The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-28
IMMIGRATION

From all parts of our state we hear most graf
flying accounts of the rapid increase of our
people by immigration. Under our immediate
view indeed, we have ocular testimony that the
annual fall-rse in the current of immigration has
begun The unmistakeabe wagon of The set
tier, heavily loaded with what he calls his .plun-
der the never-falling rifle, and the children
peep'ng out from the wagon sheet, all daily re-
mind us Of the additions to the next census
lists We are especially pleased to notice the
droves of stock, cattle and sheep which will rive
an appearance of life to the quiet and rich prai
rles of the interior. There is, it is true, a con-
slant stream Of population pouring into our state.
Spring and Fall of the year, Our State OF these
times seems to be the Mecca toward which
many caravan directs its way, and how stead
lily The line has poured on From wilderness
without name, to Territory from Territory to a
State, from weak and youthful State to a great.
prosperous and populous Commonwealh-how
snort the steps In seven years, reckoning from
our organization as State, population has in Z
creased more than three hundred per cent. So
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great an increase on large a scale is difficult
~ hha even IN our own country. Particular
cities or exceptional counties may show paral.
lei, but as State, we believe that il is exceeded
by none. Such demonstrated facts as our inn
migration and settlement, prevent the necessity
which has devolved on some of orr less favored
sister siates-the need of an official drumme,
at emlgrant ports The feast will be full with
out the Wisconsin recourse to the lanes and
high ways for the lame, the halt, and the blind
AS there is room for all, so there is inducemen,
for all, and these many mansions of our prea
House Tor all Nations, will be filled without pur
SUNG the statutory remedy of advertising fol
strays.
We have said before that the interior vas al
most unknown. We might say of the whole
state that the extent of its resources and its na,n
raj wealth are as yet hardly guessed Its Goa
held, extensive enough to supply the Unitee
States, its heavy mines Of lead and iron ore, ii,
beds OF gypsum, the depth and richness of it.
soil, the peculiar adaptation Of its numerous riv
ers and water courses 10 manufacturing purposes
LOT all these, the wealth is but half knowr
among The great body of even our own people
1t is only now and then that some wanderin.
hunter, or some more wandering tourist on tn,
search for pleasure, with spice Of Young Amer
lea in him, falls iu our way, TO tell Of the heav,
bodies OF first class timber along the head o
Boone river, the teeming wealth of Hardin o
the fertile prairies of Bremen. The grea, Nor
West of our State is almost unexplored. Eve,
have even heard of that curious lake in Risle,
county, which has around it stone wall of ma
sorry, regularly erected, bearing the marks o
Its age in the trees which grow upon it. TIL
resources Of our State are yet unknown, to ga
nothipsof their being undeveloped.
We venture, at the risk of being contradictes
10 say that IN every particular, essential to weYth
and progress, the northern part of Iowa IL fin
hnl'ely superior to the southern liz other lords,
that the richest part of our state, complying the
greatest advantages in soil, timber, nd water,
VIII be found to lie north of lire dawn through
the base of Linn, Benton, Iowa and Marshall
Counties. We appeal to evey unpre)udced
person who has travelled through our State.
These northern counties lying Immediately
back of our city, constitute great corps de re-
SERGE for Dubuque. II is only within the last
two or three years thai immigration has begun
to make itself known and felt there. The s,uth,
Mississippi have been long known, and 9e COM
parotireiy thickly settled. The int>for begins
to be known and appreciated. eastward The
star of empire takes its way! or an this sec
ton Of country, Dubuque/ 'ne great natural
outlet to The market os>ne world. When we
consider to wha, sb> das attained with merely
her unaded locy advantages, we shall then be
better able 70 climate the rank she ,oai attain.
| when inn sration has made strong the country
ropnser, which, with soil unrivalled in the
"a for richness and fertility, pours into her
ample lap through hundred avenues of trade
the combined and accumulated treasures Of in
dustry. In this connection, and as PECULIARLY
! applicable to this train of thought, we sub;,;n
an extract from the correspondence of the Buf
tato Courier on the Galena and Chicago Rail
road 1t is extremely well said.
| word about Dubuque. 1t has unrfvaiiet
| advantages of position; those being 81! uaiior
in the very heart OF rich mining country, on til,
banks of first class river-haying farmin.
country in the rear of the finest quality health,
location, and it will be the terminus of roat
from the east and another from The west
The observer of events cannot fail to hay,
noticed the rather unequal, or interrupted marcel
of the Star of Empire along the northern paral
Isi All Ind tie
IS within the memory of men, the summer
side of middle age, that it shone over Albany
and drew the admirng eyes of mercantile men
to that growing western city on the banks Of the
| Hudson. There for some time it shope. Their
moved slowly westward over Buffalo To this
| point again, in tie extreme west, there was
another gathering of the pioneer men of enter
prise and industry. But the Star rested there
| scarcely longer than at Albany, and marched OH
to Chicago, where its splendors attract men with
| the impulse and violence Of the times In a
| few years it will cross the Mississippi, and Du
buque be the great talked of city Of the ives,
soon, howev to become Eastern in its char
acter and business, as Albany has been, and
Buffalo has been, and Chicago will be.
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The WAY TO DO IT.-The junior Federal
Organ Of this city, finding that its miserable
game of pretended democracy was beginning to
be understood, thus swamps itself in whining
sentence on that subject:
"lt is useless for the Dispatch to attempt to
disguise, conceal, or surmask transpircd and
transporting events in this State, with a view
Is it absolutely determined to "surmask any
thing "wth a view" Good Lord deliver us
BURGLARY AND Horse STEALING.-At Gut
tenberg, Clayton County, on the goth, M. II.
Hays, had horse stolen, and T.. Gilmore's
store was broken open and two hundred dollars
distracted therefrom. 1t is supposed to have
been done between one and three o'clock, that
morning The entrance to the store was effec-
ted by boring two holes through the door, and
,,nholt;,o frunk ,rhich cnnfained tho