Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-12-10

Gov. German, in his message TO the Minnesota
Legislature last winter, stated the population of
the Territory at 10000, as shown by the census
taken IN the summer previous. At the opening
of navigation in the spring it was estimated at
l20,O0u, and now, near the close of navigation,
it is set down by St. Paul paper at 100000.
There may be sone exaggeration in this last
statement, but We think not much.-Minnesota
has been regarded as the land of promise for
three or four years back throughout the Eastern
States, and the tide ofemigration setting toward
il during the last spring and summer has beer
far greater than ever before, caused partly by a
diversion of several thousand in that direction
who would have gone to Kansas had it not been
for the troubles there, but chiefly by the encour-
aging accounts of the resources Of the Territory
given by the settlers to their friends at dis
lance, and those of travellers through it commu-
nicated to the newspapers. Such accounts are
always liable to the suspicion of being rather
warmly colored, but we believe that, as a gem
eral thing, the natural advantages of Minnesota
have not been overstated. The more widely it
becomes known the higher stands its reputation
in the public mind.
The settlement of two hundred thousand PEG.
pie during the short space of ten years in Ter
ritory more than fifteen hundred miles from the
scaboard, which up to that period had only been
roamed over by savages, is an extraordinary fact
in the history emigration even in this country,
and it becomes all the more interesting when we
consider the character of the population, which
for energy, Industry, and the sober household
virtues will compare favoraby with that of the
best portions of the Older States. As we should
expect from such people, all the best institu-
tons of older communities keep pace with the
general Improvement of the country. Every vii
lage has its school house and its church, and at
St. Paul and other large towns, the foundations
Of public education are being laid on q broad and
generous scale.
At the present rate of increase, Minnesota will
have a population of at least half million in
1860. In two years or less, Chicago will be in
direct railroad communication with St. Paul,
furnishing grand highway of travel into the
heart of the Territory, and by that time another
railroad will in all probability have penetrated
Southern Minnesota from Iowa. ifnot more than
one. Meantime also road will be carried for
ward from St. Paul to Lake Superior, throwing
| open vast region to settlement and improve
| ment. These works constructed, the progress
of settlement will be wonderfully rapid, and we
can hardly set any limits to the population o.
that Territory at the end of the next twenty &c
years. Chicago Press.
ANOTHER REPORTED MuRDER-It is rumoret
that the body of man was found one day las
| week, near Union Mills in Mahaska county-sup
posed to be that of a drover, murdered for hi
money; which it seems they did not get a
| some 5000 was found sewed in his coat collar
The body (says the rumor) was identified BY
partner of the murdered man.
We hope the report will prove without founda
ton, but fearit is too true.-Montezuma iowa
Gazette.