The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-01-08

Tor the purpose Excursion trains bring up
four or five thousand day by one line Of rail-
way. Eighty-fve thousand children sang .4God
save the Queen, at Manchester, on Friday, and
nifty thousand adults repeated the bymn the
next day IN Hyde Park. We forget how many
millions are returned as having travelled bv
railway last year. The visits TO the British
Museum and the Thames Tunnel are now Of the
millionaire class. Twenty years ago the figure
OF the national debt stood alone in its glory. as
the only work Of man that approached to the
Infinite, and was really stupendous We are
now 50 familiar with great figures. that the
national debt IS descending by COMPARISON. 10
the level OF our ordinary conceptions But
among al these vast figures that are becoming
conestleated and vulgar, there IS none so i'm
Portant, though 50 familiar, as the figures Of
the emigration which IS actually draining these
isles We have repeated aIrnost al R4ussam.
that the people are leaving Us At the rate of
near thousand day. VERY vel; what Of
thatE They are only Irishmea, with a sprink-
ling Of the every wandering Scotch, and some Of
the less fortunate or respectable Of cur own
coUntrymen-" Be they what they NAV. the fact
remains that We are witnessing phenomenon
OF the same class with the migrat!ons Of the
Gauis, the GotLs, the Huns, the Turks. the
AagyaTs, and other tribes, that, before the SET
t-enent Of Europe roaU1sd about looking for 2
home Familiarity" II j. said :. breeds cor
tempt" ami certain 1t IS that no sooner Is
great fact familiar t.an man treat Il .t. indif
ference, and DO not even seem to apprehend il
correctly, much less 10 follow it ~ to its conse-
quences.
In Ireland the fact Is brought home to the
understanding IN - forcibIe a manner by the
actual sight OF emisraEt trains, emig grant ships,
depopu-sted districts, ruined habit,tions ard
labOur beginning to rise in the market, that il
cannot be disposed of SO easily as in TIN. cosn-
try. The journals there have STYLED the move
ment the Celtic exodus" AID, CONSIDERING IN.
actual difference between the condition OF an
average Irish peasant at home. and that which
he easily attains to in the United States. we
shall not quarrel with the reflection which
the name seems 10 cast oD the rulers left behind
The writers who treat OF this exodus tell Us
that it Viii go on i'll the whole race is departed
and their place lett untenanted- Having onee
begun, the migration viii 60 On; and the strong
social instinct that have hitherto bound the
Irishman 10 the soil Of his birth viii now one
rate IN drawing him TO the great westward
stream In England II has been anticipated by
some writers, that when the Irish population
should be reduced 70 q certain low level. the
inducements to remain would rise so high that
the migration would stop, and the remnant left
behind would be contentedly and permanently
attached to the soil The Irish authorities, as
We are disposed TO think, very correctly, do not
expect the migration to stop as soon as the pop
ulation has assumed its proper proportion TO
the work 10 be done. The people who have
been in the habit Of paying thirty shiIIings an
acre, would not now remain on the land if it
were reduced twenty shilHngs or ten shillings-
they viii have it at price. Their minds are
completely made up TO 90 after their friends-to
90 home; that home not being ..Ould ireland, f"
but the Par u est,7 The stream once set that
way, II viii not stop til Ireland is absolutely
dePopulated, and the only question is, when
viii that be? Twenty years at the present rate
would take away the whole OF the industrious
classes, leaving only the proprietors and their
families. members of the learned professions,
and those whose age OF inhrInities keep them at
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treating great social or political questions. It
is more than twenty years since the passage Of
the Emancipation Act and the introduction of
the Reform Bill What If it shsuld really come
to pass that before another twenty years the
whole Celtic race shall have disappeared from
these isles, and the problem Of seyen4eenturies
received its solutiong We dwell IN lssss,lderful
times, in an age Of great discoveries, splendid
Improvements, and grand consummations. Art
has always been found the handmade of human
Developments. The discovery OF gunpowier
Pnt an end TO the little wars and little states of
the middle ages, aud introduced larger political
manipulatiens- The discovery Of printing pre-
pared for the revival of learning and arts, and
paved the way 10 the Reformation. The disco
very Of the mariners compass showed cur ma
vigators path to the East Indies and the New
World 1t may be the first mission of railways
TO set all the populations Of the Old World on
the move, and send them in quest of independ-
ent and comfortable homes
And when viii this movement stop? Incuri-
business and prejudice are ready with the reply,
that 1t viii stop, at all events, when the Celtic
race is exhausted. The Englishman, we are
assured, IS too attached TO his country, and too
comfortable at home, TO cross the Atlantic But
surely it's very premature TO name any such