The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-03-22
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tern Railroad leading from Chicago. there arc
many things to be seen that arc highly interesting
to the traveller. The vast extent of rolling prairie
stretching out as far as the eve can reach.
dotted here and there with well designed and neat
ly arranged farms, comfortable cottage residences
embelished with many the decorative improve
men;s OF modern architecture, villages new and
imposingly located, surrounded and intcrspersed
with evcrsrcens and other ornamental trees and
shrubbery, giving them air of com fort ncatness
and taste characteristic the industry, energy and
perseverance OF the western people. But few of
the necoSares of comfort bic life seem 20 be want
Ing here that are enjoyed in richer AMI older set
tle,ncntsand far less Of that ,uxurant Incidence AM
selfish, pampered aristocracy Of feeling so incon
genial in Il land where freedom prevails Whilst
all strive here for self agrandzcment first perhaps
the rest of mankind including the rising generations
arc not forgotten. institutions for charitable pur
poses rise up side by side with costly churches,
neat and canacious colleges, academies and school
houses, with an ample appropriation for individual
funds, and public donations 70, all the necessary
purposes of education and charity.
A ride ofseven or ght hours from Chicag 70 OF.
the North Western railroad by way of Jonesville,
TT. Atkinson and Horiccn brought me to the beau.
tifu city of Ripon. Fonduiac county, Wisconsin,
one OF the most promising locations in the state
1t was originally settled by the society OF Fouirtes
who li0urished here for some time, but the rich
qualities of the lands afforded too many attractions
20 other emigrans, to allow it to be occupied only
by that peculiarly liberal society Of people, and at
present there is traces of the original settlers,
with the exceptions of some few decaying hab;ta-
tons. Whilst lying in this place, rather in
genious trick was played offon OF the directors
of the underground railroad. A negro man in re
duced circumstances succeeded in stealing a valu
able watch, from an individual whose hosp.talit he
had been enjoying, and escaped to ncgibocng
town where he reported himself as fugitive from
labor, from Kentucky, whose master was in pursuit
of him, and as he had exhausted all his means de-
sired assistance from the railroad directors whose
charitable zeal II this good induced them 10
furnish him the meals Of escape. Not long after
his departure for Canada tie owner ofthc watcl,
made his appearance to be greeted by this very
Notifying story.
Twelve miles from this place Is the city OF Ber-
lin rather poor representative judge its great
photograph the capitol OF Prussia 1t is situated on
the Fox river at the terminus of;he North Western
railroad. The country around it is uneven covered
with stunted specie Of oak OF which several s2eci-
mems are required 10 make one rail cut. the sol
is light and thin composed largely Of SILICA badly
adapted to thc.productiOn of cereal grain. In
passing along the principal street OF sctiin Il need
not tell you that there is generally bat o,sa pin
cipalin all western towns;) my attention was at
tracted to dusly looking establishment Of tole.
rable proportions, in 'r0nt Of which in Tie most
conspicioas position vas suspended a large black
sgnboard having well executed deaths head ard
,-roSS bones done in white upon it. \ cold >linddcr
ran through my body when | read the wor!s III
derneash, Drugs and Medicines my mind in
stantly rccoilol at the base insnuA.on, could
not appease the crowding thoughts TIL; Gil, d
through my me mory OF II that was bloody, horIi-
bic and shocking humanity, all incidents q. ii
racy upon the seas and land, the bloody period of
the French revolution, the gulliotne, the Roman
inquisitcn, indian maSsacreeS, etc, all seemed
blazoned upon that horrible blackboard entered
Ing to behold even more revolving object. than
were presented 10 the astonistcd vision of Tam
O'Shanter in his adventure in thu haunted Kirk,
but the arrangements were the Ordinary plan of
county Drug stores and after short conycrsation
wiil the polite clerk my soiiloquy WAS succeeded
by more agreeable feelings.
left Berlin the following morning in stage
al,
other passengers made up the number of occupants,
inwhose company was to sit out the passage Of
ll5 long and weary miles in rather an uncOmforta-
bic vehicle and over an exceedingly bad road. =
One of the passengers was an ANTICIPATED genius
ofthe feminine gender, recently Imported from the
Emerald Isle, whose loquacious efforts of
rlthera melancholy nature, owing to the suspicion
which prevailed her mind that her loving husband,
who had preceded her one year, had fallen from
his first love and been captivated by the irresistible
charms ofthe northern women appropriating to him
self another wife. The next passenger was of the
genus homo and gender ascune, and by pro-
tession an humble disiple of Faust, being quite
communicative his history told, which
consisted in the main of having emigrated to this
through Michigan and Wisconsin and part Of Min
N, Sofa settled down in little town called " aI-
toma and was one ofthc permanent fixtures of this
great wooden State, and the editor OF WauShora
county Argus. BY the help ofhis many eyes, like
his mythical ancestors he watches over the inter
ests ofonc wing ofthe republican party. Being for
merly publisher ola strong Abolition paper in
Portage county, ho called upon by portly
looking colored "gemmen" (who had been lectur
ing in the neiglbcrhood) for assistance, the in
dividual seemed to claim his charity is matter cf
course and with some rather naughty airs. The
Argus man ref rrcd him TO the hOte but the lectur
err remarked that his horse on Int TO he taken
ofand he felt DESTROYS of few days rest. Well
sir there lives rank old abolitionist (pointing to
the place. 90 to him, | am not OF that stamp.
The Argus man very painfully remarked that the
practical part of ,boliticnism lacked the pecuniay
interests formed in maintaining the moral doctrin
of the subject. Iderived considerable information
of state from my communicative friend, who pc
sisted in doing the largest amount of talkin. hut
felt suspicious of its authenticity whe,, sreasino