Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-08-05
OF the West,


KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 81, 1872.
Editor Star: have made this city since 7:45 p.
II. OF the 18th, by the most direct route, arriving
here at 1890 p. m. OF the 20th. The running
time, however, is under IS hours. and the dis
lance Is about 800 miles. -Four lines of rail-
roads intervene between this place and Wash
iDgton, the Baltimore and Ohio, the Marietta
and Cincinnati, the Ohio and Mississippi east of
ST. Louis. and the Missouri Pacific west of St.
Louis and extending beyond here, to Lawrence
Kansas. You may say that the time aud distance
here referred 10 is nothing remarkable, because
IL Is an ordinary occurrence. il is an accom-
plished fact just as often the time rolls round
II IL wonderful, nevertheless. The telegraph is
as much marvel to- day as II was the day when
1t hrst became a reality. II We stop TO think
wonder increases. We don't think though,
about it But more than this am INDUCING in
comparison. | so back thoughtfully to the old
stage time, when its jolly, crowded quota of
humanity, as often as it became weary with the
too machines OF one position, settled the ideDtits
q legs aud then moved, II moving were posi-
BILE. This was before tie railroad. i'm the great
west | 90 back, too, to 1886 and 1887 TO view
over what my eyes saw then, and see again
through ms memory, that almost continuous
stream OF covered wagons, following in the dim
trail Of the Star of Empire. The wagon Master
pursued ii weary weeEs and months without
taitering once; bnt he found the star where it
came 10 stand, and uulOaded the wagon and
reared a rude habitation for man. But after
wards, in many cases, the same wagon master
reloaded the wagon To continue the same toll
ing, tedious journey 10 rear the habitatrou on
the gtteTIng sands of California. Do vOu won
der that wonder at my ride on the ralo How
could we ever have settled this great country OF
ours, with its teeming millions, and deveIopad
it, without the railroad?
Bat think OF THE STARS iron haistead
thai e.iects Eot the hlinuteress hut the much
ness of 2 thing. and inexOrablv and from rP,as-
slty brings il down 10 tie nutshell, that il NAV
find place among the multitude of things IN its
crowded columns. stop at once this theme.
trusting taat that bedstead Will not give nv
philosophical CaIicatUrc squeeze.
How hot and dry and relaxing was the Wash
ingtOn air the evening left. How, pure, slim
uiating and refreshing was the air the next
morning when we were half mile above the
sounding sea, among the Alleghanies. 1 Won
deT Often Why Washington does not utilize the
many beautiful, but SO far practical benefits
are concerned, waste places in those mountains
by rearing little haIalets there tn at the fam
llieso its citizens may spend the summer health
July ana happily. am told that gentlemen in
various parts OF the state of Ohio OWNS small
house or cottages on the Little mountain in the
northern part OF the state, and their families
spend their summer i'll them.
From the Alleghanies TO this city, / know.
good deal OF rain has fallen since Saturday
week.
Wheat through southern Ohio, Indiana. and
Illinois, IS excellent. In northern Illinois, in
Iowa, and in this state il is failure, under
stand. The winter killed it. Hay and oats are
everywhere abundant, and this makes me feel
the more keenly, the fact flor misery likes COM
fort, you know that Washington, with the
shortness of the hay crop Whereabouts, must
make Tor the year to come valuable at least
su1nptuous, equine muscle. Corn all over the
west promises to be abundant.
ThIty-three years the Ist OF July was in
TIE CITY OF ST. LOUIS.
The scene that the levee presented as the
steamer lay at its mornings there was so i'm
pressed on my memory that it is still there dis
tinCt in its every outline and internal aspects
how crowded with dFays that their limited river
front was, where the steamers came to land,
and what constant swearing and whipping there
was as the drays locked wheels. 1t was all busi-
hess When was there the other day | could
see nothing recognizable. There Ole not seem
70 be more than mere fraction or the steamers
that were there in 1899: The railroads are
things continually.
have heard much of
as I have travelled on. The caldron begins TO
bubble, bubble. The men OF principle among
the democrats do not fall into line. Those who
are regardless Of the danger of making the
elective franchise mere means of office getting
and OF obtaining spoIs, are Justify Outspoken
for Greeley. There were discussions going on
at several places as came along. What an i'm
mense amount of lying there is being done. II |
the half that Trumbull and others say about the |
administration is true we have the most internal
government on the globe: The Austrian is
picate Of Dyonissius, the tyrant of Sicily, en- |
larged and perfected. But ignorance has been |
bliss to US, If they tell the truth. We have not |
dreamed OF orr oppression, We have come to |
think OF 1t since these office seekers have began
to try to lie themselves into power. MAY the |
way OF the transgressOrs be hard now, as in the |
olden time.
What country this is on
THE ROTTOMS OF THE MISSOURI
For more than two hundred miles from st. |
Louis the corn is all tasseed and ii is so large |
that It looks like young forest, and land in |
these bottoms is held at from S75 to Sl2j per |
acre. And the river! What a foul stream it is |
huid mud Whatever lives in il must have a |
mud respirometer. Its volume of water is grad |!
uaily growing less from the increased evapora- |
uon OF the supplies over the country. The |
largest class OF boats now no more attempts its |
IA Vi CATION.
l have seen some fine towns in this state. Sc |
dalia IS one. This kansas city, also. More /
about it another day. NIX.
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