New-York daily tribune., 1859-05-25
AN OVERLAND JOURNEY
FROM NEW-YORK TO KANSAS.


evening, eth inst. just ss our fotni bt of bright
bot, planting weather was closing TSo hoars
later the gathered clouds burs, upon Us IN rsia
which cor tinned tbrueh the night though tts City
Was Dot refreshed by il till some hours later We
II bad glm pres of sunshine We skired the southern
\ shore Cf Lake Erie on Wednesday, and some marc
after a heavy shower at Chicago on rhursdsy;
bss,ie these cloudy skies. easterly winds sad 90
cssiopal rain have been my portion siace bads
sdieu 10 the hot, dasty str,ets If Nes. YORK. Bat
| i Is breaking away ss write, and h"p~ to see
KsDsss for the first time under skies which image
her sunny future rather than her stormy p.st.
| Coming up the Erie Road. tired " sleeping
car" for the third time and not Very successfully.
| We all retired" at 10 o'clock, with fair allow
ance If open windows and vrtuous resolutions;
but the rain poured the night was chill sud damp;
and soon every orifce for the admission ofeItsrnal
air save the two or three humbug ventlstors evsr-
head, was shut, and mephitic atmosphere pro
duced in which the soul of John G. Sake might have
disport,d aud foncied it ely siun. After gsspiog
a while, like a ne,ted fsh on bot sandbsnk, Ose
TO enter ny solemn protest against all seepns-can
not provided with abundant aud iDdef.asibie means
of ventilation tried one two nights later on the
| Mcligsn Southern Road which served much
better, though still far from perfect. II is very
! true that arrangement can secure healthy cir
culatiop Of air BY night in any passengercar while
| the popular ignorance is dense that the great
majority imagine any atmosphere healthful which
is neither too cold too hot, and rather laugh AZ
the wit than pity the blindness of SAKE in holding
upto rldlcule woman who knows (and does better
| than 10 sit sl night 10 close car with thirty sr
forty other human beings, sll breathing an atmos-
ptere which they in twenty minutes render abso-
| lutely posonous but the builders Of cars have No
right to be ignorant Of the laws Of life With which
they tamper; and two or three presentments By
| Grand Juries Of the makers Of unyentiiated care.
especially sleeping-cars guilty of msnsaughter.
would exert a most salutay influence. Tcommeul
this public duty to the immediate consideration u
jurors and prosecutors.
| stopping at uornelsvlle. at 7 A. NJ, took
the train for Buffalo thence at noon. and halted at
Castle to fulfill an engagement 10 speak at Pike.
formerly in ADegany, now in Wyoming County.
Here is the substance Of the information gathered
Nth regard to Farming in Soutb-Western New
York Wheat was moderately sown last Fab and
this Spring; but was looking very well until tho
late hot, dry weather, which caused it to spindle
| Instead Of spreading and would have seriously
damaged the Fsll-sown but for the recent change
| from hot 10 cold. moist temperature. OF Rye,
but little was sown, and that ltte is doing fsriy.
Oats have been pretty extensively sown. aud
promise COED yield. Of Corn large area has
been and will be planted. Grass would have suG
fered seriously had the rains which began la,t sun
DAY or Monday in Western New York, been with
held few days longer. Now, the prospect 10
good.
| Il left Pike for CASTLE at 8 on wednesday
morning. took the cars to Buffalo at a. was il
ample season for the Lske Shore train as l0 ran
into Cleveland little after 81 left at for Toledo,
where We changed cars between 10 and II, and
were IN Chicago at next morning ~ aforesaid
| IL WAS quite dry along the sO1th shore Of Lake
Erie, but il probably vet enough since. There. 90
before in our State, il was plaa that the area
plow ed on or before the Ito Of May was GREATER
this year then ever before. With a good season
heDcefortb the gro~th Of Indian Corn this year in
the Old ss well Ms the New States must be far
| "
country was hardly ever =, bare of food for mas
and beast as in this same May Of 1859 Flour il
higher and Wheat and Corn scarcely lover in Chi
csec than in Nrw-York or Lverpool; Oats nearly
the same. Thousands Of Cattle throughout the
Prairie States have died Of starvation this Spring.
though Prairie Hay might almost anywhere have
been put up last Fall Mt cost Of less than go per unf
! Minnesota. with perhaps the best soil for Winter
Whest in America is buying Flour in Chicago bythe
thousand barrels and hear from different sections
Of this great granary VI nations-from Illinois, FRO"
| Iowa from Missouri-of whole neghb0rhoods d@sfi-
tuie alike of bread and of the wherwithal to buy it.
Uupropitious last season war, it does not fully
explain this scarcity, especially Of Fodder. trust
the like will never occur to need explanation sgsis.
Coming down through Illinois from Chicago
south-wesiwsrdly TO Quincy (26s miles) It was
gratifying 10 see how general are the efbn
ard obsi sious resolve to look starvation out
Of counte nsDce this year. Though the
breadth Of Winter Wheat was but moderate,
owing to the incessant rains If last Autumn, II
is plsin that the farmers begrD 10 pow and s0~ ~
early possible this Spring putting in, first Spring
! What; then Oats; littery Corn; and they mean
to keep putting in Corn and Oats for month yet
IL the Northern part the State owing 10 the dry.
warm wesfher. Spring work was never before 70
forwards; further South it has been delayed BY
rains but every houris diligently improved. nn
linois and Iowa do not grow far more Grain this
year than ever before, it will hardly BE- the fault Of
the cuItivators for they are bent on doing their