Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-06-17

ladies' and gentlemen, armed and EQUIPPED
as the occasion demanded, with sundry
TIN buckets, might have been seen, under.
gong the process of being packed away
in a large wagon and with smiling ia.
ces and hopeful anticipalions, set out for
the land supposed to abound with the first
fruit of the season. Westward we oui.
city wendell our way, over the beautifully
undulating prairies, now decked in the
gay robes of summer, which extend far
away, I'LL their curving outlines are mir.
rowed in the azure sky above. The deep
green grass, interviewer with gorgeous
flowers, added TO the landscape before us.
and permented the atmosphere with sweet
scented oders. |..
Arriving at Mud Creek, which lazily
winds along, and discharges its mulky
waters into the more impetuous Pappeo,
we found that rec MT rains had disturbed
its usual equanimity, and its bridges had
been swept away. Our load Of human
freight was unshipped, and crossed over
on a plank, while our driver, with his
team, trusting to the t%reacherous bottom
succeeded in fording it. This accomplish.
ed, we were again pressing on towards the
goal of our anticipa,ions, which was soon
reached. Dilligent search was Instituted
for those blushing beauties, that had al
tracted us thither, but with poor success
it was much like the pursuit of knowledge
under difficulties. Not to be easily foiled,
we were off for a new field. Crossing
the Pappeo, we were soon more success.
full, and our buckets were being rapidly
filled with delicious fruit. After randi
ing about for several hours, attended with
a good degree of success, we sci out on
our return homeward. Taking a new
route, our course vas more SOUTHWARK,
over hills and through valleys of unsur.
passing loveliness, and as we overlooked
the broad, green fields of Nebraska, We
were enchanted with the almost unparal-
leled scene of grandeur, that lay before
us. Meandering over the prairies, in
due time, we reached home, as the sun
was fast sinking in the western horizon,
and having been successful in the purpose
for which we went, Toasted our Ideally
on the sublime works of nature, passed a
few hours in social converse, we felt well
paid for our short trip to the country, and
closed up by sitting down to a good old
fashioned supper of strawberry short-cake,
as we were wont TO, in days of long ago.
A little steamer, the Silver Lake, is
being finished at the Allegheny landing.
Her hull, built by TODD, at Wellsville, is
ITO feel keel and 20 feet beam, with an
open hold of three feet. Her engines,
built by Hartupee, are the smallest side
levers, we understand. ever built in this
city. They are of ten inches diameter
and three feet stroke. She has a single
boiler, sixteen feet in length and forty-two
inches in diameter, with twenty-three
flues, adapted TO raising steam rapidly,
with great economy of space. Her draft,
light, is less than ten inches, and she will
carry one hundred tuns on about eighteen
inches. 1t is proposed by her owners,
Messrs. .Willoughby & Trannen, 10 run
her in the Kansas river, for which her
light draft, will fit her admirably.
PiHsburg Dispatch.
The above has been handed US, re-
guessing the attention of those interested
in the Platte River towns, 10 the above
named boat, the Silver Lake, for the pur.
pose of seeing if it can be chartered for
an experimental trip up Platte River. 1t
will be seen that she is Of light draft, and
we think well adapted for that purpose.
Whether the Platte will ever prove TO
be n~avigable, remains to be seen. We
are not sufficiently acquainted with its
channel, to form correct opinion, either
for or against that project; but it does
seem, that a stream of the size of the
! Platte, ought to be. If it should prove
navigable, ever for only boats of small
tunage, it would be an il calculable bene.
fit to Nebraska, and would be the means
OF settling up a vast amount of country, in
!, the interior, that will remain in idleness,
r for a long period.
, Navigation once opened, say two hum
i dred miles up the Platte, would be the
means of settling mp the country, for miles
along the various streams that flow into