Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-06-20
young Men Coming West-Wives
wanted for tflem-Girns In De-
handicapped for More Girls.


Who have moved into the west during the
current year, quarter Of whom are from
New England, a third from all other parts
of the United States and the balance from
Europe, very large proportion are young
manageable men. At present only for
tune seekers, they will soon acquire prop
erty and thereupou feel themselves able to
maintain wives; it is their mistake to bold
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 single, with
the same industry and economy. The
trials of poverty imagined to be seen IN
wedlock by most young men are evidences
of a want of manly spirit; we admit thai
such imaginary trials 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.
" traits of character, fortitude, faith and
resolution. We say nothing Of other adj
vantages young man derives from early
marriage, even though he marry ere for
tune strews his path with fancied pleasures
and props, roses and whey supports
Property, as foundation Of true happi-
ness, is nowhere as competitor with mat
rimony; and any great efforts to accumu-
late property before acquiring wife is
like placing the cart before the horse
the wife like the horse must 60 before,
and the property like the cart will surely
f How; reverse the order and there will be
failure Of both, except with the miser,
from whom God deliver the woman for
ever.
The proportion of manageable girls bro't
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 dispropo'tion is Of long standing and has
increased in the last three years. But for
so many of our young men going east and
south for wives, the disproportion might re-
suit in serious conficts-soInerhing like
what occurred between the young Romans
and lady Sabines. Of the girls emigra-
ting west, nearly al are intelligent, worthy
and companionable-having been brought
up in no higher sphere than the farm and
common school affords. Very few city and
boarding school naidens come west, so
that the character Of girls is generally ex-
cellent, and their habits of industry equal
to the standard industry of our young
men,. Il is the great deficiency in the
number of girls that we are considering.
and not the matter of character. 1t will
be observed BY tho reader that marriages
occur daily in every vicinity-not a tcnth
of them arc published in the papers. We
venture that twelve hundred matrimonial
unions are contaminated in Grant County
for the year ending next December. Per-
haps a majority of these marriages are De-
tween young men who have came west to
earn fortunes and have succeeded, and girls
who came west within few months.
Should our article meet the eyes Of peo-
pie 10 the old States, among whom the
west has thousands of sympathisers in ev-
cry other respect, We hope they will organ
ise female emigrating associations and aid
in balancing the power of numbers be-
tween males and females in the west
The old States have helped us to railroads,
and now if they will aid us to carry on
the wheels of population by helping our
young men to girls, promise them grand
children by the million.
DIR. ENo.-We have been slightly de.
ceived in this old apostle of Satan, who re
Gently lectured through Grant County upon
education, phrenology, physiology, vegita-
bic medicine, spontaneous religion, and as
many more sciences. By letters received
at Platteville from persons residing where
he is known, we learn he is regular 200
FOUNDER Of pure CANNON, having the spe-
citic gravity Of a 40 year old scamp and
about 5 feet 10 inches of a terrible affinity
for women-to paying tavern and printers
bills round and plump negative, DARK
hair and pop-eyes, highly charged with yani
ty,a good declaimer and elegant spouter--
claims patent right to speak upon all
subjects about which he is ignorant, and to
condemn sl for not buying his wares
He processes to hold one or two diplomas
signed and sealed by the prince Of lars