The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-16

thousands. At present the total numoer OF
immigrants annually coming into the United
States may be set down at 100000. These
60 to the West, take their markets with
them, and create an unostentatious COM
nerce of about s1OO, OOO 900. This sum, in
money or the worth of money goes directly
into the hands of producers. Nothing is
paid to middlemen, or for freight, insurance,
storage, and their like. This commerce in
the opinion of Commodore Maury, ''is more
profitable to the farmers Of the West than
s'the cotton crop is to the planters OF the
ssSouth; for though it sells for the larger
"sum, yet profits are eaten up by commits
''sions, transportation, &C., whereas the
Farmers of the West net their $780, 600, ,0OO
s'from the immig ants without any draw
s'back"
This estimate, moreover, assumes that the
immigrant does not want to buy anything OF
his neighbors after the first year.
The money spent by the immigrants has
undoubtedly had much to do with the pros
perity Of the Western States, and if immi-
grafton Westward were to cease there would
be serious distress, rot only because OF the
want of new blood to supplement the natu-
raj increase, but also because there would
be no way of adding capital except by the
slow processes of labor. The muscle and
the money OF the immigrant would alike be
wanting
And in connection with direct trade, im-
migration is of special Importance. Nume-
rous attempts have been made to establish
direct communication by steam with Europe,
anu Charleston has done more, and said less,
than any other city on the South Atlantic
coast. For two years we have had line OF
fine steamships running direct to Liverpool;
but we want inward cargoes Upon this
point Commodore Maury says:
"Unless the merchants of our seaport towns
can induce the merchants Of the inland cities
of the West to import directly through South
ern ports, I, for one, can see no prospect OF
direct trade save only through strong tide OF
European immigration this way. That Will
give us inward cargoes. Human freight Is
the most profitable to carry; it embarks itself,
stores itself, and is landed without expense
immigration is Just as necessary to make
direct trade profitable as for tilling our fields
and buying our produce; for "until we are
'r;n condition to distribute among the in
Gland cities that may be tributary to us
large quantities Of assorted merchandise,
ssthere is no chance of direct trade except
Through immigration; and it has been the
s'absence OF foreign immigration into the
';South that has barred our way to direct
sttrade."
1t is certain, too, that immigration cannot
be had without money And'if we want it
we must make up our minds to pay for it,
until the pioneers become sufficiently well
established to take that burden upon them
selves.
An immense Irish immigration flows into
New York. Apparently nobody pays for it but
the immigrants themselves. But what are
the facts? The Emigration Board of Great
Britain, who made it the subject OF special
inquiry, reports that in the seventeen years
from 1S4S to 1864, there vas transmitted to
Ireland to assist emigration no less than
9l3, oOe, 900, averaging, as we value sterling,
81, ouu,uuu a ycur.