The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-08-27

| babe each other goodby in New York twelve hours
and Michigan Southern roads through the slaughter
house and bone boiling adacences OF the great city
the Northwest to their nsignborng station houses
Governor Bross, FOR the proposed ride over the
Pacific Railway and vacation visit to the Rocky
suggestion from the Speakers famous "across
the continent trip OF three years ago. Mr..
klchardson OF the original a1,a foar' was iamentably
ised snoothness OF the path added ladies to the CON-
pany. So we numbered ten, divided as Noah did his
| chosen companions on the ark, as In q luxurious
pullman palace car" we this day week swept out
| across Northern Illinois and Central Iowa over the
Mississippi river and to the Missouri by the great
cars by the way reach degree Of comfort and lux
ury that nothing in the form OF sleeping cars or
| compartment cars on the Eastern roads yet ap-
proaches They are built ana owned by Company
ut the head OF which are two brothers named Pull
man, an0 form part of all the through trains on
nearly all the long lines OF railway in the West The
roads Keep the cars In repair and then and the
Pullman company get their pay and generous
piont from the extra charges for their occupancy.
THESE charges vary win the amount of room q
passenger chooses to take ana the length of the
Journey run with them, from 81 so for a single
berth ana seat single night up to $40 for double
or quadrup.e seats and beJs and two days ride.
For dozen persons one OF these cars ls the very
acme OF comfort IN railway travel BY day It is Ike
parlor with sofas and easy chairs, by night cur
tained bed for eacn, nearly comnodios and quite
as easy as home can furnish. The ventilation Is as
Tree as you choose TO have It, but the cinders and
dust cannot be Wholly kept out and yet no shower
or plunge baths are provided. The accommodations
extend up to tnrtyslx forty persons for each
car, but with these larger numbers each passenger
has but single seat and narrow berth. Ours was
special anu new car. with little organ built no
its side to pitch Governor Bross' songs by for we
kept Line 10 the music OF nature with the music OF
art as we rolled along IN 1t day and night over prai-
RE and hil up to the very crest OF the continental
mountains. The party was OF Just convenient sizs
for lis accommodations, ana four days and nights
OF life on the rail IN it, with the vast en ment OF lie
ana nature that they afford u.s. and the varied pas
times they embraced, will associate the name OF Pull
man with blessed memories forever.
The first tWenty-lour hours carried five hundred
mies-to the Missouri river at Council Buns ana
Omaha. Though but a new country most OF The way
we were rarely out OF sight Of the golden subble OF
wheat or the rich green OF waving corn1elds. The
wonder IS constant alike at the richness OF the SOIL
the beauty OF the rolling praric the abundance OF
the harvests, the rapid settlement and cultivation OF
the country, where all the people come FROM and
where all the grain and hay they grow go to. At
the larger villages crowds gathered to see and well
come the next Vice President the everywhere pOpu-
lar ColfaX. Forbidden by his sense OF proprety aud
duty nom partisan speech, he responds TO such calls
with but general illusions TO political questions,
changing congratulations with his friends at what
the republican party has donc-1or the country, and
at the promise OF It's continued power and useful
ness in the future Governor Br0ss feels freer In his
tongue, and goes In with practical pertinency to
the personal aud political issues OF the year that Is
always agreeable to the earneStfeeing and vigorous
acting people OF the West.
Council Bluns on the Iowa side and Omaha on the
Nebraska side of the Missouri have grown rapidly in
two years. and are desLned TO be large towns as an
Important railroad centre. bridge will soon con-
meet them and carry cars back and forth between
the roads OF the East ccntring at Council Bluffs aud
the great continental road That begins at Omaha.
