St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-08-13

Girls in Demand.
OF the estimated million of inhabi.
tants who have moved into the west
during the current year, a quarter Of
whom are from New England third
from all other parts Of the United
States, and the balance from Europe,
a very large portion are young, mar
riageable men. At present only for
tune seekers, they will soon acquire
property, and thereupon feel them
selves able to maintain wives it is
their mistake to hold that young men
can accumulate property faster while
single than when joined to wives.
This, their common error, ought to be
corrected by men Of experience a
young man will accumulate 100 per
cent. more property married than sim
gle, with the same industry. The tri-
ais Of poverty imagined to be seen in
wedlock by most young men are evi-
dences of want Of manly spirit we
admit that such imaginary trials and
and dreary foreseen want in young
men are bad signs--signs that they
can see mountains where only hillocks
rise-elephants where only mice do
abound. They want those more man
ly traits of character, fortitude, faith
and resolution. We say nothing of
other advantages a young man derives
from early marriage, even though he
marry before fortune strews his path
with fancied pleasures and props, ros-
es and winery supports. Property, as
q foundation of true happiness, is no.
where as a competitor with matrimo-
ny; and any great efforts to accumu-
late property before acquiring wife,
is like Placing the cart before the the
horsc-the wife, like the horse, must
go before, and the property, like the
cart, will surely follow reverse the
order, and there will be failure Of
both, except with the miser, from
whom God deliver the woman forever.
Tho proportion of manageable
girls brought to the west during the
year, is certainly small, perhaps only
as one to five Of young men. So far
as our own observation goes, the dis
proportion is of long standing, and
has increased in the last three years.
But for many Of our young men going
east and south for wives, the dispro-
portion might result in serious conflicts
something like what occurred be-
tween the young Romans and lady
Sabines. Of the girls emigrating to
the west, nearly all are intelligent,
worthy and companionable-having
been brought up in no higher sphere
than the farm and common school af-
fords. Very few city and boarding
school maidens come west, so that the
character Of girls is generally excel
lent, and their habits of industry equal
to the standard industry of our young
men. 1t is the great deficiency in the
number of girls that we are consider
ing, and not the matter of character.
1t will be observed by the reader that
marriages occur daily in every vicini.
ty-not a tenth of them are published
in the papers. Perhaps majority Of
these marriages are between young
men who have come west to earn
their fortunes, and have succeeded
and girls who came west within few
months.
Should our article meet the eyes Of
people in the old States, among whom
the west has thousands of sympathiz
ers in every other respect, we hope
they will organize female emigratine
associations, and aid in balancing the
power of numbers between males and
females in the west. The old states
are helping us to railroads, and now
if they will aid us to carry on tht
wheels Of population, by helping ou
young men to girls, we promise then
grandchildren by the million.