The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-08-25

f~nuU<-Ai 70 grow vtcA = ~ = nssd Be
u rich laYls and tile highest prices will d.
anything towards H. Such m awful tiguv
- $40 ton Cor hay must make thc croT
count up ~ fast that man could hardly
keep the tally. l:ut lear ia mind that q
Is farmers al the soil that are wanted, not
men that buy aud sell II. There are enough
Of the latter description here already.
saw paragraph in ono of the papers
few days ago. which leads me to speak oi
subject that would not otherwise have oc-
Cured t. me. j, ..atci that IL man want :
ed to live mean b. could not find place
where he could live meancr' t!.an west "t
the Mississippi. | think tho writer m'i.t
have mistaken the river. Pcrhapshc int-nd-
cd Ia write Missouri, and in that case !
might not be- abl. Ia contradict him. With
regard Ia the mode of living in Iowa, ] can
only say that, - Ear NJ my observation cN
tended, the people here live more comfort
ably than the same classes at the east, AMI
for the best possible uf rcaSons--bccsuse
they can better afford il. AZ the Clinton
House. IN Iowa City, ate NJ unexception-
able a dinner as ! could have procured nj
your own Parkcr's. At the private rssiden-
ces visited there, aud in Dubuque and Da-
ycnport, not only was the style VI living ~,
all respects equal To that of New Englsnd,
generally, but the vands, wines, and table
equipments were more prcfasc and exPen
sivc than arr coiimon in our eastern cities.
l have drank ~ good burgundy IN the
hanks Of the Mississippi a. ever drank on
the hanks II the Hudson, and such Madeira
- have never tasted the like Of, saving
from the private cellars Of Charleston on
B,ston. ] don't mean to say that good
burgundy and Madeira are n plenty here
~ Mississippi water, and don't happen I"
know the place where they are 40 But
mean To say, that rs Ear a. all the comforts
and Injuries al life are concerned, you can
obtain them rs readily in Iowa ~ You can
IN Massachusetts, AMI preci 'ely la the SAM
way, viz, D., PAYING tor them The onl,
difference Is, that You can get the thing I"
pay with more readily from the fertile prair
ies II Iowa, than yau can irum the stubborn
sol II New England. And those prairie-
the New England farmers can buy ready ior
the plough, at a L.. price per acre than he
would pay for preparing his land AT home
Tor crop.
II the general ou,cry that has been made
NJ the east against etStsra spseaiasios should
discriminate investment that has been made
in western property II will answer very
useful purpose. Land enough has been Ia
ken up. The work remains to develops il.
would not advice any one TO make new in
vcstinents IN wild lands IN the expectation
NJ realizing from them during the present
generation. There = land enough ia market
that was taken upfivc anal ten years ago, to
supply immigration inr the ten years neat
10 c,me. hut this land j. in the very gar
den of the world. There /. na rcp,"n II Ga.
same extent that !. ~ fertile, healthy,
and 50 free ifom waste land ~ the state at
Iowa. Go into Minnesota and Wisconsin,
and You will tind mile. ga mile. of swampy
or sterile soil lands th,t can never In re-
duced to any sort of profitable cultivation,
ami that arr not known Ia Iosscss any value
for their mineral productions. But al Iowa
has the soil II an Eden. Every acre of il
might be made to wave with the golden
grain, or IL bear the flowers and fruits of
Imrterre and all this with little more aid
than that al dropping the seed. With
present population of at least iaO,tsD souls,
IL will reach by the next census little short
al million. By the time one or two IL lscr
railroads will he Completed from the Miss
,ssippi TO the Missouri, all her soil will b.
Opened ~ cultivation. With two members
81 congress to-day, n the next apportion-
ment she will have half n score and whilst
We arr trying so persuade ourselves at the
east that she j. plangine into bankruptcy,
aud liable ca .c sold cut by tho sheriff, she
win have become beyond cayil and beyond
competition the grea ultra Mississippi en-
nirc