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Show KANSAS CITY LETTER- Texas and Gulf Trade Missouri Crop Prospeots. The Utah Ring viewed from Abroad. Political Matters Voto Purchasers. Pur-chasers. .6i.tiul Currouoedenuo oi tlio Herald.) Kan. City, Mo., July Jt74. On account of the panic last Fall, the business of this city and vicinity decreased about 20 per cent, and has not yet reached its former standard. The tr;uie now opening up with Texa and tho Gulf, bids fair to supersede the Atlantic trade, and the prospects are that the Western farmers will have cheaper transportation and better prices for their products than ever before. Business has attained a more favorable appearance since the inauguration of this movement. It will aileetall the cities on and west of the Missouri River, as far as Den ver, or to the farth east point from which produce or stock is shipped to an Dastern market and should attract the interest of the Pacific Coast in importation as direct lines of steamers will run to aud from foreign ports, stopping only at Galveston, Tho rates over these lines will be as cheap as from Xew York to the old countries, coun-tries, besides saving from one to four hundred miles of railroad freight, at rates far below the present tariff on eastern roads. The result is destined to be about as follows: The new lines of railroad that have been hinted at, in the lust tno years will be speedily built, oflering advantages and inducements induce-ments to the producing portion of the population west of St. Louis, which will impel them to do all the'r business with the Southern port. St. Louis has had the full benefit of this trade till now, but by the wed known enterprise and energy of Kansas Kan-sas City's business men, the trade has gradually slipped through the fingers of sleepy St. Louisians, until now they have lost it entirely, and the title has turned its course this way. seemingly to give honest farmers an advantage over monopolies, by whom they havo been fleeced, kept down even to the brink of ruin, for the last fifteen years. This, the event ol"lS74,in the interest of the western people, is managed man-aged by men of beisiness, who mean to see justice extended to all. and that no man shall bo trodden clown because he has less than his neighbor. neigh-bor. The crops, and matters generally, are assuming a very promising and encouraging aspect in this vicinity, not at all out of tunc, for many of the inhabitants of this, Jackson; and adjoining counties, had a pretty close- run last- winter, and without !in jvhundnnt. rmn thw sv?inn mil Id I not weather another winter. In 1S72 thousands of busheis of corn were used fcr fuel in ibis State and in Kansas. In 167o the corn crop was . not; so gabundaut, in fact it j was not more than ,'iO per cent, of the crop '73, and in '74 the farmers promise reverently and faithfully to bum no more corn if they may have a living supply. Although the chinch bug has injured it somewhat, there will, no doubt, be ft fair crop. Though Kansas City is off the line of the Salt Lake trade, there was no little interest manifested in the passage or the "Poland bill" and the situation there, by her citizen?. Yom correspondent hns heard the opinions of several prominent men, on the sbbject, one in particular an editor gave his views in about this style: It was his opinion that a city was never infested with as rotten a carpet-baggers as had been suffered to remain outside the State prison in Salt Lake, since tha completion of the Union Pacific railway, and the forcing in of Federal authorities. 11c mentioned particularly the McKean! Ring, aud intimated that he knew ! come iitele Goneiorning the pedigree of sundry members ol the same. In conclusion, they were unfit to clean the spittoons of any respectable politician poli-tician in the land. We then spoke concerning the rights of the Mormons, Mor-mons, as a people, without rcfciencc to their institutions, or religion, and he thought that they were entitled to the lands, and country they have built, and opened up, as long as a vestige of their .religion, or union continues; and by way of explanation, explana-tion, lie said, that the fact that those men, (of whom we have spoken in eucli flattering terms), are striving continually to drive a peaceable community com-munity from the homes for which they have toiled incessantly, ia uuf-fScient uuf-fScient to show the public with what kind of mon they are dealing. A man, who, by hypocritical patriotism would afcaf tho home, tho shelter, from over the hcaels of his fellow man ' and families who hapneueel to believe differently to him, would rob the Government by which he was employed em-ployed with as little impunity, as a merchant would take a dollar from his own till. Now is the time for tho discussion, of political affairs, and for the hearts of politicians to be throbbing. The State and County elections will take place at the beginning of November, and already one might see small j. j lit "vnt i hit mi tin" riit,rrinr- saloons with candidates, who "treat," shake hands and chat in the most approved style of the lobbyist. It is a well authenticated fact, that candidates can-didates for office, now-a-days, spend several hundred dollars (and some-.times some-.times several thousands) to buy votes, ind then ste-al to reimburse themselves. them-selves. We have seen several elections, elec-tions, but the only one we ever witnessed wit-nessed where the candidates were not lobbying, was in the "wicked,"' "re-oroachful" "re-oroachful" Salt Lake. Allow mc to modify the above sentence, sen-tence, by stating that this was the case until the "ring'' sought olliee there, afiw which it is well known that money was offered for votes, and , many bought by the Liberal Institute 't ''caucus exciters." ; .mere are men here who receive copies of the Salt Lake Tii-un: occasionally, occa-sionally, one of whom expressed his 'wrath in the following language: "Thusc men must be employed by that well known gang of 'Shy- tens' to throw filth at Brigham , Young and the Mormons.' He then spoke (.not very complimentary) .about the manner iu which they trial to defame the character of Kobcrt L. , Campbell, after his death. By what 1 have heard at diilcrent time.-, I have arrived at the conclusion that 'all thinking people justify the Mor-Imons Mor-Imons in all they du, except poly-,gamy, poly-,gamy, and they remark, very charit-! charit-! ably, "They will grow out of that." ' Fairy. |