AND WHERE TO FIND ONE. 25 



Pennsylvania 4. 74 Rhode Island 0.47 



District Columbia, ... 4 . 33 South Carolina, . 38 



Kansas 4.03 Tennessee 0.35 



Louisiana 3 . 48 Florida .34 



Texas 3.40 Alabama 0.27 



Kentucky 2 36 Arkansas 0.26 



Oregon 2 . 00 Mississippi . 25 



The Territories 1 .86 Georgia 0.23 



Connecticut 1 . 85 New Hampsliire 013 



Delaware 1 . 13 North Carolina . 08 



Massachusetts . 81 Vermont . 07 



Virginia 0.66 Maine 0.06 



The total foreign-born population of the Union 

 was 4,136,175, or 13.15 per cent, of the aggregate 

 population. The English formed 1.37 per cent., the 

 Irish 5.12, the Germans 4.1-4. The number of the 

 natives of Germany was 1,301,136. The number of 

 Germans (including their children born in this coun 

 try) was four millions. 



When this volume was ready for the press, the 

 settlement of the public lands, under the provisions 

 of the Homestead Law, was rapidly increasing. 

 Some portions of Europe had already been made 

 acquainted with our true condition, by means of in 

 telligent agents sent there to circulate facts and in 

 formation ; while the subsequent movement in Con 

 gress in -aid of immigration, attracted general atten 

 tion abroad. Early in 1864, England and Ireland 

 began to throw off their swarms of adventurers. 

 In April, the American Consul at Liverpool wrote 

 to Mr. Seward, as follows : 



&quot; Emigration may be said never to have been so active 

 as it is now. It is quite unprecedented. For the past two 

 months all the emigrant vessels from Liverpool to the States, 

 both with steam and sails, have taken emigrants to their 



