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y /* ' ' , / / / ^ * f / r (Llj 0 JUljfJJCIUJCEl j ^X'i^^iSL DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, THE ARTS, SCIENCE, AGRICULTURE, HEWS, POLITICS, &C., &C. TEEMS?ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM,] ' " "t it be Instilled into the Hearts of your Children that the Liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all your Rights."?Junius. [PAYABLE PN ADVANCE VOLUME 2?NO. 38. ABBEVILLE C. IL, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1855. WHOLE NUMBER 90. POETRY. Whom I Lovo Best. I have a father?one whose worth Is by but few possessed. Of all the men who tread the enrth, I love my father best. I have a brother too, whose joys I share at his behest. j Of nil tlic laughter loving boys, I love my broiler best. 1 have a sister?one ns true As brother ever blest. "Of all the girls that meet my vi?w, I lore my sister best. I cherish these, but there is one xr i? ? *? ui<nc uvar uiun ni; u<e rest. And it is strange n duteo?? soii; Should lor?his mother best? MISCELLANY. [KOIl THE INlrKlT.SDKNT TliKSA.] From Charleston. Messrs. Editor* : At'ter accomplishing a; diligent search in fctio ipofit-office of this! place, yesterday, 1 found, to my great satis fac.tiou, two copies of the Independent Press.! 1 had l>een wondering "what could the mat-' , . . . . i ter dc i" as l Had waited 111 vain 1<jrf=o inattv ' days for the appearance of ray lixtl-e lYiend. j Now I know it was not your ueglect, and I i am satisfied. I Well, we, left your leaders, in oar last, at the Planters' Hotel, at 4 o'clock,-awl not 1, as your printers make iL Up to this date [business lias been quite /lull; at least so j businessmen say, and they, of all otlmrs, | ought to know where the t-iiod pinches.? } Christmas holidays have had their share in the stagnation of business, and I might sav j in iu<.? consumption or gunpowder, tirecrackers, and nil the other etceteras of a festive occasion. The noise and confusion in the city was truly annoying during the whole celebration. It must he a relic of j x open, - -l mean uie consumption ot pow- : der, and the unmeaning, disturbing practices of Christmas holidays. No Puritan father or son thinks of burning powder but I in the face of an enemy. Allurements have been abundant in the] -city for the hist six weeks; and here, where funeral kneiis were continually sounding hiring the summer, ami where whole families fell victims to the destroyer?here, where one would suppose the conquests of ttlie King of Terrors would have made at least a pause in the giddy rounds of folly? even here the crowd moves on as usual into the Temple of Mirtli, and consecrate themselves to the fascination* of the Theatre, the (Circus and tl>? Dance ! As moralising over ithi'ui feature of our common humanity would /1a jr*r\r\i\ vntir rwwlprs R?inll 1"M> snni'nil ..w ?,??> , / "" I such a\i iwfliction.- But there arc other ami more rational means of enjoyment at comjnand i.u the city. "WACCIl's ITALIA," of which you have *een daily notices in the papers, is really and truly a wonderful a-1 cbievemcnt of art. The programme, as , furnished to visitors, would not interest ] your readers, or it might he given. Com- ( meneing in the south of Italy, you have | first of all a view of Mt. Vesuvius, at tlie | time of an eruption, as seen by Mr. W a ugh , in 1839. From this you pass to the Grot- j to in the Bay of Naples. This represent a- | tion is perhaps the most perfect, as it. is do- ] -cidedly amongst-the most interesting, of all ( the points exhibited. The effect of light j and shade, in developing color especially, is . most cliarming. Then comes (he "Ascent ( to Vesuvius," the Bay of Naples, with every i object of interest connected with the city , and environs. From thence, by a very ea- ( sy journey, you are brought to Rome, seat- , ??d on her seven hills. The various views j given of that city are most interesting. The , "corse,*1 during the season of carnival; the j VVltOVUlU, (VI QCA.U UJ lUUUIIII^IIl'f 11115 Uf I -cayed arches and temples, which abound in . -oveiy part of the city ; and last, and most interesting of all, ihe Cathedral of St. Pe- , fev rter'?, as seen within and witliout, and espe- | pjjfc* ^'""y ^ie "illumination," all tyken together, , '/ *, forms such an assemblage of interesting ob- , jecW as would richly repay the