about $5,000, and the prospect of an early enlargement is hopeful. The efficiency of the society is greater by far than its means. Its benevolent activity is restricted to the relief of indigent Germans. The following statement exhibits some of the labors of this society during the past year.

Number of families forwarded to their destination.

"patients treated at the hospital..

persons provided with board..
66 aided with money

supplied with work.

"days' board furnished...

Amount of pecuniary assistance..

(6 recovered for lost baggage

dispatched to immigrants

7

15

70

78

146

181

$365

$524

. $1,289

But perhaps the larger part of the labor of this society escapes the form of tabular expression. It has directed immigrants to those portions of the State best adapted to the exercise of their several vocations, recommended the cheapest lines of travel, negotiated loans, recovered delayed baggage, procured legal advice and compelled the fulfilment of contracts for transportation. Its services in cases of sickness, destitution and helplessness have been unremitting and effective.

"The Mullanphy Emigrant Relief Fund" is under the management of a Board of Commissioners composed of the Mayor of St. Louis and a member-elected by the Common Council-from each of the ten wards of the city. The amount of this fund is over $500,000. The property is mostly unproductive real estate. At first, the title of the lands was contested, and the Board was seriously embarrassed by suits at law. After the adjustment of the rights of possession, the improvements, so long deferred by litigation, were begun. In 1864 and '65, the Board spent $40,000 in the erection of buildings. During the present year, the rent of fifteen new houses will still further enlarge the revenue of the fund. The net income from the estate is now $10,000 a year. It is the present policy of the Board to expend almost all of this sum in the improvement of the property.

By this process the quickest increase of capital and the amplest means of future usefulness will be secured. În 1865, the almoner of the board dispensed $1,000 for the relief and assistance of foreign immigrants.

The Commissioners are now erecting, at a cost of $25,000, a large building at the corner of Sixth and Gratiot streets. The structure will be 40 feet front, 120 feet deep, and 3 stories high. Its accommodations will be spacious. It will contain 75 berths, and couches could be spread, upon an emergency, in the open spaces. It will comprise rooms for baggage, bathing, and cooking. An elevator and a safe will complete the conveniences of the establishment. The Board think that the accommodations of this building will be sufficiently large to meet the present wants of all that class of immigrants contemplated in the bequest. The friendly and judi

cious hospitalities of this institution will not only relieve destitution, but also promote immigration.

The following extract from the organic ordinance of the Common Council fully explains the uses of the Mullanphy fund:

"First. In order that relief from said fund shall be furnished to all poor immigrants and travelers coming to St. Louis, on their way bona fide to settle in the West, a building shall be erected upon a lot at some convenient point, a part of which shall be fitted up for lodging and boarding rooms, with a hall for use in the day; and on the lower floor, let there be kept the office of the Secretary of the Board and the business room, to which immigrants and travelers may first be taken. This plan is subject to such modifications by the Board of Commissioners as may be found convenient. This house shall have ample room for the deposit of baggage of the immigrants, and for other necessary conveniences. An officer shall be appointed to be the Secretary and Business Agent of the Board. He shall collect all information needful for the benefit of immigrants and travelers, relating to climate, soil, character of land, &c., that will enable immigrants and travelers to learn, as far as practicable, all facts relating to localities by which they may determine the best place for them to go, and he shall, by all means in his power, and in the manner required of him by the Board, keep up correct information upon all such subjects, and he shall use his best endeavors to procure and keep in his office all information needed for the purposes above named, and shall procure and keep registered, as far as practicable, a list of lands in different localities which may be offered to settlers, with a note of all facts relating thereto.

Second. There shall be appointed an Assistant Secretary by the Board. He shall visit all boats and trains of cars arriving with immigrants and travelers, make himself known to them and give them such information on the spot as they should have to enable them to pass safely through the city, and, where they need assistance, he shall, under regulations to be adopted by the Board, take them to the building with their baggage when necessary, and see that they are safely placed within the charge of agents of the house. There they shall by him be furnished with all necessary information as to boats, routes and lands, so as to be thoroughly informed upon all points useful to them. Where immigrants are poor and needy, they shall be relieved under regulations to be prescribed by the Board. And it shall be the especial duty of this officer to protect immigrants and travelers from impositions and false information attempted by runners, and upon their departure this officer shall procure their tickets and superintend their shipment."

After the full improvement of the Mullanphy estate, the princely revenue accruing from the rents will be exclusively donated. to the assistance of needy immigrants. Many a friendless passenger will yet bless the memory of him who organized his generosity into a perpetual beneficence.

