Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-12-10

tHCHsut: HoW mysterious are Tue |
ways of Providence"
Mrs. II. A. CARR.
LEAVENWoRTH LETTER.
LEAvENwORTH, Dec. 4.
EDITOR INTELLIaENoER:-L Last Sum
day afternoon Bob Davis took me to
the fort. Bob was driving a mule, and
1 didn't fee! much like going on that
account. Could we have ridden at
the head of the animal it would have
been different, for the front end of
the beast was, mo doub, ,gentle enough;
behind il felt would be. unsafe.
was prevailed upon, however, to get
iu,o the buggy, Bob assuring me that
the mule had never kicked or bucked
in his life. When astart was made,
I felt certain that our experience
would be something like that of
Mark Twain with the 'Genuine Mex
lean Plug" which he purchased be-
cause of the impressive seriousness
with which the auctioneer, i'll private
conversation with him, declared that
the animal was not ouly Mexican
plug, but was a genuine one. l don't
like mule for various reasons. The
beast which has no pride of ancestry
and no hope of posterity don't want
to ride behind. But to the fort we
went, and nothing occurred to make
the trip unpleasant. Fort Leaven--
worth is beautiful place, much
nicer, i'll fact, than expected to see,
despite the manner III which have
heard it spoken of. couldn't give a
very detailed description of it, for
wouldn't know where to commence,
how to continue, or when to stop. l
saw it all, however; the officers quar-
| ters, their private residences, of which
many are handsome brick buildings,
the troops' quarters, the penitentiary
the guardhouse, upon the portico of
| IS hich sentinel walked to and fro,
carrying the longest gun ever saw,
upon his shoulder, while half dozen
heads, closely crowded together.
peered through the bars of one of the
windows. l heard the twentieth
infantry baud, which played several
exceedingly fine pieces, W hile the long
line of hnggies, carriage and pedes-
trians marched around the graveled
road-ways, being warned to "keep on
the pavement aud of the grass by
several sign-boards. Leaving the fort
we went over
'sHERIDAN's DRIVE"
a road which is as crooked as q worn
leuce, and which brought US righ,
back to the point we started from. Il
affords one, at different turns. fins
views of the fort, the river and the
CITY, and is most delightful drive
one Iregret not having taken earlier
when the trees and the grass wer,
green-ior then the scenery must in
deed be fine.
| l saw the ''look-ont tree," TO th,
trunk of which an old ladder is nail
ed; Jaw military prisoners near th,
tpenitcntiary. They didn't weal
aoi,siers' clothes, except the jackets
aud on their pants legs, just abov'
the knee, was their number. Th,
psni:estiary is very large building
aud ut each Of its four corners is
doube-barreled gun and two ugly
looking rcvolvers; saw cannon af
Ter cannon, and the flag which wavet
az only the American flag can wave
L heard gun fired, aud simultaneous
iy with the report, the flag was low
cred, aud then knew it was sunset
saw the cemetery, and in 1t are al
most countless marble slabs, abon
two feet high, which mark the grave
OF unfortunate e"unknown;" one mon
nment i'll particular attracted my al
iention-a broken shaft, with tw
! sw ofs!s. crossed, near it's center, all
which, my companion said, was q
the grave of some of these gallan
men who died i'll the Custer massa
ere. l saw it all as have said, b,,
cart tell you the tenth part Of il
We got to town safely, aud 1 had
new objection to the mule-he was
regulator; at least everything GU th
road went by iliEl.
III Caldwell, town not many mile
, from here, there has been talk G
hanging one Danford, who is held
{ prisoner. and for the purpose {
e swinging the gentleman into eternit,
A ROPE HAS BEEN PURCHAsED.
Mr.. Dsnford was president of banl
and would perhaps occupy the sam
POSITION to-day. only the bank hs
gone up, and ono has good reason I
10 believe, from the mutterings whic
come from the sceue of the disaster
that Mr. Danfurd is likely to folio,
d the bank. 1t would be rather to th
dlscredit Of the state should Ii
, swind!e;l depositors take tho law il
> 10 their own hands, but it would /
u a terrible aud no doubt etficacior
t. warning 10 other bank officials. Othe
persons Interested in the collapsed i,
: atitution have been notified that
u they come into Caldwell it will /
J. al 'aeir peril, aud Mrs. Danford
y held IN captivity with her husban
i Ii was thought that Mr.. Danford, e,
Ii this. would have gone beyond. but
Is he stall lives, there is some chan
> ttat the law will dispose of his cas-
" l. Is said, however, that the on
t thing which keeps the men he b
&C ruined from strstching his neck
= that. by his death, they will probab
destroy all trace Of the banks fund
Is snd by permitting bim 10 live th
ie ean ID, force him to make restit
a. ton. They are reasonable, too. on
Y, asking one hundred cents on the de
N lar.
OF Al the instance Of the govern
ut two gentlemen went down TO Ca
g well. to release Dauford, but tho M
u who had him III charge refused
a surrender him, and the goyerno