expense, and trouble of a visit. Then follows the principal citiea of Italy, including Venice with her canal streets and royal barge#, and ' vflt lifrhtpr iftondolas. nrnivllpd Kit a ?n?l? ?' "?l - D " T - _ " ', f "V -oar. The execution of the picture seems to be perfect and it is pronounced by competent judges to be the clvef daeuvre of all panoramic representations ever exhibited here. And yet, would you believe it, Messrs. Editors,"this splendid panorama was exhibited nightly, for two weeks, to tbin bouses; whilst "Young America" chose to patronise the theatre and rowdy circus. For the last week, however, the audienoea have been large, and Charleston is beginning to show .bar appreciation of the beautiful and elevating, as well aa of * * * * V But, sirs, you are not to take the standard of morals or taste, belonging to any one yf f clique, as a specimen of Charleston. No, sir, the lines of distinction between evil and good, pure and impure, are nicely defiucil in this community; so that sointimes you find Pandetnomium and Paradise in frightful proximity. Hlnsphemv on (his au<l pray-< ing and praising on //tut side of the same street. Indeed, there is one street in Charles-j ton of which it vscil to be said, that it ! con I.'lined more churchcs and houses of ill: fame tlinn any other in the city. The hitter have disappeared; the former are fl?ur ishing. But, now, lot nie introduce your! readers into tlie basement story of one of! our city churches where they can be quiet spectators ot a LOVE FEAST MEETING held for the exclusive benefit of the colored members of the Church. The hymn is sung by the congregation and the prayer ottered; tip by the pastor; when cubes of bread; and glasses of water arc passed around.) Tlu'n follows tlie collection, a five-will ollerinjf to the Church. By this lime. there sire four or live hundred persons present, and the speaking begins.?There, tiiat is the patriarch of the whole tribe- now on his feet. Hear hiin, as with a cracked ami feeble voice, lie says : "My bredren, as I lay #*?! Mil' Kl.?l t\I.W IIUll'llSlI !"? ?? .... .... wv.., ,.?,s ..,1.1- | afore daylight, I been tinking, liow (?o<l Almighty awaken ami convert myself, in 1 700 ; and how I give my hand to <le minister in old Charleston ; ami how I been support by ?iivine grace, all ?lis time ; ami ir.v | lieart feel tnnkiul: and I bless de Lord.! lie witl me to-night, and I jnst wait for de Mafter take me home to I leaven. llless de Lord." There is commotion in the assembly, for there is not one there who does not know, and reverence too, old daddy Strap Morgan. He is an African bv i. 1 . c .1-.. e ... i:..i? -i" i I'll lily clliu mils Ul UltS IL'W JilM llllhS 111 IIIU j chain which bind* ns to :i past generation. I But there, look there at that bright, intelligent looking colored man. llis face J glows with delight, as he refers to the sermon of last Sabbath, and adopts fur himself t!ie language of Hern, and says: ''Thy i people shall be my people?0, thv God, j my God;" and tlien, alluding to a sermon j rVTl'll/'llCll IIV I i^lli >. (' IT1P?0 1* Kiivi" tv/./.bc I liefore, he adopts the text as expressive of his own feelings, :<nrl with <lo'.*p emphasis lie repeats : "My heart is fixed, O God my heart is fix< <l"?witli :i ''hallelujah," which made die basement ring, ami which drew | forth responsive hallelujahs from many a ; heart, he took his seat. Quirk as thought another is up. Look j at him, see what an animated countenance j lie wears: listen. hi? Rlir>;ik-? in low cr.fr cents?you feci then; is humility there. 1 lo j warms up n little, you are struck not only: with the quiet fueling 1((. exhibits, luit with | the propriety of his language and sentiment. j 11?t tells you he is a carriage driver, and that 1 hein<; awakened and distiesseil, he retired j to h is hay loft to pray, after taking care of I his cattle. lie prays until near nine o'clock, I when his heart suddenly warm* and melts, j (glory from liiin.nnd hulhlujoh from many i voices) then he joined the Church, and now, sometimes in the stable with the horses, and sometimes in the street, on the carriage J hox, lie rejoices in the love of God. 11 is; people, artless and moving (for that very' reason,) story is told, and you cannot resist j the conviction that there is real piety in! that dusky son of Ham. See there is a woman up?her tones are mill! and scarcely audible