Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-06-04
An Interesting Letter.
CARBoNpALE. X. ~. Nav III. 1851.

Allow me 10 preface ILLS lotlor Will q
few words to those who are yet coming to
Kansas. If 1 should sandwich a remark
for the benefit of those who have already
visited Kansas this Spring and gone home
shrieking and shivering, loading the air
with proclamations of their own folly and
spreading dismay among better and Drawer
men, it may make such pioneers ashamed
of achievements even so fiereely heroic as
these. Firstly: let every man who purpo-
ses seeing Kansas this year, make up his
mind firmly and conclusively that he will
find no mansions, very few pianos, compar-
atively nothing in the way Of carpets, and a
general stagnationin the article of crinoline.
Let him take q fond final look at the gray
ell walk and orchard which his grandpapa
provided, and especially let him procure a
daguerreotype of that admirable stone
wall which closes in his stubborn acres
Let him make up his mind to eschew such
l~uxuries as butter the moment he gets
west of St. Louis. A taste of this article,
as it is appears on the Missouri boats, will
convey to his mind "reminiscences of galvan-
ic batteries, Leyden jars, and other scientif-
ic establishments which entered into his ear
ly education. Let him expect when he
reaches Kansas to find a, full sized sand
bar in his stoInache and a general indictions
of snags. This will not hurt him. The
water in the Missouri resembles a t~incture
of brick-yard, but in the. experience of this
writer, it is entirely healtlful and damages
no one who keeps it uhmixed with the lava
of the Western bar rooms. Let u new
pioneers come fully prepared to sleep occa-
s~ionally under the protecting shelter of the
stars. A tent or covered wagon, 100 miles
west of the Missouri river, are ~luxuries
which any person will learn to appreciate.
A genuine Kansas man has many d time
made up his bed on prairie-grass, tied his
horse to his boot, slept comfortably and
awakened gratefully. While he cheerful
" resigns his own matrass and buffalo role
to the comfort of every stranger, he smiles
Mt the regrets which arise from the memo
ry of the maternal warming-pan. In brief
if you come to Kansas TO make a home,
you must 90 to work and make it. If you
come expecting to find it already made,
you will inevitably be disappointed.
The present Spring has been in some re-
spects, a disastrous one for Kansas. When
l reached the Territory (about one month
ago) the weather was sour, disagreeable,
and cherries. Vegetation was contend
ing against desperate odds of drouth and
frost. The Indians were asserting, with
wry faces. shrugs and objurgations, that
within their aboriginal memories, no
month of March or April had been so "bois-
ferrous rough" Many enthusiast came up
the river, expecting to find a ready-made
Arcadia. They landed at Leavenworth or
Quindaro, hurriedto the fire place, cursed
the weather, retreated 10 the steamboat and
negotiated a passage to st. Louis. must
confess that | do not think Kansas has
lost much by these desertions. The chief
gamers have been the steamboat owners
and railroad companies, and our candidates
for pioneer honors have turned out chiefly
Illustrations of the vacuum existing between
the fool and his none.
The Kansas City Enterprise of last
week contained an article commenting OF
the manifesto of Mr.. Secretary Stanton
Having taken SOME pains to ascertain thu
drift Of public sentiment In this town,
was not surprised TO find this editor halt
ing between two opinions, and finally de
Gliding to condemnoMf Stanton on no par
ticular grounds. The substances of TIL
Enterprises article is that Mr.. Stantol
had better hold his tongue, go about his bu
%siness, if he happens to have any, and no
be creating a muss. This is a very fair ex
expression of feeling as it comes to the sur
face in Western Missouri. Not having
made the pulse of Missouri towns the snb
ject of special diagnosis, l would not pre-
sumo to decide whether anything poison.
Gus or not. My firm belief, however, il
that o sober Missourian could not be drag
ged, for fighting purposes, forty miles west
of the Kansas boundary by the best pair Of
mules in the Territory.