New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-10
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There is great deal Of small pilerng, however
:, ,Le towns You are BOwise 20 leave your blank
e,. combs and brushes, brides and ha!ters or any
Ill er useful portable articles, exposed. Western
mon bed, have not that nice sense oi NE mean,
;uc AZ terms Whch charctcrzet Our Ne"-EhShna
men. -... ..-... .,-oss ,b,
From Lccomp;on | took my way across the
rra;.;c ~ Washington. You cannot trust yourself
p ,p ,r,;ls an these prsiries They cross AMI re-
.sb other It .nch angles that You soon become
o.rG,ssJ | knew not which 70 take. Get Your
rour.e fr,m your map, then guide yourself D! the
80. 4 that fIs by the wind. That never tils.
On your ;r.rnps YOU nay meet with huge oones-H. 5
the skeleton Of q buffalo You VIII almost ceIldluH
crcss deep single trail, locking Ike TIE ""rA 81
shovel perhaps frot deep and eighteen m'ht-
wide. You will speculate how men could have MADE
s., deep a trail. IL l. the track ~ the ouli'"'
marching in single tle straight a. an arrow u the
drinking places. Ii you lOs,, follow them, ana
they will certainly lead YOU Il water, and Il 10 WAFER
"a timber and To the cabins Of tie settlers. II gives
vou the best idea you can form 81 the immense
weight and great numbers Of the creatures maj
they should have worn So deep a trail in the har
soil Of the prairie.
Shoud YOUR walk be in the Summer. do not be-
surprised-I will not tell YOU not Ia be startled-st
= sudden rattle in your path. Rattesnakes are still
numerous but are rapidly disappearing under the
extermiuating Influence OF pork. TIE hogs make
,uicL syork with them. and wage against them IN
ceasiuo war. The timber rattlesnske Is larger
and more dangerous reptile than the prairie snake.
They are killed thick De your arm, and three or i"ur
feet long. | was shown chan ot ten rattes.
which proves the snake to have been eleven years
old. and | heard a well authenticated case OF one
having been killed with twenty-slX rattles.
found my friend Mrs. Allen in her usual excel
lent health. THE TRIBUNE has mmortahzed her
as the maker Of the best bread in Kansas. Your
editor. who has taken the cookery Of American
women under lis special charge, should give her
Grst.rate notice. To her other good qualities,
Mrs Alien adds that If taking HE WEEKLY
TRIBtNE | was athirst Tor news, and II was Ike
meeting an old friend to look once more upon ia
familiar columns.
Mrs.. Allen hasa thorough contempt for Pierce ;
| otficc-holdcrs. She says, Il have SIT upon ms
..road now for better than two years, and have
seen all the appointments Pierce ever made ana
there y asr't one sober man except Geary IN the
"Vhole lot.
Tie town of Tecumseh has taken start lately.
| II was laid out As PrO-Slavery town. but Free
State men have come in In such NUM- ers as To
Charge It's character. They have built Frec-Siate
hotel are building twenty new houses, aud are
driving things rapidly ahead. Two other causes
have contributed 10 this resui-the Lba'lon OF The
whisky nv the women. and a contemplated bridge
across tie Kaw "a be- built by Leavenw0rth capital.
Which Of the three has contributed most I"
this result do not know. pom the whole | give
tie preference 20 the whisky. Eyp, Bacchus
OF coure returned N the evening To Washing
ton. aud the next day walked into Lawrence to dn-
n,r. Il miles. Tomorrow | return by stage Ia
LeayenN ORTIZ, and thence set my face homeword. H.