The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-09 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1864.

STRAW PION LIVERPOOL OR QUEENSTOWN TO
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FROM LIVERPOOL r NEW YORK.
CITY or BALITMORZ, Wednesday, September 16.
CITY OF LIMERICK. Saturday. September 17.
ETNA, Wednesday, September 21.
And every Wednesday and every alternate Saturday.
Cada peerage by the man steamers galling every Wednesday.
/4 It and II Onus, according te the accommodation. Cabin
oarageby the asturdafs stamen, 13 guinea.. Forward
rretzpasaage
5 Mending all provides. Tooke& Famseu
Quay the Caned Minsk and British Columby booked
as very advantsgeoss terum—For tardier particulars apply to
WILLIAM LITMAN U. Wter-ete* Liverpool ; or 100 131 TIE
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111 RJOlRN.—Neutred rem' under Russian flue.—
Duvet Route to Hanover, Bronswlek, and Central Ger-
many.—Oneot the fine first clam screw ateantemADL O EIL MWS,
or BCHWALHZ will be demstelted tram B
morning 'weather permitting), at lar:l4=B"3
Pier ter at Ilt noon —Parr to Bremen, At
and al: return and al Ka—Apply at CHAPLIN'S
Universal Ofiloe, Resent-elrcua, W.: or to PHM. 'PPS, GUAVAS,
PHLLUPPIL end Co.. 11, Hood-lane, E.C.

FIELD'S celebrated UNITED SERVICE SOAP
Tab Lift, ad. and ed. easet mold by all chandlers sad
throoahout the kingdom ; but the
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Forc' Veld's, and see that the manse of J. a 4 MILD is
on each packet box, and tablet Whole's& sad for esporlattea
et the Works. LTYPILIL MAIM Luastsra, Low Dos &, elm*
also ow be ehimied theft Prise Medal Paraiba Candlea

lays a day and his board, is still, even here, poor, and
has to suffer, but of want such as he has to endure
in the Old World he runs no risk ; constant employ-
ment he is sure of, and his children are almost cer-
tain, if theyonly behave tolerably well, to rise in the
social seals. It is this which, after all, lends
America one of its greatest charms in the eyes of
poor emigrants. Men and women are not a drug
in this market; everything is possible here to
industry andaintelligence, and nothing therefore
that you can say of the defects of the government
will ever persuade the poorest hod-carrier who lies
down in a New York tenement house that he, or
"any won belongin' to him," would be better off
in a Connaught cabin, on three meals of potatoes a
day, children growing up in the ancient profession
of beggars, and the poorhouse looming up on his
horizon as a shelter for his old age. He sees men
in prominent positions at the bar, on the bench,
thriving merchants, shopkeepers, and farmers on
all sides, officers high in rank in the army, whose',
fathers, he is told, came from Germany or Ireland
as poor as he. He walks up Fifth Avenue and sees
a score of mansions owned by men who are well
known to have laboured in early life with their
hands, and probably thinks that if he
could only give up whisky, " bad luck to
it," he might do as well himself. So
you can't get him to wish himself back ; you can't
prevent him writing to his friends that they had
better oome too, and they will come, though the
Irish Times or Freeman's Journal warned them ever
so much of the horrors that await them on this side.
It is wonderful how easy it seems in London for an
Irishman to live calmly in Tipperary on a shilling
a day, and wonderful what an effect American
horrors, more than all others, are supposed to be
likely to have on the Irish imagination. A single
flogging in the English army is a spectacle far more
shocking to the heroes than all the "drugging" and
gagging put together that has been done by Federal
recruiting agents since the war began. Thousands
of Irish soldiers have had their backs publicly torn
with the cat within the last fifty years,
and the Irish press has published hundreds
of accounts of it, and denunciations of it, and yet
it is not generally supposed that this has prevented
any large number of Irishmen from enlisting for a
shilling a day, minus "stoppages."
The sound advice to give Irishmen is nut to stay
at home in misery, but to come here if they can,
and when they get here to listen to the advice of the
Commissioners of Emigration who take charge of
them on their arrival, and to act upon it, and not
go wandering through the streets, drinking with the
first man they meet. Nobody need fall into the
hands of the recruiting sharks who is possessed of
the ordinary amount of common sense and dis-
cretion. Nobody need be drugged or gagged,
who refuses to go off with strangers to places of
which he knows nothing ; and no alien,
I again repeat, can be forced into the
army who remains within reach of the police or the
courts. There is no law imposing any conscription
or public service upon them of any kind or descrip-
tion, and the demand for their labour is enormous,
and daily increasing. Every possible precaution is
taken by the Commissioners of Emigration to pro-
tect new arrivals. No touter, or "loafer," or
bounty broker is allowed to enter the building at
Castle-garden. On the arrival of a shipload of
emigrants they are addressed by agents of the
board in the building, and carefully informed of
their legal rights and privileges, and advice and in-
formation are freely supplied with regard to all
routes and fares. But that enlistment is encou-
raged by the officials I think there is no doubt.
Large placards are posted up round the building
stating the amount of bounty paid to recruits
entering the army and navy, and if any one wants
to enlist he gets all reasonable aid. But there is
complete protection, for every man who chooses to
avail himself of it, against all violence and outrage.
There is no better managed organisation in the
country than this Board of Commissioners.
The only news from the army is very important.
Grant has seized and holds the Weldon-road, in
spite of the desperate and repeated efforts to drive
him off it. The movement at Dutch Gap proves
now to have been only a feint, and the troops have
evacuated the position they held at that point. The
seizure of the road was effected under cover of this.
As soon as the Confederates became aware of it they
flung a heavy column on the Federals, sur-
prised them, and drove them from their position,
capturing a large number of prisoners, but the ground
was recovered before night, and has since been
held in spite of three fierce assaults. After the
failure of the last the Confederates withdrew, and
have retired to their fortifications at Petersburg--
with what object has yet to be seen. The pos-
session of the Weldon-road has always been one of
the great objects of the movement against Peters-
burg, and its seizure certainly deprives that place
of a large portion of its value to the Confederates.
Grant reached the road once before, but was forced
to relinquish it. This time he has been able to
maintain himself long enough to entrench, and now,
it is said, holds a position impregnable to assault.

