Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-07-28

adieu to family and friends and left for
California on train of Rutland and Wash.
ington Railroad, via Troy, N. Y; and
. soon find myself in company with r. s
Peabody and lady, on their way from
Rutland to GAINESVILLE, O., the place Of
their residence, and whose agreeable com.
, pany we enjoyed as far as Cleveland
!. where they changed to southern train.
AT Schenectady, we took the Albany
train, and passing along the beautiful val
ley of the Mohawk, we see the farmers
busily engaged in the preparation of theil
grounds for the various crops, and not
among the least of which is broom corn,-
a crop that is here extensively cultivated
The dark curtains of night soon close
around us, and we compose ourselves te
rest.
MAY y, morn.-At Buffalo; stop thir.
ty minutes and move on, passing Dun.
kirk, N. Y, Girard and Erie, Pa, and
Cleveland and Toledo. Ohio. Fine fields
of wheat, corn and clover are visible along
here for two hundred miles, indicating q
richssoil under an improved and we'll di-
rected husbandry. Night again closes in,
and we consign ourselves to the arms of
Morpheus.
MAY 28.-At Chicago; a stop of three
hours enables the traveller to form limit
ed estimate of the business capabilities OF
This rapidly growing city.
At 10 a. m, leave Chicago by Rock
Island train and soon strike the Illinois
river, pass Joliet. Ottawa, and other
thriving towns on the route. On the left
bank of this stream, we observe ridge OF
hills rising two or three hundred feet
from the valley. covered with a light
growth of timber and extending along for
many miles. In the afternoon, we leave
| the river to the left and pass over Il broad
stretch of prairie country, from its APP
pearance not remarkable for its product
lveness; and as the sun was about to sink
behind the undulating prairies of Iowa,
the glimmer of the great Father of Waters
met our vision through intervening trees,
as we approached its eastern bank The
Mississippi at this point Rock Tslapdl is
half a mile wide, though its general width
in this vicinity is said to he ohopt q mile
more or less.
Crossipy over pa rs.s +hr,nrh .ho
pleasant city of Davenport, Iowa, and are
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vorablo location as businos. oer+or i 70
undoubtedly destined to a rapid growth.
The Indian Chiefs Red CIoud and Snot-
ted Tail were here last night IN their wav
to WASHINGTON. nnhlic naat;no was
ca1,ad n,op +bo oooas;on na 'I,5o
stood that tho revo1o+iona &c .ho;u ;.4o
nrs+er r,ora not o1+o,.o,hou ao4iat,o.o.,-
oil rroser+
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road and movino ont rnon +ho r1o;ns -
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