Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1879 — Immigration Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Immigration Statistics.

The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics furnishes the following summary of the official returns of immigration into the United States: During the calendar year 1878 there arrived at the several ports of the United States 209,254 passengers, of whom 153,207 were immigrants. During the calendar year 1877 the total arrivals of passengers were 190,361, of whom 130,503 were immigrants, showing an increase of 22,704 in the number of immigrants, or about 17 per cent. The following particulars are furnished with respect to the immigrants who arrived during the calendar year 1878 : The ages were: Under 15 years, 29,685; 15 and under 40, 104,058; 40 years and upward, 19,464. There were 94,561 males and 58.556 females. The occupations were: Professional, 1,516; skilled, 16,837; not specified, 631; without occupations (mainly women and children), 72,121. The countries of last permanent residence or citizenship were as follows: England, 19,581; Ireland, 17,113; Scotland, 3,700; Great Britain (not specified), 1; Wales, 311; Germany, 31,958; Austria, 4.881; Hungary, 632; Sweden, 6,176; Norway, 5,216; Denmark, 2,688; Netherlands, 652; Belgium, 454; Switzerland, 2,051; France, 4,668; Italy, 5,163; Sicily, 228; Greece, 13; Spain, 432; Portugal, 648; Russia, 4,216; Poland, 554; Finland, 22; Turkey in Europe, 23; Syria, 38; India, 9; China, 8,468; South Africa, 7; Africa (not specified), 4; Quebec and Ontario, 24,553; Scotia, 3,282; New Brunswick, 1.458; Prince Edward Island, 349; Newfoundland, 108; British Columbia, 372; Mexico, 473; British Honduras, 4: Central America, 14; United States of Colombia, 7; Venezuela, 16; Brazil, 11; Peru, 17; South America (not specified), 10; Cuba, 494; Porto Rico, 13; Hayti, 4; Jamaica, 34; Bahamas, 289; Barbadoes, 22; St. Croix, 11; St. Thomas, 18; Trinidad, 7; West Indies (not specified), 31; Azores, 873; Cape Verdes, 6; Bermudas, 13; Iceland, 168; Australia, 634; all other countries, 14. During the year 1878 fifteen children were born on the voyage, and the number of deaths was seventy-one.

The population of French colonies and dependencies is 7,067,000. Algeria contains more than half of this number, but only 93,000 natives of France live m Algeria, and about half of these are troops. Alabama’s late Legislature cost the State over SIOO,OOO.