The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-08-16
E.etter from Kanaaa.

about uIteen Gays, ana L am quite VAIN
enough to believe that your readers
will bear the infiction Of these few
lines with commendable fortitude.
I must premise, however, that To-
peka. Kansas, as it Is presented to the
visual organs, and the Topeka nan
sas. as described by the real estate
AGENTS and news papers Of this city
are almost as strikingly different as
briObt day is from a cloudy night.
AZ his fact is so plainly susceptible
of explanation, shall content myself
with having made the statement. /
would, however, earnestly advise all
those who contemplate emigration to
this State to rely upon nothing they
see in q Kansas newspaper, and be-
lieve nothing they hear from any man
who owns foot Of Kansas real estate
or who has the least interest In the
world in saying a single word more IN
praise of Kansas than the facts will
warrant. Come and see the country
A0ith uO1sr olgn eyes, and fofa1 gO1tr
opinion from qChdt gols see, and nothing
Else. Every man who invests q dollar
here expects in fifteen, or at furthest
thirty. DAYS to get at least two dollars
for the Investment; and TO further
this desirable end he begins at once
TO praise and extol the country.
Topeka has a bona tide population
| Of about four or five thousand souls.
TIE census will, no doubt, tell diff
| ferent story, but when it is under
1 stood that every man, woman and
| child caught within the limits of the
/ citv are numbered among the actual
inhabitants, it is not astonishing. The
| situation is a pretty one, and it is no
| detraction to say that distance lends
| enehantment to the view. Topeka
| resembles an oYergrown village much
more than city. Four hfths of the
dwellings and a majority of the busl-
ness houses are small and unsubstan-
tial. and the former are scattered over
an area Of one and a half or two miles
The streets. however, are unusually
wide and regularly laid out, and II
the present rate of Improvement con
tinues, Topeka will, one day, be re-
spectacle city. There is no question
| but that it is even now long way
ahead of the surrounding country
and if it should have to sit quietly
down one Of these days, and SIT there
for four or FIVE years and wait for ths
country to catch up with it, ! shoulc
not be astonished, although the ma
tiyes hereabouts would look upoI
such an intimation as an insult foi
which there is positively no atone
ment. This city derives its creates
: Importance from the fact that it is tn
CAPITAL of the State, and to fix tina
matter forever beyond any peradven
ture, the Legislature has already ap
pfopriated half million of dollar
for the erection of one wing of tn
State House, which, when completed
according to the present plan, will b.
almost as capaoious as the Capitol a
Washington. 1t is daFkly limited b.
/ a few men, In whom the bump o.
cautiousness is not large, that tn
members of the Legislature did no
vote appropriations for nothing.
This city sports two daily newspa
pers, but whether they are as vel
supported as they are sported Is {
1 question upon which | shall hold my
! The Record holds the age and thu
Associated Press dispatches over the
/ | Commonwealth, but the latter is
!, / owned in part by the State Printer,
is edited by Ward Burlingame, pri
5 vate Secretary to the Governor AM
: Governor SID rosa, and claims to hav
e telegraph line Of its own. 1t is said
= however, that its telegraph line is rul
BY express. Both of these paper
: are Republican in politics, but ar
r now. in common with almost the en-
: tire press Of the State, waging bite
war upon Senators Pomeroy and Ros
and Representative Clarke. No Dem
! oeratic paper is published here, an
q it is evident that 4 daily could no
survive, but a good, live weekly Nigh
| do frst-rate from the start. AT al
: events, even to take the testimony Q
: | Republicans, Democratic pape
{ would have plenty to talk about, a
a official corruption is the order OF th
day.
, Politicians in Indiana and all OF tn
D older States are comparatively homes
Z upright, virtuous men, when put j
iuxtaDosition with those of thi
: State. Charges Of the gravest kin
/ are made everywhere, and by every
t body, against POmerSy, Ross an
Clarke, and if only half is true tina
f Republicans say of them, they ar
certainly prone TO evil, and abov
all things, desperately wicked"
! On the I'd inst ] attended the col
a ored celebration in honor of th
q abolition of slavery ia the West In
: dies bv the English Government
August 1st, 1884 1t was not by an
o means brilliant. A few white me
/, participated In the ceremonies, an
% sandwiehed promiscuously anon
4 niggers,n eat heartily of a good, sub
: staRtial dinner. Prominent anon
u the white speakers Of the occasio
'e was Hon. James Guthrie, formerly o
= Logansport, Indiana, and at pFesen
REPRESENTATIVE of Shawnee County i
the Legislature. He goes the Who'll
hog. and more too, as he declare
himself unanimously In favor (
!, John Chinaman. as we'll as negr
u suffrage. Mr.. Guthrie, although ev
= IDENTIFY a very ordinary man in point {
q talent, cuts quite o prominent hguI
,cl here, but vhether he thrusts himse
Z forward, or allows his friends to
it, / am not, at present, suIneientl
e versed in Kansas affairs to say. :
e young man whom folks here ca
: ssColonel Hoyt,n who took part in th
defence of John Brown, whose sou
is maRching on, and who takes espe
J cial pains 10 inform strangers that b
h was once Chief OF the Kansas he
# Legs, also addressed the sable eele
e orators. / must be excused tor sa5
ing that his speech y was one OF tn
infernalest harangues that 4 eve
IS listened to-; and if all Republ
O. cans entertained such sentiments a
this Massachusetts, Border RuflaI
= ! would rather be niger q
ie once and be done With it. =.
re be referred to his exploits durln
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