The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-07-08

these will be speedily occupied by settlers.
In the vicinity ofthc Fort are several very
ilourishing missions and manuai labor schools
several of which are described in this article.
In this precinct Of Fort Lcavcnworth, incu-
ding kckapoo, about 100 votes were pollcd
at the election for delegates to Washington,
and it is said that but very few of these were
cast by officers or soldiers of the Fort. Mis-
representations on this subject having been
made to the country by some Of those persons
who were opposed to the organization of Kan
Sa3 and Nebraska, it is just to truly state the
facts as given above.
Many omiglans here cross the Missouri,
but not 20 many as at the ferry at Weston,
four miles above. This is owing mainly to
the necessity of getting outfits at Weston,
which are not Of course obtainable at the
Fort, but when they have crossed they at once
take the road leading from Fort Icaycnworth
ME. This road, called the New MILITARY
Road, was constructed in 1870 by the Gov
crnmcnt, which caused it to be surveyed i'm
proved and brilgcd, and having since kept it
in good repair, it is called the best of the ON
igrant routes, being high, level. dry, with
fine grass and convenient water. The old
military road, into which the road from st.
Joseph enters, was abandoned On account of
the large streams swamps, barcus ard hills
and lis general c!Uokcdnt So. re Wc,toa
Reporter, in advising Cmig grants about to cross
the Il,inS, concerning Tic several routes, says
in rcE,rcdcc to the alyantag, Of " cston, that
they can come to that place as cheap on the
boats as to Independence, Kansas, or Parks
vile, and are Just as much further on their
journey when there: but when they travel
north Of that place they lose ground. The
new military road bearing northwest, eros
scS the Big Blue River Isl miles from Fort
lcavcnworth, and the st. Joseph road docs
not unite with it until within twenty miles of
that river. Hence, when you have Travelled
cup to ST. Joseph, with Il poorer market in
(which to ontiit, you are as far from tic
4" Blue as when at Weston, and have before
''you one hundred miles of uneven, crook eli,
"miry, uncascd for road indifferent grass
and large streams"
The following is Il comparative table of
distance bp these routes, in miles, from Fort
Lcavcnworth:
To the Big clue Miles To Fort Laramie Miles
By 70 1t l3l by new road jg3
| ia st, Joseph Via kancsyille
h hy r 1""r 49, y y rive. river s.
The following is a table of distances frc,n
the Fort to the Big Blue:
Miles. Miles
Salt Creek or Kick Grasshoppcr -
R"! PoS creek T'SiN 81 "rS@y ' creek i 81
Willow Brook Al Ncrnillion Is IO2
Mill Brook ~ Big Blue % i3l
Kickapoo Village is on the Missouri River
about four miles above Fort Lcavenworth,
and is of note from its having been the place
Of Convention held September 90 1853,
whch made the arrangements for the cleo
ton ola delegate to Washington to urge upon
Congress the organization of the new Tcrrito-
rics Of Nebraska and Kansas. 1t was not
held at Fort Leavcnworth for the reason that
ii was deemed desirable that the dcmonstra
ton should not appear to have the countc-
nance or cooperation Of the officers and sol
diers attached to that fort. There is but one
trading house in the village: and the mission
now occupied by the Rev. Mr.. Grover has no
school attached to it, but he is anxious to
commence one. The kickapoo tribe has
made considerable progress in agriculture
many Of them have comfortable houses; a.
round which may be seen gardens, numerous
domestic animals, fowls. ETC.: and these with
other indications of civilization, form pleas
ing contrast with the condition of the other
tribes within the great Ncmahaw Agency.
The Iowa and Sac Mission and School is
situated about 2G miles northwest from st.
Joseph, Mo-, on the cmigrant road from that
place, and 2 miles north of Wolf (Loup)
creek, a small tributary of the Missouri Riv-
er, from which it is 4 miles distant. The
Mission is said to have been established as
carly as 1887, but the school was not opened
till the summer of 1856, and was not fairly
in operation until 1917. In that year the
number Irregular scholars averaged "a, and
in 1858, Al. 1t was founded by the Rev.
VIM. Hamilton and the Rev. S. NJ. Irwin of
the Presbyterian Church, and both Of these
missionaries were constantly engaged togcth-
cr in its management until 1853 when the
former took charge of the school at Bellevue
in Nebraska. The Missior-Ilouse is a spa
cious brick cdificc and cost $4,000. The
farm contains lis acres, more than half of
this is used for raising crops Of grain, &c.
Several assistants are employed in the school,
which is composed of two departments for
the respective sexes, the girls being taught
by Miss Sarah Rea, and the boys by James
Williams, young gentleman, a native of
England. The entire school was formerly
taught by Miss s. A. Waterman, who was
connected with it from its organization to
1858. Miss Rca here taught for part of
1852 school ofwhitc pupils only-children
of the missionaries and persons resident at
the Indian Agency, Great Ncmahaw, which