New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-12
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS.
,.,,..,or..,e. Of Tie y y. Tribune
G,lEsut re- H.. Tuesday. Aug l, ls54
Galesburg is situated on the Mill.
,ry Tract in the midst of Of the best agricultural
districts OF he West ard bids far to De one oil the
largest inland towns in the State. hneA eoiisse~
iocnte5 here and is in vety hourishing condition
The College and Female Seminar! number about 400
SCHOLARS They were started here hiteen years ago.
by Prof Gale and a few other pioneers After et,er-
ing What land here and IA other sections OF tue Sao
they could fer TIE College they started N,asc
and concluded to aye Of the best Maine iawsthat
there are In giving theic deeds they bound the Pur-
chaser not to deal in intoxicating liquors. under pen
sv OF lorietug hs land With AL Improvements Also,
in sposng ct their aGd they are hosDd to insert the
same clause. Consequently We have no carousihg nor
drunkenness here The place is increasing IN popula-
ion fast and We shall soon have three railroads run
Ming in here We have only one man IN town IN sa'or
Of the Nebraska sw indie. Douglas has had strst
many warm friends here; now ne bss only one 'e.''
and his note is the only one TINT ne could receive Tor
,py Office. Five gentlemen that were being trans
no.d 70 Nebraska chose not 10 90 there on the terms
ibay were taken on; So they teok the underground
railroad through here for Canada las; week 3
Yours. 80" L. NJ w.
Ceres, opdsnee Of The y. Y. Tnbnae -
ROCK STRING, H., Friday, Aug. l, l-ol.
Two questions enter largely into the County e!ee.
tons to the Legislature this season-the principles oil
The Maine Law, or prohibition Of the manufacture,
sale aud use of alcoholic liquors as beverage and the
Nebraska question. On the first there is a change
working in the southern counties, among the people,
fiat has startled and hllcd with fearful orebodingsa
numerous class OF politicians. Very foolish and un-
necessary prciudicCs have been generated and up
BY a class OF Know NOthlngs for many year~Weout
Southern Illinois, calling il Egypt and represent
ing the people as semicyilized aud behind the age IN
every good thing This part of the State was the rst
settled Our Old class OF Native Americans are traced
back 10 the emigration that came 10 the country soon
after IFS conquest by Gen. G X Clark; aud our french
villages date back the close OF the seventeenth cen
turv At the formation of the first Constitution, IN
isis. the whole population Ga few families excepteD
were south Of line drawn across the state from
Alton aud numbered only 40 600. Nearly all were Ia
boring people farms; for governors Judges, law,
yers merchants ply siciaBs aud mechanics cultivated
ihe earth and lived in habits OF familiar social equai-
~. And from 1918 to 1890 while settlements were
progressing nOrthward the immigration brought very
little money or capital into the state. The people oil
southern Illinois were a quiet, peaceili, INDUSTRIOUS
class who began the world poor, with no market IN
the interior Tor many years; corr seIng 'rono" 10
cents per bushel pork for 50 80 per ew good steers
and COWS from 50 to $40 per head. They had the
hand to clear lor many of the early farms were made
in the iorest,) buildings TO provide, roads, bridges
houses and other public buildings 10 put up ahd
tie necsssares and comforts 10 provide for largo am
lies Who would expect them 10 make progress as
peope do who have capital, markets, high prices Tor
produce and competition to stimulate them
The writer afirnis on his personal knowledge that
in thirty years-ffom 1910 to io4c-the people ~
Southern Illinois made rapid advances m making
farms cultiy stng the soil, accommodating proPertyin
social order good morals and even temperance as the
people of Middle and Western New-York did from
isco to 1890 New-f York had the war Of ls2-lo
70 throw them back; but Illinois had the
same war in the form OF Indian depredanons
in their midst and had to live in forts and defend
themselves without foreign or national aid Strangers
from the North, who have passed hastily through this
feeon and few towns with rows OF neat houses,
have sncied these indications characterize the people
as ignorant and half civilized. Our customs aud
tastes are different from the Puritan race OF the North
Ever, body there but real farmer crowds INTO some
town or village the same class now do In northern
Illinois. Our people dislike the annoyances Of
crowded population. With few exceptions, where
business requires town residences the intelligent,
wealthy and even professional classes, are on farms
in the country. Hence persons travelling IN TINS ar
of region, and passing our country seats OF court
house villages and seeing no very encouraging ihdca
tons Of intelligence and thrift, have made very I'M
necessary mistakes of the general character OF the
population. II
Our railroads are beginning to turn things upside
down. and will produce great changes, but
whether hunsn comfort and happiness VIII DC tne
gamer remains TO be tess@d'
sonable exception for a numerous Class oil Germans
wbOmake and drink their fayorite beverage OF cier
and who also show prediction to apple "fcnsrds
and cider, population have not drank more aico-
holic liquors within thirty years than the same class u
the interior Of New.York during the same period. II
they lack in school education, they make 1t up In com
mon sense Thirty years since, in 81. Clair and other
Counties not few families acted on the abstinence
principle.
Within few weeks past we have had travelling
agent through our southern Counties forming County
Alliances and lecturing the people with most happy
effect Some of our politicians who are, or desire u
be. candidates are really afrghted. This ssent
came from Maine but a few months since, but ne has
already 'asonished the natives" by his sge Of I'd.
dress. In meeting held at SHILOH ssmp-ground two
miles from my residence, tie ID inst, after several
addresses, the question proposed and taken on
prohibitory law and in a congregation OF more than
three hundred, every person save one voted for It,
On the other question, amt. Nebraska you may
hear Of small earthquake in Illinois by November
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