New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-05

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"a il NAV, there is an embryo city and popuat n
here making emiDently useful improvements; SOD
that they will make good their claim cannot ne
doubted Back of the city, to the west and north
ve,t there are lands not in the reserve and open
70 settlement by claim. Claims have been taken
On the grtater part Of these, bat there are still
openings within few miles Of the city. The land
Is NOT 80 good for farming purposes as many other
p,,ts of the Territory. but still is pretty fair. I,
!, mostly scrobby prairie there is some quite
bllv oroUId Immediately back of Lesven
there is tieh prairie hill, ncb is the terminating
mint If a ridge that runs north for sOOns distance,
bebin1 the Fort. The point 10 which | allude has
q hold and striking aspect WALKED out to il and
climbed TO the top The slopes beneath it, aud
even for some distance up its sides. Of rich,
black prairie soil but when / neared the summit,
and 90 it's crest, had to pick my way among the
fr,crents of gray llmt stone rock which were
broken and deacbed from the uphesved strata
which project at the top of the bill Ga the top
there is a "trip of comparatively level land, aud
on this short distance from the brow of the hill,
the rocks again disappear, and tall, rank grass
sprpss from the rich soil On the top of this ID
promoprory pear the peak, is the cemetery Of the
CITY How rapidly the footprints Of death follow
the footsteps of human lie The graveyard is
new. ard as yet neither fenced nor furnished with
tombstoues those mute meu0rialists of woe.
Several fall sized graves were wiihOd' mark.
On two read on q hesdbOard that two yOuug
men of twenty FIVE and twenty eight rec psctiSely,
bad here terminated this earthly race in its early
promise But what affected me far more were
the little graves which composed nearly oue-half
of all 1t is so everywhere. Those short and
narrow mounds of earth hitting the once eeefdl
prsttlers tell Of heart wripgng parental anguish.
and often frightful story Of human folly and sin.
Mrst we bow 70 this as a necessary fate, or regard
il az defect in our modern civilization, which is
mere fIiebtful Herod than the ruthless letrsrch
whose will was once Law in Galilee
There is fine prospect from the point where |
stood Up the river. and some three miles distant,
the white walls of the fort and barracks shone in
the sunlight The bluff shuts cut the river from
view save here ADD there where a break in the
line reveals it winding over Its gravelly and Shaggy
chsnrel with tall and OverhaDgng cotton wood on
its banks Imme, lately before aud beneath Inc the
Young city lay. II approaches che river in a vice
break in the bluffs The hills to the north OF this
branch slope very gradualls, and on this houses
are being quilt very fast Chatter, chatter, cls.ter.
hammers are going every day, aud single and
board pasces are rapidly spreading their fair pro
portions to the SUI, and here speculation 10 real
estate thirsts and is grstifed. How many anx-
ious parents and brothers and sisters in the older
States ba &c relatives here young men, wtO have
come to new country, where there are openings,
and with whose prosperity they can grow Many
OF them will realize their happy anticipatiOns, aud
some-peIbaps many-will forget LIES best prom
ise and their duty 10 those drinking and gambling
saloons which here as in all such places, spread
their sDarss for thougbtles and ingenious youth.
Here the realities of life are so mucn Of lottery
that the transition to gambling is not great, aad
there is so little OF enjoy m Mt elsewhere that the
drinking saloons have fearful attraction Many
anxious parents, who wonder that their sons should
still appear to be "uplucby" and unfortunate"
where there is so much of prosperity and money
making, little think that these drinking saloons
have absorbed the energy of youth and drowned its
honest ambition.