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Show Notes By the Way. ------ ··- - WEDNESDAY, MAY 7 :--Bid friends idly developing; trees ,;vero putting forth good by at Dundee, IlL, and started for their brightest foliage, and the flowers St. Joseph, Mo., distant about five hun- are in full bloom. R eached Quincy at dred tniles by R. R.. The weather for 11 P. M. several days had heen ehilly and un-pleasant, and vegetation had scarcely MAY 8.-0btained our first view this sho,vn signs of Hfe. The jaunt across morning of the ''Father of ·waters," the t~e State was attended by no :peculiar Mississippi river. At thie point it is circumstance, other than what usually about one mile \vide in the channel, but occurs to every traveler. The line of owing to the unusual rise of the ·water, the road is through a beautiful prairie it is in reality about twelve n1iles in country, of which the State is largely width frotn its overflo,v. Took steamcomposed. Nothing can now be said er for I-Iannibal, ~1o., twenty 111iles reccommending the State of Illinois.- do·wn the river. ~1any dv;·ellings on The fertility of its soil, tlJe natural ad- the shores ,,·ere clerortcd bccansc uf the vantages it possesses, \Vhieh enable the \·vater, and in ~e \·eral i·n tan ccs removed tarn1er to lead a life of verfect in de- fron1 their found atjons. l{eachecl Hanpeudeuce, if not opul\3nce are too w£~11 1 nibnl Rt 10 A. l\J. Jf ,~ J\:. <1ur fret for t.h0 understood to require it. Tu the c,\'e ' tir~t. titn(~ trod t~ H .·~~i l u lkd !.,,. sLi \ 't.' . . of on~ se(•.kit.g Jn c'rely for a n :tril:ty of At 11 11~ ln·eaking- nu t ot' t.ht> prc:-:'-:'n t rescenery, it pre~(-'lnt..:, Hfter :L tirne, but 1 belli ,)u the plu('e w:ti~ at Oll<' t.itue lJ 0.arone appeuntnc·c; too mnch of a t:)fnue- j ly o .. Cl\;OUH~ by iL. Jt h:1s &n{l''rcd. ness to be altogether atf.raetive, and 1uuch fro1n ieceudiarie:-:; for a ) ear and they very uaturu1Jy relapse back to a half past, whi ·h the in1Jabitauts credit their own thoughts, or seek amusement to thos0 ·whose sytnpathics are secesh. from the contents of book or p<.lpet~.- Same eYCtJing ruachcd P u I rnyrn, a As we ad,·auced1 \erduro seemed rnp- place -{jftccn rn11f's WC'~t. It ~ec rncd qn1 tc |
