The National Republican And Ohio Political Register

EMIGRATION.

In the ship Commerce, of Greenock, which arrived here on Tuesday evening, came, as a cabin passenger Nahum Ward, Esq. of Marietta, Ohio, formerly of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and between 80 and 90 passengers in the steerage, most of whom are young farmers, and of good character, for settlement on Mr. Ward's lands in the District of Marietta. These enterprising young men, together without about fifty that sailed from Greenock on the 4th of April last with the same intention, are but the van of a much larger colony that are winding up their concerns in the mother country, and will shortly be transplanted into the fertile vale of Ohio. This will be no small advantage to our common country, while it will be particularly gratifying to our sister state of Ohio; virtuous men being a real acquisition to any land. Mr. Ward, who has spent the last twelve months in Europe, but much the greater part of his time in Scotland, making known to the farming class of that country the many advantages of the flourishing state of Ohio, is of opinion that 1000 individuals will have left North Britain for the vale of the Ohio, from the 1st of April to the 1st of October next, and that each succeeding year 2000 will follow their example. We may safely calculate that each person will bring $200, which will add to the capital of Ohio for 1823. the sum of $200,000, and for each succeeding year the sum of $400,000, and as industrious good men are more valuable than money, we may double these sums in behalf of this state.

This is certainly very pleasing in the prospective, and we believe there is very little doubt of its being fully realised. Our country bids every virtuous foreigner a hearty welcome, and no people make better citizens than the Scotch—they are moral, religious, sober, and industrious, almost to a proverb; and the least we can say is, that he who has spent much time and money solely for the purpose of making the advantages of his country known to European farmers, is deserving well of his fellow citizens.

We understand that such was the cleanliness of the Commerce, and the healthy appearance of her passengers and crew, a circumstance much to the credit of her captain, that the Health Officer, after making the proper examinations, suffered the ship to come up to the city. N. Y. Post.