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could be seen in the soul-fall eye as she caressed the little boy 
of a twelvemonth. Their home had been Wisconsin, while her 
husband was from the aristocratic old state of Virginia, and of a 
gentlemanly, dignified bearing. 
This house is a home for travellers, and its capacious rooms 
were now full. Young mothers with their little children sat by 
the fire, and looked weary with their travels. Supper, too, was 
being prepared for the old judge, who came in from Lawrence, 
and with cheerful words, always so full of humor, greeted us as he 
distributed the letters he had brought from there. The beds were 
partitioned from this common sitting-room by long curtains. Bas¬ 
kets were hanging on poles over our heads, and bags of most ca¬ 
pacious size were suspended from the walls, while meat and other 
articles for cooking found a place in the room. Judge W. is from 
Iowa, and has been, since his first coming here, one of the standard- 
bearers in freedom’s army. 
As we were returning, we met a very youthful lady and her 
husband, who have had some of the romance of life, and who are 
testing the sweets of not exactly love in a cottage, but love in a 
log-cabin, on the wide prairies. The lady was from a wealthy 
family in Cincinnati. Her friends opposed her in the choice of a 
husband, and while from home, at boarding-school, the marriage 
ceremony was performed, the young husband leaving the same day 
for Kansas. Some months after, when she had made known to 
her friends that she was already married, she also came. 
A gentleman from Wisconsin was here in the early part of the 
month. He came to examine the country, its inducements to set¬ 
tlers, with reference to the sending out of a large company from 
Wisconsin. As he wished to meet the people of Lawrence, a 
reception had been proposed. The last afternoon of his visit had 
arrived, and the gentlemen in whose hands the arrangements 
had been left, declared themselves unable to accomplish anything 
on so short notice. Two of our ladies then took the matter in 
charge, and the evening found some one hundred persons assembled 
in a large hall, with refreshments of cake, nuts, fruit, and lemon¬ 
ade, provided. 
A few days after, the New Haven company arrived. They 
