New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-31

The county has but forty voters, and lts TAXA
bic property is only about $12,OOO; Dut 10"
of its enterprising citizens after electng theIn-
selves to the county Offices have issued
100000 in bonds and sent them to new
York for a market. Bogus stock companies
formed to issue worthless bonds is an old
gwindling device; but to organize county by
perjury for a similar purpose is novel anu
much more dangerous form OF rascdllty.
An account of the workings for the past
wear of one of the Oldest and best or our
local charitable institutions, the NeW-l DIX
Eye and Ear Infrmary, is given in another
column. The average number OF patients
treated daily by this institution was ~
and the whole number relieved In the
wear was 12,O86, many OF whom were
children. The aggregate amount OF mis-
ery relieved among the poor in aTrestlng
blindness by thorough and timely sclenSlic
treatment is very great and if the pecuniary
side of the matter be regarded, the saving 10
the CITY in the support of persons VINO, Dut
for the Infrmary's aid, would become bhnd
paupers. is considerable. The lntirnary de-
client in this season of generous giving.
The tender and noble Grafton of Senator
Hoar on the late President Garfield merits
careful reading from beginning to end. lhere
has been no worthier tribute than tlls III
sDoken words to the memory OF the man WhoSe
cruel and untimely death the country SUN
mourns with scarce diminished grief. How al
mirably his position and influence as legisia-
for are described in the following sentence
There were those who had more to do III
marshalling the political forces OF the House
but almost from the time he entered IL he
"was the leader of its best thought" Ana
how well the character of the martyr Presi-
dent is drawn in these few words Every
" thing he did ana said manifested the serious,
"reverent love of excellence" Comparing
Garfield with his great military leader Ueherai
Thomas who was called the Rock OF Chlck-
amauga, and referring to the brave fight lie
made on the financial questions which involved
the Nations honor, Senator Hoar APPLY calls
him the Rock of Ohio. Alas that he was not
shared to become the Rock of the Republic,
and to he through many eventful years its
sure reliance for tranquility, prosperity ana
progress toward higher standards OF pubic and
private virtue.
The immigration statistics of Castle Garden
for the year just closing are startling III their
magnitude. There have come across the ocean
to settle in the United States since the begin
ming of 1881 the enormous number OF 49,, $50
persons. Never before in our history has the
tide of foreign population flowing to our
shores to share the benefits of our heritage OF
fertile fields and free institutions risen to such
height as this. The immigrants of this single
wear would make three new States, each with
inhabitants enough under the practice OF Con-
gress to come into the Union; or If thrown
together in a single community they would
constitute one of the largest cities in the coun-
try. Germany heads the list with ISIS, 25o /;
next comes Ireland with 90, 406, and then
England and Sweden close together, the former
sending 36,552 and the latter 1886 The
migrating impulse has seized upon only one OF
the Latin countries Italy, which contributes
132O9 1t is feebly felt in contented and pros
porous France, from which come only 3,9OS,
and still more feebly in Spain, which is by no
means prosperous and is in q state of chronic
discontent for but /, $50 Of her people are on
the list. The rapid assimilation of these great
masses Of foreigners into the stream of our ma
tional life is a striking proof of the soundness
of our civilization and our governmental sys-
TEN.