The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-09-05
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Again spring returns,f p SALMON; superior ey
settlers to live with thin. Rs,rr ny = pose fh
tailor and shoemakea --------- ant
dressmaker, to clothet ,rocer,
keeper and merchant td0lES. wants
the farmer to raise theiE school
master to teach their chi ties, &C., ministe
to preach to, and counsel eer sale eylvise Will
them; the doctor to cure Il len sick; tn
lawyer to settle or to may 1Ir difficulties
and the speculating cq lsts to max
money out of them. II the settlemen
has become village, noSa,n eastern one
but wide-awake, go head western vii
lage. ~ ~ a
The newspaper soon makes its appear
ance. The editor talk, largely On the pros
poets Of the village, and of the agricultur
al and numbering country and propose
more improvements to the village in an,
one number of his paper than would be suf.
ficient to parylize down east community
Adventures push out into the country
pick out new locations, and build up NOR,
villages. More farmers, mechanics ant
lumbermen come into the country; Their
products are more than sufficient to supply
the home demand, and a railroad is pro
posed to carry of the surplus. In half tht
time it would take an eastern company t.
organize, company is chartered, the route
surveyed, the stock subscribed and the rOaG
built.
Perhaps at the time when the first pion'
eer is erecting his log cabin, in some farm
house, or up in the attic of some city board
ing house, away down east, sits one whs
has map before him. He sticks pin il
some particular point; and tries to judge
whether it would be a good place for hin
to select for his western home.
He inquiries of travellers, and roads news.
papers to learn what he can Of the country
Two or three years pass before he fairly
makes up his mind, and then he starts fo1
the west. When he reaches the spot he hat
selected, great is his surprise to find vii
lagos and cultivated fields all around him
and that the west of which he had dreamed
and the hardships which he had come pre-.
pared to meet, were still in far-oH utopi.
an land. He finds that his new home is tt
be where he can enjoy all the comforts, ant
meet with all the refnements OF the east
among people whom he cannot but ad'
mire, and whose peculiarities will soon b.
his own.
He gains a freedom that he could no
have experienced in the East. His labor il
repaid better here than it was there. Hi,
mind every day coming in contact with tht
quick and strong intellect which character.
izes western people, recovers its natura
polish and elasticity. In health he gains
because both mind and body are properly
exercised-because he lives we'll, laughs oc'
casionally, and is always light-hearted.-
Then the man is man indeed--intellectu.
ally and physically invigorated by western
life, he becomes one of the most useful mer
of the age-a Western man.
Our eastern friends who read western
newspapers, undoubtedly think western
people extravagant in praising up the many
attractions of their country, and in boastins
Of their own works. And yet altpf US wert
eastern people but few years since, ant
thought Of the west as our eastern friend.
now think Of it, that it was the place t.
make money, but not the place to live
And what eastern man can you remember Of
in your list Of acquaintance who have come
to tho west, who did not write back to hi,
friends as Il life had new charms for him
and that the west appeared as though tn
most extravagant description fell Far shor'
Of the reality.
II we boast Of our own works Of i'm.
provement in the west, have We not, on
every hand, thousand proofs to sustain
MS? The former wild prairie, now Guilt
vated farm, the floating palaces upon The
bosom of the mighty river, which. but Lit.