The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-19
Pacific Rnilro ad Excursion.
Kansas CRY. Mo-, June $,

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Cameron was called to the chair. ny
the way II Is whispered that me h -.s.i
Simon, like Wade and CoIIa1, Is :,
ing for his political health ii"s ,ha
seems to me an airing WouIu uv wy
worst thing in the world for hia recoFI.
Wall Mr.. Cameron made speech
Isnastory of railroads in general ana
70 "nn in particular, and then Attor-
nay General Brewster, OF Pennsyl.
~a;,i, one of Mr.. Cameron's political
nnrses. made speech, the best htther-
r. until he became laudatory of Mr..
Esmeron. AS the orator proceeded, he
placed his hand on Mr.. Cameron, who
sat near, characterizing him as This
man OF the lion head and lion hearth
"and lyin' tongue" broke in the inevi-
table Wells, in a tone loud enough to
raise hearty laugh against the honor
able.
After speeches from John d. Perry,
the President, and Judge Usher, the So
licitor of the road, resolutions were
adopted recognizing the Importance OF
the great work we witnessed, ana Ten
dering the ack nowledE ment OF the e&
curSiOniStS to the officers oil TINS anu
the various other railroads over "nicu
we had passed, the citizens OF the eitlsS I
and towns on our way, ana GeneFHt
Hancock and his subordinate otncets
along the line OF the Pacific Railway for
the hospitality, civility aud courtesy
which had been so gracefully ana gene
rously bestowed upon us, ana theh We
went to supper. Ana ourlhs Tue
speaking and eating the railroad had
nrosyrasse.d half a mile and passed us,
and we were no longer nj its extreme
western point. After supper Gldeons
band. reinforced and civilized by the
ladies, who form large proportion oil
the party, chalted and sang songs,
grave and gay, silly and sentimental
until it was time for Nelly BY
TO shut her eye. When that
was safely done, Col. Anderson
exhibited his menagerie, illustrated by
song and story. in the great tent, where
there was plenty of food and drink Tor
all the animals and visitors. These
who were so fortunate as to attend inns
show received an insight into natural
structive, and II they ever have another
onportunity will certainly accept the
| invitation OF
Folks. won't you go: Folks, won't you go?
/ Folks, won't you go to the monkey SHOW;
! The baboon is there and the kanSAfahsSLooi,
I The racoonS there and the white polar bear .
I Nor should be forgotten that other mel
/ ancholv melody of "Crick, Crack, Cue
{ koo. bang" whose soft notes swelled
out on the summer night till the echo
] woke all the snakes in the menagerie.
But tempuS would jn9it, and this show
like every other show let out, it's stars
vanishing with those above.
Next morning after buffalo bait, the
ambulances which had been brought
hither from Junction City by rail,
drew nm in line after II variety OF
maneuvres rather perpleXing to the
uninitiatRd mind though douDlIeSs very
we'll executed, and taking aboard their
cargoes of dead heads and dead beats,
] started over the plains for Fort HRrker
and Ellsworth City, the extreme from
ON we sped over a good hard
road, until "a sudden plunge into a
yulch somewhat disturbed the equilib-
rum and equanimity of our particular
ambulances. Fortunately our asinine
Hercules pulled through without our
having to put shoulders to the wheels,
but II was close lit. and if those mules
had had one more of their ears TO carry,
they wouldn't have got up out OF the
mud. AS it was, We had tue satistac.
ton of seeing the next load compelled
TO spill themselves out in the puddle
walk up the bank, and then run aEter
their ambulance, which the waGgish
driver hurried on at the top OF his
mules speed. Succeeding travellers took
warning and walked over. After a
brisk ride OF seven miles, in the face OF
a stiff prairie breeze, leaving
Fort Harker several miles on our
left, our cavalcade made its entry into
Ellsworth City, the present outpost OF
civilization. This town affords fair
example of Western energy. Not
three weeks old, its population is three
or four hundred, while scarcely house
is out of the builders hands. Good
carpenters were getting seven dollars a
day, and lumber was as tenderly cared
for as ereenbacks, being about as
scarce. Oneiman had bought theitin.roo1
OF a house torn down in Chicago, and
with this he was covering the walls and
roof of his new house, the largest In
town. 1t seemed as If extremes had
met, when stood on the corner OF
Broadway and Pawnee streets in Leav-
enworth, but here in one ofthe saloons,
where, by the way, lager beer was
TWENTY-FIVE cents n glass, stood TWO
billiard ia bles, whilelyesIerday evening
herd OF Two thousand buffalo had
rushed past in plain sight of its door.
All hands endeavored 10 make friends
with buffalo calf, which had been run
out of the herd and followed a mule
; home, but the brute was almost too
mucn for US, dragging one cot hding
individual half through the town and
then breaking away and stumbling of
with the speed of deer TO the domes-
tic COW which had undertaken TO rear
this prince OF the prairie.
Lots in Ellsworth sell for from two
hundred to thousand dollars, heard
of one man who had paid one hundred
dollars for lot, built house on it at an
expense of eight hundred dollars, and
then refused one hundred dollars a
month rent for the establishment.
After a stay of an hour, during which
Gen. Price attempted to buy the town ,
but compromised on enough of II
for a depot, We turn our faces east
ward and homeward With a sigh that
fifteen hundred miles is SO short. AS we
turn off to Fort Harker the fun is
kept alive by the efforts o: the drivers
TO Jockey each other and
get nearer the head of the procession,
the most pointed jokes being the poles
of the ambulances which occasionally
stir up the load of passengers imme'
diately preceding, to the fun of the folks
at one end of the pole and the misery
of those at the other.
Arrived at Fort Harkcr, all scattered
out in search of flowers, especially OF
the Prairie cactus, of which two or three
varieties blooming in July, are found
in this region. After everybody had 10
| his full satisfaction filled his hands
| with cactus thorns which have a pleas
| ant fashion of working in deeper at
every motion, the meeting indefinitely
adjourned last night, was called to or
! der, with Senator Henderson, of Mis-
souri,, in the chair, las much as he could
| be, when there wasn't any chair.) Sena-
tor Henderson with a few pleasant
words introduced General Hancock,
/ who in short speech advocated the
entire removal of The Indians from this
| region TO a reservation, say on the Ar
I kansas, and their support by the Gov
eminent If necessary. He was tol-
lowed by ten or dozen 9TH
er speeches, limited by rule to five
minutes, and consequently ptthy,
| to the point, and enjoyed by the audi