New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-31
POLIrIC%THE MISSOURI RIVER.

rrespon ieuce Of The Boston journal
The political waters beginning TO move as me
fret Monday of August approaches. In Sumner, prep:
arstioDs being made TO give grand barbecue shi
reception to the Hor Marcus j. Parrott ON the 5oth
rst In other localities meetnes are being held, ana
several speakers are in the field Some OF our public
nen seem to fear that the people are spsthetc that
while they will undoubtedly vote down the Lscompton
Constitution and Land Grant, the majority Will be less
emphatic than has been anticipated. ihls vies
souatters lively uteree seems to pervsde the n and
an almost uLiversal determination Is expressed 10 go
TO the polls. The vote against Lcompton on the 4tn
Of January last was 10 9. At tha. election Oil resi-
dents of the Territory who had been here thirty days
we're permitted TO vote. Were the same rule applied
70 this election think the vote against the Eoglsh
bill would be l5 0C0. But the six months reiidence
cuts OF the immigration CT last Sprbgi 90 the woe
will not probably reach those figures.
A single incident will illustrate the feeling in msny
qusrters toward the English Jusgle. While return
ing from Topeka the other day met settler whom
bad not seen for year Noticing M saM s.1,b ne looked
"Que feeble, was the reply. an hardly able
TO be about; have been running down for several
months. fear sometimes that shall never recover,
but hope at all eveIis to live long enongo 70 give
nv vote against the Lecompton CONSTITUTION. can
de more c0ntenttd!y after that
During the recent high waters, the people OF Leav-
enworth have been in some trepdatlon 1887 the r'eI
should leave the town and run on the otner sde OF On
islard directly opPoeite Such an event would OF
oourte ruin the prospects Of Lesvenworth. An en-
sipeer has been dispatched to ST. Louis TO examine
the precautions which taken there * Anst
similar disaster. The freaks Of the Missouri IN tnis re-
spect are sometimes anything but pleasant Weston,
EIGHT miles above Leavenwerth, formerly stood on ne
river bark; but within few years the stream has
left the town. ard formed in front OF It many scree OF
loose, candy soil. The large brick warehouses which
formt rly stood on the levee, are now quarter OF
mile from the river and the grass is growing around
them. Steamboats, are compelled to land At rock
bluff below the town.
At St. Joseph on the other hand, the river has for
org tine been cutting into the town site, carrying
away several acres every year. A gentleman VINO
purchased some lots in st. Joseph on the evee, seve
raj wears ago recently went up to look at them. un
able TO ascertain their precise ocary, Though they
were believed to be somewhere in the bed OF the
river) he employed . surveyor TO settle the question
The survey actually proved them to DO on ne otae'
SIDE Of TIE rrer, in the new town OF Elwooo hanses.
At point further north last Summer, a still more
sipeulsr incident occurred. A new town had bsen
stated on the Nebraska side Of the Missouri, where
that stream forms the boundary line between
our sister Territory and Iowa. The prospects
fsttenDg. Improvements were gong oo
swiDmingy, and the owners Of the town saw IN
the future "pockets full Of reks.' But, alas
for human expectations The embryo city was
situated at the extreme point Of An elbow in
the nver, and one fine morning the " mad Missouri
took new shoot, mskirg straight hs crooked channel
The result wss that the promising young commercial
city, in the Territory Of Nebraska, was suddenly trans-
formed into an inland torn ." ne S'Gse o. lora zee
miles from The rirer Who can have confidence here
after in the safety Of real estate on the Missouri e1
eept here nature has given bonds IN the shape OF
rock bluff that il will not surreptitlousH run away
from the river, and hide in the rural districts Of the
interior