Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1866-12-27
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naked boys trying to catch a pony, seem.
ed to give a totally different eharaetef TO
the scenery. It became again the fich.
free wilderness.
During the day I had several fellow,
passengers-a gentleman from The Cher.
okee country an intelligent and lori-
ously loyal Missouri Ia aay and 'seysfal spec
linens q The local population. TIE road
ran some distance inland from fhS fiseF,
climbing long swells whence there we're
out-looks over ten o. ffsssn milss Of
magnificent country. All this region is
being rapidly settled. VlllagssAthe
sure sign Of permanent occbpation-ars
springing up hsrs and there, neat, sob
sIantial farm.houses are taking toe Place
Of The original cabins, and hsdges Of
Usage orange are gradually creeping
around the broad fields. When I frs
saw the bottoms Of the Kaw and smoky
Hill Fork, IN Kansas. nearly two months
ago, itseemed to ne that such exlraor.
dlnary beauty and fertility must ter ez-
ceptonal: but, last week. / found the
same thing repeated on the Platte, all
the way from Cottonwood 10 Oaaha.-
Now, find il in the region inlernsdlats
between the two rivers. and froa Ahal
Ihear of the valleys sf the Neosho, he
Republican, the Big and Liuls Blaes, the
Nemaha and Loup Fork, 4 am satisfied
that what / have seen. sthe ordinary,av.
erage type Of ell thiscosnFy. I consid-
er Kansas and NeBraska, with Jke 4Ees.
'tefn portions Of Iowa and MissosFi,o A.
the largest uhbrOken tract o. sPleadid
farming land ia the world. 5ae ~
No one Of Us viii live TO sesqhe 8sAu.
/ ty and pFosrefiiywhichlhese States,esen
in their rude, embryonic condition, ,alfeady
suggest. The American Of Fo-d6y must
find his enjoyment in anticipating The
future. He must look beyond lBe un-
slightly beginnings Of civilization, and
preAgure the state Of things century
hence. when the Republic viii cosae a
population Of Two hundred milliohs, and
there shall be leasuse for Taas add AT,
We have now so much ground 70 occ6py,
and we make such bastsG cover ifthat
our growth is-and must be-accompar
MED by very few durable iandmaFks.-
Al; is slight, shabby and imperfeeG-
Not until the greater part Of our vacant
territory is taken up, and there is q
broad beltof settlemeat reaching from
ocean to ocean, will cur Western people
begin to lake root, consolidateibeif eq.
terprise, and truly develop ihsiF unPar'
alleled Inheritance. 38ss
Travelling all day in a heat Of more
than 100 degrees IN the shade-the ser- /
enth day Of such an extrems temparthro
1 hailed our approach to Elwood, oppQ-
site ST. Joseph. with inexpressibls relief.
During the afternoon we met great
many emigrant wagons. carrying "poor
whites" from Missouri, Kentpoky. and
Tennessee, to lands Of better promise
The land, brown men stared al as from
under their wild, bushy hair, with an ex
preston Of ignorant wonder he moth
ers, with from four 10 six snlaIl, tow
headed children Casually "ops at the
breast" sat uncomfOrtabiy upon plies
Of antediIuvian furniture, and patiently
endured heat, flies and dust All Of
these people were Bat oas degrees re,
moved from pure barbarism, ah4 heir
loyalty must have had is root ii instinct
rather than intelligence
If We could diversity he course Of fsm,
igration it would be a great blessing to
the country. A current from The Ncrlh
to he South, with counter current from
the South to the North, would .recon-
struct' the former Slave States more so-
lidity than any political measure AT
present, the movement IS to much one
way. aud nothing shows The nsfrowness
and blindness Of the sopthsrneFs 50 much
as their continued enmily toward the very
class Of men they most need.
At SIX O'Clock Ills evening 1 reached
The Missouri, and crossed % IBIS place,
Here I an at one Of the termini Of rail-
road connection with The Atlantic coast,
andsmay consider my travels a, IN end.
Here the picturesque ceases. and the ts-
dious cCmmon. place begins. So here
close my communication with the readers
Of THE 'THTBuxEs xery much more IA
tigued by my experience Than gust
shey have been in The reading ef them.
and yet more refreshed and inyigoraied
shan The kiRdes' Of those who have To-
lowed Es can possibly be. BIT
A London paper hiss the follhwing al
yersiemeni: sJ9H. Adams viii whistle
any man within fgty miles Of London
for el up 70 s5s uh1 has nezsr vhislled