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The Daily Dispatch: April 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Irish emigration to America. (search)
] Scarcely at any season have we in years past seen the exodus so considerable as it is now, when the month of March has only just been entered on. It is no unusual thing, on any day of the week in Ballina, to count nineteen emigrants, between old and young, upon one of Blanconl's long care; and this three times in the day, and at the same time to see the long van of a private car owner, with smaller cars, and carts more numerous still, filled all of them by the same class, proceeding to Sligo, en route to Liverpool and America. We are informed that no less than one hundred and twenty-one persons from a single parish within five miles of this town are preparing and intend setting off in company for America. And this is no isolated case. The entire country would seem to be on the qui vive, and to be determined to know no quiet and happiness till it shall be enjoyed in the midst of new associations and new labors in the New World. At the present rate of progress outwards, Erris