The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-24

CHICAGO, LII, Dec. IL, 1854.
Interesting 10 Bert Raissrs and Eeters-- The
Great Western Pasfures-Progsess Of Chicago,
&C., &c.
Our season for beef pasturisg h past, or is about
closing up. About the usual quantity has been
tierced and barrelled. The average weight Of the
cattls has besn heavier and fatter than the past
year-the facilities for the most perfe preparation
aud preservation Of the meat, has been greatly In
creased this year, and hazard nothing in spying
that the already high position beef holds in all
foreign markets will be greatly incressed when
this "kill' shall come to the scamp kettle"
More than three fourths of the beef slaughtered
this fall, has been "tierced" or "tu6bedn for the
English markets. Your paper has wide circula-
ton amongst the beef eaters of Europe, and -
was for fifteen years practical stock raiser on
our vast prairies, am sure 1t will be not uninter
esting to them, to give for your columns square CT
SO Of items about our country, and mode Of stock
raising.
If they do not already know the fact, let
me now tell them--our State, our whole
State, is nine-tsnths Of it, as yet, in q state
of nsture-one vast grazing field. In the dingles
and up the raviHes the cattle resort in the early
spring. Here they cast their calves-:here "run
with the cows" where stock raising is business,
and become beautiful indeed in the fall. have
often seen them killed for family use at eight months
old, weighing seventy-ive the quarter, and not
costing the owner one hour Of time or care, or one
penny expense barring it's salt from the cast to the
morning in June, with the hordsman, ard see him
'saltiDg the cattle" The very bssEthe richest
beef barTelled here in November "can hardly siani
tie.H The "slock" come out lawful poor in the
spring. Thsy "take to flesh wonderful" As our
rich grasses advance in the summer, and ~ the
an'nmn comes on thy are "logs" with fat, aud
and tender-has been made from the richest food
in six or seven months. Four-ffths of
the beef packed in Illinois have never
rSe great secret with the srssisr to ss his herd
little and Often" and keep them quiet" One
stampede from fright takes OF fortnight's fat.
have seen thousand beeves in drove, wandering
IL huncred thousand acre lot Of grass three feet
wonder we send good beef to Europe! have with
my own hands raised one hundred bushels Of corn
to the acre, and my hogs have often come home to
me in tho fall fit for the knife, without bite Of
corn and millions OF these bioad acres as rich as
my own, are presently TO become the property Of
poor man, in fee simple, BY deed from Congress,
without price or money, with all the countless
blessings Of frce government.
| Seventeen years ago l left your city "broke
{, all to smash" On the Ohio river 1 bought
| -four at IS per barrel, ana sold il at Rock
Hlan0 az VIZ per DRrrel then PAID az that
point, $40 per barrel for mess pork. Two thousand
barrels Of flour are daily shipped at Rock Island for
New York direct. and Eve hundred barrels Of mess
pork are packed daily. Now all we want is q good
sound cuirency-its sure concomitant, low rate of
exchange, and all Europe will pay ~ tribute. We
shall dictate etary law TO the end Of the earth
and the isles Of the sea. Commerce and free trade
are but the instruments in hand higher than EN-.
perors, kings and nations, to prepare the way for
the establishment OF HIS kingdom aud His entire
dominion, whose reign will be everlasting. His Is
the silver and the gid. He covered and hid from
man the vast treasures on the shores Of the Pacific
He has opened them to Christian people just as
they are wanted. Who gave Weldon to Morse just
at this jurcture, to speak "away ahead of time, y
over ocean and prairie! Who 70 Mccormick, and an
hundred Others just now, BY which His armies are
to be fed in the great coming battle day. We shall
! presently want another great discovery, to be
moved BY steam-a plough turning over ten
burrows at every revolution Of it's wheel, to pre-.
pare the prairie. He has garnered for the seed to
| feed fsmishing world. We want simple. sound
safe Gu rincy, to steadily stimulate and develope
oil our astonishing resources; to check the coming
flood of desolating crime and corruption even
! Low appalDgly upon us. You, Sir, are placed in
position where you can do much in giving such O
| currency to the nation. PUrIL,