Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-06-10

Our steamer is now lying at Parkville Kansas !,
unloading quantity of freight. I shall be at
my present destination tomorrow morning so
look for Kansas matters in my next.
Yours &c. RAMBLER.
LEAvESwoRTH, City, X. t. May 25 so.
MEssRs. EDIToRs:--I have now had slight
view of Kansas. As country. rich in all the
natural elements of rich and powerful State
it has ne superior on this continent. A fine eli
mate, soil unsurpassed in fertility-the Mis-
souri, River along lis border, as a great natural
commercial thoroughfare-all these things which
60 to make up the natural clements OF greatness
in State. But enough of these generalitiess
They have been expatiated on before, many
times.
/ have just returned from Doniphan city
where / spent short time looking around =
The prospect in Doniphan, at present, is rath-
err dull. Business of every kind is almost at a
stand still. The scarcity Of moaey which is
felt all over the Territory, is sadly felt here.
The natural advantages of Deniphan are
great. She has good landing on the Missouri
and several men are at work on the Levee inn
proving it. The town is laid out SO as to in
clude valley formed by small stream that
here empties into the Missouri, and extending
upon the adjoining bluffs, which rise gradually
TO a considerable height. The town presents a
very fine appearance from the River, which
loses none of its attraction on closer view.--
The present population is probably 800 or 900,
Ii contains FIVE or six stores, two steam saw.
mills now in active operation, and a fine brick
building is nearly completed for steam grist-
mill. There is but one hotel at present open.
The noted Jim Lane" is interested in one of
the saw mills here. also in other city property.
The only paper here is the Crusader Of Free
dom published by James Redpath so well kn own
as correspondent of some of the eastern pa
pers. At present he seems to be involved in
pecuniary difficulties, and his paper 10 only
published occasionally. His last issue contains
one or two very strong personal articles against
Gen. Lane, which as near as / can learn meet
with the appreciation of but very few people
of Doniphan. Personal grsviences should sell
dom. if ever. be made the subject of newspaper
articles. 1t is unfortunate that the friends Of
the Free State cause, should waste their time
and talent in personal contentious, and thus
play inadvertently, it may be, still none the less
effectually into the hands of the common foe
1t is certainly to be hoped that these differences
will soon be settled.
The country back of Doniphan is the finest
my eyes ever beheld. At first the prairie is
rather broken and billy, but when you get back
three or four miles, it becomes more level and
stretches away as far as the eye can reach, in a
most beautifully grand, green expanse. Along
the ravnes and water courses are strips of TIM
Dor sufficient for ordinary fencing and fuel 81
present. Here and there over the prairie the
eye rests lovingly upon farm house and il
adjacent ploughed fields. Altogether the view
is an enrapturing one.
| Notwithstanding the "hard times" there is
considerable building going on in Doniphan. =
The buildings going up are mostly residences,
though amongst them is the brick grist mill, be-
fore spoken of, and building for Livery Sta
BILE. The foundation is being prepared for a
large brick Hotel A by 144 feet and four stories
high City lots in all parts of the town are
held extraordinary high and can but think
that the Town Company and holders Of rsa
estate are pursuing very suicidal course, ant
keeping settlers away. in thus holding lots SC
high. There are cities laid out every two or three
miles along the river, besides those in the int
rior, and they cannot all grow to any importance
yet these fifty years. The time for speculation
in city lots is about past, and the sooner the
owners of paper cities find this out and act upon
it, the better it will be for them.
Politics seem to be dull. The election held
last week to vote on the Leavenworth constitu
ton created but little interest Not more thar
half vote was polled, the polls in several OF
the precincts not being opened at all. The
causes are that the legality of the convention
may be called in question, and then there is
misunderstanding in reference to the suffrage
question. There are many Free State mer
here who are opposed to Negro suffrage, and a
they could not vote for the Constitution did no
vote at all
The time for voting on the English compro-
mise, Lecompton Constitution has not yet beer
announced There seems to be a very genera
IeouhS HcicI tAat ~ "hi W iSySStCN W q ldi ~
majority. There are some pretended Free Stat
men who are electioneering for the Lecomptol
swindle on the ground that the land grant thu
secured viii advance the growth and wealth o
the State, while they can alter the Constitution
afterwards to suit themselves. But these ar
guments do not seem to be very effective, a
far as have heard. 8
News has just been received here of an out
rageous act committed by a party of Missouri
ans and slave State ruffians of Kansas, at Mo
neka Kansas. The party numbering some 3
liz Missourians and the balance citizens o
Kansas-assembled at West Point Mo. an,
passed into the Territory near Moneka, an,
marching along the road, took every Free Stat
man they met prisoner, until they had twely
lpeaeeable unoffending citizens in their power
They then called halt, placed the prisoners i
| line and at given signal shot them all. Eigh
of the number were killed and four left on tn
ground wounded, and the miserable murderer
then made their way back to Missouri. The trut
of the report is not doubted here. A eompsn.
Of Free State men was raised at once and wen
in pursuit of the ruifans. Yours &c.
RAMBLER.
The Mormons.
A writer in the St. Louis Republican
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