New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-19
KANSAS.
TIon Our Special Corespondent


since my last. Free-State settlers still continue To
arrive, although immigration may be considered a.
closed for the season. Winter appears to have set
in thus early. The Kaw River is lined with ice al
the sides and the small strip Of centrsl currens not
cloted is pretty Well filed with floating ice Yes
terdsy and to-day have not been so extremely coid
as some days that preceded, and it lie possible ths
We may have more mild weather, and that the Mis-
sour River may remain open for some time. Al
the latest accounts we have, however the boits up
were stopping at different points on the rver oeiow
their destination arrested by the floating ice, ana
tie general impression is that navigation ls over ior
the season. As the weather is now, and VIII IKE.
ly continue to be, too cold to make the emlgrans
route through Iowa and Nebraska practicable De-
fore Spring, there is nov only one way OF reaching
or leaving the Territory that il, by the stage
route through Missouri to Jefferson City or OF.
Louis. Emierants could travel the same route oy
their private conveyance. Immigration III tnis wa!
lar lever been extensive. 1t is not hsei! u oe-
c,me in the Winter; aid if it was to increase
tie Ruffans OF Missouri would probably throw Cd, =
staces in the way or put stop to y. Inc cpiei
cause of regret, if the Missouri River remain
closed at this tine, is that a considerable quantty
of the goods intended for the relief of the suffering
settlers in Kansas has been arriving ny this route
ard the close of the river will stop the suPPiies
until Spring.
spent some little time in the Committee rooms
yesterday. There we're some fifteen or t8enty APP
plicsnts, men, womtn and children, present during
my stay. Msny of these appeared to be person.
Of intelligence and refinement people TO whom .ne
reception of aid from any source was something
new. Some appeared to dispense with articles ior
some of their pressing wants rather than seem 700
acting; while others appeared to have an organ OF
acqusitiyeness och required to be kept 10 chech
by those in attendance. Here, a mother was Sc
lecting stockings and shoes for her children Whie
little further on squatter, on whom inc eGPe
rience of one or two years of Kansas lie had
stamped the bronze, was selecting coat and pam
falcons, and eDdeavorirg to find something more
coarse and heavy than the majority OF the articles
submitted to his critical inspection. :,
There is something in the relief thus AFFORDED
so d!ferent from ordinary charity, different as re
CARDS the causes of the suffering and the merits OF
the recipients, that it ceases to be charity In the
usual acceptatlOn Of the term. And yet there are
Just enough Of such characters left in it to make
pride shrink from its exposure, and to call for the
exercise of feeling, as well as tact and Judgment in
the distribution of the articles. Some, indeed
might say many. proud that they will not aP-
ply, although they are in need and have suffered
much Others, again, less mertOrlOus, are more
clamorOus in their wants and, as is usual In this
world. he who impOrtunes the hardest is apt to get
the most
Messrs. Hyatt and Army, of the National Commit
tee, are both here. They have been very busy in
The correction Of abuses, which liable to creep
into the maDag cement of such afsirs. Mr.. Army To-
tends remaining until February to superintend the
business. Mr.. Hyatt will return to the East sOcn
and make a report Of the state of matters relating
to the Relief Fund and the Committees. He in-
tends another visit to Kansas, in which he will de-
vote himselft to measures for securing more happy
and useful distribution of the relief than is usually
obtainable by common agents. 1t is the design of
Messrs. Hyatt and Army that ono member Of the
National Committee at least shall be here coz.
stanlly.
A considerable number of the young Southern
fighting immigrants have left the Territory recently.
Many have returned to their friends in the South.
Some have gone to Missouri, to winter with their
Border Rufisn oles so as to be ready for opera
tioDs in the Spring. Some have gone to Nicaragua
with Col. Titus, there to indulge their rascality
under more genial sky. Various causes have led
to this. In the first place, a rather sharp touch
of early Winter chilled their Southern chivalry.
Then there was reason TO doubt if the Southern
Aid Societies would be able TO afford them living;
and although these immigrants are almost exclu
siyely young men, they appear to possess genuine
aristOcratic objection to work. Then there has
been for some time back no opportunity Of cOnse-
queDce for the legitimate and legal exercise Of muir.
der and pluDder. Beside these causes to " sicken
hope" these young men think themselves very un-
fairly used by their Southern brethren. In order
to induce them to come, they received the promise,
more or less, Of having farms purchased for them
In this they have been disappointed. Although Bu-
ford and other Southern men have been purchasing
the Delaware lands at the sales rather extensively
they take care to keep the titles in their own hands,
Thus these subordinate adventurers, weeded from
that duped and suffering class the poor whites of
the South, have been bounded on to do the dirty
.,.o-L of GIaravv vxifhout even n nitfanee
They are to be the faithful slaves of slavmh sys-
tenn, that robs them of their dignity, keeps them in
poverty by reducing and disgracing labor and ruins
them morally by its corruption.
TWAS about this time that the Shawnee lands
were to be o6ered for SALE but the sale has been
postponed. The Indians on the Shawnee Reserve
were allowed a certain time to make their selec-
TONS after which the remainder was to be sold
That term was extended, and now that the Indians
have, presume, made their choice, the sale is put
of. The design of this is to favor the Pro-Slayery
mes. Aissourians living about Westport and Inde-
pendence pretend to hold the whole Reserve by
''claims." Many Of them have staked off claims,
and others, who pretend to hold, have even omitted
this equvocal ceremony. But there are no squat
ters' houses fhere-nO actual residents. Those
who thus mean to secure q rich tract of country
lying for thirty miles out from the gates Of West
port neither live on it, nor 10 there any likelihood
that they will. 1t is an unscruPRlous and bare
faced attempt at fraud.
The Chicago Company, against whom 90 much
has bes said, are going down to the neighborhood
of the Potaw atamie TO form settlement But few
ofthese have lett the Territory, and the settlement
viii be good one. They entered the Territory in
August, and their experience, though brief, has
been eventful. They were engaged in most Of the
stirring scenes of August and September. Many
of them have been prisoners at LecOmpon and else.
where, and have made romantic and narrow es.
capes. The southern part Of the Territory is not
very quiet yet Some parties from Missouri have
been there recently. Their practice has been to at
tack a bouse and while part OF them pretended 10