Tug CHANNEL SQUADRON.—Tbe Defence, on •
complimentary visit to Bristol, arrived in the Channel yes-
terday (Wednesday) morning, from Tim bay, and is now
an,:hond off Clevedon. Soon after her arrival she was
boarded by Captain DreW, the haves-neater, as represent-
ing the Bristol Corporation. Captain Phillimore received
Captain Drew very cordially, and returned with him to
Bristol, to call ups' the mayor, who met him in the council.
chamber: Captain Phillimors, who was in uniform, and
accompanied by one of his lieutenants, is a fise-looking
officer, who conveys • noble impression of the British ser-
vice. In the comae of the interview the pike' captain
intimated that his splendid ship would be open to the citi-
zens from 9.30 to 5 (except during the dinuer-hour of the
crew, which is 12 to I o'clock), and on Sunday the visiting
would not begin until after oars o'clock, when wombip and
dinner were over. On Friday morning the mayor and cor-
poration will return Captain rhillimure's cad, proceeding
by steamer from Cumberland Basin, and in the evening
his worship will entertain the gallant captain and officers
to dinner. Next Griming they will be the guests of Mr.
Joha Hares—Warm, Daily Prras.
TER WATER SUPPLY AT BRISTOL.Theire Wks &
small supply of water to Clifton yesterday, and some is ex-
pected for Bristol to-day. In Clifton on Tuesday the resi-
dents were paying se. for • barrel of water brought from
Jacob's Well, The Board of Health Committee is, we are
glad to mad, bestirring itself to provide water, and ye:sterday
orders were given to open nearly a dozen additional wells
in the city and suburbs. Medical men report an increase of
fever cues in poor localities.— IVcitern Daily Prue.

CHAMPION PLOUGHING M ATCIL, —A great plough•
ing contest, open to all England, came off at the Sparben-
hoe meeting 'eaten's', sad being the first this autumn, as
well as the most Important, the competition was very
severe. Masers. Ransom. slot their own men sod bone;
from Ipswich, as did the News. Howard. of Bedford.
There was a eery large gatheriog, and the work dose was
the admiration of the mooting. Misers. Howard's man—
Frederick Purser—was declared the winner.

Tits BKLIPANT R10T.4. —lt is stated that the go-
vernment are about to order the bolding of • Commission of
loquiri into the kte rlots.—Doblin Express.

The Montreal Ocean steamship North American,
from Quebec on the 27th ult., arrived at Greencastle
yesterday everting. Her nears has been fully sant:jested.
NM called at nee,: Mat, but found as Liar despabolto.