New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-21
From THE KANSAS FRONTIER

A correspondent Of The Missouri Republicans. sto.
after spending some time in Kansas has returned TO de
Missouri side of tho boundary writes thence as follows
G, ,c,,,. No.. Saturday Aug ;. 1874.
In nv rides through the Uouu;.:s Of Platte
and Buchanan, | notice that the crops appear gpoi,
s ne drouh The farmers you know hsye the privilege
If sTumblng aud they not backward ia exercising 70
whatever the season may be. Manufacturing the draw.
back of dry weather the crops WI" cav more asmp
bv very large quantity, was sowed ths year In fstte
County than in any preceding one and tnnk the same
nav be said of Buchanan. In the Grand RIVER country
the wells and springs have anost en.Ieiy uleu a sna
the farmers are suffering most serious there
from So scarce is the supply OF water thar the generally
hospsbe inhabitants Of that region but grudgngy allow
the traveller to water his thirsty nag az their doors What
pity this northwestern region Of state were not bet
ter waterod detachment Of the HANNIBAL and st. 10
stph Railroad Company employee who have been alta
toned at the " Elk Knobs, having been unable to do
ANYTHING since the of July owing of water
rived here last evening looking ,hsty possible
As wrote you before. nearly every man here has oc@
ted claim in ksnsas. Some have put up cabins,
few tents but the great majority have merely made what
they call their mark, that is, have barked two
with their and the date of their claim. They them
each pay fifty cents TO person appointed by themselves
to register their claims in book Kept for the pnpose
and the various sQuatter associations in different nohbo
hoods agree to allow intruder to jump claim th1s
registered.
Among the sauatters around and about Fort Lesvor.
woyh principally citizens Of Weson there to be
considerable excitement in regard TO allowing persons
from the free States to IN among them, and fer
hare been h0tt6d through short order. Yet In short
time this will all have subsidized aud each he allowed
his rights whatever they may be- The Polar Star brought
up her last trip, thrifty emgrants from the North
sad be the advance guard of the Massachusetts Emf
grafton Society," whom She landed at or in the neghbor
hood of Kansas and few uras have gone into Mysteries
on the subject yet general thing 1t excited bu little
public attention Along the various streams and timbered
regions day after day the squars rather those intend
ing to squst may be galloping back aud forth
horseback and mule back, land had almost said
back cleimbuntng, and looking the most perfect pic
lures Of Frontersmen. The souutry wherever IL for set
Element will settle up rapidly yet in year from now
but few of those who in the Territory will have
claims" there. The claims slong the Missouri Riyes
have generally been taken up by Mssourians who seem
10 be spectators who, ii actual settlers will se out
at the first good offer. Up here they deny the joke told
on them thnt they keep tied At the ferry and that
whenever strange emigrant wishes to the river
they ask him what kind Of an animal u.s. and il he says
"cov they let him pass but If Ike o.w they judge
bim Yankee, and keep him out | myself AN more
than half inclined 10 believe the story.