Smyrna times., 1865-06-14
MISCELLANEOUS.
IMMIGRATION.

The number Of alien immigrants landed in
New IOrk-the portal Of the NewW Orld for
nine -tenths of the European immigration-be-
tween the lst of January last and the 3lst of
May inclusive, is 50, ,047 against 6S, ,07S in 1904
For various reasons, the number ofimmigrants
arriving prior to the lst OF May last, showed
considerable falling off as compared with the
corresponding period of last year; but, since
that date, the arrivals have been heavy from
Liverpool, Glasgow, Queenstown, Bremen and
Hamburg, averaging nearly one thousand per-
sons per day. The cause of this augmentation
has been not so much the idea of returning
peace, sufficient time not yet having elapsed
forittO become thoroughly circulated in Europe,
as the inducement Of high wages and that of
free hOmesteads held out by the United States
Government through the new bureau Of immi-
grafton.
With the return of peace there is every indi-
cation that the volume of immigration will be
very large during the next four or five months
The Irish Times of a recent date says: We
believe that, when peace comes between the
belligerents, the emigration to America which
has hitherto taken place, compared with what
will certainly ensue, will be as the leakage Of a
weir to the opening of sluice. There is not a
city, town or hamlet in Ireland in which large
proportion of the able bodied population is not
determined to emigrate the moment peace is
restored The Cork ETGn,i1er states that a
crowd of many. hundreds daily besieges the
office of the Inman line Of steamers at Queens
! town. clamorous for passage tickets or deten-
! t;on t;ckets-tbe latter emitting the holder to
subsistence until such time as steamer Tor
| tbpir conveyance to America Is provided
Here. " that paper observes, " the best idea
| of the nature of the class of emigrants can be
| formed and here, in consequence, the Saddest
| lesson the emigration movement can teach, Is
to be learned The fact, which only minute S
inspection makes too palpable, is this: that
from Donegal and from Cork from Meath and
from Galway from the North, South, East
and West-from within the four corners OF
Ireland-the scene before you represents the
| health and strength of the nation, about to de-
mart from it. Young and stalwart men-strOng
and vigorous women-men, albeit, in awkward
ly cut friezes and gawkish of gait--women, al
| belt. decked out i'll rough homespun, with, per
hans. q touch Of garish hnery demanded by
the occasion, added, yet both strong OF arm
and sound of limb, and doubtless as 'irlshmea :
and Tr;shwomen, sound of heart, are the chief
| constituents of this crowd. 1t Is true, there
are oId men and women, and there are children
hnt Tho nercentage of these is marvelously
From al parts of Northern Europe especially
from Germany, similar accounts have reached
us. A letter from Hamburg, under date of6th
ult saws: son the 2Sth of April, the throng
of emierants from Mecklenburg was so large
that IT. an extra train on the railway from Hage-
nan nan to Hamburg became necessary. Five thou
sand emigrants from the different parts OF
Mecklepb1rg I had been collected at the former
nlace-~all young, fresh, and merry people
Fb;s number was chiefly recruited from the
rich. feudal districts of Malchin, Gustrow anC
Bdtzow, where the social and political condition
} Of the people, with the exception of henobles
is greatly depressed. " All the accounts concur
, in stating that the emigrants now leaving Ger
many are of a superior class, comprising larg
proportion of skilled mechanics and Of smal
land