Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-07-29

diaps" themselves and are the frcightcrs for
| the ralroadi might have been theirs, but
he was on the railroad near the Ravincs or
Big Sandy, that we came down all tho way
| from Lake Station, and in, they said, 60 good
Indian country" In May last, tho Indians
made raid on the railroad from near XII;
Carson to Lake Station, killing eighteen men,
end driving otf three or four hundred head Of
mules and horses; took them from tho rail
road cuts, and murdered the men in the pits
10. About this region is the main Indian
and buffalo groupings head of tho Arkansas
River; aud at Lake Station, the only water
for many miles at this season of the year,
hence tho dangerous region. Last summer,
the stages had to stop running on account of
the deprcdations We arc not, we think,
constitutionally "scarcy," and generally have
been prudent about running into danger, un,
til this time. Now, what need Induce
man to take stage coach aoncf for we mad
no passenger ut night with US, and only ono
in day, he a railroad hand, and stopped at
first soldiers station, (NIr. Huntington, of
Penn, ''who had seen Jonathnn on his visit }
and travel one hundred and fly miles, all
the way through tho most hostile Indian
country in the world There are estimated
to be about 10000 warriors now on the
PLANES, (and these very plain,) and as they
are ubiquitous almost, why may not somo of
them have seen and "gone for'' us? And if
they had, don't you sec the conscqucncc-no
one left to abuse radicals in Oconeo, ell p
Well, VIC only account for it in this way, be-
ing somewhat of a "Predcstinarian, our doc
trino is "what is to be will be, if it never is"
| and We felt determined to make the pilgrim
ag, to tho grave Of our friend, j. b. Moss,
and ascertain the particulars Of his death, 60.
Kit Carson is, as we have said, tho tcrmi
nus of the Kansas and Pacific Railroad, and
claims, perhaps, 500 inhabitants First sta
ton, ten miles out, is First View, water
tank, next, Cheyenne Wells. We met on
train Gen. Woods, who is in command of all
tho 'orccs west of Fort Wallace, seventy miles
east of Kit Carson. l1o was on his way from
the Western Division to his home at Fort
Wallace. llo told us that hc was in com
mand Of the "Star of the West" When, he
said. We would not let him into Charleston
and that he was in command Of the left wing
of Shcrman's army in his march through
Georgia and South Carolina; that near Co.
lumbia, S. O., they captured "Knight
Tomplars' sworl that he had sent back to
South Carolina, &c. Wo found him pleas
ant gentleman, and derived much varied in
formation from him. He also had travelled
from Jerusalem to Babylon, and, perhaps, had
better water than we find on this Desert
Plainc, 9or it is SO mpregnatcd with alkal
that it is with great deal of troubIc.thc en-
ginccrs can make their machinery run "in
time . Yon will see and hear the engines,
sometimes, putting like soda well, and at the
hotel this morning the water, in washing,
loamcd like soda tount 1t is said that the
ntnf> efo ,1> ~.
| then, why not use it /?
We need not cnumcratc all the stations
Suffice it that we name Monotony, somewhere
near Sheridan, and that it is the proposed
Junction, III will sec, of this Denver and Pa
ciic end and the main line to Mexico or
Southern California The country is level
plain for two hundred miles or upwards, aud
you cross but few running streams. Is on
the divide between the Arkansas and the
Smoky Hill or Republican rivers Sheridan
is about one hundred miles from Kit Carson,
and about one hundred miles above HAYS
City, Kansas and the State line OF Kansas
and Colorado Territory is between Sheridan
and Pond Lake, the next station above
From Hays City to this place, the country
is generally we'll watcrcd, aud good deal of
timber. Hays is on Big Creek. We had
supper at Ellis, a few miles above Hays, and
night soon set in-dayl light found us at June
tion City, in Kansas Near here we cross
tho Republican River, as large as Seneca
River in South Carolina find the country
pretty well settled up. ''ris said sc, 900 fam.
lies camh into kansps State last year Pass.
cd Topeka, the capital, twonty eight miles
from Lawrence and from Lawrence to this
place, perhaps, fifty milos-no ''way bill' at
hand, We find the corn looking very finely,
now tasscing. Wheat, oats and barley good ;,
being cut. Find watermclons and pumpkins
growing luxuriantly; find the jamestown.
Polk, hog weed and many others that are
found with u.s.
We cross Kansas or Kaw River at State
Line City, near junction of Kaw and Missouri
Rivers, and find Wyandotte City, Kansas,
just adjoining on Missouri River, and YOU
can't tell State Line City from Kansas City
the ono begins or tho other ends-only per.
haps Kansas City extends farthcst up on the
Bluffs. 1t is a large town or city, perhaps
10000 inhabitants Line City smaller
and new.
We have written you very hastily, and left
out many things more important than We
have put in, perhaps and will say for Kansas
she is the pretticst State we ever saw Came
through her whole length, and an average of
her beauty. The best land, SO said by those
who have been more over her boundary but
for Southern man to settle here wo would
not advise, Tho 'I.awrenco Massacre" the
Border Ruifan War tho Southern mon and