Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1847-05-28
EMIGRATION FROM GREAT BRITAIN
TO VIRGINIA..

TO VIRGINIA.
The Colonization Herald contained. IN Februa-
ry last, the following article:
Emigration from Great Britain 10 TirgIHla.-
We see in the papers notice OF the ARRIVAL in
England of AR Thomas Rawlings. late editor OF
the Countrynan and Emigrant's Friend, new
York. Mr.. Raw!ings's eXertons in the cause Oh
emigration are likely to be responded TO lar oe-
yond his original calculations. MIR. Rawlings mas
been addressing public meetings in various parts
of the United Kingdom, particularly IN wales anu ~
Scotland. He is represented TO confne hlnlsen
to the State of Virginia, as the part Of the United
States which presents, just now, great inducements
TO the Industrious emigrant. MIR. rawlings con-
templates arranging permanently an agency III
Liverpool for the sale of land in America and then
return to New York TO superintend ITS manage
ment on that side of the water.
The above is the substance of stltement made
in an English paper. Already English emigrants
have encouraging examples before them, IN the
choice and settlement of large tracts OF land IN
Fairfax county, Virginia, by New York farmers
and Germans, who find one great Inducement LOT
the change in the cheapness OF land whlch, al
though not as fertile as in some OF the w esteFh
States makes good returns TO thrifty husbandry,
and has, withal, the advantage OF being near inc
best markets on the seaboard. The pleasure oil
social intercourse, and the ability to send heIr
children to good schools, are also important con-
sderatous.
In Old or Lower Virginia the emigration OF
many of the planters and the transportation OF The
negroes 10 the South and West, have lett much
land to be occupied by emigrants at a moderate
cost-and now that mari is procurabIe SO readily
in almost every district where it is needed, these
latter have the at once OF giving fertility 10
q worn out soil, and by the adoption OF better
system of farming, in rotation of crops, ect., en-
surfing for themselves a fair return, IN genial
climate, for their outlay OF labor and money.
l. Il, oil ~ nipia hot q AIleUll-
nv and the Blue Ridge, the emgrant who has
money at his command, can procure land at a air
price with the needfui appliances for profitable
farming. He will find himself also surrounded
by people whose habits and opinions are congenlal
with his own, and who, although they live In a
slave State have few, many OF them no slaves, nor
have they any sympathy for slave institutions, but
look forward to the time when constitutional
change will take place, formally securing the
abolition Of slavery within the boundaries OF the
Old Dominion The elements are now in process
of combination towards the formation oil this great
work. which, let it be understood, will be carried
on solely under Virginia counsel and deliberations.
The region bordering on the Alleghanies and
declining TO the south and west to Kentucky and
Tennessee has fine climate and land admirably
adapted to the culture of grain and to pasture
Some of the counties are among the finest IN the
Union for the raising of sheep.
And we find in our extracts from London papers
the same subject:
E1aigrqtion to Western Vrginia-We per-
ceive our friend, Mr.. Thomas Rawlings, has ar
rived per the Hibernia, for the purpose of super
intending his plans, which he started last year
We are glad to learn that Mr. RS agents have
been very successful in disposing OF the land under
his control, and, what is more desirable, the Pur-
chasers are principally men Of means. We I'M
derstand that Mr.. Rawlings has submitted his
plans TO several large capitalists, who think favor
ably of them, and there is every probability Of
their forming themselves into company.
ADVERTISING Tile New York True Sun very
truly remarks that business pursuits may be ac-
celebrated in proportion to the means used to diff
fuse knowledge amongst those whose wants are
TO be supped-and newspaper advertising is the
only thorough means 0! spreading business inior-
nation before the people. Instead OF running
down few customers by the disgusting system
of boring as it is termed, the lungs OF the news
paper press may be put in reqnisltIon 10 invite
thousands Of customers at the same time.
There is girl living in Beekman street so ug-
ly that she don't know her own mother
Nei0 York San.
We have one in Mobile so handsome, that she
don't know her own father. let alone her mother
Mobile Herald.
We have one here so handsome in face and so
ugly in mind, that sonetimes-She don't hnoo her
SeH.-N o. Della.
We have one here in Baltimore, who thinks her
self so handsome, that when she is upon the street
she don't knOa0 a1lybody Ball. Ne'0s