The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-12
Il PRIMITIHE PEOPLE.
An Arcndian Community I'm Trans-
sylvnnia.

correspondent of the London Times
writes from Kausenburg, In TransylvanIa
II you look ut the map, Seek Is not twenty
miles from the capital hut II you want to go there
you must reckon half q day In summer, when the
direct road Ia passable, aud In winter or spring,
when you have to make great round, you may
deem deem, yourself lucky II yon get there without nc,
are 30 good rs they are In Transylvania this
seems surprising, butit finds Its explanation In
the natural features Of the district. The interior
OF TransyIvanIn forms one great basin, evidently
once the bed OF the sca. In the very centre OF the
country, between the course OF the rivers Maros
and Sznmos, there rises an undulating plateau OF
late tertiary sandstone and shale soft and fria-
bic To Judge from single old trees ana small
greatest part OF this district was wooded, but now
it Is succession Of naked downs, harborng
se GSSe Under tho nomo
the PASTURE is considered tile most productive
OF TransylVariu. 1t was the great grazing dis
large herds OF fine cattle and horses were dispers-
ed. Every proprietor In the surrounding districts
farming to have some land In the district, for it
was, above all, through this part that he made Ills
farming pay. Since the great herds OF cattle
broken up. II strikes you that it has been done
systematically, for while the slopes facing south
have been poughed up ana bear I Iuxnriaht crops I
OF wheat, rape and Indian corn. This is owing
to peculiarly which you have no trouble in dis.
covering for while on the northern slopes you sec
fat black soil, the southern slopes, through the
scanty grass, you sec yellow sand mixed with
mari. As In the largo ailnylal plains OF Hungary,
the material for roads is wanting on the "Pas.
turc,n the stone which ls used dec0mposing so
Roon that 1t Is dust almost before 1t Is laid the
road. With the exception, therefore, OF the parts
OF the road lying close to the river, where gravel
may be got they can, even with the great labor
bestowed upon them, scarcely be kept up, and
have to be relald almost every spring.
Although IL boasts OF q charter from King Mat
thias Corvlpus OF the fifteenth century, which in
sures to it III those rights and privileges Which
has Oeen 9kdnted to Buds, the capital OF Hun.
gary, the noble town OF Seek, as It is called in
ance from village. You sec the same low, one
| stored houses, with their gablc.ends turned to-
wards the street. and separated from each other
| by tho courtyard, merging into the garden be.
! the building turned towards the courtyard, and
under the thatched roofs you the heads OF vel.
low Indian corn and tobacco leaves strung up in
To judge by the similarity OF the houses you
seem to have realized in your journey the land
OF equality, nor are you, indeed, far OF here see.
Ing the dream OF tho enthusiasts realized, for II
there Is not much wealth there is no great pov.
erty either In SICK; proletarians or beggars are
unknown.
| Where no one Is In absolute want, and oil arc
more or less on the same level, the greatest IN.
citemcnt to crlmc is gone; and 80 II is In this
Transylyaufan Arcadia. Except now and then
a row on Sunday evening, there IL but little for
Justice and police TO do, anil oven these rows can
OF five thousand souls only half dozen are known
as drunkards. Theft Is unheard OF; not honse
| has lock, agricultural implements are kept In
the fields, household property In the open court.
yardls, where not even watch:dogs arc kept
Therel8, indeed, o prison remaining, but II has
been used for years as q lumber.room.
e % a whch
In olden IA we'll as In more recent times, tho place
/ has not been disturbed. There Hungarian and
Rouman have been and are living In the best har