The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-17
THE IRISH EXODUS.


The exodus this Sc ason-f the reports are not
exaggeratedis likely to be as marvellous in its ex-
tent as that which followed upon the terrible IA
mine of 1867. The provincial papers TEEN with
the subject, and the farmers remaining at home
have taken the alarm at the almost certain pros
pect of scarcity of laburers and the consequent
enhanced price of labor. Kerry paper 1.-THE
Post, reports as follows:
"From our own county, early as it sin the year.
an unusual number have already gone, and there
are signs of an emigration doubling. nay trebIing
that of some years past-and this, too, though it
is said that no emigrant vessels will sail direct from
this port (Tralee), as they have done for several
seasons past Now the railroad is availed of, and
every Wednesday for the past month, the early
trains have carried away crowds of emigrants, in
tending to go by those lines of steamers which
call in at Cork for passengers. Last Wednesday,
as we have heard, very near $50 persons left Ira
lee by the early train route to catch the steamer
for America, besides those who were picked up at
Farranfore Killarney, &c. Those parties were
most of them, booked through for America in Ira
lee. From what can learn, the greatest rush
| across the Atlantic is, comparatively speaking,
from the Dingle district, from which town and
neghborhood no less than $50 persons have either
already LETT or are preparing for the voyages
and We have heard it stated that if the hoped for
remittances come from relatives in America
that number will be more than doubled before
the close of the season." 1t is fairly remarked that
this revival of the emigration panic is not to be at
tributed to the want of Tenant Right Bill or fix
ity of tenure for the emigrating class is ;or the
most part composed of mere laborers and house
hold servants but to be traced to the simple fact
that every mail from America brings large remit
tances for passage and outfit to relatives in the old
| country, who, of course, are willingly tempted to
better their condition in a country which offers a
| larger field for industrial enterprise The Kerry
paper adds: "With these Inducements offered to
| them, all the tenant right measures that could be
devised will not keep the laboring classes at home
and dependent on the farmers for house-room and
their daily wages. The farmers children are going
because, such is the demand and competition for even
the smallest lots of land that be called FARMS
there Is no chance for a tithe of them being
| settled in any comfort farmers in this county
For those of this class who will not consent to be-
come hired laborers, there is no room in this part
OF the world, now that our landlords have wisely
set their faces against that division and subdivision
of land that brought such misery on the country
In the famine years. 1t is better, therefore, for
themselves to emigrate with what little capital
they may possess, to a country in which they will
find plenty of room. We cannot, however, say
the same in reference to the farm laborers and
household servants who are, on every opportunity,
crowding from our shores to England or America.
The country can ill spare them"
AN ANTIDoTE FOR PoIsoN.-The Rochester Union
of May IL, says: ''Two three days ago lady of
Avon took. by mistake, quantity OF corrosive sub
Innate, sufficient to have caused death had not an
antidote been speedily administered. The circum-
stances of the case about as follows: The lady
meant to taste some maple syrup, but bottle OF
bed-bug poison had been carelessly LETT where the
bottle of syrup had stood, and she took small
quantity before she discovered her mistake. For
tunately, a domestic who remembered the fatal
poisoning case of Mrs. Nowlan which occurred at
Avon a few years ago, had the presence OF mind to
run to the poisoned lady with pan of milk, who
drank oft very freely, and also took the white of
eggs so as to render the poison innocuous. She
was soon out of danger Let this antidote be re-
membered and used in similar cases.