New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-31


fox On account OF be sharp swapping way OF nan1ns
his iucisOrs b. Is an "ugly customer 10 me most
powerful dos--indeed he is more than match Tor any
variety IN this country excepting me gray NJ
rapid cut-sndrhrusf way OF biting rps up hide ana
hesh Ike a bowie knife, aud the gray mound success
fully encounters him not from his superior power over
other do-s but because he wages the war aif me sae
fashion with the volt and because MS h-lly eilADi'4
him 10 clude the bites u ms slower antagonist gen
telnan informed me that having prare-Woi IN CON
fnemenL which had been caught in trap ana "l'ch
was not get recovered from tlc ameness Of broken
leg he allowed 30 English traveller who was anNous
30 10 do o. turn into the pen large ana nign Dfea Ing
lsh bulldog The dog fought WIN me cha acleil'li
crocty oi biz race but wa speedily 20 Guy - piece
that b. was unable o. leave the place except IN m own
er's carriage After all. the prarc-EcI - sneaAlne
cowardy thief which fights only WHENCE can run
away he is great scourge % ine country on account
Of his penchalt for mutton, ana DO the states WneIr
there are prares DO is necessary % nightly told the
sheep % escape bic vi-itati0us
on leaving the Chicago prairie the country rises into
rolling pra.res in TIE main level but the surface
broken INTO long low wave shaped elevations, ana cor
responding depressi0ns. The rolling praircs however,
gsry considerable in their ieatures-a lands bare oi
rccs which vary from level receiving THIS name
There something exceedingly agreeable Ia the spring
ia the ea Of green verduTe presented 10 the eye by one
of these vast unduiang plains and tner curves wheie
they bound the horizon, are sometimes lneNpfes-loy
beautiful particularly in the meloWins haze Oh WI
light or by moonlight
Like promo1tores running out into seas, Ike 18Th
muses. dviding oceans ike j. ands amid waery wastes
DEE the woodlands about and between ana "a NE i-ul
If the naked Drairics. All the timoer-iindi 7h" ~
Northern Illinois are the shortest aud thnncst wooded
oakooenincs tl0ugh was repeatedly told tn-fe was
much heavily iimbered land in contiguous Situations
The great wants of the Praries for agricultural pur
poses ire wood running water and stone Many persons
already haul their wood for miles Fencing TIMBER T.
wholly out Of the question on the larger prarc-' u
obtained, % great expense, the supply IN ut county
would soon Dr. exhausted. The few farmers VINO na'c
set Themselves down on the open prairie away rom
the woodlands, resort to various eNpedlents- VIII
refer % these when come TO speak OF the R0cA Ifa
RE In Wisconsin
Running watcr is exceedingly scarce, that. as a
common thing an the farm stock is wateret from Weis
on prairie farms and the wells themscycs have 10 Pee
dug very deep. On the great Rock Prane ia " j.
cOnsn the wells Will average seventy I'VE leet M Ht
and many of them extend q one hundred. on most
of the pra.res where ] made the inquiry, the WeNs
averaged a. much nifty feet in depth These are
stoned up with granite b0uicrs which are thnly -cil-
tered about or what g. far more common. they age
ttirhod with framework lined with utk pahAs IT ls
exceedingly ihcult on many pralnes 10 OBTAIN 'ue
even for the walls OF cellars Inc ihicA dllt 4uH
that covers the rocks is NOT sufficiently rupture ~
streams aud other dcnudins agents 20 fehdeI u'm
accessible.
On one point many Eastern rlgders have formed very
erroueous conceptions viz relation 10 the hight 1i
the prairie grass u doe. not often grow 20 hgn on ne
dry prairie. as our eastern timothy At the time 81 my
visit prairie grass as high as the grass ieit
behind boz the meadows of New York; ana one deh-ey
awarded Of white clover, june grass ana umehy'
n one o the southern counties of NeWl crk, would ia
my opinion afford more feed. taking the whole season
through than i've acres OF prairie. Indeed beheFe
the difference would be still grea,er-an acre Of our
grass equaing perhaps, SIX or seven OF the pIalic
The inhabitants cut their hay on wet paccs-ahu on
the sues A. he word soughs' is universally pro
nouncei at the West The roots Of the prere grass,
instead Of being big your nnger az thought ~ 20
many Eastern people no larger thar those oil tne
domestic grasses The difficulty of plcwing the sod
arises from density and depth which have been ages
perhaps. in forming.
the same cause | do the sparseness Of them m the
'opcnings"-the agency OF periodical hres--tnough II
would be difficult 10 say why all the trees should DE-
DESTROYED on the praires and those IN the openings
eft. / have some theories ON this point wnich VIII
not now take up your time 10 discuss.
