The Arkansas banner., 1848-06-13

Wisconsin, u will be seen by this xtatement (wa adopt the synopsis made by the New York Courier and Enqnrsr,) IS conside raby the largest of sll these States. having surface more than twice as large that of Indiana, and three times large as that oi Iowa, with perhaps less sterile or inferior land thaa any State in Inc Unon--ying between Lake Michigan and the Miss.ssppi-and rayidiy filing with an industrious population. it is destined to he aprePonderatiBg Stat. in the Union.
 The people have recently adoptcd liberal cen s'itDion, and bill IS now before Congress tor her admisson into the slsterhood ot States.
 ln the two States first named all tho public lands have been surveyed and the is true of illinois, Missisrippi and Alabama, except some ..iew dee tsehed trac;s."
 In the other States. a great dsai remains to be done to~ ards completing the surveys and in regard to flerida especially, the Report asks, with . view Co proper survey Of tbo Ees,giaass--a work of time and difficulty, which cannot bc executed upon the terms ltnicd by the sting laws relative to the public suryeysthat special auiha fly be given by law to contract for ths surveys oi the lands re. Ieted to ln saeh eligible mode as may be deemed most sd'i.able, and that spcc,a appropriation bs maGe therefor.
 Owing To The progress of the surveys in several of Inc states, the discoHtinaancs of tue office of Sur. veyor General ia some of those Stats Is reeomrDen- dcd as Ho leHgeT aeeded
 h Ohio and Indiana, the vouchers of the surveys have been already thnsicrfs ip the Ste authos ili1s and nothing TeDains for The IB,ad States Surveyor to do. Oi course that officer may be discontinued II Is recomIne pded, moreover, tbat t,s Surveying District of Arkansas be attached io that q Illinois and Missouri to which II iefDlsiy bslt'aged. and that those ol MiSssippi, Alabama. and Fios ida bs consolidated Ii 's computed bai annual satnr may be thus effected of Sl2 og0.
 The sales oi pubic lands during the past tive years follows:
 In iS9s, s.2bJ. 73O, over producing a7,90i 637 In Isl. sd, ahd 3d quarter of isi7, l.Sj9.024, over producing. 2,36s, ,359 The Comms sioncr looks forws srt for decline in The ainount oi reteipts from hs pubic lands tor several years 10 cone, manly owing to the ns,nbes of certificates of Indian reservation ahds, aEd nii. tafy bousty lands which will te in the markst-- Already military warrants to The nambsT of eII5 Dave been ls-ned, covering 2i5,sD acres The appreciation oi those waTraBs is adv such says he report that the caiFeni price for warrant ios l60 acres o laDd Ia Sl25. whereas to purchase the same qaaht,ty of land ol tho government, would rs. q'lire S2O0
 The receipt of ,ressBry notes 10 payment for pub. lie lands is another cause why that source oi in- come NilI hereafter bs less pr, dgs,pe. The whole number sf ''cofthcatss of Jcca'ioa." under military warrsn's, issued during the var w,th Great Britsin ,a 1872, 4i0eove hg s7 862 srres oi land. We have already for tbis Mexiesn wal parted sith mitiioa and qaaJter ef acres, and this is probably not more than quarter ot the rants-demandsbts under +l.s vsfioas iawr granting land ecsniy 10 Oregniars aud solanies hieh have 1 been issued.
 Tine of some of tae rsgio,ts bc yond the range oi sny of the presea' States, is thus given: Northwest Territory. Essi of Rocky Mountains and west sf the MissIs- si2pi, 47S.7J9. .7sa Northwest Territory, West of Rocky Mountains. 2is S36 s2e E@grsni Isdian ;.ands, West ef Mis- soua and ArksBs4s, l32. .ze5. .s3e GsseeHf