Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-04-28

SrsAnEs onAsA, April IA, 1859.

SrEAnEs oxAsA, April IA, 1889.
DsAR Rsc,srEl- glide alon g, "
l Cad pleasure asd occupGeion in telling
yos What ] ses. ssf IL impre@jons ~.
ceived through ny syss and ether senses,
sbout this Missosri slops. Since my last
letter, mailed At Omsha. Ihavs been struck
with the advance and Improvement made
in the river towns, but until 10 landed
yesterday ~ Lesvesworth City hsvs sssn
less life and activity than Sioux City every
day presents. Just now Lsavenworth City
10 scene Of hustle from DE numbers Of
men, mules, horses, oxen and Wagons
that have congregated there preparatory
to . start for Pixies Peak, q which place
the prospects for fortune are looked upon
in brighter light than We have been dis
posed to regard them, and twill be cruel
thing it so many a. are now going that
way shall be doomed to disappointment.
Kansas City, in less degree. had some.
thing Of the life Of Lesvenworth City but
let the Pixies Peak rush subside, there IL
no more, If As much, business doing as is
transacted daily upon your streets, and in
point Of location, heslth and climate you
are ahead Of al If item the whole time,
unless you have worse weather than I ever
know in Jour place. ..9 '- ""1. "@
Since We left 81. Joseph, evening before
last, the river is alive with boats, and moi
few of them show the effects Of them fel.
lows called snsgs, while ours, thanks to
the watchfulness Of Capt. WlSELANp, shows
an unbroken front and sides, and the only
fear have for the "Omaha" is that she
cannot much longer stand the constant
washing and scrubbing which she daily
has 10 undergo, and which makes her the
cleanest craft l ever Aoated in. Notwith
standing there are several boats bound
down before and behind US, ! notice tina.
we get al the passengers, and could have
most of the freight ,pon the river had we
not already on board more than we ougb,
to have for speed, the Omaha and Off,
GERS being as popular this low down as
above with US. and well does the meri.
belong to them.
Already has Mr.. WILCOX telegraphed to
St. Louis to advertise the "Omaha for
Sioux City, 80 your eyes will be made glad
BY the sight Of her soon again. In the
meantime I conclude you will see the
steamer Florence, which We hear is going
to Fort Randall for Messrs. FRosr, Tom
d Co., and we are expecting to see her
every moment. ,,a
l wish you who can enjoy good story
was with Us to hear some Of the early OK
perience of Capt. WrSkLASD upon the riv.
ers of the South and West, which we draw
out of him evenings as we set around the
cabin stove after the boat is laid up "a,
the night, but as you are not Of US now,
will remember enough Of them to tell 20,
on my return to give you some idea Of how
pleasantly we pass our time. Something
| can't do on a steamboat as well rs OF
shore, but for q journey Of comfort ant
rlaafaee, .oive me the Omaha aud goot
We are now about 400 miles above St
Louis, and begin to notice the change O
latitude, for all the disagreeable weather
have alluded to, which is worse .han il
good, but for all that We see the grass upor
the shore, green, and the trees are putting
on their spring dress, and looking Lowell,
- a female woman.
Talking about the mud in the Missouri
river the other evening, Capt. WlxELAx1
said that it was growing less every year
for when he FIRST navigate these waters i,
was so thick that if you sent q stick Of
wood overheard endwise it stood rigb,
straight up.
| mail this at Lexington, and as we are
in sight l must close. Yours,
NJ