Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-05-17
FROM KANSAS.
Correspondence oftae ST Louis Republiczr,
WHtTRasAp, KANSAS TERRIroRY,)
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! WHtTRasAp. KANSAS TERRgroRY3
May LIST, 1855. !
Grateful rain-drops are now patterlng
Fin liquid music, on my cabin root. They
seine as rninistsrng angels to perishing
world. The parched earth looks up refresh
cd and glad, aud the wihered trees and
shrubs, unfolding their myriad nantes Of
bright green, are tremulous with joy. have
I ALWAYS loved TO hear the sound OF summer
rains failing upon house-tops. II has the
sweet and smoothing influence OF low har-
monies. II brings with itmemories OF child
hood. when our happy little homegrown,
driven in from the yard, would gather in the
garrett OF the old country mansion and tell
our PRETTY fairy tales. or listen % the nurses
ghost stories and wild Indian legends and
nlso OF that youth-time, when Tar away
from home in the attic dornitory Of the
/ boarding school, it would dispel all care,
ana calm nv thoughts, and murmur me TO
/ sleep 80 quietly, that | would dream my
saiuted mother came and sang to me again.
! in her sweet soft voice, the lu lnbies OF in
fancy,
When am alone, my tears inevitably
fall, in sympathy with spring and summer
showers; aud they refresh my heart, as
the showers do the earth.
Fer long time it has been warm and
dry. anl high winds hare blown contnual-
r., until the streams had almost ceased %
flow along their channels, and vegetation
looked languishing and dying. The rain
whish begun yesterday and still continues
to fall, though only in occasional snrink-
lincs, is reviving all nature, inanimate aud
animate. We shall now be able to plant
our corn with the hope of an abundant crop;
and, in anticipation of the large increase
Of popslation during the year. there will be
. eres, deal planted. Many Of the farmers,
too. are bringing in nnmbefs Of hogs and
eattle. 90 - 10 be able to supply any prob
able demand for provisions.
Immigrants are still arriving BY land and
water. Numbers are prospecting and taking
claims and building houses and blowing
fields and engaging in every employment
incident TO new country, and giving to It
a business appearance which has rarely
been equalled. You can no logger feel lone
ly in the forests, or upon the plains-yeu
meet persons everywhere. No longer is il
necessary to have an enduring horse 10 hear
yoa long distances to keep you from sleep
ing on the cold sod and being canopied only
BY the sky. Yen can walk al your leisure |
aud find hospitable roofs on every road to /
shelter and refresh you.
There are 70 be two weddings in this /
nsighborhood tonight Marriages are very t
frequent, and there are already good +
many native white kansasisns.
There are ONE few teams now getting
ready for California. EsoIlsH's train will /
c. Ia aaI
will consist Of some twenty men and six or /
eight hundred head Of cattle.
The course of the citizens OF Platte, in /
regard 10 PARK and PATTERSON and the /
Northern Methodist preachers, has been T
sanctioned BY large meeting the citizens
OF Clay county.
1t is wholly out of the question for Adolf /
tionists ever - get foat-hold here. HORACE
GREElEY and his hot-bruined, fanatic pack
may howl until they make the welkin ring,
to try to frighten us with the threat OF pour
ing one hundred thousand Fl snea [as he
calls them1 into Kansas. We do not be-
lieye word oft. We think there are not
that many sensible Free Sellers in the whole
country who would desire, under the cir
camstanccs, to come 10 Kansas +; and a.
for the victims of the Aid Society, they are
getting OFT Of it fast enough TO spread the
news ct home Ii time 10 prevent any Of their
neighbors from being duped BY the same
triang, selfish and II a herous organization,
We are glad 10 see good men here from
every quarter. We would welcome honest
citizen from New York and Massachusetts,
as readily and heartily as from any other
portion o. our country. Wewould hail such
msn our countrymeu and brothers.
Bat the managers of the Aid Society and
their base tools would find the atmosphere
OF Kansas very uncongenial, indeed, so
warm that they would hasten back 10 catch
the Atlantic bteezes to cool them off. They
could not exist in it, tell them the truth
wien tell them so. and If they doubt il,
as Mr.. GREELEY would seem inclined 10 do,
jest let them come and try il. woul in
vte Mr GREELEY especially and psrti-u-
larr, as he seems 10 lie so-t champion
Of the tresmsn, praclaiming to them, with
confidence, the glorious benefits and grow
ing delights that they would find in home
in this new land of fertile plains. and crys-
tsl springs, and balmly air, to come and try
II himself. / aill warrant that if he is an
honest man, that he will advise no more
Aboitionists TO come here that he will tell
them he was mistaken that the soil is not
suited to Id air labor, nor the climate to their
constitutions. Il.
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