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Colonist, Issue 12, 1 December 1857, Page 2

A Long Sight-—While musing on eagles, my guide having fulfilled his pioneering duties, was lying down at full length, smoking his dhudeen in silent enjoyment. The pipe finished, he was eloquent in praise of the extensive view. ' Why yer honour, I'm tould if yez good eyes yez can 'see Meriky.' < Not quite so far, I think.' * Well, thin, 'tis myself would like to see it, anyhow.' ' Then you have friends there ?' ' Troth 1 have, yer honour, and relations too.' Then he proceeded to tell •me of their emigration and prosperity in the great country; and how one of his sisters had become a grand lady, wearing silk dresses, which puzzled him much, as she was only girl. Ascertaining that she was at Lowell, near Boston, I told my guide that I knew the place were his sister worked ; upon which he started to his feet, and besieged me with numberless questions respecting her occupation and the locality where she was living. It appeared that she had promised to send him money to take him out to America, and he was daily expecting a remittance; though how she could manage to effect this, seeing that she was only working in a cotton , mill, was beyond his comprehension. I bade him have faith in her promise, assuring him that the young ladies of Lowell had means to do many things besides adorning themselves in silks and sal ins.— Weld's Vocation in Ireland,