The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-04-07
The Irish Emigration to America.
From the Cork Examiner March 9

On Thursday ihs Tnman steamer, The City Of
Baltimore, Captain MlsehOuse, arrived In thaiaas.
bar NJ An early hour. The Baltimore on This 0cca-
sion was employed a. an extra boat, In addition
10 the ordinary weekly sailing. She brought from
Liverpool fnur hundred passengers. aud took In
here something over one hundred, leaving for
Thursdays steamer no less than four hundred
more, of whom II is probable not more than halt
VIII be able 10 find room. The cunaFd extra
stH nier, which sails this week, Will not only carry
out inif complement, but booking for Il was
stopped ten days ago The eniigfants now leav-
ing are OF classAhat ona cannot help regr-ttng
we deiv even the fercest doetr;hsire 10 stand
upon the deck of one nj these departing vessels
and say. that the absence of the people he srss
there can by any possibility be a source Of benefit
They comprise all ages, but In very different pro-
portions.
The young and the old are 10 be- saen-the hoary
father te totering mol,ef the feeble child have
their place. Bat the bulk Is composed Of the ado
lescant, or those In the prime Of life. Stalwart
young men, full Of health and vigor !; y0ung wo-
iren, the gaudy bad taste Of his whose attire can
not conceal that they have beauty, the Activ-
fty, the bounding health, for which tile Irsh peas
ant girl has been remarkable. Among them all
there Is scarcely ono to te seeh poorly attired.
from the Sligo Champion, March 81
Last week large number Of well dressed,
healthy lookin: Young men ana woinen passed
through the town, on their way to Queenstown,
add some To Derry, the steamers sailing from these
posts appearing to be In high favor with the emit
grants. We learn from our correspondents that an
unprecedented large number of emisrants have
this week LEFT the neighbori0od of i'aliina, Swin
ford, Sooey, AMI BaliyM0te. 20 take shippin. for
America.
From the TyrawIey Herald, March 3
Scarcely at any season have we In years past
seen the exodus c0nside ,able As 1t Ia now, when
le month of March has only just been entered on.
It's 70 unusual thing on any day of the week In
Baliind, 10 count nineteen emigfants, between old
and young, upon one Of Biantoni's long cars, and
this three times In the day, and at The same time
TO the of n nYfvate owner. With
smaller cars, and carts more numerous st', filled
all OF them by the same class, proceeding to Sligo,
en- route To Liverpool and America. We are in
formed that no less than one hundred and twenty
one persons from single parish within five miles
nj this town preparing and intend Setting CIT In
company for America And this is no isolated
case. The entire country would seem TO he on
The 9ui ute, and to be determined to know quiet
and happiness I'll II shall be Ell i1vGi IN the midst
Of new essociations and new labors In the New
World ~ the present rate Oi progress Outwaids,
Er-is will soon ba depopuaed, and many pats OF
Tyraw'ey will be in no better plight e
From the Traiee Cironic!c, March g.
4 gentleman whose position affords peculiar IA
ctles for observation regarding the movements of
lIe peastntry has assured us that their excitement
respecting emigration exceeds al belief MOI =
farmer HhO does no. sefoU.Iy consider the advan-
leg. oi leaving land and home not a labofer wbo
does not long 10! the means which shall enable him
to Il from this miserable land. He Instances on.
case OF this sort AMI 1t merely indicates the pro
which l. going on throughout the country, and
which promises 10 leave Kerry Il waste. If some
inean. shall not ne taken to remove the causes
which excite ID this lnhantabic dep"paiatl0n.
Church Hill is hamlet situate 4 few miles from
Tfaee. IL is not worse cireumsianced, either as
to pfoprletOrshp or otherwise, than others IN tire
country. but from this .stall hamlet twenty five
esnigfsatS left for America on Monday last. This,
we beiiye, was fully half the population, and much
more than bali the able bodied Inhabitants oi
Church Hill.