The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-11
Correspondence Of the Republic.
BosToN, September 5, 1919.

DoeIoh, september o, 1919
EMIeRAT ON FROM MASSACHUSETTS, TO CALIFORNIA
There has been a revival of the emigration fever
during the last two months. No place has suffered
from it 30 much in proportion its population as
the little island of Nantucket. The Inquirer esti-
mates that about four hundred active able bodied
men have gone from that town since the gold ex :
element first broke out. sFor the present." SAYS
the Inquirer, Nantucket has taken tickets enough
in the FL Dorado stock, and we are glad that our
people have at length made up their minds to pur-
chase no more until they what kind Of story
the first drawing will tell" Many expeditions,
however, now fitting out from other parts of the
State; and in Bristol and Plymouth counties whole
families are preparing to leave for the new land of
promise.
POLITICAL.
You will probably learn before Wednesday the
result of the election to fill the vacancy in the
Fourth Congressional district of this State The
candidates the at the last trial; and the
Locofocos and Free-Soilers are sanguine in the be
lief that they shall again prevent a choice.
1t is thought that the Locofoco State convention
for the nomination ola gubernatoral candidate will
fix upon Mr.. Cushman, of Hubbardston; though
some think that Charles G. Greene, ESQ.,, editor of
the Boston Post, will be the man.
PLAYING SOLDIER.
At the last session of our legislature law was
passed authorizing brigade encampments of our mi
litia and independent companies. There have been
encampments at Neponset, Danvers, Worcester,
and, believe, other places. But the experiment,
though it has worked well enough for the soldiers,
seems to have been the means of collecting inn
mense numbers of rowdies, gamblers and black
legs, who hang about the encampments, and pur-
linn
of spectators attracted to the spot. At Danvers,
recently, the town authorities undertook TO resist
the tide of rowdyism which set in from the big
cities in consequence Of the encampment; but the
rumseers and gamblers were too powerful for the
village Hampdens, even though the latter s.
sisted by a regiment of militia, who were marched
up to the aid of the sheriff We shall probably have
to abandon these brigade encampments and yet
the soldiers themselves appear to have behaved well
at all these gatherings.
FATHER MATHEW
took leave of us to-day in valedictory addressed
to the mayor, in which the warm hearted priest ex-
presses his gratitude in phrases running with
enthusiasm and thanks, for the attentions he has
received, and the generous welcome with which he
has been greeted by all parties and sects. He per-
sonally thanks ''the benevolent citizens of Boston
for their bounty to his afflicted fellow countrymer,
and says to city authorities: " In the manage
ment of your public institutions, conducted in a
spirit of pure and comprehensive benevolence, you
have reduced the science of philanthropy to sys-
tenn, and blend in harmonious combination the
Hottest principles of Christian charity with the
every-d day duties of active life Father Mathew
was escorted by large procession from his hotel
to the railroad depot, where he took passage for
Lawrence. ~