At An Office In One Of The Streets Mr. C - - Took My Ticket For Toronto By
Railway, Steamer, Railway, And Steamer, Only Paying Eight Dollars And A
Half, Or About Thirty-Four Shillings, For A Journey Of Seven Hundred
Miles!
We returned to tea at the hotel, and found our viands and companions just
the same as at dinner.
It is impossible to give an idea of the "western
men" to any one who has not seen one at least as a specimen. They are the
men before whom the Indians melt away as grass before the scythe. They
shoot them down on the smallest provocation, and speak of "head of
Indian," as we do in England of head of game. Their bearing is bold,
reckless, and independent in the extreme; they are as ready to fight a foe
as to wait upon women and children with tender assiduity; their very
appearance says to you, "Stranger, I belong to the greatest, most
enlightened, and most progressive nation on earth; I may be the President
or a millionaire next year; I don't care a straw for you or any one
else."
Illinois is a State which has sprung up, as if by magic, to be one of the
most fruitful in the West. It was settled by men from the New England
States - men who carried with them those characteristics which have made
the New Englander's career one of active enterprise, and successful
progress, wherever he has been. Not many years ago the name of Illinois
was nearly unknown, and on her soil the hardy settler battled with the
forest-trees for space in which to sow his first crops.
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