Year: 1872

land; scarcely bit Of ttage got out Of che rai-
way train at Kilcock, and taking post car drove
over to Summerhnl, q distance Of SIX miles. The
country S=1g the way looked utterly deserted.
During the trip from Kilcock met but six persona
No one was working in the fields, SO far as could
see, and the absence of trayelers on the road.
either in vehicles on foot, was enough to strike
any observer with astonishment. An English Sow.
creign during the penal times, was informed that
there was nothing left to rule in Ireland but
ashes and carcasses. Indeed there Is nothing LETT
here now but the Old and the young-the nower Of
the population has gone away. Labor is scarce
and dear. but farmers who hold large tracts Of
land are, by grazing, making immense sums OF
money Nevertheless they grumble at the advanced
prices they have to pay for agricultural
work, and many of them express
wishes that some of the Irish would return from
the United States, settle down In the Old Country
once again, and thus enable those who have Diff
Guilty In procuring labor to find 1t and pay reason
able rate OF compensation. Il would be difficult to
say what chance there Is Of such return OF the
Irish to their own country but 1t Is manifest that
there is


GREAT SCARCITY OF LABOR


in Ireland, arising from the excessive emigration,
which is thinning out the population day after day





Is to convert the land into sheepwalk. Lord Car
lislc, former Lord Lieutenant who had taste
for cattle breeding and literature once said,
In one OF his public speeches, that Ireland is
the mother of fOcks and herds, and II he
were alive to-day he would certainly see numerous
nocks and herds grazing on the fattest Of land,
places where once had stood the huts and the
homes OF the pcasantry. In the village OF


manv of ,be bouses are vncant and others have
been pulled down. While on the top or the neigh
boring hill, overlooking prospect OF rare beauty:
Langrord, who owns quite a tract OF the adjacent
soil II one Ia to judge from the appearance OF the
village his ordship does not do much, If anything
at all, to make 1t neat and handsome in appearance;
but he certainly has done considerable In the way
OF improving his own residence and demesne, which
Gerry M SSSg by OF
member Of his family to fall into an almost ire
trievable state OF ruin He has given employment
to large number Of w0rkmen, and It ia spoken OF
mere as a somewhat remarkable thing that he in
creased the pay OF laborers from ten to fifteen
pence day, To that extent Lord Langford Is
DenefactOr; but the great want is resident gentry
who would take deep interest In the affairs OF the
at at
the absentees to part with their estates for rea
sonable consideration and enable properly
the land into farms, the rent Of
which might be taken, say for fifteen or twenty
years as purchase money Inis would A save the tne
1t il manifest to any one who has the slightest
knowledge OF local affairs that In districts where
twelve or fourteen years ago there had been dense
populations there are now few persons LETT except
the extremely Old and the very young, the healthy
active portion OF the people having emlgrated to
Australia or America. sT


LAND-GRABBERs AND BEAST wORsuIPPERs.
write this letter almost in sight OF Dangan
was the birthplace OF the Duke OF wellington.
The land around 1t Is rich and productive, but the
goes as IN
money; you. might say smothered in the iat
OF the beef that they raise. raise in such large .
Eminence Cardinal Culien OF Dublin, own estates; ;
they are people OF property and money, and the
Papal Legate does not make them better or worse
landlords than others. They are, l believe, con-
stantly ON t lookout for land when it drops out
means, are unable to work it, and the moment a
farm is to be let or sold the landgrabbers after
TO such an extent has cattle raising gone in ireland
that 1t has become almost a worship
with landlords and graziers-a beast worship; /;
of regret at the frightful circumstances that
have compelled the Irish people to expatriate
themselves In thousands. Now, what would the
eXterminated people have done II they had not had
| the United States OF America TO go tor The I'M
preston on the mind Of the Irish enigrant is that
ne believed that he could pick up dirt by the hand.
full and cartful he would be nearer the truth; but
this truth does not appear to have ever slamed the
Corporation of the Empire City now fast assuming
the position OF the most enterprisng s commercial m
|
| thOrOughfares free from filth.


| ADVICE TO EMIaRANTS.


! But quitting this point about the condition OF the
streets OF New York, let me say that the Irish make
big mistake In sticking so closely rs they do to the
| Alta tic cities OF America where they do not find
| gold on the streets They would find prosperity and
independence IT, following the agricultural and pas
toral life to which they have been brought up at
home, they went out to the West, where, by in
occupiers and owners OF their own farms Such a
life as this would be far better and nober for them
than settling down In the low wards and back
laborers, rumseilers In the interest Of a vile
| gang OF Tammany rowdies, who would scruple at
no perjury Or fraud to make poor Paddy citizen
Sci,ls; There @ are s influential ITisn%e@ men


NeM irish York waS oGnS into haSs s
channelI have pointed out but they hesitated to
do so because II they said 1t woald be for the benent
Of the emigrant who had made New York city his
abode to go out West and become, not loafer or u
rumseer but farmer and respectable member
Of society ths chance Of large Il Irish vote being
ably diminished. have not, during my journey in
Ireland, missed an opportunity Of stating the TACT
that the conduct OF Tammany, In 80 far as 1t re
lated to Irishmen, brought degradation upon Ire
land. Tammany, in putting forward for official po
sition the worst Irishmen they could find
in New York, merely for the reason that
..boys," led Americans to suppose that no such
thing as decent, wellconducted man had ever
Tammany has been Overthrown; and II the Emigra-
ton Commissioners now fearlessy do their duty,
irrespective OF political considerations, and urge
the emgrants not to stick In the suns, but ad-
vance TO the possession OF land out West, q great
good will be accomplished.


A ouURcH COLLECTION FOR CAPTAIN NOLAN.
collection will be taken up in aid of the funds now
being raised throughout the country for the pay:
ment of Captain Nolan's expenses In the matter OF
the Galway election petition.