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$ **~- 'Toblnoticed, ay thi mfagge\ ., tears WQIéfifeghng‘! ing M fines, f the string +s#suaffering under some deep, affliction, +- cr NBS t tegn oy nne ruen ae gren 8 as reed ~ cnmem nent ai cn n omen mes we- WHITEHALL, N. Y, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1871, 2 - [COPYRIGHT SECUEED,] WHITEHALL, LIFE iN T WAS towards the Inst of the suna~ mer of 1847 that one of the Lake \Chaimiplain steamers camo to the ) Whitehall dock crowded with om- igrants Thoy hid but a short time proviously landed it Quebec, and it was ovident from the higgard counteninces of most of them, that thoy had_beonsu£- fering cithor from disemso or famine. That year will long be rqnembered as the year of the terrible Ship Fever, Its favages were confined prince tothe- poorer class of Irish, andrrely ®. fim- ily left the old country to seek their for- {tunes in the new but lost some of its mombers on the voyage. As tho stonmbr\:cams slobp#ido the dock at the sperking of, thore was the usual rush of runnors, and tho noise and hubbub that followed remind» od one of.the confusion at Babel. \Shall I tako your baggage, countryman ?\ mid a follow who gloricd in the nume of Tom. \Shall I take your baggage, sir ?\ hore- peated, nddrossing ts emigrant gor whoso fice wore n sad ind thought- fail expression. - \Cheapest house in town, sir. Only eighteen pence a male, and divil the want for a drop of the mal article; and I'm thinkin' yo*e from my own county of Tipperary. Arrab, my honey, the Sharnroock Tavern is Just the place for the like of yo to find good liv. in' and daobet Aratment.\ This was sifd in a brogue so well osunterfeitd® a stranger would ner- have dreamed but Tom was m genuine son of Erin, instead of tho rowdy, rol- licking Yankes that he was. \Thank ye, man, thank yo,\ replied the emigrant. - \It's glad I am, til sco you, surg;fewfriends has Patrick Mar- hone seen since ho léft roland, but a dale, Oh, a'dale of trouble: And being a Tipperary man, in course, I'll go with you by all manes,\ . 'The baggage, which contiste of : wooden chest and several largos bundles, -were soon on their why to tha Shamrock, 'in one of the wagons which line the wharf on such occisions, while 'Tom, taking the arm of the emigrant familiar- 1y, followéd on foot. © There was something fm the tones and Took of the Iafter thatindicafed he was \His whole mannerves and sor. rowfal in the extreme, and several timc . bro sighed so mournfully Ehatitwas evi- dent life to him had become a weariness, slong , [ thy. | fortunata. ~~~ ~> Hloquizing. tho digdy' imo. | side, in the Sve E 33311113101? of; rary(\s a > & othor, his heart, for £116 first time in * Though'but low in the world's esteom, and notorious soznovhnt for rows, thore worse not wanting in Tonmn's uture some excellent tmits. Ho gencrous to n fault FEeloved denly to flog an one- my or to rmember a fiend, ind it was sald of him, that Re once gato his last shilling to a comradoto procure lodging, not steal, but ho could dzink mora thin | any other man; and whem a littlo \olo vated,\ ro didn't earoncontinontal cont for anything that halfists. Ho was not 1208Hy of that off particulazly ploug, and would ocension- seually sends to ally interiard his discourse vith sions that snicked dulitedly of the pro-| {o tht degres that thay faro, Aithough fre mis reot all conscion- tous about forcing a geen hand at bluff, used before, but which wus unnoticed by his companion. childher J \I don't see theran, sin, they ?\ Where are lin' and the wery aro it rest,\ rejoinsd turned and looked intohis face with an Shamrock. It was filled with emigrants ofall ages. Littlochildrenin rags-meon and women, upon whose fices hunger and sickness had loft their ghostly im- press, wereseated sbout tht door, ind tin the corners of the room,. Some were stretched upon the floor, helpless, utter- inglow moans, and in whose dull, glazed ey09, was writtern-defth, 'One kad died, little hands clasped around its dead raother's neck, Iny asleep. Soon it will awake, unconscious, God bo thanked, of its terrible misfortune, and plead pitte- C ously for the sustennneé which Bas thus my a day, was. touhed. With. | mvs contributed. to its life. Bat never more will it receive tho pressure of maternal fondness, nor hoar the cares sing voice that was wont to hush it into quict. Wawould not implously ques» | di tion the ways of Providence, who fish- ioneth Hig crentures' destinies to sult His own wiso purposes; yet we cannot | it but wonder why it is, thit upon the and slept himsolf in abazn. Tom would bland] a? an Inn 111m} fiofiaagd £00111; poverty and pestilence. tering their condition at homo, the now or blacking the eyes of a bully, ho wis world holds out to thir tho mmiP‘Pif' tender to tho helpies, urd possessed a |{DS Prospects Much has been said and | *\ feollng which naturally ircelind hire to | Written againgt the policy of foreign Bie defend the right, amd to snecr the un. | Hons in enconragivig this kind of emi By this time they had;reached the \\~ ;~ _- NOQ. # This rominds us of a story one of the stermbort captains or: the Lake used to rolate,\\ A broad shouldered son of theo Green Islo, with a shred of n coat on his back, but with eyes fall of deviltry, had succeeded in ovading the demand for fare until nearly the end of his vopnge. - . Boing discovered, at