Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-12-08

The hanzas correspondent of the N. Y.
EUenlRg Post writes from Leavenworth,
Nov. 18th, that purchasers at the land sales
were rapidly thinning Out. The sales were
made al first at so high rates as to discourage
ia7estment. Buford, the great rutfian leader,
made few purchases with money brought
from the South, and then left in disgust. He
was constantly attended by big rufian, as
body guard, for protection against some OF
his own men who had threatened vengeance
upon him for deceiying them in the contract
by which he took them to the territory.
The Posts correspondent writes :-"Of the
purchasers OF the unclaimed quarter sections,
there seems to be pretty equal division be-
tween persons halling from free and from slave
states. The purchasers from free states buy
"a less quantity, each of them, but they are
more numerous. The greater proportion of
them are from Pennsylvania and Ohio. Otis
Webb of California, formerly of New Bed
ford, Mass, has bought three quarter sections.
George w. Collamore, a lawyer Of Boston,
has bought four, and he is the only resident
OF New England that has been present at the
sale. 1t was supposed that some capital from
Boston was to be at the sale but, excepting
the private funds of MIR. Colamore, not a dol
lar has been there. The free state capitalists
are working good deal through the settlers,
either buying their claims or sharing them bv
paying the entire purchase money. The
tracts are bid off by the settler, who CONVEYS
to such capitalists, and their names are not
made. public. The capitalists from the slave
states are, in very many cases-all of those
from Kentucky-in favor of making Kanzas
free state, because their land would rise more
on account of the increased emigration. This
is the case with ell moderate men from the
South, who care more for their pecunary in.
terests than for the slavery ueston. On the
whole, the sale has developed nothing unfa.
vorable to the fee state cause. The minds of
pro. slavery men have been turned IN the dir
ection Of speculation, and this fact will in
duce many OF them to acquiesce in the tri-
umph of the free state cause, as that alone
will secure them the richest returns for their
Investments"
" A project is on foot for a new town on
the Missouri, four miles west of the mouth~cjf
the Kanzas, along the line of the Missouri,
and two miles and a half by a straight liaS. y
Prominent free-state men have nearlyleonf
pleted a purchase from the Wyandotte In
dams, authorized by the governments OF some
six hundred acres Tor the purpose. The pro
prietors have divided it into 500 shares, which
are offered for $3.50 per share, each share
entitlihg the owner to ten lots. The proceeds
from the sale Of shares, it is proposed TO IN
vest IN Improvements, such as the grading of
street aud roads leading out, and The bridg.
ing of the Kauzas River The site is SAID to
be AN excellent one. Doubtless a Town at a
lower point on the Missouri than Leav.
enworth, which should afford depot for
the towns lying On the Ka1zas or situated
south of it, would be a good project. The
parties interested init assGmpt to get fancy
prices by assuring persons that the Pacific
railroad will go throughsAhe town. The pro.
posed town attracan 1od dsaT Of attention.
particularly among Dce State people, and
sales are easily made Of shares, They are
anxioosfor town on the Missouri, which
shall be in tbsif own hands"