New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-21
TRaNELIHG CORRESPONDENCE.
MAn,or. Lynne county, Iora, Sent. u, 1s54.

MARION, Lynne county, IoFa, Sept. Il, 1854.
This is one of the finest countries physically con-
aiered that the foot of pressed outside the
Garden OF Eden have travelled to this place, about
sixty miles west of the Mississippi river in stage COACH
prairies and through forests aud groves
posed MAPLE BIRCH cherry hickory oak bushes
presenting vsriegaton of SCENERY not to be under
stood by who pictures to himself prairie only
vast grassy plane with occasional timber Imme.
datey after leaving the river entered extensive wheat
just harvested and still covered with shocks OF grain
eye could reach This crop yielded enormously
here present usual. As proceed into
INTERIOR the country appears to increase in fertility
and beauty the prairie stretches away every sdesn
vast ufdufationss like whose noun anous swes
been suddenly arrested and rendeIed motionles
indeed overooks the foreground of the picture
becomes oblivous to the pecularities Of his four
wheeled conveyance he may easily imagine himself at
with land appealing in sight on different tacksp thu
shape of low of tree tops and remate half
hidden by ground swell, the
verge of the horizon merely blue line where the sky
meets plain t1s utmost limit Of vision Whep
ave the roing prairfes generally sass for
miles through beautiful forests and perhaps emerge into
extensive plain perfectly level and apparently grdsd
all by ripg Of denss woods az distance too
great TOR be determ ned But il
that these great steppes appearances
Qnte deceptive anywhere else IN the world. The
plain everywhere abounds IN s groves and clamps Of
trses and bushes separate distinguish
any except OF these, and accordingly
ranees in CONTIGUOUS ine all round the horizons
brim which appears to recede before advance
lhe rapdity sth which this country become seted
and improved hin 4 few years is amazing. But
pewpess of tue buildings the primitive character
those fret ereete there ia nothing hieye to Indicate
that tina settlements through this gDn not be hun
dred years old There scarcely Of Government
land left this eouuy the farms adjun each other and
are in high OF cultivation the tables OF many Of
the farmers have proved to my entire satisfaction
deed every article desirable for culinary
is produced here III the greatest abundancs and finds
immediate market In the numerous villages sprnging up
ali the country The producriyeness of this rich
region, however will soon far exceed its wants and TO
meet this of things we'll Other wants Of
rapidly increasing population railroad is already
! jeeted from the Mississippi river via lows City.
Land mig a
immigration continually pouring in ranges in price at
very high not only in the counties bordering on the
river but for hundred miles or more in the interior
Men who here few ago with barely sufficient
money pay the Government price for their farms
found their property suddenly increase in value to thou
| sands of dollars,
Game abounds here in great variety, The, forests
prars fields populous with squirrels partridgas
pigeons rabbits prairiehans quaiis, etc and the clear
swift currentsof the numerous streams swarm with fish
of the kinds. The larger classes OF game have dis
appeared the country filled up aid although deer arr
killed this part Of tile State peithsr pan
ther bear buffalo s to be found This is probably
owing the fact that there are no fastnesss to hid
them from the pursuit of the hunter in many oide
States where many of civilization have failed to
terminate them The small prAiriewoH has been almos
entirely hunted ont OF existence for the un OF the chase
land his big brother the gaunt gray VOLT hss disappeare
| altogether .z=.#-5..-5-Z :. -
butter, honey eggs wild cherries piunis and grapes an
other thugs of the sort too numerous to mention Nh
Taylor old acquaintance Of mne his dwelling for
ti6ed In the only assaSba point with bee-hiyss, an
persous just sufficiently acquanted with these indus
trous little workers to unereand their rascible dispo
sition would hesitate TO pay him visit ona warm day
He has also large beehouse In which are stored i'm
mense accommodations of the sweets gathered from wid
range of country You enter passage on escn SIDE
which you may open small DOORS and see unlimited gu
titles of the white comb arranged in rows oi walls an
covered in spots with groups of the busy Insects to
much occupied With their wors to notice your iatrnsor
thought while examining this stronghold Of spa
people, That should anything occur to enrage them,
should they be suddenly seized with epdsnis mac
thsre would bs no place outside the domiI
ions of the gentleman in black y saw enough hone
in this cspaeous hive all the throats Chris
endo-takng 1t for granted that honey Is the thing
i that complaint.
| Il have noticed that nine cut of every ten men wi
shake hands with in this region give an sxtrao
dinsry cinoh punch with ons or fingers and
learning that hail from New Orleans appear astonsh
do reoprooats the mysterious but no doubt
roant and polite salutatfon This fact coupe with
unexpected and unacoountHbls rssnit rsosnt loe
eleotiou tends TO the opinion that secret associato
believed by the old.lne Democrats ito be Composed
midnight assassins and thieyes' has taken root
and hourishes amazingly under the protection
I the beat msa in The Dounty have also been Inform
that this vary deplorabie state of things exists
county Of ths state and the thing has said
pe Of Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri, g, WIS