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borrow money to go East, had no resources of his own there, and part of the money he has collected has gone to buy a piano, which he writes he has got for his daughter. He sent a number of prospectuses here for a newspaper to be published here, called "The Osawatomie Times." It states that such a paper will be issued here, the 1st No. some time in March. I should greatly like to have a paper printed here, of course, especially as it might personally advantage me by giving me employment occasionally. But there are more papers in Kansas now than can be supported, and why another starveling? Beside, probably to induce the publishers to locate here, the most extravagant and false statements are made. For instance the man paper torn that carries the mail back and forth from Westport here goes generally in a two-horse buggy, sometimes, in bad roads, on horseback. This is magnified into "Two excellent lines of stages!! The Osage river (the Marais de Cygnes (from Meridezine) branch) flows past us. Most of the time every here and there you can cross it dryshod. No one but the wildest speculator, with brain half turned, would dream of this as a navigable river. And yet