The New York herald., 1869-08-03

The stream Of emigration from Europe that
Keeps pouring In upon our shores Is crafty
ing proof of the confidence felt In the resources
OF the country and in its republican form Of
government This stream still increases, inso-
much that the number of arrivals this year
exceeds that of the corresponding period in
1866, the great immigration year. So long as
the supply continues to pour In as now from
Europe we have nothing to fear from the
threatened influx Of Chinese. These last,
within the ten years preceding December,
1868, contributed only sixty-fve thousand to
our population. and of these not few returned
to their own country. In the same period the
number Of emigrants from Europe to our
shores Is calculated at two millions five hun
dred thousand. It is to this influx of Europeans
that we owe much Of our power and prosperity,
and by it we have grown, within the last
eighty years, from q nation of three millions
to one of over forty millions. The moral is
evideut-if we wish to develop the immense
resources of this country, let us continue to en-
courage European emigration. On the Cau-
casiau element only can we hope to build up
such an empire as the world has never seen.
Chinese may be all very good, but Europeans
are at least ten times better,
Besides bringing money into the country
emigrants increase the demand for every arti-
Gle produced, add their own share to the pro-
ducing power and take their portion of the
taxes of the country. Two-ffths of the emf
grants are Germans, than whom we could not
wish for better or more industrious class of
citizens. Ireland sends the next largest num-
Der and England takes the third place. The
following countries-Sweden, Scotland, Den
mark, Switzerland, Norway, France, Holland,
Italy, Wales and Spain, contribute their quota
to the emigration list in the order in which we
have named them, making up heterogeneous
mixture as diversified as the sources that con-
stitute our language. The savans at Pough-
keepsie have just been telling us that this last
is superior to any language, ancient or modern,
and we hope that the different nationalities
among us will keep up the analogy.
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of the thousands that land at Castle Garden.
Two-thirds, we are assured, leave the city
almost Immediately, betaking themselves
chiefly westward, the States of Illinois, Iowa,
Wisconsin and Minnesota having the prefer
ence; but there are many also who settle down
in Pennsylvania. The remainder leave later
or seek for permanent employment here,
some, however, going to swell the ranks of
rowdyism or struggling poverty. There are,
in truth, thousands in this city and all the sea-
board towns who would willingly go west
ward had they the means of doing
so, and who would supply the scarcity in the
labor market so much complained of. We
cannot see why something might not be done
in this way, both to assist the poor emigrants
themselves and to relieve the city of its pres
ent burden. We commend the suggestion to
the delegates who constituted the Chinese
Labor Convention at Memphis, and who were
so eloquent in crediting John Chinaman with
every virtue under heaven" They know bat
very little about him, or they are anxious to
get cheap labor meanwhile, no matter what
the future consequences may be to the country.