The Northwestern road Is now the only one that
comes in direct from the east; but next year TWO
more the Rock Island and Burlington. crossing Iowa
lower down, VIII he finished, ana make three direct
lines from Chicago to the Pacific road this point.
is just finished by Mr. Willis Phelps, OF Springfield
making a continuous line up the river from Kansas
the Hannibal and st. Joseph road as well as or the
Pacific Railroad OF Missouri with the Union Pacific.
indeed ST. Louis IL thus placed l25 miles nearer to
Council Bluls and Omaha by railroad than |
Chicago now IL. Another road IL already open |
north from Council Bluffs to Sioux City on the |
Bluirs is 5000: nearly iSoo new buildings were
erected in 1t last year, the older and better parts OF
the town lie back from The river the bluls, and in
beautiful ana wooded ravlnes among them, but the
newer and business portions come down into the
bottom lands by the river ana where the railway
netrcaliy from the opposite bank; you see us ma
Jesty of location ana It's wide spreading improve
have given 1t almost feverish development and 1t al
ready holds u population OF fifteen to seventeen
thousand. Its future growth can hardly be rapid,
but both 1t and its opposite neighbOr are OF
holding u large ana steadily increasing popua-
ton.
Nebraska, for the frs, one hundred or two nun
country as any in the West--abundantly watered,
fertile TO The highest degree especially lacking
ny on pe ann e r as Te y @ as
the cars AZ three years ago In the stage Is stirring
TO enthusiasm, while the extent Of It's settlement
and improvement since the former visit is as
prisng as any discovery OF this journey. Be-
yond, water and timber are scanter the roll OF
begin but now gives rive thcse the old o
the desert. AT the least they are fine pasture lands
and will support docks by tue thousands and hun
dreds OF thousands while see no good reason why
wheat may not be grown upon them, without artid-
cill irrigation, well or nearly well as in Cali
them to the Indian and the Won ana buffalo. The
ranches which the stage line and the trains OF freight
and cmigrants supported all along through them are
now deserted. The cars take travellers and freight
the Old roads are substantially abandoned, and tue
settlers, finding tneir occupation and protection
gone, desert their Old homes and gather in ut the
railway stations or move to the greater local de-
ve!opments beyond The losses OF these settlers
well as OF the stage line, by ttis revolution In the
means OF communication have been very great.
rhey arc the victims Of higher civilization. The
Indian and the buffalo gave way to then--they yield
T. the locomotive In turn The railroad has petty
stations with urnous ior every ten or fifteen miles,
ana more considerable depots, with ENGINE houses
ana shops about once In hundred miles. The
latter from Omaha out are urand island Q55
niles, North Platte t29l Sidney llG, Cbey-
enne t5l6l and Laramie ORR. Juesburg, last
year so lively place. now absolutely nothing and
Cheyenne the more considerable OF the division sta
tons, anu the present point OF departure for Colo
RADIO shows signs OF oyergrowth TAere ia a ponu.
lation, however, OF several thousand; three dai,y
papers are printed and the era OF tents has given
way 70 That oi boards, and though George Frances
Trans grand hOte ~ IN the so tn Qo-ness of Brig.
ham Nouna's big temple at salt IaAe CITY the rail-
ROAD ls apparently seriously at WORK with large
iiillt nus uctn II controversy
rhToai people themselves az 10 whe her Cheyenne
should DC town or not IL Is not perhaps fully set
tied yet nor Is 1t determined that lie branch road 10
Denver shall connect mere, 10 that there is visible
tenderness IN the real estate market and an IL i'm tne
speech OF It's people concerning the future The sec
ond twentyfour hours ride brought us to this pont
aud here the plains proper enl aad the moautain
region begins. but the traveller almost ueeIs 10 he
told OF TINS, gradual Is the ascent so conpletcly
is the track OF the road up wide valleys or plains TO
the very top OF the hills.
But no sympathetic eyes require TO be told that we
are now entering upon new order OF scenery. Tho
outlook Is succession OF novel beauties for he ono
hundred ana nity miles west from Cheyenne; anl
fortunate those who ride throughit upon ne
engine the top OF the cars at least The plat form
OF the In this distance the road passes IN
the Black hills the first range OF the Rocky noun.
tains, reaching at Sherman jis miles, their highest
point-and the highest point that the entire road has
TO mount In all its passage rOm the Missouri river 10
| the Pacific Ocean--and then runs on through the
famous Laramie plains. IL ~ altogether the most
| tprpstinu norton of so far