at first: she tells tier brethren that she was at love feast but >nce the past year,?how anxious she had L>een to enjoy this privilege with them, iow she had asked the "deary owners'' to How her to come?how much she loved j 11JV uiuiiiivii) HIV* ?tiv; iiui JUJI'JJIU io\v much she desired their prayers, &r. By this time the whole congregation is on Jie point of a great outburst of religions feeling?the tide is coming in?the waves ire swelling and rolling all around you; the feeling is contagious, and you must yield ;o you#generous impulses, or pronounce the wb'hole an iinoosture.? This last vou cannot io, being present and cognisant of all the j ircumntanees.?These give you hut n specimen of the whole, say if you please, tlie best selections; very well, but if you had Lteen present, as the writer was, and witnessed the buoyancy of religious faith and feeling, ?nd heard, as he did, the expressions of unwavering confidenc in that, particular devclopem'ent of Christianity, I am .sure you would think that many years must elapse before all this zeal, and religious energy will subside in staid forms and ceremonials of rer ligious worship. But I must not forget tint your readers have nerves, and sometimes irritable ones too, and must therefore close, wishing you a pleasant year, and increased subscription list*. Yours truly, Icon. Charleston, January 9th, 1855. uZel>" said a cliap to hit chum, the other day, "seems to me you didn't stay long at Squire Togger's last night." "No," was the replv. MI was sayin' a few pleasant things to the daughter, and the old man came in and gave me a hint to go.n "A hint, Zeb, what, sort of a hintf' "Why, he gave (he ray hat, opened the door, arid just as be.began to raise his cowhide boot, 1 bad a thought tnat I wasn't 'wanted, and ?o I?I took my leave." .3 . y iY i H . > : f V . liL'iSv. ' Kansas. To the Editors of the Sentinel: Gentlemen : "NVc request that you will publish the accompanying letter of General li. F. Stringfellow, of Missouri, relative to the settlement of Kansas Territory, which j contains information of interest to the people of the entire South. General Stringfellow resides on the very border of Kansas, and the ability he has displayed in the discussion of the slavery question in his publications and addresses, together with his reputation in his owri State, has induced us to believe that his j views win bo mure entertaining and servicea-l lile to our respective constituents, and the I people of the South, than any information j within our reach. We therefore present liis letter, in reply to one which we had the honor to address him, as a general response to (hose who seek to he informed upon matters pertaining to Rcspi'flfullv. vnur oWdifnt servants, I\ S. BROOKS, ofS. C., TIIOS. L. CLING MAX, of X.C., \VM. SMITH, of Vi!., iiml J NO. McQUEKX, of S. C. Washington, Jan. 10, 1855. To the Hon. P. S. Uhooks.Thos. L.Clingman, W.m. Smith, and John McQit.kn: Gentlf.men : It irives ni? pleasure to! comply with your request, and state in 1 writing the information I have been enabled to give you, touching the settlement of Kansas Territory, ami its adaptedness to slave labor, and to present the considerations which induces me to say, without hesitation, it will I Hi n sh.vcholdinjj State. I do this with more pleasure, because T find gross errors j commonly prevailing in relation to thatTer- i ritory, circulated, too, in some instancer, (I wou.d hope. tlirongh misconception,) by Southern men, who ought to be better informed. I am gratified to learn from you, that there is so general a desire among the people of the South to know the truth, and I >hall bo more than rep;ii<l, if I can be a moans of enlightening them. For the s:ike of convenience, I will reply to your enquiries separately. 1. Will Kansas he a slavehohliny State ? I answer without hesitation,it will. Though a citizen of Missouri, yet residing on the border of Kansas, I have necessarily felt a deep interest in the decision of this question, and have watched anxiously the progress of the strangle which has been going on in , liiui territory. A resilience ot nearly seventeen year* in Missouri lias, I believed, enabled me to form a reliable opinion as lo the cla?s ?.f population which would naturally and permanently occupy Kansas. I admit, however, I was somewhat alarmed, when I saw our Southern friends seemingly ready to surrender it. deterred by the declaration of those 011 whom they were accustomed to rely. th;it '"it was not adapt<*<1 to slave labor," while at the same tim?.