The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-22

American Desert-ff-is- NOW welt.
known that many of our old ideas in
regard to that tract were erfone-
Gus. There IS some ram there and
old residents a&nE 6eThat the guam
tity Of rain doubles with the settle
ment of the country Mr.. Rnnk le
was on his way down to Topeka 10
attend the trial of great countef-
feiter, and. with him as noisy q crowd
of Western men az | eyer saw, all
witnesses in the case. They had lit
orally captured the car, and every
man being provided with two or three
bottles of whisky and half peck or SO
of peanuts, riotous merriment was the
order of the day
Among them was remarkable char
acter, introduced as Mr.. William
Hickok, who was none other than the
veritable wild Billi" the renowned
plainsman and .Tndian scout, who fig
ured extensively in -Hdrper's Magd-
zine for August as well as in more
than one ten cent novel. He look 5
much like the~common pictures off
him. HisscomHexion is fair, though
somewhat aud his moustache
almost white. Indeed, he looks anE
thing else but~a desperado, and is
generally Hkedcby alE his acquaintan-
ces. He Is very tall and his strength
is prodigious. (
At 3 PM. reached Lawrence, and
stopped to- spend day with Mr.. AL
bert Hadfey. of fhe National Bank ih
ma. pa ai1 Haa, Ink K,aue n eomprasJs
art, than any other Ihave yet seen in
the West, Including beauty in human
is lively, and every eye seems full IF
manifest destiny" Everything
about Lawrence. is Interesting. This
is classic ground, aad every spot has
historic intereH. In company with
my friendsI rode OUT in the beautiful
country southeast of town. This is
the route by ,whick Quantrel came
in. Out some distance he halted and
sent a squad Of men around west to
University HiIE to Intercept any aid
arriving from that quarter. His first
exploit was to ;attacka small camp bf
twenty-five unarmed recruits. of whom
all but one were killed.
Thence the guerrfllas rushed into
town, firing the houses and shooting,
every man they SAVE 1t is strange,
fact thatrwhen fred on from any,
stone house they retreated, and at .
tempted no seige where resistance
was apprehended. "A regular cow
ardly wholesale murder without fight.
ing, only betterethanz the acts of the
Indians in that where convenient
they spared the-wornen and children.
One LADY, from Massachusetts, wa
wounded while attempting to protect
her husband, who vas lying in the
street, aud another: lady was shot
through the wrist in the act of res,
cuing a wounded man. q
One hundred and eighty citizens,
were killed, nearly all of whom lie I
buried in one trench, just back Of the
University, marked only by mound. l
Many childrenin the city only know l
that their fathers lie somewhere Ia
that trench. but know not where, for
In their horror, and the destruction
which followed, few could be
recognized, and no Christian %.
burial could be had. Nearly
the whole city WAS destroyed, yet such
was the wonderful recuperation that /,
now scarcely trace of destruction,
remains. EOnN two or three stoneo
foundations showed where frame
bafldings- had been buraed above
them. Massachusetts Street, entireiY /
destroyed is completely rebuilt, and
is now probably the finest business
street west of st. Louis the Eldridge /
House ending she street towards the
north, being the third hotel bui IT,
upon the same spot. The first Was
destroyed by:Sherif Jones, the seq !
ond by euanHel As may be SD a. I
posed, the Lawrence people have ve ny
few apologies for Our Southd rpI]
brethrenss and healthy RADICAL mll
N arlys all -Sthe old-time Kansas
nota bles1zhaves sunk into obscuritYy
many only tooFlad to do so. Among
Others, 's.Governor Shannon now
the late A; Ward would say, ma kes--
out to live"
Though barely thirteen years d Id,
Kansas has already an antiquity and
modern history of revolutions and
govern ments overt brown as well as a
hero C period" whence future POETS
may draw materials for new mythcl
ogy-ana apotheosis of those who
lived and died2for principle.
She has passed through three wars
and is now jealous in a war agai hst
prejudice-and old-fogyism. Ands&s
leads me- on to speak of her yod6g
Interesting just now as
the first OFF State Universities to ad--
NIT won1e1 to Its privileges. Both
sexes stndy and recite N9ether, and