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lands may be made productive by irrigation.
The surging
tide of immigration, instead of stopping, as formerly, in
Illinois,
Indiana, Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska, pushes across
the once trackless desert, scales the Rocky Mountains, and
secures a foothold. in Nevada, Utah, and California.
The intelligence of this age excels its integrity and
morality. The higher call is for the solid, rather than the
sensational; for constructors, rather than ruthless, reckless
iconoclasts.
Omaha, on the western bank of the Missouri, numbers
nearl}^ twenty thousand. Here George Francis Train made
a large portion of his fortune.
The old state-house, a magnificent
building, situated upon the highest point in the city,
is to be devoted to educational purposes.
Pullman's palace sleeping-cars are luxurious. Eatinghouses
are numerous ; charges one dollar currency. The
Platte is a lazy, shallow stream, skirted with light timber.
Along this river lies the old emigrant trail, marked by an
occasional grave. Pawnee Indians were standing around
every station. Reticent, they seemed sad. They are fading
away. The embers of their council-fires are cold. Oh, my
countrym'en, feed them generously, treat them justly, kindly,
in these their dying da3's
NORTH PLATTE CITY,
AKD CHEYENNE.
Accompanying Col. S. F. Tappan, Gens. Sheridan, Sherman,
Terry, Harney, and other members of the Congressional
Indian Commission, westward a few years since, here at
North Platte was held our first peace-council. It was a
thrillingly interesting occasion. The Indians flocked in by
hundreds. The Brule Sioux chief. Spotted Tail, made a
peace speech. Gen. Sherman cross-examined him. Gen.
Harney admitted that he had never known an Indian chief
the first to break a treaty. If belief in a future conscious
identity, and intelligible communications from the spiritworld,
constitute an individual a Spiritualist, then this Sioux