PERSONAL.––Dr. C.E. Miner, of this city, who has been East for several weeks, returned last Saturday evening. The Doctor has been as far east as Massachusetts––visiting, en route, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Trenton, New York, Albany, &c. He went mainly on business connected with the University of this city, and was, happily, entirely successful in his mission. The Doctor reports money to be plenty in the cities, but about as scarce in the country, generally, as in Kansas. He thinks there will be a very heavy emigration in the spring.
The Doctor observes to us that there is a perfect stampede of slaves from Western Missouri, their masters selling them off South, or removing with them to that section. The ingress of free laborers from the North is driving out the aristocrats, with their human chattels. Let the good work go on.
"Personal," Lawrence (KS) Western Home Journal, November 18, 1858, p. 2