The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-08-28
From tie Ensporia Neaos.
Hsvx. Syor, The Inner Neosho.

News from the Upper Neosho.
FIGHT WITH THE KAws-Sheriff God
dard gives US the following particulars OF
an affray which occurred between two
Kaw Indians and white man, residing
on Big John creek, four miles east OF
Council Grove.
On Thursday last, about ten o'clock A.
NJ, two Kaw Indians entered the house
of white settler and sat down on a bed
where lay sick child. The man ordered
them to leave, but they refused to do 80.
The white man then took up poker,
whereupon the Indians drew their bowie
knives and prepared for battle. The wife
of the settler then handed her husband a
loaded gun, which he took and fired at
one of the Indians while in the act of
raising his hand. The ball passed through
his arm, striking him in the mouth and
knocking out several of his teeth /; where
upon both Indians sprang upon him, in
f1icting several severe, but, it is hoped,
not mortal wounds. The wife, catching
up her child, fed from the house, pursued
by one of the Kaws, who wounded her
with his tomahawk. She, however, made
good her escape. The Indians then took
five horses and wagon, belonging to the
settler, to their village called Big John,
and it was reported that they had killed
some of the settlers cattle, and were in
pursuit of hirn-hunting him through the
neighborhood-he having taken refuge at
neighbor's.
THE BANNER.-Our neighboring coun-
ty, Madison, appears, thus far, to be enti-
tied to claim the banner"-not having
cast a single vote for the Bill English
abortion Well done, Madison We
are assured by those who have the best
means of information, that not one-haJ of
the legal votes of the county were cast at
the election. This was mainly owing to
the unprecedented rain; but in part, also,
to the fact that there were but half as
many voting precincts as there usually
have been, and ought to be. Florence
township, the most populous in the coun-
ty, had no voting precinct. There were
five votes in favor of Lecompton, in Madi-
son county, at the election of January
4tb. Where are the Lecomptonites now?
Hid in the "brutch" again?
HEALTH.-There has been considerable
sickness, for some weeks past, in this
vicinity-mostly ague and kindred COM
plants, brought on by the unusually wet
season. We have heard of but two deaths,
and, as general rule, the attacks have been
rather light-yielding readily to medical
treatment. Our physicians, Msssrs. Bal
ley, Slocum, Swisher and Hall, were all
busily engaged for some two weeks, their
ride extending some twenty miles in every
direction from this place.
We are happy to learn that, for the last
week, there has been great improvement;
very few new cases having occurred, while
most of the old ones are rapidly recover
ing. Emporia herself, from her elevated
situation, has been favored with almost
entire exemption from sickness.
THESE THREE."-0xford, Shawnee
and Kiekapoo were three great and pros
porous cities, few months ago. They
cast more than three thousand votes il
favor of Lecompton % at the election o
December 21st, 1857. Now they cas-
barely three hundred and twelve votes
"Oh, what fall was there, my country
men," Surely, some dreadful pestilenc
must have destroyed their inhabitants
Was it the smallpox, the plague, tn
cholera, or the eussed Injins ?" w
pause for reply.
PEARLS! PEARLS I'VE have see
and examined small lot of pearls, sai'
to have been procured from the White
water river, some sixty miles to the south
west of Emporia. We learn that consid
erable quantities of the article have bee
found, and plenty more left of the sam
sort. A jeweler is among the pearl fish
ers, who assert that they are the genuin
article, and no mistake. With gold i
our mountains, pearls in out streams, an
the best breed of men in all the Wes
who says Kansas is poor country!