The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-24

upon the rivers and saser courses, VINO ! sIe y.r
dsnuy oosted with tees, fon one 50 saree mites {,
rolling prairie Lies spread around re SEA Of asa
doEe. TIE timber Is mixture OF oak, hickory
black walnut, elm, cheryy, LOCUST, d., &c; tai
Cd, ubbtry SCARCE but beautiful consisting OF vii
Win Growth Of most beautiful w g. and grsod !,
the bfLlancy Of the stars The soil ID rich aud ter
tile, from three to ten feet deep. and generally c,m
posed OF rich bla mou d. Il produces in abundance
wheat, corn, and many other c0mmodisie,, tcgeth j
with sweet potatoes. Horses, cattle scd hogs
though of intssi0r breed are toisssby uleasy, ana
raise 6emseives By grazing In the vast prx,ries Ia
summer. and feeding In the bottoms In winter
RE hens and turkeys, which are ABUNDANT.
There is breeze continually blowing on this
pya're, which presents mosquitos from staying
about In these parts. The roads along tao praiciss
lsvel as the Third avsnus, and ntera otei now ADD
then with little k00lls, which you would not cal
hills, and In fac. horses North would not think
OF walking up them. AN farmers admit that the
rsrinE stock particularly. I think have now de-
Ecr;Sed the land, and can only add chat as regards
ste land as TO qua ity, 20 far a. see there IL no
oumbug. The objection 10 most parts 10 the want
OF coed water and timber Yet e. regards tue water
We muat wait I'LL the settlers have dug wells. & ),
AZ regards wood, of which there s q scarcity, ma
lure seems to have provided COAL which. FIR, what
lisls he's been seen Of tie country is here In great
plenty.
As I have rsid before, we started ia an OK cart,
and we travelled over this beautiful prairie; the wa
gcn or cart being covered protected "a from the sun
snd BY opening the back No had sreszs conttou-
ally playing through. This was the most delight
tua tide ever had; We made sb,ut TIRES miles psr
hour. All the company seemed to be In high giee;
tie chile rem were scsmpelirg ever the prairie, col
i.cting Wild flowers; In fact i was Impossible f,r
Indian log house; the Indians lad all gone to war
dance, and the hoOie was left with negro slave,
who gave us some corn bread and ham, and We ad led
pIeiise hers which shot On the way After dim q
to find out how We wore &c sleep. there being but
one room In the house. there could be no quarselog
about that. Their being two beds, my family had
one. the rest took the other bsd and floor. By
crceslng my family sideways in bed, with our
feet on the dining table, We managed all to
get in. TIE slave intimated that il the To-
dians came home In the night they might
be sIpna ;.,a and IN all probability ugly g We eas
laid dswn. All went on well through the ntgot
except that more travellers ked 70 be accomuo-
dated with lodgings, permission being granted
them to sleep under tbs ssed. In the moyniug We
and We passed the same description Of country o.
have already noted.
We arrived at the city of Lawrence about dark.
We were ushsred into q house called hotel, the
only one IN the pla,e. It bad about one hundred
guests at tes which consisted of tea, Bread no but
Ter, ham ard molAasos. Board one dollar per day.
After tea we were told tina. we could not be
Use ou;s ws a but 4 We chose
cculd futnlsh US with nothing ex ep. the table
cloth, which We were Welcome to use rs o
snees. Having 20 other alternative, we were
LETT IN possession oo q sns dining table to
blanket and tAsn tbs sheet or table CLOTH turned
In on toe dining tGbe On the seooad flo,r aoova
Us they bad no bedSteadP, but there were hunks
built up five tier high. like an emigrant ship; In
a m fr.YIt ShBa rnalrs
bur ks ~ aocr contain in one room about 100 per.
cons fhe lumber contained in the building was cut
IN TIE forenoon and the building put up IN the after
noon OF same day 80 you can judge of the quality #
times OF Adam and Eve, ne where all startled by q
man sir ging out that thsrs twas d. 4 big soake ia
bis ped' You kro v that was enough for me; I made
one jump cut of bed, ard liz ON something soft,
which believed was q snake .ancied SCAT
1t was, as the heel Of mn foot, 1 though, smash.
cd his bead. / sung out, "Here he 5; have
Killed him!" Thcse up stairs came rushing do n
seeking fer the snske, We found ro,hing but q
hort Ink Of sausage, which bad been left on
tie dining tsble, and probably kicud CT By some
Of us in the right After enj ,yirg tne joke, mQcn
who raised the aIaIm up stairs, and who vors that
there was no mistake about his saako, proposed
that we should examine for liz and stssr ex imlniug
biz bunk found that his fellow bunker bad placed
bis cane in bed between teen, fearing soma ons
might take 1t in the morning before he wss up. It
wss one Ct those canes you see every day Ia New
York, with dog 'stead, with crooked neck, eyes,
ears and teeth. This proved TO be chr friends
one to bis bed. After getting in bad It com
merced thundeiirg and lightaing,. (Which is
done up brown in this part Of the cou1-
tIy), and at each fash you could see distinctly
green when put up, had warped SO much thai you
could almost run your head through the cracks, the
house lot having laih or plaster. No windows in .he
house, only trown sheetlDg nailed over where the
stairs we're soaked cut, and after that We all got Il
below. obtained an umbrella, ana held 1t over my
child,sn ard wife until tie shower WAS OYER. Az
dsyiight in the morning we were requested to get
our bed IS the breakfast table. objected t, this,
until the boy upset cup Of coffee on my foot when
concluded the place was getting too hot, and got
up. After breakfast, which was but repetition of
cur tea and fellow srsyes took so ssSr
city OF Lawrence is situated on the Kan
sss river, about 100 miles up. This river is
rayigable up here one month In the year. Toe city
9 ntairs about dozen frame houses Of miserable
tie place. and the resi- about thirty are mud huts,
built Of scds and mud. You probably have seen
picture CT small HCttentot village II You have,
peer miserable saw mill. The day left thsre, two
more mills or the machinery for Ehem was arm ring
in town. TIE water was very poor, and to get II,
the landlord tells me. be goes about mile and o
h. II. Tho lumber ecarce, mostly Gotten wood,
they are now putting up sno buildings Of stone Ia
this place. which, frt m present appearances, look
as If they might be something when finished. One
ia intended as q hotel. There is also three print
ing offices, or three newspapers, (thc population not
ever 600) These papers cannot MAKE enou 90
TO pay the printers DEVILS beard Of one paper.
There il NO doubt that these papers are 81 ,Doted
by the aboltiorsts of tie East as the editors have
SLo an, "a ~ bc;p fad the puhc ayo.noc To
conclude with this town, lots sell fr $500. There
were about dozen Yankees who staytei this town
or city as it is called with the intention of making
their fortunes I. Jet remains to be eeen how they
will succeed. The three newspapers in toe place
ans only irten6ed to stir up tho feelings Of the pub
lie sgsrst the slave States and also to puff up their
city lots which a. present hotbeds for disease.
In fact the whole affair at the present time Ia not
ft for white man to show his head In.
left tits place for I6avsnworth city THIS place
rris1a mana than CITY have aann IN