% Abolitionists wore organizing their companies, with inillions of capital, to colonize that Territory. Yet I never despaired ! 1 still declared that, though sent out, they could not remain ; they could not live in the prairies! i can now refer you to the result of the late election for delegate, as evidence conclusive of the correctness of my opinion. I give the vote in detail, as it is important to direct your attention to the vote of certain districts. Okficai. lieti'itx.s?Of an Election for ^ %r a Delegate to the limine of Representatives of the United States held in the Territory of Kansas, on the 29th of November, 1854. Di?. Whitfield. Wakefield. Flenneken. 1 40 188 51 2 235 20 G 3 40 7 *4 140 21 5 03 4 15 0 105 7 597 7 8 10 V y 31 10 2 0 20 11 237 3 12 31 0 13 69 1 14 130 23 15 207 30 10 222 80 17 49 13 2258 248 305 Ill the first district, diaries Robinson received two votes; S. C. Pomeroy, two; P. Blood, one ; and Win. Llovd Garrison one. And John B. Chapman received in the first district, nine; third, one; eleventh, five; and in the twelfth, one ; making sixteen. * Tiiio ? A ma L/IOI*I iui? 10 iruiiirsuxi* Tlic Question of slavery was not properly involved in this election, and Gen. Whitfield, Accordingly, in announcing himself a candidate, presented, as the issue, the principles of the Dougla* bill. But the real issue was not left to hiin; the friends of his opponents, before he was fairly announced, made the issues distinctly and directly on the Question of slavery?induced to do so, witnont doubt, under the false impression that a large number of those sent out by.the Abo-, lition societies were still in the Territory. * V ' * friends of Whitfield and, by the action of the Abolitionist?, became the only issue in the contest; it absorbs all others, and ou it the election turned. Whitfield received tbo pro-slavery. The anti-slavery was divided between Flennikcn and Wakefield. The former was favored by the Governor, and as eontra-distmguished from the Abolitionist was called by the softer term, frcesoiler. lie received the vote of those who denied that they were Abolitionists, but claimed only to l?e opposed to slavery, with such of the Abolitionists as could be influenced bv the Governor. Wakefield was the proper Abolition candidate, and received, with ft.w exceptions, the votes of those sent out by the Emigrant x\id Societies. This last vote you will see was nearly all given in one district. That district included the town of Lawrence, to which those sent by the Abolition Societies were forwarded. Those societiec show, by their reports, that they have trans]>orted to Kansas 3,000 during the past summer; and I in.1.-" .i.~ -i? : ? Hf Iiiv; unnci mm HIV iiiuuuci is liui overstated. Of that nmnbor you will see, there were left on tlie day of the election, but 24S ! of those I am credibly informed 150 left oti the day following the election, having complied with their contracts in voting ! Others have since left, and 1 can safely say, that of the whole batch there will not by March, be fifty left in the Terri torv ! They were not such men as could settle a prairie country. I am aware tnat it is charged l>v Abolitionists, that Missouri sent thousands (they had it lour thousand) to Kansas, "merely to vote," and tlnis elected Whitfield. I might not perhaps to deny the charge, as Missouri has certainly an equal right with Massachusetts to send men to Kansas! Abolitionists have not the exclusive right to organize emigrant aid societies! It* the charge were true, I do not see that it can afford much consolation to Abolitionists to find, that Missouri can alone and unaided, so easily defeat their boasted schemes. | On the contrary, it might well encourage our southern friends to learn, that tliough j they he asleep or afraid, Missouri is not j orJy awnV'*. but^wble and determined to protect the rights of the South. For answer to this charge, however, I need only refer you to tlie vote?you will see that Whitfield received a majority in every precinct, but three, in two of which a very small vote was given, ami in the [other, is situated the town of Lawrence, j You will see too that there was but a liandj fill of Abolitionists in the whole Territory, t their whol<? vote