Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-09-01

productive and prosperous of the three dozen
States that go to make up our glorious Union.
Nightfall Of the 18th found us but few miles
from Council Bluff, separated from her young ana
thrifty sister TOWN. and riyal-Omaha,py the
Missouri's muddy current. We were mere M.
surprise that we must debark from the cars n
order to be ferried, In steamer, across TINS
dirty, ugly river We had been led to beneve
that the long-talked Of magnificent raiiIoaa
bridge at this point was finished and IN use iohs
since. Next morning disclosed to our VISION the
fact that only two Of the piers Of this bridge
were yet completed, and that II will, probably,
not be finished and the cars making trips over IL
for two years to come. more turpd- tortuous,
shrinking stream of water, dignihed by the name
than the Missouri. Filled with shifting sand
bars and mud banks, snags and shoals. It is Dun,
cult work even for experienced pilots, nv az
times. TO be able, with certainty to distinguish
and follow the channel. On this account us
navigation, especially when the water ~ iow-as
now~is attended with considerable danger;
Indeed, it is an unsettled problem in my mint
whether All eel could follow the course oil inc
Missouri, any distance, without getting stranded
Having been thrown behind time, by the acc a,
dent on the Erie line, we 81 missed connecuon
at Omaha, and were obliged to wait till next day
to start Westward Hunting up an old friend
and resident of Omaha, the time sped pieashhtis
| away. Under his guidance we were shown pretty
much all the prominent places about the town.
During the present summertime Government in-
tends erecting here, at a cost Of half q million
Of dollars, spacious post oihce; inc grouh9
whereon II is to be erected having been donated
for the purpose, by several enterpnsing, wealthy
Omahans. Bayard Taylor, In one OF his recent
letters to the New York Tribune, speaks OF the
cosmopolitan character of the people Of Omaha
| Well done Bayard? But we differ. Inc people
| of Omaha are about as much cosmopolitan as the
people of Wilmington, Delaware, are, II ! am
| any judge of such matters. Inc hour OF our
| departure having come We babe adieu TO our
hospitable friend, and were soon winding along a
rayine among the bluffs and finally out INTO INC
broad expanse of lovely Platte Valley OF Nebraska
| Gazing out upon tho verdant, graceful landscape
gorgeous with the many bright hued lower,
Indigenous to this region, skirted on either nana II,
| by the gently receding and softened outlines OF
the distant hills the railroad following the course
OF the river Platte, whose waters glitter IN the
rays of the setting sun, made mo feel like eN-
claiming with the poet
| "1'ransported with the view, lin lost,
| In wonder love aud praise
Scattered along the road, Mt intervals, hall
hidden by the rich yerdure, were the skeleton
remains of T. Vulnerable cattle and buifalo
| slaughtered, formerly, for food by both emil
grants and Indians. Much of the land has never
been disturbed by the settlers pillow, for miles o.
a stretch along this magnificent valley lhousi
suspect great deal OF it has been bought NJ
BY capitalists and ia held for speculation Towar'
night the character of the scenery somewha
changed, the country, as we assembled towaru'
the mountains becoming gradually more ant
more sterile.
Next morning all was changed the air SCENE!
thin and chill the landscape had lost its loveii
ness and was harsh and arid in appearance. AM
soon we had evidence of our entry into the nos
tile Indian country in the shape OF soldiers
cavalry stationed at all the railroad sstoppiiIn
places Snow fences soon began to line tn
road and just before reaching Cheyenne we raj
through the first and, perhaps the only snow
troublesome structures to maintain, was abou
the conclusion | came to after seeing them
Tired, sleepy, dusty and hungry, we were Sc
down at Cheyenne about one o'clock, L. NJ, 7
await the Denver train the next afternoon, 10
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