The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-01-10
BY DAVIS g. HOLLINGSWOR'

and cultivation of the land. But still, l
have reason to hope that private contribu-
tions will SO far extend my free list as to
enable me to take all who could not other
wise remunerate me. Let all apply let all
come.
have lately seen letter to friend of
mine i'll Columbus, Georgia, from highly
intelligent friend of bis, late a surgeon in
the United States army, and now residing
IN Kansas; he says in that letter that when
he first saw Kansas many years ago, it
strongly impressed him as the most beau,i-
ful and desirable country he had ever seen
since which time in his connection with the
army, lie has explored Florida and the en-
tire west, including Texas and California :;
and all he has seen has only strengthened
his first predictions in favor of Kansas.
lie further says -" AS far as health, eli
mate, and profits of negro labor is concern
ed, this is better than any country in the
| Union. 1t is true, we have hot and cold,
wet and dry weather; but never saw the
country where man can Le more indie.
pendent and make his bread and meat with
less capital than here. Ten or twelve fur
rows run i'll corn, will make ten barrels to
the acre. One thousand pounds Of hemp
is common crop to the acre. Wheat aud
oats do we'll; oceans of grass and swarms
Of cattle, and, with all, good markets for
everything"
The Hou. S. G. Cato, the Territorial
Judge, in n recent letter to his brother of
this place, says =" The people here are
quiet and orderly, sharp and intelligent, a
little rough in manner, but warm hearted
and cordial. THIS is as fine a
country as any on the face of tho earth,
and the profits Of its productions would far
exceed those of the cotton fields of the
South. All kinds Of grain, grass, clover
and hemp, yield a rich product. X +
l have no doubt, but that slave labor would
yield i'll hemp, corn and grain, at least from
thirty to forty dollars per acre annually.
have seen no poor land, it all seems to me
richer than the bcs; Chattahoochee bottom,
and most of it is just such land as in the
adjoining Missouri counties is now selling
at from twenty to fifty dollars per acre.
Corn is now selling at twenty-five cents per
bushel, and the product estimated ut one
hundred bushels per acre; and the hemp
crop (six tons per HANDY at $4,000 per ton,
aud you see at once how labor is more pro-
ductive here than at the South. II is i'm
possible to give an adequate idea of the
beauty and fertility Of the soil and country !;
generally rolling, without a great deal Of
timber, but as / understand abounding in
coal for fires, and stone for building and
fencing; good wells Of water can be OBJ
tanned any where. besides frequent streams
running through the prairies."
Tho inducencnt offer, is to transport
the emigrant to this paradise where lie can
get fee simple title to eighty acres Of such
land, convenient to market and good navi-
CATION, and only for the trouble of settling
on it and going to work; in other words, I
will furnish him subsistence and transl or
tation to Kansas, for one half of his leo
acres pre-emption claim, and pay the en-
trance money for the whole; or, if lie gets
donation, l will transport and subsist him
to Kansas, for so acres of his l60 donation
and if he wishes, before starting, to be
guaranteed against starving, will for 40
acres more, subsist him till he can get en-
ployment. But there is no difficulty about
getting employment; and if the emigrant
prefers to 60 Immediately to work on his
presumption, he can get credit for his bread,
and his rifle will furnish his meat-there is
no danger of starving.
1 think the surveyor, school teacher, ply
sician, carpenter and blacksmith, could at
once get into living business while am
certain the agricultural Iaborer could.
And besides this, IS I propose to stop for
recruits en- route at Columbus, Tuskegee,
Montgomery, Selma, Cahaba, Mobile, New
Orleans, Natchez, Vicksbnrgh, St. Louis,
&c., 1 doubt not the citizens of those places
would furnish the company with means to
procure good military, and perhaps even
agricultural outfit; as also means for
temporary subsistence after reaching Kan
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.4th: AS to the outfit required to join the
expedition, it will be only an honest face,
and health, strength and appetite, to take
soldier's fare. But all who can, ought to
take ammunition, a riffo or musket, from
one to four blankets, warm clothing, flannel
shirts inclusive, with cloth for tents.
9th. The duty required Of oil not on the
list Of gsasuitous transports,'is to get pre-
iempsion ~ land donstiop, if possible; and
consistently With that object, 70 90 ssfisrsl
k1,o~v nc,