length, he astortect roundly that. he hid no moms wentever ; nothing at all, but his old coat, which woman, and a young child, with its the Captain might have. in welcome. somewhat indignantly the proffered gar- mont was accepted and inslantly throw z» overboard. | Tho nstonished Hibomian stood forn moment, with eyes wide operr, as he had received nshook from an clee- tric battery, thundered ont his fury at the Captain iv» no stinted meagure, and swore tomibly by St. Patrick and the Virgh, tnatifhe Recovering, however, ho dn't pay him back the fifty doubloonss that were sowed into the lining of that cont, he would suo him at tho law. Ana was n grave andscrious qustion witt a learned counselior, who cirries his of- fico in his hat, whether or not, nndor the cironrffitances, ho could pcover, Ho was rather of the opinion, howaevey that ch Eurxopo an.} Yon Dondersnosden, whore- Tho customers “g Shampock wore | 40 could, nnd montionod these of Hig- Ay becoma a bur- country-the rafuse Ein Judge Per Curia had uttired a dictce ers of tho old world, Reduced] to that effeoh _ _ _ __ _ , den id oxponse, withbiifi'lgbpe of 'be}. f of exciting the suspicions of those who were really willing to assist MW + the very fullest extent 6¥ Hhoir cans. Butro maty ecasesof fniposi- tion aro occurring, that it is dificult to determines to whom the benswolent may . igration:; but { fault-findors seem to | PrOPorly dispens ense their charities, \What troubles faveyou Ind, friend, |USs Short-sigltefl patriots. 16 is benef- if may: be so bold as i ask ?\ inquased | tfl to them, but ok Teas 80 to a, For forgetting the & b be bat sfixilnitmlievos—thfieMofw surpidg he, & road population, it covers our own boundless and uninhabited territories with a race cay h i bove whose graves in a little while, will \Al man,\ was Stho roply, \an evil|® B ‘ day it was for mo when! Left mo native, figflfifmfizt ffimp‘fixfiéfi 1d Erin, God bless ho with wife and |tBst¥ill be sn honor to the adop a \CCC Col loountry of thor fatherk, - Horo io\ the \ Wife and children?\ . Tom put in; great Mylum Whifill 1186ng OPBDGd to the poor and the oppre«sed, and wel- comas here, be every one of them from u « , |evrezy land, though lowly in spirit, and Where the wickud «ase from trout steeped in ignorance, und clothed in the emigrant, in g. £onoto sad that Tom |*\2* The proprietor ofthe. Shamrock lay- ern, however, had a peculiar freulty of finding out where the money of these people was secreted, imit-of it in his possession when discovers Hodid not hesitate to resort to Lho most wosort- pulous means of stripping thim of thr - . little they had mnusged to \With inhuman heartlessmess-by mens of drugged liquors, and wariots bago de- vices, and sometimes, by 'staling | into their rooms when thoy stept, trough con- cealed passages, with which lis hous. was cunningly constricted, he wuold in robbing thems andif, in* the Bat even the mogt destitufs of these, morning they applied:to him for assist- emotion that had long hen a stranger upon their arrival here, have | £00 to regain the missing ttsure, ho within his breast. hae J secréled about them, a Sow soveréigus, 'Poor Mimy,\ he continued, half so. | whici¢thoy cling to with thé titniost per- \She wa the firstto sick-|tinzcity, tintil the expedient of begging en with the fiver a ship-boird; &nd is exhausted. (We remember the instance soon Willy, who was abroth ov an boy, ' and whose aqual was not in: all Tippera- ry, followed. They the samo nipht, and a sore sight it was to look upon the dendchildKer, afd behol& thi dear bodies thrown into the my. greater misory was im store. - My dear wife, that waglike a datlin-angd by rae [of ons esen But while 211 the £ Eoofingmbout him as if somthing: yéty boll hapfned, htc thatin to gay, ho sloped, and ftood not & r gave $ a £, F 000 - ** Tiag t CCT Cex dtd 3 fp oi | _ , | vader whose mgfié in j O7 sieséhgwwg» bub 20278 at | ga intieed on the frsb night ofhis ar would Assamese an ate $f #evied) Imcligus tion at the Imprtation® por the pood name bf his establishment, ani fr. most cases thrust them brutally from the door. friend, Bazar, whenhe wasn | \tan-of smothered groans and stifled Overssér;of the Poor. Hoe agéxmi by all themints, that he wat Without a cen£, and absolutely, starving. | Tests Bat still overflowed the floodgates of hit eyes. shrisks that hadjlgeé‘fl‘liggrd mound his premises-of large sums of mohiy in his possstsion, which led to hor - . vible surini863. \Whatever henily Have act of drawifiy forth his | been before, we cannot tell, but during iy waway thetears that | the avontfal year already mantioned, one , side;yshs © too,, died . of the patilence, rain, wlodke guinea:actidentally| WHo had the means of knowing, his - breathin out her last in me arzu, callin' foll upon She oif, forth d ~ and wildy for he babs Mo@oldefgignd. Paddy. was Hon-pluesed.\ heart bladessday an- night, sul some, Loo. times, I'm thinking T\d gimp %he hrndred guingrs in my pocket, ifiwas Iying with poor Margery md the by img] .*\ ** y yérd at homae in'Tippe. | th, nab , Jonces _- 4 Lull 22 xign;| placed at our disposal _gonid itartling ttatements, which <to ahhZfbrink to fight it the courséfbfthig most vexitible: His- ° tory. _. t get es. ... Snoh was the suet} TH\? % : charpcter.. of the, mm e enigrant x IE tIMRAR! _THE. NEW YORK ST 6. Arvatih dis nated Hid such was the - _
