, 1881-05-18

most entirely INTO the N3rth. Where Inc
foreign element is large the general causes
are apparent, being m nnfacturing 10 New
England aud the Middle States, and also coal
and iron minino in the latter, the immigrants
being mainly Irish. German, French, Cana.
dian, and some Welsh. In the North West
ern States, where agriculture is the moving
force, the German and Scandinavian are the
chief nationalities drawn from. In The ex-
IRENE west mining is the chief attraction.
though agriculture and cattle. aiSing are i'm
por;ant feeders. In 81 of the States and
Territories natural increase has gained upon
immigration during the decade, while in but
IL is The reverse the case. The relative de-
crease Of foreign to naive born since 1870
In the whole country il, accurately stated,
l sic per cent. Tao chief foreign increas
pr0portionately speaking, has been in New
England, developed By manufactures in On
kota and Oregon, where wheat felds have
invited settlement ; and 10 Colorado. Nevada,
and New Mexico, where the decade has wit
messed an unusual development of mining in
dusfries. In actual Numbers the State of
New York cont ms the largest number of TO-
reignborn nhabitants-1,211.439 -baing near
" one fifth of The total. PENNSYLVANIA and
Illinois contain about half a million each.
the other States smaller numbers, thu least
being in North Carolina, 3,G79 foreign born
out of a iotal population Of 1900. 600. Ten
nessee, where he Rugby colony is located,
has sliahtIy over l per cent, of foreigners, OF
1852 out ot a total population of 1,542,4 63;
so that if the oelony thrives il will have an
important effect upon this feature of the next
census in that STATE.
The distribution Of the negro population
relatively to the whites is upon an entirely
different territorial arrangement, though the
negroes number nearly as many as the foreign
born population. The negroes are most M.
me~ous in he South, where the foreigners are
fewest. In spite OF the widespread uotoriety
of attempts al ''exoduS" and colonization, the
Southern blacks show little inclination to come
to the North, and the inning ants from Europe
exhibit equal disipclins'i1n to 90 to the
South, where laborr is belle we'd to he held in
dishonoQr. Az the sam tina, the negroes
multiply faster than the whites. ana hSvcSn.
creased ia larger proportion 10 a s.ate Of free
dom than they did when in slavery, In the
country, as d whole, there has baen, accurate.
ly speaking, a gam in The decade of 625 ne
groes on an assumed basis of 100, 600 Writes,
there having been IA 528 negroes to 1905
whites 10 1870, and 10, 1853 negroes to lOC 900
whites 10 1880, The greatest relative gaiss
have been made in the former slave-holding
States, nut the Census-OAice announces lis
belief that these apparent gains are due in a
measure to the imperfections of the census Of
1870, as under the conditions prevailing i: is
probable that the census omitted a larger
proportion OF negroes than Of whites,
Nine slave-holding States show proper.
tionate gains, eight being at the head of
the list. Texas aud Florida, have, howe
var, lost, on accoun: of receiving a heavy
white immigration from other parts OF the
country, which has more than over.balaus
ced their gain in c%oloured population n,
They developed rapidly, so that their rel.
alive decrease of the blacks is to be &C
counted for, not by az exodus or a dying
out, but by az infusion Of whites. The
movement OF blacks ia the Northern and
Western States is of little account. The
migration of negroes from the south has
been comparatively imperceptiblP, the
States from whichthe exodus took place
Mississippi, Louisiana, and North Carroll
na-havlng apparently gained heavily in
the relative proportion of blacks, while
Kansas. where the greater part went. has
lost in proportion to its increase in popu-
%lation, aud Indiana, also a supposed heavy
recipient, having gained but slightly.--Ibia
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