Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-03-13

now MUCH IN POPULATION AND Cash WE Owe TO
lMMlGRATIoN-TwELvEs MILLIONS OF POPULATION.
Two HUNDRED MILLIONS OF SPEcIE-At meeting
Of the Geographical Society, Thursday evening" the
Section Political Statistics held its rst session.
The chairman, S. P. Dinsmore, Esq presented some
information in regard to immigration into this coun-
try, which won the attention Of the meeting.
Among the facts brought forward were the follow
ing:
" In the state of Massachusetts,, for instance,
which is not politically remarkable for the supremacy
Of the foreign population the tables will soon show
number OF births of foreign pasentage in excess Of
those Of native parenage. In 1854 Of 80 900 born in
that state 1874 70 were Of American parentage while
| some 900 were of foreign parentage. But the
cent age of increase of births from foreign pa
| rentage was twice that from native parentage
! Probably the census of 1860 will show, il not an
excess, an equal number of inhabitants foreign born
and OF foreign parentage-as compared with the in.
habitants Of native parentage. 1t is consoling to
remember however, lively political statistcian
has suggested that all these children of foreign birth
will propably be found, twenty years hence, brag-
ging of Plymouth R. OK and of the Saxon blood that
flows in their Celtic VEINS
ut is interesting to compare the results of popu.
lation in this count y, as now exhibited in
sus tables, with the results which would have been
| had there been no foreign immigration.
"In 1890 the population of the United States, in.
Guiding whites and free coored persons, 231 :
$780, Now the careful calcu alton of the tables shows
that the annual increase Of population by excess of
births over deaths is 1873 per cent. OBS in 10000
il this countryside largest increase of any country
in the world, the ike increase in England and ales
being 1.25, Q25 in 10, 0OOD in France "A, in Rus
STA "a, in Prussia ILL., in Holland l23 in Belgium
| 81, in Portugal r. in Saxony LOS.
AT this rate Of increase of population, augment
| ed by the excess Of births deaths alone we
| find avang ourselves the elaborate tables Of
Louis Schode Esq that we should have had in this
| in z = phn h,fon iucfa If
1887 573 So that while in the increase Of popu.
laon in this country since 1880 the elements of
cess of births over deaths have given but 1913 493
| of population, the increase by any through immi-
grafton has given over twelve millions-the proper
ton being l of national increase to 3 of increase
through importation Of population.
elf we may measure the value of inhabitants to a
| state by the worth of the monuments which indus
try leaves on the face of the earth, having mean.
while taken from the earth it's daily food, we may
reckon from these data that immigration has given
to us threefourths of the farm improvements three
four,hs of the cities and towns built threc.fourhs
of the miles of railroad constructed throughout the
length and breadth of the land.
| "And it will not be forgotten that the kind Of
| population which immigration has brought us has
been mainly of the proletary productive class-
1t is the foreigners who have done the work. The
natives born the soil, have considered themselves
the class-nati consumere fruges-born to consume
the fruits of the soil Compute, for instance. the
actual creating force of the New England and other
native emigration t, the West, and omit the consid-
Grafton OF its capacity in organizing labor, and !
think we shall find that the average amount of real
productive toll of each native born western man, af-
| ter deducting from his time what the exgencies of
horse-racng, whiSkey drinking, attending agrcul,u-
raj fairs and specializing in town lots have required
! Of hm-hs actual productive toll has not exceeded
six hours in each week. But the foreign em;grant
has had such license granted to him. The neces-
sites Of his daily life have required an aggregate Of
fifty hours labor per week, spent in adorning and
enriching the earth and in raising from its bosom
the fruits to supply the consumption Of the people.
| elf We may compute the " orsh Of each immigrant
and descendant of immigrants the valuation of
slave abor-that is, counting Caucasian blood as
worth as much as E.hiopic blood. and assuming the
value Of each woman and child at ($40O) four hum
dred dollars, the aggregate cash value of the immi
grafton since 1870 and it's fruits will be found to be
$4972 800, nOO nearly five thousand millions Of dol
lars-a sum exceeding half of the great debt, which,
in fashions Of lavish expenditures Great Britain has
incurred in obtaining the empire and the wealth of
half the world.
"Another fact, which should not so long have es.
capped the attention and comment Of commercial sta
tslics, is the enormous amount of coin which has
been brought to this country oy foreign Immigrants.
la letter was here read from John A. Kennedy, Esq
Superintendent a, the Castle Garden Immigrant De.
pot, showing, by carefully systematized inquiry, cx-
tending period Of seventeen months, that the
| amount Of money, almost entirely in coin, brought
! on the average by each immigrant man, woman and
child landing at this port, is ($lO0) one hundred
dollars. Taking the total number Of immigrants
who have arrived in the country (about three mir
! lions) we may, without hesitation, set down two
hundred millions of dollars ($2OO, 0O0, 00O) the
amount in coin which they have brought TO our
! Shores That amount is with us now boarded and
in circulation among the people. If it were not
trespassing the domain of the socety's Section
on Finance" observed the speaker, lit would be
noIprnlO nF hot tnf
cy SO large sum Of specie might be made the
basis, at the rate, for instance, observed in New
England banks, of twenty dollars in bank notes to
dollar in coin. Fortunately, however, for the
business Of the country-annually aggravated and
periodically ploded by undue issues Of bank pa.
per and bank the great part OF
! this coin remains boarded or in circulation among
| the people, who wisely prefer to trust themselves
rather than banks of issue.
| cit was the steady flow of this money, brought
by foreign emigration well of money carried by
native emgrants, into the wes,eren states of the
| Union, at rate, perhaps, of (Sl0O,O00) one hun
dred dollars per day, which, in 1856, sustained the
| enormously inflated prices of everything in the
West, when otherwise they mus: have fallen upon
the fall Of nearly one half in the price Of breadstus,
upon which alone the West relied to buy manuiac-
lures and pay debts :"
| Many other considerations kindred to the topic
were presented which the length of report COM
! pels US TO omit to-day.
EMIGRATION DURING THE PAST YRAR.-The annual
report of the State Department emigration shows
that the whole number of the arrivals in the United
States in 1857 was males 1872 53s, females 100
total 27l ,55S; died on the passage 424 total embar-
kation 27l 1882. Of this number there from
England 1880, Ireland 57,s6l, Scotland 4,1s2,
Wales 769, France 1897, Prussia 1888, Germany
s2,s9s, China 5944 Great Britain and Ireland, ex-
elusive of above, 25,754. total of foreigners was
25l ,206. The number of our own citizens who re-
turned from abroad was 20,676 OF the emigrants
there were under twenty years of age, $685. over
twenty years and under forty l30,55s, over forty