The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-02-28

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: Company, but they eomplainthat the.
received nothing but disappointmen
and vexation. Their promises de
tered individual enterprise, and dis
eouraped hundreds who left the coun
try in disgust. The officers OF tina
Gompany may shift the responsibiiit
as much as they may. and yet, indi
yidually, they will be held accountabl
at the bar of public opinion. Wit
its present aids We are sanguine Of it
future prosperity, and this feeling i
participated in by all classes of th
j population there. Our worthy hos
promised to erect commodious hous
Immediately, for the reception G
travellers, and we bespeak for him
liberal patronage, which we are conf
dent his attentions to the wants OF tb
traveller will merit.
4 Mr. WIScHELL, the late postmaster
has been removed, and A. Policy
Esq, has been appointed in his place
They have mail connection wit
| Westport, No., and have petitionec
lCongress for new route from Law
renee, which they think viii be opened
in July.
On the 18th we resumed our jour
ney, Judge Schuyler accompanying
us. We found the streams very high,
and quite difficult of fording. AT
times we were compelled to go seve-
raj miles up the streams before we
could find rifle, justifying us to at
tempt passage. After passing ORA
COON creek we found no settlements,
and the prairie greatly predominating
over the timber, as the latter was only
found along the margin of the streams.
The whole country between DIagoon
creek and the Neosho, a distance of
twenty five miles, is open for settle
ment, and is as fine a portion of coun-
try as can be desired. The only draw
back is the want of timber, which
will deter settlers from more densely
timbered regions locating there for
the present. In consequence of leav-
ing the usually travelled road to cross
the streams, we had no other guide
than our pocket compass, save a high
bluff some thirty miles to the south
west, which lowered above the hori-
zon, looking like the peak of dis
tant mountain. We crossed over On
ion, Elm, One Hundred and Forty
Two, and Hill creeks, and struck the
settlers road along Allen creek, some
four or five miles west Of Mr.. Dow's
residence, which We were laboring to
reach for the night. We reached the
residence of MIR. Grimsley about four
O'Clock in the afternoon, where we
dined, it being the first occupied house
we had seen after leaving Council
City. AT evening we reached the
home of Dir. Dow, who was one of the
first pioneers to the Upper Neosho,
formerly from Iowa.
On the 17th, finding the Neosho
not fordable, and Mr.. Dow joining
our party of observation, we set out
for the junction of the Cottonwood
and Neosho, some eight miles below
Dir. Dow's residence. We found the
Neosho skirted with a dense body of
timber, with wide prairie bottoms, on
which the settlers had built their cab
ms. Our course lay on the upland
and high prairies, ranging from one
half to two miles from the river.
We arrived at Mr. Humphreys saw
mill, at the junction of those rivers, a
little before noon. We remained and
dined with his family, whom we found
very intelligent. From them we
made various inquiries, and learned
that there were about one hundred
families settled in this valley, all of
whom had settled near the river, on
the bottom lands, and generally close
to the timber Mrs. FL. said they had
done the same when they first came to
the country, and that they. as well as
their neighbors, had suffered much
from the diseases of the country, in
consequence; that they became con-
scious of the causes of their sickness.
and removed to the more elevated
prairie, where we found them. The
consequence was, after a few weeks
they recovered from their illness, and
since then had enjoyed uninterrupted
good health. The settlers there have
experienced what those along the Wa
karusa, and even on the Kansas river,
have experienced: that no person can
settle on low grounds, along the mar
gin of streams, without suffering from
ague or other diseases peculiar to the
climate. Mr. III. has very excellent
steam saw mill, and is supplying
black walnut and oak lumber at
S22 90 per thousand. The logs, we
observed, appeared smoother and larg-
er than those we had seen in other Sec
tions of the Territory.
From this point we journeyed down
the Neosho several miles, and visited
a point known as Neosho City loca