Staunton Spectator

Life in Kansas.—We have all along believed that the troubles, controversies, disputes, and contemplated conflicts between settlers in Kansas existed more in the heated brains of designing scribblers than anywhere else. Many suppose that it would be as difficult to get a Yankee and Southerner to shelter together in the same tent in Kansas as it would be to have a lion and a lamb bunk together in the same lair. It is all a mistake. Read the following brotherly and comfortable picture of life in Kansas, from the "Agrarian," published in Independence, Missouri:

We have all along been aware that our position here on the frontier entitles distant readers to look to this paper for information respecting the progress of things in the adjacent 'Territory of Kansas. We have forborne to say anything, for a reason which, however it may be regarded by others, is satisfactory to us. That reason is that there was nothing to be said. The fierce agitation going on amongst politicians and newspaper men throughout the country is probably nowhere in the Union treated by the people with such profound indifference as just about here and across the line.

Those who will take the trouble of making a short excursion into the Territory will find here and there the oddest kind of association. For instance he may find a Yankee, a Tennessean, and a Missourian all cozily sheltered in the same cabin, and living together as harmoniously as a prairie dog, a rattlesnake, and an owl. They all seek to better their condition in life, and to secure, if so be they can, the little lordship of 160 acres of mother earth, whereon to propagate, no matter what, but opinion least of all things. The Yankee (shame on his education!) has never heard of the famous Boston Propaganda; the Tennessean has barely heard tell of Mr. Calhoun and the rights of the South; and the Missourian thinks the rights of the West will be amply vindicated if he can get his favorite quarter-section.