New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-11
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sVcudtC-Irue-tO all the glowing Descriptions u ING
beauty fertility and magnitude Of the country border
inc upon the Upper Mississippi and feeling that the
beauty fertility and excellence OF the interior are lli
" equal If not superior To the borders. am lmPeied
10 give you few jottings by the way, OF lourne!
Just ended from Burlington 10 osealooss, and thence
back to Keokuk. We had no grand party to give
fclai TO our goiDgs or comings music nor dancing
10 celebratoa festivals nor feasting to gid WIN
rainbow hges the surrounding landscape; OUT oil
speech-msking we had plenty, and endless variety
coed and sensible too. perhaps as II spoken D! lips
QuiyerDg with the excitement Of pride, ambition or
sparkling Catawba and falling UPON ears as capable
of appreciation. those dued by hurry, sensuality
hustle and fatigue Ny business was 20 lecture on
Temperance and "Womans Rights 10 the people,
and OF had time in my few days OF leisure at
the by the way to learn somewhat OF the conn
try and changing my travelling companions every lew
mics Of nv journey. brought me in contact with all
classes and kinds OF people from the immovable
DutChmsn, 10 the cute Yankee Spectator, and from
stsge-coach speeches We will draw our IDEAS OF the
impression made upon the explorers by this interesting
country. We'll this is een-a jest the garden OF Eden
ANYHOW" broke out old man from Maine, who had
been studying the landscape for some hours IN silence
lie was hunting homes for his boys. " Bless my
stars mother, lock at that" exclaimed loluscious
Ntw-Yorker TO his better half who seemed looking
back Ike Lots wife 10 the WORKOUT lands OF Oswego
- Don't that make your mouth water These corn
fields look as If fifty years old; not stump, nor
stone. Look that fellow, plOwing; his horse walks
as if he had nothing behind him: what furrow no
rolls up soft az earden-plat rich stable-yard."
I'M give il up" says stately Canadian. I've
teen locking s the way from Paris IN Canada, through
Ohio Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin for something
better AID it has q 1--WE better all the way, but better
than this is no use: I'll give it up Come wife,
let's get out and go back you wanted clear streams
and here they wanted timber stone and prairie
snd I've found them all. Let's go back, gather up
the chicks and come TO Iowa"
.sThev telld us this little the purtyest place
this side q sun down, but thought is half gas-but
by shuoks they didn't tell half ont. Uncle Nate told
US we'd never want TO 60 back to Monroe
Il reckon wont neither" says stout young
man 10 his cherry checked WIFE putting his hand at
the ssme time near side pocket where probably the
treasure was secreted that was to purchase new
hone.
"Nsrnifcent-c :" calculated the
gentleman in gloves, with tie linen coat over his
brosdcloth, these lands will be worth ten dollars
an acre in five Years every rood Of them-teD years
will make this country equal TO the most favored Sec
tons Of New-York Pennsy lyana, or Ohio. Look, Is
not that splendid rolling prairie just enough to drain
it--yale, hi woodland. park, lawn, grove, meadow
field shrubbery, and garden, and all in luxurIant
bloom and beauty from natures own hand brooks
running over pebby beds, gushing springs or wells
easily made OF clear and sparkling water. Is 1t not
beautiful" Beautiful beautiful, beautiful, echo
the laoes.
Beautiful" answers the qusiI from the top-most
rail Of that stake and rider fence around that magni
cent field of rye. Beaut iul-beautitul whistles
tie Whip.poor at mid-da, in the DARK grove
of elm and oaks by the way side. tie hsdony changed
his dolorous note to suit the sunshine.
" Iowa for me. SAYS the Young wife. Bright and
beautiful as fairy DREAM" says the merry maiden
Now, gentlemen and ladies'" says an old stager-
old-he had been ten years in lowa-"lf you are 80
taken with this Just hold on-dont cry ont till you
Get I'D about OscaOosa and round about there: up
into Mahhska Marion. Warren, Lucas, Monroe, Mad
isn and 80 on clear out 10 Council Bluffs such land
for farming is not anywhere else this continent not
even IN California; have seen it ALL" Cant beat
C.rk. Union Adams, Montgomery and Mills" replies
another voice. We'll, gentlemen, it's all good and
it's pretty hard t. tell which is best. Such is the
tole OF conversation ong the explorers OF this new
country the steamers which al this season navigate
the Des MONIES River, and in the coaches. On roads
where three years ago coach twice week was am
pie tyO lines a day required and SIX or seven
coaches frequently, to convey the passengers Mount
l,asant is fiourishng town, twenty-five miles from
Burlington Preached by plankroad,) OF 200 inhab
snts and will have railroad through it In less than
Il yosr-good churches, good schools and good people;
for they take 100 TRIBU NEs am told and they mean
TO take more il 1t (THE TRBUSE) keeps on the north
side of Nebraska and western improvement Fairfield,
the seat of ustice OF Jefferson County, 10 % miles from
Mount Pleasant. Here 500 people, and everything
active vigorous and progressive Twenty -hve miles
further GU is Ottumwa, built upon fine slope on the
Des Moines. 1t has been a little stagnsnt for
year or two, On account of the suspension OF the
Des Moines improvement which il now about 10 be
renewed by an eastern company anu VIII oc oPecohy
completed; for when any country demands such work
that will pay as well this will, there will always be
found men and capital 10 do it, Oscaloosa, the county
seat OF Nahaka ia the prairie the Des MONIES oar
miles distant upon one SIDE and the south fork oil
skunk River two miles the Others thus bortered
Gu each side with living streams and heavy timber.
Ton wears since it made the seat OF justice, then
place where few settlers had reared their cabins
81 eing with prophetic eve what must follow. Now
has from coo TO 2 500 inhabitants and one hundred
buildings il is said, will be erected this season.
Every house and room is full aud every day brings
new accessions TO their numbers The railroad viii
pass through this beautiful town in less than two years
knoxville the county seat of Marion, is village OF
l5O0. Pella--where a colony Of Hollanders located
six eight years slnce-near the border OIL Marion,
has now it's 60 people. Convention was there held
the last week in May, aud arrangements made for
erecting college under the patronage OF the Baptist
denomination. At OscalOosa they have now Normal
School. At Fairfield and Mount Pleasant Female
Semnaries aud colleges in the process Of erection
The jewellers in the East have yet no conception OF
this beautiful State, its present improvements its
progress, or its resources.
The praries ere high and rolling and bordered with
timber In many places nature seems to have laid out
the farm expressly for mans use, and cleared the
meadow corn-fsd and orchard leaving no stump.
tree or bush TO interfere with the pow covering it
with deep and matted roots of grass 10 preserve the
soil and enrich it for future Groves and parks
surround IT, running streams and brooks ripping meri
Is over pebbles and sand refresh it; shrubbery aud
underbru.h supply the beginners with rich fruits
Ilsns of fine quality resembling the apricot, Wild
cherres goOseberres smooth and large bsckberrles,
rapterres strawberries grapes all OF superior quail
y 10 those growing wild in the Middle States, and in
quantities inexhaustible. Potatoes, both sweet and
Irish. are very fine; corn magnificent: and all agree
in ore thing that one half the labor will produce bet
ter crop than ia the farming lands Of Ohio
Here then by the side under the cover OF one OF