being only about 500. To say they that illegal votes from Missouri carried the election is to asseit that there nAAnli* it* tlw? TurrifAf*' ' T? poor shift, \t> which the Abolitionists are driven, hut the onlv one to cover their failure. Another and a sufficient answer to all such charges is, that the judges of the election were appointed by the Governor, I \wiu was an active m-uu oi rienniKen ; nicy I received the votes and returned tliem without objection from any quarter in but one district, ;;nd in that the objection wjis withdrawn. The truth is, n large number "of Missourians who have "claims" in the Territory and intended to reside there, were not there on the day of the election. But they will he there in the spring, and will have a right to vote ; they will not, however, like Abolitionists, return 60 soon a-> they vote, but will remain, and continue to vote. Missourians have l>elived that, without the DougI l ilt 1 A ' * ? * * ia>s urn, :iiiu cenamiy umier tnc great principle recognized bv that bill, they had the right to move to Kansas, and there to exercisc the privileges, which, as freemen, they had before been accustomed to exercise. Abolitionists have ptoclnimed that their purpose is not only to exclude slavehold ers from Kansas, but to use Kansas as a means lor abolishing slavery in Missouri; tlien, with these for their levers, to abolish it in Arkansas and Texas. Were they to sncceed, it needs no prophet to foretell the speedy dissolution of the Union. Missourianft have thus felt, that in their efforts to defeat the designs of the Abolitionists, they were not only defending their own homes, but the Uniou itself. To protect their homes. they have mnde their homes in Kansas If, then, it is intended by the charge, to say that those who once lived in Missouri, carried the election in Kansas, there is some foundation for the charge. While the people of Missouri are not "lawless invaders," many have tnoved into Kansas mainly injdueed by the determination to adopt all lawful means to protect themselves from the 'invasion of Abolitionists. Others are ready !and datermrned, if necessary, to abandon their homes and move at whatever cost of comfort or money. We have a deeper interest at stake, and are not less selfaacrificing than the Abolitionists. In justice to the people of Missouri, I will say (from an experience, as a lawyer of seventeen years, during ten of wliicn I was prosecu-l ting,) they are as orderly, as moral, as sub-T missive to law as the people of any State in the Union. At the same time, composed as thej are of the most enterprising, energetic, if not intellectual, of the/old States, | they are as determined of purpose at any people in the world. When, then, I say to Von,tbattoti^mtbfe1*fK!t** it.it to. Abo* IitaonwU and are* to<ror"ttotbejn friend* atadfetanCe * qowtion of theory ? cco4 ? science, but i\, mutter of home, of bread, that they have determined to submit to any sacrifice, which they can as pood citizens make, rather than suffer the Abolitionists to force upon the people of Kansas a system they do not approve; you will readily see lhat it is not in the power *>f Emigration j Societies to effect their purpose. There is j now in the Territory a majority of more than j four to one in favor of making Kansas a ; .1 1 1.1!, - f. -i ? * " ! siiivenuiuiiig oifuc; mat me miyo.uty will, j if emigration be left to itself, be increased; t if emigration is to be forced again, it will' be fuun^i that Missouri is nearer to Kansas than Boston ! I believe I may assume that the speculators, whoso freelv advain-ed their money for the purpose of colonizing Kanssis with i Abolitionists, under pMfiicu of a desire to uiiike it "free territory." but mdlv to nmnsa! fortunes by laying out lowns with the hirelings sent out by them, bnve found their speculation so flat a failure, that they will permit Kansas to be settled in the natural way. If thus settled, it must become a alavcholding State. It is not adapted to the making of towns; :? ;0 ? ..i c ? I:..I . r i. 10 nvi 3uhi:u iui niuu minis; u cannoi Lie settled by those who have not the command of labor. To the farmer who has no ''help," but is dependant on his own unaided lal>or, Kansas is, of all, the least desirable country ; it Vannot be settled bv such. In the timber, the poor man can with his axe, erect his cabin, make his rails oil the line of his