The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-01-26
scattered out on the prairie, looking lonesome and

haAee HAS Aueu upa Soou zeal anu mas some me |
buildings. The brick and stone buildings of Per |
ryolo and A G Hobbie ESQ.,, are fine blocks. 1t is
quite a large town, and does good deal of bust.
ness; but the R. R. policy has separated the bust
ness streets more than gun shot, and the unsghty
buildings along the r. r. track between, nearly
spoils the little city. 1t is overgrown too; and
matters are dull there for the size of the place 1t
is estimated to have 5000 people. s3OOO@4OOO, |
guess would clean it out. Urbana lisa fine town
Before reaching it. a solitary hawk. hutterng up
against the wind in the clear cold sunshine, above
the glitterng snow, formed the only object of the
day to break the monotory of the view. No cat
tie, no horses, no stacks or fine farm houses-no
nothing but the wide waste eff snow and clear sun
shine-cold wind, towns of endless sameness OF
appearance. and scattering farm houses standing
here and there amid the dreary space without
shade trees, groves or outhouses. At Tolona
took the Great Western R. R. for Springfield, to go
to st. Louis. At Decatur on the main side of the
ILL., Central Railroad, learned that the River was
closed, and no boats running from st. Louis. |
changed again and came down the lliuois Central
to Cairo, and took steamboat for this place Deca-
tur is fine large town, and doing thriving bust
ness. Some distance from Cairo, you strike the
tiHber-hilly at frstcthen low and swampy. Cal
10 itself lies below where the river often is and
the Railroad Co has thrown Levce around it, but
IL has been twice overflowed The Ohio River is
now on a high, and ice and drift wood fill it full,
but only to the annoyance of boats Cairo presents
quite busidess appearance, and is much larger
han had thought it was. 1t has some good
buildings, and the st. Charles Hoiel-a large fine
Hotel, newly opened-is the best in the state
outside of Chicago. There was but one boat COM
ing down-the 'Chouteau," (shoto, as the run
ners called it) and went on her in preference to
going to Columbus and taking the Railroad. She
is old, and dirty, and had hard crowd on hoard,
but she is strong, slow and safe, and the officers
were clever and attentive. There We're a good
many passengers, representing all parts of tie
union and several portions of Europe, and amon-
them few genteel people. Everything vas dis
cusscd except slavery and "Harper's Ferry," of
the latter have not heard one word since ]
left home, and have heard vast deal of talk
about every other subject. | find here abolition
pamphlets of the "trial and execution IF John
Brown" for sale, niggers who can read, and no
special prohibition to their reading It. l have
talked with and heard good deal from all classes
of community, and so far as have heard, the i'm
preston seems to be that the truly intelligent and
powerful elements of the country are dormant
until circumstances call them into existence. 1t
is engaged in business and leaves politicians to
manage public affairs until they get themsel-
YES and the country at "crisis,'' when they
step forth into the arena and set matters to rights
That this class of men, North and South. have
no idea of dissolving the Union, or suffering it to
be dissolved. That they do not sympathize with
the extremists" North and South, and when
politicians begin so misrule that the claw
and order" class begin TO feel it, then
they step forth and set things to rights
The masses of the intelligent men of the
south. have confidence in the integrity
and stability of the class at the north,
anu have no sympathy with the noisy or tur-
bulent any where; and they insist that the ex-
tremsts, whether, newspaper men or politicians,
have not the power to dissolAe the Union,
nor do they represent the sentiment of the
better and more powerful class of the people;
and that that class will act when they deem
the Union in danger not to secede, but to put
men in Office who will prevent it.
They say there evils about slavery
that they would gladly see remedied, and
would be rid of the slaves if they could; but
the great staples of the south conld not be
produced without them-they have become
part o. the lands and the nation, and that slavery
can never be dispensed with so long as these sta
Piles exist such, and as long as slavery agitation
is kept up to The exclusion or every other better
consideration for the minds of men and tie country
But expect am getting prosy when want to
be jolly and readable. 1t has been so canfounded
cold that no incident occurred worthy of note,
1t was good seighing all through Illinois and down
to this place, and don't know how much futher
down. They have five inches ossnow here and wher
the sun has not shone the ground is hard fro
zen. To-day is like summer overhead and un-
der foot like mortar bed. Aside from
those ornamental pantaloons at breakfast, and
seeing man fall down in the mud this
morning, with his hands sprawled out-his
mouth wide open, his hat lying in the mud
looking as though it would laugh at him il
it had a mouth, l have not seen a funny
thing since 1 left home, l presume others
did when they saw the niger carry me from
the dock TO the hack through the mire ia
ave the soil l otherwise would have carried
away. A truce to further nonsence. Its din
ner time, and" all the werld is nothing
compared to dinner" Respect to all inqurers
and confusion to disorganisers.
| Yours truly,