The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-23
THE BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION.

SUPPLEMENT No. 1-South Carolina A Home Tor the
Industrious Immigrant; Published by the Commits
sioner of immigration. Charleston: Joseph Walker
1857
We have received from Gen. JOHN A. WAGNER,
the Commissioner of immigration, a copy of this
pamphlet to which is prefxed good map OF the
State. In this supplement No. l, Gen. ". speaks
of the obstacles our agents encounter in Europe
from the slanders industriously circulated there
against the South by the agents OF the Western
States Our Commissioner very properly says:
81 will not pay them back in their own coin, but
simply, plainly and fairly indicate, for the rehec-
ton Of the immigrants themselves, such informa-
ton as may assist them in coming to rational
and correct conclusion"
He then briefly adverts, i. To the Bureau itsolt
and It's agents, and to tho laws passed by our Leg
islature for the encouragement and protection OF
the emigrant. 2. TO the Registries The lands
already registered at the Commissioners ofhce
show that the prices do not exceed those OF lands
in the State. TO encourage immigration, many
of our landholders have patriotically made the
most liberal offers in number of cases; lands
that before the late war were rated at forty or
fifty dollars per acre. have been registered at hve
and ten dollars per acre, and, in some instances
the improvements cost actually more than inc
whole amount asked for plantation. In most
cases ths tracts are susceptible Of profitable sub
division, and may be purchased by ASSOCIATIONS
and settled IN small colonies"
3. LAW AND ORpER.-Under this head General
WAGNER shows, from the United States census
OF 1860, that crime is less prevalent in on STATE
than in any oi the New England, Middle OF west
ern States. Thus there were in prison June l.
1860, in South Carolina, only IS persons, or IN
1896 of The population of the State, while at tla
very time there were in Massachusetts Ill l39 III
Michigan in GIG; in New Hampshire in l6S9; IN
Wisconsin l in 219s; in Pennsylvania in 2oO5; IN
New York in 5G4; in Illinois in $500; in Ohio III
3755: in Indiana in 4755; and in Minneso ta Ill
537G.
!. OUR RESOURCES. This part of the sublect Is
40 familiar to our readers that We deem 1t uhiec
e,sarv to quote the Generals remarks.
|, T. THE ADOPTED CITIZENS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
IA:What can be more positive to the immigrant anu
ep,ier understood than the SUCCESS OF those that
have preceded him? The prosperity OF tho adopt
ed citizens of this State has been greater more
nermanent and general, than anywhere else, anu
tlny have. been tlcAleu WlIH greater Soii'iNS'N
md less prejudice. There are now two adop'e"
c;lz,ns ia the Senate and six in the House OF rep
rascntatlyes There are i've iii the City Councli o'
| Charleston and two i'll the City Council oi Column
| h;a elc. The Commissioner might have NEIL
rioned, had his plan permitted linn To descend
N suob details that native German held olo ol
tho most important professional chairs iii the
South carolina College fol over twenty yeafa, and
that recently another German gentleman. long
bichlv esteemed citizen CT Charleston was elected
70 Z, p,ofessorship in the University CT South caro-
lima Gen. " concludes this pant Of his subject
b. saying;
THE ISLANDERS ani ,itnperatlons pr"pagatel
oooingt the Southern States, alt based upon
nothine less than the vilcst political rancanr. ant
the most miserable selfish passions Of Nolther'
ond Western agencies, that have grown lat upon
.t shs rasnts of immigration. They now feel that i
necassarily must pe diverted to the Scuth. which
;s so much more inviting not only in natural re-
no,,rces and commercial facilities, but even in tha
1err social superiority, law, order, and just ant
t;hsraI feeling for the incoming stranger, which
.he seok TO DENY US in the face OF their own Off
e;ai records 1 think, however, that tie abov
fact facts will enable every rejecting man to judg
understandingly.
, LABOR CONTRACTS, CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS
Under this head he says that by reference to th