The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26
The State Board Of immigration
Organized for Business.

Organized for Business.
Our State Board of Immigration has
organized and is ready for svtiro opor
Maj. Wall, State Commissioner,
has been busy in accommodating facts and
showing the advantages which
Mississippi offers to persons in search of
homes for agricultural and other indus
trial pursuits and Enterprises. Her
varied soil, with its adaptabilities and
productiveness, salubrious climate, good
laws, educational opportunities markets,
etc, etc, viii all be exhibited 10 no
less attractive colors han true. The
opportunity for useful service is great.
The Legislature did not stint the ap-
preparation, and it has placed it at the
disposal Of a Board composed Of officials
to whom the highest trusts in the state
have been confded. There Is an I'M
mense tide of European immigration
pouring into the country. The like of
it 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 viii require active efforts to
secure the cream of such immigration
into our State, with its money, its mus
Gle, its energy and enterprise, to occupy
and build W 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 a steady,
resistless stream.
To give an 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 a late n. !. Sun:
Castle Garden, which is not unlike a 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 Laitte brought S6l
H~0lldnders, the steamer Salier brought
: 1895 Germans, the Italy landed sos English
and Irish folk, Lake Winnipeg brought
735 Germans and Irish, the Queen dis.
charged 49, Germans aud English, the
=, Cornwall landed 1873 English, the City o
New York added 1852 Swedes, the Gellerr
1895 Germans, L'Amerique Sl+ French
aud Swiss, and the California 81 English
When all were landed the hubbub anC
confusion in the Garden rivalled the wilde-r
rxcesse' Of the Stock Exchange. In the
crowded acre OF brwIidered people, a dozen
currents OF humanity opposed one another
as the men, hearing their names called
rushed toward the desks with their womeI
and children, and friends and companion.
streaming behind them. Though there wa
no apparent unkindness or violence in tn,
manners Of their keepers, they were hustled
showed, and shunted about very much a
cattle are. The majority were Hollanders
, in fat caps and long-skirted coats. Tn
little boys were dressed just like the men
but the women clamped about in big wood
en- sabots, and wore white woollen mob cap
on the backs of their heads.
4 dozen of these women stood outside il
a the Battery Park just before the rain, and
very fashionablY dressed lady, with a tin,
j horseshoe bonnet, slender waist, and heav'
+ fur cape, stopped on her way to tn
ferry TO look at them in wonder
ment as they trooped along hand in hand
o They, too, equally astonished at he
appearance, stopped to stare at her. Thesi
i, Hollanders are the thriftiest people who ar
now coming to America. They bring plen
o ty of money and no end Of luggage. Ia on
party was a band of musicians in uniform
Although New York was discovered an,
settled by them, Che Hollanders have onl.
recently begun to immigrate again after
lapse of two centuries. This is partly be
cause it is only of late that a line of steam
e ships has been established between here an,
there, and mainly because Holland is be
coming overcrowded. They are colonizin.
in Michigan, and are to farm there.
n Mr.. jackson, the Secretary of the Board
II said yesterday that he believes the numbe
of immigrants this month will amount t
10000, and next month, when the climax
reached, to 100000. These figures hav
: never been equalled in the past. The mai
h body of the immigrants is made up of Gel
mans, S~candinavians, and H~ollanders. TIL
er Irish and English still come in great mum
rs bers. Next come Swiss and Italians. TIL
u Irish are going to the Western cities, tn
Scandinavians to the far Northwest tn
English to Texas and the Southwest. III
Swiss to the manufacturing towns, and Ii
Italians, who have. neither money nor specii
Re destination, land in New York and are en-
ployed as laborers. This morning the la.
u Of the multitude of new arrivals will hav
e gone, and the Garden will be ready f
another rush.