Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1854-10-19
Foreign Emigration,

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We copy the following from New i''k
paper Of last week.
During the pasi two or three months. an
unusually large number Of our foreign po ia-
lalion have returned to their homes 10 tl- Cid
World. This reaux in the tide Of emigration
IS attributed to various causes, among which,
the present high prices Of provisions. the com,
paratiyely dsproportionste rate Of wages, and.
the Know Nothing movement, are regarded ss
the most prominent. OF those who have gone
back, a very considerable number are English
tradesmen, who are discouraged at the made
Qaate remuneration paid in the different me-
chauical occupations While the means Of liV
ing here are much higher than they are in the
/ Old Country, wages they say, are not even ten
per cent over what they have been aeoustom-
cd to receive there. The accounts which they
bring back with them must have tendency to
reduce the emigration of that particular class.
and to direct It, as they have done already. TO
some extent, towards Australia. Not few,
we have been informed. were only two or three
weeks in the country, and returned in the same
vessels in which they came over. These doubt
less. had formed the most extrayagant ideas of
he New World, and imagined, like thousands
of others, who preceded them, that to realize
a fortune here, was but the work Of year.-
( Some who have been successful in the pursuit
of wealth, after years of labor, b ave returned
to spend the rest of their lives in the land OF
their birth, while others have been actuaied in
doing so solely, it is said, BY apprehensions in
regard to the present native American feeling
against foreigners. There are other cnuses
which might be assigned for this partial re-ac'
ton, bu; those we have enumerated are tho
principal. But, after all, the small number VIII
return do not exceed ten or fifteen per cent. Of
the arrivals, and, We do not believe. will over
sensibly affect the sum total Of emigration
All, or nearly al who emigrate to this coun'
try, do so with the intention of making 1t their
adopted home, although it is almost impossible
to eradicate that feeling which binds them to
, their native land. 1t is not to be wondered at
lsLhererore, il few out of the hundreds OF thou"
ands who come here, should find their way back
AGAIN to their fatherland But it must not be
ISuDpOSeQ tndl dil iCdfS tAlto SOuAtAg "'NN -
tention Of never returning, for quite consider
able number go back for the purpose of bring
ing their friends over. This is particularly the
case wnh the Irish and Germans, who form the
great mass of emigrants that are constantly ar
. irving at this and other ports. The 81. N'cho'
: las, Which sailed last week, for Hayre, Lad
about sixty passengers, consisting principally OF
=, French farmers and mechanics, who in conSe-
uuence chiefly of the difference in language
found it exceedingly difficult to procure saI's'
factory employment. Many of these who wor
,e without means, we're sent home by the French
&c Consul, whose government generously allows
Us certain amount annually for such purposes
- The number who have left this port for Ger
lie many, England and other parts OF Europe
since the first of August, is estimated at SIX
H. thousand, or between ten and faeen PR cent
le on the total amount of emigration dnrloB ht
same time--Suu. Mer