New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-22

By the settlers Themselves u Is called Council CT,
/ II h on the road from Fort Leaveuw.Ftn 20 Santa
and nearly thousand persons are Settle Jus, eroun
! this little city--snen who own fsrms-ameuea
/ citizens, from the Nortl-men who expect :
stay there. I'm that town tso most impcr
ant things for that country are provided, 81"
| mill and grist-uill. IL Is an iInmense aIpounf Q
iaior to build log-house. But when Sere is saw
mill man can 60 and buy 600 feet OF lumber To-
400 or 800 then he can plant two posts in .be grouI
some ten or twelve feet high and put strip scross 10,
the ridge-poe dig cccple OF bitches at the size, and
lean his boards up from ihem the ridgepois; then
railing few boards acrres the end, his honse 3 I'm
ished. A smart Yankee can build hun house m
day. cav eenieel family wab o,ooo woris OF
goods live six months in Leavenwortb whose house-
tent was buils in two days. Nobody need come bacs
nom Kansas for he lack of house where there is o
w-rill. Our people in the East are behind the
Aissourians in go.ag into that country. When Mis-
sonran intends TO ase7e he takes aN his worldly goods
with him. lfhe has No oxen he viii harness no cows
ard before be goes he will pick up 81 tho wrought
nails aid everything Of the sort. Ys.ees expect 20
buy them there The way we Yankees do in sending
a saw mil is TO give az order to have otc made in
stead Of paying perhaps $500 more sHd taking it
reasy-ns6e. Then in sic weeks a meath il Is done,
end thew ship il for Ka,eas. IL would have cost
III, IN yerhspe $3.50 TO have had cest-ron furnace
frame, and then half dozen non might have set up
in a fl ~ days But without you have TO wait I'LL
YOU can burn byick before Yea can make your far
mace box and sf tie while it cculd have been doing
business Of $1bs q day, and lien have known saw
mills to stand Idle IN Kansas Eve weeks fE a log
wagon 10 he bo6yht There IL but one sav-niii at
Lawrence where here is market for $4,000 feet Of
lumber every twelve hours, and II is doing
business ct the rate OF Leo feet peg day.
have grief or bitterness OF spirit as great se that
which have felt 10 see tesc great professions of the
North come - nothing. From oDs end of the saiien
10 the Other these professions werc sounded. They
were TO be up and doing; but instead of giving her
money and their men they have perjnred their very
fezs degraded he truth, their hono-s and Absolutely
81 we ne
South 10 such o. pitch of frenzy and then do
THU rs in such o way! | don't believe In it. IL
Ii Ii Lot i.h TO DO things IN that way In reference
10 that city Of Lavfence recolect they commenced to-
rally before it was begun there and as they
began TO talk about il they it time TO act.
And ID Ia so especially when you have millions of men
whore interest ii is TO thwart your plans iou had bet
ter keep sill at first II you oan--0nly do little
things then as YOU Increase your ethclensy you can
increase y our noise. That Is how they do South:
they keep very quiet ban they 90 prepared, and it
comes cut afferwarc In reference to this matter of
emeran,s going TO Kansas, il has been good thing
that we have cot up the excitement, and that men
have wanted to 90 to Kansas. But what ought we to
have done will tell you what the North ought to
have carried out what she agreed TO do, and what she
promiied TO TO- The North ought to have raised the
five millions of dolaIs-not for purposes OF specua-
on, but fer purposes Of lumanity-lor purposes oil
iusic e-for the noble and Godhke desire 10 do right
III AT is what the North ought TO have done. Instead Of
an engine extensive scale built here for purposes
of speoulation because it could be had few hundred
dollars cheaper and losing the time OF the settlers,
we ought TO have had AT least MY steam saw-nilis
with non furnaces all complete even 10 the eathern
thong with which asten the belt so that the settlers
should not have TO wait and spend fortune before
they can get them ready to work. But with mills that
can be SET Immediately to work they could build city
in SIX days-that is the way 10 do 1t lCheersl we,
men, nv friends the Pro Slavery men OF missouri,
wlen they laid out the City of Leavenworth just adj
Joining the military reserve, were alive TO the work
There has been over 100000 dollars worth OF real
cseie that has passed hands in gold. While there arc
two 10 OF of FreeSoilers in that city, the Pro-Savery
men got all the profit out OF 1t ana form tne richest
and most influential pant OF the community Now, how
was this done1 The United States Government forbid
n, Of lie North going on that land under the threat
that If we went there should be driven of at the
point of the boyone because it was Military Res
q ervaton.' This gave TIE Missourans an opportu.
niiy. being in favor with Cover ment, and they just
eesced tie very beet spot in all Kansas ana aif ont
their town Before there was house upon that
town site they had a steam saw-nlt running there
worth s. COO Ii was the Missourians who did
this. They know better than to tinker for six
months over a steam-eDgine. Mon might starve to
death and ruin good torture over an imperfect steam
engine. If men would mink 90 any,hing ID that
country they have got TO get up early and be smart.
StiDgi. low was right in his letter published at lash
ineton when he said that Southerners were not the
il doeut men they were thought to- be by the North
He showed that a negro man taken into Kansas Is
worth $50 the frst year for his labor II happens
TO be a good harvest; and even IN very bad
times of famine such as Kansas has
suffered from-the labor OF one negro save
ia worth at least $3.50. He says poor white
nan from The North will s.arve to death-that ~
what be Gays. But what say Is you want men OF
iudgme mt to go there who will 20 prepared to do some
THING In a systematic manner When aman gets our
into country two thousand miles wise if he cannot
,xnand his IDEAS go as make his Yankee ingenuity
do big things as well as to stay here and 40 NJ
tie thngs he must expect to starve. mat is
what Strincfellow meant | think. am not afraid
that any good genuine Yankee will starve to death
in that country. We need to work system
aiically-to work right up and in the nght
tine We can. DO that Kind OF work as
we'll "a ANYBODY else if set about II. AS to this
lawrence, about which had commenced to speak
but was drawn off on to another subject, it ia the
second city in Kansas AID Nebraska-secondi in point
of capital and wealth. mas Deen anu 10 te noPe y,
on more than Leavenworth. The inhabitants OF
eayeuwortb, who are Free-Soilers, being poor mem
but these places Lawrence and Council City, are in
the hands of Northern men-men o, grss mno
last wear. They ordered steam engine. which
was made in the Fall and sent off, but 1t got laid up
This was the state of things The North had promised
FIVE million sdoiars capital and twenty thousand men,
and instead of these promises being fulfilled the steam
engine that they sent laid frozen up IN the Missouri
River just above st. Louis. The emigrants had 10
draw sawed lumber As miles from Weston, from Kan
sas Civ and from Westport, No. AT THESE places he
Trossyery men met together and passed resolutions
A. thew would not sell lumber and provisions to THESE
Yankees except at certain prices double the real mar
ket rates For instance, II aour was " nunureu,
they would charge Ga and would sell Tor nothing less
4 oentleunp in the meeting said il mistake TO
saw that the settlers depending on Missouri Tor
saved lumber as it oiaanable at Lawrence
The Rev. Mr.. S. may have been misinforned; II
40 | am happy TO be corrected. No nan feels more
n reference 10 these difficulties than do. AS under.
sand IL thosesaw.nills did not come up the Missouri
River until the Spring, and in default of that they
went into the State Of Missouri, bought saw-ml, as
yrdeTstaud H. and after great deal of labor it was
s.t nm and was used through a good portion Of the