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absence—I might more truthfully say occasional presence at 
home — of my husband, croaks a good deal, that we “will have 
a famine in the autumn — that starvation will drive us far from 
the country, because, forsooth, to-day there is no flour in town. 
It seems to me quite probable, while flour is plenty in Mis¬ 
souri at three and a half dollars per sack, and sells here at six 
and a half, that the Missourians will bring it over; not so 
much out of friendly regard for us, “ poor Massachusetts pau¬ 
pers,” as of interested feeling for their pockets. In that at 
least I have implicit trust. E. goes on an exploring expedition 
for yeast, and is successful in getting some which looks neither 
“ lively” nor clean. Indeed, it looks as though some very strong 
chemical action must be brought to bear upon it, in order to 
raise good bread. 
3d. —- Towards night was glad to welcome to our house a 
young lady, also a fellow-traveller upon the river. The family 
with whom she travelled are exceedingly fine people. They are 
intending to settle at Manhattan, upon the Big Blue, seventy-five 
of one hundred miles from here. The country there is called by 
many more beautiful than this, yet they who go there must pos¬ 
sess courage beyond mine to live so far from any steam line of 
communication with the states. 
Like most Kansas emigrants, this young lady and her friends 
have tasted the hardships of pioneer life. On leaving Kansas 
city three days since, and getting out of town a short distance, 
their horses became entirely unmanageable. Notwithstanding 
the depth of the mud, owing to the recent heavy showers, the 
ladies were set out into it, and for quite a distance carried the 
children in their arms. The effort being ineffectual towards fur¬ 
ther progress that night, they camped by the road-side and slept 
amid the dampness and falling rain. 
They have also been visited with sickness. While Mr. D., after 
great prostration, has recovered, the little one, the “pet lamb” of 
the flock, has “ gone home,” without tasting earth’s trials, or 
breasting its stormy floods. 
4 tk. — I sent E. to my nearest neighbor’s this morning for 
milk; without success, however. Among all these cows which 
