Litchfield enquirer., 1847-03-25
No. 45. WHOLE No. 1Ce5.

~ -'.- z:s-s..s VI seen your faces, love your souls, ana w.<a esch Of you 10 Irow tke will ag God Al, who wish 'he Scriptures, wAca a.. asle .o make you wise unto Salvation, nay !i.c.' The whole congregat:cn arose, and were subsequently supplied with thc EiA!e n taeir own tongue.
 Who are these Germans, and whence came they? They were brought in ship loads from Hesse D'ArmstaGt. and ot!,er Municipalities, their passages hi:her being pad by the parishes from which they emi- grated. Their own account of their man. ner Of coming 10 this counlr, is as follows: In July last, public crie1 went through lhe streets of Crossimmer, ringing his bell. anu Proclaiming by the authority of the mayor, that all the poor who were willing 10 remove 10 America, would have the money supplied by the public authorities that might De needed for their passage, after selling the'f ht'le eftectS-anL that on arriving at New York, they would be supplied with money by the Consul and find abundance of work, lands, sc. Eisht hundred souls ac. ceptcd this offer. On their arrival in De- 'ooer they received $5 for each tau,iiy, anl , in three days 500 of them were in lae Aims house where 300 still remain. The history ol o'ner groups would be substantially like this. And these are but the advance guard of d countless army.
 The genIemanIy superintendent informed us that lhele are 2,SOD paupers now in the Almshou>e; including 500 in the hospital all tha, the buildings will contain About one-lhirI are Germans, and nearly all for. ei9ners of some class.
 A Philosopher in iLe Poor House. Jn one of the apartments we met a fine. looking, learned German, once preacher -a professor in Berlin and Halle Univer. SIsies-an author-a poet-a doctor of phi. loSophy-a ralionalist-a dlunkard-and pauper! pr. Heidelberg. for tha, is Lis nane, came to this country about two years since, ah adven,urcr in the New World. where he supposed his great learning would hnia market lie found that with all his knowledge of Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Frencl ani German, he was in country where d!unktn iaiidelity, however accomplished, was not in demand-and he is now sustain- ed in an institution, the offspring of ,ha, very Christianity he rcviles and scorrs. H. placed iu our hands work in two volumes by himself 'Orpheus and EuryGice,' print. cd in Germany in lS2J, and manusc.ir. dramatic work, entitled 'The Crucihcd.' For half hour he disputed the tru,A of the BIb'e, the idea ot eternity, &c., with all t.s skill of misguided philosopher, and all the hatred of Pharisee. His wretched lot IS the best commentary cn his m serable docttine--the prevailing doctriue Cf Ger many.
 But enough of the interior of the Ans house Colpcr eur Eulucr remarked, as we left the place, pity Inc Germans more ia the c'iy as ia the poor house. Only ycstcr- cal for three days. One who goes D lIe poor Germans wants every day .10 .a lis pocket 10 feed them. Alas ilr ,Ae,n, aa1 for us, if they be no. leA ".sA the L.ead oc life.
 We leave to political economists l.e question as 10 the influence o. cur civil inst tuIion>, of the emigration o' thousands ot these poor houSeleSs peasants 10 our shores. How long we can sustain the weight of such a pressure time will reveal.
 American Messenger.