The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-16
THE GERMAN POPULATION OF pHILADEL-


A Philadelphia correspondent of the n. Y. Tri-
6"rc says The general clannishness OF our Ger
man citizens was last week finely illustrated in a
monster turnout and parade through the city, fol
lowed by two days festival in tie suburbs with
music, banners, teasting and gymnastics interSper-
sea with enormous quantities, OF undiluted LAGER.
1t was the greatest German jubilee ever witnessed
here, and was held in honor of Baron Steubcn, for
the purpose OF raising funds toward a monument to
his memory. At least O,O0O men walked in pro
cession, fine robust and highly respectable body
Well-dressed and well-behaved. Probably full 90
0OO Germans participated in the jubilee. The
ground was crowded with German women, old and
young with swarms of children. These great gath
erings of adopted citizens are not so common here
as in New York, but the example set by YOU hav-
ing now begun to be limited, we shall have abun-
dance of them.
The German population of this city numbers sO,-
600, of whom some 5000 are voters. They are in
many respects worthy class, sober, industrious,
and prone to grow rich by saving what they earn.
Many of them are admirable mechanics. Their de
posits in the various savings banks amount to an
immense sum. They banded together in nu-
merous instances in the purchase of large tracts of
land In our vicinity, which they enter upon in Il
body, clear up and bring into cultivation. On re-
cent occasion company of three bought some 49,
600 acres of the scruboak land which lines the Cam
den and Atlantic Railroad, 80 miles from this
city, in New Jersey, paying S. per acre. They
very soon sold 800 farms of 20 acres each the pur
chaser OF each farm receiving a fine lot in a town
adjoining and paying $500 for farm and lot.
This enterprise Is not three years old and vet the
town now contains 200 substantial brick houses:
farms alrOund it have been grubbed cleared fenced
in and brought into cutivation brick-vards estab-
ished steam-mills built schools and churches erect
ed, with the inevitable lager beer house, and all
other appliances of a complete community concen-
trated upon ground which, before the railroad was
made, could find no purchaser at dollar an acre,
The holdings have more than doubled in value.
Though this Egg Harbor City as they call it, has
shot up with all the suddenness of Western town,
yet the innate gravity of the German character has
prevented any wild or dashing speculation The
owners go on steadily but rapidly improving their
farms, and, having once obtained the fee of twenty
acres evince no other ambition but to improve it,
This German settlement in the squalid scrub and
pine region of New Jersey is a memorable example
of the wondrous efficiency of the principle OF asso-
citation. Buying lands by Wholesale settling it by
wholesale, improvement by wholesale has followed
as a necessary consequence. The great display of
last week is but another illustration of the grega
rous disposition of the Germans, only on larger
scale and for different object. We find them to
be essentially practical people, made up Of a far
better class than came among thirty years ago.
Thousands of them are highly educated, whilc as a
general thing, all can read and write. They must
also possess taste for reading else their numerous
daily and weekly papers could not thrive so well.
Some of these enjoy large circulation, and are
well supported by advertising. Many of their lead
ers are extremely able papers.