Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-12

THE EVENING STAR.
WASHINGTON.
MONDAh ---..........-...July 12, 1850.
CROSBY .. MOVES. Editor.
The Erenino Star has . regular. perma-
nens, bona fide daily circutation more
than double that of amp other daily paper
published fn Washington. and equal to that
or all the other daily papers here added to-
pether.
THE STAB has 8 direct wire from Its news room to
She Western Union telegraph Office in New York
city, from which wires radiate to all parts OF the
Globe. and il therefore enabled to secure the latest
news by its own operator from every quarter up 70
within few moments Of going to press 1t Is the
only evening paper south Of Philadelphia which re
ceves exclusively the Associated Press dispatches.
Persons leaving town for the season. and Sum
mer travellers, can have THE STAR mailed to them,
postpaid. for fifty cents per month. the address
being changed often as desired. The money
must accompany the order In al cases.
Much SORROW was felt in this city yesterday
over the announcement that Mr.. Corcoran was
seriously, and perhaps fatally, Ill, at White
sulphur Springs. and this feeling was aug
mented by the fact that his family physician
and confidential business agent were called
there from this city by q special train. Our
readers Will be glad TO known that telegraphic
adyices to-day state that he has no serious or
unusual ailment, and that he viii probably be
out again I'm day or two. This Intelligence
Will be welcome not only In Washington but
wherever Mr.. Corcorans name is known.
In II-aSI r,CrtrV in nfnt Of IN
ton. the thirteenth city in the United states.
Between that year and 1870 she passed Newark,
Louisville and Albany, each OF which outranked
her before, and she was in turn overtaken by
San FranciSco.-whlch stood below her In
1S6O,-thus becoming In 1870 the eleventh city
In point OF size. she holds the same relative
position under the enumeration of 1850.
Five steamers sailed from New York for
European ports on Saturday, carrying out over
five hundred first-class passengers. One of
them,-the Britannia. always favorIte with
travelers,-had a larger saloon passenger list
this trip than ever before. All the five vessels
were heavily laden with provisions and grain.
In prosperous and rapidly growing western
state like Iowa one would scarcely expect to
see city Of any consequence go backwards
during the last decade. YET this has happened.
The once ambitious and rather promising city
OF KeOkuk has fallen of from u 166 In 1870 to
1916 I'm 1Ss0, and this without any special
cause OF depression and decay such as some
times Oyertakes once thriving community, in
the form OF exhausted mines. or something Of
that sort. The other towns In the state gener-
ally show satisfactory Increase.
Tie number OF immigrants landed in New
York for the first six months of tie present
year was 1862, an altogether larger number
than has ever been landed there before In a
single half-year. 1t is gratifying to learn In
connection with these figures that majority
of the arrivals are In better circumstances than
than has usually been the case lately and that
they also show more general disposition than
formerly TO push out Into the rural districts and
engage In agricultural pursuits. either On their
own account or as hired labor. These are facts
upon which the country is to be congratulated
For number OF years past the newly arrived
foreign population has done little else than
hang around our cities, and engage in keeping
saloons, preaching communism, fomenting dis
turbances between employers and the employed
and living by charity or crime. To such an
extent was this becoming the rule that many
thoughtful and observing persons were seri-
ously considering the propriety of getting up
an agitation looking to the disbursement If
not the actual and entire prevention of
immigration. This proposed action was based
patty On the ground that the arabic land of
the country is pretty well taken up and that
foreign labor is no longer needed to develop the
resources of the country, and partly on the
ground that the class OF foreigners which had
been seeking our shores of late years was an
undesirable If not absolutely dangerous element
In our population. Ii the statements referred
TO above be Garrett, it is hopeful sign; but the
Iact SUI remains that many people firmly enter
tain the idea that, in view OF the excess of la
Dor In the country, foreign immigration is
thing that to say the least ought not to be en-
Outraged as principle In the administration OF
Our affairs They hold that we already have
as many hands as our labor can profitabiy en-
ploy, and as many mouths as those hands can
properly feed.