Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1866-12-27

toward evening. The heat was still my
great torment.
There was no boat down the river
Wednesday, and had an engagement
a, Brcwnvills, 25 miles distant, Twas
obliged TO have dealings with a livery
stable. The extreme of extortion in this
had been reached, Imagined, in Kansas.
/ was mistaken. For the team / hired
(driven by an ex-rebel sOldier) / was
obliged to pay At the rate Of eighty fire
CENTS per mile This is double Colorado
and treble California prices. Twas I'd
able to resist the outrage, for the livery
men Of Nebraska City have a mutual
agreement to svindIe strangers, and do
not interfere with each others opera
tions. This is one Of the disadvantages
of travel in the West. We are lold that
competition regulates prices: it does not.
On the contrary, cOnbinqtion keeps them
up. No people are 50 deeced and aayed
as ours. The law offers no protection,
because our politicians fear to offend any
portion Of the voting classes. "They
manage .hiugs differently ihlFrance." " z
Neither the consciousness, of having
been imposed upon "a mean, disagreea-
bic sensation). nor the sitting heat Of
the day, could prevent me from enjoying
to the full the magnificent country tray.
ersed. During The five hours I was up
on the road / never lost the keen sense
of surprise and admiration, which I felt
on climbing the frst rise Of land after
leaving Nebraska City. The wide, bill
lowy greeD, dotted all over with golden
islands of harvest; the holIOws Of dark,
maize; the park-like clumps
Of timber along the course of streams
The soft airy blue of the distant undula-
lions-these were the materials which
went to the making up Of every land
scape, and of which, in their sweet, har-
pastoral beauty, the eye never
grew weary. Not even when the sun
burned with the supplying ferceness Of.
noon. and the vegetation seemed to crisp
and shriyel in the frey souih-wind, did
wish to shorten the journey.
Brownville is a small, but pretty town,
with decided New England atmosphere.
By the time reached it, 1 had decided
hat this should be my last day Of mere
sightseeing. and my last evening Of lee
ure, in such a tempera ture. turned
sway from the enticements Of Pawnee,
Ind other interior districts. and resolulely
iet my face toward home. There was
10 boat the next day, but a stage for St
Joseph (between SO and 80 miles dis
ance) the same evening consequently
splendid moon, with neither heat or
lust, for a considerable portion Of the
vay. AT II o'clock ! said goodbye to /
he friends who had made my short stay
o pleasant, and, making virtue Of an
Inevitable fact. decided that the night I
vas too beautiful to be spent in slumber
The records of the United States Land I
Office at Brownville shows that II ,0001
cres were entered in the district during
be quarter ending June 80. As .o.thirds
f this amount we're taken by aclua set
lers as homesteads-as the olher dis
ric;s Of the Territory shows very nearly I
n equal growth, and as the business of
be present quarter, so far, keeps peace
With The last it is easy 10 estimate the
Increase Of population for the year. Il
annot be reckoned at less than Is 900, |
making the present population Of The
Territory abou: 75, 900. When The splen.
id agricultural capacities of the country
re better understood, the ratio Of inmi-
,Eation will increase. Nebraska cannot
much longer be kept out of The Union BY
\. Us one-man-power.
The nightjouFney was delicious
There was no other passenger, and /
ode with the driver, a Union soldier
rom Massachusetts, (how different from
ny Rebel Of he dag before , for The
axe Of society. The meadows, thickets,
IrOvss and graln-felds near at hand
yere clearly revealed IN The moonlight,
u. beyond them the scenery mehed into
silyefy indistinctness. The Signs Of
lawn came only to soon, for with the
irst light Of day / knew that the dewy
Of the air would be lost. ii
till had an entire day Of heat before me.
We stopped for breakfast at a place
allied RuIO Che true spelling would be
ROaIean, after The first french se,iEerl,
md then pushed onward 10 the Kansas
Inc. Across bottom Of almost incred-
bic fertility, then a ferry over the beau.
ifGl Nemaha River, and we left Nebras-
"a behind U.s. An Indian Reservation
anne next. and the sight Of Two gaily-
dressed ;quaws on horseback, anJ two