The true Democrat., 1856-01-08
From the New York Time Decrease of Immigration.

From the New York Times.
 Decrease of Immigration.
 It is estimated by persons familiar with the rate of immigration, that, if the average De no greater the next six months than the past, there will he falling off in 1856 of some 150OOO or 1SOOOO in the number of foreigners arriving on our shores This IS a weighty fact, and de- serves careful consideration from those who, Tn business or morals, are spccuatlng on the fu ture of our country. Probably 8OOOO of those who stay at home are Germans; the rest of the deficit is made up almost entirely of Irish. If each of these immigrants had consumed or spent $4 in New York as he passed through it will make difference next year to the city of some S1OOOOO in income. If each had possessed in ready money the average which the returns from Castle Garden show at present namely, about $8O-it would diminish the import or specie into the country by about Mjr- teen and c haJ millions cf dollars; money which is not even an exchange, but is so much clear ad- diton of wealth. Then, all these people con sum: our products: they rent UT houses; they wear our cloths; they eat our corn and wheat and rye, our beef and mutton, and fish; they buy our timber and brick, and iron and coal; they read our books and papers and magazines. Setting down the average co t of living at S2 a week to each man and woman and child, which would be low estimate, and suppo>ing that they, at least, earn all they con- Sune by their labor, we have loss next year to the producers of the country-to the farmers, th- groccrs, the builders, the clothiers. the house-owncrs, the brick makers, and coal-min- CTS, the editors and book-Sellers-of seventeen millions of dollars. If these estimates be cor rect we have direct loss next year to the country, in this decrease of immigration, of over thirty millions of dollars.
 We cannot easily appreciate this loss until we take some corresponding destruction of value
 in our more apparent wealth. People do not readily see loss and gain on great scale. It has taken centuries to make the mass under stand that a tarthing or a penny duty on a pound oi some foreign article imported Is an lnmense loss to their own pockets.
 Texas was thought valuable acquisition, by many, in its rich farms, though we paid round price for it, yet the value of all the farms in Texas, and Arkansas besides, is no greater than the value lost by this years decrease of immi- grafton. New York and Pennsylvania boast themselves of rich crops of wheat but the whole worth of their crops, if no greater than in 1850, would be two millions short of the worth to Us of.those immigrants who stay at home for single year. It would seem fear tul blow to the country, if by war or fire, or any calamity, our whole exported manufactures -all these, to cherish which we have been pay
 ng duties So long-shOuld suddenly be utterly destroyed; yet, the loss would be four millions of dollars less, taking the value of 1854, than the loss this year from impeded immi grafton The quick destruction of all the flour and corn and the products of agriculture, which we usu- ally expert which bring wealth to so many thousands, would be but little greater than the destruction this year of value imported by the immigrants. If ono-third of the cotton crop of last year had been lost, what lamenta- tons would have re-echoed from 'oue end of the Union to the other! how many would have been bankrupt. how many would have felt poorer! Or if the whole lndian-corn crop last year of New England, New York, New ersev, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia had perishe what a Jer emlad of mourning would have arisen. To appoint new fast would have been the least which our governors could have done. Yet the hrst of these supposed losses is no greater, and the last Is less, than what we shall silently bear ths year from decreased immigration. Will not some good Know Nothing governor inst- ute fast?
 The country will feel the deep injury done to It's prosperity by this dminuton of immi- grafton, even Ii It does not sec its source Ey cry man who owns tenement houSeS the ship- builder the shlp-owner, the cheap grocer, the butcher, the railway companies, the thousands who own stock Tn them will feel it. The house holder will pay higher soon for his carpenter hls plumber his painter; the house-mjstress muSt, alter tune, give more for her cook or her laundress. The farmer must offer higher wages to hls men, and put higher price upon hls cattle, his milk, his potatoes, and wheat Less new land will be broken, and those who nave invested Tn western lots must be dsap- pointed in their plans. Business at the great depots of commerce in the west will be less active because there are fewer hands to help It. Not so many railroads, or canals or steam boats, or tat-boats, will be built, because there Is less travel over them and less labor at hand to build them. The cost of new cities of schools, churches, stores, and dwelling houses houses, will be greatly increased, because there are fewer workmcn at higher rates Each TO- iesslonal man must, after time feel this: the client can pay less the church -goer less. the patient less. High Wages to laboring men are not, Tn themselves necessarily an advantage: they depend on their relation to the yaue of food and clothing, and means of living. With fewer hands to labor il this country, every ar. ticle of living would be more expensive, while the impeding and stoppage of business would not be compensated by the higher rates to the working man. The well being of each class in a country like this depends on the well-belng of every other. If the workman gets S4 day who before got $2 he gains nothing if his bread and clothing cost double, and he loses if there are just half the means for business enterprises which were before There will be less work for him and all that he uses will cost more
 Under this falling off of immigration will cease something of that almost increditable spring of enterprise and prosperity which has thus far characterized our communities. It will thus be seen that this wonderful prooress was not a mysterious blessing conferred by an unexplainable providence, nor altogether the fruit of the old Scandinavian and Saxon blood It Will De found not altogether due to our rich vlrgin soll, or our wide territory, or our deep rivers; nor entirely to our Puritan industry, or our republican government, or our isolated po- sltlon. We shall see then-perhaps too late, or perhaps after deep depression of every branch of industry and commerce-that these squlid, imbruted Irishmen, landing in tatters or home spun; these foreign guttera, garlicky Germans with their nut brown faces and broad shoulders: