The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-05-12

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NEwAn<, O., Nay 4th.
il Wheat len Barlington. Wednesday morning,
Iintsndsd aAd expected 70 write letsers from ~.
lsky ssopplngplace, md ksep she readers Of III
|, Hawk-Eye fully informed Of the progress Of III
editors ofthe west In their descent tpon Bald.
. nore aad waahiagtea. and othsa matters. ]
md that sit y one thing % prou.iss, but quits
dineent one U perform. During NE last two
aAys have bssn at H. nercy ofmy better hall.
a0ck child. divers trunks And band-boxes, and
II bad cough. Writing was out Of tAe question.
\, In this region Of country they have mot suiIsr.
Cd With drouth, q in Iowa and TlinoiA Vege-
tation i souewhat more forward-wheas looks
well. They have had cold weather and m1ch
frost here, but ffuit has not been destroyed.
l found the new road, via Peoria and Logans-
port, in better condition. and the routsa better
one than ] expected The time between Bur
lington and Logansport isfourteen hour, (27l
milea) This Is about ~ good time - any Of the
roads are making, under present arrangsment-
This road, or the portion Of il from the vicini-
y Of Peoria to the Tippecanoe river, in Indiana,
runs through boundless expanse Of fat prairie,
with hardly snFve. There is very little tim
ber, and upon the latter portion Of il very few
settlementa The traveller, in numerous places,
10 out Of sight Of either dwellings or treea Ibe-
lieve the last prairie in Indiana Is thirty miles
wide. The land ON this portion Of the road looks
very poor-sandy and wet.
At Tippecanoe river the cars pass over good,
substantial bridge, seventy-three feet above the
water. Between here and Logansport the seen.
cry is more pleasing, streams numerous, there
being no more prairie. At the Tippecanoc saw
the first Buckeye tree, though am toldit grows
on the Illinois river
From Logansport took the Cincinnati and
Chicago road, to Richmond. This road is lOs
miles long, and is rum in about five hours By
taking this route, passengers from Burlington,
who leave at seven in the morning, reach Gin
cinnati at about four or Eve o'clock the next
morning Ofcourse it is the shortest, and
think the speediest and best route.
Passengers from Burlington are able to make
connections with any or all the great Eastern
routes to advantage, via Logansport They can
pass on to Toledo, and take the Lake Shore and
Erie road, or go via the F. Wayne, Pittsburgh
and Pennsylvania Central, or follow the route
have taken, via the Dayton and Columbus, Ohio
Central, and Baltimore and Ohio roadaI But il
these are not enough, the traveller has still anoth.
er Eastern route via Cincinnati, Marietta, Par
kersburg and Grafton.
The towns through which Ihave passed pos
sess subdued subdued and quiet air, which
We, in the extreme West, can appreciate. /
don't see that they are essentially any better of
than we.
To man up tree, it looks a little as though
the ''irrepressible conflict" had broken out among
the Democracy There were signs Of it at
Charleston at the late Convention, and should
not wonder il even the Little Giant" himself,
had heard of it. am now in favor of allowing
the two branches Of the Democratic party fight
out this sectional niger business among them
selves. The ''army in Flanders" might take a les
son from the Douglas politicians since the Charles
ton iszle. They are slightly profanc.
The train that left, this morning, was loaded
mainly with editors and their wives. They ell
have their wives with them. Such fight ofgen-
tlemen of the quill was never witnessed before.
shall remain here until next week. d.
Crops, Pixies Peak Emigration, Etc.
We make the following extract from private.
letter, dated,
Lewis, Cass county, Iowa, May 1st, 1850.
The drouth still continues, with high, fierce
winds, principally from the North, and freezing
~ he g., 1oft in fho
enrth Wheat and oats lay rs sound and dry
in the ground as if they were in the barn, and
that that has found moisture enough to sprout it.
is dying, 1t has been a fine Spring for farmers
to get their plowing done, but all the fields are
nothing but beds Of dust.
The emigration to Pixies Peak and California
,ust seems one constant and unbroken stream or
train saw, yesterday, one hundred and six
horses in one train, bound for California The
principal proprietor went to California in 49, and
returned last fall, and is now taking this stock
through He had six of the finest stations that
he could procure. People are travelling in al
most every way that people ever travel. saw
one train, four or five days ago, often fourhorse
teams and wagons, loaded with live sheep, six
teen in each wagon, going to California They
calculate to haul the sheep to the Missouri river,
| and thea turn them ON foot and load the wagons
with provisions, &c. saw quite long train
pass the other day, with quite number OF one
horse carts, oneox carts, and carts with two cows
| for team; but great number Of fine teams pass
| all the time.
One of my neighbors, Mr.. Amos Gridley, start
ed to the Mines between five and six weeks ago;
| he went to Denver and returned, distance OF
400 miles, for provisions. He says that if the
people do not take q large supply Of provisions
with them, there will be much suffering IN the
mountains the ensuing summer. He made the
| trip there, and back, with the same team OF Po-
nies; he expects to rest week, and start with
| them again. Mr. Gridley is one of the proprie-
tors of the great s2l 900 claim in the Gregory
| Dggings He says that -four At Denver 10 worth
from S24 to $50 per hundred weight, and every
thing in proportion when he left Nothing could
be done in the mines, owing to the cold weather.
He thinks people have started entirely too early;
grass is very limited on the plains He says
there was good rain on the Platte as he came
down, which will bring out grass. The road is
uncommonly dry and fine.
i Our county OF Cass il nearly desolated of able
bodied men; two-thirds have went, or undOubted-
ly will go, to the mines; what effect II will have
ON the future here, it is impossible to fOresee.-
Our county scat (Lewis) is nearly desolated, only
IL men now left in it, e village Of 100 dwellings
What q strange people we are becoming, to be
always floating in some excitement or other
California gold fever, Mexican war, Pixies Peak
gold fever, Washoe silver mines-one excitement
after another, until it seems that men have lost
oil taste for home, and the hope Of speedily
amassing an unlimited fortune will make them do
almost anything =. b. b.
PKH's PEAK ENI0RANrs-We find in the Peo-
ples Press, Of Nebraaka City, the names Of large
number Of persons from Iowa, registered At that
Office. Among them are the following from this
city, registered on the 27th Of April: Charles
Berry, J. w. Browning, w. L. McPherin,
James C. Berry, Taylor Jehries, Robert HilligAn,
G. n, Sweetser, John Otter, G. Il. Hall, J. w.
Ratclitf and s. w. Davis.
, Dee NoImes Connty Medical Assoeiatsen.
Pursuant to notice, meeting of the Physi
clans Of Des Moines County was held at Marion
Hall, Wednesday, Nay Sd, 1880 and organized