Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1861-03-16
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my goods In bell,tent, that ! purchased
in Boston You are aware that wa
interested through the year with Mr.
Henry r. Dagge.t (who accompanied mt
from Bangor, and WHO is we'll ana favor
ably known IN Sioux City in the stove
and tin.wars business certainly a valua,
ble acquisition in "a new oity of five
log houses"
1t will not be denied, that contributed
personally, my full share to the success O
the new city during the year 1856. |,
would have been far better for me had
husbandsd my physical resources. But
.hs fine climate. the pure, brscing mir tn.
favorable opportunities for business, and
the inviting character of the conutry gen.
orally, which was On ly too anxious to
examine and explore to more distant
points, led me into fatal error, the pen
atty for which will doubtless follow me
while life remains. For example, my ia
tigueing trip across the eastern portion of
Nebraska to the mouth Of the far famed
Niobrarah, requiring some 200 miles
travel, and which |, in common with our
party accomplished on horse bach ck-camp-
ing on the open prairie wherever night
overlook us, has learned me lesson tina,
will be valuable, if indeed, it be not too
late to profit by it. You who have reve,.
ed in the delights of frontier life, who
have explored that beautiful country aud
been enchanted by its romantic and pic
turesque scenery, who have traced nature
in its thousand forms of use and beauty,
and who realize the fall force OF that yreat :
truth. that
"Al are but parts of one s.upendous wholc,
Whose body nltnre is. and Cod the soul -
will know how to excuse the natural ex-
citement that leads to such indscreton.
In the Fall visited St Louis to pur-
chase a Fall stock for the stove and tia
ware business. Shipping the stock per
return of steamer, | TODD passage up the
Mississippi on a visit to Minnesota, desg-
ming to return from thence across the
country to Sioux City which would enable
ME TO explore and examine one Of the
finest tracts Of country to be iourd in the
"Grea. West This latter trip | was des
tined to take only in ina ,ina,ion. After
visiting many OF the mos, interesting oca-
lities in Minnesota and being just on the
point Of Leaving for Sioux City, my health
uroke down. After maay days Of sxtrame
suffering, and with a reasonable delay,
sill hoping. but in vain, for recuperatlon
sufficient to enable me to cross the coun-
try, was iorc-d most reluctantly to give
up the trip aud As the only = safe resort,
turned my face unwiliugly towards the
East. | managed, hardly know bow, to
reach Cleveland, Ohio, where entered the
Water Cure. Here, under the care of the
Justly celebrated DIR. Seelsy and his faith
tul attendants | spent several weeks, and
at length recovered my health sufficiently
Maine.
In the spring of 1857, | again visited
Sioux City. On the steamer bound mp the
Missouri had an attack of hcmmorrhage
of the lungs, and suffered much from gen
dol he ~,
nv return East tarred several weeks at
Saratoga Springs, and subsequently spent
Water Gore in New York City. | also
returned to Sioux City in the summers Of
1859 The latter season | had several
attacks of hemmorrhage Of the lungs,
which, as was to be expected, induced ex.
tyene exhaustion and nervous debility.
1t Was my design to have returned last
summer, but my health was so precarious
that | finally yielded to the urgent solici.
taiions of my friends. have been under
medical treatment the last six months,
and for the last seven weeks previous to
my present illness, had enjoyed q better
degree Of health than at any time in the
last four years. As i. is, have just run
the gauntlet Of congestion OF the lungs on
the one hand aad braiu fever on the other.
aud thought was getting nicely up from
it. when henmorrhage Of the lungs ensu.
ed, an am now close prisoner, prohi
bited from talking even, lest by exposure
and scxeitemsnt | may provoke recur-
renee of attack | may say also, that
am indi,ng this letter in express violation
Of "rules and regulations in such cases
made and provided" But then, you know,
one must have some mploymsnt for the
mind, and the article published ia the REC
lsTEs furnished the text, and "a certain a.
mount of sxcitementis almost as necessary
to ME as the air | breathe. | have been
making all the necessary preparations to
return to Sioux City next Spring, but
am aware the attempt may be hazardous,
and can but be guided by circumstances.
You will not think strange when tell you
| begin to despair Of again having suI
cient physical strength to assume the
duties Of active business with safety.
Never since l frat nsds up my und as
to the true merits OF Sioux City have
had the lenEt reason To doubt the wisdop
Of my judgment. Notwithstanding the
great breakdown of 1851, and consequent
depression in business generally through.
out the West, each succeeding year has
but added additional force to my earlier