The true Democrat., 1854-10-11
done in the table.

This table shows an increase in the popula- ton of the State in the last four years of more than 25 per cent, while the increase in the pro- ductions have been greater This is rapid growth and promises we'll for the future pros- poets of the State.
 There are at this time many causes conspir- ing to induce emigration and settlement in Ar kansas. The action of Congress in the last few years, towards this State, has been liberal in deed. The grant of sacamp lands, the grant of railroad lands and finally the passage of the graduation land bH, are measures which must rebound to the interest and advantage of tba State almost to an incalculable extent. By the grant of swamp lands and the subsequent legis lation upon the subject by our own Legislature. millions of acres of the finest and richest lands in the world have been exposed to sale at price nearly nominal. As to the effect the grant of railroad lands will have upon the set clement of the strip of country through which the railroads shall pass, no one who has given the subject moments consideration, can enter tain doubt. With the present cheering pros. pect of their construction, we have already ex- perienced their beneficial influence. The discus. sions which have been going on have attracted the attention of emigrants and proved the cause of many, very many removing into the State
 Upon the effect the land graduation law will have upon the growth and settlement of the State we cannot add any thing better than the following from Hon. RoBT. w. JOHNSON, in letter to the editor of this paper published the 18th of August last The predictions he makes we have every confidence will be fully verified.
 "The wild territories, the lands of which have not been picked and culled, hitherto; and which consequently, under our present system. offered superior inducements to the cnergetic and enterprlslng emigrants, have vet to be sur. veyed, and exposed to sale before tue orol1,aat ing process con eject reduction to less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. Tn the mean time, the cheopness of our land will induce an actual inspection, and an examination into it's powers of production, and will inevitably lead to an immense influx of population strersgsheu- ang us for all purposes of education and internal improvements, enrrclang our treasury with the revenue of millions of acres not now subject to taxation, increasing beyond calculation tue vayue ef oH property, and enhancing immediately and immensely, aHthe staplep eproducts of the humblest farmers. Our increase of population will be ac. celerated to degree, have not the slightest or remotest doubt, that will astoa,M the oldest and wisest observer in this or any other land. who has not studied, and W ho is not familiar with the settlement of new countries and the causes now about to produce this effect If the census of 1860, does not show us population of siz hundred and fifty to seueaa Auudrsa thousand. and that of 1870, only sixteen years distant, population of million ahd ho1t-within the broad boundaries, of so large State as Arkan. sas, as the combined results of the present en- frightened movement of Congress, regarding the public lands, and the vast enterprises of intern al improvement now happily provided for and commencing, shall be sadly disappointea, not to say, utterly confounded."