The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1864-06-25
THE HAWK-EYE
Wednesday, Jane 22.

~ The most angular fact of the day is
the wonderful increase of immigrati0n.-
while we are In the midst Of q terrible and
exhaustive civil war, while native croakers
are complaining Of their trials and con-
stantly predicting overwhelming calami-
ties, men of foreign countries-countries
now enjoying peace, are fiocking to our
shores in numbers almost beyond prece-
dent. If any comment were necessary on
the folly of those who predict nothing but
evil, evils, too, which can only come as a
consequence and result of their predictions.
It il supplied by this tide constantly swell
inn, the best that can be made. A country
can hardly be deemed on the verge Of ruin,
which even in the midst of the greatest Of
civil wars, attracts the people Of others to
its borders and furnishes them with bet.
ter home than they can find in their native
lands while in the enjoyment Of peace.
A few figures will indicate how enormous
this emigration is. At the port Of New
York, from the LIST of January to the last
day of May, 6S,07S immigrants were land.
cd. OF these, 4l,2sS, we're from Ireland
lS,3 ,34S from Germany, S,1l4 from England
3,l06 from Scotland, PA from Wales, and
1855 from all other countries. II they
should continue to come in the same ratio
throughout the year, the total number n
that port will b 2l4.S76. This will exceed
the number for, 1858 nearly sixty thousand
and n moro than double the number fol
any year since 1857.
Much the larger portion of the immi-
grants land at New York. They como in
steamers and sail vessels. The trouble on
the other aide Is that both classes prove in
sudlcient. Passages are engaged to the
full capacity Of al = month in advance
These whose passage is secured refuse
double the price for it. They are bent
upon crossing and nothing can bribe them
to lose the speediest chance. Another fea-
ture IL that fully two-thirds of the Irish
emigrants have their fares prepaid by
friends and relatives in this country.
A much larger proportion than usual o,
the present immigration is of the more
thrifty and industrious classes, and it in
cludes very large number Of skilled me-
chanics and workmen, who come prepared
to become at once useful and self-support-
ing residents among US. Those whose po-
Gtions enable them to form . pretty exact
opinion, estimate the amount of coia in the
hands Of each immigrant this year ut
eighty dollars.
In 1850 the number landed from steamers
at New York was only about 5000, and
three per cent. Of the whole. In 1853, the
number from steamers was 63,93l, and
forty per cent. Of the whole. And all the
steamers which brought immigrants last
year were foreign. Not one American
vessel among them! There is another il
lustration Of the effect Of Englands pro-
fessed neutralityi The fare by steamers is
about double that charged by sail vessels.
Butthe time occupied is much shorter, sail
vessels occupying three or four times as
much, and the risk of disease being null
tiplied many times over.
Such are few Of the facts relating to the
existing phase of immigration. They in
dictate that the people Of other lands do not
ind their condition at home desirable and
that they still believe it will be improved
BY coming to US. They have faith in our
institutions still, though rebels and traitors
insist that they are failure, and seek to
destroy them. And we have room for all
who have this faith and who are deter
mined to prove it by their acts. Those who
are resolved to make their own way among
n, the thrifty and industrious sons Of toll,
are just what we want. We shall mutual
ly aid each other. SO long as this class
comes we shall bid them welcome. There
is ample room and abundance Of employ
ment for all who choose to make this their
home and their country. Does not their
conduct put to shame those among us who
would consent to the overthrow of the Pc
public, and are too faint-hearted to make a
single effort to sustain and defend it?
- A dispatch to the Chicago Times
from Hamilton, Ohio, on the day OF the
Convention in that place, says: "lslos, Of
fhe delegates are decidedly opposed to the
Further prosecution Of the rar.' The Cop
perheads all swear that the Times inyar-
iably tells the truth. This time we have
no doubt It did. That same Convention
elected vallandigham a delegate to the
Chicago Convention. It wouldn't have
done that unless its members were opnosed
to the war.
What do these fellows mean by opposi.
ton to the war? They mean tina, Grant
shall retire from Richmond and Sherman
from before Atlanta. They mean that our
forces shall be discharged. They mean
that the ''Confederacy'' shall be acknowl-
edged, the Union thereby destroyed, and
al that the rebels demand be at once given
up to them. They mean more than all
this, that tho whole North shall be placed
- the feet Of the traitors, and loyalty to
the Union b punished here, as it is in the
South, by hanging, shooting, wholesale
butchery and torture. That is just what
the scoundrels mean by that phrase, and
they don't mean anything less than this
II WAS to secure just these ends that they
organized their reasonable secret clubs
t was tor this they induced their foolish