Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-11-10
Kansas....Leucr from MRS. Nichols

kansas.".Letter from Mrs. Nichols
From the keene, N. H., sentincl
LANE. OrrAwA, DisTRicT, X. T.,
October 9th, 1865.
Il did not discontinue my correspondence fot
the Sentinel for any other reason but inability
10 write and discharge my duty to my family
The Injury that Mr.. Nichols received in June
and from which be only partially recovered, kept
him an invalid, needing nurses care until his
death the Goth Of August lie was seriously
III only days, sudden cold resulting in infla-
nation, &c. OuE little son was proslraled BY
inflammation on the brain, in consequence of a
hickory rail from the "bars" falling on his head
For three weeks was exceedingly anxious on
his account, and he had but jus, begun 10 reeoy-
er when his father died. Scarcely was he GU,
OF doors, when my second son who lived with
US, was taken i'll with the "chil fever" four
hired man had been down with il the 2sth of
August, and left his work. A week has suf
iered to get him out Of doors again, and now
(ihe tenth day. he is well and doing the chores
which neighbours son had done Tor US during
his Illness. My eldest son has but jus, com
menced igb, work. having been i'll two months
with ague lie nigh, have escaped this, had
he not been ignorant Of the fact that he had low
remiitent fever. and kept 10 work Two weeks do
ing nothing for his health.
1t has been quite sickly all through The Ter
Itofy since the long Is days. storm, in August.
think there have not been more deaths 10 pro-
norfion In aha - prD-
tracted illness. have been very few in proper
ton to the sick. one day down, and the next
day, or day after, up at work, has been the
al course Feyer--a lish, bilious fever, has
been the disease mos, prevalent, and ii is very
easily managed. have seen and heard Of bot
little of what has heen called ''iever & ague."
A slight chillness, followed by fever, which
profuse perspiraiion carries of in few hoursio
return again--unless arrested By medicine--ihe
mex, OF succeeding day. The disease is prop
erly "remilleni fever and the majority ofihose
no have il keep at light work during the re-
missions and say they get rid of it the sooner
| have come 10 the conclusion that the disease
Of the climate, If it be such-and it is evident
/ ly induced by most unusual seasons far less
to be dreaded than the continuous fevers Of the
East. The settlers do not regard the presen,
as a specimen season Of Kansas, but an eastern
season imported We Learn that the season has
been unusually prolific Of sickness all through
the Western states. Missouri is suffering from
ague and chill fever as she has never suffered
before. The whole belt Of country in ''Ihe
west" affected by the severe drought Of last
season, is unusually sickly this. The reasons,
as hear 'old inhabitants" of new countries
give them, are the hcayy rains in the warn
season, coming upon an unprecedently heavy and
luxurient growth ofcrops. Settlers and travel.
lers familiar with life ia the western provinces
! say they never saw such heavy growth Of grass
, as the season has produced IN Kansas and 81
Of the crops. Sod corn is marvel to look at
Melons and tomatoes, the mos, delicious | eve
saw, have rotted by the bushel and CARLOAD il
our field after supplying all around who had no
1 planted for themselves.
7 | have written you principally about the hedh
@ of the territory, because know many are ex
, ceedingly anxious on this point. am nor
than ever of the opinion that Kansas will be
: genial climate 10 It's inhabitants. Had we bee
: exposed to the weather and restriction in our die
in New England, as we have been here, we {
: mean the emigrants generality would nearly al
b have died, and the rest fingered on broken il
G health and spirits. The weather has been col
: and fine, unusually cold for the season, say tn
r older seIilers-and last night and night befor
there was heavy frost. The sick are all re
!. covering and cheenulness reigns. Sharp's ri
# aes are in all our cabins, and Kansas freedom
c sworn upon all our domestic affairs.
c. |. II. NIcHoLs.
X p. S. expect TO return East in about tw
Il weeks, and will probably spend the winter iher
y as navigation will doubtless close before coul
d dispose of the business matters which call me
: way. My address will be "Townshend, w.
II may be well for me to notice through you
paper, as see by an editorial slip of the Spring
o field Republican that my reputation for "soun
j doctrine" is in danger-lhat am not the at
: thor Of "Mary Lyndon" which the Repubica
(, says is being accredited to me by the press
: The book was written by Mrs Mary Cove Nicl
OILS (wiie of DR.. Nichols) now of New Yorl
II formerly Of Lynn, Mass. No person famlia
+ with my views Of matrimony and christianit,
II would over suspect me Of being the author Of
4 work which oulraees the sanclty of both an
J only the most criminal carelessness could hay
It connected my name with ii, as Mrs Nichols Ia
/ attached her name to the work, in full Adv,
/ eating as she does sentiments revolving to ever
christian sense Of morality and decency, | cal
= not but regret that my late contemporaries
6 the press, should by confounding me with he
+ place me in SO equiSocal position before ii
y public, Glib.