Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-01-02
Missouri Correspondence.
ST. LOUIS. Dec. Is. 1897

Editors RutldRd Herald, II is hard 10
say which we most admire in the Western
character, It's eheerfulness, or its far reach.
ing enterprise, A genuine Western man
has one or both Of the qualities remarka'
bly, well developed, After disastrous
season, in pork or -four, or whatever he
may chance TO "tie 10" you will find him
Just as happy, precisely ~ hopeful, as il
he hadn'dpost $4,000 or 100000 rs the
case may be-,
Money i. tight, and McCullock. policy
Of making il tighter finds little favor in
the West.
II You will notice how ,omr at our Re-
publican paper, are growliug On thu sub
iec, Of taxation, aud finances, and gold
locked up, You will prccciye, that there
is no necessity ior mcuag,lic Of wild
beasts To h. on exhibition in thc~o part,
Yet We have q grizzly hyor and huh FIGHT
occasionally
EMERSON 4 wEsroN,
htth nave ifEhl'h ~ lAANAN N'Ntt'N'NN
with their presence, one j. the tallc,r
talker, the other i, the ttllest walker cN-
tsnt. But tongue aud head beat toc- and
heels entirely ont of sight. Brain con-
gucrcd Drawn. Ralph Waldo Emerson
won the heart, OF a large aud very apprc-
ciative audience,
! was proud of New England "A, heard
my old friend command the attention ut
the people here by no trick If oratory and
by no resort to rhetoric; but by hi, pure
ery,,al thought and wonderful power NJ
suggestion. Seeing through his eyes, the
people pehcld things that they never -aw
before
Wcston's lecture utterly failrd OF in
tsrest, The American people rather like
10 be amused for the moment with u gen
uine humhug But its gland common
sense, at length, puts oycN man ou his
own level
MISSOURI ADVANCING
There is hardly county "r town in
the State that has not largely increased in
wealth and population within the last
twelve months. st. Louis, under all the
depressions If business goes straight along,
building immensely Here, the eight
eenth Of December, cellars are being eNca-
waited, and houses built. aud plastering is
done, which shows how different the cli-
mate is from New England. | suppose
that ST. Louis increases in population,
from ten to twenty thousand annually
and numbers now 100000 people.
! Emigrants was never more resolutely
sat towards Missouri than il has been this
year,
There has been a gread deal of church
and public building, and immense guam
titles of unimproved land have been Pur
chased of non-residents, and the railroad
companies, and many thousand acres haV,
been put under cultivation. Had il moi
,,,-vn 10. uIc arvutll, our rrups woulo nave
been very abundant As it is We have al
average of agricultural productions. Or
our smooth prairies great deal is don'
with agricultural machinery, and larg'
farms are carried on at comparatively
much less cost than in Eastern States
where the land is moro broken
I 1 have recently been through Sortl
Missouri, and the contrast between the
thrift enterprise and Improvement every
where exhibited. and the condition o
things three or four years ago, is at one
gratifying, and promises great things 70
the future
New England ideas, New Bingham,
: churches, schools, and men ara beinl
l planted all along through North Missouri
especially on the line of the II. and 81
10, from st Joseph on the Missouri river
to Hannibal on the Mississippi.
= The H. and st. J. Co. have sold grea
: deal Of land the last twelve months
amounting, understand, to from $4,000
, 10 800 900 a month, TO real settlers VII,
= come here to make their homes.
t Geo. :. Harris Of Hannibal, No, one .
your Boston men, has put new life int
= the movement to Missouri. He has rharg
4 IF the sale of Railroad lands, on the lin
: Of the H. Il st. 10. r. r., which stretch
es across the entire State, from Quincy
and Hannibal on the Mississippi, to It
:, Joseph on the Missouri, and to Lcaycn
| worth, Kansas heard Worcester MAJ
when | was there last summer lecturin.
=. on the West. say that he had been al
4 through the United States and there wa
0 not a finer section of country than this
: with its rich uplanls, selling prairies, an,
wild climate
As a Yankee born and bred, vet citi
zen IF Missouri, wishing well for all he
: interests, long to have New Englan,
, men come and purchase here in NortI
/ Missouri.
KANSAS AND MISSOURI.
Having gone over Kansas and Nebrask.
and all parts of Missouri, let me assure
, the people of New England, that Their
= are special reasons why Missouri is to b
{ preferred as home 1t is near the grca
!, centres of bushes and production 1t
seldom afflicted with drouths, which troubl
. all that region which lies nearer the sane
plains, and is west of the Missouri River
Missouri is directly ON the line through
which the Grand Trunk Railroad line
| from the Atlantic to the Pacific coas
must run. From North Missouri, Chicag
and st. Louis, the great markets, ar,
r easily reached in few hours. can, reacl
I Chicago from North Missouri, in fifteel
: hours.