New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-06

are doubtless yet unclaimed IN tne moro sol
tled portious of those States. There are some
public lands still left in Ohio. Indiana, and
illinois, but we think not any large or very
inviting area in either.
iii. Land Districts in surveyed regions are
usually less than Que hundred miles square, so
that almost all lands subject to entry are with
in q days ride on horseback Of the proper
Land Office. Any one living in the vicinity
will tell you where to find that office.
Having thus answered our friends questions
to the best Of our ability we beg leave to add
an urgent appeal to every man who means 70
live by outdoor labor 10 resolre soon to secure
10 himself and family a permanent and 'nde'
pendent home. We do not urge every one to
migrate West and settle on lands which this
benefcent Homestead Act enables him certainly
to secure, but to secure home of bis own
somewhere, and to seek it on the Public Lands
!! unable to obtain it elsewhere We 90 not
regard the Homestead Act as g'ring away
Lands: the settler who pays $40 to the Gov
eminent (for the cost Of surveys, &C., and
the legal fees to the land Oficers, and trans
forms by his labor patch of rugged forest or
bleak prairie into q fruitful, productive farm'
pays for his land all that We think he ought to
pay. In fact, whoever has the means can BUY
farm cheaper to-day in New-iork,
New.Epgand, or New-Jersey than he can
dig it out of the painless wilderness. lie who
pays $l5 or less for quarter-secton in the
Wild West must do many bard days WORK
in making roads, bridges, &C., before ne can
truly regard il a. comfortable home. But
there are thousands weighed down by debt. or
the expense of large family, or who are not
blessed with the faculty which renders money
making easy, whom this law will enable 10
secure homes of their own, who but Ior IL
would live in poor hired tenements ana De
drifting from place to place all their lives. We
hope to see clubs and associations formed In
all our cities and densely settled districts to
send out one or two competent persons 70 LOOK
over the West and select localities to which
they can migrate in body and settle so as to
have neiphbors, stores, schools churches, mills,
doctors, &c, from the outset. The worst iea-
ture of pioneer life under the old system is its
isolation; your next neighbor being perhaps
miles of, and then rough, repnlsivc customer,
with whom you desire the least intercourse
possible. Professional men abound; and
vet q poor man must often travel dozen
miles for doctor in . case Of the
greatest urgency. Let two or three hundred
poor men contribute dollar each
10 send one or two Of the wisest aud
best OF their number to look through the moro
inviting portions of the wild West and select
township wherein each Of the whole number
can pre-empt his quarter-section, with some
fair arrangement for Timber, &C., and that
township will at once have its grist and its
sawmill, its doctor, clergyman, store, schools,
&c, &c. Let every thing be done on the
principls of Live and let live" and that set
tlennent may enjoy rude comfort and the bless-
ings of civilization from the start, and thus
each settler may make more progress toward
plenty and independence in three years than
he could under the old plan Of locating and
settling in an average lifetime. And every set
Element 30 made tends to attract Railroads,
Manufactures, &c, &c. to the section in
which it Is located, to diminish the cost Of
sending produce to market, and tins to In
crease the value Of each aud every farm.
Young men Poor Men Widows resolve
to have home of your own II you are
able to buy and pay for one in the East very
well; il not, make one ia the broad and fer
tile West