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whccid. J\n lor tnat primitive mcxio of traveling “by rail,'* where (he traveler is brought into rude contact with the rail as a vehicle, we have no nnxiety to try iu accommodations,UL't 1kmGeGeeven with a tree pas?,From Centerville to Columbus Junction, over the Southwestern road, the route is so familiar to our road* era, cither by travel or report, that we need not dwell npon it. When wo left, November first, the forests along the line, which ft few weeks before were gorgeona in their nntumn hoc* of brown nnd russet nnd scarlet and crimson, were now already becoming stripped of tboir leaves ond some of their glories. Our mellow and splendid October had com® to a close, nnd a pre-election storm, designed to test the mettle of lukewarm voters, had set in. No more mild summer days now, no more time for deliberate argument, whether high nnd inspiring, or merely clnp-trnp nnd demagogic, no moro spreod-cagto spouting, no time now, if ever, for wavering and indecision ; in short it was November. Of that storm of ballots on tho fifth of November whichIII.*5«inCcMtSt.ap;MidaterofEdknpeGitinmiofth:TfdrwcCame down as still As snowflakes fall upon ihc sod,” wo do not need to write now. Under the brightening skies of renewed concord, firmly maintained faith, nnd financial disaster averted, wc trust it will be seen of all that it was like the blessed rain of Providence, falling alike upon the just and upon the unjust.toPlt;onorIt will be understood that our journey was not all continuous, that it was taken in instalments j but for pres* ent purposes we may speak of it os one. From Columbus Junction we travel northward over the line of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids A Minnesota Railway, which carries us almost entirely across the Stole of Iowa into tho Stnte of Minnesota,U.doSsF(seRiTVTlt;tf:usWitoCrothfcS;illUofmtotowe)Plt;ti*to61Plt;ti.w01laThe principal towns along its line are Cedar Rujndo, with its fine waterpower, mills ond fuctorics ; its four lines of railwoy, its railroad men and their headquarters; its Normal School —a private institution; its dailynewspaper nnd enterprising business men, who instead of waiting for something to “turn up,” go to work and turn it up ; its extensive pork-packing establishment, which promises to be on important addition to the business of the town, ond other industries which wc have no space to specify; ShelUbury, a town of perhaps 500 in habitants, nearly destroyed some months since by fire, but rising again ; Vint OH) county-sent of Benton, with a valuable water-power lying dormant in the volume of the Cedar river, waiting for capital nnd omerpriso to coin it into wealth and increased population ; its State College for the Blind, under tho able and excellent supcrintendency of Prof. S. A. Knapp, a cultured gentleman, admirably fitted for his post; its brunch railway now building westward into northern Tnunn, where the new towns of Dyson and Traer arc preparing lo welcomo the locomotive; its fine residences nnd business structures; nnd above nil its intelligent nnd hospitable people, of whom this writer retains many a pleasant remembrance; Zaporte, the portal to Blnckhawk county, athriving place of o thousand people, with n valuable mil)-sircam and mill and other industries ; Waterloo, county-sent of Blackhowk, the queen city of tho upper Cedar, firmly encamped on both banks of that nobio stream, which turns the city’s mill-wheels on its way to the Mississippi^ and risks no poy; its beautiful and substantial iron bridge, connecting tho two Waterloo*; its nnraerous nnd substantial business houses ond il6 business men of widely known enterprise; its two railroads, the B. C. R. M. and the Illinois Central, which hoe also its machine shops here. We tarried a few hours here nnd vinited the well equippod offices of those twoinmodel papers, the Courier and Jfc-porter, tho lost-named of which has a new and costly building of its own, and connected with it on cxteueive bindery and blank book manufactory. Five miles farther op is Cedar Falls, a formidable rival to Waterloo, in fact the older town, with Urge mills and other industries, evidently a very flourishing and wealthy city. But we bavo no time to tary.[Concluded next week.]Whot’f the use of Democratic papers trying to convince the people that the at ay • at- h o me D emocrats are re sp onsi-ble for the big majorities against Grec-loy? Who doubts it? Who but a
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Centerville Citizen
Centerville, Iowa, US
Sat, Nov 23, 1872
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