Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-07-08

HUH the bb@IHo VI eho -'oA'' s'
West, rs also from foreign chimes, to
this inviting region of the sun. The
expansive realms of the South are to
receive an unprecedented accession
to their population, consisting OF
thousands skilled in all the various
arts and sciences necessary to the
growth, the strength and the welfare
Of a people. Many will come pro-
vided with the means and appliances
to enter Immediately the great arena
of enterprise which is open to receive
them Many others, depending alone
upon their stout frames, their brawny
arms and sound constitutions, will
enter the lists AS laudable competitors
in the great field of labor. Gradu-
ally and perceptibly will be unfolded
to the gaze and 'astonishment Of the
world. those vast innate resources OF
our favored latitudes, which have re-
manned dormant for the past four
years, and which in the long years
previous to the war, remained at best
but partially developed.
Our native population, stimulated
by the ambitious efforts of their new
allies in the great work Of building
up the State" will set in with re-
newed zeal and energy, keeping
step to the Union," and lit them
selves out OF their reverses 70 an
abundant prosperity. The coIored
portion Of that population, not real
izing to SO great an extent the ne
cessity and Importance Of taking
time by the forelock and giving
shape and progress to their notions
more in consonance with their pres
ent condition of freedmen, may and
undoubtedly will find themselves
outstripped in the race for successful
labor and employment, unless they
can manage to reform their ideas
and pursuits in time.
Upon this subject and that of emf
grant labor, correspondent of the
New Orleans Picaymne throws ont
some salutary hints, as follows:
Sin a recent communication, / re-
marked that the question between
large and small farming commences
to attract public attention in this
State. | see that one of your city
is of opinion that white
labor will eventually supersede, in a
considerable measure, black labor in
the Southern States.
With the influx of white labor,
and the disintegration of the gregari-
GUS labor of the great plantations,
there win be much larger variety
of products. Farms will multiply
and plantations will diminish. Elk
tensive tracts of land, which cannot
be cultivated as plantations Of cotton
or sugar for want Of a sufficient num-
Der Of hands willing to combine in
regular work, will be devoted to the
production Of food for stock, which
demands not much labor, and to pas
turage, which demands very little
labor. So says your cotemporary.
As there is every indication that
the volume of immigration to the
United States will be very large in
the future, is it not the policy of the
people at the South to invite emf
grants To come aud settle among
themselves They have lands fully
equal if not much superior to those
of the fertile West. What is needed
to cultivate them are farmers. Let
not preindice warp their Judgment,
aud in few short years the surface
of the Southern States will be- stud-
ded with innumerable well titled
farms, and the hum Of prosperity will
be heard in all their villages.
All the accounts concur in stating
that the emigrants now leaving Ger
many are of superior class, COM
prising large proportion Of skilled
mechanics and Of small land owners,
who are selling their farms in order
to purchase more land in the Western
States" ....
s@~ Lynchburg, Va, papers contain
the proceedings of meeting of the far
mers of Nelson county, Va, recently. Re-
solutions we're adopted to pay No. ], field