Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-25
A PRIMITIVE CONSTITUENCY.
Asa AReadBaA Community In Transyl.

Al ArcadSaA Community In TraMsyl.
vanla.
A correspondent of the London Times
writes from Klausenburg, in Pennsylvania:
IF you look ct the map, Seek is not 20
miles from the capital, but if you want to
go there you must reckon half Q day in
when tho direct road is passable,
and in winter or spring, when YOU have to
make agreat round. You may deem yourself
lucky If You get there without accident to-
wards evening. Where roads in general are
as good as they are in Transylvania, this
seems surprising, but it andy its explana-
ton in the natural features Of the district.
The interior of. Transylvania forms one
great basin, evidently once the bed of the
sea. In the very centre of the country. be-
tween the course of the rivers Maros and
Szam0s, there rises an undulating plateau
of late tertiary sandstone and shale, soft
and friable. TO judge from single old
trees and small patches of forest still re-
naming scattered, the greatest part of the
district was wooded, but now it is sue
cession Of naked downs, harboring small
lakes in every depression.
1.-THE whole district, known under the
name of the Pasture il considered the
most productive of Transylyania. 1t was
the great grazing district Of the country be-
fore 1840, when most of the large herds of
fns cattle and horses were dispersed
Every proprietor in the surrounding dis
tricts considered it almost as necessary
portion OF his farming to have some land
in the district, for it was above all through
this part that he made his farming pay.
Since the great herds of cattle have been
dispersed, much of the land has been
broken up. It strikes You that it has
been done systematically, for while the
slopes facing south have been left in
tact, the slopes facing north hays been
ploved up and bear lNxurlant crops of
wheat, rape and Indian corn. This is ow-
ing to q peculiarly which YOU have no
trouble In discovering, for while on the
northern slopes you see fat black soil, on
the southern slopes, through the scanty
grass, you see yellow sand MIKE d with mari.
As in the large alluvial plains of Hungary,
thu material for roads is wanting on the
s'pasture," the stone which is used decom-
posing so soon that it is dust almost before
It ID laid on the toad. With the exception.
therefore, Of the parts Of the road lying
they can. even With fhe great labor beatov:
~ Hpqn t0euS eS3SCqsy O0 AoEs ~ oAu
have to he selaid almost every spring.
Matthias Corvinvs of 1.-THE fifteenth oe6-
privileges which had been granted to Buda
the capital Of Hungary; the noble town Of
Seek, % 1t 10 called in diplomatic language,
10 litilo different in appearance from vii,
lage. Yod SEQ tho ssaae low. e1e:a!oriss9
- AAel. ~
wards the streets, and separated from each
other by the courtyard. merging into the
garden behind. Z wooden verana.h runs
: xsfas q tSs eoR4t Yard, s1a Hnder the
thatehed roafs You iee tho heads Of yellow
Indian corn and tobacco leaves strung up
in q row. forming sort of festooa.
ITO Judge by the similarity Of the
houses You seem to have realized in your
Journey tho land of equality, nor are you,
e eptbSsass tesi lie 1 iss tRe9eSs sp:
much wealth thsrs il no great poverty
either In SRek; proletayians or beggars ore
unknown.
"Whsre no one is in absolute want, and
ell are moe or less on the same level, the
greatest. Indictment ia crime te ge4e;
and 30 it j. in this Trahsylvdnian Arcadia.
Except now aud then Q row on Sunday
evening, there Is but little for justice aud
police TO do, and even these rows can only
be Of rare occurrence when in population
of five thousand souls only halfa dozen are
known o. dr1pkards. Theft is unheard Of;
not a house 6as = iosk, agricultural impls-
ments are Kept in the fields, household
property IN the open court-yards. where
not even yateh. dogs are kept. There is,
indeed, . prison remaining, but it hos been
used for years IS lamber-room.
ligious agitations through which Transyl-
vania has gone in olden as we'll as in more
regent times, the place has not been dis.
turbsa. There Hungarian ana Roulnan
have been and are living In the best har.
mony, the best proof of which is that the
msyor is Kouman, although by far the