White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-04-08

In the union Of these characteristics in on
people lies the true secret Of. the rapid proeres
Of the West, which is greater and more WideI
extended than Eastern people generally believe
The sun goes down at night casting his has
rays upon the lingering form of the Indian jour
meyer to the father West. As it rises in the NOR
ming, its beams fash back from the axe of tn
white man. as he shapes the rude logs which ar,
to form his habitatien. Il A few ayspass on ,anc
the curling smoke rolls up from the Ere in tn,
new home Of the frstsettler. Through the lon.
winter he piles his axe, and when the sprin,
birds begin to'carol, their music is drowned. b.
the buzz Of the sav-mill. Summer passes, ant
when winter comes again, new dwellings sur
round the humble, home of the pioneer, anC
more axes than his ring through the Forests
Again spring returns, and with it comes new set
tiers to live with the pioneer. The tailor ant
shoemaker, the milliner and dressmaker, e
clothe them; the grocery keeper and the mer.
chant supply their wants; the farmer to raise
their grain; the schoomaster to teach their chill
dren; the minister To preach to, and counsel and
advise them; the doctor to cure them when sick
the lawyer to settle or make their difficulties
and the Specializing capitalist to make money
out of them. Then the settlement has become
aviIlage-nota an Eastern one, but wide:awake,
go-ahead Western village.
The newspaper soon makes its appearance;
the editor talks largely of The prospects Of The
village, and Of the agricultural and numbering
country around it, and proposes more improve
ments to the village in any one number of his
paper than would be sufficient to paralyze a
"down East" community. Adventures push
out into the country, pick out new locations, AMI
build up more villages. More farmers, mechan-
les and lumbermen come into the country; their
products are more than sufficient to supply the
home demand, and n railroad is proposed to
carry off the surplus. In half the time it would
take an Eastern company tn organize, a compa-
nv is chartered, the route is surveyed and the
road built, /, t--- '~s1sl
Perhaps at the time when the first pioneer is
erecting his log cabin. in some farmhouse or up
in the attic of some city.boardins house away
down east,' sits one who has map before him.
He sticks pin in some particular point, and
tries to Judge whether it would be good place
for him to select as his Western home.
He inquiries Of travellers, and reads ncwspa-
pers to learn what he can of the country. Two
or three years pass before he makes up his mind,
and then he starts for the West. When he
reaches the spot he had selected, great is his
surprise to find villages and cultivated fields, all
around him, and that the West of which he has
dreamed, and the hardships which he had come
prepared to meet, was still in far off utopian
land He finds that his new home is to be where
he can enjoy all the comforts, and meet with all
the re6nements of the East-among people
whom he cannot but admire, and whose pecu-
liarities will soon be his own. He gains free
dom that he could not have experienced in the
East His labor is repaid better here than it was
there. His mind every day coming in contact
with the quick and strong intellect which char
aeterizes Western people, RECEIVERS its natural
polish and elasticity. In health he gains, be-
cause both mind and body are properly exercised
because ne lives we'll laughs VCCasiOh"iiy
and is always Eeht-hearted. Then the man is
a man ndeed-intellectuaIly aid physically in
vigorated, by Western life, he becomes one of
the most useful men of the age-a Western
man. .-'
Our Eastern friends who read Western news
papers, undoubtedly think Western people ex-
travagant in praising up the many attractions Of
their country. and in boasting OF their own
works. And yet all Of as were Eastern people
but few years since, and thought of the West
as our Eastern friends now think of it-that Il
was the place % make money, but not the place
to live. And what Eastern man can you remem-
of, in your list Of acquaiRtances. who has come
to the West who did not write back to his friends
as if life had new charms fol, hirn-and that the
West appeared as though the most eItravagant
description fell short of the reality.
If we boast of our works Of Improvement in
the West, have We not, on every hand, a thou
sand proofs to sustain us7 The former wild prai-
RE. now cultivated farm; the floating palaces
upon the bosom of the mighty river, which, but
little while ago, rolled, on undistqrbed in is
lonely beauty; the churches and schoOI-houses
that stand where stood few summers since,
the Indians wigwam; the steam cars that fly
across, the land swifter than the light footed
Chippewa, the arrow from his bow, or the deer
he hunted; are not all these proofs enough thai
we are justified in boastipg Of what We have
accomplished If our Eastern friends think not
let them go, and do as much as We have done
and refrain from Boosting if they can. - n
PLAIN SPEAKISc.-Ats " recent anti. Lecompr
ton Democratic Convention in. Indianapolis