Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-06-18

and his Opinion on the Fate of the Eng
lish BiH-Spring Hill-" CiiIIing,7
and Ro10 1t is Auoided- Olatke-THs
Governors AnSDer to an duplication
for 7Foops-PaHSon about dgain-the
heart-rending AdUent1sres Of our Cor
respondent, IN pursuit Of a Nights
Lodging mpder Didicuhies-Hdians
hard to kill.
SUMNER, Kansas, Saturday,
May 29, 1858.
To the Editor oftEe Boston Journal:
The half finished account Of trip
through johnson county commenced in
my letter of the 22d, from Spring HID,
has been delayed some days by the more
recent startling news from the Southeast.
Leaving johnson City and the Santa
Fe road behind, I continued my south
ward Journey. The route was through
some Of the richest country have ever
seen, even in Kansas. a jet black soil
which the ravines, where they have cut
into it. often showed to be from three to
seven feet in depth ; the swells of the
prairie rolling gracefully in all directions,
like the waves of the sea suddenly arres-
ted the tall grass, intermingled with
wild flowers Of every hue, nodding to
and fro to the steady wind the dark,
narrow belts oftimber fringing the stream
beds (dry half the year, which crossed
atintervals of five or six miles; the fields
of black loan, turned up by the great
breaking plows, which cut furrow near
ly two feet in width; the farmers plant
ing their corn, OF building fences around
their claims; the hundreds of mules, work
ing oxen and beef cattle grazing along the
slopes in great drOves, guarded by atten'
dants on horseback, soon to be sent over
the plains in the Utah Expedition; the
SIGNS of settlement and cultivation on al
most every claim, where year since one
might travel for miles without seeing one
bona 7fas resident, or inhabited dwelling
these were the salient points Of the
region.
Passing down into ravine, my road
led directly over a plowed field, where
two men were planting corn, and third
was standing by, hands in pockets, look
ing lazily on. Tall and and gaunt-eyes
a little bloodshot-nose a little red-haiI
LONG and matted-face rough and un.
shorn, with bunch upon one cheek, IN
dicative of a great roll Of tobacco within
-he was evidently not a native of the
land of free schools, railroads and news
papers. We nodded to each other, aPC
I was passing on, when he asked:
"What State are you from, stranger Z
"Ohio. Where are gou from ?"
"Old Kaintuck. Shouldn't have asked
but reckon thar's going TO be righ
smart fight here, one Of these times, anl
[ like to know whar every man stands.
His half lfthreatening, half inquiring tom
was comical,rather than otherwise. Ihro
carelessness, when leaving home, l wa
armed with nothing more formidable thai
a cotton umbrella; but he was unawar
ofthe fact. So l answered, laaghingly
"Youll send US word in season to leav
before YOU commence the fight, won'tyou
Or did it commence up there" (Pointin
TO the house of one Of the Pro-Slaver
men lust robbed and warned to leave tn
country ''the other night p
"No Sir" he repliod, his tone Iiti
milder; "politics had no hand IN tha
Those fellers was just pack Of d
thieves. They don't care anything aboT
slavery-they only wanted old Evan
money. I know who they are
"Did they modest your"
"Nary time. They know better P7
cot twelve Mississippi rifles, and seve
or EIGHT bowie-knives, and six revolver
I'D in nv house. Six of Us stops theI
and if they come near as, we'd kill ever
mothers son of them by --! The
know it, too, and they keep away. l sa
one of them ride by here yesterday, ar
had a great mind to shoot the d
scoundrel on the spot; but I thought l
let bin CO."
"How about the English bil-win Il
people in this county accept 1t p
"Well-I-reckon- (Reluctar
W. It's mouse trying, for there's he'
of Free State men here. Kansas Is bouI
TO be a Free State now. But l dol
care much. after all. I've got rig
good farm here of a hundred and SIX
acres. and I've got ten niggers in c
Kaintuck don't dare to bring them
Kansas now shall sell them next ye
and buy more land here, and hire pc
white men TO work it. So, if they VIC
let have black servants, I'll have VIII
ones, by -"
And "old Kaintuck" changed his
bacco uuid to the other side OF his mou
and bade me a comparatively civil go
day." I learned, on the same eVenH
an amusing commentary upon all
boasting, for it seems that he scas rece
ly visited and robbed by party OF ma
ders one night and instead OF brlngl
his Mississippi rifles and revolvers to b. b.
on them, he roared gently as a suckl
dove, and begged them piteousiy to sP'
his life, and to leave some OF his WI
key!
Spring Hill is situated on the sou
ern line of the county. The MethoC
church has made it the centre OF
cult called the "Spring Hill Circuit.
trouble has occurred in that vicinity,
the people are all busy in fencing
improving their rich farms. From
point l returned to Olathe, the coul
seat, (ten miles.) The morning was