Year: 1868

Tho Giorieus a.d Explosive Fo.rth.


The accumulation Of fireworks in shops in
the city as the Fourth Of July approaches.
induces one or more accidents every year, and
we have just had the first for the current year.
resulting in the loss Of one life. Maiden lane
is the great centre Of this traffic, and very
large proportion Of the shops in that street are
now stored with these dangerous articles, 20
that If within few days to come we have dis
astrous explosions there and fires involving
great loss of property no one need deem Il
strange. Perhaps we will in time learn BY
experience 10 keep these articles out of the city
altogether. Men do learn some things by ex-
perience. if they can get enough Of It, Il is
notable that since the explosion of the fire en-
gine in the street q short time since there ID
less trouble than there used to be in keeping
the crowd away at fires; and on its way to the
scene of operations an engine nearly has the
street to ITSELF Superintendent Kennedy's
order in relation to the Fourth is very good,
and will have one humane result, in preventing
the mutilation of many boys who blow their
hands Off with fifty cent pistols when left slone
We hope the Superintendent has not forgottea
that we will have a large influx of the unterri-
fed democracy from every part Of the country
on the Fourth, and shat the greater number Of
these will perhaps be subimely patriotic before
the day is over and need attention.


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Emigration from Germany 70 the United


states.


Emigration seems to have become epidemic
in Germany From letter written, by our
special correspondent in Berlin, which we pub-
lished in the HERALD of yesterday, it appears
that from January to May IL the number Of
emigrants who started for the United States by
way of Bremen was twenty three thousand
three hundred and fifty-six. Between May IL
and May 81 some four thousand more sailed
from the same port for this country thus max
ing sum total from January to June of more
than twenty-seven thousand. This, however.
is not all. At the beginning of June some
nine steamers were advertised to sail from
Bremen for New York and Baltimore, and some
seven thousand were known to be making aP-
plication for passages. Our correspondent
makes mention of fact which very strikIugly
illustrates the improved and improving charac-
ter Of the times. An arrangement, it appears.
has been made between the agents in Ham
burg and the agents in New York according TO-
which the passenger, by the payment Of three
thalers, secures the right of having his arrival
in New York announced to his friends in Ger
many within twenty y-four hours after his land
ing. All this Is praiseworthy and encouraging
The manner in which affairs seem to be man
aged at Castle Garden, as will be seen from
another article in this days HERALD, is Q dis
grace to New York city, to the United States,
to the nineteenth century. We are glad to
notice that German emigrants are beginning
to direct their attention to the South as Geld
of enterprise. In many important respects the
South offers superior advantages to the indus
trious and thrifty emigrant than are offered
by the West. We commend the South to tho
Irish and the Germans both. The South needs
their little capital, needs more their labor, and
the rich and teeming soil is ready to reward
them. Besides, a food Of Irish and Germaa
emigration to the South would soon settle the
negro question and determine the balance Of
power.