Nebraska advertiser., 1857-07-09

~. Most 6 tiers hsFe become sHd-
denly wealthy by ths rise of real
estate. But the @rext chop are those
that live on what they pve--debt Is no
disgrace, SO that y9u keep up appear
anees-if you don't get h4stsd some
where you are positively green, sothat
if you have not the substance, you
must hare the shadow Of a fortune.
But this is bad tai Fr Sunday. In
this country, cares Eilinfest the sane
tuary of the spirit, if you try to rise
on devOtion's warm fervid glow, the
muek-rake VIII look more important
than the erogrH.
Moaday Sa:-Every hour, emigrsnt
wagons moving on, with their calves,
/ chickens, and babies, expecting to find
homes and fortunes in the glorious
West. Spectators and poets bettertry
that hifalutin on aEhile-guess they
would find the prose the bare reality
of existence in this Arcadia. Precious
set of r~ascals, wish they we're Danish
ed here for the space Of n year and
six months, their i~maginatiOns would
succoInb to the goneness about their
@atomics,r' with all the fertility of soil
1 hope that somebody will raise enough
to keep people from starvatiOn-fOur
worth SIT per barrel, corn s. per
bushel, and tqters can not be bought al
any price. They have figured Prinei-
pally in the county newspaper, and only
there, for four months.
This morning early q company Of
Morrnons passed through on their
Journey to Salt Lake. Women (nOt
very delicate to be sure dragging hand
carts Ike beasts, one turnbled down in
this black mud which caused a slight
halt in the procession, little children
uudged along IN theig queer foreign
dress looking as determined as their
mothers to see the Eldorado.
The wind is rising. We shall be
blessed with those disagreeabla and
almost diobolical blasts from EoIus, q
believe that IS the classic name of the
place. again blowing little innocent
cabbage and radizh plants out Of their
garden beds, and knocking the pegs
down from everything tAathas 4 weak
spinal column. Poor Mrs. Brown, who
is lately fromNew Hampshire, andmy
next door ~neighbor, has retired to her
hen coop. because she is 50 afraid that
her rickety house wiz fall from its
foundatiOns-6uiH Of green Iowa Ium-
Der, you understand. Good soul. She
has taken a bed, with her Bible and
Hymn book, to give comfort and con
ISOLATION; think if she builds a house
she wifi draft It altar John B4nyan's
instructions. Away goes my bonnet
Down Spring street; chasing the shreds
Of paper and envelopes fer a quarter
of q mile, that lie about the postofiee.
The knoll of hazel brush is completely
festooned with them, presenting the
most Iudierous appearance Imaginable
There is the School bell; nov Is the
time to lodge a few ideas in those
| little curley heads which arc '.bobbine
: round the window.
!, Tuesday 9H-Reeeived q buquet
this morning Of wild ~honeysuckles
: Kinks and violets, and what is 50 senti
! mental, from an unknown source
! We'll see. Mother IS d2rnine stock
inss by the window; wonder if I'
ever cared for flowers and sEeatlearts
There is no telling what a few year
e viii do for Us. Yes, Augustus Val
sinebam usedt to be such frail creature
drank weak tea, fed IN mooniight an,
c rose dew, and when he proposed to me
be solemnly vowed, that II l refuses
e him It would break the slender hrea.
: of his existence; yesterday saw him
and before me, he weighs t5cO haH1re
5 and expanding yet. Amt it too bad
RerT viii believe what they say an.
y more. But Ma says "Aeg never ii
onIy in novels" have her permis
sion to buy the "Prairie Question Pop
f per-" so I shall not be deceived again
There comes the old yaIler wagon
hope I shall have letters and paper
h from America" to cheer my lionel
exile. The afternoon is dying glori
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