White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-10-15
Correspondents Of the Richmond (va.) Wing.
WHITE CLOUD, KANSAS, Aug. 90, 1857.


DEAR WHrG.-It has been so long since wrote
you that hndi almost impossible to select from
the many items Of interest out here, such as
would be most interesting to you Or your read
ers. During the interval since my last, have
traversed the States of Missouri and Iowa, and
the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It
would be difficult task to embrace in one shert
letter all that is interesting or full of importance
who sits quietly down in the old States can form
any idea 81 the whip. coach and drive system
out here, Time is the esseRce-in this fast coun-
try-of ID things. One week in Kansas or Ne
braska is equal to whole year with you, and
the man who lives twelve months here has pass
ed through lifetime of event compared with
Eastern life. Politically, there is, at present, in
Kansas, a dead calm. Lane sometimes gets up
a muss, but with all his warlike demonstrations
he is in many respects prudent man, discretion
being with him the better part of valor. All of
his gunpowder speeches and martial array will
be but a repetition of the schoolboy's charge on
the mullen stalks. As to our Governor-Walk-
er-he attracts far less attention and is the oc-
of Kansas than in the East. Many Of both par
ties are Indifferent as to his acts and doings;
many Others curse him and few praise. His late
march upon Lawrence-the hot bed Of innova-
ton and treason-has been severely criticize
by some who are ignorant of the circumstances
and unacquainted with the parties But am
very sure, it had salutary effect, as these Law
renee outlaws have hitherto bid defiance to the
constituted authorities of the land, and from the
sacred regard they have for their personal safety
nothing is so well calculated to bring them to
their senses, asthe sight of fire arms or the smell
of sulphur. By the by, they had better get used
to the latter. for it may be an odor which will
play upon their olfactories much stronger in the
ultimately be Free State, there Is but little
doubt. The emigration at present is almost ex
clusively from the North. No country on Gods
wide green earth ever held out stronger induce
ments to the enterprising and industrious. The
tiller Of the soil realizes hundred fold and the
mechanic is well paid for every stroke Of work,
while merchants and speculative gentlemen ac-
cumulate fortunes from little or no investments.
The fertile plains of the Territory are rapidly
fIlingup. The prairie-where but few months
ago no marks Of habitation save the red mans
trail existed, is studded with the signs of advan-
cling civilization and improvement. Towns and
cities are springing up, as if by the magic Of
Aladdin's lamp, all along the Missouririver, and
in many of the inland counties. Our little Town
White Clouds situated Immediately on the
river, near the Nebraska line, has an admirable
landing, and is Just two months old. Yet il
numbers about three hundred inhabitants, and
will, in one year, number as many thousand. We
have all the elements Of great city, and only
want short time to develope them to their 6ul-
lest extent. So rapid is its growth, that Il re-
quiras q continual presence to keep pace with il;
as proof Of this, not long since one Of the first
settlers of the place and resident leff on bust
ness, and was absent only two weeks; when be
came back down the river, he did not recognize
the place, and proceeded hundred miles lower
down, looking for the same little White Cloud
he had left fev days before. To back all, We
have an editor Of taste, talent, discrimination
and constitutional views, who gets up "a paper
that really model for this wild western world.
You must not think that our editor Is like the
editor of Leayenworth, and other little villages
along the river, the. chairs Of whose sanctums
are warmed by a dozen fOEges all going, with as
many anvils ringing in the same room, ten by
twenty feet; six old hens setting on sixteen eggs
each in one corner, and half dozen little edi-
tors and addresses, from one month to FIVE years,
giving out music to the tune Of &uld lang syns
from the left side of the mouth. No, our editor
don't make up dough for cen-doggers With one
hand and write on single with the other
This is not done in his corner Of the room. He
has c sanctum sanetorum Of his own The In
dams of the neighborhood gil our streets daily.
By the By, the Sacs, the Iovas, &c, were mus
tering their forces TO start on an expedition
against the Sioux, their Northern neighbOn.-
The Trust Land sales are just over. The Iouas
realized about one hundred and eighty-fye thou
sand dollars; the Weas and the Delawares near
tIy half million to each tribe, all Of which viii
do them no good. My love to Gizzard Foot,
y.D.M.