. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and hem to guidethem to their future homes. Numbers haveto seek their way amid numberless perils. Butnearly all these have come provided with in-structions more or less minute, derived from ithe numerous agents in Europe of the Ameri-can land companies, who hold out induce-ments to settlers. The Germans are mostlyinclined to agriculture, and they soon findtheir way, by the emigrant trains of the great .itrunk lines of railroads. Those lines liave all iexerted themselves to profit by the movement. The following table,
. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and hem to guidethem to their future homes. Numbers haveto seek their way amid numberless perils. Butnearly all these have come provided with in-structions more or less minute, derived from ithe numerous agents in Europe of the Ameri-can land companies, who hold out induce-ments to settlers. The Germans are mostlyinclined to agriculture, and they soon findtheir way, by the emigrant trains of the great .itrunk lines of railroads. Those lines liave all iexerted themselves to profit by the movement. The following table, from official sources,gives the number of Germans and Britishunder each head, and also the aggregate ofall the aliens arrived since the returns havebeen regularly kept. Some of the passengersreport themselves from Great Britain, with-out stating which portion. These are underthe head Great Britain. Thus, the totalfrom Great Britain to 1859, is 2,670,059, ofwhich, 1, arc reported from GreatBritain, 289,654 from England, 918,729fromIreland, 46,277 from Scotland. IRELAKO,. IRISIIMKV IN THE COMMON mrSCIL, XEW YORK. LANDING IN NEW YORK FUTURE HOMES. 241 England. Ireland. Scotland. Gt. Britain. Germany. Switzerlan 3. Prussia. Total. 1842, 1,743 4,844 24 66,736 483 2,083 104,565 •1843, 3,517 1,173 41 23,369 11,432 553 3,009 52,496 1844, 1,357 5,491 23 40,972 19,226 839 1,505 78,615 1845, 1,710 8,041 368 53,312 33,138 471 1,217 114,371 1846, 2,854 12,949 305 57,824 57,010 698 651 154,416 1847, 3,470 29,640 337 95,385 73,444 192 837 234,968 1848, 4,445 24,802 659 118,277 58,014 319 451 226,527 1849, 0,036 31,321 1,060 ■ 175,841 60,062 13 173 297,024 1850, 6,797 40,180 860 167,242 78,137 375 759 369,980 1851, 5,300 55,874 966 210,594 71,322 427 1,160 379,466 1852, 30,007 159,548 8,143 2,544 143,575 2,788 2,343 371,603 1853, 28,867 102,649 6,006 2,703 140,653 2,748 1,293 1854, 48,901 101,606 4,605 5,141 206,054 2,953 8,955 427,883 1855, 38,871 49,G27 5,275 1,176
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