Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-02-21

nCTeasc VI 80 PSs SS~e ~ s
If the farm, and our Chester cotemPo-
rary will have single truthful index
Of one branch Of Western business
prosperity.
Suppose farmer has farm worth
$4,000, and he desires to enter more
government land. lie borrows $4,000
ON this farm at all annual interest OF
% per cent. With the money he buys
4 900 acres Of land At the Land Offices
in this State or in Nebraska or Nan
sas. In one year these 1000 acres
will be worth double the cost, or slo'-
900. lie sells then for ", oo per
acre, pays off the $4,000 mortgage ana
$3.50 interest, having left - . clear
nrof, So $50, to which add $50 III
crease IN value Of the nortgaged farm,
and the result is $4,000 clear profit, or
100 pcr cent. Don't get incredulo''s
at these figures, Tor we know hundreds
Of instances OF their truth, aud VIC
m;pht add that they are too common
to excite surprise.
The landed interests are the soul OF
Western pros Gritty. Lands in Penn
s,lv,nia such AS are sellingf for Shopper
acre can be bought here at the West
Tor 800. and the Western farm Will
produce three times the quantity OF
grain produced on the same number Of
acres in Chester co., Ia. II tar'L crs
conld make only profit OF SIX per
cent. we should all 60 To smash al
once. We will take one farm only.
situated % miles from Davenport, ana
f. miles from any railroad, owned 's
l.. +. Cue, Esq. He has $50 acres ~
Of which is timber, the balance al
undcr cultivation, which he values NJ
81 o,n. TN the 100 acres he raised
as follows
100 acres OF wheat, rs bushels to the
a.rc, $500 bushels, worth $1,000.
80 acres of corn, 60 bushels to u.
nor. 400 bushels, worth 80 cents
per bushcl, 500.
20 acre. of oats, 80 bushels To the
mere | zoo bushels, worth $500, max
in,, IN ali the sum OF $4,000. Let lis
saw that it cost 81 200 for labor, seed
and hauling to market, and this leaves
a sum Of $1,000. Til, shows a profit
of 81 1000 per year, on capital oil
$l,0oo. Supposethat the profit should
no, exceed ~ 900, it then leaves nett
income Of - per cent. on the farm
The truth is. this is no old fogy coun-
try. Won can't find stone to throw
NJ a bird. back from the river, and the
sol IS AZ black and rich two feet below
the saitae, as il is two inches below. =
" advise the respectable old gentle
n,sn Of the snail 0caus. who prcsidos
over the hester county journal, to put
ON his nrrroai and come To the W ct,
and he VIII BE- essentially enlightened
upon the subject of lis treat and most
astonishing prosperity.
! TNN'- >"lr,"wN.--nld call you
me, Ay" Nicu the Almighty spoke
creation into birth. was there. Then
WAS born. Amid the bloom and
yerdurc Of Paradi.r, cazcd upon the
young world radiant with celestial
smiles. | rose upon the rinions Of ill.,
hts, morn, and caught he sweet dew
irops as they fell and sparkcd on the
horchs otto garden. Ere the foot Of
raN was heard .nundinr in this vii
ierm | god an; on ii, thousand
,ivcrs, lia,hing in light, AID refectinc
the broad SIN. like thousand level,
mon their bosomss
lac cataIl,,s seat up their anthenl>
IN those eoltndes, ard none was thcr,
hut /. - li~tvt t. the rev horn melo-
DIV. The iayn> honnlci cr the hills,
and drank at iIic limpli streams. a:.ea
before an arm was raised 10 inlnrc or
make them afraid. For thousands Z"
wears the morning star rose in beaut,
upon those unp',opled shores, anu it.
twin sister Of the exc famed in the
.orehrid Of til >kv. with no eye 10 ad
nine their RAYS hul nine
Aye cali me old Bahylon and
Assyria, Palmyra and 1hebcs, rose,
i'ourishcd and fell, and hcheli them
in their glory and their dcclinc-
Scarce a melancholy ruin marks the
place of their existence but whe,
their first stones were laid in the earth
was there ! Amid all their splen-
dor, glory AMI wickedncss, ! was in
their hnsy streets, and crumbling their
magnificent palaces to the earth. My
books will show long and fearful ac-
count against then. control the fate
OF enpires.-l give them their period
ofglory and splcnIor; hut at their birth
! conceal in them the seeds o' dealt,
and decay. They must go down and
be hnmbled in the dust--their heads
bow down before the rising glcrics OF
of Young nations, to whose prosperity
there will also come date, and n day
OF decline
| pcise my wings over the earth, and
watch the course and doing Of it, IN
habltauts. call up the vioets upol,
the hill, aud crumblc the gray ruins to
the ground. ! am the agent of a
higher Power, to give life and to take
it away. lspread silkcn trcsscs upon
the brow of the vounp and nlant gray