Kansas weekly herald., 1854-09-15

minutes the whole detachment, including
the fearless and determined GRATrAr were
slaughtered. Only one indian fell; he was
a chief-the great Bear. The remote but
certain cause of this melancholy affair, we
are assured, was the want of adequate mil
itary force at the garrison.
ia We. have information that Gov.
Reeder, and. the Territorial officers will
arrive in Kansas on or about the 9th Of
October.
g@ The crowded condition of our col
ums has compelled us to lay over notices
we had prepared, of our promising neigh.
bors, Atchison and Kickapoo city.
s@ We understand that the members
of the Leavenworth Association propose at
their public sales on the 9th October, to
dispose of a moiety only of their lots, and
to proceed on their own account with Inn
provements onsthe Remainder.
They will have, therefore, common in.
|terest with. the purchasers in the acquisition
of perfect title from the Government al
the earliest possible date. The Trustees
will be supplied with an ample capital, and
will use energetically all legitimate means
to accomplish this end.
As a farther pledge to purchasers of the
good faith of the Association, the Trustees
are required to keep the proceeds of public
sales of lots deposited with good security in
Saint Louis, until a perfect title is secured;
in default of which the money is to be re.
funded to purchasers.
(The characteristic energy and progress
iveness, of the American citizen, is no
where more strikingly exhibited, than a.
mon& the Western Pioneers. This field OF
operation being amply large enough. for a
full development of all the energies of mind,
and body, both are taxed to their utmost
extent, and every thing is made to yield,
to that uneonquerable spirit, which seems
to be part of the nature of every American,
and which, has so indelibly impressed it.
self upon every thing, we see around us.
1t annihilates time and space, surmouts ev-
cry obstacle, and accomplishes, the. most
herculean undertaking, with the same ra-
pidity and apparent ease, that the most
common, every day business affairs are dis
patched. Nothing appears to appal it, moth
ing too stupendous, to make it shy off, it
grasps every thing,. turns every thing to
advantage, and makes nature itself, yield
to, its indomitable perseverance, and run
as messenger, of its thought. Forest and
wilderness, alike disappear before its con-
tinual, and onward march, and cities, towns,
churches, schoolhouses, academies, and col
leges, spring up in their stead, as if by ma
gic, atsalfaAe Rll;sh actualIy ssishes ahe.
most progressive among Is. Railr6ads are
substissd yhe winding foot atk .of TIE
burde1sd pselI5R s and The iz9n steam
steedsis seen ase elsfng - banes track,
richly ladenswith cofnmerce,and the inex-'
haustible productions of the country, be
fore time has had chance. to obliterate the
moccasined foot prints, Of the original red
proprietors Of the soil. Such is fine case
with Kansas and such is the spirit which has
seized upon her and which IS destined ere
long to raise her 70 a position among her
5ister States which will be truly enviable IN
- highest degree. For ehat she viii be a
psate efsthis Glorious Union before twelve
ln1hths is a fixed fact. The mandate has
se forth from her FIVE thousand ffeenien
who hare already within the. last few
months planted tbeir vine and fig tree upon
Ter soil, and from the many thousands
more who are daily fecking within her bor-
aers, ake1a every portienof the Union to en-
10y the iine blessings Of free govern
ulent guarenteea 70 them BY the conssitr.-
Ijan. and recognized by the Douglas Kan
Nebraska bin ;and to secure for then-
Elyesaa home IA the most beautiful. fiellI
id ffsrtile coifnsry that the sun Of hesayssI]
khs ever shone upon