American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1856-02-07
Foreign Panperism.
We have compiled the following statis-
tics Of foreign pauperism and crime:
Observation-Disclosures wARD.


During the wear, the number of arrests
made ia the Third ward amounted TO 81
276.
coIoreS' lalllirFF a 81 !
Foreigners, q >fJ ftA 2,449
OF the latter 2,l66 came from Irelaudl
STATISTICS OF FouRfEESTit WARD.
During the year 1855. the total arrests
Of this ward foot up a total Of G28.
Americans including colored, 34l
Foreigners, q il n 232
From Ireland. 1881 In this ward. it
will be remembered, the foreign population
is quite limited.
PoticE STATISTICS OF THE NINTH WARD.
lieutenant Whittmore, Of the Ninth
ward, has colated the statistics of that
ward for the year 1855, ending December
3lst, 1855, from which we learn that the
total Of arrests amount to l,907
Americans, 44o
Coored, AZ
Foreigners, 724
Of the latter, 644 came from Ireland!
LoDGERs.
In the same ward, for the sama period,
the total number Accommodated with lodg-
ings for the same period amounted to 1
822.
Americans, $50
Colored, q sea 40
Foreigners. g. t 1858
Ofthe latter, 929 came from Ireland!
a POLICE STATISTICS.
During the past year 857 arrests We're
rnadein the Twelfth ward, 494 Of which
were for drunkenness.
The nativity Of the prisoners was as fol-
lows: Ea
ireland, s92; Germany, 2l7; United
States, 5l3' England, 80; France. 8; Italy,
2. Total, 857.
FOREIGN PAUPERs IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, PA.
From the lst of january TO the LIT Of
October, nine months, says the Chambers
burg Transcript, there were entertained in
the poor house Of Franklin county total
Of wayfariug psupers, amounting to 553.
| Americans, 30
Foreigners, 522
JERSEY CITY PRtsoN
There have been committee to the Jer,
sey City Prison, during the month Of De-
cember, a total of 56.
4 Americans, including colored, 8
! Foreigners, 48
| From Ireland, 40.
NEwAKK IN, J, POLICE s+ArIsrIcs.
The Newark Mercury publishes syn
opsis Of the City Marshals annual report
from which it appears that. during th'
year, the total of arrests amount to 1914.
Americans, 1879
Colored, AZ
Foreigners, 693
OF the latter, 53S came from trelandl
For the month of Deeembet, the total G
arrests amount to "a. b
{ Americans, 12
Il Colored, ..t...... 7
Foreigners, y ., ,.u IS
Of the latter, 90 came from Ireland!
, Whole number of psupers and crimina
9.069, of which 6,6lS were foreigners an
2,456 Americans. Nearly three foreigner
to one Americana, but it must be borne i
mind that the foreign population is not
| quail to the native; and yet the number
> foreign criminals and paupers exceed ii
, numbetof native paupers and crimina
: three times. If the proportion Of paupe
| and criminals, both native and foreign, 1
s the native and foreign population was a,
/. curately stated, it would show that Il
e proportion of either pauperism or crime
e mong the foreign population was from Fl
h teen to twenty per cent, greater than eth,
among the native population.
a In this connexion it is well to examil
$ the cause of this amount of paupersm al
4 crime, and the course pursued by foreif
|. countries to rid themselves of these curse
y The petty kingdom Of W1rtemburg b
s been in the habit, for some years past,
! shipping to this country its pauper and 1
n firm criminal population to save the E.
j. pense of maintaining them at home
d hsome Instances, it appears that 4
4 Commissioners of Emisrationin in N. Yor
o thought that the yoke imposed upon
Y pressed a little too heavily, and thereupi
h ventured to return some of the most ind
Q ferent specimens of fWurtemberg humani
,s to their own country.
/ Wuftemberg had paid the passage
10 these lazars to America for the purpose
le getting rid Of them, and while il is 90
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