The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-29


emigrant ship lying in the stream, after she
has passed the perils of quarantine, is taken
on board of barge or tug, with his trunks,
bedding, clothing, bottles, parcels, and old
rubbish Of all kinds, and from thence trans
ported to the water-gate of Castle Garden. On
arriving there he is relieved of his trunks and
baggage, which is slowed away carefully in
racks and numbered in a corresponding fash
ion, with the number placed opposite the emil
grants name in the register, where his bap-
tismal appellation, surname, birthplace, age,
occupation, and future destination are regis
tered for future reference. The boxes and
trunks are kept in long covered way which
makes half the circuit of the garden, aud
affords ample food for reflection. Here there
are boxes of all shapes and sizes-tin boxes,
wooden boxes, metal boxes, boxes of oak and
pine, of cedar, rosewood, and mahogany, OBJ
long and square; some large as the camp
chests of Mcclellan on the Peninsula, others
fit to hold the title-deeds or regalia of an
empire. The eastern side of the Castle
is devoted to the baggage of emil
grants going out of the city, and
when they arrive at Buffalo, Chicago, St.
Louis, Boston, or Cincinnati, they find there
their baggage ready for them as soon as they
have satisfied the charges upon the freight.
The English-speaking emigrants are registered
first, and then the Germans After being
registered, which takes long time, the emil
further disposition. Lavatories, or places for
washing, are located around the Castle-large,
gloomy y-looking places, calculated to keep
before the eyes of the emigrant the hold or
steerage of the ship from which he has just
debarked. Washing or cleanliness is not en-
forced upon the emigrants, and the huge
blocks of soap and the damp, wet floor of the
washing-ToO present a very black and
disconsolate aspect. Around the walls of the
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States and Territories, admirably calculated
to impress upon the minds of foreigners the
great size and extent of Uncle Sans domi-
mons. The walls of this filthy house re-
sounded with the clash of muskets, drums
and swords of the old regular army, and after
wards to the glorious warblings of the peerless
Jenny Lind, to the delicious strains of Catha-
rine Hayes, and to the crash of Jullien's
horns and Instruments for here were given
the monster concerts Of this great artist when
in his prime. Well, to-day it would make
Jenny Kind sick to look down from one of
the galleries where thousands used to sit
entranced listening to her "Norma," and
behold her own countrymen and women, from
far-of Upsala and Stockholm, herded to-
gether like sheep in July sun. The ghost of
the great Julien would not allow its white
gloved fingers to rest upon polluted Intel or
dOor-jamb for fear of contamination. Large
blue-bottle flies haunt the seams of the plank
ing in the floor of the bull-pen, sucking and
feasting upon the corruption. A thousand
persons have often been confined in this worse
than Black Hole of Calcutta, while at other
times not score of emigrants are present. It
is an erroneous impression that the emigrants
from northern countries surpass in cleanliness
those from the more southern climes. The
Swedes, Germans, and Russians are, very
contrary to general expectation the
Irish and French compare favorably
with other races in cleanliness, and sur
pass them in hght-heartedness and
disposition to bear up under hardships. The
Welsh emigrants are, nearly all, consigned to
the embraces of the Mormon chiefs of Utah.
The specimens of Welsh emigrants who were
here, bound for Salt Lake, and the miners and
mill-spinners from some of the rural districts
of England, are terribly dirty and ignorant.
Great numbers of the English emigrants have
little or no knowledge of the Creator, or of
any revealed form of religion. The ignorance
and brutality of the lower classes of English
emigrants are astounding, and would be de-
cided incredible by him who knows nothing of
the facts presented. Here is group of Irish
emigrants sitting upon their household Lares
and Penates. There are three little
girls, ranging from three to ten years
OF age, a motherly- looking woman of
fifty, and boy of fifteen. The
family are dressed comfortably, and rather
cleanly. The mother is crying quietly; the
smallest girl has caught the infection from the
old woman, and is burying her tiny knuckles
in her eyes with great determination, while
the boy stares steadfastly at the ceiling and
keeps his mouth wide open as a common
thorOughfare for the nasty flies which infest
the bull-pen. An ssacclimatized friend, with
rowdy look, is talking to the old lady, and
endeavoring to make her feel comfortable but
she will not be comforted. She left the hills
OF tar-of Iipperary at the bidding of faithful
son, who resides "some place. in "Missus
Sury," as the old lady expresses it, but she
has lost the address, and fOrgets the name Of
the precise locality.
Cant ye remember the name of the place
at all, at all, Biddy ?'' says her comforter.
The divil bit me knows. Jamesy tould
me in the letther that there was a great dale
OF wather near his place. Is there much
wather in Missus Sury Will ye stop yer
believing there, Molly ?''
Is it in Meessury ye mane2 Sure its
full of wather and shnakes."
"Cross of Christ and are the shnakes alive,
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''Yis, Biddy, and kicking, too"
'Wel, l wish never had left Nenagh, in
ould Iipperary," said the old lady, "for whin
I'm out here, shure, Andy, that thought a
be some use to me, is no more than an omad-
haun, pointing to her son. who still kept his
mouth open for the admission of flies.
There is an hospital attached to the Castle
Garden Depot, situated on Wards Island:
| Wards Island is l0S acres in extent, and
about 1000 worth of produce is raised annu-
ally on the island by patients. There IS an