The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-12-29

Corning Star and Catholic Messenger
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xIscIILAHKous IRIsH NEWS.
TRIALS OF THE AGRICULTURAL CLASSES.
The fell and fatal lung distemper is said
nerary and Limerick. The foot and mouth
disease is also extending. Other affections
of a depreciatory. if not mortal, klnd are
visiting cattle. The farmers live stock Is
DESTROYED by distemper in many cases, or
30 far reduced IN CONDITION ana namoe a
ital, 1t is trying year for his order. Inc
stanle esculent,t 1.-The potato, is nowhere 1t
has melted away. Fuel, the great wans
next to food, is had with difficulty, and
only procured at more than donple the
cost of previous years. The fodder OF live
stock rots in quantities on the ground, aud
labor cannot be had when required In
places distant from towns. IL Is tuiy
irving year, and threatens to trench deeply
upon such saving as the occupiers ehuea-
youred to gather and lay by for their grow
ing families or their own growing years.
1t will extinguish the expectation OF many
who hoped to live and die ut home, asu
drive them to seek their fortunes abroad:
It will too probably increase the etiiax OF
the best of the working people ana pare
prieyously tax the farmers to find manual
labor when and where 1t Is most required.
Limerick advocate.
THE COMMERCIAL RESULTS OF EMIGRATION.
It was stated in q paragraph which ap-
peared in our issae OF the fSCn ut., tnas
Mr.. Deneby, o member of the Corporation
of Dublin, had given notice OF a MOTION IN
which he would call the assentlon on me
CORPORATION to the continued decrease OF
the population Of Ireland, the decrease of
the land under tillage, and to the decline
of the email traders in the provincial towns
in Ireland, and the numerous failures mat
have taken place amongst that class. Inc
blamed for directing attention to matters
foreign to their special functions out as
the represensives of commercial COW.
munity, they were fairly entitled Z" 'h'.,
into the consideration of 8 matter at such
importance to the commercial interests o,
the country as that which was embodied
in MT. Deneby's motion. The continuous
decline of the small traders In country
towns and the numerous failures amohs'
them arises from the decrease In the popu,
latiop, and that decrease has been caused
in a great measure by the steady decrease
which has taken place in the extent of land
which is under cultivation in Ireland
These three points in the motion are lpsep
arably linked together, and Mr.. Denehy
acted very wisely in uniting them undel
one motion. The number of persons WIT
have emigrated from ireland since MAJ
1851, to the 3lst Of July, 1872, being the per
iod during which the returns Of emigration
have been taken, was 2,lS, 4sS. Th'
causes which led to, and which continue II
keep up this flow of emigration are two
fold. First, the large amount OF money re
mitted in each year from the United State
and the colonies, by natives of Ireland, VIII
have emigrated to those parts of the world
These remittances are chiefly made with tb
view of assisting friends residing in lrelan
to join those who have already gone abroad
From lS4S to 1870, inclusive, upwards {
sixteen millions sterling were RENTED
persons in Ireland, exclusive of remittance
through private sources. The remittance
are made at the rate of three-fourths of on
million sterling in each year and abor
one-half of the amount is IN the shape
perpaid passages from Liverpool, Glasgow
and Derby. The second great excitin
cause of emigration is the absence in niau
parts of Ireland of continuous empioymeI
for laborers. Although wages of agricu
taral laborers have increased from rs to IL
per ~eent. over former iates. and
busy seasons even more than that, still
is the case that in many parts of IrelaI
those who depend entirely on their dali
labor for subsistence have not. as we Iecen
ly showed, employment afforded to them
all times. Their earnings are irregular al
uncertain. The grass farming System whi'
has extended 80 much of late years in til
country has caused the want of emplo
ment which is SO much complained of.
farm which would afford continuous Ell
ployment to twenty individual, when co
. Quoted under system of mixed husband
which combines q proper proportion
tillage with pasture, does not require mo
than one or at most two hands when Ia
down in grass, and turned into grazi
farm. A few extra hands may get empio
ment during the haymaking season, a
that is all. During the first seven mont
of this year, 81, 995 persons sailed from Il
land, being at the rate of 94,772 persons
the twelve months; and if we take each
these persons as representing the circulate
of only FIVE shillings a week, for groceri
provisions. and clothing, the emigration
the year is equivalent to the withdrawal
S1, 225 $50, say one and quarter milli
sterling per annum, from the consumpti
of tea, sugar, provisions, clothing, &c..
is easy to understand, therefore, how it
that the class of small traders in ma
parts of ireland is becoming extinct,
that bankruptcies are common among