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Show OUR NEBRASKA LETTER. Wyoming Politics Grasshopper 1 Ravages. POLITICS IN JTF-BRASKA AEZ MIXED, I MUDDLED AND HOT. tCorre'i-ocdeace of iba IIeuliO ! CoLfMBCS, Nebraska, Sept. 4, '74. I Leaving Salt Lake City on the morning train of Tuesday last (the 1st inst), I arrived at Ojiden on time, anJ left for the East the samo morning. morn-ing. Oj;den has been improving quite considerably of late, and I be neve that it the people ot that town pursue a liberal and proper policy, in the future it will become quite an important place, its position is such that it can hardly be otherwise. The different settlements on the Weber appear to be prospering, and I should judge are so. At Evanston I noticed many iui-irovements, iui-irovements, and that place also has prosperity m sture for it in the no distant dis-tant future, if well, if the people should prove to be wise and enterprising. enter-prising. Almy I could only see from a distance, but judgo from the vote at th election on Tuesday that politicians poli-ticians in Wyoming have found oul there is such a place. But Hilliard, that coal burning queer shaped kilns, wherein Undo Samuel's wood is metamorphosed into in-to charcoal for smelting purposes, surprised me not a little. Being an old-time Democrat, and always having hav-ing heard our adversary charge us with being par excellence, the champion cham-pion cooHumeraof tangle-leg whiskey, I was satisfied by five minutes inspection inspec-tion of the voting population of that precinct, that certainty when the votes came to be counted, Steele would come out largely ahead. Alas for human calculations in general and Republican theories in particular, I I see from the newspapers that at Hilliard, Carey, the Grant nominee had a majority of sixty-two. This is awful. The consummation of so much bad whisky to result in a majority in favor of a Simon-pure Republican. I give it up, and will never again claim a Democratic majority out of such a crowd as I saw at Hilliard a crowd respectable enough in appearance,' hut having such marked eymptou.is of pure Democracy. Crecn Kiver seems to be growing somewhat, although there would appear ap-pear to the carelfes observer no hope for ita future beyond a mere eating station and the end et a railroad division. I do not hesitate to record my belief that at this point some day will be a manufacturing town of no mean importance, but let that pass. I am no prophet and want no man to invest in corner lots on my judgment; judg-ment; besides the day may be in a remote distance. At Green River our train was delayed several cuura tor aumtr. iu mu, un&nuwn cause. Rain had commenced lo fall and the passengers, having satisfied the inner man and woman at several sev-eral eating (and perchance drinking) houses, returned to their seats and made the ordinary preparations for sleep, expecting soon to be oil, but hour after hour elapsed and no motion of the iron horse; however, towards morning we moved off and had not gone as far as Rock Spring? when many of ua were aroused from slumber by a shock, which alarmed some, but the shock was so slight and we were so soon over the danger that no great excitement succeded. Something Some-thing had yuuc wrong with a bridge over BUier Urcek, put as our train got over safely I am bound to praise that bridge, but hope the company had it repaired before another train came to it. It was said that a hitch occurred between the conductor cn our train and the office Omaha, and I did hear that the former was discharged or superseded. Of course I do not know what order the conductor disobeyed, dis-obeyed, if any, but think if he had any di3c retion he did well not to start out over that particular piece of road in the night with a violent a rainstorm as was theu iu progress. The passengers, passen-gers, so far as I could learn, though surprised and anxious at our delay, certainly, after the narrowness of our escape was ascertained, did not feel disposed to blame the conductor for not starting in the darkness of a moonless night, and I think they unite in desiring that he may be retained re-tained in his position. I regret that I did not learn the name of the conductor, con-ductor, for I think it should be mentioned, men-tioned, as he appeared to be careful, polite and competent. Our delay was enhanced by a disabled dis-abled engine, thus putting us back about twelve hours, and this circumstance circum-stance enabled me to have a daylight vtPW nf lliP pnnnlre n tl,o l.r,D f U. P. R. R. lately ravaged by the grasshoppers. I ascertain, from a view of the country, that the corn crop ia nearly destroyed. Wheat and oafc were secured before the devouring pests arrived. The potato crop was ruined by the bugs before the hoppers hop-pers came. The grass was not injured, in-jured, so far as I can learn, and the farmers aic busy cutting and curing large quantities of it lor hay. On the whole I think the people are not so bad ofl as has been supposed, sup-posed, though there are localities where they have suffered more than on the route of the railroad. A good mauy newly arrived settlers, who had located on homesteads, havo left, some temporarily, and others no doubt, as they suppose, permanently, but I expect hereafter a good many will return to their deserted homes. Many of these homesteads are for sale cheap. I rind that this "brief' line is growing prolix, and must defer some remarks designed on politics for a future letter, merely presuming that things seem to be mighty hot and badly mixed. I expect to go to Lincoln Lin-coln next week to look upon the troubled political pool (Independent confab the Sth Democratic ditto the 10th), and will probably write from there. You have ot coiuse the results re-sults of the Republican convention of the 2d. Conjecture as to the result is useless, though as Nebraska has been Republican alwiiysas a Suite, il might reasonably be supposed that she would so continue; but that depends. 11. D. J. ! |