New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-13
EMIGRANrS 4AD COLONIES OF 1850.


The reports of the Chief of the Bureau OF
Statistics and the Commissioners Of Emigra-
ton both of which we have published
recently. offer one or two significant points
we'll worth notice. in addition to those we lave
already commented on. In this port the entries
of stecrage passengers during last year reached
320G OF these, 131jG1 remained I'D
this STATE; q larger number by 25,442 than
went TO the whole of the Western States;
while only 63,3G9 found homes in all the
other Eastern states, and only G,19I Id Inc
whole South. The advantage or this ihlluH
OF 1877 SCI emigrants to the population Oh
this State is questionable; employment was
found for only 39,311 of them, which III
cludcs the farm-laborcrs; it Is not ut all
probable that the remaining 9S,25O scattered
Though the waste lands Of the STATE, which
are held at as high price as those Of Penn
sylvania where none of them could afford to
stop. 1t is reasonable inference, therefore.
shat the great majority OF them renamed IN
this and the adjacent cities without money or
trade swelling the already enormous
load of poverty and crime which we have to
carry The report Of the Chief OF the Bureau
of Statistics gives the number of cmigrant'
into all our ports during the six months ending
with December 81. 1880. as 27GS13, very
nearly double the number of the same period
in 1879; at which statement many of the pro-
vinciul journals congratulate the NItiOn-aS 1t
seems to us, with little reason.
This country Certainly New Ork) has long
passed the age when mere growth III popuia-
ton is synonymous with strength. An Irish or
Italian pauper deposited in the streets Of this
city is no cause for rejoicing, even when he
presents himself ut the polls. Out OF the
32O,G steerage passengers VINO passed
through Castle Garden, only g. were returned
rs having been silipp d as paupcrs o criminals,
number absurdly small in proportion to the
real number of both classes. Ii we must re-
cciyc refugees from all nations, let H. ut least
place them where they will not hcpcl, >~Iy
cripple us. We want them ut work IN III West
or South, where they will open UP the lad
and eeh themselves and Their children; no;
idle in Eastern amshGuscs and jals for II, TO
feed.
Another important uOint j. that during the
last year the IDEA Of separate colonization has
RAPIDLY gained ground among cnigr i'la. We
have not only Rugby, the pet experiment OF
the best Eng.I,h culture and taste, hut ncIr
TO it a French colony of the me plan and
motive. The Qualrrs have their attempted
town; the Catholics two Or three III Virginia
and the West. and the Irish Colonization vs.
,orl tion have started four settlements in
Minnesota, the first of which comprises Soy
cIal hundred families on 10000 acres; the
second, GS hOus. and 10000 acres; The
third i, made ~ Of the poorest refugees fro!n
ireland, WAC have built 40 comfort I'll"
cabin and ar Gaming good living on thrir
fans, the girls going ont TO service at -
Paul lor weekly wages winch arc hIghrl than
,bn clImings OF the whole iumly for a month
in Mayo on ConnrmarL. There Is still another
successful settlement 0i the same cas-. nj
four beng under the guidance of the Ga TO-
lie Bishops OF Illinois and Miun,snt', VINO
have ,al;cn Ills short, practical way oi soiY-
INK tLc piob.cm for the Irish III liciold.