The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-09-05

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Very few eastern people have oorreca
conception Of western society, Or the rapid
progress of the West. Theezultant g Eure-
IA" springs to the lips Of tho self exiled
wanderer from boyhood's eastern homo,
when he treads the horizon-bound prairies,
or roams along the shore Of the ssFather OF
Waters" !" or some of its swift rolling tribu-
taries; but it dies away unuttered as he
mingles in our society, or compares our
works Of Improvement with the time in
which they have been accomplished, for
then his soul is filled with surprise and won-
der to find that the west is SO unlike what
his day dream fancies had painted it. The
prairie with It's rich soil and profuse vege.
tation-a wide expanse Of s'nature's gar.
den plat''-is like what he had conceived.
The forests, the rivers, the lakes, the
mounds--these are somewhat like his FAM
ciful ideas. But the characteristics Of the
people of the west, and the works they have
performed, are totally unlike all that the
eastern people have imagined.
In immigrating to the west, men have
come here not to be conquered by nature,
but to make her lavish beauty subseryient
to their wants and aspirations.
Therefore, in our western homes, rude
ness and vulgarity, or ignorance, are rarely
met. The father remembers the gentle
courtesy that gave such q charm to the So
cial intercourse which made his earlier years
a long season of almost undisturbed happi-
ness; he remembers how, in his former
home, the priceless boon of education rais-
ed men far above the common level; he
looks forward to the coming time, when his
children will jostle through crowded city,
or dwell in country whose every acre Of
rich soil shall yield to industry its meet re-
ward-and he builds school houses, patron
ICES booksellers, and introduces into his
family all the refining influences that endear
to his memory his old home. The mother
has like hopes in the future of the west,
and shares her husbands wishes, and en-
courages and aids him. Thus it is that plea
sure, comfort and intelligence-free, per-
haps, from many of the restraints of east
ern life-are almost invariably to be found
in western homes. @ @.-
In western life the trials and obstacles
before the early settler arouse his dormant
energies, and he becomes active and perse-
vering. Nature repays his toll with album
dant haryests, and his heart warns with
gratitude and grows great with generous
impulses. Around him are cities, villages,
and farm houses, built up with rapidity
rivaling the fabulous wonders of the Ara
bian Nights. and he drinks in large draughts
of the spirit of enterprise which does all
this. He sees men whom he knew in the
East as only nobodies, aspiring to be some
bodies in the west-heading the van Of po-
litical parties, boldly debating in the coun-
ellis of the people, or vigorously laboring to
advance new and gigantic enterprises
he forms more exalted and correct esti-
mate Of mankind. Perhaps he grows am
bilious too, and endeavors himself to be-
come & leader, instead Of follower. He
tills with his own hands, more acres than
his fatty ansyGioves rs larger crops
than thSts, &c., sc. For sale at y anticipations