arrival of Emigrants.

ah (> LETTER was delivered to Carl at the
‘G{  breakfast-table, which made it necessary
for him to repair at once to the city. <A
vessel from Hamburg had just come in,
with several hundred German emigrants,
among whom was an old man named Wolf,
who had been a tenant of his grandfather, and who
was about to settle with a numerous family in Missouri.
The arrival of an emigrant ship presents a bustling
scene of varied interest. The small steamboat which
brought the passengers from the Lower Bay was
crowded with men, women, and children. Soon after
they disembarked, amidst hundreds of boxes, bags, and
piles of household furniture and kitchen utensils,
greetings and earnest conversations began on the wharf,
and along the streets, and in the German taverns near
the North River, and even in the carts which conveyed
them to the appointed lodgings. Carl almost imagined
himself in his fatherland, On every side he heard the