Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-06-18
ASHTABULA o. SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE is. 1859.

impedes its progress, while town sites, and
: very good ones, are so abundant in Kansas
that no location but one where navipable
water is abandoned for land transportation
can be of very much account. / should
say Lawrence has now FIVE hundred dwell
ings and perhaps 5000 inhabitants. and
these figures are more likely TO be over than
under the mark She has q magnificent
hotel (the Eldridge House )-the best, /
hear, between the Missouri and the Sacra-
mento-far better, l fear, than its patron
age will justify-though it has nearly all
that Lawrence can give. She is to have
great University, for which part of the
funds are already provided but trust it
will be located some distance away, so as
to give scope for Model Farm, and for q
perfect development Of the Education of
the Brain and the Hands together. In our
old States, the cost of land is always as
signed as a reason for not blending Labor
with Study autboritatively and systemati-
cally here there can be no such excuse. l
trust the establishment of the Lawrence
University will not be unduely hurried, but
that it will be, whenever it does open its
doors to students, an institution worthy of
its name
l passed into the town over "Mount
Oread," a considerable eminence on the
southwest, on whose summit the Free-State
fortress of other days was constructed 1t
is now dilapidated, but is a place of con-
siderable natural strength as a defensive po-
sition, and in the hands of the grandsons of
the men who defended Bunker HILL would
have cost something to whoever might have
taken it. As it was, the Ruffians, though
often in the neighborhood in overwhelming
force, and anxious enough for its destruction,
never got possession Of it but once, and
! then by marching with Federal officers at
, their head aud Federal writs in their pock-
cts. For one, regret that even these were
suffered to shield them, and thus allow print
ing presses to be destroyed and houses bat
tered down and burned with impunity.
did not speak long in Lawrence, for
trust words are not there needed. Her
people have had practical Illustrations of
the great issue which divides the country
and are not likely soon to forget them. OF
course her pioneers will die or become dis
perSed new men will come in or rise up to
fill their places and "another king arose
who knew not Joseph" will find its parallel
in her future. Thus, among her new w-comers
is the gentleman who led over one thou
sand armed Missourians from jackson
County in March, 1855, and returned by
their votes and revolvers Pro-Slavery men
to represent her in the bogus Legislature of
! that year. He is, of course, an "Old- Line
r Wing" Of the Buchanan stripe, and will
make first-rate "FreeState Democrat" in
1 Il Re- cvl 81,
: shops, already too numerous in Lawrence
/ shall have manufactured or attracted thither
a sufficient number of Groundtier Demo
/ Gratis, and mortified pride or disappointed
ambition shall have wrought its perfect
work with quite number of sometime Free
State men, he may be chosen Mayor of the
city of his young love, and THE COnstitutiOn
(or whatever may then be the name of the
Pro-Slavery organ at Washington may an
nounce with guns and trumpets that INA
tional Democracy has triumphed at last in
the great stronghold of Kansas Abolition" /"
! But that will not probably happen just yet.
While was in Lawrence, the little steamer
"Gus Linn" Capt. Beasly, came down the
| Kaw from Fort Riley, some thirty miles
above the fork Of the Big Blue, and Il be-
! lieve) 235 from the mouth of the river and
t over 100 in bee line. She reached the
Fort in little over two days from Kansas
| City, discharged her cargo, and loaded on
her way down with Corn, whereof Kansas
/ has large surplus of last years growth,
, after supplying this years heavy emigration
to Pixies Peak. AS the Territory has little
or nothing else to sell, and almost every
| thing to buy, she would like to export her
, Corn if she had any way by which to get
it to the Missouri without costing all it will
fetch, so that this pioneer passage of steam
boat above Topeka and Manhattan was
} hailed with general exultation. Her bur-
den is 800 tuns, aud she draws when full
but thirty inches (when light, scarcely 10Y,
and, in the present stage of water, j pre-
sumo she might easily go up TO the Falls,
= 20 miles further. Of course she can only
/ do this to any purpose when the water is
+ very high but, in the absence Of pasSable
4 roads, the fact that this river can be navi-
D gated at all throughout the most thickly-
peopled portion of Kansas, is of some con-
r sequence.
!, l left Lawrence by stage on Saturday
= morning, crossing the Kaw by good ferry
: directly at the city, and rising to wide
r ana well tlmbered bottom on the north. III
is probably well for Lawrence ultimately
that this timber is in Indian hands, anC
therefore sure to be preserved for some
E years, though for the present the Reserve
= is a nuisance to her. Beyond the KaW
: bottom, stretches beautiful and gently IN
3 dulating prairie, checkered by belts of tim
e Der ou the creeks which traverse it, across
: the Reserve and beyond, until we begin t.
a descend the Missouri bluffs to Leavenworth
d Coming to Turkey Creek" the passen
n gers were turned out Gas once or twice be
b forc) to tighten the coach, which was ther
O driven cautiously through the sUeep-banket
n ford, while the passengers severally let them
# selves down perpendicular bank by cling
g ing to a tree, and crossed deep and whirl
n ing place above the ford, on the vilest log
: ever attempted to walk-twisty, sharp
i, backed and every way detestable. One o
: the passengers refused to risk his life on it
v but hired one of the lazy Indians loainl
q on the further bank to bring over a pony
:. and let him ride across the ford At"Bi
r STRANGER y we changed coaches with IN