The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-05-20
Western immigration.

The ruah Westward is without precedent
in the history of the country. For the post
three weeks the arrivals over eoc6 of the
Michigan roads the Central and Southern.
have been not less than fifteen hundred, and
often they have averaged two thousand daily
or these, it Is estimated that fully two-thirds
are emigrants seeking homes in the West.
and of the twothirls, nine-tenths are Amer
leans by birth, mostly from New York and
New England. Only few days SINCE and
we mention the fact to show the character
and extent Of the movement, one hundred
and forty persons, from one neighborhood in
Maine, pass through in company on their
way to Iowa. This was but the avanf guard
of more to come.
According 10 the best estimates we have
been able to mske, the West--that is to say,
the States of Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin,
aud the Territories of Minnesota and Kansas
ARC receiving now, about 1000 new in
habitants every day over the eastern roa,ls
alone. This estimate does not include the
emigration from Indiana and Ohio by the
roads traversing the State lately, nor the
emigration arriving by the Ohio and Mississ-
ipli rivers, from Virginia, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, which by
the way, is larger than ever before. We are
safe in saying that the increase from all
quarters is not less than four thousand souls
a day, and the tide is not ycta its height
This year the movement has commenced
earlier than usual by about. three weeks
Tlv -lo,tns- ;rfars,raiinn diffhsad fhroiIohont
ting here carly in the season to be able TO
Iut in n crop Of sod corn, a few potatoes and
the necessity 'garden truck" as the Ken
,uekans ha, il, has hurried 1t forward ;,yet
il will be June before the daily arrivals will
roads leading into the city over which the
armies come, and the great roads leading
Wcst-thc Galena d. Chicago, the Rock
Island, the Galcna Air Line and the Chica-
90 and Burlington-arc taxed almost up To
the capacity of their rolling stock; what they
will do when the demands Of travel are
doubled and they arc forced daily TO Sceoml
MEDIATE six or seven thousand hurried
and impatient people, we do not undertake
| to say.
The smalncss cf the foreign immigration
is a source Of general remark. Whether the
cause is to be sought for in fact that the
scason for il has not yet arrived or in the other
fact that recent political movements have so
injuriously affected the reputation of the couli.
try, Il at the oppressed from other lands will
no longer seek homes among us, we leave
politicians TO decide. Whatever the cause
may be, we arc sure that in the West at least
il is generally deplored With all who have
come and with all who are coming tho field
for honorable, useful and profitable labor is
not filed. More is demanded-more men
of muscle are needed; mon of the plow
and the harvest field, men for the machine
shop, the forge and the carpenters bench,
men for the mills, for the pnerics, the canals
and the railroads. There are lawyers, doc
tors, merchants, spectators, fiddlers and
phrcnologists in abundance, and no more arc
wanted Send US men and women who know
how and are not ashamed to work. For all
such the West has rewards that no other
country in the world can give.
Chicago Tribune.