The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-08-04
What is Wrong 2

1 the famous city of Lawrence-the paper
city-the most miserable place in the
ITerritery." -.
Mr. p. has a right to his own opinion,
and We have no objections to his telling
it, but it would afford us pleasure to know
on what he bases his conclusions. He
never was here, and can know nothing of
Ius, or the place, pefsonally.-Kaasas
Herald efzEreedens.
Our remarks about Lawrence were
entirely from hcarsay. Since then we
have seen several persons from that city
and Trey all tell the same story. But
before We proceed further. let us bring
S. B. Whiting, of Richiand county, O.,
ION the Stand. In leticr freni Iowa city,
May 18th, he says:
Il look hack at Kansas city for Law
renee ely; night overlook Us. and ne
! slept on. The iioor Of an Indian cabin with
out bed clothes of any Kind next morn
ing rode ten miles to Blue Jackets; and
paid fifty ceuts for The poorest meal /
ever ate; arfired q. Lawrence, and stop
ped at the GREAr HORN, Large enough
70 accommodate two hundred people, -
laeeordiag 10 an advertisement IN the
papers aud behold house twenty by
thirty. two stories, rough frame. rough
boards sup and down Tor weather board
ing, floors of rough boards thrown down
loosely; sand no chairs, tables or bed
stcads about Tic house that L could see. ;
Most Of the houses in Lawre1lce ale built
of sodS; water in the river about foot
deep. &c
/ What dslectable place that scily, must
BE- Mud novels, and no chairs, tables
Eor bedstsads about that mammoth hotel
where lols,crs are compelled 10 pay sew
enty7 live cents for sleeping on Che rough
boarfs-tl,e l9dger 10 furnish. his own
Ehlankets, or 60 without But LET Us hear
Dir. Whiting -dilate still further OH the
beauties of Kansas. lie SAYS
At Lawrence met several returning.
ihat had been above Fort Riley. did not
like the country, nearly starved, paid a
dollar for bite TO eat, and a dollar for
sleeping on the ground under a tent. and
were completely disgustsd with the coun-
Try, and every thing in it. l concluded
| it was not worth my while to suffer and
spend money to go any further returned
in the same hack that i went out in. Ny
reasons for not locating in Kansas are,
the Indians own the best part of the
land ,-and thatis closest to market. 1t is
destitute of timber and water"
We don't know but we should take
back at least that portion of the statement
wherein We made Lawrence the most
miserable place in the Territory. There
is one neexception, and that is the far famed
Council City, on The Sants Fe road, where
al least S2O. 900 worth, of Getty lots
have been sold at 50 each-alI of which
remain unoceupied-With just one excep-
tion-and that occupant is starving to
death, and destined to be- lonely man
fol. aye. With the above exception Law
renee is.the greatest '.humbug' city in
Kansas. ss.--and che papers there are owned
at the east, while the editors are hired to
stay in Kansas, ON purpose to concoct
large stories about the promised land, =
that emigrants at the east may be attract
ed there to occupy somebody's city lots ;
More anon. = Wes.feld, 1Nass:, News
Letter.
Our friend PoRTEn comedies in his first
sentence, by way of rejoinder, that he
had no information at the time of writing
his letter from Westport, Mo-, but hear
say" but since then he has .'seeil several
persons from that city, and they all tell
the same story" What is that but hear
say evidence, friend Porter, thepublie be-
ing Jurors ? and may not those persons be
interested individuals ? or, worse yet,
are they not some Of those homesick pio-
aeers who came hereearly in the spring,
and.because they did not find a city rival
ing Boston in population and wealth,
came to the conclusion that it was no
great eity. and left the country in disgust
Perhaps they were in i'll health, and, like
yourself, could see nothing as it was, but
turned away from the most lovely ceun-
try heaven ever smiled upon. calling it
everything but what it should be for the
abode of man.
You Introduce a writer whose yeracity
is questionable, after reading his state
Enaent about our .'great hotel" as he is
pleased to term it. There, has been no
advertisement. in any paper of hotel
in this region capable of holding ''two
hundred persons" neither has there been
any statement made by any of the papers,
letter writer's, or any body else ola build
ing of that character. The Emigrant
Aid Company. at an early period in the
winter, did contemplate getting their ho-
tel ready by the first of May. and so con-
traeted with their werkmen.: but the do
ing up of good Jobs on short notice in
kansas was found to be an impossible
task. and the lime of its completion was
deferred. They are now doing their best
ito get j. ready in time for the fail ennigra-
ton, but our own impression is that il
cannot possibly be finished earlier than
the first of. October
4 Mr.. Porter may be wise man in the
east. but here in Kansas, he would BE-
considered very silly for using such lau.
gasge as he-sloes about our embryo city
i which he delights in ridisufag.
I. Did Mr. p suppose that palaces wert
to be built in region Fifty miles distan'
! from former settlements. IN the eshors space
of six months 2 Mud c:;b;ns. he seem,
i to think. are horrid affairs Poor fellow
q We wonder how he escaped from th,
s country With his life We have had NJ
, building in Lawrence which We have ye
8 digaifed'by the name of kefsi, on III.
|. contrary. buildings for the rseeptsoaso o
ffrzrals.-S .s,.rs1 t.s,, y