Kansas weekly herald., 1855-05-25
FROM KANSAS.
or Fort Leavenworth.
nee of the Republican.

WHITEHEAD, KANSAS IERRITORV,f
May 1st, 1855.
For long time it has been warm and
dry, and high winds have blown continual
ly, until the streams had almost ceased to
flow along their channels, and vegetation
looked languishing and dying. The rain,
which begun yesterday and still continues
to fall, though only in occasional sprinklings,
is rev;ving all nature, inanimate and ami
mate. We shall now be able to plant our
corn with the hope of an abundant crop;
and, in anticipation of the large increase in
population during the year, there will be
great deal planted. Many of the farmers,
too, are bringing in numbers of hogs and
cattle, so as to be able to supply any proba-
BILE demand for provisions.
Immigrants are still arriving by land and
water. Numbers are prospecting and tax
ing claims and building houses and blowing
fields and engaging in every employment
incident to a new country, and giving to it
a business appearance which has rarely
been equalled. You can no longer feel
lonely in the forests, or upon the plains
you meet persons every where. No longer
is it necessary to have an enduring horse to
bear you long distances to keep you from
sleep on the cold sod and being canopied
only by the sky. You can walk at your
leisure and find hospitable roofs on every
road to shelter and refresh you.
There are to be two weddings in the
neighborhood tonight. Marriages are very
frequent, and there are already good ma
ny native white Kansasians.
There are some few trains now getting
ready for California. English's train viii
start from St. Joseph, Mo-, this week. 1t
will consist of some twenty mea and six
or eight hundred cattle.
The course of the citizens Of Platte, in
regard to Park and Patterson and the North
ern Methodist preachers, has been sane
toned by large meeting of the citizens Of
Clay county.
1t is wholly out of the question for Abo-
litionists ever to get foot-hold here. Ho-
race Greely and his hot-brained, fanatic
pack may howl until they make the welkin
ring, to try to frighten US with the threat of
pouring one hundred thousand freemen Gas
he calls them) into Kansas. We do not
believe word of it. We think there are
not that many sensible Free Soilers in the
whole country who would desire. under the
circumstances, to come to Kansas; and as
for the victims of the Aid Society, they are
getting out of it fast enough to spread the
news at home in time to prevent any Of
their neighbors from being duped by the
same thing, selfish and treacherous organi-
zation. We are glad to see good men here
from every quarter. We would welcome
honest citizens from New York and Mas
sachusetts as readily and heartily as from
any other portion of our country. We
would hail such men as our countrymen
and brothers. But 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 to catch the Atlantic breezes to cool
them off. They could not exist in it. l
tell them the truth when tell them so, and
if they doubt it, as Mr.. Greeley would seem
inclined to do, just let them come and try
it. would invite Mr.. Greeley especially
and particularly, as he seems to be a sort
of champion of the freem.en, proclaiming to
them. with confidence. the glorious benefits
and growing delights that they would find
in home in this new land of fertile plains,
and crystal springs, and balmy air, to come
and try it himself. will warrant that if
he is an honest man. that he will advise no
more abohtionists to come out here; that he
will tell them he was mistaken; that the
soil is not suited to their labor. nor the eli
mate to their constitutions. I.