Demoine courier., 1854-08-24
WESTERN EMIGRATION.

From $4,000 TO 100. 900 people cross.
ed the Mississippi river during the year
1883 to make a home in Iowa, and it is
estimated .hst l5O.O 900 will settle in that
State this year. Already the river steam.
ers are pouring thousands Of hardy cas-.
tern farmers and en.erpris!ng mechanics
upon her borders. Before the ne 1t CEN
sus Iowa will number a million Of in.
habitan,s. Railroads are being construc.
ted andloca.cd in every direction through
the State.
VIVA, gives Iowa so much attraction is
the exceeding healthfuluess Of the eli.
mate. Fever and ague are almost ui,!
known, which is ex,raoi binary in a new
western Stale.
The New England States AID New
York, send e nj Of thousands of their
sons 10 Iowa. But from no State Or
quarter OF the Union are so large drafts
made as upon Ohio. there 10 not a
school district in Iowa, where Ohioans
will not be found. They play as impor-
landers do in this State.
1t is fact not generally known that
the emigration from Ohioi,o the VESTS lar.
ger than from any other State. Go where
you will in Iudiana, Illinois. Wisconsin.
Iowa or California, and you will find
Buckeyes at every step. Her soil is loo
rich and dear 10 retain a dense popula-.
ton. A poor man can earn enough from
Il three yesrs' lease on his neighbors
farm to move west, buy a quarter or
half section and set up freeholder for
himself. A farmer with a few acres Of
land can sell i. to his richer neighbor, 60
Wes, and buy a large farm.
The temptation is too powerful to be-
resisted. Thus tlIs large farms are be-
coming larger and the small freeholders
are becoming absorbed in them. The
agricultural population of the old settled
counties, is at a stand, or decreasing, az
in Carroll. Jefferson, Harrison, Stark,
and other grain growing sections. The
increase of population in Ohio is confined
to the cities and towns and western
counties. G ..a aa
The tendency of emigration 10 not on
Iy 10 follow the same linss of latitude in
which they were born, but people from
any given neighborhood in an Eastern
State will settle in the same vicinity in
their homes. This is natural. A. gen.
tleman, formerly q resident Of New
Philadelphia. aud at presen. living in
Christie county, Illinois. informs us that
within W years 400 persons from Gosh.
en- and Dover townships, Tuscarawss
county have settled around him. He
feels, he says, socially as if he were yet
in old Tuscarawas.
Should the free home till become a
a law. the rush of landless persons. or
those owning small patches, would be
tremendous. We are prepared to see a
food Of half a million Of human beings
cross the Mississippi within twel,"
months after the law takes effect; nj 4
half that many more rush into the new
lands of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin aud
Michigan, east Of that river. The pso-
pie of the cotton States will pour into
Texas; the Central Slave States into
Arkansas and Kansas; and the Northern
Slave States into Missouri and Nebras-
ka; Ohio. Pennsylvania and New Jer.
ssy will flock to Iowa and Nebraska If
slavery is kept out; New England and
New York will pour their surplus popu.
larion into Minnesota. Wisconsin and
northern Nebraska. The German myr.
lads will settle in all degrees Of latitude.
from San Antonio to the Lake Of tho
WOODS. A sprinkling Of northern men
will emigra,e southwark. and southern
people aorshward.-Erehange