Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-05-13

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ses, vines, and flowing shrubs, surround
ed il in summer, with beauty and fra.
GRANGE; and the fruits and vegetables
from the garden and orchard supplied
them with many comforts and Injuries.
Then there were the companions Of his
boyhood, the Church where he had with
them registered his vows to God, the
church yard where rested his mother and
two of his own household treasures, and
the intelligent, refined, and cultivated so
cie,y If New England. Could he leave
all this for home in the uncertain west
For two years he had planned, reflected
and deiberated, but with the consent and
full approval of his wife, he had decided
to break away from all those loved asso.
Citations.
Eight years of welded life How
much Of JOY and sorrow, hope and fear,
can be compressed in the short space of
eight years He had always been an
industrious mechanic, and at the time Of
his marriage had been able to purchase
and furnish comfortably their cottage
home, hoping by their united exertions,
they might be able to purchase one Of the
fine farms in the vicinity Of Milan, where
they might find pleasant home in their
declining years a wish | have often
found to be cherished one with many of
best mechanics OF our country.
The years passed, finding each faithful
in the discharge Of their duties. They had
enjoyed health, contentment and peace Of
mind, and found in their affection for
each other, purer joys than all earth's
treasnrers could bes,ow; but they were
still as far from the goal of their anbi.
tion, as in the morning of life; as the
the small sum that they had been each
year able to reserve from their necessary
expenses, had not been equal to the year
ly advance Of landed property in the east;
and when wearied with the monotony Of
his daily labor, he had often felt he would
SO love TO think he might, at some future
time, be out in his own green fields, among
his own focks and heards. tilling his own
soil, breathing the fresh, pure air Of heav.
en-; and as he lost all hope of being able
to purchase lands at Milan. visions of the
west, aoated before his mind. He read
and strove to acquaint himself with the ad.
vanlages to be derived. from a removal to
the different points. and at last to the as
tonishment of his friends, he decided that
Nebraska would be for him the chosen
spot.
With fearful eyes his wife first heard
his expressions of preference for that dis.
tant Territory, for not easily can woman
sever the ties that bind her to the loved
scenes of early years, but she listened to
bis reasons and convinced they were such
as should govern them, she soon learned
to speak Of it with calmness, except when
standing BY the graves CT her infant sons,
who were inferred in the church yard of
Milan. At the ages of 2 and years res
pectively, they had died. Every look of
love, and every lisping word Of confidence
and endearment, was and would ever be-,
as fresh in her mind. as il but yesterday.
they had left her, and it been such sweet
privilege to often stand by their little
graves. and live over the past.
Neighbors and friends strove to Gis.
hearten and discourage They spoke of
the distant, dreary Territory Of Nebras-
ka, as a wild country, among wild Indians,
and the rigOrs of a Nebraska winter
alone, too terrible 10 think of encounter
ing. He listened with a quiet smile, to
these so common prejudiees, but assured
those. truly wishing information. that il
was not with him the wild adventure they
regarded it. He had strove to acquire a
true knowledge of the country he had
chosen for his home, and its pleasant 10.
caticn, its clear, pure air, its rich, fertile
soil, the low price of the land. and ths
mild winters, were the advantages il pos
Sessed, and that induced his removal there
But our schools and our churches
you certainly would not have your chill
dren grown up SO far removed from ,hes.
important aids to civilization as neither