The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-13

Mr.. Greeley, of the Tribune, is getting pretty
well cover the border" He keeps his readers ap-
prised of his progress by series of very piquant
letters to his own journal. We cut the following
paragraphs from his last epistle. 1t is dated
PIPE CREEK May 28th, 1859.
Across the Republican be-
tween it and the Smoky Hill, is Junction City, as
yet the most western village in Kansas save that
another has been started some fifty miles up the
Smoky Hill. We stopped here for the night, and
talked Republicanism in the church Cor an hour or
so. junction has a store, two hotels, and some
thirty or forty dwellings, one Of which is dstin-
guished for its age, having been erected so long
ago as 1858. A patriotic Junctioner excused his
city for not possessing something which / inquired
for, but which its rival, Manhattan, was supposed
to have; 'for," said he, "Manhattan is three years
DID," As Junction is hardly year old vet, the
relative antiquity of Manhattan, and the response
bilities therein involved, were ndispuable. juno
tOn is the center of fine agricultural region,
though timber is not so abundant here | wish it
were. This region is being rapidly shingled with
"claims;" hope it is likewise to be filled with set
tlers-thOugh that does not always follow. Our
landlord "a Germany had tried California; then
Texas; and now he is trying Kansas, which seems
to agree with him.
We started again at this morning, making a
little north of west and keeping the narrow belts
OF timber along the Republican and the Smoky
Hill respectively in full view for several miles until
the streams dverged far that we lost them in the
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carried us beyond any road but that traced only
this spring for the Pixies Peak expresses; for ten
miles onward no house. no field no sign of human
agency, this road and few United States survey
ors' stakes excepted, visible; at length we
came to where a wretched cabin and an acre or so
of broken and fenced prairie showed what pio-
neer had been doing in the last two three years.
and beside it was tavern-the last, | presume,
this side Of Pixies Peak 1t consisted of crotched
stake which, with the squatter's fence aforesaid,
supported a ridge-pole, across which some old sail
cloth was drawn, hanging down on either side and
forming cabin some six by eight feet and per-
haps from three to five and a half feet high-large
enough to contain two whiskey barrels, two decan-
ters, two glasses, three four of picked
oysters and two or three boxes of sardines but
nothing of the bread kind whatever. The hotel
keeper probably understood his business better than
we did, and had declined to disspate his evidently
moderate capital by investing any part of it in arti-
cles not of prime necessity Our wants being pc
culiar, could not trade with him, but, alter an
interchange Of courtesies, passed on.
Our hostess for the night has two small tents. as
at No. s, and gave capital supper butter inclu-
ded but she and her two children alike testify that
In one OF the drenching thunderstorms so frequent
of late they might nearly well be out on the prai
rie, and that sleeping under such visitation is an
art only to be acquired by degrees. They have a
log cabin going up, am happy to say. Their tents
were first located on the narrow bottom of the creek
but rapidly rising food compelled them few
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higher shelf prairie. 1t would have been pitiul
to be turned out so, only the shelter they were
joying was good for nothing.
believe have now descended the ladder of artif
cial life nearly to its lowest round. Ifthe Cheyen-
nes-thirty of whom stopped the last Express down
on the route we must traverse, and tried to steal
beg from it-should fit to capture and strip us,
should Of course have further experience in the
same line; but for the present the progress have
made during the last fortnight toward the primi-
tive simplicity of human existence may be roughly
noted thus:
Nav 2th-Chicago-Chocolate and morning
newspapers last seen on the breakfast table.
23d-Leavenworth-Ro bells and baths make
their last appearance.
4th-Topeka-Beefsteak and washbowls (other
than tin) last visible. Barber ditto.
Observation-Disclosures and eggs last recog-
nized among the blessings that 'brighten as they
s'take their flight" Chairs ditto.
27th-Juncton City-Last visitation of a boot
black, with dissoving views of a board bedroom.
Chairs bid us good-by.
28th-Pipe Creek-Benches for seats at meals
have disappeared, giving place to bags and boxes.
We 1.-TWO passengers of scribbing turn) write our
letters in the express wagon that has borne US by
day and must supply us lodgings for the night.
Thunder and lightning from both south and west
give strong promise of shower before morning.
Dubious looks at several holes in the cover
ing of the wagon. Our trust in buoyant hearts and
an lnda-rubber blanket. Good night.
The CAMELs-One of Mr.. Wooleys camels
marched into town yesterday, with twelve
bushels of shelled corn ON his back. He to
mill.-,Selma Republican.