Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-05-13

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the steam escape and feels the vessel CULVER
like person with ague fit. 1t makes one
feel little nervous, but soon the ieeHhS
wears away as he becomes accustomed 10 Inc
noise and hustle. The departure OF fessei
or steamboat to sea is something when gives
a peculiar feeling TO every person, ana has
done so in all ages, for we read OF II, hot
only in profane but also sacred writ, where
it speaks of the great ships that go down into
the sea: there is something grand and ma
jestic about the ship as it floats out into the
open sea and leaves the shore far behind.
After we had gotten well under way,
curiosity TO see who our companions were
! took possession of us. We wanted to know
who our associates were TO be, for 1t Is not
/ easy to be exclusive on i boat. Among the
/ company we found two L. ). army officers
and their wives going out to one of the forts
| on the frontier, and quite number OF New
/ England families going, like ourselves, to
different parts of the far arest. In the ladies'
cabin we found parents and children, bows
and girls, of the better class. They looked
more like party in parlor than travellers,
/ but in large crowd sou will always find
/ some one tIIt itsl-SoHIt Va
| the dissatisfied kind.
We had not gone very far before an En-
| giish lord-so he styled himself-came out
| of the ladies' cabin denouneing the company
/ rs ignorant heather, not fit for the like of
himself to associate with. 1t soon reached
the captains ear: he told him he would
allow no such language on his boat, ana II
| he did not stop it he would set him ashore.
| This made his lordship very angry and be
dared the captain to do it: no sooner said
/ than the captain ordered the boat TO shore.
! 1t was about shutdown, and five or six miles
| from any house: there they dumped him
and his luggage: there We left hlm-monareh
! of all he surveyed He evidently did not
enjoy his possessions, as his language bent
| ted a devil rather than a lord. Soon we
were on our way peacefully and quietly, and
! shortly after came the evening meal-and
such splendid tables they did set IN those
| DAYS of steam travelling! All the good things
"A perfect feast. What delightful times we
/ had ut the tables-a feast of reason and flow
| of SOUL as we'll As Il feast of fat things. We
/ often fingered at the table to hear some rich
| story told by a more experienced traveller.
| How full OF enjoyment were the days and
hours, filled with games, music, and watch
ing the ever changing scenery and the boats
we met or passed. There were long stretches
! of country with no settlements, only LOW
and then a cabin by the river bank, where
some settler had built his cabin TO make Il
home for himself and family; no neighbors
/ for miles Here he would cut the wood into
| cord-wood, rs be cleared his land, and sell
! it to the steamboats,.
| Some of these early pioneers made great
! deal of money from the wood, and cleared
up the farms at the same time.
| After leaving Pittsburgh, we passed but
very few towns; Wheeling, Cincinnati, and
Louisville were the principal. Cairo was
not at that time. At Cincinnati, the only
thing o. great interest was the wreck of the
| steamer Moselle, which blew up before the
! town while racing with the boat we were on,
on the last trip before this. The boat blew
all to pieces, and great many persons We're
killed. The boiler landed in the middle Of
the town. ] was not very fayorabiy i'm
pressed with Cincinnati.
Sunday morning we reached Louisville,
/ just at daylight: there we remained till
Monday afternoon. After breakfast we
strolled about the city, which, to my eye.
was the neatest and cieanest city we had
seen this side of the mountains. 1t had the
widest streets, handsomest houses, prettiest
van d., most beautiful flowers, and prettiest
/ girls-ah, Mr.. Editor, what would town be
without the dear creatures. As usual, most
of the family attended church, which we
found always open to strangers, There we
always have IA home feeling; there, although
strangers, vet brothers and sisters, where all
are of one great family.
Monday, AT P. NJ, our boat once more
hauled In her planks and headed down
stream. Nothing of interest occurred unit
she turned her head up the muddy water:
of the Mississippi AS she struck the cur.
rent of the river she quivered As if in {
spasm. The river was very high and tbt
current very stong. At first it seemed as il
she could nat make Roadway against The
stream, but soon we saw that we were slow
, " gaining How different when gliding
. down stream: how easy, how careless: but
, turning up stream, how hard TO pull agains
mighty current, So In life we drift Will
the tide, caring for nothing but to have ;
good time: but when we awake to our sltua
. ton, what a struggle we have to make to re
, | gain our foothold and recover lost ground.
As we assembled the Mississippi we saw
little else but the wooded banks, with an oc
casional woodward, until we reached Capi
. Girardeau: and as we did not stop We eoult
: get but FAINT idea OF the town. There wa
? one thing that attracted my attention yer,
much, the saw and grist mill on the bank o
the river, with great long log with Il spira
running the whole length and joined to The
. crank of the mill. Out in the current thu
force of the water caused it TO reyo.ve ant
that made the machinery at the mill IeVGite
. lust rs the screw ships are DEaeaiieti at thi
day. As we passed tsrand flower the air ant
the d.an of our boat was alive with honey
, bees. The captain said there was place il
, the bluff. which was very high and perpen
dicnlar. where the bees had had a home TO
> wears, and it was supposed was filled witt
, honey, but no one as yet had found d way Il
get to it.
: Wednesday evening our boat landed Il
q safe and sound on Missouri soil at Ste. Ma
r rvs, where we stayed till early next morn
: ing; then we hitched up our teams, loaae,
? in our trunks and passengers. ana siarte
Y for our future home. Ana what a change
: How slow aud how rough the road. Scarce
r " a track to guide us on our way, and tn
:. houses so far apart il seemed as though W
i were shut In from all the outside world. i
fairly gave one a feeling Of suffocaf1on.
close the woods: woods, woods everywhere