The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-06-16

fact, SO far as it concerns u.s. Isl that while great
part of the most enterprlsing and industrious so
elsewhere, the idle, the inefficient, the destitute,
and the vicious, almost certain to remain,
heaped up like drif-wood, at the point where they
first lodged. In l648 there came into this State,
and nearly all of them into this city, l494 foreign
paupers. OF the emgrants brought over in 1847,
as appears by recent report to the Senate, 2,50l
were or have become paupers. As appears from
the same report, from l64l to l845 more than two
thirds of the State paupers were foreigners In
the House OF Industry, more than IS per cent were
from abroad. In the Lunatic Asylum one-half OF
the subjects were from England and Ireland. Dur
ing the same period, of the State prisoners at
Charlestown, only 800 were natives; while ,657,
more than two TO one, were aliens. BY the last
report Of the Inspectors of Prisons appears that,
Of 1877 committed to the House of Correction 525
were foreigners, and only 262 were natives And,
what is perhaps as significant as any TACT men
toned, 1t is said that now, OF l,lIU dramshoPs,
eight hundred are kept by the natives OF other
lands.
sThen, as is well known, one OF the prominent
schemes of English statesmen and phlanthropists
is TO disburden England and Ireland OF their pau
pers. by sending them abroad. A large part OF
those thus sent must reach this country. 1t was
AN interesting incident narrated lately in the news
papers--that Of Lord Ashley meeting two hundred
professional thieves. 1t was also matter of some
p5ment to us, that one principal object of his was
toiaauce and aid them to emigrate.
We are beginning to see the consequences of
,l,t Arious causes which combine to bring over the
paupersm of Europe to this country. Putting out
of view the results elsewhere, whether good or bad,
in this city, leading To some of the gravest and
most difficult questions. No small part of the du-
ties of the city government are occasioned or modi-
fed by the presence of this class of emgrants Net
only Is the establishment at Deer Island prepared
to accommodate the sick before they land on the
fho al, tho hon aOfc
rection, the jail, the prison, more than one-half
built to receive foreign paupers foreign criminals.
For one, | do not object to this. ! am glad that
those who have been wretched in Europe should
have better hopes for their children in this country
Though the right Of foreign States to throw the
burden of supporting their poor from their own
shoulders upon the shoulders of others may well be
doubted-though that is a kind of commerce in
which there can be no recprocity-l would still say
let them come But their coming, 1t must be re-
membered, throws on us most serious duties"
Mr. Peabody then proceeds to announce the
somewhat startling fact that pauper class is in
creasing at far more rapid rate than the popua-
ton The first and essential condition, which he
regards as sine qua for the prevention of pau
perism, is thoroughly christanized public opin-
ion; and one which, besides this, has the patience
and the wisdom to investigate and understand the
amount of the evil and the remedy" This address
is well worthy the attention of all good citizens, in
whatever part of the country, who would provide
timely remedies for portentous social grievance.
The cases of putatve cholera in this city continue
few and far between. There have been some five
six, which respectable physicians have pro-
nounced upon very decidedly as Asiatic cholera !;
but in nearly every case, some indscretion of diet
seems to have been the predisposing cause of dis
ease. The weather is unseasonably cool. We
have had hardly week of genuine summer
Their. Vegetation is exceedingly backward. East
winds have prevailed, with little variation, for
five or six weeks. Many of the fruit trees have
been seriously affected. The pear trees have bios
somed very scantily. The apple crop will be unu-
sualy deficient, and there will be no peaches east
Of the Blue hills.
In city amusements, Terpschore is the
prominent grace, just at present. AT the Howard
Atheneum, Blangys, French danse,lse, is bringing
out some new ballots in good style, and to pretty
well filed houses and at the Boston Museum the
graceful vicnnoise children deghung young
folks and old by their saltatory achievements.
Madame Wesse, the German lady who has the
management of these children, has laid up hun
dred thousand dollars from her receipts from their
performances in this country. The young dancers
seem happy, and quite attached to her.
Massachusetts, is about to enter the field as a
competitor with Pennsylvania for supplying her
people with anthracite coal. The presence of coal
in the vicinity Of Mansfield, in this State,
nounced long since but from the want Of funds
nothing has been done to prosecute the discovery.
Last autumn large beds were opened, after the
necessary title had been procured for about sixteen
hundred acres. A company formed, and a
charter obtained and the mining has, during the
present month"; been commenced and prosecuted !;
and in a few months the coal will be in the mar
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