Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-06-10
NOTES BY THE WAY.

Editorial CorrsSpCndsuce of The Stnr1
sTEANING ON THE RoAD-PRNNED BY STEAM.
June Al a. m.
We havo come, / know not how far (siHce
closed my LAST over the same fat, through
which, since then, we have coursed our way for
two hours more, without seeing more than one
house OF more than single story /; the rest, cab
ins all, apparently occupied by settlers of the
poorest class. The region is heavily timbered,
though where in cultivation the wheat upon if
shows that the soil bellies its poor appearance
All things about it look as though its inhabit-
ants are but getting ready to live. Their cat
tie, however, tell a tale Of ambition and thrift
ness that must in the end make theirs a most
prosperous country. Their oxen are Devons.
and their steers and COWS almost universally
grade Durham., well cared for, and therefore
handsomely repaytng their owners
The Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company
over whose work We are now flying, at the rate
OF twenty miles per hour, have provided for
this train at least, Of not for those following il.
for which cannot speak, luncheon car from
whence cold chicken, ham, beef tongue &c.
with bread and untold quantities of still and
sparkling wine and segars are passed through
the cars to the great satisfaction Of the guests
some Of whom, on the cars in which am scrib-
bling, are getting SO noisy as to incline me
somewhat to moderate the encomiums in my
last upon the prospective happy influence of the
pure and generous natives But the reader
will please except the rail ear use of il from nv
praises, as folks are too thickly slowed when
- streaking il" behind the locomotive to admit
of the indiscriminate use Of every thing yinous
without interfering more or less with the COM
fort Of all
We have been travelling since mounting this
tram IN rain go cold and driving as to make
closing nearly all the windows necessary, though
this is June 4th
At noon We struck much more ipvitin,
range Of territory than that last above referred
10 OF better soil, and somewhat more broken
ms well a. more generally improved All along
the line Of this road, however, everything is
new, newer, newest.
hpT0pOs-an intelligent Indanian Mt NV
elbow accounts for the change in the soil. men,
TONED a few lines above, by the fact that ND TO
the sudden change in the appearance of things
mention since entering the State we had been
courslng across the range of its water Courses.
while We arc now skirting an edge of one Of
their valleys. The lands thus trayersed by tbis
grand railroad were not taken up until its pro
Jecuon- That is, except in the valleys They
were TOO FAR from market, and not of sufficient
valuo under such circumstances to be sought
by settlers Or Spectators. Now however. thew
readily command in second hands from s. 10
sIo per acre, according to proximity to the con-
structed railroad and its depots.
All along the line, raining hard tbopcb :,
was, our progress was greeted by the assembled
Inhabitants Every cabin turned ont all its
men, women and children to shout and wave
over US. Such lots Of cotton headed vouno
" uns' as we saw were sufficient TO create the
impression that ere twenty-one wears roll ron,d
the States vote will have increased fvefoId
without the aid or addition of single emigrant
on arriving at the ancient town of Vincenpes
on the abash, we were received by its entire
population, 1t seemed to us and the firing Of can
non, and with what was even more gratifying T
confess, magnificent collation.. hanked bv n
Dotue OF native wine to each two plates Though
set ior TIC Two thousand persons, who we're ON
All he trains OF the occasion, it would have puz.
lied dauuer and Potentini together to have
provided more tasteful and capitaIlv nrena,od
feast. Having discussed it, and listened - ,,vo
or three very brief tickle me and TN ,;oL,o
you speeches, we were off again, enterip, M
nois (just across the Wabash in five minnie,
after the engine driver blew the well known
signai-breaks up, We were now for the first
time ION the trip on the broad prairies, the
black soil Of which, under the improved hus-
bandry of the decade is doing az much for the
general prosperity of all interests in our ex-
tended land, "a the gold Of California
We coursed along for one hundred miles over
prairie surface, which, for the most part, knew
no pillow until three or four years since, having
been almost entirely settled in that time
Though as rich as any other in the world its
POSITION with reference to markets tabooed il.
Everything about il at this time, however,
exhibited thrift, energy, enterprise and rap
ldly-rushing- ahead Improvement. If this be
Egypt as L am told it is, its spirit indus
triaI) Is surely that of the Egypt of the times
when, as the Pyramids explain. there was more
I" go ahead" in the land of the Pharoabs than
In all the world beside. Our last fifty miles %
81. Louis was performed by moonlight. over
prairie Of course. Its proximity to nayie MON
Secured its much earlier settlement, and il is