Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-08-27

LETTER FROM KANSAS.

FRIEND liILDRErH:-Ihe city OF Leav-
enworth is still enjoying the restraint
of martial law, although the civil au-
thorities have tried hard to have it
done away. The merchants and busi-
ness men have petitioned Father
Abraham to have Gen. Ewing's order
countermanded, but as yet have receiv-
ed no reply.
1t seems that almost total ignorance
of the principles of meum et tuum exists
among men here, civil and military,
and to a stranger it is interesting to
see things workin." In the first
place the military authority concluded
that the Red-legs were stealing them
selves rich in the name Of liberty" and
put some of them in the Guard House.
This was considered a declaration of
war by the Redlegs, and as soon as
they got out they proceeded to discov-
er property that the military gentle
men had confscated." In day or
two they found four hundred and twen-
ty-iive thousand dollars worth of I'm
Gle Sans goods and chattels So you
see Jayhawking prevails among mill
tary men as well as regular Jayhawk-
ers and Red-legs.
The news from the Upper Missouri
is quite interesting Our Indian friends
who were removed from Minnesota
last Spring were taken up the Missou-
ri, between Fl, Randall and TT. Pierre.
They say they have been deceived, and
declare that they don't believe that is
their land, that they won't stay there.
They are now building canoes, with the
intention, as they say, of coming down
and wintering on the Platte River.
The commandant of the fort has order
ed that they be fired into when they
attempt to come down, and has inform
ed the Indians Of it, but they say they
are bound to come any how.
1t is said that dirt is plenty enough
allover the world, it being the accompa-
niment of the foul incrustation which
began to settle over and bedim all
earthly things as soon as Eve had bit
ten the apple. never fully realized
the truth of this till l journeyed
through slave State, and Leaven-
worth, from its proximity to Missouri,
partakes Of this characteristic. We
find the material of which man is said
to have been made in every considera-
bic place and, of course, it has its
own peculiar inhabitants, feas and
bugs; and unless one wishes to lose
his "precious blood" he must carry
on an active campaign against them,
and even then, he must be vigilant or
he will, to use western expression,
be "chawed up.'
There is a continual exodus Of the
children of Ham from the State of Mis-
souri,. They come in twos, and threes,
and twenties, and do not seem to have
the affection for their kind masters .
that our Southern brethren" have
always told us Of. They come to Free
Kansas to enjoy the blessings of free
dom, and although they work harder
than they did for massa," they seen
to be perfectly contented, much to the
disgust of some Southern men here
who declare "that damned ornery
nigger feels bigger and wears better
clos nor a gentleman"
| There are some amusing incidents
connected with this immigration O
ebony. A gentleman in Missouri was
looking for his "boys' who had lef
their "patriarchal home" with some
Of his spawned horses and worn-ou
mules. He said "they might all go bu
, Bill" and bursting into tears he sale
!"Pll give thousand dollars to on.