The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-09-17
NO. 30.


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correspondent ofths Independent (New
Hamp'hirs) Democrat, writing from Prince.
ton. Bureau county, illinois, gives the fol.
lowing answers to sensible questions, do.
signed for persons anxious to 60 cut West.
Barring touch Of exaggsra,iou, We hare
no doubt that ernigraph ezpsrisnes m The
discomforts 30 graphically described BY him
as existing out there:
The first question comes from Concord.
N. H.. and reads as follows:
(which is the best time for going West
the spring or autumni"
The best time for going Wsst Is when
You have the most money abont you, and
the least fear Ct losing it. Il yoa come ID
the spring you are sure to shake yourself
10 death with the ague before fall. II you
come m the fall, you may live until spring.
u you don't freeze 10 death before you ret
there. 1t you come at all you had better
get your stomach lined with mitter proof
cement, SO as to be able to digest corn
bread, bacon and whiskey-for this II all
we have to eat, except few French fro9s
and bilious looking tadpoles, which We
| IL.
Second question: "What part of the
west Is the best to emigrate to, taking into
consideration the healthiness Of the eli.
mattel"
A variety of opinions about that, my dear
fellows. Our Senator, Mr.. Douglas, says
Nebraska is the best. So it is If YOU want
to 60 into the stock business, raising an un,
ruly kind Of mixed colored cattle, that Will
stray off to Canada in spite of the compro-
mise OF 1850 and 1920, or Senator Doug.
las. Or If you want to speculate in pap.
pooses, white scalps, and get you own scalp
taken of scientifically, 90 to Nebraska by
all means. If you want to play poker for
living, and set up wbiskey drinking for a
business, living on corn bread and bacon
week days, and slippery elm bark and tad.
poles on Sunday, come TO Illinois. If you
want to 60 where they don't have any Sun
days, nor anything to eat only wheat they
brought from the East, 60 to Iowa. Or If
you want to 60 to grass, to go on all fours
and do as other Kind Of cattle do, 90 to
Salt Lake.
Third question: "Does the fever and
ague prevail much in Wisconsin,
Of course it does. Nobody out Wet il
TOOL enough to ask such question. Every.
body shakes-eveu the trees shake. You
cant coax a crab apple to stay on when il
Is good for anything. It will shake a man
out OF bed, kick him out OF doors, and shake
the bedstead At him till he gives it up.
Fourth question: "Is land to be had in
the northwestern part Of 0hio for $I.25
per acre, and is it goodr
That is all fudge; got up by speculsto;p
to gull some greenhorn like you or me; for.
to the best Of my knowledge, Ohio was
worn out ten years ogo. The whole bus;.
ness OF the railroads, in warm weather, is to
carry back persons who have been fools
enough to come West. All that the rail,
roads did last winter was earring dirt into
Ohio from Michigan to raise few beans
and oats, to keep the folks from starving 70
death this summer. As to the land in the
northwest part OF Ohio. it is eighteen in.
ches under water most Of year, and will
probably be worth $l,25 per acre when
water snakes and copper heads bring as
much per barrel in the New York market
as potatoes are worth per bushel in Con-
cord.
And lastly, be wants reliable information
"a short article in some paper, relating to
the subject; and be wants 10 GO to healthy
location, decent land and fair water. Ex.
actiy; why, my dear sir, there is no such
thing rs reliable information out West. un.
less you pay for it. A lawyer won't tell
the truth unless you give him FIVE hundred
dollars, and then you can't believe half he
says. witness won't tell the truth in
court unless you first scare him to death.
and make him swear he won't lie, and then
neither himself nor anybody else knows
whether he tells the truth or not The
PREACHERS all call Us an inveterate set of
sinners; but from what have written you.
you must know we are pretty good sort
Of people.
On the whole, il you feel obliged by our
short article" so do |. II you want to 90
to a healthy land, stay at home, and don't
be fool ike myself and come out West.
And rs for decent Ind, my dear fellow,
what do you meant You must know that
all our wild prairie is very indecent espe
cially when it is burnt over and left IA ma.
ked Rs it was born. Tis true nature weaves
a sort Of fig leaf apron every summer out
OF a coarse kind Of grass; but it soon gets
burnt off and is as indecent as ever. As
for fair water, We have none-it is all q bill.
ious compost Of liquid mud, dead buffaloes
and rotten rattlesnakes. Our common
drink, when we can't get whiskey, is one
third coffee, one third prairie mud, and to-
bacco juice. Upon the whole. il you have
good water and get half enough to eat, stay
where you are.
ANEcDoTE OF RAILROAD CoNpUcroI.
"A writer iu the Post tells the following
story Of one who for % years was con.
ductor upon the Lowell Railroad, and 10
now depot master "a LADY, who had q