The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-17

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Editors IHteltigeneer:
1t Is somewhat amuAing and some.
what startling TO see these Kansans
in such dead earnest about female sur
frage. II the world does move as Gal
leo insisted and several reformerss me
him, have taken occasion to reltetate.
II moves faster out here In Kansas tna
anywhere else. This wide awake anu
Intelligent people seem dlsPoseI1 - ~
push their political principles, ~ W I0s, ~
cal conclusions, and TO make Suffrage rs
sx,arvthInv else Impartial. A thorough
canvass OF the State Is to be made and
,meetInUs have been appointed aud
speakers engaged for every considera-
NE hamlet in the State. Female SUI
fraSe is the eugroSsing topic with ev-
arybody aud Is becoming popular
enough to be pressed into the service
OF slang aud advertisements. One sees
staring him in the face such startling
EXPLANATIONS as 1.-THE ladies must vote
and buy their dry goods of Jones'"
II one may judge anything from the en-.
ergy of the friends ofthe movement and
the absence of anything like organized
opposition to 1t, the majority for this
which Kansas usually endorses pro-
gress. Gid
After u pleasant ride around Law
renee which has risen brighter
and buster than ever from
the ashes in which it was laid by GUAM
trell, we again took possession OF our
cars, which now seem like homes A
word about Lawrence though, before
we leave il. II Is the aristocratic Town
of Kansas, its inhabitants almost all
coming from New England Win NJ
least moderate means, and iull snare
of culture aud Refinement, constitute
society which at least considers itself
the creme de To creme OF the state. II
claims the prettiest women snarlest
men, best houses, fastest horses, ana In
fact the superlative OF everything good
in Kansas, and It's less favored neigh
bOrs seem not indisposed to allow its
claims in moderation.
An hour or so brings us to Topeka
and dinner. Topeka, although West
OF the centre of population and East OF
the geographical centre, is near the
centre OF the agricultural lands OF the
State, and for that reason, and with an
eye TO the future it has been made the
capital OF Kansas.
At the depot or rather Eugene
City, which is perhaps mile
from the populated portion of Topeka,
we were met by some more brass
bands and u motley cOncOurse OF We
hicles, which, following the music In
procession TO and through the streets,
q Ia circus, afforded almost as much
fun as that American Institution TO the
Topekan youth. Finally, the fiery
refined up at one of the three hotels of
the place, where we enjoyed tooth
some roast Kansas shoAt, and other
delicacies, which, for excellence. would
vie with the best OF our experience,
even at the St. Louis Southern. Though
We rush with the speed of the wind
away from what we call civilization,
vet we cannot get away from its COM
forts. The farther we speed into the
Western wilderness, the more bounte-
Gus and munihcent our entertainment
aud several of the party threaten that
II the arithmetical, geometrical, and
every other kind of progression of good
things continues, they will not turn
round to get home, but persevere till
they reach the occidental acme OF en-
joyment, If any there be, and go home
by way OF China
At all our stopping places our party
receives additions-which are acqusi-
lions. Leavenworth, Lawrence and
Topeka, all contribute to the number,
the fun, eloquence, influence, and in
terest OF the occasion. AT Topeka sew
eraI State officials Joined us, none
among them bigger, jollier or better
able 10 ru n an Adjutant General con.
vention, or any other monkey SHOW"
than Col. Anderson, the efficient Adju-
tant General OF Kansas. Hints Of his
good fellowship had reached our ears
before, but they were but hints. or
him and his menagerie. more anon.
Now, too, We discovered an old Wheel
ing typo, in Oscar F. Dunlap, Esq,
compositor on the INTELLIGESCER in
1852, now the successful editor and pro-
prietor OF the Topeka Tribune, the in
fiuential and Radical daily newspaper
of the Kansas Capital. To Mr., Dun
lap we are indebted for msny kind
uesses, aud only regret that he was un-
able to go with Us to the terminus of
our travel.
Immediately West OF Topeka we en-
ter upon the Pottawotamie reserve, 30
miles square, which is about 10 become
the property of the railroad. This and
the neighbOring county is as beautiful
and heaIthful as any in the world, and
had, what a fair fatalist near me calls,
predestination ordained that this gar
den spot should first in America have
been civilized and settled, i don't
think even predestination could ever
have peopled the sterile soil OF New
England. Bishop Berkeley never could
have made the course of Empire take
its way Eastward, had its seat been
in this Eden, for
Here "methin<s would be enjoyment.
More than In The march OF mind.
In the railway, in the steamship,
In the thoughts that shake mankind"
IIllteb west Oh '1OpekH we
came to the Indian mission OF st. Ma
ry's. This Is some twenty years old,
having been est ablished at then a point
far beyond the borders of civilization,
and one hundred miles from the nearest
trading post, Some four or five priests
and as many of-the Sisters OF the Sa-
cred Heart have charge OF the mission
and of over two hundred children,
who there receive an education. AL
most all the children are Indians, the
majority being Pottawotamies. with
some Sioux, Miatnis, Kickapoos, Sacs
and Foxes. Every now and then a
genuine freckled Hibernian face be-
longing to the child OF some railroad
hand, relieved the copper colored mo-
notony. Father Diel, superintendent
of the mission, very kindly conducted
his numerous and unexpected visitors
through the buildings, some dozen in
number. and finally into the school
room where we listened with some Gu
Tiosity to the recitatiOns and singing OF
the scholars. 1t was especially comical
to see one full blooded civilized savage
named Joseph Pamawmketuck stand
up at the blackboard with a piece of
chalk, instead OF a tom ahawk, and
go through a proposition of Euclid
instead OF a war-dance. The tawny
heather actually got over the pons
asinorum with az much celebrity as II
his intellectual toes had been turned
out instead of in. But, the whistle OF
our locomotive sounds impatiently,
and we leave our stolId savages
scrambling and scratching in the dust
for pennies and oranges-for all the
world like as many little Caucasian
cusses. =
Passing through wamego, st. George
and Manhattan, Cthe next point of any
interest we come to Is Fort Riley. We
stop at a station just at the base of the
hill. ON Rhichtha fort .is aitnattd and