North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-06-03


e. WILLIAMSON,
t@-+ As# Warren County.
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ndIsorial Correspondence.
Our pard has been rather bad since his
run-oE. For three weeks we heard Moth
ing of him, except brief telegraph from
St. Louis, few days after his departure.
It wasn't nice to leave us SO long in doubt
about his marriage, death, burial or other
sccident that might be-fall man, was it Z
The TINES Office held a meeting and direct
ed the surviving partner to blow j. II. A.
up; but fortunately for him, tho following
letter reached US just in time to save the
unpleasant duty. He will be at home in a
few days; whether with band-box in his
hand and q female basket on one arm and
Trxrs sister-in-law on the other we are
not at liberty to state. We can't always
tell. The Office will bet bottle of Kurtz
wine, either way: II.
FoRr Scorr, KANSAS, May 23d, 1868.
DEAR CoL.-Well, here am in "bleed.
ing Kansas" left home on Monday the
18th inst, at 1870 A. NJ, finding an easy
berth on board the Jennie Baldwin, which
reached Dubuque about o'clock. In that
city l met several friends called at the
Herald Office, where Ham & Carver were
up to their eyes in business, and feeling
happy enough; had chat with Col.
Barnes of the Times, who is looking
healthy, though evidently discouraged,
politically; enjoyed a drive over the city
in the afternoon with Carver, and visit
In tho evening with himself and family
transacted some business made headqnar-
tiers at the Julien for the night, and at 6
a. N. of Tuesday took Capt. Holcombe's
floating palace, the steamer Davenport,
for St. Louis. The three days trip, was
one Of the most pleasant within my men,
DRY the Captain and Clerk Owens, having
the facilities and the disposition to make
oil feel at home.
From ST. Louis to Pleasant Hill, point
fifteen miles cast Of Kansas City, on the
Pacific road by rail, and from there, a4lis-
lance of S. miles, by coach, through the
border counties of Missouri, where the
traveller not unirequently may see chin
ney without house near, orchards unpro-
tected by fence, and the country gener
ally turned out to grass, living evidences
of the sufferings these people were made
to feel during the days of border-rufian
misrule few miles in Bourbon county,
Kan, and we are in Fort Scott. This
city, three and half thousander, and
fourth in the State, is located near the
centre, north and south, and within few
miles Of the Missouri line. 1t is certainly
the Chicago of this portion Of the great
Southwest. To it, everything seems to be
directed, from the Missouri River to the
south line Of tho State, a distance of moe
than 200 miles, and from the centre of the
best portion Of her sister State to the verge
Of settlement west. The country about it
is fully az attractive, with every whit as
good soil as can Dc found anywhere pro-
ducing almost without labor, all the fruits,
it has the advantage of delightful climate.
The scarcity of timber, SO often referred to
and so common in the west-portions of
our own State not excluded-is more than
made up by the great abundance of coal,
easily got out, and no where more than a
mile or two away; stone for building
and fencing is also easily procured in
equal quantities, and the certainty and ra-
pidity of the growth Of the hedge gives the
thousands coming into this country rare
facilities for making homes onthese broad,
rich prairies. There are already several
rsilroads we'll on the way, and others ac-
eompanying, having their beginn n at diff.
ferent points on the Pacific, where it
traverses the Missouri River, which, as
their charters direct and capital interests
require, must make this city, and then find
their way to the Gulf. The only differ
enccs visible now, is the decp-banked, ugly
sluggish, inky substitutes for our clear,
beautiful streams of the north, which at
times rise suddenly fifty feet, and at other
times, many of them fail to exist, except in
pools only finding their way from the one
to the other, mole fashion, through the
mud bottoms. A live western town is the
livest thing known, and this is one of them.
Well, architectural brick blocks are being
known in every quarter. Store rooms
which would be credit to larger places.
are seen on every business street, filled
with good class of merchandise. Manu-
factories, including wooden mills and
Touring mills, are said to be successful.
There are two we'll conducted, and appar-
emily well patronized newspapers; tho
Press, is democratic, and engineered by
Haywood Bro g, its owners, who are young
men Of fine attainments and rare social
qualities, is already success, even in rad
ical Kansas, and the Monitor, radical, by
49,, who are evidently worthy of their
party support, is going on swimmingly.
Sharp, active, companionable business
men give to strangers, who till the town
daily on the arrival of the coaches from
every direction, warm, homelike greeting
aud the city is, - you would Of course,
conclude, democratic. A Paris fashion
correspondent says: ut seems to me the
world would lose great deal Of it's attrac-
ton, if there were no pretty women in it."
This point is not in want Of these attrac-