New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-18

mechanics receive good wages here0fuly 'ntice
the average Of the world over-but Rents are high
and Food generally dear while the Winter witnesses
general suspension Of business; so that the ten
or fifteen dollars weekly earnings are eeaeraily
spent as fast as earned or the savings Of ten months
set We industry sink into the vortex of dull January
and February. An Unmarried mechanic ought TO
save money here. even though h. earn but eight
dollars per week; but the hesd Of famil! Of SIX
or eight persons is barely able to live, though his
wsScs be ten or twelve dollars per week.
We say. then, to our Mechanics snd Laborers
who rquire IS to the eXpediency OF migrating
westward, Go. by all means If you ere good for
nothing. or theresbouts. you will not get on in a
new country; but neither will you if YOU remain
here: while tie chances are very much in favor Of
your growing mp with young and thriving COM
uunty There will be fewer thesters, circuses,
shows and spendthrift devices of sll kinds in
Vi lsce Oh the upper Mississippi or Missouri than
here: tie Winter will not so completely arrest
carpenter work and the like. there as here and
YOU can generally find numbering or some other out
door work to do during the few weeks that your
trade is distracted. If YOU have but the will to
keep doing YOU need very seldom stand idle day
in a new ard improving country Rents will be
lower there than here. food and fuel generally
cheaper, and you can wear cOarser and older
clothing without asking caring what will be said
about il.
But DO not fancy the West new Eden, nor sup
pose that migrating ,hither will insure you against
trouble ard misfortune On the contrary, you
must 90 resolved to work harder and endure more
priystions than you ever did before. Your house
will probably be log cabin, and rather poor
ptcimen Of that order Of architecture, il you at
tempt to settle on land of your own; you will
probably have the sgue the first or second season,
and should 90 prepared to treat it nteligenty and
effectively; yOu will find yourself in want of many
things that you never needed before. And it, amid all
these trials, you happen to be blessed with such
fe as Job had, or with any one who IS not help
ful, hopeful and reasonable, you will have urgent
need of all Jobs ample stock Of patience.
If sou 20 West, GET LAND--s quarter. section,
if you set down your stake in the open country;
an acre in the outskirts, if you make your home
in rising village. Do not try to monopolze all
that ions you for you will want neighbors to help
,on build school house and maintain ;cho)l,
make roads construct bridges, &c. Many man
has kept himself poor for life and retarded the i'm
proyement Of his neighborhood, by INDUCING in
inoIdinate greed for land. Blu. if you mean to
farm. get quarter. section, eighth choose it
deliberately plsnt yourself on it, and resolve to
stsy there till you are carried off 10 q box. The
vspraDt, migratory, Lomadc habits Of our West
ern People, who are too generally on the point OF
selling out and moving further west, is in its con-
sequences most deplorable. Millions live and die
in uesn cabins. without fruit, or shade, or msny
of the cheapest comforts of life who would ba'e
long stree Dyed them all if they had firmly re-
solved tina. their first location should be their last
ard L. the newer pioneers pass aud settle beyond
them. Take time to make your choice Of home,
AID hen sou have made it abide by it.
And il does not make half the odds you may sup
pose whether you locate in one Safe or another.
Iowa ard Kansas are jos. now the isyorites; but
grumbers aud snnoysnces will be found in these as
/ well a. elsewhere There are very good lands
never yet occupied in Illinois, in Wisconsin In
Indiana; or even in Ohio aud Western PennsJlva-
MIA. If you have means, YOU ear buy rude i'm
pIo7tment cheaper than you can make it; and there
are lands as cheap all things considered in New
jersey or Pennsy lvania as in Nebraska; only the
man who has no money may squat on quarter sec
tion at the Far West, and hope to earn therefrOm
the means Of buying it; while that process will NOT
snswer in communities where the land is already
appropriated. He who can command three or four
Thousand dollars can find land worth buying in any
State; but if he has TO learn the art of farming
well as acquire the money be can better exist
while go doing at the West.
Mechanics LabOrers men who wish TO rise
by downright Industry, yet have no assurance Of
doing il il the Esst-there are room and hope for
you all in the ample and generous West. Do not
wait to be starved out, but earn, if you have
nothing, enough to take you to one OF the Western
cities and leave YOU few dollars to live on-then
take the first work that offers til you can do better
OId, so soon possible, fix yourself on land and in
home of your own.
II is lot often that so much truth is told in 20