fence, with his own hands enclose his land, belt his trees, and with his one horse and plough break his ground and put it in cultivation. But in Kansas there is so much land for cultivation! Every foot oi' timber is needed for fuel and fencing. The timber is confined to the banks of the streams, on the bottoms and the breaks of hil s; hence, timbered land is less fitted for Cultivation, while on account of its scarcity, it is far too valuable for that purpose. Farms must be made in the prairie. The farmer must have a team to haul his rails, and in most ca?es they must be hauled j iio far as to render fencing too costly for littie fields. Large fields alone, by reducing j the proportion of fencing, can render its cost I reasonable. Dwellings must be framed, or! of brick or stone. 13ut, perhaps, the great-1 est of ull the difficulties in the way of thej poor man, is the first cost of break ng prairie. To do this requires two hands ai;d at least six yoke of oxen. If hired, it will cost ii.net tlivno ?? * aw IVII.H blll?.V MVIIUIO I <? IV , UUt It CillMIUl be hired in Kansas tor years; tln-iv, every man will have his own land to l>r<.'>?k; each settler must, hence have his hhii team, liis own ploughmen. In 110 instance has prairie laiul been settled by poor men. Alter a country is settled, and every facility is afforded, it is just possible for one here and there to make a farm in the prairie. In Missouri, such instances even yet are rare. In northern Illinois, with all its facilities, its rich prairies lay virtually a waste until railroads were made through them. Such nre mine of the rliftienliip* have driven tho-e sent out by the Emigrant Aid Societies back to the towns of the East; which have compelled so many of those who emigrated from the non-slaveholdiiig States to return. Of those from the nonslaveholding States who remain, tlie substantial men of means and intelligence, a large proportion, so soon as they are enabled to see slavery as it really exists are freed from their prejudices, and from sheer necessity become slaveholders, for no other labor can be had. While, then, prairie is so unsuited to the poor man, on the other hand, to the man who can command labor, who has one or more slaves, it presents many and great inducement*. ine outlay, u is true, demands some actual capital. The house must be built by a workman?must be paid for?yet it is not to be supposed that the cost is very heavy. At first the settlers must be content with small j bouses? with only the nccessary rooms. A j iramea nousewui nonce cost l?ut little. The unlimited supply of the l>est building stone, the blue and grev limestone, will render stone houses as cheap as framed. The lime can be burned on the ground. As I have said, the greatest difficulty is in the command of the requisite labor?the hands and team necessary to break and enclose the land. To one who has this, it is far easier and cheaper to make a farm of one hundred acres or more, in the prairie than iu the timber. Indeed, in Missouri it is deemed better and cheaper in the end to i make a farm of 300 acrees in the prairie and to haul the rails ten miles than to clear timbered land. Tli? plough u?e<l'i will turn over from 20 to 20 inches, one team will breuk from two to two and a half acres per day. The cat- ] tie require no other feed, but will keep fut on the grata, while at work. THia proper 1 season for breaking prairie is from the first 1 bf May to the middle of July; up to which 1 time corn can be planted. The corn is drop* : ped in tha furrow (by n boy who can sit on ' tbe plough) and is covered by the plough. 1 It wilL usually mature and make good * corn 1 if planted as early as the let of June. That 1 planted later will make good stock feed. 1 Prairie may be broken as late (ft the mid- * die of Abgust, and will, if aown, yield a < wheal crop equal to any .that can be wftw j ward* growo on tbe grottai > " -v > To one wlio has stock to feed, the crop of corn on the sod is always worth the cost of breaking; and will, in a good season, pay for breaking and enclosing. In the second year, the farm is in perfect condition! There are no stumps, but tho sod is roth-d, and your field clear of weeds and grass, is light and mellow as an ashhank. In the prairie, too, a hand can cultivate one-third more land than in the timber. A prairie farm will pay for its^f tlireo time* over, before