Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-18
: ,aigrafiOn Westward.

,ide of emigration has already be-
!, set westward for the season.
oh our exchanges and correspon
81 we learn that New England viii
81, arger populations of her sons and
1s1z tiers to the promised land than ir
ss1 previous season, and New York and
ps tylvania exhibit strong symptoms o!
"a II estern fever. Ohio, too, which but
s ri years ago was on the verge of civil
;xafjoll, is now reckoned as one Of the old
stefes, and the Cincinnati Gazette informs
|us thet large numbers of its citizens have
|stafted for different portions of the
|nonhwest, chiefly Minnesota, Kansas and
Nebfaska. Other States will send full
oi,ota to the migratory army, and it will
E further reinforced by thousands from
he oldnEorld. The arrivals during the
winter monts show considerable increase
Il fareign immigration over the correspon-
a;no months Of two or three previous
vea1s. and the next quarter will doubtless
exhibit still stronger tendency in the
ssne direction. A very large proportion
81 this immigration is and will be from
Germany, the main body of whom inva-
f;abv seek the Northwest as their home.
Let Hem come in any number. There is
10 class of immigrants to whom it offers a
more hospitable welcome, or who make
LIRE valuable citizens.
CONSIDERING the astonishing rapidity
w;th Which the Northwest is being peo-
p]ed. one wonders that the supply of i'm
MIGRANTS does not fail. During the year
1e56 Illinois received from a hundred and
CIV 10 two hundred thousand; Iowa
son1efhinc more than Illinois; Wisconsin
perbaps a hundred thousand; Minnesota,
sav & hundred and twenty-five thousand,
and Nebraska several thousand, to say
nothing of those who stopped IN Michigan
and indiana or found their way to Mis-
souri,
Altogether, six or seven hundred thous-
and peopIe have settled in the Northwest
n 4 z,nple year. For the year 1857 the
number will not certainly be less, and will
be twenty-five per cent. more
Formulation will continue to flow into ILL
nois. Wisconsin and Iowa at about the
usual bate, but we anticipate a tremendous
rush 10 Minnesota during the season.
The settIement of this young and flourish
IND Territory is without a parallel in the
history of the country. In the brief pc
lr;od a ten YEAR it has acquired POI .ula-
If;o,s.$ not less than Two hundred thousand,
i.nseverything contributes to render its
settlenert more rapid hereafter. Mime
sota q healthy and vigorous expansion
II III. GREAT Northwest, and to add to the
strono attractions of an abundance Of good
lard ii government price, healthy CHI
mate and very superior population, it is
a. about to be linked to the general sys-
=senE 81 railroads, and to assume the digni-
tofn State without single drawback
-6pot1 lis prospects for the future. Nebras-
H. too. will receive a larger accession to
H. nouulation than ever before in sin
lie sea.on. in anticipation Of raiiroad con-
,aection with the Missouri through Iowa.
lWe nlicht safely calculate upon an IN
reese of thirty or forty thousand in Kan
as it the slavery question were settled TO
.hc satisfaction of the public, and even IN
The resent state Of uncertainty the addi-
ZION vii be large.
= IF ne had not become so accustomed to
consider this grand expansion OF western
empire as a matter of course, the announce,
lmentthat nearly a million of people would
5e added to the population of the North
.Fest in a single year would appear widely
incredible. As it is, however, 1t will ex-
lie no surprise, though it is certainly cal
culated to inspire feelings of qualification
that snch multitude of freemen will have
found better homes for themselves, and
thus aaled largely to the substantial pros
,peritY Of the nation Chicago Press.