The Chambersburg Transcript states that for a period of nine months, from January 1, 1855, there were 553 wayfaring paupers entertained at the poor-house of Franklin county, Pa., of whom 522 were foreigners, and but 31 Americans.

The number of paupers relieved at the alms-house in Adams county, Pa., from January 1, 1855, to September 1, 1855, was, according to a register kept by the steward, 391, of whom 361 were foreigners. Of these 284 were German, 60 Irish, 9 English, 2 French, and 1 Hungarian. 30 were American born. The number of days charged against the American paupers, is 130; against the foreign born, 1839.

In the King's county alms-house, New York, there were 1,533 inmates, of whom 921 were foreigners. In the hospital, at the same place, 475 inmates, of whom 341 were foreigners.

At the New Orleans city work-house, the number committed during the two weeks ending August 3, 1855, was 108, of which 92 were foreigners, of whom 60 were Irish.

The following statistics of the Blockley Alms-house, at Philadelphia, are of the same character. The monthly report of the Visitors, on the 20th of January, 1855, gave the number of persons receiving out-door relief, as follows: Americans 1,154, foreigners 1,805! On the 1st of March, the Census of the inmates of the house, showed that there were 558 white natives, 1,571 white foreigners, and 170 colored.

Of the hospital statistics at hand, the following will suffice to show that the number of foreigners admitted into them greatly exceeds that of the native born. The following is a table of the admissions into the Pennsylvania Hospital, at Philadelphia, for a period of twelve years last past, showing the nativities of the persons received:

It thus appears that the aggregate number received was 17,834 in these twelve years, of which 10,543 were foreigners, being considerably over one-half of the whole number, and of which more than two-thirds were from Ireland. Of those admitted during the year 1854, there were, as above stated, 579 natives, 902 Irish, 350 from other countries, of whom 132 were German, 100 English, 38 Scotch, 13 French, 9 Welsh, 8 Swiss, 6 West Indians, 5 from Sweden, Spain and Nova Scotia, each; 4 Canadians, and 4 Danes, 3 from Italy and East Indies, each; 2 from Newfoundland, Belgium, and at Sea, each; and one from Hungary, Norway, Finland, Greece, Brazil, and Columbia, each.

At the Charity Hospital, in New Orleans, the number of admissions, in 1848, was 11,945, of whom but 1,579 belonged to the United States, and 10,280 were foreigners. In 1849, there were 15,558 persons admitted, of whom only 1,782 belonged to the United States, and 13,634 were foreigners. In the year 1853, there were 13,750 persons admitted, of whom 12,333 were foreigners, and 1,534 natives.

So at Cincinnati, there were, during the year 1848, about 3,000 persons admitted into the City Hospital, of whom over two-thirds were foreigners; during the year 1854, the number admitted was 520, of whom 449 were foreigners; the number who received in-door relief was 1,599, of whom 1,307 were foreigners; and the total number of persons relieved at the institution, during the same period, was 6,280, of whom 4,654 were foreigners. So at the Infirmary, in the same city, the number admitted, in 1854, was 660, of whom 505 were foreigners.

The number of patients attended during July, 1855, at the Northern Dispensary in New York City, was 996, of whom 630 were foreigners, 568 being Irish, 24 English, 15 Scotch, 12 German, and 11 from other countries. So of 1945 patients at the Eye and Ear Infirmary of the same city, during the year 1848, there were 1118 foreigners.

An examination of the reports of the Insane Hospitals would probably present a similar state of affairs. In the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, of 2576 patients admitted, 635, being one fourth of the number, were foreigners, of whom 346 were Irish, 118 English, 108 German, and the remainder from other countries; in the Massachusetts Hospital for Lunatics, in 1849, of 169 patients supported by the State, 95 were from Ireland.

Many other similar statistics might be adduced, all showing the same state of things in different sections of the country; but the following extract from a recent letter of JEREMIAH CLEMENS, late United States Senator from Alabama, will suffice:

"By reference to the annual report of the Governors of the Alms-House, I find there were in the New York Alms-House during the year 1853, 2198 inmates of these only 535 were natives, and 1663 foreigners, supported

at the expense of the city. And now I propose to use on our side the argument of our opponents, that there are only 3,000,000 foreigners to 20,000,000 natives. According to that ratio there ought to be about seven natives to one foreigner in the Alms-House; whereas we find more than three foreigners to one native. No wonder that a people who are taxed to support such a body of paupers should be the first to set about devising means to get rid of them. Let us pursue the record-in the Bellevue Hospital, in the same city, there were 702 Americans-4134 foreigners; now the proportion rises to nearly six to one.-There were of out-door poor, that is, persons who had some place to sleep, but nothing to eat and nothing to make a fire-957 native adults, and 1044 children-3131 foreign adults, and 5229 foreign children, or children born of foreign parents. This number were relieved during the year with money. Of those relieved with fuel there were 1248 adult Americans and 1810 children-10,355 adult foreigners and 17,857 children. But the record is not yet complete-let us turn to the statistics of crime. In the city prisons there were during the year, 6,102 Americans-22,229 foreigners. I pass on to an abode even more gloomy than that of the prison cell, and call your attention to those whom God in his wisdom has seen fit to deprive of the light of reason. In the Lunatic Asylum, there were admitted from the year 1847 to 1853, 779 Americans-2381 foreigners. For the year 1853 there were 94 Americans, 393 foreigners. These tables might be made more complete by adding organ grinders, strolling mendicants, and professional beggars; but of these I have no reliable data, and therefore pass them with the single remark that I have never seen a native American who belonged to either class. These figures are far more conclusive than any language could be to prove the necessity of arresting the tide of immigration. Let every American impress them deeply upon his memory: 42,369 foreign paupers and invalids; 2381 lunatics, and 22,229 criminals, taxing the industry, and blighting the prosperity of a single city. In that list of crimes is embraced murder, rape, arson, robbery, perjury, every thing which is damning to the cha racter of the individual, and every thing which is dangerous to society."

