New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-07-18
Whore shall Mech ar mics gof

Guilty q 10 obtain correct Information where lands may b'
bought ~hai prce quality location, tc-Dene well aware
That the representations OF the geaenany Land Agents
with whom city sbouDGs. Wis ajseltse lrnds a.lioii
.ittn ardy, are not % be depended apon Nov ~osll
suggest to Of land Tor ale IN hoe Counties To- ohr
uem over their own name. ADD the -nd are good ana
offered low, they will be .oon BE- taken up Know OF ~
least thirty families that " sh II 20 together and presume
toe number could soon be doubled u the location wa ae
lermined upon. MECHANIC OFT % EMrLofAI>I'
Nco.Yert, judy 10, i841
u Our correspoHdon. urges Jnstly TIA. oaPi-
tali,ts who own extensive tracts Of land for sac
ough, more literally 70 advertise it, stating IT,
price. quality. timber. water. distance from nayi-
CATION or Railroad &c. a, well a. the quality and
naiure Of the soil. II this were done IS it should
be, thousand, would annually remove from the
great cities, in utter hearsickness with the ince'-
SAINT. monotouous labsr here required to obtain
livelihood. the constant anxiety aad apprehension
that the means Of subsistence may De cut on
through a failure Of employment or through sick
ness and with the cramped accommodations &C.,
which laboring man must here submit 70.
rreat CITY j. hard place for destitute man. IN
less he has specially gainiul calling and as
.urance Of constant work in il. No man whose
means are narrow can thouehuully bring up
family Of children here as mere lnborers. provided
| he i able TO secure home and beginning for
them elsewhere.
One important difference between City and Coun-
try i. this: A working man who stays here may
conduct uprightly. work indu'trsusy and live iru-
galy all his days. If he can contriye to lay up
msnev. it is we'll but he hn. narrow chance for
this. if mere workman witha family around him,
while if he make. no money be makes nothing Sc
curelv. and may at any moment be thrown out OF
employrnent and soon out of bread. In the COun-
tr, on the ether hapd. he who is temperate, in
du,,rious and upright j. never in danger Of en-
forced ideness of absolute want; and If he
gains no property he is constantly gaining char
acter and standing which answers the same
purpose with many better ones There his child
rem if properly trained not a burihen bat
help 10 him; here almost always the reverse.
And while the tide of emigration sets 80 strongly
to this Country as now, and it probably will for
many wears to come it is scarcely possible th, the
supply Of manual labor at this point shall sot gem
orally exceed the demand and the price be conse-
quentlv lower, in proportion to the cost of living
than through the Country at large. Five million
inmictants could not elut the labor market of the
country aud h.,"- A--.. .l- i..'.-. .- g rota~~'
misunderstanding not if our Tariffs SO adjusted
a. ,opreservc proper proportion OF Manufacturing
T.. Agricultural labor-bui it may easily 1t would
certainly glut the market at particular point.
where the Foreign Labor first reaches our shores,
needy and i'll prepared odictate terms, and where
the demand for Labor is governed by the expansion
81 depression of Trade.
We have already stated that Mechanics, Farm
ers. and Labor1rs of all descriptions may now read
ily fad employment at two days distance from
our City on every side. We have urged those out
Of employment here TO 60 and take hold of such
work as there is to do if they cannot al once find
such as they prefer best fitted for. In the
Country every man may at least eat the bread of
Industry and Independence; here with rare capa-
cities and every disposition 70 BE- useful, lac may be
driven to the Ans-t House from sheer want Al en-
ployrneHt. Then why viii men crowd into and
cling around the Cities
The emigration of Mechanics with families de-
mands graycr consideration. There are doubtless
thousands of these now III our city who would i'm
prove their circumstances and those Of their sreth
rem remaining. by emigration. But in this they
skculd exercise great ounspectisn. They should
good soil, good water, good health is well supplied
with timber. with land cheap, and is certain To
increase rapidly in population and wealth. For
the mechanic WHO goes into the country should not
content himself with being merely laborcr; be
should become Is possible the owner OF
piece Of land and have ms own house and shop
upon it. Many man thus bccoucs independent
10y the steady and necessary increase in the value
of his land. who can barely support himself 10y hi.
labor Here j. one great advantage of being in
the Country.
A primary object with a who emigrate.
should be to pitchhs tent where the benefits OF
society, school, mills roads, in cenncxion with
cheap lands, good markets Tor produce and steady
demand for labor. These most generally found
in sections newly settled mot wholly unsettled,) or
where works of Internal Improvement have recently
been OF are To- be constructed. Ii is therefore
very certain that the region Of the NewYork and
Eric Railroad affords great opportunities for new
corners of al! industrious classcs-always proyd-
Ing that that great and benehcent work Is resumed
and pressed to completion We trust it soon
will be. We are best acquainted with the Coun-
ties At it, farther extremity Cattarausus, Chau-
| tauque. and Erie Pa.--and there se know an IN
dus,rious mechanic ct farmer hardly settle
amiss There are good soil abundance OF Tim
Der and water. v,th a heairitul climate. Improved
and NAV Doe bought for $40 per acre and VOID
land for 50 to S5-abundance Of good land ior 8
in Erie County, with such facilities around It a.
render i, cheaper than At fifty cents an acre in
wild forest. We hardly know more eligible sec
ton for emf grants, than our South Western and
Western Counties. though Illinois and Iowa will