The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-01-23

: remarkable fact contained in the abstract o
e the births in Massachusetts in 1854-the as
tonishing increase of children of foreign parents
S Of the SO 900 born, but 6, 47O were of Ameri
= can parentage, while some IA, 900 were of par
0 ties one or both foreigners-the increase iron
e forei gn parents was more than twice what
D was from native parents. At the same rate
0 shortly they will have more children born il
1 Massachusetts from foreigners than of Amer
b leans; for in FIVE years the American births hav
) not increased 1000, while the foreign have in
: creased more than 5000. In Suffolk count,
E already the births in foreign families are NOR
: than twice as numerous as in American, being
t 1885 in the former, and 1887 in the latter. 0
, largest number was from Ireland, 1924 fathers
, and 1857 mothers, while there were but All
, fathers natives of the city, and 524 mother:
natives, and 533 fathers and ATS mothers, ma
of the houses, crowded with Europeans, there
will be from ten to twenty children that cannot
90 alone or lisp word; there are several in.
stances given where four and FIVE, and six and
seven, even eight were born in one house dur
ing the year, and it looks now as though very
shortly there would not be real Bostonians
enough left to guard the city at night. Many
of the large towns and cities show like facts
Cambridge had born of foreign parents, 429
children, to 2O8 Americans; Fall River, 253 to
8s; Lawrence, 322 to 146; Lowell, 597 to 1877;
Roxbury, 483 to 1863; Salem, 1884 to 1870; Taun-
ton, gel to 141; and Worcester, 421 foreign to
$50 American. These are interesting facts for
the consideration of the yankees.
Senator Brown, of Mississippi, has created
quite a sensation, by writing letter, in which
he suggests that the Legislature of his State
should levy tax of one dollar per head on
slaves, which would raise at once three hundred
and twenty five thousand dollars. This sum,
he presumes, would buy at least three hundred
slaves, and leave a surplus sufficient to defray
the expenses of three hundred emigrants to
Kansas. The persons going out in charge of
the slaves to be chosen by commissioners, to
be appointed for each county by the governor,
and these commissioners could also purchase
the negroes. Senator Brown thinks that a
young Misslssippian, thus made the master of
slave by his State, and sent free of charge to
such territory as Kansas, would do the ne
cessary voting, and, if needs be, the fighting
also required to sustain the acts of his State in
the territory. He adds that if the slave States
would adopt this plan, they would have in e
months slave colony in Kansas that all the
abolitonsts in the Union could not expel. The
plan certainly an ingenious one, but we fear
is more calculated to create gang of hungry
ofice-holders, than to aid in making Kansas a
slave State.
Great excitement prevails among the episco-
palians in New York, owing to a strong susp-
cion that one or two of the principal churches
of that denomination are exhibiting tendencies
Romeward, not altogether consistent with the
principles and practices of their protested pro-
estantism. The excitement arose from the
aSe
fore daylight, with the affairs and cross decora-
ed with flowers and lighted wax candles. The
ow church men, and indeed not few of the
most prominent disciples of bishop Onderdonk,
have taken great umbrage at the new and novel
"Reminiscences upon the subject
have been sent into the provisional bishop of
he district; but it is given out that, that func
;onary declines to take any action on the sub
ect, lest the result should be another inoppor-
une agitation in the church.
EX-SENATOR BERR1EN.-The death of ex-
senator John Macpherson Berrien, of Georgia,
1as already been announced by telegraph. We
earn from the Savannah Journal that the dis
inguished statesman and eminent lawyer died {
1t his residence, in that city, on the morning
It the 1st inst He was in attendance at the
ate convention of the American party at Mil I
edgeville, but was prevented by ndisposition,
IN the first day Of its session from presiding
,ver its deliberations. The illness then con- c
racted terminated fatally. Mr. Berren was J
n the 18th year of his age at the time of his 7
leath.
Mr.. Berrien, although for more than thirty +
7ears prominent and trusted citizen of Geor- Z
ria, was we believe, native of New Jersey.
lie was senator in congress during the ad !
of John Quincy Adams, to whom !
lie was politically opposed, and on the cleo t
ion of gen. Jackson, was made attorney gen =
raj of the United States in his first cabinet. y
On the dissolution of that cabinet, by the .
esgnation of secretaries Van Buren, and Eaton, :
Mr. Berren declined resigning, except at the /
equest of the president, alleging that there !
vas no public ground why he should follow i
he example of the retiring members. Gen. d
ackson afforded what he asked, and Mr.. Ber 4
len retired. For some time he gave quail y
led support to the public policy of gen. Jack r
on, he attaching himself more definitely to the !,
arty of Mr.. Calhoun in the controversies arts !,
ng out of the notification question; he went.
It last entirely into the opposition, and finally
Imported the wing policy generally, and Mr.. !;
Jlay personally, with much zeal and efficien- v
y. He served long and very ably in the sen P
tie, carrying great influence by the weight Of 6
Ugh personal character, the dignity ofhis per- ?
onal department and admitted disinterested t
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