Very faithfully, PARDEE BUTLER.
RUSHVILLE, Sept.

11, 1855.
The final result was much more favorable than could have been expected, and the brethren gave me an invitation to remain with them through the winter.
I tarried six weeks in Illinois, and then returned to Kansas with Mrs.
Butler and our two children, of whom the eldest is now Mrs.Rosetta B.
Hastings.

Milo Carleton had already reached the Territory, direct from the Western Reserve, Ohio.

He was Mrs.Butler's brother, and it was determined that the two families should spend the winter together, while I should return to Illinois.
We will now pause in our personal narrative and tell what had been going on the preceding summer in other parts of the Territory.

A delegate convention had been called by the free State men to meet during the preceding September at a place called Big Springs, on the Santa Fe trail, midway between Lawrence and Topeka.