New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-08
KANSAS.
GEARY WORSE THAN SHANNON.

Correspondence OF tbe ~ Il. iH"uhc-
TOPEKA, Sept. %, 1856.
wrote last from Nebraska City, just before the
train Of emgrants left tn 1t place for this. reached
here yesterday a day or more in advance of hem;
Ia, ing pushed through for the two last days, with
a few companions. The distances on the rou e are
about as follows: To Camp Creek, or Worcester,
IL miles; thence t. Little Nemaha II yer aud Village,
10 miles; to Archer, IL miles to Plymouth, II
miles; to Lexington, 10 miles; to la iian Village,
- miles; to Topeka, IL miles. This would make
the whole distance ia miles, and it ia varousy
estimated from that up to l40. The route is also
somewhat circuitOus and will be sh Ttened here
after. The road is uniformly good prairie road,
except where creek is to be crossed, and there is
steep pitch on each side, with slough between.
No accident however, occurred to any OF our teams.
OF the localities above named, Ncnaha aud Ar her
are thriving little Nebraska settlements each with
lcdglpp house and store Worcester in Nebraska is
one loe.bouse. Plymouth consists OF an earthen
rcdoubt on hill and two Lighthouses IN the distance
Lexington il a log fort in the center of prairie,
where seven Of our brave Worcester boys w"rc
laboriousy digging the best well have seen ia this
rgion-thirty five feet deep and nine wide. Both
Plymouth and Lexington, however, very favor
abe town sites, and well laid ont The companies
who settled them are now returning from the seat
Of war, and if they can only obtain food aud cloth
ING during the Winter "a doubtful prospect), these
will yet be nourishing town. That well, at least,
will be clear gain TO Kansas in all coming time.
Except these there are DO settlements over this
long route TIL lndisnola, few mles from Topeka.
There are occasional log houses, however and 1t Is,
on the hole less desoate than the western part of
Iowa.
Our train included about one hundred and forty
men and some twenty women and children. There
were twenty eight wagOns-all but eight being
horse-teams. Our nightly tents made quite little
colony, and presented busy scene. While some
watered and fed the stock, Others brought wood or-
the fires; ether the tents aud wagons for
sleeping; others reloaded pistols or rifles, and the
leaders arranged the nightly watch or planned the
affairs of the morrow. Meanwhile the cooks fried
pork, made coffee, and baked bread, and gaping
crowd, wrapped in blankets, sat around the fire.
Women brought their babes and took the best
places they could find, and one worthy saddIer
brought out his board and leather every night and
made belts and holsters for the men. We slept
soundy in spite of the cold aud of the scarcity OF
wood, and each kept watch for an hour strld'ng IN
thick boots through the grass, heavy with frost.
Danger always seemed before Va, though we never
actually got into IT, apd We were never FAR from our
rifles and revolvers. Truth com2cls the admission
that nv rife was never pointed at any'mng more
formidable than superb hawk, which IT brought
down. and even that shot was disputed by ii COM
radc. who fred at the same time. However,
have the wings.
We came through without attack from the Ms
sourians, as Gen. Lane assured US that We shouli;
We had had their spies among Us. hui they nal
seen that We were we'll armed, and that our III N,
though quiet, were very determined.
The one thing that discouraged our party, how
ever, was TO meet parties, day after day, rcturnng
Men on horseback and on foot, with wagons aud
without, came along in omnous numbers All told
the same story. What the Mssourians have
" been trying for two years to do, Gov. Gcary has
." done in two weeks at last, said Que man; "he
Free. State men are drireH out" 1t was like enter
ing Hungary just after the treachery of G6rgey.
Each had bis story TO tell of arrests an ty7anues
how Pro-Slavery witness had only to point at
man as identified with any measure OF public de-
fnse, and he was seized al once. Several whom
we met had been arrested in person, herdoi With
hundred others, ike cattle, on the bare pralrie,
Been scantiy fed once day, and escaped BY rolling
bali a mile through the grass while the sen,neis'
baeks were turned The brsyest young men OF
Iswsenee were put under arrest, charged with