The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-07-08


$1,000 your city auction The usual attendants upon
race course were assembled In abundance and all the
games for chance and luck kept in constant
ton including one that certainly is original called
the Nanagerie" The face Of the table II covered with
an oil cloth painted in squares, with twelve different
birds and animals and large ball about inches In
decides the bets that placed 1.-The Managerie
me stakes being down black boy at the head Of the
OF stove pipe and by sudden spring is forced for
ward and rolling upon the table the figure that comes
uppermost wins the stakes that have placed on the
corresponding animal The remainder lose and the
game keeper pockets handsome per centage The race
the expansive emerald Michigan The ground il hsayy
but In time it viii present nns bottom training and
sport
This city supplied with pure water from the lake
raised by an hydraulic engine and forced through It in
PPss to AL that desire Its use at less than the
air from the lake renders Chicago Of the heathes
spots Of the west The peculiar benefits the prairie
that, commencing from Its western boundary, Is
evidenced by the fact that nearly every family
owns COW, which Is driven out in the morning to feed
upon Its vast extent and returned in tho evening
tner doors by persons engaged in this business
trihng sum Of twelve and half cents per week. The
ieve prairie extends here distance of twenty five miles
without western mark or bound and then follows
what called the undulatng range which onw ard
upwards OF hundred miles until it strikes the line of
Indiana. ~ ~ ~
Real estate is high here ordinary sized two story
frame houses rent for from $3.50 to $3.50 per annum
This arises from the fact that there are not build
ngs sufficient to accommodate the Increase of popula
ton and money readily commanding three per cent per
month, prevents those who would dwellings
from accomplishing their object The speculations in
wheat and hour have absorbed much OF the surplus
FUNDS OF money brokers' who here control all financial
operations as they have competitors in banks other
chartered Institutions private daily express has
the commencement OF the rise grain but the false
Geographic report Of week before them curse
tne haste with which they received tho cutting ntei
gencc.
The crops look well here and reports from St Joseph
IN ichigan opposite, represent nearly full wheat bsr
vest in prospective.
Tho completion Of tho canal from this city to Peru
on the Illinois river distance of 100 milos contem
plated this fall will connect the waters the great
lakes with the Mississippi river and thus open
ior southern market tor the produce OF this whole
gon, while the whole northwest will receive in return
all the neoessarics Of the south including the fruits
luxuries Of Florida and Havana The northwest will
then be partially independent OF city, exchange
VIII be Kept near its present point and its press will
cease TO look in your daily papers for the from
water route TO St Louis 400 miles distant and
later railroad for travel will follow the
course, and thus render the distance nothing
In the western sense OF this significant exclamation
Land can be purchased on the praires, within FIVE
miles of this place. for from SIS $40 per acre but far
make clan,, by commencing lmprov ements and thus
secure the right TO purchase ut the govern
prepared for cultivation with comfortable frame house
and necessary out buildings. is follows -
Cost OF 100 acres ut 81 20 per acre. 5000
Breaking up the prairie at pl 6U per acre.. 24O
Dwelling and out houses ........... 500
Total. 500
Thus you SEQ with a round $1,000 a man can set him.
self down In this growing region with all the
OF approach good markets his produce
lord and owner Of farm that will make his latter
comfortable and leave his children prosperous hap
Is IT. therefore, any wonder that the Cypress
King ridden population OF Europe fly shores by
the thousands aud the tens OF thousands enjoy these
advantages?
he crop of wheat has been known to pay the
cost of the land breaking up fencing cultivation and
transportation to market The after crops
to 20 bushels of wheat 40 to so bushels OF corn
OF oats and 800 OF poatoes At present prices wheat
being % cents and A. the profits be easily cal
culatoi Entered and improved lands be purchased
for from 81 to so per Emigrants need furn-
ture as 1t Is cheaper to purchase it here than bring
habits Of industry patience to work hard the
The game season is the approach when wood
cock and prairie chicken killed in great abundance
The spring brood of the latter beginning come
into market, and such luxury Talk OF your quail,
your partridge, or your wcodcock Give young
prairie chicken either to shoot you can take
the rest Deer In season, and killed ia great
abundance few miles distant The waters abound
with black bass pickcrel and other lake fish The
former are most delicious, and you may think am In
diting fish story when tell you that myself three
associates took two hundred weight of bass and
pickerel at the mouth of the Calumet river miles
from here yesterday morning before late dinner. A
foraging party of hunters that accompanied fine
doe and any quantity OF pigeons, woodcock and few
young prairie chickens which heartily enjoyed after
our days travel and sport. c.
Accidents and Incidents OH the Fifth.