Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-08-29

which l believed was a snake. | fancied
it was, as the heel of my foot, thought,
smashed its head. I sung out Here he
is. I have killed him !'' Those above
stairs came rushing down to see the snake,
and after getting lamp and seeking the
snake, we found nothing but a short link
of sausage, which had been left on the
dining table, and probably kicked off by
some one of us in the night. After en-
Joying the joke, much at my expense,
more particularly the gentleman who
raised the alarm above stairs, and who
swore that there was no mistake about
his snake, [ proposed that we should ex-
anime for it; and after examining his
bunk. he found that his fellow bunker
had placed his cane in bed between them,
fearing that some one might take it in the
morning before he was up. 1t was one
OF those canes you see every day in New
York, with dogs head, with crooked
neck, eyes, ears and teeth. This proved
to be our friends snake. After this, we
retired again, each one to his bed. After
getting in bed it commenced laundering
and lightning, (Which is done up brown
in this country, at each fash you could
see distinctly through all parts of the
house. The boards being green when it
was put up, had warped so much you
could almost put your head through the
crack the house not having lath or plas
ter. No windows in the house, only
brown sheeting nailed over where the
sash belongs. The result was that
the bunkers we're all soaked out up
stairs, and after that we all got it below.
l obtained an umbrella and held it over
my children and wife until the shower was
over. At daylight in the morning we
were requested to get up as they wanted
our sheet for table cloth, and our bed
as the breakfast table. I objected to
this until the boy upset cup of coffee
on my foot, when l concluded the place
was getting too hot, and got up. After
breakfast, which was but repetition of
our tea, l and my fellow travellers took
stroll about the city to examine the pubs
lie buildings. The city of Lawrence is
situated on the Kansas river, about 100
miles up. This river is naviguble up
here one month in the year. The city
contains about dozen franc houses of
miserable construction one log house,
( (store) the best in the place, and the rest,
about thirty, are mud huts, built of sod
and mud. You probably have seen a
picture Of a small IIottcntot village. If
you have, you can fancy the city of Law
renee. There is one poor miserable saw
mill. The day | left there, two more
mills or the machinery for them was ar
rving in town. The water was very
poor, and TO get it, the landlord tells me,
he goes about IL mile and a half. The
lumber scarce, mostly cotton wood, which
is hardly worth saving. l should add
thai they are now putting up two build
inSs Of stone, which from present appear
ance. look as if they might be something
when tinised. One is intended as hotel.
There are also three printing offices, or
three newspapers, (the population not
over 6Oo.) These papers cannot make
enough to pay the printers devils board
of one paper. There is no doubt that
these papers are supported by the alb
oltlonists of the East, as the editors
have the appearance of being fed at the
public expense. 10 conclude with this,
town lots sell for three hundred dollars.
There were about dozen Yankees who
started this town or city, as it is called,
with the intention of making their for
tunes. 1t yet remains to be seen how
they viii! succeed. The three nuwspa>
pers in that place are only intended to
stir up the feelings of the public against
the slave States, and also to puff up their
city lots, which are at present, hot beds
for disease. In fact, the whole affair, at
the present time, is not fit for white
man to show his head in.