The daily union., 1846-05-02
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
Prom our regular correspondent
....| New YoRK, Nav 4. 1876.


.... ....0 NEw YoRK, Nav 1, 1886.
Wei day-Hard upon movers Great year for emf
grans Coming BY thousands from Ireland, Enyland
Germany, and all parts Of the 0id Worid.-.uosly
TURNER'S, oih more less means = The importance Of
useful inveniions, and the encouragement Of inUer-
hons-.f portion Of the Smithsonian legacy should
be set apart aoar for useful Inventions and dis
eovertss-faH IN flour, and other market ns,0s, &c.
To the sad disappointment Of a vast multitude OF
movers, the rain commenced falling this forenoon 80
freely as to wet everything exposed to its influence
such as bedding, furniture, &c, with which carts
were seen loaded in every part of the city. This
abomlnsble practice Of fixing upon a single day for
the removal of all persons intending to change 10.
eality, when accompanied witha cold wetting spring
rain, as at present, is calculated TO destroy great
many people Of feeble constitutions. Sleeping on
beds which have been exposed 10 rain must jeop.
ard the healIh Of the most robust.
intended TO begin the sketch or history Of metal
lie deusions to-day, but the weather is too bad the
subject itself being sufficiently gloomy il requires
additions. ln writing about IT, do not intend to 90
so far back as the age when "alchemysts" labored
so assduousy IN search Of the philosophers stone
for the production Of pure gold from the base met
ais. The history Of those times has been written
out in full, and published to the world Il will suf-
nee my purpose To commence some twenty years
prior 10 the present era and bring up the narrative
all the ealmness and imparuality can command
From all accounts, we are 10 receive larger ac-
cession OF emigrants from Europe the present year
than was ever known before since Columbus dis
covered the New World, All Ireland would come
II they could. At every port approschsble by yes-
sells OF any size, Irish farmers hOckng with their
families for embarkauon TO America. | learn from
one Of our most respectable merchants engaged in
the Hsyre trade that his pondents estimate the
number OF Germans 1.-THE most Of whom are farm
ers that are preparing TO leave for the United States
the present year at 10000 souls The most OF
these Will embark at Hsyre. The 81. Nicholas,
from that port, which arrived the other day. brought
out between three and four hundred Of these people
Ihey were most OF the better class OF farmers and
few, If any, were without means sufficient To carry
them direct TO the great valley Of the Mississippi.
An extensive continental house in Wall street paid
of large amount $40 900 WORTH Of drafts brought
out by these emigrants, which they had purchased
IN Europe before embarking. The drafts varied
in amount from 500 to $1,000 All such emi-
grants are heartily welcome Our cousin Germans
OF the farming class make excellent citizens, and
our country is wide enough, and its soil rich
enough, 70 hold all that may come come over for a
hundred years or so.
Ii will not be long after "Mynheer" touches the
wharyes at New York, before he will have a snug
log-cabin, perhaps, with field Of wheat and gar
den filed with onions and cabbages, on the lovely
faced sons and daughters, dressed out in "linsey-
woolsey," will soon marry, and commence other es-
adjustments Just like "Mynheer's" when 1t was
new. Their industry will augment the national
wealth. while their love Of order will give strength
to the supremacy Of the laws. Then thrice well
come to all good German farmers, say I.
| have always thought that, among other
knowledge "among men," the knowledge OF the
useful inventions has proved eminenty "usefu " The
discoveries made in arts and sciences have adyan-
ced the wealth and power Of mankind more than al
most anything else connected with his being. The
last quarter Of the eighteenth century with that por-
ton OF the nineteenth to the present day, will stand
out In the annals Of mankind the most impor-
tan in consideration of the introduction Of the spin
ming machinery Of various kinds, with the steam
engine steamboats,, printing presses, railroads, and
locomotives. These are they, and not large libra
RES, or knowledge derived from them, which have
carried mankind, in such a brief space Of time, so
far 'ahead" Of his species in all former ages. 1t was
an extension Of this species of knowledge, have
question, which Mr.. James Smithson regarded as
so important. There is nothing in a railroad or
kindred discoveries, which should have prevented
its discovery one hundred or five hundred year,
ago. But man has always been too deeply STEPPED
in metaphysical yagares to appreciate such things
Inventors have been and are still among the mos
abused, and most neglected, and yet the most valu.
| able men.
such as Arkwright, Fulton, Watt, and Whitney
| revolutonize the commercial, and you may also add
| (per consequence the whole political world. They
have populated empress they have built cities where
none existed before; in short, their achievements
would fill volumes. Did any one of the above -four
men find their "inventons" in a large library' II
searched, would they not have found much there
against them' Were they not all poor men' Was
there any institution to which they could apply fol
aid and encouragement None whatever. Wha
then did they do' Why, depend upon chance, up
the Of some, the derison Of Others and the
| neglect Of nearly the whole human family! Meta
| physicians could find aid They could find none.
Neither inventors of the present day repair tc
any institution for aid Why cannot portion o
| the Smithsonian legacy be set apart fund fo
| the encouragement Of useful inventions' Why
| cannot a portion Of it be awarded as premi
ums for useful discoveries and inventons1 Nor,
| hereafter
| The stock market was dull to-day.
600 700 bales of cotton sold. No change il
price.
About 1000 barrels Genesee -four sold to-day
"a IS, which is further decline of l2t cents. NJ
change in southern Of consequence.
| Wheat, rye, and corn, are dull to-day, and with
very little doing.
The St. George, owned by Mr.. David Ogden, will
sail for Liverpool This splendid ship has superio
accommodations for passengers and will carry then
| in quick and comfortable style; and, what is still
better, on very reasonable terms.
| There is no change in freights or exchange.
fuller market report will be forwarded tomorrow.
The election over the State for delegates to tn,
convention will prove very close between the demo
Gratis and wings. The new clock in Trinity church
when completed, it is said, will weigh 1000 lbs
cost IS, 000
| Yours, very truly,
| MORGAN.