New-York daily tribune., 1856-02-27
LOCAL EMIGRATION.

sppeared in The TRIBUNE, entitled "A System oi
Local Emigration" In this the evils arising from the
city being overlooked with aborers looking for eul-
ployment and finding none while in the West plenty OF
yok is TO be had for which aborers are continually
REQUIRED were discussed at engh-a proposition being
made that the Commissioners Of Emigration should
cause all situations in which laborers wanted TO be
duly reported in order that they might be thus enabled
10 secure them for lsboreis asking ior employment.
ArraDgemt nts Of this kind, may state have already
for long time been made in a limited degree by the
Commissioners Of Emigration and the German Society.
The lsboiers however who call ~ these offices are
chi, ay in demand by employers residing in New YORK
or in its vicinity 30 that these establishments con-
tribute very little comparatively toward securing en-
poyment ia the interior for the superuous hands here
How few of the new yanived immigrants can be fur.
nished with employment here the following facts viii
illustrate:
According TO the annual report made for the pre-
ceding wear of 1885, 2J3 immigrants who arrived here
only i5 Isl could be provided with work, while a. 5
had to be relieved with money aud 59 90 With oosrd
and odgiug-tte agency OF the German Society finding
Il impossible 10 procure work far more than 80 Of
the 1882 German immigrants who arrived here. But
in this wear Ddigence and misery though not quite 50
great as in the previous one have nevertheless pre-
Vailed 10 such an extent that the German Society have
been air, adv twice compelled t. provide money for
the support Of their poor and the German Immigrant
Association Of Cincinnati published call requesting
contributors for the support OF their poor Inc mum.
Der of situations provided by the Commissioners OF
Emigration and the German Society, amounting, as
does to only 1913, upon being compared with the
number Of mmgrants-l3G, ,233-wil be found totally
insufficient furnsh employment TO those asking tor
it, Yet, while this is the state of things here, the
Vest III papers continually complain OF want of
laborers For example in The Illinois Banner Peoria
there appeared short time since an article on thi;
subject from which quote the following:
Good hands receive sI2 or : 6 per month h5oufhou the
Winter During the harvest they receive 81 IS every day
beside board yet at thu prize but few Of them
be chad. bile thousnds Of en and women are
about IN the great cities ofLen wang the most indPen4po
Female s,Tvsr. susnervansi they paid
need rot Be entertained Of the market be-
coming with aboers long the Eastern market
with for - long the culture OF corn
and wheat T ys Sh be Of one eI'rea per s can. he M
ing du4ue twelve years remained rahe behind in their
labors the goan farmers expose themselves 10 the most
the lost time able procure the assistance Of
laorers whom they would Tay ample wages a. o1s as they
could sell for sixty only forty cents We had
better this year than have had for five I
back being cultivated at present than in former yar
to fields that in this OF the State compa aNey but
little wheat has been sown IN the Fall"
Another Western paper not long ago contained the
following notice:
People the West complain that few laboes
of any Kind be he'd Farmers requiring during the sum
very difficult them, even at the highest prce
This eo the with such families as are in want OF female
servants"
Hence il appears that while employment is very
scarce in the great cities laborers not less
in the Western county, which will be explained by
the fact that the immig1 ants III want OF employment
are mostly ignorant whereabouts in the country, at
distance from the thoroug farmers Others
curing their services reside, unwilling TO travel
encountered with heavy baggage for many miles in
quest of these situations being impressed with belief
that work is to be found at places where great num-
bers OF people have assembled. So they either remain
in the seaport towns, continuing their journey By
the thOroughfares settle in the great cities OF the
interior.
Thus VIC see the urban population increasing nom
wear to year with startling rapidty the cities being
oyercruwed with individuals OF the labonng classes.
n consequence of this the price OF provisions Is en-
hanced and indulgence anu misery largely augmented;
while the superiluous hands, than useless here,
if cutyating the fertile soil OF the West, would not
only ia short time acquire an independence, but be
of the greatest to the community at large In con-
tributng as producers TO lowering the price of pro-
visions now 30 much enhanced by their being con-
sumers.
MANY as are the evils caused by the concentration
in the great cities Of many hands destitute of
aud employment, they can be easily obvated If we
90 to work in the night manner. Nothing is
duired than to establish between the employers and
employees close connection--whch, being already
r,arflv effected, iBasmuch iaJorers in want of o
poynent know where they have to call, to wit citlr
at the Office Of the Commissioners OF Emigration Or the
German Society's rooms--we must devise means to
make known 10 the employers in the country requiring
the services of aborer where 10 address themselves in
order to procure them. Certainly this can be done
through advertising. II is strange indeed, while
everything else can be made known that this matter
should want newspaper publicity.
In fact proper degree of advertising would not
only prove beneficial to housesevans, laborers and
mechanics Of every kind, but also to clerks teachers
doctors. and others. Many an honorable New-York
doctor struggles hard for his subsistence from
week 10 another while there is many small place in
the West where the services of good German doctor
would prove extremely acceptable.
| may add, in connection with this matter that
saw, short time since, in of the Western papers
that numerous employers residing West would be will
ing to advance the travelling expenses of laborers
if they could thereby be procured. And in most
of this kind the moneys thus advanced nj ght be SIM
ply secured.
In regard TO the German immigration, have vet to
refer TO the fact that Whenever has been long since
proposed the various German societies OF the United
States should assemble in congress, firm connection
between these bodies having the same aims would at
once be established. This would not only be Of the
greatest use for present purpose in procuring
ploymen but would also be Of the highest advantage
10 all coming to this country with the intention of pur.
chasing LANDS for settlement. For if the German so.
cietos should each in It's own sphere Of action pub
sh calls to those having farms aud forth for sale for
particulars and, on the receipt of sucs information
should communicate il TO each other any immigrant
on inauiring at the Office of of the societies might
learn what farms for sale in the various States
and thus know where 10 make purchases without run
ming the risk Of being feeced by Intermediary specu-
lators.
This arrangement Il true would necessitate addi-
tionsl labor but it would at the same time greatly
promote the welfare OF the Immigrants.
fRIEDR GERHARD.
TIIE NEW PARK