New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-12

proach. To grsde the nlsn sFeu'le Vu'Ni''"
viii cost as much a. 10 grade this whole town.
These Indian titles are the great drawback 70 the
advance of the settlements Government allows
each Nyandot man. woman and child. pension
Of about $3.50 and a number of acres OF land. Inc
pension keeps them in whisky and corn meal; ana
for the rest they care nothing. They Will not seu
and thev will not improve. Mr.. Split-og. for
instance owns fine bottom Of two hundred acres
along the Kansas in the immediate nelghbOrhOod OF
Wyandot. Mr. Split-log will not sell an acre. The
Widow Lump-ou-the head OWNS fine farm TO the
north. Widow Lump-on- the-head IL OF the same
mind with Mr. SpLt-lOg Mr.. Nud-eater thinks
with his Indian brother and sister, aud keeps his
land out Of market. On the other hand. Mr. Arm
strong the Walkers and others take an active inter-
est in the advance of the town, and put in their
farms at fair prices.
The Wyandotts are rapidly DIVING out. IL whisky
that does il. Whisky made with the AID OF strych-
nine-a happy invention OF the brewers, for | hold
that the worse the whisky the better The number
of widows in the nation is remarkable The oldest
man ia only sixty-one. They number now about five
hundred only. and in few years will b. extinct.
Emigration is setting very rapidly into the Terri
tory. Lots at LesyenwOrth have already reached
the prices NJ Eastern cities. AT Lawrence the adj
vance has been at least one hundred per cent since
the Winter. As land advances soenormOusly in one
place upon the Kansas. emigration PUSHES IN the
next Thus Topeka, the next town to Lawrence. has
advanced within three weeks several hundred per
cent. The tide appears TO set generally up the
Kansas.
From all that can gather, there are two or three
points in the TERRITORY where the soil is singulary
irrtile-nOthlDg superior Ia II IN our country he
tween the Grasshopper and the Stranger, about 30
miles west from Leayenworth-upon the Big Blue,
100 miles west-upon the Neosho, in the southern
part Of the Territory - miles south of Lawrence.
All these | am told. are among the most favored
portions Of the Territory.
Fruit grows here in wonderful abundance aud per-
fiction: peaches at the Missions, unequaed in
Delaware or New jersey; melons in quantity and
size unknown in our Eastern world; wild grapes,
and wild plrlms, tolerabe in flavor, but showing
that the cultivated fruit will be delicious. com
pany of Germans, from Cincinnati, who have made
their settlement near Fort Riley have brought with
them some vine slips from Ohio and hope 10 have
vineyards soon to rival those of that STATE.
The country abounds in animals. Buffalo still lin
ger within 80 miles of Fort Riley; deer and ante
lope on the banks of the Big Blue; prairie wolves,
'coons. ground hogs and the nameless yistants OF
our Eastern poultry yards abound. There are some
snakes but not numerous-two curious specimens
among them: The Joint snake, tap him the slight
esbtlow and he flies into hall dozen pieces, the
head making rapidly off; report says that he has the
power of putting the pieces together again but l
believe he has never been seen 10 90 IL. Inc OOW
snake, he swells himself up with inhahng wind and
then Kisses il ont like goose.
There are already very good facilities for getting
back into the country and they increase every day.
Boats have navigated the Kansas successfully; two
or three will soon be running regularly-two from
this point, one from Quindaro. Daily stages start
from Leayenworth for Lawrence, tri-weekly from
Kansas City for the same point and daily line will
soon start from Wyandot. A weekly line OF stages
runs from Leayenworth to Fort Riley, and horses,
wagons and carriages can be hired at the former
place for any part OF the Territory. The roads are
excellent; the soil well adapted for roadbeds.
| start to-day for Leayenwortb, and then for n
horseback excursion back into the Territory. |
shall write you from the first practicable point but
doubt if il will be before my return to Leavenworth.
News arrived this morning OF the appointment OF
Robert j.. Walker as Governor, aud OF his accept
ance of the post The appointment Ia looked upon
fayorably by the Free-State men, as an indication OF
desire ON the part of the Administration TO give
them men of position, an abandonment OF the old
policy of making the Territories hospitals for bro
ken-down politicians. They have no fear that
Walker will attempt To make Kansas a Slave State,
and they are certain that he will not have the power
if he have the inclination. Sevenelghts ct the daily
arrivals in Kansas are Prostate men, and of the
other eighth, one half are of the same mind as soon
as they have acquired an interest in tho Territory