The Placer herald., 1856-01-26
Foreign Emigration.

Few Of those belonging to the new party
Of ''Know Nothings" who loudly proclaim
the cpiis of foreign emigration, take any
trouble to inform themselves Of the boncft
our country derives from the influx of for
eigneis. The New York cmigrant society,
one of the most humane institutions in our
couptry, has recently kept careful statistics
Of arrivals at that port, the character Of the
emigrantS and the States the majority of
them select for future homes.
During the months Of August, September
and October of the past year, and since the
new depot Is been opened at Castle Car
den. J. 50 vessels have arrived with 34,l99
emigrants who confessed to the possession
Of cash means to the amount Of 81 SOP, ,299
l6. sum supposed TO be much below the
real amount in their possession. Al Of
these emigrants had been trained to labor.
The arrival of foreign emgrants in the
United States during one year numbered
nearly half million, and it is estimated that
besides their labor. they added to the wealth
of the country S3O,OOO,00O of gold and sill
ver 1t required 1924 vessels to bring them
here This would seem to show that elni-
grafton is a source Of wealth to our country,
and economists and politicians should foster
and encourage it, These vast additions to
and asSimilated, without the slightest danger
to our Republic but rather to the promotion
of its wealth and the development Of its
greatness.
Under the old emigrant runner system,
which was tolerated until it became an open
and 'undsgused course of robbery, the emi-
grants were so shamefulIv tleeced, that Of
course they warned their friends at home TO
never disclose their being in possession of
money. 1t is with great difficulty, therefore,
that the Emigrant Society can learn the full
amount in the possession Of Irish or German
emgrans. they always underState it. while
the Eng 'ish always overstate the amount of
their cash funds. The Scotch loIlanders
and Swedes frankly name the amount Of
their pile.
Twenty five per cent. more females than
males arrive from Ireland Germany. The
wars in Europe have doubtless thinned out
the masculine, and the girls think the pros
pect for matlimony and home better in the
New World than in the Old.
Of 27.OOO emigrants who passed through
the hands of the Society last summer, only
As went to South Carolina, ! to North Car
oina, s TO Georgia. "a to Tennessee, 10 to
Florida. 1873 to Virginia, 10 to kentucky,
and similar small proportion to the other
Southern States; while New York received
I2,2S9, Ohio 2,OOl, Pennsylvania 1857, H.
linois 2,O36. Wisconsin 224S, New Jersey
736, Canada, 2,l07, Massachusetts, 1923, and
other free States in the same ratio. OF those
who went to Virginia, the most were English
and Germans, and nearly all were bound for
the cheap farming lands Of the western coun-
ties.
Many Of the Irish Catholics 90 the New
England States, Massachusetts more than any
other Pennsylvania receives a large share
of English and Welsh, New York mixture
Of all kinds; New jersey ditto; Ohio, Irish
and Germans; Wisconsin, Swedes and Ger
mans Minnesota, Germans: Maryland, Irish
and Germans: Indiana, all nations--Germans
prepondelating; Michigan, ditto Illinois,
ditto; Canada nearly all Scotch and English.
Very few 90 to the Slave States.
The establishment at Castle Garden pro-
tects these poor people from the terrible i'm
position and wrong their countrvmen former