The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-02-27


The prospects opened to MS by foreign emil
grafton this year are Of the most cheering
character. According TO all appearances the
influx Of thrifty, hard working artisans and
laborers will be greater than has ever before
been known in the history Of the country.
From Germany alone. - viii have been seen
by the letters Of our Berlin and Munich COR
respondents, we may count upon receiving
within the next ten months an addition to our
population Of at least one hundred and fifty
thousand. There is no speculation in the
statement for the weekly steamers from Bre-
have all their places secured up to the month
Of November. Taking into the account the
further numbers that will be brought over by
sailing vessels and the return steamers that
make extra trips to take visitors to the Paris
Exposition, we may set down the aggregate
from Germany, Belgium and Switzerland in the
period named as at little short Of two hundred
thousand.
The causes influencing this immense move
ment are, first, the conviction that Is gradually
spreading among the masses in Germany that
our political troubles are over, and, secondly,
the tear of CONSUMPTION at home. In Prussia
this latter feeling operates to such an extent
that in some of the villages of the older pro-
vinces third of their inhabitants will leave in
the spring.
Seeing how rapidly these additions to our
population will repair the ravages caused by
the rebellion, and how enormously they will
add to the material wealth of the country, it
should be the policy of our national and State
Legislatures to give every encouragement pos
sible to the movement. The prompt adoption
of the Congressional plan of reconstruction by
the South, the modification of the present un-
wise and almost prohibitory tariff and an
avoidance of those fanatical extremes in legis-
lation which war against the ideas and habits
OF our adopted citizens, are among the things
that will most conduce to il. We must
dispel any lingering belief that may
exist abroad as to there being chance Of the
revival of civil war among U.s. We must prove
by very differently framed tariff from the
present one that we are not behind the rest of
the world in an appreciation Of the truths Of
political economy; but more especially must
we satisfy those desiring to immigrate that in
seeking freedom of thought and action here
they will not make n poor exchange for the
systems of government under which they have
been living. In other words we must not
allow for fanatical or other objects such an in
reference with the innocent amusements and
cnjoyments to which they have been aocus-
toned as would not be tolerated in their own
country under the most rigid of despotisms.
We are emphatic on this latter point, because
the tendency towards Pharisaical legisla-
ton observable in our State legislatures
bears particularly hard upon our Ger
man fellow citizens. When We con-
slider their habits Of sobriety and in
dustry, their love Of open air amusements
and the beneficial effect Of their example ON
the other foreign elements Of our population,
it becomes our duty to protest against restric-
tons which must end by disgusting them with
our institutions and prevent the further inflow
Of immigration from the same quarter OF oil
the foreign nationalities that are absorbed into
our own the Germans make perhaps the best
citizens. In the South, but more particularly
in Texas, they firmly resisted the heresy Of
secession and stubbornly refused to take up
arms against the federal government In all
our principal business centres they are among
the most enterprising and prosperous Of our
merchants and business men. Why, then,
should we by foolish enactments seek to OPP
pose limits to tide which 10 daily strength
ening and enriching Us, and which, II we do
not discourage IT, promises to assume still
larger proportionsi II ID time for Us to sman-
cipate ourselves from the fanatical ideas that
have led M into such follies and to endeavor
In our legislation to consult only the dictates
Of good sense and Of sound Christian morality.
Jshn wsnswsrsh's Smelling Cennittse.
The Smelling Committee appointed some
time since upon motion Of Congressmap Went
worth, for the purpose Of nosing out sup
BSssd Movement tending to bring about q
harmonious understanding between the Presi-
dent and certain republican members Of Con-
gres, made report yesterday Of the result
Of their olfAstory labors This fsport IL one
Of TIE curiosiies Of Congressional literature.
The committee relate how they rooted among
nswpaper clips and correspondents and re-
portss 70 find out whence the bad odor for
which they sought originated, and how certain
correspondents, when called before them, testi-
ned that they bad seen certain friends Of the
PRECEDENT nysterously talking with certain
members n Congress, and, believing something
was In The wind, had told these members what
they had heard the President say In relation 70
making up friends, and had tried to get up .
meeting, and had spoken TO the President ON
The subject. The report reads very much like
the observations Of the maid-ofAll- work, when
gossipping over the wall with the next door
neighbor's servant "Ch, Sally, II your nissui