The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-20
IMMIGRATION AND IT'S TENDENCIES.

IMMIGRATION AND IT'S TENDENCIES.
From the Baltimore Sun.
The total number of emigrants who arrived
at New York from Europe during last week
was 9017. OF these no less than 2452 came
from North Germany. We have already no.
ticed the increasing number of arrivals at this
port 1t is stated that SO alarmed has the
German Government lately become at the
possibility of having the rates of labor mate
rally increased by this rapid diminution of
the supply, that bill will shortly be pre-
sented to the Chambers whose object is the
restriction of emigration by the imposition of
heavy tax on every subject leaving the
country Such measure is of course likely
to have the opposite effect of that intended
There is a more immutable law than any
which legislatures can enact, by which labor
will seek the best market. The time when
the working classes could be estimated simply
as producing and consuming machines has
passed, even in Europe. The great exodus
going on to this country cannot be stopped.
If brains, bone and muscle are positive wealth
to country, the rulers of the old world.
when they look upon such number of sails in
their harbors, spread to bear away their
population, will have literal illustration of
riches taking to themselves wings and flying
away.
Large as is the immigration now coming to
the United States from both Germany and
Ireland, it is not at all in excess of the de-
mand for labor. Yet it may be remarked that.
although the South needs large population,
the tendency of immigration towards the
West is almost as much without slavery as
with it. In total immigration in 1867 of
342, ,162, in 1868 of 282 189, in 1869 of
352, 500, the number of immigrants from
countries in the Old World corresponding in
climate with the Southern States was but
AZ, 554, and but very few of these settled in
the South, while 30, 900 Italians went to South
America in the single year of 1868. A few
Swiss have settled in Tennessee, and a few
Poles in Virginia, but nowhere has there been
successful and definite purpose of colonial
ton from Southern Europe to the United
States. General Negley, in a very instructive
and interesting speech last week in the House,
showed that only 1868 immigrants entered
the South for the quarter ending December
81, 1869, while 76, 93S came in the same time
from Europe. L
The line of steamers between this city and
Bremen brings emigrants to point at once
convenient to the South and West, but the
great bulk of them pass westward, only a
small proportion of them remaining in our
own State and city. Yet there is, perhaps a
greater demand for labor in the South than
the West the extinction of slavery having
reduced the quantity of cotton, sugar. to-
bacco, and other productions. The political
disorganization which the obstructionists of
Congress seek to perpetuate in the Southern
States, and the monstrous calumnies spread
broadcast as to the insecurity of life and
property, no doubt have their effect in de-
terring emigration to the South. Yet it is
quite as much the interest of Northern COM
merce and manufactures as of Southern
agriculture that the production of the staples
peculiar to the South should be- increased,
and this can only be done by an increase of
labor. The tendency of the peculiar sort of
labor at present in the South is to concentra-
ton more and more in the cotton aud sugar
regions, to be superseded in the more tenn
perate grain-growing sections, such as Mary
land, Virginia, Tennessee, and some portions
of North Carolina, by white settlers both
from Europe and the North. There are vast
spaces yet to be filed and titled in the States
named; and the time may yet come when the
herbage of the Western pastures will be
browsed so close that the future focks of
emigrants will seek new pastures nearer the
Atlantic border. rtFr.-r