New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-24
CHINESE LABOR FOR TIE ALGERIAN
COTTON FIELDS.

A letter from Paris, dated the 3lst OF December,
pm oIts TO descrbe the views of the French Govern
me Ut ar the results 20 be obtained from tue case ot
The treaty with China, legalizing the expectation OF
labor. This has been done, no doubt saws the
writer {" IN reference to obtaining a supply OF labor
for the cotton lands in Algeria The great immortality
Of the Chinese adults heretofore imported has caused
the subject TO receive careful and earnest attention,
ard plan has been proposed to import boys and gifls,
brought ont under the Of priests and elsers OF
CHARITY who, receiving them in China will cleanse
and oloLe them, and begin Immediately religious and
secular education. On arrival in Algeria aud being
distributed among the planters they will retain their
eacbe and be ready to pick the cotton balls a. they
ripon. The cultivation of the land - to be
effected ly steam plows and borse hoes, as
in this way an enormous area can be- kept under
culture at small EXPENSE The yield Of cotton la in
the United States being limited only by the number OF
lickers cotton may be thus grown at half the cosl OF
The American owing to the difference IN the value oil
land and slaves. In the year lS1o I'VE baes OF cotton
were brought 10 Paris from Algeria of the best qaali-
ty but tie want Of organized system or labor,
snilar 10 the slave system of the States caused the
culture 10 be abandoned for a time. The great I'M
provements in agricultural machinery have now ne
moved this difficulty IL part, and the importation OF
coolie children will supply all that Is required 10 insure
success at the present time. The children are to be
Appended for 20 years, aud to be always under
supervision. When the picking reason Is finished,
thew are TO lie employed in raising their own food,
and in viewing and making their clothing. Al the
end Of tkeir apprenticeship they can marry and be-
come citizens, with an allotment Of land, or return
10 China they please. such, briefly j. the scheme
which will 10 doubt be adopted by England, ADD
carried out in British Guaua and the other cotton
lads 10 her extended colonies. That there Is not
IA scarcity of cotton lands in the world, the appli-
cation Of the ftcam plough with the cooe oTigra-
ton will toonp prove. Within five years France and
England will rise ut least half the cotton they use:
prompted not only by the independence that this supply
will give them, they will he urged on to work by The
great ni,sorsTy enterprise which j, will inaugurae.
m a IL, taa tI.rs 4
familiar tie carving Of great and operations with
fut ility and npidy and 400 children 10 single snip
viii soon people tie plantations when ready to receive
thtm."
The writer quotes the following extract from she
Mont, ur N jutiiyng the soiCitlde Of the Govern.
mont TO ongraft the cultivation Of cotton upon the
French coil: Cotton upon which the quantities that
pad duty were, in 1859, $1,000 metrical quintal-
t2l 10 caeh) and in lS5S l39O attained In 1860 The
enormous figure Of / 900 quintala Even whoa de-
ducton il made Of the quantities sent abroad there re-
main ,0S3,U70 quintals-tha, Is 10 say, $4,000 more
than the quantity consumed in TIE corresponding Pc
nod of 1873"