New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-21
THE TOKENS OF PEACE.

The signs of returning prosperity are as sp-
parent and as cheerful as those evidences oil
the approximating shore, the land-weeds the
branches, the berries, and the birds, which AS
sured the weary heart of Columbus. In New
England, the manufactures are getting gradu'
ally back to the old gigantic work OF producing
millions of wards of cotton cloth. We have
the authority of The Nenburypot Herald tor
stating that 1000 persons were added to the
population Ct Great Falls, n. H., in thres
weeks, by the influx Of factory operatives.
Advertisements for hands have already brought
an increase of 5000 to the population OF
Lowell, Mass. The wages offered are high;
the demand for skilled labor is pressing; anu
the number of those who are in need OF enl-
ployment is large. The world has no mora
pleasant spectacle than that of community
made up of capitalists who are willing TO
employ at fair wages, and of workers
who are willing to sell their strength, indus.
try, and knowledge, for an adequate remuner-
alton. If the waste of the war has been to
considerable extent positive, if the country Is
really by somany millions the poorerfor the Re-
bellion, the alacrity with which we advance to the
task of retrieving our wealth shows that we are
richer than ever in the real sources Of Opulence,
in enterprise and industry, in practical cultiva'
ton and intelligence. Whatever may have
been the i'll effects of the war, whatever vices 1t
NAV have engendered or encouraged, it is clear
that it has resulted in no permanent depression
of the National prosperity. Other nations have
emerged from internal strife emasculated and
demoralzed, and with no assured hope OF
serenity; but the people Of America with
wonderful elasticity have already resumed the
old routine, and already regard the gigantic
struggle in which they have been engaged, a.
but an episode in their history.
The labor to which we have alluded is pecu'
liar in its economical aspects. The supply oil
workers obtained by the great cotton mills to
very limited extent diminishes the number Oh
those engagedn agricultural production, orln the
fisheries. The manufactures secure to the women
of the family lucrative and not over'aooriou'
employment; the opportunity of saving cohs'd'
cradle sum before marriage; the means, perhaps
of rendering the old age of worthy parents COM
Portable; and, above all, that respectable inde'
pendence, without which woman may often %
betrayed into an imprudent union. These re-
sources become still more important, when We
consider the numerical disproporton OF the
sexes which exists in many of the older States,
and which is TO be attributed partly to natural
laws everywhere in force, and partly to tue
greater facilities with which men can
change their localities. 1t is this dlspNo'
portion which has led Gov. Andrew I"
recommend the emigration OF wohe"
from Massachusetts, to the West. But WORK
Mt home is better, if only work can be obta'ned'
1t is not always easy for man to abandon
scenes to which he is accustomed and society
70 which he is attached, that he may seek goo"
fortune in fresh and distant fields; and IL nus'
be still harder for woman, because her a"e''
,;ors ore deeper and her attachment more nee
essarv TO her happiness. If, as in New.In'
Gland she conscntsto temporary absence iro'"
home. il is that she may return to 1t VITA 'n0
means of making that home happier ana secui0'
that she may lift from the farm the ou,uen
Of mortcage-that she may repair the diisp''
datod bouse-that she may add to the scan'y
notcrnal acres-that she may restock the stable.
and the pastures-that she may belp forward