Kansas weekly herald., 1855-08-04

Ayment for the construction of brick hotel,
10 by 40 feet, two stories high and several other
parties are making arrangements for building
as soon as the weather moderates and workmen
can be obtained.
In addition to the stores of Vaughan & Co.,
and Ewing & Kavanagh, there are blacksmith
and tailor shops and very good log hotel, 90 by
80 feet two stories high, and Inter 20 by 20 feet,
This Hotel contains 16 good sized rooms, is just
finished, and the furniture, (entirely new) al
ready put in. The public may depend upon It's
being kept in good style, with comfortable ac-
commodations for gentlemen and lady travellers,
stable for horses, &c.
Tecumseh and the surrounding country may
be regarded as remarkably healthy. Not
marshy piece of land, slough or wet bottom with
in five miles of the village. No agues, no feVers
prevalent. The prairies in the vicinity are
high and rolling, and very rich. They are al
broken up in the vicinity Of Tecumseh during
the present season than almost anywhere else in
the Territory. The corn and grain crops gen
orally are thriving well. Vegetables are like
and good. Cattle numerous. Good fishing in
the Kansas and tributary streams.
Tecumseh is not likely to be behind any place
in the Territory in moral as well as natural ad-
vantages. A school house is now in course of
erection, and lots have been purchased by the
Presbyterian, Methodist, Christian and Catholic
denominations for the erection OF churches
thereon. The Methodists are making arrange
ments to put up their edifce this fall. Society
here will be of the first class. Among those
who have selected Tecumseh as their place Of
residence Hon. Rush Elmore, Hon. John
w. Whitfield, Attorney General Isacks, and
other gentlemen of high standing, professional
and social, who will soon have their families
and slaves domiciled here. The principal draw,
back to the place is, that no less than half q
dozen lawyers have already located here, as the
most promising point for professional business.
Of doctors we have only one, and he would
starve to death, probably, were he not already
provided with s'pocket full of rocks" A
newspaper, devoted to the advocacy of the prin-
ciples of the Kansas Nebraska Bill and the de-
fence of Southern interests, will be established
here soon after the adjournment of the Legisla-
| ture.
With building materials there is no place, not
even Pawnee, better supplied than Tecumseh.
| Within half mile of the Hotel are two quar-
ries of excellent stone. one of which turns out
| large blocks, as square and smoothly shapen on
two or three sides as though just faced by an ac-
| complished workman. This stone works easily,
| to the atmosphere. The river affords plenty of
the choicest quality Of building SAND, and large
flat stones, suitable for sidewalk tagging, gen
orally four inches thick anfl by feet surface,
are easily raised from the ledge of rocks 'front.'
| ing on Rev. Mr.. Stateler's claim, adjoining the
town site. This ledge is several acres in extent,
| and smooth and even any city pavement. 1t
| is natural curiosity worthy of examination by
| Tue SeOlOSlSC, the SpeculaCOr or the DulIQer.-
Lime stone, also, is so abundant in the vicinity
that first quality of unslacked lime, burned and
ready for use, is sold at 12a@15 cts per busheI.
Clay, OF several varieties, frsm which beautiful
| bricks are made, can be found in half a dozen
| places on the town site. Pure cold water is oh
tanned almost any where by digging from 2osto-
| 80 feet. Cellars are easily dug. The black
surface soil of the town is from two and half
| to four feet deep, under which is found sand.
| loan, and clay to an indefinite depth. Fire
4 soho dr1a
| S1,5O per cord. An excellent quality OF coal is
found on the Shunga-nunga creek, within four
miles of the village.
1t is not probable that for many years, (if
| eVer,) population will extend west of the eigb-
teen ranges of townships, that the Surveyor
General has been directed to lay of. These
| townships extend but few miles west of the.
range of Fort Riley. The western portion of
the Territory, owing to the comparative search
/ ty of timber, will never have dense population.
| 1t is strictly pastoral or grazing region. The
Delaware and Shawnee Reserves, in the East
ern part of the Territory, are well timbered and
| very rich, and the latter will be open for occu
patton or purchase by the whites, as soon AZ tba
Shawnees make their selections So with the
| Wyandot and (soon with) the Delaware Re-
serves. All the Eastern edge of the Territorv
South of Fort Leavenworth, is subject to the In,
dian title more or less /; and, although now com
paratively destitute of white settlers will soon
| be as densely crowded and populated as Jackson.
| Clay and Platte counties in Missouri. The In
dians have sold to the General Government Their
poorest lands and reserved their best The lat
| ter will ultimately be divided and subdivided
among the whites, and, owing to advantages that
settlers in the interior cannot now avail Them
selves of, will, within few years, be sought for
and occupied by whites in preference to the rich.
and naked prairies of the middle townships
There is larger population in the Souutba<,
portion of the Territory than is generally
posed by those who have not personally Visfed
the Usage, Marais des Cynes, and Neosho seonn
try, where timber is more abundant and the
pralrles richer even than in the northern nor
ton; but this Southern section is not as he
as the northern. On these lands especiaIiy
hemp, corn. and other products in which slave
labor will be most valuable and available
large farming or plantation population will
soon gather. But such settlements will not. for
many years, extend west Of Council Grove. as
available lands can be foand cs,ly yery few
miles farther in that direction
Allowing that the Territory is about 200 miles
wide, and that the Kansas river separates abon+
one third from the other twetthirds of the Ter
ritory, it is certain that thecapital should he To-
Gated on the South side Of the river. And then
granting to the northerR portion consideration
equal to an average of, say t4Venty miles travel
in order to cross the river, it would eeualize the
location more nearly to- plAeethe capital as near
as possible to the South side of the river. Then.
counting the numerous. settIers on the Sbawnee
purchase & vicinity, they fully balance off the
settlements North of the Kansas and facing the
Missouri rive. Tothis add the prospective in
crease OF population South of the river and along
the missouri frontier, soon as the whites gain
access to the Reserves, and every candid mind
can see that for general convenience, geographic
cal position, present and prospective amount of
population East and West and North and South :.
and local, natural and progressive advantages
Tecumseh is as nearly central and suitable for
the future capital of the Territory as any place
that can be named. +
Bdg The Baltimore Republican tells of
a woman who became 30 infatuated at card
playing that, getting 6 dead broke" she