CHAPTER V.

CRIME

CRIME has also been enormously increased by immigration. According to De Bow's Census Compendium, the whole number of criminals convicted within the year preceding that the Census of 1850 was taken in all the States but California, was 26,679, of which number 12,988 were natives, and 13,691 were foreigners, being one conviction out of every fifteen hundred and eighty of the native, and one out of about every one hundred and sixty-five of the foreign population in the United States at that time. In the free States there were 10,822 natives, and 12,789 foreign convictions, and in the slave States there were 2,166 natives, and 1,902 foreigners.

Of those in the free States, there were 10,279 in New York, being near one-half of the whole number, of whom 6,317 were foreigners, being two-thirds of the convicts in the State, and nearly one-half of the foreign convicts in the United States.

In Massachusetts, there were 7,250, of which there were 259 more than one-half foreigners, and more than one-fourth the whole number of foreign convicts in all the States. Taking the convictions in all the New England States, more than one-half were foreigners.

In Missouri, there were 908, of whom there were 666 foreigners, being more than two-thirds of the number in the State, and one-third of the whole number in the slave States.

In Connecticut the whole number of convictions was 850; and of these 545 were natives, and 305 foreigners.

In Illinois the whole number of convictions was 316; and of these 127 were natives, and 189 foreigners.

In Maine the whole number convicted was 744; and of these 284 were natives, and 460 foreigners.

In Pennsylvania the number of convictions was 1277; and of these 984 were natives, and 293 foreigners.

In Vermont the number convicted was 79, of whom 34 were natives, and 45 foreigners.

The statistics of State Prisons and Penitentiaries of 1850, as given in Professor De Bow's book, show that there were then 4,758 white inmates, of whom 1,499 were of foreign birth, being near one-third of the whole number. Of these there were in the free States 2,271 natives, and 1,129 foreigners, and in the slave States, 988 natives, and 370 foreigners.

Of the 809 inmates in the State Prisons of the New England States, 580 were natives, and 229 foreigners. In the three State Prisons of New York, there were 1380, of whom 835 were natives, and 545 foreigners; in the two in Pennsylvania, there were 328, of whom 205 were natives, and 123 foreigners. Of the 370 foreign inmates in the slave States, 106 were in Louisiana, 96 in Alabama, 58 in Missouri, and 34 in Maryland.

By the same table, from which these facts are gleaned, it appears that in Maine, out of every ten thousand, there are five foreigners to one native. In Kentucky, six to one. In Mississippi, ten to two. In New York, three to one. In Tennessee, fifteen to two. In Vermont, eight In South Carolina, twenty-eight to one. In Alabama, fifty to one. In Georgia, six to one. In Indiana, four to one; and the average in all the States is a fraction less than six to one.

to one.

And by another table in the same book it appears that of 431 inmates in Massachusetts, including blacks, 300 were natives, one whose birth was unknown, and 130 foreigners, of whom 74 were Irish, 3 German, and 53 from other countries; of 40 foreign inmates in Maryland, 5 were Irish, 25 German, and 5 from other countries; of 11 foreign inmates in Virginia, 5 were Irish, 3 German, and 3 from other countries; of 59 foreign inmates in Missouri, 29 were Irish, 12 German, 17 from other countries. In addition to these statistics, the following are derived from the reports of Prison Discipline Societies, Prison Inspectors and other sources: Of 483 convicts received in the Massachusetts State Prison, in 1852, there were 170 foreigners, being more than one-third of the whole number; and of 27,383 persons admitted into the various jails of that State, during the years 1850, 1851, and 1854, 9,367 were foreigners, being also over one-third of the whole number.

Of 634 inmates in the Penitentiaries of New York, during the years 1852 and 1853, there were 332 foreigners, being over one-half of the whole number.

In Pennsylvania, there were admitted into the Eastern Penitentiary from October, 1829, to the close of the year 1849, 2421 persons, of whom 460 were foreigners, near one-sixth of the whole number, 199 being Irish; and of the 124 received in 1854, there were 41 foreigners, being one-third of the number.

In New Jersey, during 1852 and 1853, there were received in the State Prison at Trenton, 351 convicts, 113 of whom were foreigners, being nearly one-third of the number.

In Ohio, there were at the end of the year 1854, 587 inmates in the Penitentiary at Columbus, 144 of whom were foreigners, being near one-fourth of the number.

In the Wisconsin Penitentiary there were 105 received in 1854, of whom 72 were foreigners, being over two-thirds.