The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-10-17
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Bremen and liverpool to send pas.
sengers to Charleston on the credit
Of accepted orders, to be paid on
shsir arrival, IL sufficient numbers
ofsr. These orders, he says, should
etsse 'the amount Of wages the planter
IS willing to pay. he indicates that
$3.50 per. year for males and s10O for
females, with board and lodging, is
oonsidered reasonable le. For uniform
ity and convenience, Col. Wagener
Publishes the following form for a
contract and order: -
South CARoElNA, the s 1856
The Commissioners Of Immigration
10 hereby requested and authorized
to engage and contract for me and in
my behalf, for years service,
~ male. laborers, or aud
female laborers, or sy3s. And I
DO hereby bind myself, and my heirs
and assigns, to furnish them, during
their said term of service, sufficient
good and wholesome board and
comfortable lodgings, and to pay
them in wages, for the males,
dollars per year, and for the females
!. dollars per year respectively;
also to advance their passage money,
at the rate of twenty eight dollars in
gold per head, to be paid on their
arrival, and the same TO be deducted
from their first years. wages respect
isely. ! x; .lgs
Z Signed and scaled as above.
WITNESS Aar SEAL.
To in Charleston.
On the arrival in the port Of Charles
ton OF male laborers and
female laborers, contracted for my
service, please pay to the order of
the Commissioner Of Immigration
~ dollars in gold, and charge,
without further advice, to 81
Yours respectfully,
Date ms above.
The price of passage for each i'm
migrant, in gold, will be about $2S,
co be deducted from the first years
earnings. The Commissioner makes
some statements and suggestions
worthy OF the consideration of those
Interested. Inregard to the lots or
portions Of lands to offer for sale to
immigrants, Col. Wagener says:
"In regard to the. sale of lands, I
may embrace this opportunity to say
that several places have already been
sold, but that the general complaint
and objection, is, that the places
offered are too extensive and beyond
the reach of the small farmer. Our
people had better make up their
mind to lay Off their lands in small
tracts, say from so to 200 acres, and
by retailing alternate sections if they
wish, they could, perhaps, afford to
sell more reasonably, in view of the
increasing value of what they retain,
consequent upon the settlement of
what they sell. And in offering
places for registry, full descrip.
tion, together with an explicit state
ment of price and conditions, should
always be sent; this Recommendation
applies also to places for rent or
lease" G-J
The Commissioner states fact that
we are sorry to hear of, viz that in
numerous instances the planters are
disheartened with their freed labor,
and are Offering their plantations for
sale on that account. He adyioes
them to go on with the cultivation of
their lands. to the extent of their
means; and that it will not be wise
TO discontinue their industrial opera
tions in view of speedy transfer of
their property. 5Si
OF the prospects of the success of
the schemes which have been inau-
gnrated to procure foreign labor, he
says:
1T affords me satisfaction to be
able to say, that onr prospects of
success in this measure of immigra-
tion may be deemed very good; we
have met with irritating inconveni-
ences, and we have to contend
against very great difficulties, Of
which our political misfortunes and
the supineness of our own people are
the most important. But the happy
geographical position of our State.