The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-11-23

The Sioux City Journal, ofa recent
date, has the following statement
concerning the sale Of Government
lands in the Northwestern part OF
Iowa:
The following facts aud figures.
compiled from she records of the
Sioux City District Land Office, will
give our readers an idea OF the ra.
pidity with which the public lands
are being taken up. During the
month of Oct. there ware claimed as
follows All homesteads 44,76l.86-
l00ths acres, ll9 declaratory state
ments, 1890 acres; 29 final home
stcads, 2,ssl.el.1OO acres; IL agricul-
tural college scrip entries, l,l2U As.
100; military bounty land warrant,
leo acres. Total, IS ,059, 80. 100
acres.
The following figures show the
receipts of the office during the
month OF October: Fees on declara.
tory statements filed, s238 90 fees
on homestead entries S4065.0 90 com.
mission on homestead entries, 2,2l2.
90; fees on agricultural scrip located,
&44.00; military bounty land war;
rants located, e400; con mission on
tiDal homestead entries, $l1l00; land
sold for cash and cash entry receipts,
(, S,o45. 81; total receipts, Sl2.629 81.
The number of homesteads taken
in the pass menth exceed the same
in any previous month slneo the OF
flee was opened. In this manner
more than A, 900 acres were claimed.
Add TO this lands sold for cash, scrip,
&c., and tho total number OF acres
taken ia this District for October
amounts to over $4,000 acres. As
only about . quarter Of million OF
acres now remain unclaimed, ut this
rate we may calculate that by the
first OF May there will not be ton
thousand acres Of Government land
in Iowa.
Uncle Samuel has divided his estate
kindly aud impartially. The first
that came had the first choice. In II
few years the prairies OF Western
Iowa have been thus divided and be.
slowed. When his handwriting
children come out here looking for
farms next summer, he will have to
send them over the Big Sioux to
Dakota, or across the Missouri to
Nebraska. In Iowa, still, he has
homes for three thousand families,
and when these are tenantod, people
must leave Iowa to find FREQ lands.
Tho time which tries mankind is
the hour of peril, the day Of misfor-
tune; then if there be such thing
as universal brotherhood it is seen.
The London Weekly Dispatch in
speakiug of the Chicago fire and the
English sympathy, says:
1t will be beginning, we are sure,
Of new aud better time, and will
quite obscure any lingering remini-
sciences of the Alabama business.
Not sympathy alone, but love and
honor to our brethren across the |
Atlantic. We have common orr
gin, a common Saxonism, common
freedom, q common language, com
mon hope, and if we may take q low
er ground, we have a common inter.
est Let Us. have by all means a
warm alliance, real, thorough, hear
ty, with the best of all possible al
lies with the great, generous and en-
!ightened Republic. Our passing
aid, our brotherly love, our political |
go operation ought to be gwen to
America. That happily is getting to
be generally acknowledged
ca, 10 fact, is free ard larger Eng.
land across the Atlantic, Washing
ton was the American Cromwell
Let us take the present occurrence, |
sad, and indeed, terrible as it is, as
the means of the Inauguration of a
time of more perfect fraternity.