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Show LETTER FROM INDIANA. TriIo Ksstrnce of CuHcduc uitl ilau's other liiciny. o lcul Ileatl lu Hi ii g for Itailumt or IIhnIi JIoiic". TIi "OKI Oiikeii Itu.kil." t.Srm-Ul (-urrcstiODdoDCO oi tho lltrnld. BliOOK V IM,K, J N HI AN A , February '2d, 1874. 1 forget Lhr date of the last letter which i wrote, but think it was written at Council Ilhills, Iowa. 1 do not take my pencil in hand tonight to-night to write you because I have anything special to write but rather because- I gave you an assurance that you should hear from me at intervals. Leaving Council Bluffs on Sunday the "2nd on a train eastward bound, 1 had rather a pleasant trip barring a delay which was so great as to cause a failure to connect at a certain point in Illinois, thus compelling me to lie over ten hours in a cold and dreary place with but few comforts. At tiny point 1 again came in contact with the everlasting pipe, cigars and checker players, a crop of triple "eussedness" so prolific at the present time. Entering a common sitting room in the American Hotel I was ho struck with these creature comforts that I continently bolted into the parlor nolens voUn where I encountered encoun-tered another enemy to man in petticoats being in such a dilemma chose between the evils and Btood my ground manfully in tho face of the female fou; and thus I whiled away the dreary hours till the next train bore me on my winding way. You may remark that I have not mentioned the name of town or railroad, rail-road, and you may think it strange, but you need not; I am not ashamed, or alraid to leave a trace of my line ol travel I can easily be found when wanted but I have vowed a vow.and will keep it. The usual course is for the wayfaring Bohemian to give a detailed statement of his line of travel pulling the great air line, or the Spuash town hrnad gauge ; complimenting compli-menting the gentlemanly conductors and other employes, and winding up with a grand, gratuitous advertisement advertise-ment ot railroads, hotels and bummers, bum-mers, at the expense of the poor printer. Now, with m3 this is I'lai-f, m;,', and I her by give notice to you, that if you expect me to engage en-gage in Hits system of d. h. advertising advertis-ing you hnd better nominate my suc-i.'osor suc-i.'osor for f shan't do it so there. And lurUK'i'suore I notify all such parties that the Hkk w.d buys its paper, ink and type, pays its compositors, etc., and is not on fi'u1 t-tiitt, that it is ask-liil' ask-liil' ennnch uf thn Hkhilo to nrhit my miserable letters without requiring requir-ing it to advertise Thomas, Kichard and Henry and that its terms for ads. arc reasonable and that business is respectfully solicited " tho Daily ten dollars a year.ahvays in advance." So much for that, now to business. Tiis little town whose name heads these lines was settled about the year IS 10, and was, at that time the extreme ex-treme frontier, the boundary between Uic iv'nit'.'s and Indians being about a mile west. Two years later the eyes of the writer first oencd and gazed upon this dreary, wicked world, a few hundred yanU from where I now write. I ;im here now probably for the last time. Your readers will take no interest in any deLailii of the past, present or future of a town of which perhaps they never heard bpfore. They ran have but little care for yundcr uirws covered old house where fin-t my young idea was tauyht the art of archery; none for the clear and gurgling stream in which long, long jigo we little boys were wont to bat'ne. N'o sympathy perhaps, per-haps, fan I claim from them while strolling tadly and alone as I shall and do, through the silent st recta in the city of the dead, among the monuments mon-uments and sial-s whieo direct my enquiring en-quiring gaze to the resti g place of long depart il friends. Ttiougn not sentimcnU! or poetical acre I am n minded of the oil re-peat'tl re-peat'tl v,. -rd-j of one ti hn was a pOLt "When 1 rm-mL.THi; The hi- mi.- linked together, 1 'w; -i-r-ii mound me full Like If-nvc- in wintry weather; I IV1 like ouo "W ho tread" alone, tin.- ImvjiiH hull deicrt.-l -W'h'j-o limits an: lb-, Y husp Kurlrmd's den. I, And nil but im departed.'' The principal theme at this time upon which the people dwell, is the cru-Mide cru-Mide agatml the whisky traffic, lately inaugurated by tho women. 1 am anxiuu.-:iy watching an opportunity to attend urn: oi their prayer meetings, out up to date without success. Eroiu nreaent indications, I shall not be surprised if this fever to break up the Biluun system should spread as did the epizootic; as the poor horses wero wont to tremble and weaken at the approach of that fearful disease, so will the burley disp mser of "forty rod nips" weaken under the songs and praycr.i of the nhUts who are "going lor" them with so much religious re-ligious zea!. Let your city fathers hurry up, and get all the license money they can from the saloon men, for behold th-time th-time cometh and aoon will be, when the zealous sinters will go down on thcir"marruw loues" in front of your principal saloons, and who known but they may be is aucceftsful in abolishing abol-ishing liquor sellinc and liquor drinking drink-ing as lirnthcrs .Newman arid Me-Kea.u Me-Kea.u have been in squelching out polygamy ahem ! I will close this brief nofe by doing what I said in the benining that I wculd not do I will advertise two railroad mutes, but remember that it is done "(' ixniii tihliro. Should any of your friends desire to go east lot me tell them what perhaps they have failed Ui learn: There is a healthy competili'Ui going on between two rival routes, by which, if you en iijautifte lo get to Cincinnati, you can jet I" Lailimure or Washington for and u 1'hiladelphia 1r frlO.oTl, and I am luld that the travel is great. Would it not bo a (Jod-send if wn had computing lines from the I'acifie to the Mifviouri '.' Yours, II. D. .1. |
