The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-13
Need Of Emigrants In this Country.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.
notice with sorrow, in your paper of to day. that
the hospitable asylum for distressed foreigners III
Canal street, is to be closed at night against their
admission hope not in the day, it is great
venience to persons wanting servants l have en-
ployed many green hands from it. of both sexes and
shall be sorry when shall be deprived of the priv
lege. But the mnin object in my addressing you at
al at this time is, that while the public press is
teeming, daily, With the burden the city bears with
the heavy arrival of foreigners, why do not some
of the press advocate their going the ines eli
mate in this country, namely, Virginia! There,
owing to the meddling influence of the abotionists,
and such papers as your Tribune and Times, the ne
groes being sent further South by the hundreds
to worse home than they now enjoy: and the con.
sequence il, labor is very all around Richmond
and its vicinity. A good laboring man can get his
twelve dollars month, and board all the year round,
winter and summer, and not be kicked out of en-
ploy in the month Of October, as he is here, with
s'well, believe don't want you any more'' Twen-
ty thousand can find work about Richmond and one
hundred miles of its vicinity. Advocate t-for their
good, for ours. A friend writes me "We pay for
negro men horrible prices. Only think, one hundred
and twenty-five dollars year, their board, cloth
ing, doctors BILL life insurance. their sick time. and
stealing: You are now New Yorker. Why do not
your emigration societies send men, and women too,
down here !? There is plenty Of work in our mills,
tobacco factories, driving carts, digging foundations;
and lastly, our farmers-they want 30 900 to fill the
Maryland, where the abolitionists have so many
emissaries, that negroes are tempered with and
we sell them right off, to keep their value as we
not keep their bodies Can you not send me by
year and their board, for the whole year Send by
Roanoke, Saturday, and write me. Oh, happy day
for Old Virginia, when the negroes are driven out,
to emancipate the whites y
while Please call attention to this, and emancipate
the white people of the Old Dominion Hold it up
to the Commissioners Of Emigration. Go to Vir
FRIEND TO FOREIGNERS.
New York, August 6, 1852.
THE FUNERAL OF Mr.. RASToUL The obsequies
of the Hon. Robert Rantou, Jr., were performed at
Beverly, his former residence, on Tuesday after
noon. The funeral cortege moved from the late re-
sidence of the eloquent deceased ut about three
o'clock 1t was long and imposing 1t seemed as
If the loss was which went to the heart Of every
man in the community where Mr.. Rantoul was al
most idolized. There was more than the "inky
cloak" the mere "trappings and suits OF woe
male population Of Beverly, with delegations from
many other places, joined to swell the mournful
procession. The hearse was followed by process
sion, in which were the Frecmasons, the Odd Eel
lows, the Sons of Temperance, and various other
societies. In this part of the procession was the
city government of Salem, headed by Mayor Up.
ham; also, a portion of the city government OF
Lynn. Then followed twenty. five carriages, con-
tanning the Congressional Committee Mr.. Rantoul 5
family, and immediate friends. The procession
moved to the First Unitarian Church, where SER
vices were conducted by Rev. G. 7. Thayer, OF
Beverly; and an eloquent address was pronounced
by the Rev Dr. Thompson, Of Salem, an intimate
friend of Mr.. Rantoui. The reverend gentleman
paid most eloquent tribute to the memory OF the
tamonted statesman. The pulpit was draped 10
| mourning. Tho shipping in port displayed their
| flags ut half mast, and many buildings were appro-
| priately dressed. The coffin was covered with
| flowers by the ladies Of Beverly. The whole en-,
| senbie Of the ceremonies solemn and mournfu
| in the extreme. Among the distinguished mer
| present we noticed Franklin Haven, Franklin Dcx.
| ter, and Isaac II. Wright, Of Boston. The body o
Mr. Rantou was deposited in the family tomb a.
| Beverly.
| SPIRITUAL RAPPINGs INsANITY.--We are informed
that Mr. Oryille Hatch, Of Franklin, Conn, has be
come insane, he having devoted considerable atten
tion to the subject OF spirit rappings Mr.. Hatcl
eft home on Saturday last and his friends fear tina
no will commit suicide, RS he previous to his de
nortnre rep,esepted that he had received a messag
From the spirit of man who had committed suicide
Urging him To leave the world. Mr. Hatch is
farma5 and has been instrumental in introducin
many important improvements in agriculture int
tho town where he resides He was also an ONCE
Of the New England Poultry Association, ana
the last exhibition in this city, his COLLECTION o low
WINS very largo and valuable The number Oh tnos
:: made insane by the spiritual phenomenon Is II
creasing every day, and in view OF this TACT ~ %
, comes those who investigate the causes OF ~
manifestations, to be guided by the laws OF reaso
and nature.-Boston Journal, August IL.
: MINISTER TO ENGLAND.-The President has Civ
Q information Of the recall Of the Hon. Abbot La
! rcnoe, our Minister to England and has nominal
I Togsrh y, Inxeisvl. Of ruuxAsy yalia, to that IN