Connecticut western news., 1885-05-27
OUR NEW CITIZENS.
Large Influx of German and English
 Rmiarants into the Country.

The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the United States reports that during the month of April there arrived in the customs districts of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Huron, Mime sota, New Orleans, New York, Passamaquoddy, Philadelphia and San Francisco, 61,633 pas sengers, of whom 50,943 were immigrants, 6,510 citizens of the United States returned from abroad and 4, 180 aliens not intend- ing to remain in the United States. Of this total number of immigrants there arrived from Germany, IS, 101; Ireland, S,076; England and Wales, 4,6s1 Dominion of Canada, 4,629i Austria, 1,255; Russia, 1,091; Scotland, 1,07O; Switzerland, BIO; Denmark, S7Si Hungary, SIG; Bohemia, SIS; The Netherlands, 520; Po- land, 34l; France, 330; Belgium, l94, and from all other countries, 497.
 The statistics for the ten months ending April 30 show that the German emigration IS about one-third of the total. The arrivals from Germany were S9,019; from England and Wales, 98, 572; from Ireland, 32, 559, and from the Dominion of Canada, 29, 343. The total emigration in the ten months amounted to 275, 46S; for the same period one year previous it was 37I ,625, showing 8 falling of of 96,l5L
 The Late Secretary FreIInEhuyEeu.
 Frederick T. Frelinghuysen was born al MilIstown, Somerset County, N J., on August {, 1871. He graduated from Rutgers College in 1886, and, being admitted to the Bar three years later began practice in Newark, where he was soon elected City Counsel Then he be- came counsel of the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, the Prosecutor of the Pleas of Essex County. and in 1861 a member of the Peace Commission at Washington. In 1861 he was also appointed Attorney General of New Jersey, and he received reappointment in 1866.
 In the latter year United States Senator William Wright of New Jersey died, and NIT. Frehn6huysen WAS appointed in his stead. The Legislature in 1867 elected him to fill the unexpired term, and in 1869 he was reelected Senator for the full term of six years. He served on the Committee, upon the Judiciary, Pensions, Claims, Naval Affairs and Foreign Affairs, and was Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. In 1870 he was nominal ed by President Grant as Minister to England but he declined the appointment after it had been unanimously confirmed by the Senate. Mir. Freliughuysen took prominent part in many important contests in the Senate upon various matters of legislation. He was strong hard-money man, and was sup porter of the protective tariff. In all ques- tions growing out of the Rebellion he repre- sented the views of the dominant element in the Republican party. After the death of Senator Sumner, he succeeded to the latter's championship of the Civil Rights Bill, the final passage of which was secured largely through his efforts.
 Mir. Frelinghuysen was reelected to the Sen- ate for term ending in March, 1877. During the controversy over the result of the Presi dential election of 1876 he was one of the Joint Committee which framed the bill proyid ing for the electoral count, and then served at member of the Electoral Commission. When his term expired, he returned to his home ir New Jersey, and soon afterward resumed law practice. In December, 1881, he was ap- pointed Secretary of State in President Arthur's Cabinet, and he continued in this position until the recent change of the Ad ministration.