The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-23

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been quite as much the inspiring motive as
industrial enterprise and the spirit of adven
ture. In Ireland, political disability, rack
rents, and starvation have done their share in
making the exodus what we see IT, and all the
signs point to yearly increasing force In the
current westward. Without continuing the
growth in our population it Is probable that
we are now increasing at the rate OF one mil
lion every three years. This, added to the
natural increase, will give us, at least, seventy
FIVE millions of apopulation before we enter on
the last decade of the century
In an extract from the Columbus (Ohio)
Journal, which we republished in Fridays
Times, the editor draws attention to some re-
markable facts connected with the German
immigration. He says it has probably escaped
general observation how large an increase
there has been in the number of this class Of
newcomers since the accession of Austrian
territory by Prussia. The Columbus emgrant
agents report states that the increase is in
great part caused by the fact that the Germans
born under Austrian rule refuse to serve in
the Prussian militia from which that army is
recruited. They prefer rather to emigrate.
This idea indeed, is borne out by the fact that
nearly all the emigrants for the past six
months have been young men, very few
women coming with them. The editor of the
Columbus Journal further states that for
the six months ending July l, q, AIS emf
grants have reached that city, seeking homes
in the fertile West, against II 900 for the same
time in 1866, showing an increase of 1869.
The arrivals for the six months of this year
were as follows:-January, l447; February,
1899; March, 1875; April, 1896; May, 1924;
June, 9437. The ma aOrity of these emigrants,
we are told, are from Prussia and Hanover.
All of them, even the Prussians do not like
their Government. 81 do not remember" f."
says a correspondent of the Journal, 'that in
from Germany who were possessed of means
and designed making permanent settlement"
These are facts OF a very significant kind, in
political as well as in an industrial sense.
They show that the gigantic diplomatic and
military enterprise which has given unity to
Northern Germany; which has raised Prussia
to the foremost rank among nations; which has
resulted in the establishment of what is called
a constitutional and consolidated Government
over twenty eight millions of Germans-has at
the same time had the effect of making the
new system more oppressive and unbearable
to vast bodies of the most intelligent people of
Germany than the former mixed order of
things, with its endless variety of petty duke
doms, principalities, eXactions, and small
tyrannies. The statistics show, moreover,
that unsettled as is the political, industrial,
and financial condition of affairs here the most
intelligent people of Central Europe are at
tracted by our institutions far more than they
ever were at any period prior to the Rebellion.
They have all along been the natural and
steadfast enemies of slavery. The political
influence of the larger and better portion of
the settlers of their nationality, whether in
Ohio, in Illinois, in Wisconsin, in Missouri, or
even in Texas, has always been cast on the
side of freedom. And no class of our foreign
born population take more kindly or more
thoroughly to the state of things in their
adopted country, or contribute more to our
industrial strength.
1t is singular to note that while immigra-
ton of the healthiest kind from Europe goes
on at this rate, there are associations actively
at work in Mississippi and various other
Southern States laboring to bring about a
general emigration of planters thence to Hon
duras and other parts of Central and South
America A preGmption claim of $40 acres of
Honduras land sells for $25; and if the coun-
try does not fill up rapidly with settlers, land
| is rapidly taken, and somebody makes money
at considerable rate. Too probably the
agents of these colonization societies come in
for all the profits that will ever be made out OF
| the scheme.