The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1866-12-21

996 dollars per year, and yet tht
; greater number Of them are womer
and children. How does this com,
pare with the value of a frst-class felc
hand? In Ohio an acre Of grapes vii
produce $500 and that State pro
duced 500, 900 gallons Divine. South
Carolina is the home Of the grape
Ohio produced it's 1000 pounds oi
silk, and New York $500, 900 pounds
of hops, and South Carolina respec.
lively 20 pounds and l22 pounds:
while both the mulberry and the hop
would grow luxuriantly in our State:
Every planter who retains 10000
-acrcs, of which he can only culti-
vate 1000 does not only no good to
the State, but is positive injury, in
preventing, by his own unwillingncss
to sell, the increase Of resources and
population.
From 1850 to 1860, the population
of the United States increased thir-
ty five p.G cent. But the North and
West increased at a much larger rate
than the South because the latter on
ly received seven per cent.of the i'm
migration, while the North and West
received ninety three per cent.
A number of migration agencies
exist in the North, and a multitude of
associations have already been form
cd to encourage immigration to the
South. Thus far these have been
failures, because the immigrants were
of tue wrong Kind and wrongly re-
ceivcd.
Governor ORR in lis reply to the
circular of the German Society Of New
York, promises, that elf you can
bring German artisans and mechanics
here through your association, you
will be rendering them an essential
service, and be assured that sOc aca't
rccct:pc them, as weN rs all other I'M
migrants, schcther farmers orl rlab0rers,
maM q .joyous and cordial arezcome." ="
Can this be promised without organ
ization?
\ letter from Brunswick. in Ger
many, states:
'sFrom the little town Of Herrcn-
burg, in Wurtcmberg, which numbers
only 2418 in4ahit.lnts-L-G+-l.--
tic 1ast year 47 persons, taking with
them in hard cash over -, 600 guild
crs. Desirable cmigrants may be
had if a State agency were establish
ed, which would cost about 1000 dol
lars in gold per annWm.
"Gcneral Tochman, the Polish
patriot, in his scheme for encourag-
ing European immigration to the
South, urges the organization ofland
companies, and a general agency of
them in Europe. 1t will be seen from
the circular letter of the German So
ciety of New York, that these land
agencies arc mistrustcd, and even
General Tocllman himself, on a pre-
vious occasion says: agents of emi-
grant associations are suspected and
mistrusted by the Europeans.
General Tochman has now become
shareholder, director and agent OF
powerful land companyin New York,
and may, perhaps, havechangcd some
of his farmer views. But VIC will,
nevertheless, quote somemore Of them,
expressed in his letter to David Rikcr,
Esq, in November, 1865 He then
says:
"Thc Northern offer of one hun
lred and sixty acres gratis, would
not cnticc the poor emigrant to 60
Northwest, where they can work only
part of the year, and must feed
themselves and their stock upon its
earnings during the whole year. They
would prefer to come South and pay
for their lands, if you offer it to them
at low prices, or give them reasona-
bic creditto enable them to pay you
out of their earnings. AS to those
who have the means for the purchase
of their land, worth higher prices:
they would be induced to follow the
former class Of cmigrants, because
they would be sure to find amongst
them the laborers for hire, to help
them in cultivating their richer home,
stcads."
The circular letter. Of the German
Society to the Southern States, con-
tains, among other suggestions, the
following:
"* ** There still exist certain
difficulties in the way of successful
immigration to the South, and it i:
my present object to point them out
and to surncst some remedy Tor thell