New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-04-20
IumiSrafien, &e.


v,,sn.rs by the late arrival gives promise OF
-. ;mr,,r.t;on TO the United States this season;
and mostly, we are happy to find from the cas-
ANAL farrnen,-men Of some pscuniary ANS anu
disposed to labor and economy
II i, estimated by one of the most inteihsent OIL
Nh. London journals that from Ireland alone there
-,,lha an Immigration TO this Continent OF from
200 900 10 900 Of her people during the present
..Iards, wear II such an influx Of population
ir5n.trisl. honest and with means, pscuniary or
v.ics. be scattered over our country, IL Will
bring and create wealth to an indefinite extent
The untitled lands of the great West that require
bat moderate attention 70 be abundsntiy productive
can receive, occupy and reward a nation OF indus
trious laborers Facilities for the transportation
there Of the present Industry that seeks our soil are
daily becoming greater and greater. The Far
Vest our fathers remains with as bat pleasant
memory in actual reality, is now brought within
our easy command--days serve row TO reach the
most remote Of our Western possessions, where
but a quarter of century sence months were met
fectual: and the poor can now compass the journey
that then only belonged to comparative wealth
Judging of the Future by the Past the compile
ton Of this Century will exhibit mighty empire
resting upon the Great Lakes and the Northern
Mississippi a rich and easily TILED SOIL climate
salubrious and moderate, institutions calculated TO
develop the most earnest energies nothing is want
ing to satisfy the most unenthusiastic Imagination
of the great destiny awaiting that section OF our
country. We have reason to anticipate that In
more than the accustomed ratio of the last half
century will the population and resources oil that
country be increased for in far greater proportion
are the facilities Of reaching that country, and the
ability to obtain property there daily increasing
Within two years, it may be confidently antici-
pated. that St Louis will be connected with this
Civ by an almost continuous line Of Railroad
Citizens Of New.York and Boston it is well-known,
have purchased the Central Railroad OF Michigan
and are fast completing it to Chicago. A meeting
we are informed, is soon to be holden in Faneuil
Hall at Boston, to consider the expediency OF build
ing road from Chicago through the State Of Illinois
to some place Oh the Mississippi River. This road
will be built, either by private enterprise, or the
patronage of the State Of Illinois and the road 70
Albany being completed. and projected road IRON
Buffalo 70 Detroi. through Canada. st. Louis and
New-York will be nearer each other by many days
consideration Of no Indifferent nature in the cal
culation Of the increased wealth which necessarily
arises from frequent and fscile intercommuncatlon
Eastern Capital is not far as regards the
West, devoted solely to the enlargement OF iacii'
tiles to reach it il is also used, and to be used Tor
the development of its resources resources prob
ably unequaled in any uninhabited country OF the
world Many Judgments have been already made
by men of capital in the East among the wilder
ness of the West The wildness Of Nature has
been reclaimed and made subservient to the wants
of Man: nor this alone, in organized States, but
in territories hardly subjected to legal sway
The future territory of Minnesota, not yet organ
lied under the laws of the Union has been paricu-
ly selected by men of enterprise and far.reaching
sagacity, for profitable investment in lands The
tributaries of the Upper Mississippi rise within Its
borders flow through and ertilize its soil and, by
gentle descents afford abundant opportunity for the
establishment and perpetual operation OF mills OF
every denomination. The Falls Of St. Anthony
and the Falls Of St. Croix have been purchased and
appropriated, by company of Boston capitalists
for the future site Of ourshing cities Noheathier
locations could have been selected no soil more
fertile than that in their vicinity could be found
! while the river, from its natural dam above gives
them an unlimited water.power, and from its dept
below affords even to 81. Louis the year through
out, uninterrupted passage to every craft.
This company, we rejoice to learn, has provided
or contempates to provide, early and ample mean
for the transportation Of eigrants, as they land Oh
our shores, to their possessions Sufficient land 10
all purposes Of cultivation will be afforded them Oh
credit: if their character or entite then
10 it:-and at a moderate price.
Such disposition of the incoming foreigner
will be far better for themselves than constraine
residence in any of our Atlantic cities. Here the
could merely derive a scanty subsistence from II
cessspt labor; there they would breathe in all tn
liberty and dignity Of freemen, and at the sam
time Law the sure foundations Of early competence
Mostly Agricultural in their habits, they would mn
the re eming land of the West the proper spher
for their avocations and the full reward OF their II
f dustry-whie they would be free there from tn
pestilental moral diseases which atfct, sometime
10 all awful degree aggregations OF individuals col
fined within limited space