The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-03-16

LECoMPToN, Kansas Territory, J

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February 24th 1857
To day has so much the appearance of Spring,
and everv thing looks SO smiIingly beautiful the
birds sing SO cheerily, and the mellow clucking of
hens basking in the sun meath my chamber or the
tall Shanghai running after some fancied June
bug-reminds me that with "still small voice. |
may, through the medium of your columns per-
suade some honest husbandman to fJrsake the red
clay banks OF Virginia, and come here where his
labors meet with an honest reward, and lands of
varied beauty and fertility are in the limits of his
slender purse.
Now Is the season for immigrants to iournev
here-our winter is over, navigation will soon be
opened the Missouri and its tributaries are hes ring
upon their surface the ice of the winter and vii
be filled with busy, bustling steamers ready
to bear the immigrant to bis new home in time TO
erect his cabin, make his rails &c. by seeding time
so that the ter may raise stuobIe crop this
year. sufficient to sustain his family through the
winter OF 5S.
Our country is of the most beautiful kind which
has ever greeted the admiripg gaze of a farmer
abounding ia fertile slopes and vales, with sils
very streams andefing here and there and skirt.
ed with timber of every character, not in sufficient
quantity to waste, it is true but plentiful for asri-
cultural purposes. Our table prairies are also
spotted with most beautiful groves, while young
timber shoots up in all our valIies, stunted in
gro ow th by semi-annua fires, which are kindIed by
Indians. for the purpose OF driving into the open
country the wild game; but with few years of
care and culture, these scrubs will have attained
wonderful growth. Our soil is adspt to all
kinds of cuiture--wheat, oats, corn ana hemp have
abundaniy repaid the tller for his trouble in cul.
tivating these crops. While, as . graziug country
Kansas Territory is unsurpassed, green and nu-
tritious negotiations spring up everywhere, and
instead of the farmer having to his grass seed
in order to garner hay for winter purpose, he has
only to 60 our prairies and use bis mo wing ma.
chine while the distant unkings' of his herd re-
miads him that they are 10 clover" aud the well
filled teats gladden. the heart of the dairy maid.
Our climate is salubrions bouyan', fresh and ex-
hiliratpg, pure streams OF air Constantly racing
over our prairie, beuding the tail grass and wild
flowers so that their VARIED CO sparkle in the
noon day SUI, or scattering the dews of morning,
cooling the heated brow aud filing the lungs with
pure and bouyant air, it imparts q happy content.
cd feeling to the man. as be rides along whipping
off the budding foweIs-it inspires him with the
divinity of cur creator, and though separated
frsn friends and hi.hhood's happy associations he
Is willing here to live, here to de-"
In calling for migration from Virginia, my
marks are addressed - the man Of family, and not
80 young bucks" who would be more fortunate,
more useful and more of All Establishment behind
q counter than on quarter section Of land, but
they do not even settle on claim they come and
populate our little growing town. and ait for some
occupation as a clerk, . salesman, and in the mean
while contract habits of Incidence, fall into dssipa-
ton, write home for money to return, and then de
preciste the country. But we want farmers, men
who are surrounded by happy little family, and
content to live ia their midst and cultivate crop
and If ouch characters will come, and not sats-
fed then your correspondent will forfeit bis veraci
ty.
am on claim some and half miles from town
putting up my cabin and fences, have young
Stuart from Virginia as my neighbour, and many
cosy chats do we have of Virginia and Of Kansas
He has some idea of pawning his law license
signed by the most eminent jursts Of Virginia, fol-
yoke Of oxen, that Is, after get out of funds.
My letter, fear is not very potent reasoner: but
if hof fh,a nf hafta Ftnn fha M
some, and if so, am fully requiltsd for penning
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