Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-05-09
- ALEXANDRIA,, VA.
THURSDAY, NAY Q, 1872.
An E,nigrant Colony.

Real Estate Agents or our city, pS thelF agenl
in Liverpool. 1t shows that the character
of the emigrauts coming to this country is bet
ter, and of more value, pecunlarlly, than has
ever been before, and that we are 20 expect an
increase of this class 10 the future, because of
the fact that farming lands cannot be purchased
unless at very exorbitant rates in England. 1t
is headed An Emigrant Colony, and it says:
"a rather remarkable party of eulyrants left
the Mersey last evening IN the hue Allen :
steamer, Nestorian for the United States As
this is the first of series which will depart
from England, it is not by any means unworthy
of q special notice at our hands. Every Que
knows the usual order of emigrants-the poor,
hopeful lrishmau and the patient. ploddlng,
large fauilled Scandinavian. Their faces are
familiar enough III our streets as they pass along,
not heavily ladened, poor fellows, with worldly
possessions, but bearing hearts hopeful that ID
gong West they are seeking better homes than
the Old Country had in store tor them. The
enigrants we refer to, however, as having lelt
Yesterday, are, for one thing, exclusively Bug
lish, aud almost exclusively from the Engllsh
farming class, that Is to say farmers and their
SOUS aud conncctons-not agricultural labOrer-
ers but men having, at the same time practi-
cal experience, and the meaDs OF applying It IN
the new country they 60 to. The value of such
men to the United States need not be dilated
npun, especially when. as in this case, they
take with them considerable sums OF capital
They are, in fact, colony Of emigraut farmers
vino, finding themselves cranlped III the old
couutry.to expand, have gone to see if there
is room for them TO swing their arms in the
new world. The explanation OF this movement
for movement in fact it is-was afforded
TO us by fine old specimen of the English
gentleman farmer, having his 500 or 6U0 acres
Of Lincolnshire land on hand. aud having f;.rm-
ed it.. shot over it for the last forty years He
was sending out three Of his SONS with the colo
nis;s; and gave as his reason for doing so, that
it WIS impossible in England to obtain farms
for them, the competition being so keen and
the re..s SO high, that he had determined to
let the III have land OF their own 10 the United
States, where it can be got cheap, instead of
knowledge Of agriculture running to rust The
knowledge that there must be a large number
OF men In the same position as our Lincolnshire
iarmers, seems TO have struck the acute emf
grafton agents of the United States: they have
had their agents hard at work Ia the agricultural |
districts Of England during the last winter, and
are now lecturlng, aud by other means, showing
the advantages toBrltlsh farmers SOUS OF gong
where there is land la abundance, and that eau
be sObtaiDed CONTIGUOUS to railroads. nav'gaDle
rivers. &c, at very reasonable prices aud or
very reasonable terms The first fruit Of that
work was the cnigrant colony, the first section
Of which started last evening. The colony has
been carefully organized, So as to Include IN II
no persoas whom the French would describe as
useless tnuu as The idea has been to get young
unmarried men, the SOUS Ut farmers, to toru
the stfple OF the colony. There is, for instance,
farmer from the Channel Isaud>, who has
preferred to transfer his capital aud his family TO
the u. S. Tue COLONY Includes small number
OF mechanics. wheelwrights, blacksuliths aud
few hardlcrattsmeu. 1t is accompanied BY a
Clergyman; WHO, with his family, iurend to set
tie with this COLONY This section, which left
yesterday, numbered AS persons, of whom IA
were cabin passengers, 20 occupied intermediate
brrths, and l. were Storage passengers. The
number OF cabin passengers shows that the peo-
pie have means, aud are better OFT than eml-
grants are generally, and this is'turther attest
ed from the fact that they took out with them
in drafts, realized FROM their cash brought to
Liverpool, 20 less than about 100000. Their
appearance spoke even more than this, aud We
could hardly help thinking it was pity that
that they will not by any means, be lost to the
United States A gentleman accustomed to deal
with emigrants all his lite, was more than struck;
he was quite astouished at the look OF these
colouists The bulk Of the first section is from
Lincolnshire aud the houe counties. They leave
in Aliens line via Norfolk aud Baltimore. -
Messrs. Allen have entered warmly into the
project, to facilitate which, they transferred the
Halifax cargo OF the steamer HISTORIAN to
another steamer. Nearly all Of them have
promised to send accounts to Liverpool OF their
Journey, their treatment and the reception at
their new homes. 1t would be little use and no
profit TO attempt to stimulate the efforts Of emf
grafton agents tor the British colonies by ex-
amples OF the WORK which is being done By the
men who have been commissioned to people the
States of America The Australias are too dis
taut, and it is inevitable, therefore. that emf
grants in their senses, will seek place within
II days of themselves, where they can find
pasture laud which requires no clearing, and is
ready for immediate cultivation.
Itmay bementioned that the party which left
was extremely cheerful and joined with energy in
the chorus Of some excellent pieces especially
written for the occasion by Mr.. c. E. Hollas and
set to music and sung with exquisite taste and
feeling by Mrs Henry Wilson and Others Of
Liverpool. It was all important to the State
that our Legislature should have taken some
action on the subject Of immigration, so very
essential it is to our future prosperity. The
Governors plan recommended in his address to
the Legislature, was good one, not at ell ex-
pensive aud would have given encouragement,
had it been adopted. All that is now being done
is by the enterprise of the real estate agents Of
our State, who are doing all they can to divert
the tide now flowing tothe West into our State,
and none are, more active than Green 4 Wise,
of car city. They have already located many
valuable citizsns of Europe with intelligence
and rtcans, aud have spared no expense 10 ad-
ver,is.ug and employed agents to travel in the
sections of Europe where immigration is com.
ing from,to inform the people OF the advantages
of our section over that of other portions of the
i. S: Much more could have been done if the