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The excursion train for the end of the track left promptly at 11 4. m.
The excursionists witnessed the laying of about 800 feet of track during
their brief stay of half an hour. Casement’s men are putting down the
iron at the unprecedented rate of a mile and a half per day. So Wwe go,
on our march to the Pacific!

FIRE-WORKS ON THE PLAINS.

The principal attraction of the evening was the mag-
nificent display of fire-works from the stand in the centre
of the camp, under the immediate supervision of those
distinguished pyrotechnists, Professors Snyder and
Seymour.

Rockets, falling stars, golden rain, serpents, magazines,
Roman candles, together with all sorts of eccentric
wheels, and other ingenious contrivances, were to be seen
and heard, shooting and whizzing through the air for
more than an hour, much to the amazement, no doubt, of
the distant savages and wild beasts, who might happen
to be the witnesses of this first exhibition of the kind in
the great Platte Valley.

Later in the evening, the grand concert at Bunker
Hall came off, as per special notice. This was followed
by an interesting lecture upon phrenology, delivered by
that great bumpist, Professor Wells, which was most
amusingly illustrated by a reference to the head of Mr.
George Francis Train, the hwmorist of the party.

The party finally retired to rest in the best possible
humor with themselves, and their hospitable entertainers.

HOMEWARD BOUND.

On the following morning all was commotion at an
early hour in the encampment, in consequence of the
following bulletin, which had been issued by Mr.
Durant :—