The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-04-23
BY Aeay .Feapood.

By Ae1y Feapood.
MARCH Is, I857-N sound OF church
going bell, no peal of high sounding or
gans,no rustic of costly silks, or diamonds s
ljeweled light.tell of that one day in seven,
when in the city's gorgeous fame, imam
hopes to meet his God.''
We have counted each day, like Robin
son Crusoe, since we have been here in
Iowa, and suppose this to be the Sab
bath. sit down to write an entry in
these pages, or rather notch the stick
in my dungeon" Mother is reading her
Bible, father is looking YEARLY out on
the snowy-desolate prairie. If Dante
would have added one more horror to his
list, he might have taken the silent win
try prairie, without any assistance from
his Imagination. No one can imagine,
or know by description; they must per-
sonally be out of night on it; say, in
December. If the shade of your great
grandmother, s'ghosts of gloom," and
every saddening recollection, don't stalk
around you, then / am no judge. And
such storms; the elements in perfect fu-
ry, wind so high that it will blow the
snow through a two-inch board, and
beating against everything like hurri-
cane, if it has backbone enough TO stand
up. The snow has laid On the ground
almost four months, and this severity o
the season, combined with the miserable
management Of these Hoosier farmers
and the heavy emigration, has made pro
visions high and scarce. Bread AMI
meat, with coffee, aothow any milk or su
gar, are all the luxuries that many of tb.
sfustest families" can boast of. Iowa i
bitter pill, sugar-coated with beauty o
Landscape, fertility of soil. and gloriou.
sunsets. I wish that spectators had tt
swallow it, all at once, down their vile
and lying throats. But this is wrong
feeling for Sunday, and we must no
grumble for fear it will affect the value O
"Malaka Farm" Will the time eve,
come for the June migration OF fools, tha
long to see the romance of pioneer life?-
I shut the book. and wish I could shu
the snow-shrouded prairie from my sigh
forever. @
MONDAY, 16th-Here is wounded
Deer within few yards of the house, tn
steam issuing from his quivering nostrils
All! he reels, falls, crimsoning the pur
snow with his life current, and dies ami
the baYing of hounds and the shonts c
the excited hunters. should have ha
the deer buried with the aceustome
honors, but my rhapsody was inferrupte
by the cackling of those vicious hens
the cellar. No PATRON, or landlord
this township, can afford to build her
roost, or stable either, for lumber is wort
ilOn Wv W wv pei bliOuSdud MY
say, allthey can get for it, for most me
here leave their conseences the othe
side of the Mississippi. So through IL
cold weather, mother has put her pou
try in the cellar. Every time she oper
the door, out pops hen. anxious for sur
shine, and tail feathers spread for libert,
Very provoking to the old lady's pit
tience, and annoying to the youngsters
as it gives them some trouble to kee
1.-The ."critters'' in harbor.
: Porp is harnessed to pair Of poles
with four perpendicular stakes Inserted
/, and two boards placed across. someway
on the nondescript thing. This is th
sleigh. I'm off tc Wildcat, distant te
miles, for mail matter, and to see the go
uorld once more. It is city of twels
hundred inhabitants, has Mayor an
Council, and a charter for improvement
The offices were filed instdnter, but Il
h sidewalks "clearing up" and plantir
e out trees, will come bye-and-bye. I
Is fstyle is considered la mode but Broa
le way editions, many of the upper tende
q. being broken down merchants in the Ea
w and come to these Western cilies to me
lv their fortunes, bringing the fashiona'
ID drawl and affected airs of the dry GOO
$ aristocracy. The most amusing thing
= the world, is to see an Eastern sn
of swell in these magniicentrat holes. foi
a. house with over four rooms is prodi
ii of waste and extravaganza. Hoops
or wallowing and bounding along IN 'ns
n high winds at the risk OF the wearef
j, ing blown half across the street. WI
!, aounces trail in the abomlnable Ola
mud. with the same complacent satlsti
!, ton that they do on Russ pavement.