a farm ean be cteared iu the timber. I find a very common error prevailing, as to prairie,among the uitieenn of the Atlantic States?it is, that prairie is always flat. i/n ine contrary, until a country is settled, much the larger portion of the prairie is high and rolling. The prairies are caused by fire, and the low wet lands not burning so readily, are more often covered with timl>er. So soon as the fires are kept down, the prairies will put up timber?in many places the hazel will spring up in one year, timber follows immediately, and in a few years the timber will grow faster than it can be used. Such nre some of the inducements to to those who can command labor; to tlioso who have, say one or more slave*, to settle in Kansas. I ought here to say that l>oth in Missouri and Kansas the winters are always dry, and with but little snow, and hence bauds are ablo to work during the entire winter. Consumption, too, is almost unheard of among us. z. js siavc luoor profitable xn Kansas* As yet 110 opportunity to ascertain its value lias been given ; I can hence only refer you to its value in Missouri, and say that, lying in the same latitude, immediately west and long side of Missouri. the soil and climate of Kansas cannot differ materially from those of Missouri. I am im-lim-d to believe that Kansas will prove even healthier than Missouri. there being less low marshy land in Kansas. There can thus be no reason why eWn -I 1.1 ...? 1? ? ??i mirvi niiuiuu HUL W ?I3 piVUlXUm 111 Kansas as in Missouri. Anticipating iliat such inrpiiriesmight bo marie during my visit to \ irgitii.i, befo*ft leaving home, 1 procured from intelligent farmers in Platte, a county bordering on Kansas, a statement showing the amount of land which one hand can cultivate, with the yield per acre, and the market price of the products at home. I have no hesitation in attesting its correctness. Amount of land to lund and yield per acre. Hemp?7 to 8 acres 800 to 1,200lbs. (Join?10 to 15 acres 10 to 20bbls. Wheat?10 to 15 acres 20 to 45bit. Oats?10 to 15 acres 30 lo 40 bu. Value of product nt home. Ilemp?2 1-2 tons at 880 per ton $200 00 Corn?lOObbls. at ?1 per bbl. 10C 00 Wheat?5 acres?luO bu. at 80 cents per bu. 80 00 Oats 5 acres?150bu. at 30 cents per bu. 45 00 Total least yield at lowest price $425 00 Ilump?4 1-2 tons at-$l 30 per ton $425 00 Corn?300bbls. at ?2 fx*r bbl. GOO 00 Wheat?5 acres?225bu. at ?1 per bu. 225 00 Oats?5 acrcs?250 bu. ?il 40 cents * per bu. 100 00 Greatest yield at highest price ?1,510 00 . h This will doubtless, seem an extravagant estimate ; yet the quotations of the markets Will dmu' tlm irt.ivlirtnn* 1 vi*v ikiaiiiiuiii i'liuca MTU less the present market prices. Hemp lias sold during the past season for 8150 per ton. Wheat is worth $1 25 per bushel, and corn S3 per barrel. Th6 yieM, too, is often greater than the highest. But it is not less true that the greatest yield and highest prico are not often together. My object is rather to show the least yield and the lowest price. Negroes?Held hands? have hired for some years in Western .Missouri at. prices which could not be paid, if their labur were less valuable than as above stated. Men, at from $180 to $250; wo* men, at from ?80 to $150 per annum, the hirer paying all expenses and losing all time of sickness, the owner at no charge. A woman, with two children, will bring from $60 to $00; and girls, from ten to thirteen years of age, from $40 to $60 per annum. I nuw pay for one, about ten years of; age, $6 per month by tho year. I need hardly say that nfegroea must be henlthy and profit* ol.lu .... f\. ? ?? , v. wuiu nui< j??j? isuuii prices.; 3. Is it safe to lake slaves to Kansas now ? Of this there can be no doubt. They are less likely to escape tlimi from Missouri; are further from the under-ground railroad* and hiding places of the Abolitionists; while the people of the Territory are more on the .1..-. ~...i -l-i. -i >? bj.miu wmvu mure viuaeiy 111066 WHO) would steal them. * . From the law there can be tfo danger. 31a ves are iiomt, and have been for yeata; in ihe Territory, so that slavery, in is already established. I need not say. to you that no lawyer, unless lie be an Abolitionist, (*}H pretend that any positive law is nccea-. ?ry to make *hivery legal. yliut, "to vindi:ate the truth of history," I ought to say,, hat the veriest, ikftool boy must know, as a . .Wy ex*