Year: 1878

Correspondence of the CInzEN.1


ST. LOUIS, Oct. 10.


Yesterday the writer saw a piece
of this "Star of Empire" trundling
down 3rd street on its way out to
twinkle and blaze over the forests
and prairies of the far west Stand
ing on the Post Office steps he saw
grand procession of twenty or
thirty canvass back wagons faring
slowly down the street from the
great bridge on their way out OF
the city to the roads leading to-
wards sundown. The sight was
not peculiar, because it happens
every day, and sometimes twenty
times a day, but it was suggestive
and significant. The wagons We're
each drawn by pair of horses
that could not have been close kin
TO Rarus and Hopeful those flyers
of 2:13, for they had a modest, So
ber gait of three miles to the hour,
and their spare ribs had not been
covered by the poor forage on the
way. and their unkempt names and
tails gave positive evidence of bad
hosiery. The wagons themselves
were loaded with whole families of
Buckeyes, Hoosiers and Suckers,
and all their household goods and
gods; on their way from the west
to the far west. Each vehicle
seemed to have it's poter and mater
Td1aiiias. with the big brother, big
., fasv III Of 4 rir-la
with one little fellow getting
his breakfast at the maternal fount,
and the inevitable yaller dog under
the wagon. They naturally remind
ed one of the kits, cats, sacks and
wives that were not going To ''St.
Ives"


The last wagon in the train had
some special interest. The good
mother with the baby in front
would have been better looking il
her morning toilet had been made
in the region OF combs and brushes
instead OF camp-fires, but there was
an effort at tidiness, and the young
sters all looked bright eyed, hope
full and happy. A little four-year
old tow-head made picture of his
face in the loop-hole of the canvass
at the rear 81 tne wagon, and took
in the city as he was wheeled
through it. Little note he took of
the crowded street, but excelsior
like, his eyes gazed intently at
the architectural wonders that
rose above him. The facade of the
Custom House, the grand and lofty
front of the Chamber of Commerce,
and the high towers of the Republi
can office seemed to satisfy his
longing gaze, and no doubt the pic
ture will remain with him through
life. This same little tow head, on
his way to the wilderness, may re-
turn a generation hence as a Chief
Justice, a conscript father, a mill
tia General, a drum Major or an
M. c. at the very least. Long live
the Republicl


YOUNG MAN, GO WEST.


This was what one of the city
gamins derisively shouted to the
youngster looking out from the
rear of the emigrant wagon, and
this wise injunction of the Tribune
philosopher is not only full oi good
sense, but it is being obeyed by a
multitude of people at this time.
The States have taught macy
thousands TO look to the fruitful
soil and rich mines of the far west
as a radical remedy. And so they
come by tens, hundreds and thous
ands; most of them by the railroad
as the quickest, cheapest and most
convenient mode of transit; while
other, but smaller multitudes, adopt
the more primitive methods OF IA
former generation, and slowly wend
their way, over plain and mountains,
To ind new homes in the far west
homes that will yield present food
and raiment with the promise Of
futare wealth and competence.


RAILROAD IMMIGRATION.


Most OF this comes through st.
Louis at present and thence divides
off into different directions TO reach |
a handred or thousand different To-
calities. The tide to Texas by the |
Iron Mountain. the ST. Louis and |
San Francisco and the Missouri, |
Kansas and Texas roads is tempo
rarily checked by the fever plague |
IN the south, and the strict quaran-
tine imposed by the towns of the
Iona STAR State but this viii soon