The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-01-02

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had he and his adventurous companions been
travelling in Gotham. The glittering indecency
of the Broadway ballet, in its more captivating
want of attire, has fairly dazzed out Of life the
coarser Vaccinations Of the Broadway concert
halls. Such are some Of the ups and downs Of
theatrical art in this ever changing metropolis.
Emigration from Europe to the United States.
During the past year nearly three hundred
thousand emigrants from Europe have landed
on our shores At moderate estimate the
aggregate sum Of hard cash brought by them
to this country is not much less than twenty
million dollars, and their potential wealth of
bone and muscle. healthy blood, beating hearts
and more or less developed brain, is simply
incalculable. They have poured in to supply
that additional labor which the Secretary Of
the Treasury in his late report dwelt upon as
Of prime and urgent necessity to the United
States; and that they will come next year in
largely increased numbers is indicated by
every thing in the actual situation Of European
affairs. Whatever may have been the issue of
the Fenian agitation, and particularly Of the
rising in Ireland, which, with all the pariicu-
larity aud posiiveness of Miller and DR.. Cum
mings announcing the end of the world, James
Stephens predicted would take place before the
close Of 1866, we must anticipate in the spring
such m exodus from the Emerald Isle to
America as has not been Witnessed since the
year of the great famine. The reform agita-
ton throughout Great Britain will at least have
sufficiently stirred the minds of the laboring
poor to make them more restless than ever
under the restrictions imposed on them by
the double burden of titled and moneyed
aristocracies, and consequently more eager
to explore a future of unlimited promise
in the Western world. A large emigration
must be expected from England and Scotland,
as well as from Ireland.
On the Continent the uncertain and critical
state in which the late war has left all Euro
pean countries, and particularly those most
directly affected by Prussia's successful strug-
gle with Austria for supremacy, has already
stimulated the emigration spirit to fever heat.
The recent arrest Of thirty or forty young men
who were attempting to leave for America, in
order to cvade the compulsory military service
which Prussia has extended over all Northern
Germany, is symptom Of the increasing
anxiety in Hanover, Saxony and other German
States to escape the draft into the Prussian
army. A cable despatch from Bremen, Decem-
Der 2s, announces that official orders have
been received there "to arrest all Prussian
subjects about to emigrate from the kingdom
intending to cvade the national Qandwckr)
militia" Such orders will only quicken emf
gratioo. The moro the Prussian government
tries to detain cmigrans by force, the more
they win struggle to get away, like the pig
Paddy drove into Dublin by pulling it back
wards. The people in Europe are not burning
with enthusiasm to kill and be killed in those
wars OF princes which are now the order of the
day. The projected reorganization of the
French army on the Prussian system has ex-
cited great dissatisfaction, and must tend, II
adopted, to turn even Frenchmcn into emf
grants, reluctant as they usually are to sever
tho ties which bind them TO their beau pays for
life. Many Americans, indeed, profess an
almost equal attachment to Ia belle France, and
especially to its capital, "the only one Paris in
the world" Rents and prices have grown so
cxorbitant In New York. and lie has lately
become SO insecure, as well as 70 hurried and
unenjoyable, that not few American families
begin seriously to contemplate leasing their
brown stone FONTS on tho fashionable avenues
and going abroad TO live, after the fashion of
those English families who used to reside on
the Continent for the sake Of retsenchinz their
expenses. Moreover, the manifold attrac tons
Of the great Exhibition ut Paris will doubtless
cause considerable temporary emigration Of
wealthy people from tho United States to
Europe.
But the steady, rising tide OF emigration is
in quite the opposite direction; and the United
States, with the boundless West aud with IL
South at length fairly opened to emigration,
viii havero enough and wolcomyfor all
new comen-provided only that on their arri-
val they wisely hasten away from the over
Stocked markcts Of our seaport towns 70 che
hsass and farms and future citles which await
them In the interior, and rs FAR - they choose
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