Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-07-08
KANSAS TERRITORY.
FROM THE CHICAGO DEnocaArIo PRESS

We yesterday had conversation with a very intel-
gent gentleman of this city who has returned from Kan
after absence Of several weeks Every thing in
relation to that Territory specially interesting
and we present such facts remember, hoping
readers will be favored with detailed account Of
his observations in few days.
He travelled up the Kansas rivers hundred and
twenty miles, and says that the soil is very rich and pro-
ductive and the country exceedingly beautiful Along
the river extending for few miles each side the
try dcnsely tmbered and also the borders Of
the small streams which empty in the river from either
side On leaving the margins of the streams the country
is high rolling prairie The soil good but the want Of
timber and water viii be found serious drawback TO the
rapid settlement of that portion of the Territory The
climate while he there bracng and healthy, but
those who reside in tho country complain that it is very
fuctuatng and changeable.
The Shawnee Indians the territory the south
side Of the Kansas for two hundred miles west of the
Missouri Our informant says they very consider
ably advanced in civilization and that he very
fortaby entertained while travelling among them They
devote their attention to agriculture and many Of them
have large and very fine farms The growing crops give
promise Of abundant harvest Our friend assures as
that the husbandry of these Indians will compare very
faVoraby with that Of their neghbors in Missouri They
appear not little uneasy and restless under the passage
Of the Territorial BILL Many them have been cherishng
the hope that ere long they would be endowed by Con-
gress with the rights Of citizenship They Dress live,
and act like white people, and declare their determine
ton not to sell their lands any consideration whatever
The Delawares occupy section of country the
north side Of the Kansas, not unlike in it's main charac
teristios that owned by the Shawnees delegation had
just returned from Washington, and it understood
that they entered into spulao6s to sell all their terri
tory with the exception of reservation fronting ten miles
upon the Missouri river and extending forty miles bnck
into the country The reservation includes all the nha
bted portion of their territory The treaty had not yet
been signed but Che preliminary arrangements for it had
all been made The Deawares also living mostly in
dwellings, though they not intelligent and far
advanced in civilization as the Shawnees.
The emigrants pouring into the Territory in great
numbers but according to the laws of the United States
rather the treaties of the Government with the Indians
they not permitted to remain there. The Indian
title the lands is not yet extinguished and when
friend left Fort Leavenworth the United States Marshal
engaged with posse driving the squatters and emf
grants out Of the Territory Many however, push
ing onward beyond the Fort the borders Of the great
plains where they hoped to be beyond the reach of the
Marshal The country is not yetopen to settlement and
be till the Indian title is extinguished This will
| no doubt be effected as rapidly as possible.
The which the officers Of the Government feel
bound to pursue producing much eeling among the
emigrants They hardy and enterprsing, and seem
determined each for himself to pre-occupy large slice
Of this and valuable territory Desperate efforts
being made by the Misourian to induce shareholders to
60 there but the balance Of the feeling is against it
Many Of the most intelligent shareholders admit there
| no chance for them.