Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1858-06-03

The elements Of empire here
r. Are plastic yet and warm,
The chaos Of mighty world
Is rounding into form . --.. ...-
Each rude and jostIing fragment soon
Its fitting place shall find, -'F
The raw msterial Of State,
Its muscle end its mind.
This West Of ours is great country
Look at its extent. 1t reaches almost from
tide waters of the Eastern Atlantic to the
low water mark Of the Western Pacific,
and from chilly Superior to torrid Texas.
See how many proud States, each one
country of itself, it includes, with their dif-
ferent social systems.
Ohio and Indiana, with their oldfashioned
civilization, the growth Of less than gene
ration Of toll; Wisconsin, Micigan and the
far Northwest, with their small free labor
farms, displaying the nearest spPreach to
practical democratic equality, Illinois with
its broad fields and vast farms to be in
few years the highest example Of the appli-
cation Of capital to agricaliurs; Missouri and
the South with their rish plantations
representing in new country the feudall-
ty of the Old World; Utah with its prasti-
cal communication and its fanatical sociality;
California with its well-nigh fabulous wealth
and It's barbaric magnifcence; and Oregon's
chain of settlements binding the forest Of
the Western slope to the flood Of the Wesa
ern ocean, as with brooch of human
destiny.
See its grand proportions; il, lakes that
would Aoat the naviss of the world; its riv-
ers that collect the waters Of continent; its
mountains tipped with eternal snow; and it'
broad, beautiful prairies, once the gardens
of wild verdure and luxuriant flora, and
fast becoming the model farms Of the world:
But more noble than all this greatness o
extent and grandeur Of beauty, is the rapid'-
ty of the civilizatiouof this glorious region.
The tide Of travel, with its spring and su-
tumn flow and ebb; is inundating this West
with the commerce and civilization, the
riches and refinement Of the Eastern and
olde. regions Of the earth. Homes are peer-
ing ou. from the dark richness Of the prai-
ries; and nesting in the shadows Of the old
forests, the fence Of the settler intereepts
the Indians trail, and hearth-stones have
supplanted council fires.
Railroads are creating channels OF trahc;
and directing the current Of sympathies ana
the locomotive, as il follows the star Of en-
pire on its westward way, draws nation
in its train.
The past Of the West is rich in bold and
daring deeds, its present is filed to the brlm
with unexampled enterprise, and its future
is oyerfowing with inconceivsble antici-
pations. -
The West is not yet an atom Of what it Is
to be, Though now in the far West, the
Valley of the Mississippi is the geographic
cal centre of North America; and the rich
ness of that noble stream is yet to run like
} a golden thread through the very centre Of
the Union.
When this great Republic is continent
wide in its extent, as it must be-the
West will be its centre; and those vigorous
young States we are building up viii be the
grand centers Of the Confederasy.
Every prairie will tsem with inhabitants
every brook will turn clattsring mill
) the minerals that be beneath the soil will be
E diligently dug forth-the country shall be
/, yerdant with farm, and the towns shall bes
crowded with factories.
Then here, beneath fairer than Itaianl
: skies, shall be heaped up the wealth, and
enjoyed the refnements Of the werld; and
. we do no, dream wildly when we imagine
that somewhere in this prolific valley shall
! be the mammoth central depot Of the world ),
where the cemmercs of al nations shall,
! conmingle; where, in flying tnps around
I the globe, shall meet travellers, speaking all
the language. of the babblins eassh.
/ Who wouldn't be Of the West, WESTERN
. -IWaukesha Republican.
A PufzLr.-ProPeriY puno.uated the
frllowi ing nonsense becomes sensible rhyme,
and Is doubtless as true as it is euriouss
theugh as it now stands weadmii tnas it is
/ very curious ii true: i o'ih
saw pigeopmaking bread, t-'
/ saw a girl composed Of thread;
saw a towel one mile squarei
J saw meadow in the airs
: / saw q rocket walk mile;
saw pony make sle; = ras
saw blacksmith in box;
Isaw an orange kill On OK;
l / saw butcher Eaile Of stee 4.
Isaw a pen-kni(e dance =
u | saw sailar twelve feet his
| ] saw ladder in pie;
Isaw On apple 6y sway;
/ saw a sparrow making hay; a