Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-31
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Letter from Kansas.

GLSgyA, kASsAs, O4t ,, 1860.
tRlEND WILLARD II ind myself u. present
in the wide region known as the Great West
Quite a contrast with the sharp, steep hills Of
the Green Mountain State, are the smooth pra.
RE lands Of Kansas and quite diiiereat too are
ejmo Of the modes Of LIVING here from what they
are there, ll, Kansas is plucky State, and is
growing last BY AMI BY We shall bc up with
old Vermont in the improvements Of civil rci
nfe, and who know. but that We may some day
get ahead Of you
You asked me to let you hear from me ocra-
sionally, as | bad opportunity, and snatch o
briel hour this morning to DO so. shall not
venture to say much OF Kansas, oi have not
been here long enough to form an opinion Of
Gny value. shall get the " hang" Of things
here soon aud then it you wish it, | will write
and tell you how they look to me, a Vermont
farmer, as young and green as you please.
/; is quite litto undertaking, even for per.
s)ns accustomed to travelling and well posted in
all its details, to pull up stakes and start for
Kansas out if he is perfectly unaecustomed to
travelling on his own resources, it may be quite
big undertaking. However, your humble ser
want, though ignorant enough 10 all conscience
managed to get cut here safe and sound, and
without loss or great deal OF delay Wswere
just fortnight coming to this place, Is
hundred miles distant from any rallroad-in-
cuding four days which We spcnt playing by
the way Considering how in times gone by
not SO very ancient ether-pecple had to emf
crate West in great wagons drawn by oxen, and
furnished with cooking untensils and sleeping
apartments, and all the paraphernalia for spend
ing six months more or less on the road,
without getting half so far west as Kansas after
all, we ought TO be satisfied, certainly IN coming
through in ten days But to be honest about 1t,
| was sorely annoyed because the trains wouldn't
make better connections, and felt at every delay
as Il | would like to blow somebody sky high, if
| only knew who were the ones to blame about
i, and could get at them. Ii seemed as II We
Neld lGAOA ~ hN utilluu ihUu az every COuutN-
ton. AT the endof almost every road we found
ourselves just little too late to take the train on
the next, and so of course had to lay over and
wait for another train. This may be a very
good thing for hotel keepers, but for passengers
with guapt pocket books it is grieyous aillic-
tion. | wish somebody would invent loeomo-
tive that could run On time. What q glorious
thing it would be for the travelling community
generally. 0ur route was by the Grand Trunk,
Michigan Central, Chicago and Quincy, and the
Hannibal and ST, Joseph railroads. Many
travellers coming West desire to take the Great
Western road, via. the Niagara Falls and over
the suspension bridge, where they are treated
to view of the grand works of nature and
art, unriyalled in the world, which may be seen
there aud almost regretted that | hadn't
used q little more Crerey in procuring q ticket
where they could have been had that would
have taken US over that road, But my ticket
said must go by the Grand Trunk, and could
find no ore who had the authority or the incli'
nation to mako it read differently.
The express train on the Vermont Central
takes you to Rouso's Point by quarter past seven
in the evening, to 0gdensburg little before
one the same night. Here, If you take the
Grand Trunk road you get your tcSSiI banged
mi cross on the fo.ry at Prescott Pres
colt Junction take tn, tral -
which come, along at ~
road we had beautiful
or two points where V