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Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1836 -
Republican Compiler
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
September 27, 1836
It appears from various sources, that the population of Wisconsin
territory is even now not less than 50,000 and the tide of
emigration is so prodigious, that we may anticipate that next
congress will subdivide it into several territories, and before
the next census, we shall have the states of Iowa and Wisconsin.
Iowa contains now from 25 to 35 thousand inhabitants, and may,
when a state, have a length of 450 miles, by a suitable breadth;
being on the west side of, and embracing the head of the
Mississippi, known by the technical name of Itasca, which is,
according to recent travellers, thus curiously formed from the
Latin: ver-itas, truth, and ca-put, head; whence Itasca, the true
head of the Mississippi! Unless explained, one would no more
suppose that Itasca, in Iowa territory, is named from Latin
words, than that Selma and Xenia are Greek and Losantville the
old name of Cincinnati, a pedantico-mongrel compound of Latin,
Greek and French with the initial letter of the Indian word
Licking -- the name of a confluent in the Ohio, which has its
mouth, os, opposite, anti, to the town or city, ville. To the
west of the future state of Iowa others will soon be added, and
the child lives who will travel through twenty states lying north
of the mouth of the Ohio, and West of the Mississippi, and
containing 20,000,000 of beings, as yet unborn.
[transcribed by S.F., March 2005]
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Alton Telegraph
Alton, Illinois
October 5, 1836
Wisconsin Territory
Gov. Dodge has ordered an election in this territory, on the
second Monday of this month, of a delegate to Congress, and also
a Council to be convened at Bellmont, Iowa county, on the 25th of
October. The apportionment of members from the respective
counties, is as follows:
-The county of Demoine is entitled to seven members of the House
and three of the Council.
-The county of Dubuque, five members of the House and three of
the Council.
-The county of Ioway, six members of the House and three of the
Council.
-The county of Brown, three members of the House and two of the
Council.
[transcribed by S.F., Nov. 2003]
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Farmer's Cabinet
West Virginia
October 14, 1836
New States - The western papers, that is, of the 'far west,' are
beginning to talk of two new states to be called Wisconsin and
Iowa, to be cut out of the present Territory of Wisconsin. A
paper printed at Grand Gulf says there are 60,000 inhabitants in
the Territory, about equally divided between the districts of
which it is proposed to make new states. Iowa lies west of the
Mississippi river, and is 450 miles in length. To the west of the
future State of Iowa, (says the abovenamed paper,) other states
will soon be added, and the child
lives who will travel through TWENTY states lying north of the
mouth of the Ohio, and west of the Mississippi, and containing
twenty millions of human beings as yet unborn!- New Yorker.
[transcribed by C.J.L., July 2005]