Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-07-15
Aftairs In Oh. Indian Canntrr-


We extract from private letter received IN this
city from w @, Ccr,n, Indian Commissions 70,
the southern disrict the following account Of tie
Perils to which loi al men are subject IN that re-
gion: 49,
HuNboLT, Kansas, July J. 1861
1 left Cr-wford Seminary, about ninety nile
nom here laa week and for better protection for
myself, took with me Catholic priest, FatbeT
SchoehwaIker, and started down the est side Of
Grand river, next to Missouri and Arkansas In
she tcwnof Maysvflle there Were about 500 Arb
ansas troops We got within -four ot Eve miles az
the place, and would have fallen into their hand,
bad we not lost our way. We drove around all
dav. without finding any one who would give us
any information, aud At night found. 10 our NOR
tihcation, that we Were only two miles from
where We first discovered that we had lost our
wav. But this wss all that saved Va. as we met a
young man-DT Young-soon after who Informed
ne 81 our danger and advised No 10 eross the river
and GO down the other side. ] acted al driver,
while Father Scboen walker did tie talking; and
% we passed for an old missionary and his SER
vart BY another unaccountab BILE mistake, which
again saved MS, we missed the proper crossing
and forded the river ten miles below, where
we found family Of Chernkees whose three girls
had been educated In the Ossge Catholic miss, on
under Father Schoenwalker. He admin tered
the sacrament aud bapti Ied their children and
thus disarmed uopicion; that we were permit
t-d to remain there short time-the only place In
twenty miles where we would have BEEN safe for
a moment
Remaining there but a short tlHpe. I again
started for Crawford Seminary and arriyed al
that place on SUNDAY, with To-. Intention Of re-
naming there until THURSDAY, bus not feeling
safe on "Wednesday, drove over Spring river
about three miles and spent the night there
Before sunrise next morning, a young man came
over IN great haste and Informed me that there
were twenty five Arkansas rang ers at the seminary
IN pursuit of me As they had Just arrived. and
had stopped TO feed their borses IL was thoue bt
they would not start again under two hours aud
that they might be detained smother hour looking
for nv trail, and az their horses Were jsded snd
mine fresh. L might outrun them. l reached the
Catholic Missi On. sixty miles, in nine hours and
staid there till the next day, when Dr. Morrow
came up from near the seminary and told me I
was In great danger there also lief there al four
O'Clock o. IN aud arrived here, thirty miles al
midnight Here | was told again that I was not
safe, but although Ii is a hard place, think I
shall make II my headquarters for the present,
until matters get little settled below
since my arrival here, I have learned from a
son OF DIR Morrow that the Union men al the
seminary made the rangers believe that I had
travelled al night, and that they could not over.
take me before would reach Humbolt. 20 they
turned snd went back. The rangers had also
sent twenty-five men TO TahlahQua To take me-
and had kept guard on the roads for Eve days 10
waylay me, but their bad management and nv
mistakes In following directions saved me.