New-York daily tribune., 1859-06-01

the Garden Of Eden exceeded this land IN beauty
or fertility, pity Adam for having 70 leave II.
The earth VAS Thoroughly scddeD with ram, 40 that
| temporsry springs We're bursting ont en slmos,
every acre. while the water courses, cluilng
those ufually dry, ran heavy streams, each OF them
requiring skill IN The chario,eer and good conduct
on the part OF the horses to pass them without
balk or break We must haze crossed over hun
dred Of these "runs 10 the course Of this days
travel, each Of them with trying erh on the car
riage, and generally with spriog 90 The part oi
the horses. Thee water. r..sys have generally
limestone bottom not far below the surfi e of their
bed: but their banks are apt 10 be steep, and are
continually growing more 80 oy reason oi the "'''e'
Wasbing away the earth which has been den1d'i
Of grass aud worked loose by hoots and "heels'
Travelling by Jerks like this is not 80 pleasant as
over a macadamzed road, yet our dag was 4 bright
and pleasant one.
Thirty miles Of progress, twenty Of them over
praire. brought us I, Spring HID, hamlet of hse
or six dnehngs, including store, but no tavern.
Our borses needed to feed and rest-ior tie wagon
with IT'S four inmates was heavy drag over such
eoiDg-so we stopped and tried to fad rereshment,
but with limited success. There was no gram 10
sell. save homeopathic dose sold Us for quarter
by a passing WAGNER, and thankfully received;
we gave this to our sterds regaed ourselves on
crackers and herring, aud pushed on.
Our direct route led due south 70 Paol, county
seat of Lykins; but persons we met here assured
us that there a. no crossing Bull Creek on this
road and that we must bear away TO the west
through Marysville Ga village Of perhaps dozen
houses. including store and a tayern), so as to
cross at Rock Ford, three miles beyond, which
opened the only chance Of getting over We did
so. and crossed in safety, with the usual Jokes when
We were fairly over but confess that the wide i'm
petuous stream, so impenetrabe to the eye and so
far above its average level, wore vicious look to
me when we approached and plunged into 1t. It's
bottom is here hardly half mile wide but is capi
tally wooded with Hickory, Oak, Black Walnut,
sc. Emerging from it, we rode over twelve miles
more of high, gently rolling prairie with wood in
the ravines ON either side, which brought to the
village of Stanton (of twenty or thirty houses, IN
cludDg two stores and tayern) which we reached
before sunset, having travelled at least fifty miles
since we started III the morning Night and the
Msrais des Cygnes-here brought us TO halt-thc
creek being at this time impassable-and we had
10 foreeo our determination to reach Osawatamie
before sleeping So we halted at the little tavern,
where we found five or Elk others bound TO Osa-
waiame Ike ourselves, at least one of whom had
swan three creeks since the morning. Fifteen or
twenty others drove up during the evening; We
had supper, neiehborhOod meeting and Repub
lean talk at the schoolhouse, and adjourned to fill
all the beds and floors Of the tavern as full as they
could hold. The kind, active, efficient landady
did her best, which was good enough; and all
were snugly bestowed except another edter and
myself, who accepted the kindly prohered hospi-
talty of a Republican farmer, and were capitally
entertained at his house, half mile distant.
As night fell, the lightning mad begun to sleam
and fash nearly around the horizon; by 10 o'clock,
the thunder rolled: at r. a high gale could be
heard sweeping over the prairies some moments
before it struck us The lightning blazed almost
incessantly for hours yet the rainfall at Stanton
was very slight But there were heavy showers at
Marysyille, at Paol and almost everywhere else
around us, still further raising the streams so that
many who had come part way were unable to reach
Qsavatamie DcAt dav.
We were early on the bank "a mileirOm Stanton)
of the Maras des Cygnes, which was running
heavy driftwood and otherwise misbehaying itself.
1t had buried up the ferry rope, without whose AID
the boat could not be propelled across It's sweeping
current: one Of the trees 10 which that rope WAS
attached was now nearly in the middle OF the
stream; and there had been no crossing Tor a day
or two. Bot new rope had been procured and
somehow stretched across the stream; wherebywe
were taken across in our turn, after waiting some
what over Gil hour. mile or 80 OF well tmbered
and too well watercd bottom brought us again TO
prairie, over " hcb We drove rapidly into Osawata-
mic which We reached before l0 A. VI.
Osawatamie is village of at most $50 houses,
situated in the forks of the Marais des Cygnes and
Potawatamie a somewhat smaller creek, which
comes in from the southwest. The location is
pleasant and favorable but not commanding one;
the surrounding country is more considerably cul-
tiyated than any had passed south of the kaw.
The two creeks supply abundant and good timber;
all excellent steam sawmll has taken the place ofthat
which the Border Rufiians burned; Touring mill,
tanneIy, brewery and large hotel, are being
erected or completed. Ipresume there is larger
Town somewhere in what is known as Southern
Kansas, though | do not know whichit is
But Osawatsmie has higher interest than any
other spot in Kansas, except possibly Lawrence,
because Of her honorable emnence in the struggle
which has secured Kansas to Free Labor She was
long the only settlement near the Missouri border
which was avowedly. decidedly Free State; the