Even a general description of the Counties of Missouri would far exceed the prescribed limits of this pamphlet. Emigrants desiring such fullness of practical detail must procure the Geological

Reports of the State, or wait t they reach St. Louis, where it will be easy to obtain all the infor. ion they need. Immigrants who have not already decided upon a location should buy through tickets to the farthest points which they purpose to explore. For, even in case they should not go quite to the proposed destination, the local rates are so high that it would still be a matter of economy to purchase the through ticket.

Parties who propose to settle in the West would do well to form colonies. Then they could at once command the advantages of organized communities. They could bear with them their household gods, and rear in their honor sacred and secular temples -the church and the school house. The institutions transplanted from a less genial clime might flourish in our fertile soil with a richer growth and mature the fruitage of a still fairer civilization.

Our limitless expanse of unsettled lands invites the occupancy of colonists. The population of Missouri is not proportioned to the magnitude of the State. In 1860, our census was 1,182,000. If this State was as densely peopled as England, Missouri would contain a population of 25,000,000. By the extent and diversity of its resources, Missouri is better able to support this vast number in competency and independence than England is to maintain its present population.

Missouri needs able-bodied men. There is opulence in muscle. The physical energies of a healthful man in the prime of life are appraised at $1,000. Every robust immigrant, however unblessed with the goods of fortune, enriches the State with his wealth of sinew. Our broad acres need the labors of myriads of workmen.

The suppression of the rebellion is an augury of peaceful thrift. The restoration of the Union is a guarantee of National greatness. The American people are now entering upon a career of material prosperity to which the annals of political economy present no parallel. It requires no gift of prophecy to fortell the thronging millions who will, within a score of years, people this vast valley. A simple calculation based upon the tables of the census is all the inspiration which the prediction demands. The tidal waves of population which follow the star of empire will not pause in their westward flow, till they break against the rocky barriers of the Sierra Nevada. The rich mineral deposits of the Rocky Mountains will lead to an early settlement of the surrounding country. Soon tens of millions will people the vast domain which lies on the "sunset side of the Father of Waters." Cottages, hamlets, cities will spring up. Every resource of nature will be explored. Wealth will be developed. The industrial products of the country will reach aggregates which will startle the statistician. The Mississippi valley, whose annual yield of cereals now exceeds 1,000,000,000 bushels, will become the granary of the world. Metallurgy will utilize in countless forms and uses the rich products of our mines. Our manufactories will create capital, economize material, naturalize gold, nationalize comfort, vindicate our industrial independence, and satisfy our American wants with domestic productions. The exchange of commodities, in obedience to the laws of demand and sup

ply will freight our railroads with on merchandize of a vast internal trade. Our vessels, laden with.on, her cargoes than the fabled freights of classic argosies, nav of ig every stream and traversing every main, will expand our inled and international commerce into still grander proportions. The restless energies of the AngloAmerican character will achieve a greatness that will surpass precedent, and justify to mankind the soundness of our faith in the incentives, stability and excellence of republican institutions.

In the accomplishment of this great national destiny, Missouri will do her full part. Emerging from her fierce conflict with treason, triumphant yet sorely wounded, she will not now, with her brow radiant with the new luster of freedom and her loins girt with the untarnished cincture of loyalty, yield to any of her sister States in the generous rivalries of peace. But her present industrial force is not equal to the development of her resources. She urgently solicits assistance. She seeks the co-operation of the self-reliant laborers of New England, and of the two hundred thousand sturdy immigrants who are annually landing at the port of New York. She promises a cordial welcome and liberal compensation to the higher classes of trained and skilful workmen. She especially needs educated labor. She appeals to an intelligent self-interest, and invites the potters, goldsmiths, watchmakers, vinedressers, silkweavers, glassmakers and metallurgists of Europe to come to her heritage and better their condition.

Free Missouri, instinct with the spirit of progress and loyal to the genius of republican liberty will welcome the immigrant to the enjoyment of her boundless advantages, and enrich his industry with generous recompense. Millions may accept the proffered hospitalities without exhausting the ample board which Missouri spreads upon her table lands.

0

OF THE

COMMISSIONER OF STATISTICS,

TO THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI,*

FOR THE YEAR 1866.

Two thousand three hundred copies ordered printed, three hundred of which are to be for the use of the Commissioner.

February 20th, 1867.

D. P. DYER, Secretary Senate.

N. T. DOANE, Chief Clerk H. R.

Laid on the table and three thousand copies ordered printed for the use of the House.
February 21st, 1867.

JEFFERSON CITY:

EMORY S. FOSTER, PUBLIC PRINTER.