One IS struck with the absence OF domestic STOCK ON
the prairies. You see but here and there ana al CON
siderable intervals herd Of cattle dotiing the green
side of a distant slope-a horse or twO-and a nall
dozen swine Near Bel'dere saw one considerable
lock of sheep but elsewhere but here or there score
or two. may well here speak of the character oil
the stock The horses and hogs were eXcellent-ihe
cattle and sheep decidedly inferior The cattle were
lank gaunt coarse heavy horned animals. The sheep
ike those of Michigan bearing neither good cardlhs
nor combng wnnlf0n coarse for the former, too shni
Tor the latter. But did not see one miserable morse
and but one such hog in Illinois
ON striking the rolling lands west OF Chicago prai'
RE we encountered several colonies OF emsgrants-
Irish Norwe gisns, Germans, SC. They become rapidly
Americanized and make thrifty, industrious popnla
ton Some wiseacres vast danger In TINS influx OF
f,reiyners POOH believe with Lord Bacon, IN his
ESSAY of true greatness Of Kingdoms and estates tha
~ all States that liberal of naturalization toward
strangers are NJ for empire. But tne great nIo,o
nher does nor assign the true for this VIZ tue
erossipg Of brfeds II Is from the minglng ana iush
Of different races that Nature il enabled with dainty
eclectcism to select and combine the different points
which 20 TO form perfect character ENGRAVING iIlsh
blood on the Yankee, for example, superadds the nte
briaucy and wit of the rishman 70 the cool sa-hcy
and raz0rlike shrewdness OF the iulloood Jonathan
the Frenchman gives sail TO the ballast OI the peta
and -erouely there Is more IN this tlhu may
have been dreamed of in the philosophy OF the many
Yes let them come-from "NJrways crags IRON III
lsicd lrcland--irom
Where by the Rhine. the ich grape glows'
from every country under Heaven where man sshers
from the rapacity Of man, from the steriy oil the
soil On the broad and b0undless Prairies there IS
ample room and verge enough"
for all Of them
Approaching the Fox River, the country grows finer
and The sppearnce OF the dwellings and farms bctokens
comfort and opulence We reached Elgin on the Fox
River thirty Elk miles from Chicago, late IN the evening
II IS a smart thriving village, containing WOODEN lac
tory said 10 be in a hOurshng condition ana some
other mills Several of the buildings are constructed
of yelowish-whte limestone, quarued from the
banks Of the river The country above and below ior
considerable distance on the Fox River, u represented
a. equally fine. Beautiful farms, with buildings and
improvements" be bought here from eight 20
twelve dollars per acre.
lies through alternate openings ana aOEg th, tu~'s
,hai about Marshall and Kalamazoo, IN Michigan IN
tn, openings' We came upon quails every few rods
waowing in the dust OF the road aud upon poHers ~
the sues" trust unprocssona sportsmen, u wh0m
game of any kind was novelty, will be pardoLed Tor
barring a few brace from among the surrounding
superabundance albeit out Of season IL was great
and Tor time a delightful novelty 10 men who had mol
had gun in hand for years 10 20 whirlns along shooting
right and left every few rods from carrdge Turtle
doves and arks are exceedingly gbundant IN the West
ern states They were constantly rising before Us
These we invariably spared and amer one day shoot
Ing we also put the quals and poyer on the exempted
list wagng war only on the praire-hens snipc, cure"
rabbits etc. which We began % encounter.
Winding along through the underground oi Al
op.uuc" near MarcngO, snatches OF song hom
party in advance OF occasionally broke on our ears
The rich brogue OF the brightest Jtm OF the sdd giving
unequivoca demonstration of the nativity OF the vocal
sts We soon overlook them, three men and Two or
three women the latter in an emigrant wagon drawn
by oxen The men were passing around s-ngulaIly
corpuleut phia" and bursting into snaicnts ol a
chorus as thew withdrew the craihHr from their lips
The smile on our faces brought us an in iaton % par
take in this interesting ceremony, which was declined
with many thanks. Were they not from Cork s1Tt
and were thcy not their way 10 the Ucsff be II
understood that here Illinois and Wisconsin are con
sidered pretty well " Dozen East West means
beyond the Rocky Mountains or hard up under their
eastern shadowsi Many OF the earliest settlers here
men who have lived in the country almost Tea years
md the country getting too old for them, and are ein
fn~. sc ata1 az ms ~