But this word g build
| ing must not be taken in its fullest sense,
| for all the preparations that have been so far
completed, consist in the removal and destruc-
lion of the underbrush over several acres of
the site. The officers of the garrison are all
largely interested III the project. The shares
hundred dollars, according to the earnestness
Of the buyer and the cupidity of the seller.
The public sale of the house lots has been
several times deferred, but it is now under
stood that it will take place on the 9th of Oc-
tober. The first house that will be built will
contain the printing rooms of The Kansas
Herald, which will be issued as soon as pos
sible after the 20th of September. The paper
being a protege of S. A Douglas, will be
Democraticin politics and tinged with Pro-
Slaveryism. Another paper, The Kan,as
Pioneer, is also soon to be issued in Leayen-
worth.
The ordinary dullness of this little garrison
town has been of ate somewhat relic, ed by
the assembling of officers and nen designed
FL the re. enforcement of the troops in New
Mexico. About 100 men of the dragons
and artillery, under the command Of Major
Grier. will start for Santa Fe Tomorrow.
The recent deaths OF Lieuts. Van Buren, and
Maxwell in Indian conflicts have caused
some sensation here, where they We're well
known and esteemed.
The Governor of Kansas will be here on
The 9th of October. 1t is supposed thas he
will take up his residence at the town. though
how he will fancy that rough mode Of life re-
mains to be seen. 1t is certain that he can
find no good permanent lodgings at the fort,
and his staying here woald be only by the
courtesy of the commanding officer. The
number of Office seekers already in Kansas is
great Conspicuous among them are the
candidates for Delegate in Congress. 1t is
rumored that Senator Atahison, if defeated
in his contest for re- election in Missouri, will
remove himself and fortunes to this side of
the river. ED.