The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-08-17
Correspondence.


| lCorrcsponuence OF tho news.
Letter from Missouri Railroad
Journey from Old Highland to the
Far West---Incidents of Travel, I'M
pressions Of the Country, &c.
WHO VALLEY, HOLT Co., Mo-,
. roi' July %, 1855.
DEAR NEws:-One month ago this
morning, your "Model Town" faded
from the longing vision Of your corre-
spondent. With tears of goodbye,
reSolutely, our eyes turned ,Oest-wdrd
At Cincinnati we met with the fortune
which often befalls travelers-m missed
connection--cOnsequence, rooms at the
Burnet.House until ?. NJ. Wednes.
day.
Then, to our joy, we were of, on our
journey. just at sunset we reached
Lndianapolis-there changed cars. Our
impressions of this thriving young city
were soon and pleasantly made. In a
few moments we sped onward again. 1t
was eleven o'clock at night when we
reached Lafayette Station, where we
next changed cars. Fortunately for
us, the night was clear and pleasant.
As we stood and sat on the short, un-
covered platform, waiting for the train =,
we thought with pity of any who should
wait there on rainy night. At last,
We were oheered by whistle in the dis
tance, next a cleaning light-nearer,
the rumbling Of wheels;--s halt, and
we we're all aboard and going-it
seemed to me--back the very same way
we had come.
Gradually Sleep asserted his domiu-
ion over those in the car, and ono after
another curled him or herself up for q
nap. Here and there strong arm
clasped slender waist, and fair face
!, rested on tho broad shoulder of hus-
band or friend. Little children SLEPT
souudly, as children will any where
and tired mothers caught an hours
respite from constant watching. Some
: sat bolt upright, with open mouths anC
0 uodding heads, funny to see. It mad,
me think of a song used to sing wher
[ was littls-"We're all nodding, MD
MD nodding," &c. For our party, w
a too went sound asleep and barely es
cnped being left at State Line, where W.
had to gather up ourselves and baggage
q to move again. Finding new resting
place We resigned ourselves to sleep.
f A little after three suddenly awoke
= with strange feeling of bewildcrment
as l heard the wind sweeping and roar
ing around US, suggestive of ve,y storm,
March days, as had experienced them
in my Buckeye home. l looked out oI
the window, saw a sky over which darE
clouds were scudding. The grey ligh
Iof morning was Just breaking over al
1aImost bouudless expanse of prairie
We were 10 Illinois. The cold wiut
= chilled ms-the prairie looked drea
enough, without tree, hill or house il
. sight. I drew back in my seat with
I confess it--not the best "frst press
. ions" of a Western prairie, and though
4 1yearnlugly of the dear, cozy home "
had left behind. 1 was puzzled t
know Dherc the sun would rise tha
mornlng-but he came up by.and-by-
|o in the West, It seemed to ms-bright
rs ening earth and sky--rousing th
,.t drowsy passengers Disordered hail
Hs SOiled faces and hands and badly run
10. Piled garments were unfaiIing chara,
h. teristics of the yawning crew.
At Decatur, III we stopped for breal
he fast. NE spent the time In brisk wall
: ing on long platform, resting wear
limbs. In the cars barely in time, an
on through the State. 1t looked que,
enough to see great fields of grain lyin
=. out without fences, aud ell In beautifl
O., order too. The face of the countr
was perfectly level-I think too muc
so, to please the eye, at least--thougl
the oery thing for the Farmers, wh
rode leisurcly through the vast fields
their "sulky plOwS." Nice way
plowing that. That afternoon we roc
in the cars on a bridge over the Ill
nOiS river, which looked very prett
u the bright sunshine. We reaOhe
Quincy, Ill, at $3.50 p. NJ, exactly
-, minutes after the train had gone ives
:. ward ! Nothing was left us but sta
ms in that rather pretty town until ne,
hat morning at nine--when we crossed Il
ain Mississippi river in a dirty ferry. bO
nts and were set down on the shore of ii
''' State wherein we were to And our +
~, ture homo.
"n The introduction was not the NC