Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-04-29
A Million of Immigrants This
Year.

Nothing bearing on the development
and increase in population and wealth. Oh
the American States is more interesting
than the study of the foreign immigra-
ton. Last year, Mr.. Nimro. Chief oil tle
Bureau OF Statistics, states that the ART
walls of immigrants reached the extraorui-
nary number of 40 ,0i5-the greatest num-
Der on record in any single year. As
sumiug that each Immigrant has IN his
brain and muscle power equal toa capi-
tai of 81 900, We gained in the year 1851
alone, something like S72O,OOo,OO0 and
cash capital tat $50 heah OF over soi,-
OOO. 900. The immigration of the year
exceeded by 90, 900 the aggregate popula-
ticr in 1850 OF the eight organized Terri
tories of Arizona, Dakota, Idaho, Utah,
Montana, New Mexico, Washington and
Wyoming and the State of Nevada. Ii eA-
ceeded the population OF twelve States
OF the Union, as reported by the census Oh
1880.
The indications are that ihe foreign inn
migration OF 1882 will far outstrip even
that of last year. The arrivals at New
York for the first three months of lSSs
were about 50, 600, against 20, Isl for tho
first three months of 1881. AT Philadel-
phia on Friday, twelve hundred immi-
grants arrived from Europe, aud imnhed'-
ately took the ears for the West. rms Is
sample of the way they are already COM
ING in. Ii the New York increase of forty
per cent. Tor the past three months of the
wear should be maintained for the remain
/ inc nine months. 'he arrivals Of 1882 will
/ aggregate one million immigrants. This
! rush Of Europeans 10 Americai is the great
! est movement of people Tic world has ev-
! or known.
An examination of the immigration OF
I last year reveals these importnn, Facts:
| Twenty per cent. of the arrivals were un-
I der fifteen years OF age, the maies slight
| ly preronderating. This youthful portion
easily assimilates. Seventy per cent. arc
! in the reproductive period of life, between
| fifteen and forty years OF age, iorty-siN
per cent. being males and twenty-four
| females. Ten per cent. only exceed forty
! wears, in the ratio ofsiX males to four fe-
! males. No, more than tea per cent. OF
! the immigrants come with habits r!gidly
| formed or political or social ideas pcrma-
nently fixed. The comparative youthful
| ness of those who seek homes here cx-
| plains the rapid increase Of our popula-
! ton. and the exceedingly rapid process
of their assimilation. The peaceful blend
lug of many nationalitics bas resulted In
! the Survival Of the fttest." All who
| settle In the States and Territories become
| Amcricanized, and part of the most nu-
merous English-speaking nation on the
| earth.
A paper I'm the North American Review
| for April, on this subject OF immigration,
| presents a curious fact which speaks elo-
| duently of the part of foreign immigration
| in advancing our National prosperity and
growth. The population OF the United
| States by the first census OF l7oo was !, WIS.,
! S27. II the increase had been conired 10
| the excess of births over deaths, the pop
ulation in 1850, the writer estimates, would
not have been fifteen million. Without
immigration the country would not have
| had 100000 Tor n hundred years TO
come. "Whence 1t appears" says the Re-
view, "that the population aud consequent
! expansion of the settled area, the devel-
! opment of agriculture, manufactures,
mining and railways, as we'll as OF donics-
! tic and foreign trade, have been anIicipa-
| ted more thun thrce-quartcrs ofa century
by the quiet Influx Of Europeans"
rD- The AURORA BoREALIs.-At
Cleveland, Ohio, the abnormal electric
al conditions affected number Of per-
sons, particularly those suffering from,
nervous diseases. Rev. O. l.. Binkley,
pastor OF Prospect Street. NJ. 4. Church,
was prostrated in the pulpit while pray.
ing by what was at FIRST supposed 10 be
paralysis Ladies tainted 10 churches
during the service, and people who
were out of doors, as well as those Ia,
complained generally Of strongly op.
pressive sensations similar 10 those said
to be attendant upon an earthquake.
During the brilliant display Of the auro.
ra borealis on Sunday night, the tele-
graph wires at Chicago connecting
with New York, Milwaukee and Omaha
were detached from the batteries, all the
electricity needed for the transmission
of messages beiGg furnished by the at
mosphere. At Petersburg, Va, the
display was one of the most nsgni,i-
cent sights ever witnessed there, and
lasted until o'clock in the morning.
The light resemtled great corfagra-
| ton, aud was so brilliant that the street
lamps could easily have been dispensed
with. The display lasted nt Cincinnati
during the whole evening, its range ex.
tending from the zenith.
~ B.RxuM OK TEMPERANcE.-Mr. r.
7. Barmum addressed large temperance
meeting in New York Sunday evening.
| TTnnn h,.,nU introduced he UraspeI tha