The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-10-21
LEAvEN WORTH.
A Visit to the City by the Editor Of the To-
peks Blade"

A Visit to the City by the Editor Of the To-
peks Blade" 4
Twenty years ago the writer hereof visit
ed Leavenworth, coming up the Missouri
river on steamboat but owing to the Dor
der-rufiianism then apparent there, We re-
turned on the same boat which brought us
there. We undoubtedly made mistake.
at that time, however, we were not so well
acquainted with ourselves as at present.
We have not visited Leavenworth since
that time until last Monday. OF course,
our recollection Of the city twenty years
ago is indistinct vet we can easily COM
prehend the difference between few rude
buildings of that day, and the we'll built
and handsome city of 10 day. Also the
difference between the rough pioneers
of twenty years ago, ard the refined and
cultivated people Of the present.
The city seems to lie in a huge lap, hem
med in by hills away off in the distance on
all sides but one, and on that the noble old
Missouri rolls maiestically. The city view
ed from the top OF the Court House pre-
cents picture of rare beauty.
For the first time we met personally
some of the editorial fraternity of the city
all young men except the old king bee
| Col. Anthony-and he, notwithstanding
his wound ard precarious condition, is as
young in spirit as any !; and his ripe ex-
| perience makes him head Of the profession
| not only in Leavenworth, but in Kansas.
We were surprised TO see him looking so
well-better than We ever saw him before.
His skin looks clear and healthy, instead
OF that saliow color he USED to have, and
he saws he feels quite well. He cannot,
! however. exercise himself the least vio-
lently, for fear of the too active circulation
| OF the blood. In conversation with him
about his miraculous escape from death,
! he said he felt that he was spared for some
good purpose, and that he never felt his
weakness so perceptibly, to do that which
would meet the expectations OF his friends
as now. The unselfsh attention given him
| when in his critical condition, proved the
number and gunuineness OF his friends,
and it now become a question with him
how he must act to prove himself worthy
Of SO much esteem.
Frank Lynch, Mr.. Anthonys first assist
ant, is very promising young man, and
had We not been so assured could not have
believed that he had filled the editorial
chair in Mr.. Anthony's absence.
John Coulter, also a mere boy, is local
editor Of The ZINES. He is too possessed OF
one OF those precocious intellecis which
places him far in advance OF his years.
A visit to the weather signal Office was
not without interest. There We met the
yery gen,ieman!y Sergeant Edgar Meow
ern, in charge OF the Office, who showed US
the various contrivaEces for arriving at the
probabilities of the weather, the speed and
direction OF the wind, etc.
The court house, grand and capacious
enough for State capitol, is one Of the
many elegant public buildings OF Leaven-
worth. The Fort is another point OF interest /;
and we might 60 on TO great length, and
describe the interesting features Of the old
est and largest city in Kansas; but space
forbids. We cannot, however, close with
out offering deserved tribute to a boy OF
our own rearing and teaching-Mr. NJ. c.
Morris-now foreman OF The TINES. To
him we owe fatherly gratitude for the at
teniion We received at his hand while there.
His department of THE TINES is, without
exception, the best sysmatized and orderly
in the State, and the face Of the TINES
shows it.-1opeka Blade