Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-06-02
Immigration.

The tide Of immigration from Europe to
THE country has been greatesthis year than
d1riag any prsyious year. and tho arrivals
monthly have been regularly increasing. The
character of the present aow Of Immigration
IL better than that OF past years, both 10 the
amount of average capital brought by the
immigrants and in their desirableness as oti.
zcns, laborers and producers Of wealth. The
ATLANTA Consultation fxes the improvement
in the character Of the present immigrants
over those of past years in reference to the
average amount of money per capita brought
by them as follows: Two years ago il was
$50 head. last year it was $50 O head and
this year it has reached the average of $IO4 q
head, showing tbot those coming now ere
three times better OF than those Of two years
ago and twice as as those Of last year.
There is also q st .ng difference between
the Immigrant Of the present and past in
in points Of average worth as citizens.
The samo journal says of tho immigrant
of the past. He was usually city chap.
q workman with little else but his two hands.
beggar with nothing but his poverty, q
musician with nothing but his monkey and
organ. or serving man looking for job.
Now in eight cases out of ten he is q ruralist,
n square genial brown faced farmer, with
awkward country ways and big chests full Of
goods. Instead of elouchipg through the
gates hurriedly and losing himsof in the
great city that lies beyond, ho walks up to
tho money changing department and gets his
queer cash equalized into American bills aud
proceeds Westward in search of homo"
The arrivals for the last month are esti-
mated at 10000, embracing English farmers,
driven by earth hunger from their little isle;
sturdy Germans, fleeing from tho oppression
Of their government; Russians coming out
from under the shadow Of revelation; hardy
Switzers, seeking richer lands in tho now re-
public; Asatian poasants, escaping from
alien rule; the country folks of crowded, rost-
loss Europe, seeking broad acres. peaceful
homes and Independents existence in
America"
Seventy thousand month, or five times
the population of this county, with money,
muscle and energy, all to be used 10 the enr
richment Of this great country. What
wonderful effect such n continuing stream Of
inhabitants flowing into this country must
have upon every branch of industry. Their
money is circulated by buying tickets on rai-
roads. purchasing homes and all kinds of
provisions, farming implements and other
merchandise. In the increase of population
the value Of lnuds advance, the productions
of the country are increased. new towns and
of wealth and prosperity is quickened. Our
people grow richer in the increased valuc of
their property and tho whole nation is bene.
fted in the introduction Of money and
money producers.
The European Government, it is said, are
watching the Westward current with On nziety
and arc using every endcavor to stay the in
eroasing tide Of cflux by arrcsting agents
pamphlets and throwing evory
possible obstacle in the way of immigration
to America. They can i'll afford to lose the
class of Immigrants now coming, as they are
wealth producers. The larger proportion of
these comcrs 20 to the West bot much of it
can be turned towards tho South with proper
efforts. Wo certainly need thousands of
them and with fair knowledge of the ad-
and resources of the South placed
before them our country would rapidly fill up
Upon the subject of the crowds of immi-
grants constantly arriving in New York and
the grca. opportunity offered to the South of
getting immigrants the New York oorrospon-
dent of the Philadelphia Ledger. of last Tues
day, says:
'The whole of lowor Broadway from Trinity
Church clear down to the Battery was again
blocked with immigrants this morning, tho
crowd being 80 dense that at ono timo the
services OF the police were necessary to keep
n clear passage for pedestrians. The new
comers woro OF almost every imaginable na-
tionality, Germans, Danes, Swedes, Norwe-
gians, Swiss. Italians, Scotch, Eog-
lish, Welsh and Irish. Some of them were
besieging the steamship Offices, others were
making their way with bags and bundles to
tho railroad depots and tho ferries, while
others again were taking lcisurely survey
Of Tho city. Tho Railways and steps of the
grcat buildings in. that part of the street had
each its quota of men, women aud children.
A noticeable feature was tho largo pro portion
of old women among them and young children.
On the whole tho spectacle WIS n rather cad
one. The older people, in tho midst of
strange people. looked sorrowful, the children
were anything but gleesomo and there was
not evon the ghost of laugh in tho whole
multitude. Before nightfall tho great ma
lority Of them will be on their way to tic
Far West, wherever that is, over the Erie and
Pennsylvania Roads. The arrivals within tho
past few days havo beon so numerous that
tho ordinary accommodations of Castle Gar-