The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-06-01

The English papers have much to say
concerning the Irish exodus to the United
States-a proceeding which, next to the
utter annihilation of the Irish people. an.
swers the wish nearest the heart of John
Bull. The London Times of May 3, says
The Irish emigration still continues, at
rate which threatens results far beyond the
calculations of the economist, perhaps even
the wishes of the statesmen. 1t is no longer
the overflow of vessel full to repletion, but
the operation of q syphon which drains to
the very bottom. II that syphon may be
regarded in any visible form, it is the rail-
way system, which in the eyes of every
Irishman appears to have one common ter
minus across the Atlantic. He sees trains
of hopeful, if not happy, faces going Oft to
the Land of Promise, from which friends
and relations have sent not only invitations,
but the means of accepting them. A train
starts to catch an emigrant vessel, as regu>
larly as in England to catch steamer
across the channel. The emigrant ships
have no longer to peep into every little port
to pick up their passengers. They assem-
BILE at Cork, and pass in a continuous
stream, if it may be so called, across that
ocean which, wide as it be, is easier to an
Irishman than the gulf which divides him
from England.
At present it cannot be said that there
leaves Ireland as much as the natural TO-
crease, but the causes in operation are not
unlikely to make it exceed that rate. As
the small holdings are thrown into larger,
and the farm grows to the English scale,
there must be numbers everywhere bred to
the occupation of land, and with all the
ideas adapted to it, but unable to get hold
ings that will require little or no capital.
They 60 across the Atlantic as matter of
course. Brothers, uncles and neighbors
have gone long before, and send, not only
good news, but the substantial pledge OF its
truth in the shape of orders on Irish banks.
10 Ireland the remark is that these are well
come to 60. They are the Irish surplus.
They constitute the storehouse of independ-
ent enterprise which Providence would seem
to have prepared through long ages for the
peopling of the New World. But there is
a class who are not bid God speed quite
so cheerfully. Laborers, that is, men with
strong sinews, who can do good days
work and are content to receive wages, are
as they always have been, the chief want of
ireland. The new race of farmers do not
like to see them go.
But who can pick and choose in human
affairs. There are good, easy souls, who
enter life with this speculation, who expect
in everything the fruit without the husk,
the meat without the bone, the harvest
without the tillage In Ireland they ex.
pect good farm, good house. good
landlord and some good laborers, who shall
come when wanted and do good days
work. But the postman knocks at all
doors, and brings to these as we'll as their
prouder neighbors, letters and remittances
and good accounts from the Western States;
SO off they go, leaving the new tenant
farmers to manage as best they can.
If this goes on long, as it is likely to 60
on, Ireland will become very English, and
the United States very Irish.
From the Liverpool journal.
There can now be no question that ire
exodus from Ireland this season is likely to
be as marvellous in its extent as that which
followed upon the terrible famine of 1861.
The provincial papers TEEN with the sub.
ject, and the farmers remaining at home
have taken alarm at the almost certain
prospect of a scarcity of laborers and the
consequent enhanced price of labor. This
emigration panic is to be traced to the
simple fact that every mail from America
brings large remittances for passage and
outfit to relatives in the old country, who,
of course, are willingly tempted to better
fhorr inn mfr ,vyh1 0h Ot3 O
large field for industrial enterprise.