Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-05-27
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lOTtS winch nome IN civilized society can afford
seldom properly appreciate the blessings they
enjoy They should take one trip to the Dor
ders of Kansas or some other Territory, and
try that style ofliving for few months, and
they viii come back, as now do, to this fnssy
little place, prepared TO appreciate its luxuries,
which before were looked upon us the mere ne
cessaries of life. A clean bite to cat, and TO be
always able to get it ut the propcr time, is, OF
course, nothing extra; but wait until you try
! fat pork, greesy corn bread, and bean soup,
with desert of dried apple "sas'' and molasses,
all flxelup in rather doubtful manner as to
cleanliness. Try that for weak or two, and
see il your ideas of the luxnres of life do no not
undergo material change. But this is not
what was going to say when began.
have been for some time past, no doubt
land perhaps agreeabIy SOY on your delinquent
list Probably in your rounds of business You
have already consigned me to the dark waters OF
Sethe ;lor probably, like one of my fair female
| friends, you thought one Of the dark daughters
of the forest had led me captive to the wigwam
ofherfathers. Be this sit may, here am again,
and very well pleased | am to find myself with
the stand drawn up by cheerful blazing fire,
whose genial glow gives not only present salts
faction, but also tinges the unpleasant circum-
stances in the past with n kind of romance: so
that find myself rubbing my shins and laugh
| ing over circumstances which but the other day,
| in torrent of cold rain and hale, was ready
almost to swear at.
There is hustle and hurrah about this place
which forms quite n striking contrast with the
rural portion of the Territory. There is some
thing fascinating about it, especially to one who
has been leading retired life in some quiet
neighborhOOd, where the shooting OF deer or a
vol, or the fun of raising" neighbours house,
are the only circumstances to give variety to a
life of tedious monotony, and where trip to
mill or to town for groceries, is an epoch long to
be remembered by the rising generation.
| All is excitement here-the streets are con.
stantly filled with people of all claSses-farmers
with their wagons filled with gr0ceries-eIni-
| grants with their families Just starting out to
find home on the beautiful and fertile prairie;
spectators busy talking and making trades in
| property. Although we have an innumerable
number of land agency Offices, there is but one
bargain made in doors where there are twenty
on the street. That branch Of business, hOweY-
eT, at present, is rather dull, as the spectators
are holding up for the land sales which take
place at Iowa Point early next month. 1t is
only n small tract of land, comparatively speak
ing, and being rich, well wntered and beautiful,
makes 1t n very popular investment Just now
have just returned from that place, and when
| | left, claims were selling six miles from Town
| S'1'S AU' pA8OOVl tuA pSOpIS luTlueT OuL0 Win
choice claims, were asking sixteen hundred The
country is thronged with claim-hunters from all
parts of the country. Men with black Garnet
bags-men on horses with a lariat attached to
the saddle, wearing blue military coats and hair
all over their faces; and then again, you
will occasionally sec fancy buggy with
fast horses, from whence the dandy specu.
lator can survey the beauties of the coun-
try at his ease. The farmers reap a rich har-
vest from these strolling characteristic will
not give an opinion as to the locality where
Claims might probably be found vacant for less
than tive dollars and if they show claim or
haul foundation into one, it is from ten to
twenty: They say they are obliged to do this
IN self-defeDcc, as they might us well quit their
farms altogether If they did not
This has been very hard winter and spring
on the Kansas settlers Scattered over the
prairie in every direction, you see the remains
of cattle which have persisted from the severity of
the weather, and scarcity of feed HAY is a
tllng not thought of at ALL anu corn is worth
III, so in Missouri, where the settler has to trav
el, sometimes ten or fifteen miles for it. The
grass is at last, beginning TO spring up, and the
farmers begin to take courage. They will be.
gin working prairie lana shortly, and, il it is a
fair season, we will have abundance of corn
next winter.
The tide of emigration still continues to pour
in upon us its hundreds almost daily The ma
iority of them stop at this place, as the regular
line boats have pretty much quit running up to
RooJ an IO Ell s',e - sJlng 10 nave Nall
TSov now ",v ' ~ SuC en- nste iSge city
berc vb"re tbo,, "a. 40 III an" urOP down
T5o ,S,ra+;9r th;s .,. al ~ I.1
rr'I bagS" in tiS SpEn T "as tS9o won
tic s,Sona4tay sovern;ont,, ntStS"n WIN
IF the pSist;Hos rs now IN inc hands
liar fate and even this place has now majority
OF rec So'!ers within its limits, Lane, with five
9ther aoohtion'Sts and SIX pro-sIavery men,
oought out the old town association OF Donophan
some t I since, ana since the land office has
been located there, they have done wonders
Lawrence is sun inhabited by set ofNNsses,
VINO commune 20 make qnlxotlc attempts to Mt
tract pubic attention, but all sensible citizens