New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-09

care Of kseh It % ~ Of - esrpest and we
Free-Stat towns. II Ass got bewsPsPer' ~"
people taIk Of rslrosd.
Below Osawstonie Tho osose wnSds lIthef and
thitber until 1t ka,es Lykns County, and Pu.oef
Its deysessl eSurse through reh and De"Sny
bered valley through LINN County IRON wnica
crosses The Aissouri border. The nor0-ossr rn
corner Of Linn County - beid N reserve y 'oe ~"
diane, but the huh Of Il has besu thrown open '.a
IL .ettling up very fast, although claims are s'oi !"
be had.
staid last night With half convrrted ffo-
Slavery man who lives on a proog Of Middle eteeA'
Two families, consisting VI a. many geffss",'''
and Of some fourteen persons IN all, occupied roy
cabin some II BY 10 feet, 70 which WAS ssfA ou
ike bsrnacle, shed Of about one-half the dinen
sions Where they were al slowed, heaven snoTs :,
All Of the Juveniles sfpped Of quietly, az tbey F''
in The humor Of going 10 roost mp pto lne NY
terious and, am happy to say, BY me W. M
plOred, coDyeniences Of the attic, which cohr'-'
Of very obtusely hattened triangle, the centi OF
which could not have been more than four ieet nsn
sides tapering both waJs 10 nothing As the i|
termediate roof was composed Of spit boards "
shakes, / was, several times during the night III
expectation, Of descent by those above. EVeiy
time one Of them turned over there was crack
ling. To make the matter worse, the nice KEPT
running and rafting about: think they must have
who shared with me the donors OF the bed, Nhich
had bedstesd, and which, l presume, was n
served for the accommodation Of trsveJep, snored
on in happy oblivion Of al such minor mlseres,
while lay listening 10 the nice and counting the
ticking Of little wooden Connecticut cOntryance'
nailed up against the wall, measuring out the SLOW
hours OF the night
Our host had been two years in the Territory.
He had raised biz second crop but seemed 10 De
,f h..
surely could be acquired in les, Time The family
food, az both Of The occasions on which | had an
opportunity to observe IT, was cOarsely made corn
bread and fried pork | Ind almost forgotten
dizzy decocti0n they called coffee No vegetables,
or potatOes. | am not much OF an epIcure, esIe'
cially when travelling but could not help -pecu.
hating on the probable effect Of such course ol
detcs on the health-not 10 say mOras-oi the
victims. scientific friend Of mine has theory
that those who use badly fried swne's flesh, from
year 10 year, absorb in some of the worst charac'
teristics Of the animal. | would not like 10 lndOrse
any such speculation but have occasionally been
driven to the conclusion that there was little eyi
dence looking that way.
At breakfast mine host told me- he was " Con
sentative" very innOcently asked him what Con
seryatism was, but he could not enlighten Inc.
lie seemed TO think, however that it was something
that might be Pro Slavery without being altogether
Pro-Slayery, and free-State without being alto
gether Free. State so the reader will perceive that
he was not altogether without glimmerng OF what
il meant.
The tributaries of Sugar Creek have mostly deep
valleys and the bluffs ranging along the streams are
often bold and rocky. On the high land Is rich,
soping prairie: in the bottoms heavy belts of tim
Der. The water in all these streams looks very
clear although observe that saud is very scarce
Sugar Mound unlike the Blue Mound OF Wake
rusa and Webstsr's Peak, near Topeka, is not
solitary watcher, like pyramid; il is rather the
bold termination Of high ridge 1t is mostly COW
cred with timber, and derives its name from the
sugar trees that abound on its sides.
will narrate but another circumstance ere close.
We had been riding along the bold prairie toward
the Little Usage. Once or twice We passed the
charred remains of cabins that had been burned in
former times by the Border Ruhians. AT one place
there WAS ruined chimney, and amid the charred
and broken fragments were glass, broken earthen-
ware, and rusty iron.
"1hat was store, said one of my companions.
Bufords men plundered and burned il in SO.
While riding on, learned that two of these had
been killed at the time IT was done at mound
called Lookout Mound, about mile ahead aud
that their bones still lay there as they never had
been buried
We approached the mound. II vas a singular
eminence 1t rose amid q succession of slopes and
hills, assuming holder and higher peak than any
thing else. Dismounting i left the young men at
the base and assembled The prospect was very
beautiful. Before me. some miles away, lay the
Little Usage, it, Windings marked BY the fringe OF
timber. Ear away to the SOUTH the prospect
melted in the shadOwy outlines Of stream aud slOp
ing prairie Away 10 the left ! could see another
bold, solitary peak. Ii was called Military Mound,
and is close TO the LeayenWorth and Fort Scott
military road. Ii looked like an old-hshioned
cocked-hat in the dim blue distance. To the south
e a "a Ind (tyuak \ fha In
curl up from GAINESVILLE, and could almost fancy
that in the far south saw the timber of the Mar
maton. Settlers have clustered along the streams,
but the prairie is mostly unoccupied.
The mound on which stood has Hat surface of
few rods in extent 1t was on this that two Free
State men, who had owned the grocery store that
was burned down. had taken refuge with their guns.
They had fled from the band that had assailed them
and were there more to keep Ii look out than to
fight. While there portion of the party returned.
There were four horsemen, and they discovered The
Free-Stste men on the mound and undertook TO
tahe them prisoners. The latter lay down on the
summit of the peak, and as the horscnen attempted
10 ride up, fired at them. Two Of the sssailsnts
fen from their horses mortally wounded, and the
other two galloped of. The two Free-State men,
fearing that the rest of the company were not far
oG. Hed, and the two wounded men we're left to die
/ descended from the mound and went to where
their bones lay. The bones were very much
bleached, and had been scattered by the csyotah,
or prairie wolves, that had picked them.
I lifted broken skull. ALAS, poor Yorickm
They surely deserved to die and yet there might be
many hearts that would mourn even for them.
" Had they fatherf
Had they mother!
Hal they . sister,
Had hey hotheyf'
| threw down the bones, and leit them TO crpIn-
bic where they had fallen.