The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-05-08
From, the Carolina Times.
Extract from Letter from a gentleman in Kan
SOS to q friend in ibis city

FROM KANSAS.
Extract from Il Letter from a gentleman in Kun.
SOS to aJricad IN this city
WEsrroRr, Missouri, April Is, 1856.
| DEAR G.: Your kini letter was received
a day or so since. Well, before begin
to speak Of war, let me begin Mt the begin
ming. After l wrote You, l stopped in
New Orleans for some time. l looked ut
things, aud came to many conclusions in
| regard to human nature. AS soon rs the
ice was out of the river came up. When
| arrived at St. Louis, met nineteen men
from Charleston, bound for Kansas, Robert
DeTrevlle one Of them. The most pleas
ing thing to me ut st. Louis was that re-
ceivcd Il letter from Maj. Bufori, saving if
| would 60 ahead aud look out locations
for his men, that he would pay mo well
for it. 60 have been riding over the
Territory ever since | arrived, and have
/ seen good deal of it. While OH nv
travels l got OH the good side Of an in
ftuental man, aud he gave me commits
Sion to survey road from Fort Scott to
Fort Atkinson, at five dollars per day, and
| furnished me with everything. will get
out pretty far OH the plains. Fort Atkinson
is west OF the great bend on the Arkansas
river. will have time with the buffalo
aud Indians. l have an idea of taking out
some goods and trading with the Indians
for their robes. can make seven or eight
hundred per cent by it. 1t will take me
three months to finish the survey. There
is no difficulty i'll getting employment or
office here, il man will only be right -
common mechanics get from two dollars
to three dollars per day.
Now, in regard to the lands, &c, this is
tho prettiest country ever SAW, and the
richest land. The country is mostly prairie.
Timber only on the streams, but the timber
is very fine, walnut, hickory, oak, &c. En-.
tire fences, houses, DC, arc built of wal
nut.
Coal exits in the greatest abundance. -
Stone Of the finest kind COR fencing and
building also. The prairie is moro or less
broken, Tut not too much, and the soil is
of such nature that it does not wasl.-
1t will produce from eighty to one hundred
bushels to the acre, Of corn, oats and wheat
in proption. Grapes flourish here. The
pralrics are covered with the finest kind of
grass for cattle. The scenery is beautiful,
no timber to otstruct the view. You can
see one lunderd miles from some places,
and it is delightful to stand and look over
an immense prairie. The climate is dc.
llghttul. am III tent, aud feel rs hearty
and healthy as if | were III :; palace. BY
the by, this is the worst country for winds
| ever saw; i. blows like Il hurricane for
days ut time.
To give you an i,'ea, the wagons that 20
over to Santa Fc have to take spades along,
and when the winl comes they stop and
dig holes to let in the wheels, SO US TO pre-
vent the wagon from blowing over.
Now i'll rcgarl to polictica matters, the
people out Of Kansas know moro of our
affairs than we do ourselves. 1t is all a
mistaken idea about our Leing in continual
danger. have Travelled three hundred
miles i'll the Territory without single knife
or pistol, or anything of the kind. People
here are rs quiet as i'll South Carolina
AbolItlonists are coming in every day.
The Southern emigration has Lcen three
times as great this spring, as it has been from
the North. A great many Of these Yam
KEGS become dissatisfied and 60 back
They don't like the idea of fighting the
Border Rufiiaus.
1hey are SO much taken (thosc that are
here) with the new State party, that they
swear they will not obey the laws of the
land. We appreI'end some difficulty at
Court i'll Franklin county, the last of this
mouth. Some of the Yankcrs are on the
Grand Jury, and say they will not attend,
and dare the authorities to make them. l
tell you the truth; if there ever is another
difficulty, you may listen for thunder from
the Southern men. The border ruflians
swear they will XII every Yankee who op-
poses the law. They will not 10 treated
SO kindly as they were at Lawrence before.
Lawrence, their mighty city, will be RACED
to the ground, and the inhabitants killed or
driven out OF the country. 1t will lie terri
bIe, ! tell you. Ten thousand men will
come from Missouri at twenty. four hours
warning, prepared to extcrminatc every
Yankee in the land. These Yankees arc
tie meancst set Of men on earth. They
are the scurf and scum of creaton-wiIl
steal, and do anything. They openly say
they intend to abolitionize Missouri as soon
as they get Kansas in as free State.