Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-26

present time is the great immigration to
the United States which is now going on.
When the war first broke out, the tide OF
foreigners who were pouring into this
country. was to q considerable extent
checked, and the fact of the existence OF
a war here was taken advantage OF to
change the course of emigration, by the
rulers Of the European countries, who
have for scores Of years past been looking
at the long lines Of their hardy yeomanry
marching to the seaport towns to take
ships for America, and gnashing their
teeth because they could not prevent It,
France and England have succeeded to
some extent, and have induced consider
able numbers Of their people to 90 to
Mexico and South America. But the
Germans, better informed, and freer at
home, hardly faltered, never changed their
course, and are now coming more numer-
Gus than ever. The Irish, too, have found
that ierked beef in BuenoS Ayres, and
bananas in Brazil, are not so well suited
to an Irishmsn's stomach as the "prates"
raised out West. The arrivals at New
York alone, are now averaging a thousand
q day, and we CLEAN from the Irish and
German papers that the Offices of the diff
ferent lines Of vessels plying between this
country and Europe are daily crowded by
emigrants eager to obtain passage to
America. Such is the character of these
immigrants, that it is estimated by the
General Agent who has charge Of the Emil
grant Landing depot in New York, that
each passenger brings, on an average, IS
in gold. Thus, aside from the men them
selves, who are invaluable, the wealth Of
the nation is increased $2s, 100, 900 per an
mum, s~upposing that the rate of immigra-
ton should remain stationary. Most Of
this money is brought by the honest, in
dustrious and frugal Germans, and no
small share Of it goes into the treasury Of
the United States through the medium Of
the Land Offices in the West. During the
eighty-two years ending December 81,
1860, there had arrived in the United
States 5,062,4l4 immigrants, mostly from
Europe. Of these, one and a half millions
arrived during the ten years ending June
l. 1850, and nearly twice as many arrived
during the following decade, which ended
the lst Of June, 1860. It may be interest
ing to State that the number Of profess
sional miners arriving in this country dur
ing the nine years, from 1851 to 1850,
were 1888. It is impossible TO estimate
the benefit which this country derives
from this enormous and continued immi-
grafton. As q general thing the emigrants
from European countries are the hardest,
most industrious and best informed of the
people, every n Of whom when they
leave their native country and come to
our land, weakens their forsaken govern
ment and strengthens ours. Foreign
governments may frown upon what they
can not prevent, and store up malice and
hatred against the government which
gives such franchises &c its citizens that
people Hock from all quarters of the
world to share its blessings and uphold
its standard. They may trown, but that
is all they can do; for the common peo-
pie, the foundation Of all governments, do
not look with disfavor upon it, and but
few of that class of people in many of the
European countries, in Germany especial
ly, but who are bound to this country by
the ties of blood. But the great benefit
we derive from the immigrants who come
to our shores, is the opening up of our
vast Western territory, and changing it
from a wilderness to a garden, and from
dreary solitudes to the scenes Of busy life.
They nearly all, after landing in the East,
come out to the West and settle, because
Of the superior openings that await them
there, and become identified with the
country. Few ever leave the home Of
their adoption to go back to that Of their
nativity. They become Americans in
heart and soul. The manner in which
they supported the National standard
during the late war shows that their pat
riotism is unimpeachable. The increasing
immigration is a pleasing feature, n
which certainly speaks well for the future.