Smyrna times., 1858-10-21
The Mover of Population.

Z gold, says the Boston Journal. attracted sworm
VI spanish adventurers to the shores of South
ern and Central America until now. the same
agency has been attended with the same sigma
success. Gold has emptied population out o.
. ohe country and poured it into another, faster
: eVen' than the highest religious motives could
aIIure' or the fears Of extermina ton could i'm.
pei Neither the momentum OF the Crusades,
nted Dy the grandest enthusiasm, nor the exodus
OF the Irish, fleeing to escape starvation. ever
equaied the bodily transfer of the population,
commodities and institutions of the Anglo Sax
ohs 10 California, turning, as if in night time,
rancho and chaparral into paved streets and
throngng avenues. The same process was re-.
peated in Australia. We have witnessed the
renewal Of it in the regions around Frazer
river. And now the same signals appear over
western Kansas. and the wonted rush begins.
Principle settled eastern Kansas, and did it
"eii; but we fear that nuggets and gold dust
VIII show themselves to be still more effective
towards filling up the western part of the Ter.
rltory, though they cannot attract a better
population or lead to nobler results. Still, il
the movement continues as it now promises. the
consequences cannot fail to be very important
IN many respects. The ninety thousand
population required by the English bill will be
provided in short time; so that prospective
struggle In Congress may. after all, be bought
on by the treasury of Pixies Peak. The ques.
ton also of Pacific Railroad NAV receive its
solution from this new stretching out of our
population over the hitherto vacant space be-
tween our western borders and California
Arizona, Indian Territory and the western par
of Texas will be powerfully affected by the
movement, to the destruction of whatever slave.
holding schemes may have been entertained
with regard to those regions. Another result
Is, indeed, already calculated upon, and that is
the partition of Kansas, and the organization
OF new territory at the gold region 1t is
said that preparations have actually been set
on foot for electing delegate TO Congress next
winter, for pushing this project. This plan
will undoubtedly receive the opposition of Kan
sas, as she will want all the new settlers and
fair proportion of their gold to pay hel taxes
when she becomes a State.
But, however this, or any other specific ques.
ton may be decided, the consequences of the
present movement in pursuit of gold must be
favorable in the aggregate. Population must
pour IN upon Kansas. carrying with it trade,
productive industry. and all the fruits
Of American civilization. What has been done
on the more distant slopes OF the Sierra Nevada,
will be still more sgnally compished on the
spurs of the Cordllleras. The frying-pan and
The pick-ax will prove too much for the bred
Scott decision, and the squatters themselves
will dispose of all theories respecting their
sovereignty. Surely there is something provi-
1entally designed IN this planting of the pre-.
;Ious metals on this continent and their timely
discovery. This tapping If old communities
lnd wholesale founding Of new, is so much un- ,
ike what has been beheld heretofore, that il {
seems to point to some general plan necessary t
It this stage of the world. Ifso, it is Certainly
/ singular fact that The miser's idol and the
'tlmulant Of that =" love" which is the root ofl
I'll evil" should become the great mover of the 4
luman masses in those enterprises which have
or their end the upbuildng of States, the spread
'f liberal institutions and the security of Chris
ian civilization. Indeed, "the weak things of
his world" and the mighty" are often hard to