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WESTERN INCIDENTS.

VIII.

MORNING AFTER THE BALL—-THE EXCURSION TRAIN—ALL.ON BOARD

—ITS PROGRESS WESTWARD—THE GREAT PLATTE VALLEY—
STATIONS ON THE ROAD—-ARRIVAL AT COLUMBUS---CAMPING oUT
ON THE PLAINS—INDIAN WAR-DANCE—-MORNING SERENADE—
TOWN OF COLUMBUS—-SHAM INDIAN FIGHT—-PRESENTS TO THE
INDIANS—CONTRAST BETWEEN CIVILIZED AND SAVAGE LIFE—
TRAIN STILL GOING WESTWARD—-WAY-STATIONS ON THE ROAD—
ARRIVAL AT CAMP NO. 2-——-MILITARY ENCAMPMENT—-ANOTHER
NIGHT IN CAMP—-MORNING EXERCISES—-DEPARTURE OF THE ELK-
HORNS—-MORNING NEWSPAPER—LIST OF EXCURSIONISTS—END
OF TRACK FOUND AT LAST—-BUFFALO AND ANTELOPE HUNTERS
— DINNER IN CAMP—-FIRE-WORKS ON THE PLAINS—THIRD NIGHT
IN CAMP—-HOMEWARD BOUND—-ONE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN—
PRAIRIE-DOG CITY—-FIRE ON THE PLAINS—-RETURN TO OMAHA—
DEPARTURE OF EXCURSIONISTS EASTWARD—-ELKHORN CHEERS TO
MR. DURANT—-THEIR SAFE ARRIVAL HOME.

Omana, NeprasKa, Nov. 5, 1866.

MORNING AFTER THE BALL.

The elegant entertainment given by the citizens of Ne-

braska and Omaha to the excursionists the previous
evening, did not prevent them from being astir at a
reasonably early hour on Tuesday morning, October 23.
Nearly all the gentlemen interested or curious in such
matters, visited the extensive depots and machine shops
of the Union Pacific Railroad, and expressed their
astonishment and delight at the magnitude and adaptation
of the works, the construction of which had only been
commenced within a year from the present time.