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world beyond the landmark of their village and parish 

 chapel. This will be better substantiated by the follow- 

 ing article from the London Times : 



[From the "London Times," Oct. 1th, 1861.] 



" The Celtic exodus continues to be the marvel of the 

 day. From morning to night, from the arrival of the 

 first trains before day break to the last which reaches in 

 the evening, nothing scarcely is seen along the splendid 

 quays which adorn Dublin, but the never-ending stream 

 of immigrants, flying as if from pestilence, to seek the 

 means of existence, which their own inhospitable land 

 denies to labor ; and the modest ambition to live and die 

 beyond the gloomy precincts of the Irish workhouse. 

 Numbers of these adventurers are of the better class of 

 fanners, and appear to lack none of the appliances re- 

 quisite towards the bettering of their condition at the other 

 side of the Atlantic ; a healthy and more than comely 

 progeny, a good supply of the most requisite articles of 

 furniture and clothing, with some small capital to com- 

 mence operations. The majority, however, have no such 

 advantages to boast of; for a more miserable, sickly 

 looking, and poverty stricken set of creatures it would be 

 impossible to imagine ; even hundreds of them men, 

 women and children being unprovided with shoes to 

 their feet, and the females with no better covering to 

 their heads than the commonest cotton handkerchiefs in 

 lieu of bonnets, while not one in fifty could lay claim to 

 the luxury of a cloak as a protection against the inclem- 

 ency of the coming winter. All hardships appear as 

 nothing, so that the one great end may be achieved 



