Arizona citizen., 1872-03-16

towns, etc., look modern as a rule, but soon this side everything begins to show the effects of old-time settle ment. The timber patches seem to have been planted by human hand, as expect many of them have been. The old original oaks are long gone with the early inhabitants of the State, and in this less hilly section the landscape is assuming the airs of roll ing prairie far west. The fencing is getting shadowy, and the material to rebuild economized accordingly. But stone seems to be in plenty in every field, when required. Farming is evi- dently down to a fine point, as the piles of stacking lime on every hand, as @ fertilizer would indicate
 This old town of Lancaster is the head-center of the Pennsylvania Dutch. The roofs of the houses uni versally slopein into the streets, and thus help to form great brick sluice boxes. The soft snow is constantly slipping off on to the pavements, a fact very significant to strangers. The place IS not without historical associations of much interest. Here lived and died and are buried Messrs Buchanan and Stevens-the embodiments of the most antagonistic ideas of their times. The first, the head of the nation at one time: the other, the leader of the pop ular branch of Congress. Buchanan was the scape-goat of our forefathers. Those good old patriots left certain matters so vague that their children had to solve the points with the sword. Old James and Thaddeus are both here held in grateful memory socially.
 There is but one very striking pecu- liarity about about any portion ot Pennsylvania population-to my nc ton at least. Throughout this sec ton, the best reader of nationality by means of the facial outlines, must frequently be puzzled, if not aston ished. You will meet on every hand, every day, young Americans here whose grandfathers may even have been born on the soil whose habits of dress, actions and the like, are broadly American; and whose faces are ex- pressive of the genuine American cul- ture and all that-yet who no sooner open their heads than out fly series of wecateses," "yaws," etc., as nat- urally as if they had just landed from an emigrant shipl I can't ac- count for this, unless upon the theory that family attachments are greater than anywhere else. I know our old neighborhood in Ohio had some claE- ish ways that provoked me from the time I was old enough to know any thing for certain. It may be the be- ter for society that the young folks should obey their grandfathers even like unto a dog, but still think 1t an open question. In Ohio, now, think the difference is, that a boy is as good a man as his father, at 21. In IlE- nois, he is better than two fathers, at 16; and if the old man don't like it, he will go dish-washing on a steam boat at 10, and by 20 he will run if not own the vessel. Isn't that about the size of it? Yes, this part of Gods country witnesses young Americans, male and female, eating pretzels like candy between meals. About b miles northeast of here, near the village Of New Holland, saw my grandfathe1' WIS mansion. It is located in a pie turesque spot, but too rocky to make an easy living; and as the old chap couldn't talk the language of the loo,4 hic loo