The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-02-12
- . From the Cayuga Chief.
Nebraska Correspondence.
OM.g, CRY N T. Dee a 1856

Nebraska Correspondence.
OxAHA Clrr, N. T., Dec. 8. 1856.
DEAR Sin =. H wing little leisure time, irn.
prove i BY writing to you Of Neb .asks and I
" II he'e sav that have not had a very great
hanee - look about, a, il late wheu we
arrived. We found ON iha a new town, pleasant.
ly ituatrd ON the M'ss ,ur river, some eight hun.
dr. miles (by wav Of the river) above st. Louis.
L. is, a. YOU are aware, the Capital Of the Territo-
", AID outain- some fifteen hund ed inh 4btants.
II ha, quite q numbe Of stores, some of which are
6ne three-story brick bulldogs and several fne
residences, a'sn two churches, one Of which is to
be dedicated next Sabbath. and the her will not
be c nileted. except the bisement this year -
When you take into account that he town is only
a little over w. years old you can make up your
min ! a to its vitality.
The country back Of the town Is rolling prai
ri-, aud app ara to b. petty well wa cred by
springs and s,uall streams, and should think was
vel supplied with quarry stone. Cod sl,o h"
been fohnd in vario places.
Along the Mssour, aud other large rivers. there
is c,n,iielsb.e timber, although the scarcity Of
imb is our greate-t drawback. Luinb r is high.
and our pine is a brought up from St L,ui., aud
u NHrH Ill kO ~ cbnuIlOn hDouL SVJ per ohD
thousand feet: Sluce have bean here. have
known it -old f,r Sl-0. Properly has risen very
rapidly the p .st season, aud lots ON what il now
called the best business str ct. are worth $3.00O
.ach These lot, are slx'y.s.x feet front, by one
hundred and thirty two feet deep. Land about
town i, held frm t~eu y-fve to Que hundred
dIlsrs acre. an a, the land is not vet III mar.
ket, yoI could If course get o. y a quit claim
til at that. There are number Of new towns
air rdy laid out in the terr'Dory and will Of Course
lie IN re in the spriug. There are hot. ho Sever,
hut ew towns thai c n,ai mmy inh ibitants, of
from the Mis- our but we think thai there Will he
number Of smart towns al 'ns the Platte valley ,
for We Exp CT that OF these day., that, that
natural course for railroad the Pa ific, will be
improved AID that the :" iron horse" will snort
through the Pate valley a, the rate of fifty miles
All hour. b.arIs thu ch sof a world behind htm
thluk that valley i, as rich portion Of coun ry
as here Is in he urited States being from ave to
twelve mile, wide and mauy hund' ed miles long
Tne water o the high pr,lries Is hard, but 10
the Missouri and Platte rsvei- il is soft. III
some por ion and dou't know bat In the whole
the is tr Yer svaliey, IL /, also soft
| Since ha been here, have fai EN- in with q
number oil persons VINO ave A'eu VI n 'ns w. A"'
they uuitor.nly agree in pr 'nounciug Nebr,'ka
III ~ q '"i I" 'nSaS' Lao mu' 'hs most heai'hy
| have nut seen marsh here, aud but one or tS.
sluIkh , an the banks Of the sma,l Streams
invariably high and the a.r, ans themselves rapid
| am aso told that the railroad engineers fad
C,unc D uff to he two hundred aud seven,y.twe
feet higher than Dvcnport, which accounts fol
the rsp,dit! of our srrans.
Spec ilaiors are plenty, and speculation is ran
pant, aud, as necessary cous, Z renee, money i,
in great demand. Three pc. ce per month, is NJ
comm N a. twelve per annuin III Wise 1nsin
AMI Many persons are getting a" high as five pei
cent. per m,nth for money. Everything IN thu
way of provisions is also very high. Flour il
$. ling for even dollars per hundred. potatoes
twelve >hlinZ- per bu-hrl bean, tve do lars d :
butte fifty cent per b., sugar fourteen or hiteeI
cents do nola|>es from >lx to ten Nhllings pc
gallon che"Se tw" sh liings per H., dried app e'
ten cents do fresh p rk ten cents. lard >rveuteaI
, eants ham Spy, ntprn Golf III twelve and
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