New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-12
OLD POTAwATAMIE MISSION.

spoboener N
BIG SUGAR CREEK, Dec. 81, 1856.
frd that there is an abundance Of splendid
claims all about this region; timber plenty, but no
mills TO saw it. No finer country for stock raisDg
can be found as there ia a fine supply sf stO,k-
water al d rich food for cattle. The Free-State
people outnumber the others, and now, all that is
wanted is Northern blood and Northern capital to
make this whole region very paradise All the
Free State families who have been driven away are
spxious TO return. ! take it that no better testi-
mony ss 10 the fertility ard beauty Of the county
could be asktd. ! find the settlers, to man, loud
in their praises Of Kansas. Notwithstanding all
their hardships and suferings, aud the violence to
which they have been exposed. yet here they are
determined to remain, and here they will remain
"Oner us," they say "a whole continent, else
where and we don't want il; We choose rather SIX
feet Of Kansas earth to sleep in, if so it must be-
living or dying, Kansas is our home. To give you
an idea Of the value Of this county for stockrais-
ing Just listen TO what ore settler says, My cattle
- have not fed a bite yet this Winter, and don't
expect 10. The grass in the bottom is just as
sweet and tender as IT IS IN May. There Is
kind of something growing here" wild rye, l
suppo,e), (Which is growing now, just as green as
1T ever was. II il about six inches high at thi.
time, and is growing as IL does In Sumner l
asked this gentleman for what reason he preferred
Kansas TO other States. "Tell me- said l. in
"uhat particular il differs and Is better. Com.
pare it with Illinois and Indiana" why, said
be. "the climate is better, and the soil is better
"Tbere are spots in Illinois and Indiana where the
'spd is as good as any in the world, but there sre
"others as poor; now here, in Kansas, 1t ~ good
"eyerywhere. Even the sides Of the mounds,
where it is rocky the soil IS like manure, and
"yiney ards and orchards will do well. Besides,
"heIe We get all the stone We want The whole
"couny il covered with limestone which lies on the
surface At the edges and sides Of the mounds, and
4 Z kal. at cf trpt
1.-The ravnes, find about here beautiful red
Sandstone which can be cut with a common saw,
"apd grows harder with age. We have plenty OF
soft coal here. / have seen it within three miles
"of this place, where they it in blacksmthing.
1--WE have Ia ,ge crab apple; the tree can be bud
"ded with the tame apple. We have an abundance
" Of splendid yellow plume The Wild grape is
"like hat we call in Indiana the Fall grape. The
wild goose berry grows abundanty in all the bot
toms Mulberries, pawpaws and May apples,
wild artchokes, the wild potato (the original
"potato), grow here in abundance; the hogs get
- fat ON them. This 10 fine county, too, for ba-
"bies. allow I've got the first boy born 10 Kan
sas, and the finest and latest that be found.
90 call him Benton. Any amount OF strawberries;
"tbey were so plenty last year that the hogs ate
Them; black raspberiies also plenty. And this
lis the greatest country you ever saw for melons
80 big it would bother you to carry them. l
" have seen them a. feet long"
i
mony of my friend, Capt. BckertOp, whose word
| would take as soon as that Of any living man.
Cant y. has a claim seven miles from Lawrence.
He says, 1--WE seen rsdishes as big round as my
"leg above the knee these radlshes grow on my
claim; and, mind you, these grew On the high
prairie. My beets, too, we're so big that they
chad TO boil them 10 & wash boiler; bat did not
get any of them for the devilish Pro-Slavery fel
"iows had me up to LecOmptOn, graduating in
Their college" Preacher Stuart tells me he saw
sweet potatoes which measured four feet, eleven
inches in length.
SUGAR MOUND, Dec. -.
The foregoing was scrubbed in little smoky
cabin. with no Light save little which was obtained
by tearing of single from the side OF the house.
| want cur people encouraged at the East.
This country is by far too beautiful to be sban-
doued. Besides, the free North should know that
the men who have been driven away are returning,
and a great many others are coming also while
ProSlayeryites are selling out as fast as they can
sud goiI off, or else turning Free-State men
Many Of the leading spirits in the late outrage, are
now talking tenderly and lovingly Of peace and
broiherly kindness, and forgetting the Psst. The
prime head devils frightened at seeing the heads
If s,ue of their number rolling in the dust, and per-
ceive. 10 q certainty, that Kansas canno, be en-
.laved hence their changed tune.
The single truth Is, aud / learn 1t mere and
more. these fellows Of Missouri AMI the South had
nm honest idea that Yankees were towards. They
came in here hugely fixed up to frighten women and
children They came in with great false wiskers aud
other such dreadful f1ings, 10 scare the Yankees
and 10 their very great surprise as well as eon;ter
nation, they found that these deyilish Yankees
viii fehtw Two of the ehivalry met some OF our
men between Law renee and WestpOrt, AMI very
mpacently asked them, 4" do you think the Yankees
will really sehtl' "Ifyou expect anything else,
was tue answer, you'll find yourself most aeu-
cfdly mistaken" "Is tbs co." said the interro-
gator; why, this is mole than We bargained Tor.
Now Just look at their whole course. Ihey pever
came except in what they considered Overwhelming
numbers. When they came they marked tneir
course BY cruelties snd shocking barbariues CALICO
lated as they supposed TO strlke terror INTO their
fees. All their paraPhernalia was on scale
suited to the intellects of the Chinese. lacy at
tempted 10 bride the 0ssges and the CheroAees al
SIS per scalp and IL is said had 200 Of the latter
under marching orders, but Ross, the Chief
stepped in and put stop 10 II. While was com
ing up the river heard the colored barber VITA
grin, telling how the GeOrgians and Mls.i'siPpiais
were mstss ken about the =" blue bellies. The
Yankees will Tight hear the same expression ID
every direction now an exclamation Of surprse-
F" tie danced Yankees viii fgbt liks tigers. Inc
fact II, old Titus spoke the ruth, the game u
nm Tha N6nka.s f.ht gharpf. rifas have