Daily Republican., 1880-04-26
SECOND EDITION.
An IRIBM EmlaRANT.
The Light and DARK sides Of Esni.
,graston-Tho Experience of o
ssGroek" an Wilmington.

&a0gA An
The midnight train from Philadelphia
OF rather the early morning train for il
reaches here at 1873 O'Clock, brings
upon it every night a family or Two OF
emigrants. They are mostly Irish, and
in poor circumstances. Most uf them
came to America on the steamship
Indiana, which landed at Philsdsl.
phia. on Tuesday of last wsek with over
six hundred building houses in the
home OF the brays," Of which
they had heard so much talk. But they
are not all Irish; some are English,
Scotch aud Welch as the case may be-
aud few are Swedrs, who have ven-
tured across the Ocean to try their for
tunes in Delaware as their forefathers
dii nearly three hundred years ago
Generally they have no idea of whst
course TO pursue, and they fare badly
for while il they havelno friends here.
TAe most Of them are Ia poor cream
s,aBc+s are sick and discouraged, and
ar, heartily wishing themselves back
in thu native lands where even the
hop less life they bad been leading
would he satisfactory TO the lonesome
and ,ifesome hunt ior Dew home
wher. they know no one.
This was the case with q family that
came down the early part OF last week i.
The train was little late ard every
one was in hurry. A drizzling rain
was falling and out Of doors things were
unpleasant. They lett the car and en-
tered the waiting room. Here they
gathered around the stove a woe. begone
lot, indeed. The family consisted of a
father, mother, son and two daugh.
tels. TIE son was the oldest of the
children, and he had probably seen
about ten years. The other children
were aged seven and five respectively.
The mother. a little woman with a care.
worn, sorlowful look was tired out anu
scarcely able to stand, and two Of tie
children we're very sick. The husband
in fact was the only bne in the discon-
solate little group who seemed in any
thing like good health, and he was con-
fused and backward as foreigners of the
lower classes always are, when they
first come to to this country. The faces
of ali were wan and thin for they came
from q = famine stricken district of Ire.
land. But they had more than the
disceu' agement which they had been
meeting @ith to worry them as will be-
presently shown.
AREPUBLIcAN reporter, " no had stood
watching them for some minutes, wa.
moved to approach the M,n aud start
up conversation.
''Hass sid come hayerl" asked he,
"suIe aAd kim on the steamer to
Phi adeIphia, day before yesterday; och
hut wish pde staid in ould Ireland
and stumpsd it out against the land
lords, and starvation. Its Terranca
O'Riell-y who wod neyer kim on such a
viyge agin ii he was. only back agin
wid the little wons,"
"Wby what Go you lind wrong with
Am,ilca," " asked the news gathnr-r.
:. a':Lg himself beside the wife aEd
chilAen, who while talking had l"G. t'is
s'", ard we're occupying the b.pcbes,
the Irish Emjgrant told his stay. lie
haG coL.- ffom the Nuf,A rf IsrlarJ,
VIII II lis frInily Lai neatly starved
dlr'0, the FAll and Wl1'er months
whe1 he gaunt toIlu OF tamip- wss
s,alk,n- through tie l8ui. With .
maura ~ frapkne3a 20 related tus gu!-
t-linas Of that sor55fu, sy%-"n hgw
tree dreu had to 20 Hooir az with
l,fn'lc tc eat but . few had poia o+ 5,
erd VOW be aid II, nif. lad ereI
waved their share of that, In orarI
tia. The oli!dreB might not staIvo.
A last help came from A@erj,%, and
Tie ltrte f8miIy were placed lvy yopd Tie
rotl, @, starvation and given fu, is to
start ,sgm on their way TO the land rn
the ether side Of the ocear. kird
friends assisted them also an disposing
Of such of their effects as they could
not bring with them they boarded the
"Indiaaa" and bade Erin final fare
well.
"There war siven av us vAin we
started" said he, mournfully, "but
there are only five wild US now"
"0nly five roW?' asked the repog
ter, not at orce understanding.
"Sure an that's all, we expected TO
have the baby wild us and little John
ME, but they couldn't sthand the
v'yge. Och me they bota died Eef2re
We we're half over, wild niver a praist
on hoard, an they lad to bs buried II
thu -rs."
II 9 honest fellow drew 3 hard hand
acregs his eyes to brush away tear,
and stihed sob from the wife told
iow deep the mothers heart had been
Eor n1od by the sad deaths of her little
In4s
/, listening TO his experience after he
landed in Philadelphia the writer could
not Eelp sssing very readily the reason
for me emigralt's Encouragement.
Whtu he set foot on American soil with
his little family, DO friends INST them,
ani they had neither kith nor kin in
the whole great city. They managed
to escape the land sharks that infsst
the emigrant depot, such as boarding
house keepers, itinerant money chang.
ers, bogus railway agents, swindling
hsckmsn and fseoing employment bu.
reaus, but when they got away from the
wharf and in the heart of tho city the
utter loneliness Of their situation stared
them in the face.
For day and half they wandered
about, not knowing where to 60, and
the father knowing no place to leave
bis family Whila he lnokad for unrk
even had he been aware of any place
where employment was likely to bs Sc.
cured he was alta loss to know what to do
At last he met friend who had preceded
him to America few weeks. He ad
vised him to come to Wilmington, ant
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