Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-07-01
supplementary Report of Commission
er of immigration.
SupER,D'T- BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION, !

SUPER'D T BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION, I
CHARLEsrcN, May ls, 1868.
TO HIS ErccI1ency Governor james L. Orr.
SIR Since my last report to your Excel
lency, thirty-one persons have been register.
ed in this Office, and have found employment
in this State. There are now twenty per-
sons on the way from. Germany and Scan
dinaeia, via Baltimore, and may arrive in
few days. The registries Of lands now EN-.
brace 332 GOO acres, in almost every District
of the State, for; sale st reasonable rates and
OH favorable conditions; and nearly 6.OOC
acres of good lanis 10 salubrious sections OF
the State have been registered to be given as
q free donation to actual settlers, upon rea-
sonable condition of improvement.
Lam glad to perceive more favorable
consideration of our State in Europe, aud
the indications are. that as soon as we -can!ob'
tain greater and regular facilities for passage
we shall certainly receives share Of imuigra
ton. Indeed, there would now be no want
Of we'll inclined laborfor US. if our people could
make the arrangement for an ontlay OF the
cost of transportation.
In Germany, there are now three lnhuen-
tial papers that advocate our cause, although
I am sorry to say wehave, as yet, multitude
of very bitter opponents. In Sweden and
Denmark, our influence is also extending and
after while, practical results will follow. In
Ireland, several gentlemen are kindly dlstri-
buting our. pamphlets. Ihave. mentioned To
your Excellency, on a former occasion, that
desired very much the establishment OF direct
steam Communication with Europe. With
reasonable sacrifices this could be effected
with Bremen. Hamburg and Glasgow, where
sbip.owners are very iavo"ably inclined to our
project. The rail roads from Charleston to
Memphis being willing to transport immigrant
passengers at one cent per mile, and their
baggage at very reduced rates, would make
this route to the West more favorable one
than over either New York or Baltimore. 1t
should be our constant aim to accomplish SC
desirable an arrangement and l trust, when
our political position is once more assured,
that the State will literally sustain every eff
fort that shall be made in that direction.
had, besides, intended to have published 9
suggestion for an industrial movement, which
seems calculated not only to be of great ad-
vantage to our people, generally, but would
aft ,rd facilities for the profitable employment
of considerable number of immigrant em-
ployees.
intended to suggest and urge the estab
lishment of at least one cotton factory IN
central and eligible position, in every District
for tho making up of the raw material into
warns, the capital to be subscribed in lands al
o low valuation and the lands to be sold to
emiprants. To make the profits Of these es
Establishments secure, the planters to pledge
certain number Of bales Of cotton to be yarn
ed on toll. Il ouIy Indicate the outline ot the
plan for your consideration, deeming the con
fused state of public affairs unpropitious for
attem ptin. it at present 1t seems that even
in the city of New York there is percepti
BILE want Of sufficient laborers for the farmers
in the yicnity-tbe papers complaining that
the better class Of Immigrants, however IT
large numbers they arrive, are already, before
they leave Europe, billeted for ,heir destlna
tion in tte Western States, aid that only the
worthless and indifferent remain for local en-
gagement.
This agrees entirely with my formerly ex
pressed opinions, although it seems that some
of our planters have obtained labor from
New York. had made arrangements with
gentleman in Pennsylvania TO furnish labor
of any kind, and,of a superior character, to
such planters as could comply with his terms
which were very .easopable-and whenev'
er have been applied to have furnished his
address. But still continue to believe thu
our resuscitation must be founded upon the
incurring oil animmigration of small farmers
who will he followed by reliable laborers and
skilled mechanics of every description, and
that the most practical method of etfecting
that is direct steam communication with Eu
ropcan ports, proffers of cheap lands and
multiplication of our industrial pursuits.
have the honor to be,
Your Excellency's obedicnt servant,
JOHN A. WAGNER
Commissioner OF immigration.