Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1858 — BEAVER PRAORIE. [ARTICLE]

BEAVER PRAORIE.

eJC-Mr. Schenck, Preaident of the Fort Waynfe Western Railroad, is expected here this week. When he arrives we will be enhnbled, perhaps, to give some interesting intelligence about the road. We have read a letter from the President to Judge Crane, in which die slates that he hopes to.commence the work in the spring and push it through to completion. • oirNo important measures have passed Congress or our State Legislature yet. (ttrTh. rands ere again almost imp stable. Miff. slush and se t snow »n evOn hand. (fcs”Mr. Snyder was «t home last Sunday paying a visit to his lumily. He is of the opinion that the Legislature will adj urn this week. Narlie’s” communications are deferred until after the delinquent list is published, which will be concluded next week. CO - The County Commissioners have granted the prayers of the petitioners for the incorporation of Renss ffuer, and appointed the sth of January ne*t for the voters to decide whether they desire it or not. Robinson having removed to Francisville, Pulaski county, thereby vacating iris officers 'County Commissioner, the remaining Commissioners (Sparling apd Lyons) last week appointed Robert Parker to fill the vacancy. A good selection. fgs”The public debate between Messrs. Hammond, Knox and Lee, of the Erudite Lyceum, and Messrs. Niles. Ifalstead and Thompson, of the Calliopean Literary Society, came off on Monday night last. The Erudite gentlemen (learned) had the affirmfive side of the question,and the Calliopean (eloquent, and poetical; the negative. Rev. J. C. Post and Messrs. James E. Ballard and Rufus Strode were the Judges on the occasion, who gave it as their opinion that the negative had gained tile question.

We have often heard this far-tamed prai-j rie highly spoken of by all v>. ho had traversed it, residents or strangers; but never had an adequate idea of its beauty and grandeur until last week, when our eye was for the lira’ -time gratified with its surpassing loveliness. ; As we galloped over its smooth and rolling plain, now down a gentle decltyijy. tind now Uj>. ever and anon catching a glimpse ol the scattered farm house in every direction, as far I as the eye could reach, we could not but. envy ; the man who is out of debt'and possesses a ? quarter-section of its luxuriant soil. Andi if Beaxcr Prairie is so beautiful when I clothed in the habiliments of winter, what] must it be in the spring time, when covered! with Nature's carpet of green, relieved with i innumerable flowers of every hue, fragrant I with the'breath of heaven; with the singing of birds in tiie shrubbery, and lowing of fat and sleek-coated cattle on every hand. "We cannot express it in words. Beaver Prairie ,s the gs.rJ i. spot <,f Indian and needs but a railr-m; t > 'place every toot of it under Cultivation and improvement.'