The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-23
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE
TOPEKA, Aug. 13, 1877

TOPEKA, Aug. 13, 1877.
Ever since the day that the Ia
mented Horace Greeley uttered the
sentence, $50 west, young man." ]
have had a burning desire to accept
his injunction and explore the fields
that were to afford TO every Young
man that would seek them, happi-
ness and wealth untold. So, on the
evening of the Sth inst, with car
pet bag" in hand, 1 struck westward
from Eaton on the G. H. & D. R. R.,
and was landed in the city Of Indi-
annapolis about 1900 NJ. of same eve
ming, and put up at the "OccIDENT-
AL" where l found my old friend
Judge SWEENEY, whose fame as a no.
tel prince is known far and wide. The
Judge looks hale and hearty and ap-
parently no older than twenty years
ago when running the Walnut Street
House in the city of Cincinnati. He
is a trump in the business, and all
who. visit that city should stop with
him at the Occidental" as it is a
No. 1 house. At $50 next morning
1 boarded the L. B. & W. R. R. for
Peoria, where 1 arrived at $3.50 p. m.
This is a splendid road-the accom-
modations irst-class,-the Conduc-
tor a pleasant and agreeable gentle
man, and it runs through as fine a
country as 1 ever seen, ever which is
dotted many beautiful and flourish
ing towns and cities. AT Peoria 1
changed cars for Galesburg and
Quincy, ILL.,, arriving at Quincy about
$50 a. m. The country from Peoria
to Quincy is very fine and the farms
look healthy and fourishing, and
have yielded abundant crops of
wheat, oats, barley and rye. The
corn, as a general thing, looks very
we'll and will be an average crop. At
Quincy I was transferred to the Han
nibal and St. 10. R. R. for the city
of Kansas, where I arrived the next
morning at 11:45 a. m. The H. and
ST. 10. is not surpassed by any 9th
or road in the west, as the travel on
the trains certainly prove. The porr
ton of Missouri it passes through
would not impress your mind very
f~avorably with the State, as it is rug
ged, broken and wild and but little
cultivated, but in a few years all this
vast tract of barren land will give
way to the arts of cultivation and
blossom and bloom with acres of
wheat, corn, and other farm produc-
tions. Iremained in the city Of Kan
sas until the next day and 'took in"
its dimensions. 1t is the eastern
terminus of and starting point of the
great Kansas Pacific Railway, now
one of the most famous and probably
one of the best roads in the country.
This city is mainly situated in Mis-
souri,, although a portion of it is To-
Gated across the line of Kansas, and.
in a commercial point of view, is
largely a Kansas town, as it is the
market for Kansas products, and its
principal supply point. The trains
of nine railroads run into the Union
Depot, which, with its river nayiga'
ton, gives the place high commercial.
Importance. The city is built on {
high elevation, with deep cuts all a
round it. It's streets are narrow
which casts a dark and dingy appear
ance over it. 1t has a population O
about 10000 and has an immense
business air about it, but l would
mot like it as a. place of permanent
residence.
Here 1 called on D. E. CORNELL
Esq, the pleasant and affable Gen
Ticket Agent of the K. P. R. r., AM
found him all my imagination of
gentleman had pictured. On Satur
day morning at 11:45 the train iron
st. Louis arrived and 1 was joine'
by my friend VIM. Campbell, VIII
had preceded me a day or two for
visit to Terre Haute, Ind. In a fe'
minutes we took the Kansas Pacifi
for Topeka, &c miles from the cit
of Kansas, and arrived in the city a
3 2:25, and put up at the popular an
, cheap Hotel De AUTER, where all Es
ton tourists find a most hearty we
come and s%umptuous fare. Our oil
, friend SOLOMON BANTA, Esq, Is a Sc
e iourner here with his son-in-laV
. looking well and apparently as cor
tented and happy as a big sun fowe
e in full bloom. Topeka is a pleasar
: city of about 5000 Inhabitants
beautifully located on an eminene
in magnificent agricultural sectio
of country. 1t is the capital of I'll
r State, and beside the handson
d State-house building, built of fiji
white stone from all along the lii
n of the Kansas Pacific Railway
> Junction City, it has other fine bull
y ings. The beauty of the city is IL
great width and regularity of i
e streets and boulevards, making Il