The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-07-23
Editorial Correspondence cf the steubenville
Union.
MAnYsvILIE, X. 7.
,Inne 30. 1857.


Here am on the banks of the "Big Blue,n
or "Bip Blue Earth River" as it is marked in
the school Biographies. Malysville, tlom
where write consists Of a story and hall log
house, the lower portion of which is occupied
AS a store room by 7. J. Marshall, and the up
per story or garret is used as a court room for
the Court of Marshall county-the entrance to
which is by a ladder in one corner OF the store
room. There is also, at distance OF hall Il
mile double log cabin which is kept as pub
lie house. These are all the buildings at pres
cnt in the town. But one thousand acres have
been surveyed as town site, and handsome H.
thographs represents great city, which the
proprietors say is to he built here
The mail facilities are SO poor here that |
have not heretofore found an opportunity to
write, and now do so with kind Of halt antici-
nation that | will be at Steubenvllle before my
correspondence. But here goes at risk.
| | arrived at Leavenworth on the 4th inst,
and walked around for an hour looking at the
place. 1t consists Of some 1GO houses, mostly
small one story buildings made of undresscd
cotton wood lumber. Workmen were busy ev-
ervwhere putting up the same kind oi houses
and the music of the saw and hammer greeted
uS at every turn. Visited the livery stable o
our old townsman, Alexander Repine, and found
It fnIl Of horses, but he was absent. Found the
nrice of horses more than double what they are
in Ohio, and the livery rates not to be thought
of for long Journey; took the stage for Law
renee. thirty miles distant--fare, owing to com
petition only SO. Passed over high rolling
and rich country all the way--wood small ano
scarce for the first dozen mles--the balance
was through the Delaware Indian reservation
where the wood was better, and as we nearet
the Kansas river it spread over wide eXten
and became excellent.
At Lawrence, where we arrived about five il
the evening, the people were in state O. grea
excitement. The bogus sheriff had latei,
, assessed their property and they had just helt
/ a meeting and resolved not to pay cent Q
taxes. Governor Walker had come down iron
Lecompton for the purpose OF persuadlng then
/ differently There were two oplnlons-soln
} were for taking the Governors advice, and tn
. others were violently opposed to doing so. Ev
ery street corner and "doggery," oil which eVe
D ! in this "old Massachusetts, town, there wer
mot few, had its crowd of hot disputants.-
Here found General James Ii. Lane, who IN
e vited me over to his wigwam, where we took
5 smoke, and talked over matters. lie justine
| his course, and that Of the ultra free state me
r of which he is the leading spirit upon clrcun
e stances of which he alleges the people IN the Ire
: states know little or nothing. also met GoV
1 ernor Robinson General Pomeroy, Mr.. jenkins
DR. Cutter a grandson Of the "Marietta' Ou'
tor in our State. S. n Wood, and other nota
Utilities of the Free State party. The principl
topic was the Topeka Legislature, then about
assemble. No one seemed to know precisel
= what they were going to do; no plan SCENE
( agreed upon, and the more prudent aeknowled
Al. yboIo was a
which thew scarcely know how to get out Of Wit
' any kind Of credit. They were determined NJ
to vote for members of the Constitutional Coz
J. yention; but asowed that they would vote f
d ,nsmbers Of the Territorial legislature me-
i October. when they expect to carry every ele
ton district in the Territory. endeavored
+ understand them on the hypothesis Of consi
ofI tency. but could not. They would not vote
Y the Constitutional election, because that wou
l. recognize the bogus Legislature; but they wou
r vote in October for Delegates to Congress al
!. 6r Legislative officers under the same bogus
! laws.
MI They also avowed their intention Of yotit
sr down the Constitution which might be submit
y ted to them, whether good or bad; saying tn
A. they had the majority and would make co
e. Estitiltion in their own time, and such one
thew wanted suggestion that it would
III Of vast interest to the prosperity of the Ter
ne tory to have political matters settled immet
ateiy and finally, the reply was that such 81
slement might tend to build sp the 'd-d del
ocratic'' party which they desired to see crus
Ell TO atoms. withdrew, more than ever CO
WINGED chat the Free State leaders dc not des
TO see peace or fraternal feeling prevail arno
n the people Their object is to keep Kans
i'll 'bl eding'' for the purpose Of furnishing bla
Of Republican electioneering capstal in the Stat
at Looking over the whole field, and after mixi
or with the people Of the Territory for near
he month, such d conclusion forces itself upon /
- irrcsistably. aesa
an Lawrence contains some fifty housosr mos
n buat OF limestone in concrete" among VIII
re are two churches. Several new buildings I
10 going up, among them the large stone hotel
stroved by the "Border Rufiansv' Went il
the 'HeraId Of F.eeiom'' printing office, a