The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-04-25

On Saturday last COO able bodied young men left
the North Wall fsr New York. They had been
aad were brought "a the 9nays IN groups Of four,
ten, hfteen, or twenty. Wherever In the neishbOr.
hood Of Dublin lnb0vess' work was proceeding
strongest n,es. talked itesM over, and seneraIiy
succeed.d d 10 buying their lsves. The meR are NOT
told In express words that they must enitsi In the
Federal armies, bat they know very well what they
ate required 10 do, and what they must do. They
are Oslcnsibiy eakaged 10 work the construction,
Of railway for iHree months. The whereabouts
ef the railway we have been unable TO discover
they are noninaily allowed dollar day uu,i lilr
erpii alton Of three months Their accounts will
be settled and the cost Of their passage, ciOth.s
and keep, Ia to be deducted from the money due
from ths quarters service When that settlement
Is made the men "may enlist ih the Federal armies
f they please or, If they prefer it, they may seek
work. The NOrtherneTs are sharp people, and
they take good care that the 'three months men"
must enlist in the Federal army 10 keep
from prison.
For On arriving at New York the "emigrants"
are placed by themselves either on some island or
in an isolated depot. While there they must buy
food. water. boots, and clothing They are charged
ten dollars for what is worth two. Temptati0ns
are offered to them Of every Kind If they have
no money, SO much the better. An accommodate
ing dealer in greenbacks attends every company,
aud cashes their notes In advance at an enormous
per ceatage. On the expiration of the three
months the e.nigsanl has hairs experience In
whclmed with debt. lie has been exposed to tie
Fapacity Of a swarm Of harpies aud TO a legion Of
seducers. He 10 told he may find employment
where he peases. when has paid his debts. In his
difficulty he IL offered e It's In greenbacks, sum
which will clear of his l:abtitiel, and give him
some capital TO commence a new score, until that
Is wasted, and then he "ls sent to the front -
There never was devised a more iniquitOus
scheme of deception, and, unllappy, never WIS
wicked device SO successful. Misguiied Young
men are hired and then piundered, and they are
PluRderrd To compel them to enlist When they
are once regularly enlisted they have nothing be-
fore them but deat,-death either in the sudden
shock Of battle, for they will be placed, IA usual,
In the van or on the f0rIOtn hope; or death after
lingering suffering when they have been abandoned
wounded on the field; death by fever which kills
them off like flies In pestilcntai hospitals, whose
very walls are imp,e egaated with disease.
Out Of every hundred men who leave their
sWeethearts, their families and Their work behind
them, not ten will be alive al this time next yea,
and Ut these more than half will be manned and
crippled for the brief term OF their days. more
deadly war was never wagcd than that between
the North and the SOuth-deadiy by wounds, dead
y by hards, ps deadly by disease; aud In this war
five lrishMen have been slain for one native
American.
1t is such an emigration as this that dil.Hanii
professors pronounce to be- the hope of Ireland and
the blessing Of the people. The opinions Of these
theorists might be laughed at were tlIey not indica
tive Of something which Ia very sad. All those
who pronounce this emigration TO be good are per
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ment. II follows, then, that the government VIII
never interfere to prevent that which their scrots
are required to represent as blessing. snip Is
seized because there Is 4 suspicion that 1t Is IN
tended for the use of the COnedcratss. Her owner
Is called upon to produce proof that she is designed
Tor some belligerent STA u. Yet ship Is USE
less without men and stores and arms but within
bowshot Of the Castle of Dublin, under the very
eyes Of Her Majesiy's Govcnm ent, bodies OF 6Go
men, whose walk and movement betray that they
have undergone some preliminary drilling In ths
cOunHy, are marched 10 the transport ship, bound
for the great seaport of the Northern beiligerent-
fthe destination Of Il ship must be known, why
not the destination of regiments OF 600 men why
are not the captains of cRligtant ships compelled
u give bonds IL guarantee the peaceabic character
OF The employment for which these emi:ran,s are
desgnsd? Our tOnsuls in the American cities
could readily ascertain how these emigrants were
distributed, and the Federal Government, gra,e ul
they should be for many fav0rs, ought 10 Ell
gage to enlist In their arni no emigIahi from
these counties until year after his ARRIVAL There
is employment now tor every able bodied man in
Ireland. Many of these men who departed on Sat
urtlay held situations, some of them 10 our know
ledge, under public bodies, AT salaries Of from lbs.
to 1885, week. There IL a good prospect Of still
better remuneration now that so many sources of
employment are being gradually opened. But
where will iabOrcrs be found I Where peasants to
till The soil Where snidiets whom we may soou
need The blind apathy OF Government sees not
the cruel deportation Of the strength OF the and,
Or percetvins Ill the flight OF i''cngrants" occurs
when they are at HE helm, proclaim iGudiy that
The depopuialiOn OF a country is The greatest OF
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