The Kanzas news., 1857-09-12
On the wne
Editorial Correspondence of THE News.

After an absence of fifteen months from
familiar faces and scenes-from associations
dear TO US In the East, we find ourselves
son the wing" towards the land of sunrise
and pumpkin pies. Our life in kanzas,
though but twelve months in duration, has
yet been the most eyentfuI period of a chang
ing and stirring existence. We would not
exchange the glorious experience we have
here gained for all the wealth of an Astor or
Girard. In Kanzas we have lived out,
though but feebly, the life and thoughts
which previously we had only dreamed
All our heart is centered in her welfare, and
We shall ever count it one of the blessings
which sometimes are felt in life, that we have
been enabled to participate in the contest
which has rocked SO stormfully her bloody
childhood. The thorn crown is still press
ing her brow; the burden yet weighs her
down; the clouds are black In her sky and
the horizon looks still more gloomy; yet a
future, radiant as poets dream, is before
her, and the green swells of her prairies
shall blossom and bloom all over with gran
deur and newer forms of intelligence, har-
mony and life. Be of good cheer, for
''Hearts, high and mighty, gather in our cause"
and though we may have much to endure,
yet remember the words of the singer, that
Triumph and Toll are twins and aye,
Joy seems the cloud of Sorrow;
And, It's the martyrdom to-day,
Brings victory Tomorrow
We left Lawrence this morning in the
well appointed stages of our friend Col.
Walker, and arrived in this town at four P.
M. The country thro' which the route
passes is one of the rarest fertility and beau
ty. The prairies swell out like the undula-
ting lawns and parks of the old world, and
the grand old forest trees that dot them all
over, add to the apparent reality of the land
scape. If we could see some Yilla-like resi-
dence dotting some of these green knolls, it
would be easy to imagine thatWe we're trans
ported back to "Merrie England"
Quindaro Is one of the wonders of Kan
zas. We well remember our first visit to it
of half dozen log cabins and shanties.-I
The shell of large Hotel was just erected
and armies of laborers were busily engaged
in cutting roads, leveling the hills grading
the streets and so forth. A friend once
said to US, rather irreverently, we thought,
'fthat nothing was impossible to God or a
Yankee" We thought when we saw the
place chosen for the site of a great CONNER
cial city, that the projectors were acting on
the principle involved in the above remark,
for none 6u a Yankee would ever have
thought of building a town on the tops of such
hills and bluffs. But they have done it, and
to-day there are over one hundred buildings
In Quindaro, and about six hundred inhabi-
tants on the town site. The town is Free
State, with back 6one-197 votes were cast
here for the Peoples Constitution at the late
election. There are twenty handsome stone |
buildings finished and in process of erec-
ton. It has large and handsomely fitted |
Hotel, a well furnished printing office, the
largest saw mill we have seen in Kanzas, |
and eight stores of different kinds. Pretty |
well, we think, for a town not eight months |
old. So much for Yankee energy and en-
terprise.
We visited the Chindouaa sanctuna, and
was there greeted by the pleasant face of
our gentlemanly friend, A. D. Richardson, |
the able correspondent of the Boston Jour
nal. He is engaged during the absence of
Mr.. Walden, in carrying on the ChisdoUan,
which we are glad to learn is rapidly inereas-
ing its circle of friends and subscribers
Mr.. Walden was absent attending a District
Convention at Delaware. We passed pleas
ant time with his worthy associate, who is
an able an honorable member of the editorial
corps.
There is a complete dearth of news items,
and so perforce we must close by advising
all our friends who come this way to pay
the Quindaro House visit. Messrs. Park
er d Colby, eye host" viii be found most
obliging and courteous, and their table is
decidedly the best supplied at which we have
been seated in Kanzas.