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

the same lsfi,uifs Tie ground freezes down ron
two q Two end half md even three feet deep ihin-
uupsr,lleisf ID the Ea.t The Winter winds on The
prsri.s are repre.suted as freezing and terrible % bs
borae far beyond anything know even on the bleak
hills ri New England Buy W. are not .eit with melty
these vague data for comp arson Tn Doct Forty
work on American Climate. records OF meteorolo gca
ohservs.ions kent n the different posts OF the T.
Army for period of rine years. show that both tlc
boat and cold offhe Prairie regions ara far groe,er ard
that the changes far more iequcnt and sudden Ha
r,o-, rsrt of the Atlantic scab0ard The isltherna.
lines do MT greatly var BAT The lsothera. and soche
mai lines diver-e over lar wider space thau IN The
latter
between Msreuso and Rockford and other parts of
Northern Tlno.,-4skn- them questions tout their
country. climate, agriculture lnsuiutions N- 4" ii
exceedingly struck VITA hs UNIFORM critty if'nkue-s
and INTEL rence OF their replies. That hall horse ami
malt alligator rani.g, boating, hyPcTboca character
which mauy Eastern peopf have been taught o. tllnk
from newspaper okes kflucky hunters aoncs. tough
yarns Of Mssisspfi ho'iren SC, - belong 20 our
whole Western Lel DE. cores - rear hitting the mark
"a. would a Wesfem man incyng every New Ln-
lander % be ng.sha. set thin ippei nasal whining
sro,irdrel with h'4 DO stuffed with wooden NUT
mecs and horn gun d.. ] be men who c0ioni1cf
-he West were generally IN that middle spot pecun.
anly prayed FOX hy Agur hey we're neither poor nnr
rich. Ti1 viii c0n'Fs. ia'ora7, Win he ~ e7f' n
aaB part Oi our country saw but two drunken mon
in Illinois and Wisconsin ard one was vas,sr' fish 70
man. and The other see y. down homeless, aus p
sch0olu.lstcr iuliv below mat tho moral ald lurI
lecfual tone Of the people through those portions Of
both 81 these states through which passed i ~ hgh
a. that in any OF ihc 0laer states.
Bclv.dlrc. fine Wills '-hunming Win business IKE
O. miniature c.ty-sissds on the kishwaukic creek,
twelve miles from Elcn prairie known by ire not
very euuh0nous appclsti0n OF -quaw Prairie. Here
saw Tor the bret enc Of the new rod ploss which
are superscding al others for breaking up the prafes
lf Is perhaps twice the size Of IN Eastern pillow, with
share and hand SIDE of steel and the mould board com
posed of lion rods three or four inches apart A. u the
IA. aN.H. Mo
Hrhtness and q beautiful implement also saw the
steel uows used the prares after the 1rt breaking
up They are not shaped like any of our Eastern po"s
The difficulty with al Eastern pioWs IS on tnc pfares
tina, they will not clean themselves from the soft adle
sire dirt-bui merely push the soil before them
Hoc kford Is thirteen miles from Belviderc. situated
ou both sides Of the Rock river Ten years since u
contained hut three ur 0ur uOuses,-nOW II iuiptts
1900 inhabitants Ine abroad from Chicago 70 bhena
l. to cross the river here. which VIII give new I'm
pcius the growth Of the village better piace 'of
investments boz milling manufacturing, &C u,d uol
see in the Western States. The country about the VII
age s rolling prairie Of Toe best quality elevated ana
healthy Beautiful farms can be- bought for ten OF
twelve dollars In the negh0orhood Of the town
They are as well wooded and vatcrld as any OH lue
prairie lands of the West
One word aboutt the fish 10 Rock river aud vii close
this long leticr-hut mark mean % tell mo- Bst sort
The rver (here 500 feet wide literally sWaffns win -n
Of large size, and ~ numerous varieties looked mo
rack placed 10 the dam and 10 contained buffalo psn
hing twenty i've thirty pounds catns OF various
lies red horses kory had black bass, perch etc
etc OF larger size than had ever before seen Pick
erel are sometimes caught weighing from twelve TO
twenty pounds. People come in from the country
set seines, and in a short time carry On ragoq-oaa OF
the choicest ish
All in all the Rock River country is land OF fumes
Nature requires little soliciting 10 hll every man
garner and lsrder. Whether the virgins are SOFT A.
the roses they Irvine" in this region, cannot say.
traveller sees lew females IN passing through country
but those scorchcd by cooking stoves or Drowned by
the sun and wind ] must confess however, that
ihought-t may have been the sheerest mistake-thai
the prevailing complexion had more sdi0icacss IN H.
than in the East At all events saw bat one OF those
rose and lily tinted faces which flash out upon you
from almost every cottage among the granite rocks OF
New.En.land This a Norwegian girl, rif,Hg "a an
orcart Cart cart she was creature Of as gio
r.ous beauty As Peter COlbofnsen and hls intrepid
N0rsomen ever fought tor-Or Denmarks poets, bo
berg or Oehlenschlager sungl Bot Whatever may
Dee Of the prairie gu the o;h-r part Of the quota
ton IS true
the tiuts OF the EARTH aud the hues Of the sky,
In color though varied, 10 beauty may vie 80
And all the spirit OF Man Is divine"
Cortland Village. s. =, june, l-l- II - H.