The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-05-26

Ingine'rs that measured FIVE years ago
didn't want the road J; so they made out
a great bill. But its made part o. the
way an ha'nt cost quarter what them
fellers sed 'twould."
But it will be hard jobto cut through
the Mountains.
"Not so hard as We think for. Ant
there a place in Varmont where the hills
are split to let the Railroad in
Z Yes, at Montpelier the Green Noun
tains are cleft apart and the Railroad has
a beautiful passage way.
.Wal ther'ssa .Mont-pale-yer in the
Stony Mountains. we cum d right thru it
when we cum'd from Californy. An
ther's no tellin how many sich places
there be in them Mountains-they ha'nt
been searched all thru yit, Mister"
But eastern capitalists on'thelp build
your road if You are going to trade in
San Francisco instead of New York and
Boston.
"Don't ye believe that; folk will put
their money where they git good pay for
it, whether it helps his neighbor or moi"
But if every body raises corn who is
to buy?
.tOh never mind, no danger; when !
was boy father sot out to go to Ohio,
but he was told that corn sold for ten
cents busbel out there, an one could mt
git money tu pay taxes with. Now theirs
a hundred times as much corn crowd as
then, an it ant sold for ten cents nither.
| seed in the paper tother day that they
was raisin' cotton in Ingy. Now they'll
wantsomethin' tu eat; an then who knows
but them are Jappane'rs will want sum of
our corn yit.
'1'll tell what, Mr.. Stranger, the east
ern States have gottu feed Yurrup, an the
western States have got to feed Ashy,
that's it, ye'd better believe it.
The farmer, seeing / was about start
ing, said -
"I'se sorry ye're. goin, but when ye
wants to write me, direct to Levi Live
easy, Plentiful township, Total-absti-
nence county, State of Kansas, US. A."
Some week after my return | took up
the HERALD of FREEDOM, and read the
following =
Extract from Liverpool paper, da-
ted October 1st The Steamer Western
World arrived from Lawrence in the
State of Kansas, U. S. of n. A, after a
passage of twenty days. She is loaded
with -four, and we are informed by the
super-cargo that not a single barrel Of
it is over twenty-four days DID,"
1t had been found that the navigation
of the Kansas had in some places been
rendered unsafe, in consequence of the
freshets working the sand into the chan.
mel. | prepared. a petition to Congress
for an appropriation to wall both banks Of
the Kansas from Fort Riley to its juno
ton with the Missouri: At the same
time l drew up petition to have the seat
of Government removed to the State ot
Kansas, in which limited that the re-
moyal of the Capitol midway from the
Atlantic to the Pacific might prevent g
separation of the western from the east
ern States.
| obtained several thousand signatures
to the latter, but not single one to the
former, except my own even the mem
Der from our own district refused to pre-.
sent it, lest it might endanger the appro
Ipriation; and l forwarded it to Mr.. II
from New Hampshire. Both petitions
were duly presented and referred.
| Thecommitte on internal improvement:
reported an appropriation for the Kansas
river; but Oh the question of adopting
the report Mr.. A. from New York, said i
there were any people on earth that de
served the well wishes of the country
those people were the first settlers of Kan
sas, and he should cheerfully vote for the
appropriation; but he feared it might bt
throwing away the public money, as HI
understood the project was headed by
the very man who had petitioned to have
| the Capitol removed to the State of Kan
sas. That man must be fool or h,
was insane.
/ Mr.. II. from New Hampshire arose t.
reply to Mr.. A.; and said that as he hat
ipresented the petition for the removal @
the seat of Government. it was prope
| for him to remark, that he was opposd t.
| the removal but, as he held to the righ
Iof petition, and as it come from an oil
friend, he had presented it. As to tn
petitioner it was not the first time he hat
been called fool and insane-he him
tself had so considered him, and yet, tn,
petitioner had lived long enough to se
| the whole community, myself among tn
number, as insane as the petitioner ha,
| been, and on the same subjeet-anti-sla
very. But he would say to the gentle
| man of New York, that there were seve
raj thousand signers to the petition for tn
| improvement in the navigation of tn
Kansas river. So
| The appropriation was passed, and
substantial wall now stands on each sid
of the river to keep back the sands.
The removal of the seat of Govern
Iment was fairly before the people. Th
subject was never more to sleep till th
Capitol was removed to some point neare
the centre of the Union than its presen
location.
i The people of Ohio were clamorous fo
Cincinnati, as that was near the centre q
1.-THE population. The Missourians and tn
slaye-holding States bordering on th
|. Mississippi. were for st. Louis. At on
session of Congress. a bill passed th
!, Senate removing the seat of Gosernner
} TO st. Louis. The House now coneurrec
5 northern Members declaring it shoul
not be removed to slave State.
Il In themeantime the great railroad ha
iprogsessed until the telegraph amour
Iced thata train from the east partof Main
had started to meet train at the Rock
Mountains from San Francisco, Califorr
{ Ia The two trains met at the appointe
iplace, the great men of the nation vel
) there, and the President of the Unite
3 States holding bottle of water from Il
Bay Of Fundy In one hand, aud q bott
of water from the Bay of San Francise
j IN the other says, here on the summit
) the Rocky Mountains Iuiingle the wats
, Iof the Atlantic with those Of the Pscifi