New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-27

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away from the villages and the disproporion between
the town and the country is almost great St.
Paul. Throughout the West struck with the
tendency TO run to villages, ON the praries the
isolated houses appearing be few aud far between.
The Michigan famine will not be long without its fellows,
il the consumers ounumber the producers 10 40
alarming an extent ss they would seem to do now in
the Wet Of the West The mania for ssing land
will soon, it is earnestly to be hoped, give place TO
mania for tiling that already 10 possession Specu-
lation in real estate il meaningless in the
highest sense if the real estate speculated in be
not used for the purposes for which it was
created. The greatest agricultural country in
the world, in parts of which corn dropped into the
fro shtuned turf lies, and not hoed at all yields
one hundred bushels TO the acre, must speedily meet
with him " ho will not subdue the soil, but use what
he find. subdued 10 his hand What has occurred in
the older Western States makes such result matter
of course in time. viii it arrive soon enough One
would say pot judging from the emigration that sets
tlitherward. In the day and half that we were
coming down the Mississippi we met half dozen
boats, every inch Of which was filed by passenger
A Milwaukee paper estimates this years enigrants
into Wisconsin at one hundred thousand, aud in Min
nesota and Iowa they will doubtless be twice as many.
At the table this cOnsumer-and producer question
stares one in the face fearfully. Who shall feed
people that eats like this Western people Not for
the love Of it at all apparently, with little
or no choice or reiish of food, but az thing
10 be dope, and TO be done quickly. As you
90 further West, the cars stop less and lees
time for meals until the hah hour for dinner is short
eIed to a matter of ten minutes. But no one has a
right TO complain, in country where TIE majority
governs. Most Of the passengers are impatient of
even a ten-mnute dinner, and may be seea pick
ing their teeth with their forks squirting tobacco
juice, their appetites fully satisfied, some moments
before the whistle is heard. From Cincinnati, via
St. Paul, to Niagara scarcely a meal did take in
hotel or steamboat where several relays of eaters
had not and gone, while was still discussing my
food in manner and form as was brought mp to do
In Chicago the waters hunored the fashion of the
fast people, making slow ones ike US wait meanwhile
by serving the dessert at the time with the soup
and meats, if to bridge over with charlotte russo
possible interval between boiled and roast. How
wish Dickens could give annual number of notes
on America
Nor is this centralizing tendency of the West bene-
fetal to the character of its inhabitants Many of the
prairie Villages. along the line of the Illinois Central
for example, are dwelt in by the rolghest of the
rough, who seek excitement in fights with the railroad
brandy the best quality whereof .es at 81 cents per
gallon and whisky four gallons of which are sold for
a dollar. Men need the stimulus of farming, the
genial presence of women and the invgorating inhu-
ence of more out. Of-dOOr pursuits.
OfcouIse have been speaking of tendencies and
have put extreme instances. There is another side of
the matter Of which less need be said, because it Is
view common among Eastern people. To many the
:. ill ,c1, LOTT but hfnhn
sI aight road forunethe skies fair and the peo
pie as excelng as the soil is rich and the scenery
splendid. Such would be almost my own feeling as
regards those parts of the country where civilization
has had time to crystalze, and everywhere
signs that the whole advances to that ideal state The
masses of the people in respects much better
than ours, more frank, outspoken and hearty. They
seem more true than we of the East Would
they give themselves time to think, talk and enjoy,
they would speedily be nodded into one of the
best classes of men. Numerous the villages which
delight the stranger by their picturesqueness OF stua
ton or the taste which has laid them out But among
them all, Madison the capital of Wisconsin, bears
away the palm. / can well understand how an ac-
ouaintance of mine a young just entering upon
the practice of the law should on the strength
of sunset view of the village as she sits between her
two lakes, ali embowered in trees decide to make his
home there though with previous intention OF leav-
ing NewYork.
On my way homeward passed through well-known
places and saw familiar sights At Chicago went
over one of the immense grain warehouses capable
of containing six seven hundred thousand bushels
At Detroit we found the low, irregular, od-fashioned
and republican brown house of Gen. Cas-, and saw
him in his study at work.
In the course of my wanderings, fell in with an in
teigent old man fresh from Kansas. Originally from
New-York he had lived all along the Mississippi Val
ley as low down as Texas. Latterly h had arined It
in Michigan whence he emigrated to Kansas last
April with seventy of his neighbors They, with an
other party which joined them there, located their
claims on the Neosho, in the sOutherly part Of the
Territory. Mary took their wives and children with
them, while others came back fer theirs. My friend,
whose opportunities Of observation state in order to
give his opinion weight, regards Kansas W the
finest country in the world 1t is exceedingly well
watered, every stream being frneed with a heavy
growth of oak black walnut, &C., TO width of from
50 rods to mile and in the main it consists of rolling
prairie The soil lie exceedingly fertile, bearing 100
bushels of to the acre. when first plowed. Some
Of it is as rich as the American Bottoms Of the Missis
sppi. The old man showed me Kansas hickory nut
to bear out his assertions, which was bigger than an
English shagbark, and could have swallowed three or
four hckories such the boys sold through the cars
inquired with regard TO the character of the popu-
laiion and the necessity of carrying firearms. lie
answered-and herein would seem to lie the expana-
ton of many of the contradictory accounts one hears
that a distinction was to be taken Along the border
line, at such places Leavenworth City, Lawrence,
&c. there were undoubtedly many desperadoes in the
Free-Stae as well a. the Pro-Ssvery party, political
adventures and real cstr,e speculators-men whom