New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-28
FROM MISSOURI.
BLAIR AND POLK ON THE STUMP.

Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune.
UNION, Franklin Co Mo July 81, 1857
Being compelled to wait at st. Louis for few
days before steamiDg up the river, determined to
occupy part Of the time in running to this little
township to hear Senator Polk aud Representative
Blair on the stump partly to see the country, and
partly to note the appearance in Missouri crowd
of q gentleman likely as Mr. Blair to figure so con.
spicuously in the next Congress-
Union is township, with 500 or more inhabt-
ants lying about ten miles from the town Of Wash
il gton, which is on the Missouri river, GO miles
west from st. Louis. The cars were advertised to
start on the Pacific Railroad at 3 p. M on Monday,
and abridged my dinner to enter at that hour
train of three cars half filled with emigrants for
Kansas. The air was sitting with heat and heavi-
ness, and lODged for the breeze which would be
raised by the movement of the train; but the city
clocks struck 3D. and 3D. and a, and Al, and still
We sweltered in the sunshine, waiting prOiessedly
for the arrival of the train from the West but really
for a detachment Of infantry to be transported to
Jefferson City. do not recOlect more cOmpai-
SAINT conductor since one who stopped twenty
minutes on a Kentucky road last month for me to
breakfast. He was imperturbable under the cries
of the sufferers, that it was "better to run and
smash than to stay and bake"
At last, on the stroke of 5, two more cars were
added, containing the "blue coats" and we whired
away with the speed Of on English express train to
make up for lost time. lDvariable as had been the
Dtiteness Of our conductor while at stand-still
motion made him little NerO-the precise differ
ence between a navy officer in port and at sea. A
grizzly headed old negro sat before me, glitterng In
brass buttons and blue coat, top boots and white
wastcOat-an innocent old fellow, chewing his cud
L l. .,,lh IN
LIGHT were abbreviated by our railroad general on
his ticket collecting tour for he was thrust minus
one button, into the forward car, with the remark,
What n ell business 3 niger got herel TO
"'lorg ahead, and damned quick, mind you"
The country along the line of the road is diversi.
fed ard beautiful, nowhere flat, and very well
wooded. The grain was waving high and luxuriaot
in the few sown fields, or gathered into abundant
sheayes. Many Of the stalks of corn were seven
feet tall The track follows the banks of the Mara
nee for some distance, and at last strikes the Mis-
souri, a few miles east of Washington, which town
we reached in about two hours. 1t has thousand
inhabitants mostly Germans, of whom our landlord,
in respect to palnch and jollty was merry sPecl.
men, In situation, it resembles Jefferson City, Duiit
on the steep bank Of the river whose swift current
wa. drifting down logs enough to have set Maine
lumberman crazy, and was compelling the pilot of
the ferry-bOat we saw from the piazza to calculate
tligonometrically his course from the other bank,
which, like all the hills that bounded
the panorama, WAS covered with the Tor
est, dense and primeval Washington was,
indeed, rival of Jefferson City for the site OF the
capitol. The houses all small, but looked neat
outside and inside, which is than can say for
the led at the inn, TO which retired after supper;
talk with the German landlady and her daughter,
and stroll into lager beer shop. Among the
dearest recollectiOns of the good aDdladys house
keeping, was her entertainment OF Mrs. Fremont
many years ago. / believe she guards the bed and
the chamber US carefully the room which the En-
ptrOr Charles w. once occupied is preserved at the
Drei Mohrtu in Augsburg though must prefer the
Ueinkarfe Of the latter tavern to the old ladys bus
hands lager. At the beer shop we encountered
and fraternized with the fre-englne company, who
were enjoying all the delights characteristic OF their
organization, excerpts fire.
Philo-G eImanan, as am, protest against feather
beds, and the story Of the smOthered lrshman was
recalled to my mind more forcibly than ever before
on this side Of the Atlantic You surely recollect
that Jrishmsn. He stopped at Mayence on his sail
down the Rhine. Desiring to pursue ms Journey
early the next morning, he retired at O'Clock, and
after many experiment., sandwiched himself bet"
tie two thick slices of feather. At II o'clock ire
mendous ring was heard in the Office below, and the
breathess servant who answered the bell was or
dtIed to request the gentleman who was TO sleep Oh
"top to come soon to bed, for Mr. Murphy wanted to
abe up at SUNRISE" Mr.. Murphy never SUFFERED 50
much as myself on the plight OF July Ii, ana
bailed the moment when We entered the carriage
for Uni,n.
Our drive thither was in the cool Of the morning,
through thick woods on road which the RAIN OF
Sunday night had put into good condition. We were
five in number. and the driver was a negro with a
beard which had promised more than it fulfilled
Our conveyance three.s seated wagon like those
common among the White Mountains The opPos-
Irg gladiator, Mr.. Polk, had come from st. Louis in
the train with us the night before. and followed our
team in buggy, in company with the siogle anti
Benton German in the town Of Wasbington-a long.
nOsed men with a thick beard who looked gumly
as We passed him, for Mr.. DaeDzer, the editor
Of the An.eiger des Hestens, sat on our front
seat. Mr.. DaeDzer / see denounced IN The
81. Louis Ltader yesterday as "a Black and
Red Republican, Free-Soiler, Abolitionist, and
tmsncipationist ard, as The Leader is good
Democratic authority, let me give brief &C.
count Of such an ogre Mr. Daepzer is q resolute
man in appearance, with round head and face,
dark air, projecting eyes, heavy moustaches and