Thar ain't no Columbus, thout'n it's over to Hawkeye," interrupted one of the citizens, who had come out to stare at the strangers.

"A railroad come here last summer, but it haint been here no mo'." "Yes, sir," the Colonel hastened to explain, "in the old records Columbus River is called Goose Run.

You see how it sweeps round the town--forty-nine miles to the Missouri; sloop navigation all the way pretty much, drains this whole country; when it's improved steamboats will run right up here.

It's got to be enlarged, deepened.

You see by the map.