The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-05
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Tux lRlsH Excpus.-The Exodus from Ire.
,aad - again 20 great rs TO attract the auen-
ton ofsAe public. In anarticie headed Fly
Wv the Dublin Nation has the following:
"rAey are dying: through Dublin our people
ronr daily in weeping crowds. For years our
streets have not beheld such scenes as those of
The mast week though. alas. tho eob OF popula-
i'm mas not wholly ceased for over 30 years
LING lines OF wcful faces, strangely hooking
The holiday attire in which the poor creatures
attire themselves. as they quit forever their
fathers clay caravans Ut vehicles, piled with
tho bright red painted boxes and trunks, with
owners names marked rudely on the fronts !;
aged women. with hair white as the boar OF
December; old men, bent and broken by sixty
years Of toll in farrow and trench: young
men. who try to look hopeful that the mot her
may weep the less young women, feeling all
The more deeply, As women do, AT rendtng the
thousand silent ties that link them to home
while childrea, too young TO know the cause
of all the sorrow they see on every face. are
oaly delighted with the wonders OF the great
big streets through which they pass.
Away, away, away-and not willingly or
happily. They are not nom9de race. II Is
not an Arab community that has struck the
tent.poieS; they are not dull hcarted, plod-
ding Saxon people, who for meal more In the
month would cross the globe itself, and call it
folly TO feel less AT home in k-mSchatka than
IN the land where their fathers ashes for GEN.
turtles repose. No. no; these are people
whose very heart-striLgs are wrnng by the
idea Of eternal exile; people who. almost TO
fault--if a virtue 50 beautiful could ever he
n fault-cling to the ancestral home; people
who, il they could hut iive-f they could but
eat an humble crust, broken amid the hardest
toil-in Ireland, The land OF their hearts afiec-
TONS would deem ii sweeter than the bread OF
luxury i'll a foreign cline. Away, away. away.
Men thought IL had ceased, This terrible exc
dus; they thought this fearful hImorrhage
had ceased to drain the life blood of our conn-
try. But here it is. full upon us again the
walls are rising once more in every village
Whole communities are quitting forever, III
sorrow and despair, land for which they
would freely die
THE MANUFACTURE OF MosAICs.--A letter
from Rome. in the Rochester Democrat, gives
the following account OF the manufacture OF
mosaics At the Vatican factory 1.-THE mosaic
copies of celebrated pictures, which are now
almost the only ones which adorn the in te-
rior Of ST Peters are the product of this manu-
factory. and are Tar superior to the ancient
mosaics. The ancients, besides their inferiori-
try in painting, show no such delicacy of sha.
ding, such variety of coloring as has been
obtained in m odern times. The material useu
for these n.osaics is artificial stone. OF which
2t,0tU differ shades are used. No one but II
real artist, however one might at first imagine,
can excel in such work. 1t was interesting
enough to see workman with picture OF
enormous size before him, working Tor hours
IN the selection and ftting Of one little piece OF
srOne into the mosaic which Is TO be ITS copy.
The large mosaics, eighteen feet In Lelght'
which adorn st. Peters, nave some OF theIi
tWenty.fl years of the labor OF several ar
fists. 1t seems to me that. rather than under
take SO endless aud unproductive task,
would be the slave OF a silver mine-and yet
the perfection of the work is wonderful. Alta
little distance 1t is impossible to tell II from an
oil painting. and it is next to iucestructiole-
The mosaics of the Roman churches stIll last,
while the churches themselves have been
changed in almost everything else except the
solid walls"
AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND AMERICAN EN-
GINEERlNG IN EuRoPE.-The Eco di Fiume
contains an interes thug notice OF the compile
ton and proof trial of a dry dock at the Aus
trian war station of Poia, on the Adriatic-
constructed by an American Engineer, John
S. Giibsrt. The trial seems to have given uni
versal salts faction. and the admirable working
of the dock ELECTS general admiration and
praise. The drv.docks at Poia are five III
number, and each one is capable OF receiving
for repairs a screw line-of-battle ship OF 12V
guns. They have all been constructed on the
plans and under the direction of Mr.. Gilbert
as Engineer and Director, assisted by Nath'l
5. Wing, also an American, as master carpen-
ter and by Hamilton e. Towle, young engi-
neer of New Hampshire, of much ability
They have occupied about three years in con-
struction and are believed TO afford more
tensive facilities for the repairs OF war-ships
than any system of dry-docks at any of the
other naval stations of Europe or of America.
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