The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26

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more Chinese immigration, obeyed
their will.
The State Board of Immigration
Organized for Business.
Our State Board of Immigration hal
organized and is ready for active oper
ations. Maj. Wall, State Commissioner
has been busy in accommodating facts ana
statistics showing the advantages which
Mississippi offers to persons in search o
homes for agricultural and other indus
trial pursuits and Enterprises. Hei
varied soil, with its adaptabilities ant
productiveness, salubrious climate, GOOD
laws, educational opportunities, markets
ETC., etc., will all be exhibited in nc
less attractive colors than true. The
opportunity for useful service is great
The Legislature did not stint the ap
preparation, and it has placed it ct the
disposal of Board composed Of officials
to whom the highest trusts in the State
have been confided. There is an i'm
mense tide of European Immigration
pouring into the country. The like OF
II has never been seen before. 1t is
going West where immigration has
contributed to the wealth and popula,
ton of the young States that have
sprung into wealth and power within a
decade 1t will require active efforts to
secure the cream of such immigration
into our State, with its money, its mus
Gle, It's energy and enterprise, to occupy
and build up the waste places that await
the magic hand of industry and to start
them into life, but the current once
turned, it will flow right on in steady,
resistfess stream.
To give au idea of the rush of Euro
peans seeking homes in this country,
though the gateway of Castle Garden,
New York, We have copied the follow
ing from late n. Y. Sun:
Castle Garden, which is not unlike bee
hive in shape, was even more like one inside
yesterday. During twenty-four hours pre-
ceding yesterday noon eleven transatlantic
steamships landed their steerage loads of
human freight there. The steamship Surrey
brought 1852 persons, mainly Hollanders :;
the steamer Chateau Lafitte brought SCI
Hollanders, the steamer Salier brought
1926 Germans, the Italy landed sos English
and Irish folk, Lake Winnipeg brought
735 Germans and Irish, the Queen dis
charged 4S2 Germans aud English, the
Cornwall landed 1873 English, the CITY of
New York added 1852 Swedes, the Gellert
1895 Germans, EAmerique Sl4 French
and Swiss, and the California "a English.
When all were landed the hubbub and
confusion in the Garden rivalled the widest
excuses of the Stock Exchange. In the
crowded acre of bewildered people, a dozen
currents of humanity opposed one another
as the men, hearing their names called,
rushed toward the desks with their women
and children, and friends and companions
streaming behind them. Though there was
no apparent unkinduess or violence in the
manners of their keepers, they were hustled.
showed, and shunted about very much as
cattle are. The majority were Hollanders,
in fiat caps and long-skirted coats. The
little boys were dressed just like the men,
but the women clamped about in big wood
en- sabots, and wore white woollen mob caps
on the backs Of their heads.
A dozen OF these women stood outside in
the Battery Park just before t he rain. and
very fashionably dressed lady, with a tiny
horseshoe bonnet, slender waist, and heavy
iur cape, stopped on her way to the
Terry to look at them in wonder |
ment as they trooped along hand in hand.
Iney, too, equally a tonished at her |
ppeafance, stopped to stare at her. These |
are the thriftiest people who ire /
now coming to America, They bring pen-
ty of money and no end of luggage In one
party WAS band of musicians in uniform I
New York was discovered and I
settled by them, the HnIanders have only [
recently begun TO immi.rate again after a
lapse Of two centuries. This is partly be-
cause it is only of late that line of steam
there, and mainly because Holland is be-
coming overcrowded. Tney are coloaizing i
u Michigan, and are to farm there
Mr.. Jackson, the Secretary of the Board. +
'aid yesterday that he believes the number
IT immigrants this month will amount to
10000, and next month, when the climax is
cached, to 100000. These figures have
never been equalled in the past. The main
oody of the immigrants is made up of Ger
mans, Scandinayians, and Hollanders. The
IRISH and English still come in great num-
,ers. Next come Swiss and Italians. The
rish are going to the Western cities, the
to the far Northwest the
English to Texas and the Southwest, the
'wlss to the manufacturing towns, and the
Italians, who have neither money nor special
estimation, land in New York and are en-
loyed a. laborers. This morning the last
f the multitude of new arrivals will have 6
one, and the Garden will be ready for
mother rush.