resentatives, with the request that they be laid before their respective houses. Adopted at Dover, January 29, 1863. HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE DEPARTMENT, STH ARMY CORPS, General Orders, } No. Baltimore, Md.. November 13, 1863. It is known that there are many evil disposed persons now at large in the State of Delaware, who have been engaged in rebellion against the lawful government, or have given aid or comfort or encouragement to others so engaged, or who do not recognize their allegiance to the United States, and who may avail themselves of the indulgence of the authority which tolerates their presence to attempt to take part in or embarrass the approaching special election in that State. It is therefore ordered: I. That all provost marshals and other military officers do prevent all disturbance and violence at or about the polls, whether offered by such persons as above described, or by any other person or persons whomsoever. II. That all provost marshals and other military officers commanding in Delaware, shall support the judges of election on the 19th of November, 1863, in requiring an oath of allegiance to the United States, as a test of citizenship of any one whose vote may be challenged on the ground that he is not loyal or does not admit his allegiance to the United States, which oath shall be in the following form and terms: I do solemnly swear that I will support, protect, and defend the Constitution and government of the United States against all enemies, whether domestic or foreign; that I hereby pledge my allegiance, faith, and loyalty to the same, any ordinance, resolution, or law of any State convention or State legislature to the contrary notwithstanding; that I will at all times yield a hearty and willing obedience to the said Constitution and government, and will not, directly or indirectly, do any act in hostility to the same, either by taking up arms against them, or aiding, abetting, or countenancing those in arms against them; that, without permission from the lawful authority, I will have no communication, direct or indirect, with the States in insurrection against the United States, or with either of them, or with any person or persons within said insurrectionary States; and that I will in all things report myself as a good and loyal citizen of the United States. This I do in good faith, with full determination, pledge, and purpose to keep this, my sworn obligation, and without any mental reservation or evasion whatsoever. III. Provost marshals and other military officers are directed to report to these headquarters any judge of election who shall refuse his aid in carrying out this order, or who, on challenge of a vote being made on the ground of disloyalty or hostility to the government, shall refuse to require the oath of allegiance from such voter. By command of Major General Schenck: (Official.) W. H. CHESEBROUGH, Governor Cannon's proclamation on the foregoing order. All civil officers and good citizens of this State are enjoined to obey the above military order, issued by the commanding general of the middle department, and to give all needful aid for the proper enforcement of the same. WILLIAM CANNON, Governor of Delaware. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. [To accompany bill S. No. 125.] FEBRUARY 18, 1864.-Ordered to be printed. Mr. SHERMAN made the following REPORT. The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the petition of Berendt A. Froiseth, praying for the establishment of a bureau of immigration, and the enactment of suitable laws for the encouragement and protection of foreign immigrants arriving within the jurisdiction of the United States, beg leave to report: They deem the encouragement of foreign immigration as of the highest importance, and have given the subject the consideration demanded by it. The rapid growth of our country arises from three causes, equally necessary: first, the extent of unoccupied soil, with a climate and fertility not surpassed in any portion of the world; second, a native population, free, hardy, industrious, improved by a mixture of the blood of all the European nations, engrafted on the anglo-Saxon stock, and incited to great activity by institutions offering the highest honors and rewards to those who, by industry and merit, deserve them; and third, the addition to and absorption into our population of a large number annually of immigrants, whose labor adds to our annual production an amount increasing at a compound ratio, and not to be computed by numbers. The advantages which have accrued heretofore from immigration can scarcely be computed. The labor of immigrants has contributed vastly to the value of our cities, towns, and villages, our railroads, our farms, our manufactures, and our productions. Comparatively few of the race now predominant on this continent can trace their American ancestry more than a century back. Though a seeming paradox, it nevertheless approaches historical truth, that we are all immigrants. In 1790 the population of the United States was less than four millions; in 1860 it was little less than thirty-one millions and a half, showing an increase of twenty-seven millions and a half in seventy years. The ratio of increase is shown by the following statement. It is impossible to state precisely how far the ratio of increase is affected by immigration, for though we can ascertain the number of immigrants arriving we cannot know the rapidity of this increase or how far the descendants of immigrants swell the aggregate of our population. Prior to 1819 we have no authentic statement of the number of immigrants. The following numbers, registered under the act of 1819, and copied from the authentic summary of the census of 1860, show that more than five millions of people, immigrants or alien passengers, arrived in the country during the period intervening between September 3, 1819, and December 31, 1860: In 1861 there was a marked decline in the number of immigrants arriving at New York, owing to the commencement of the rebellion and the temporary stagnation of trade and business. The arrivals for 1862 show an increase of about twenty per cent. over that of 1861, and the arrivals for 1863 nearly double those of 1862, and fall less than one hundred short of 1860. The following tables are from the annual report of the commissioners of emigration, New York. Showing the ports whence emigrant passenger vessels have arrived, together with the number of vessels and emigrant passengers from each port, landed at Castle Garden, during the year 1861. *The whole number of alien passengers subject to bonds or commutation, landed at this port during the year, does not appear here, for the reason that first-class passengers are not required to land at the emigrant landing depot. The number for whom bonds were executed or commutation paid will be found on the first page of the Appendix. Showing the ports whence emigrant passenger vessels have arrived, together with the number of vessels and of emigrant passengers from each port, landed at Castle Garden during the year 1862. OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION, Number of alien passengers arrived at this port from foreign countries, from Measured by periods of ten years each, the progress of immigration has rapidly increased the number of people thus added to the population of the United States having been more than twenty-three times as great in the eleven years and three months ending December 31, 1860, as in the ten years ending September 30, 1829. In the former period nearly three millions of passengers landed on our shores. The accelerated advance of immigration is compendiously sketched in the following table: Adjusting the return to the periods of the decennial census, by the aid of the quarterly reports, we find a similar result: An inspection of the following table will show that while in the six New England States population has already attained a density of nearly fitty inhabitants to |