Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1857-10-20
Correspondents VI Vie G~resa9rier Era.
Letter from BraxtOn &. Il.
BnAxroa G. II, Va
Monday, 28th Sept, ~.

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On Saturday morning laat, ! stage
coach, containing s passengers, arrived
in our village. from Weston. Tie party
consisted of Gen. John L. Gowan and
Henry g. Barrars, Of Philadelphia; John
G. Underwood, il. Cross, and Wm.
Mctiregor, Of New York, and George w.
jackson, III Fauquuief County, ya. Gen.
Cowan and J. G. Underwood. are said
to be connected with Eli Thayer's fir-
giua Colonization s G ,ernc, aud we're both
members of the Convention which nomI-
nate Fremont for thr Presidency, the lit
ter beiny the same Underwood who mis-
represented YifginiaIin thai Udiifeition.
/ They represented themselves here % be
members Of q Company whose object is
Ne settAssa colony from The Highlands Of
Scotland, on the u~nimprosed lands Of
this and some of the adjoining Counties
Of which Company Cow ll Is / prominent
and\weAithy member, and Underwood IS
Secretary. They say they purchase four
hunatea thousand acres oil land. ofE enry
10. Middleton, Esq, for the sum of two
hundred thousand dollarsfof which they
have paid in al,A ancee twenty thousand
dollars. They came here for tliS purpose
Of examining i tract containing upwards
Of eighteen thousand acres, lying oppn.
%site4oar village and extending aIdistanee
Of MORE than twenty mites along the
Soutiside q Elk River, upoa v lich they
designed to settle some I59 families of
Ithtif Scotch tmigranls. learning, how
eyert that Middleton title a. tl,e land
sias disputed, they abandoned the idea OF
taking possession of The tract opposite
ills pIade, arld, i il said. are nil o~tistiips
for the purchase OF Col AddisJn Nj,
Laughli4I Shutdown Salt NorksEpfoper-
E,ty at fifteen thousand dollars. i i$pos-
aible that they will Pufc ase stdE1ne other
large tract intlFis County, DC which there
Is large number, tlietitlts TO which are
settled. McGfegof il a highly in Alfgent,
hard handed Scroteliman. and Engineer
and Machinistr and SAYS that leland his
countrynen arc hard working men, Of
small meat,s, and will devote themselves
10 lear n9g the land and ii ulasaih dnical
occupations Of various kinds. He ex7
pressed himselfhighIy pleased with Brax-
tom and would report farorably % his
friends in regard 70 4 settlement hhere
Iftliis Company should send lY / col
onS of Scots, We shall receive them Kind,
iy, but il Ell Thager should undertake,
under eover Of this scheme, toy Introduce
his Free soilers into our midst, lie and
they will soon be made aware ttia We
know the difference between q 'tteenny
Seotchmap.nn and His nigger- Juggling
friends from fl,e cold side of Masoa Tand
Dikon's line; and that we wiIInet toler-
ate the presence Id DIR County ofH alI. Or!
gahized body of men, whose avowel OBJ
ect is the destruction Of eli & most & lerfsh-
ed institutions Of the South F'ree soil
settlers. ahA Free soil newspapers, sdrh ais
the New York THINE, Gyulier M H.
qeaiirer, and others Of thar stripe. " lind
but few. friends in this part Of Yisgiaaiia,
and We hope that they will have sliffei-
ent regard Or heifbealth 10 locate some
where else. and save US The necessity Of
interfering 70 prevent their s~ettl9neut
amongst us Yours, truly, LIZ.
rHE Kit EE-TI<r- -%N@ ST 4 II EFt