Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-11-29

I LETTER Faox KAYzAs.-Col Iyers Phil
lips Of Fitohburg, who is now travelling in
Kanzas, has written home letter, from
which we make the following extract, as pub
lished in the RersiHs. The letter is dated
Sumner, K. T.. Nov. )
at began to ram the day after l left home,
aud has rained more or less every day since,
some Of the time as fast as [ ever saw it. Tie
oldest i7ha5itqR,s say they never knew such
time ia kaBzas before. Business is extreme.
ly dull. can see no chance to make any
money 81 present. have seen nobody yet
that l would trust, and no property that 1
would dare buy. Banking business here 1
think is out OF the question at present. 1:
there is anything to be sold here that will sell
at the East, (such hides, fur, or pelts)
something may be made for have no doubt
the prices for cash will be low. l intend to
look the country over to see what can be
done, as soon as the mud and water dry up
50 that l can travel At present there is no
use in trying. The mud is knee deep, there
are no bridges, and the water in the streams is
SO high that they cannot be f1rded. l am
told there has been 10 mail between this
place and Lawrence for three weeks
Yesterday, Nh. Montgomery, member of
Congress from Pennsylvania called here, and
l went with him to Atchson. The town is
in plain sight Of here about three miles dis
tant up the Missouri river. We took a car
riage aud went by the nearest practical road
about six miles over the prairie, and reached
the place Just before noon. We went into
the hotel and registered our names. l wrote
ray name last. and was careful to write oppo-
site - my name, Massachusetts, in promi-
nent hand. As 1 turned ftom the bo9k, Mr.
Montgomery Introduced me as from Msssa-
chuseus, to Doctor StrtRgfe!to10 he offered
his hand with a good natrued smile, and
did the same 10 him, and with the other hand
pointed to my name and residence on the
h9ok, and asked him if it was now safe for q
Massachusetts, man to register his name in
kanzas. The Doctor replied, yes, perfectly
safe, the danger is on the other side now
This led to lengthy and pleasant converse
ton Stringfelow is a different man from
what had pictured in my Imagination. In
stead of the broad shouldered, bluff, fighting
man, had supposed BIN, he is q spare, red
faced, inotfensiye looking and appearing man.
Atchison, you viii recollect, has been one of
the strongholds of the pro-slavery men in
Kanzas. 1t was owned to great extent by
David K. Atchison and this same Doctor
Stringfellow, and it was from this place that
Elder Pardon, an inotfensjve free State preach
er, was sent down the river on a RAFT, after
being tarred and featheied, and bound, and
sign placed over him on which was written,
'Emigrsnt Aid Society bound East, or some
thing like it. No doubt it was expected he
would perish on the raft, but as he was float
ing by the spot where this town now stands,
then wilderness. some one who happened to
be on the bank OF the river, saw, and rescued
him, ahd understand that he now resides
near Atchison, and can call on the Doctor,
who was prominent actor in the outrage,
without any fear of injury. The pro- slavery
people in this territory are now the most
harmless people in the would. Atchson is
complete mud hole, much worse than this
place. 1t is situated mostly on what they call
here the river bottom, not the bottom of the
river, but on the flat land by the side of it.
The place where l conversed and dined with
Dir. Stringfelow, must be very near where
poor Pardon was embarked on his eastern
voyage. Most of the pro slavery men have
left. aud Stringfeow is about to follow.
Atohison is now free State city, and Gen.
| Pomeroy, formerly of Massachusetts, is the
mayor"