, 1865-08-03
EMIGRATION FROM BRLGIUX.

Editor Chicago Tribune
In the Chicago 1mxs Of the Sd instant,
ind the following:
!" Regulations from Cincinnati hare 9ona 70
for dc Southern States, to take tho place Of ne.
Rroes-
/ believe these efforts will be fruit1ess.
How can these people rely on the representa-
tions from America, when we know that
many deceltful letters have gone to
Europe heretofore. Tho Hell-to-do labor
ers and farmers will not anigrate Without
the certainty Of finding better opportunities
hers than IN theiz own country. Evidently
good man as agent, Ii wanted in Europe !;
one they can rely upon. Then they will
come in large numbers, for the living Is too
hard IN Europe. Belgium ean give million
Of hsz sons. In ibis thef. L no e7,1aEgeratlo,n
eleven thousand three hundred and thirteen
squa1e miles in 2seA, with Ave million inhab.
itants, The State Of Illinois Is four times
la1get With only one million eeven hundred
| thousand inhabitants. Thus q million can
easily be abstraeted from that amount aud the
remainder be sufficiently strong 70 exhaust
| living when he knows that the labofars IN
| the winter time can earn ten American cents
| q day, and the women four cents to work IN
| the Held. unfed In any case. The servants
| wages rarely reach To iorty dollars per an-
NUN for the mea, and twenty-five for the
girls. The tourncymsu can have at the most
| forty American cents In the summer, and
| work is not to be found at all times. The
| Belgium women are wonderfully energetic In
performing their duty. In the summer they
get up At tun rise, make their
1usband's breakfast to let him 70
before five, and then they must
carry home some grass Which they Ind. plck
the zelda Or elsewhere, for their COW, that is
kept In the stable almost the whole year, OF
On carrying home some fusl from the next
| wsod on their heads. At home tho little
ones are waiting for their mother, who at
tends on them while preparing the husbands
dinner. This they must rarry to him at his
working place. At Sir years Of age these
who is striving with all her might to Psrtorm
her cuty inside and outside, In gardening,
etc, Do mt think tho men are tyrants to
their wives not a. all, but all this comes
from the gen eral state Of hardship through
ont the county.
borers' wives, Who always pa1taks Of theit
hntbard's burdens. The rent Of hectase
tax aeres) Of arable land is from fourteen
TO forty collars per annum. Many q tract
Of land il sold At sixteen hundred dollars 9
| hectare and even more. The owners receive
at the least four per cent. per annum. II
.kn slsa and Thns tss easv S'oRs ops
d rstood how they are struggling for
their livelihood. Do you ask the question :
How can they support themselves! I an
sEer very poorly indeed. They have only
bread. rotatnea and other vegetables accord
Ing to tho season, With little milk and but
ter. A. for meat, this nonr1shment rarely
APPEARS upon their tables, IN occasional
/ s.ft t,on ovrar$pn.
i IL the Crssrs Common tarfes ne find the Bel
i pdans be the s,foYfisstmi" Afterwards in the
Sixteenth and seyenteenth centuries, w4ind
them not at all degenerate. They were than
supplying the Dutch merchants' TRADE as
weavers artisans. mechanics: spose,quequy 20 ~ y
p1ish *, enable the latter to carTy on their
trade in fhe East Indies, where the Dutch
| n,en were trading before their feet Was ami
| hilste5 Mt Tlush!pe. The Balgtan artisans
were eompeiied to leave their country BY the
Enpl}ahmen. who were always ttouolesome
| IN Flanders, and alRays eager 70 nave taess ss
artisans removed INTO sog.a;nads g;sad Tnso shsm so'
The Belgian people to-da{ are the same
skilitn1. energetic people. I say .featles ssly
fhat ~ He1Essns are the best workmen and
farmers in he world, and every one oyer
thlttY years Of age can read and write. can
not these people do good work IN ths conn.
Try? The propriety Of sending 90 emls1aat p nsa
| ssnt to them the advantages Of emigration TO
1sonest BIZ n,n entirely lifted for this
work i uding before the President, await.
/ Inc his e1cellency's approval, Let us hope Il
| may be granted speedily. It's fePorted tnht
some Southern gentlemen a nfe gong 10 10 ~, u,
| 4h{s way. because there Is no reliance upon
| thsm srha European people have good