Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-07-03
supplementary Report of Commissioner of
immigration.

Supplementary Report of Commissioner of
immigration.
SUPERINTENDENT BUREAU OF IMaIIGRATIoN,
Charleston, May 19, 1868.
10 Ills EcccUenry GoOcynor james H. Orr.
Sir: Since my last report to your Excel
lcncy, thirty ono persons have been registered
in this office, and havo found employment in
this State. There arc now twenty persons on
the way from Germany and Scandinavia, vic,
Baltimore, and may arrive in few days
The regstries Of lands now embrace 332 ,GGO.
acres, in almost every district of the State,
for sale at reasonable rates and on favorable
conditions; and nearly G000 acres of good
lands in salubrious sections of the State have
boon registered to be giyon US free donation
to actual settlers, upon reasonable conditions
Of improvement.
am glad to perceive more favorable con.
sidcration Of our State in Europe, and the in
dications are, that as soon us We can obtain
greater and regular facilities for passage, wc
shall certainly receive share of immigration.
Indeed, thcro would now be no want Of well
inclined labor for us, if our people could make
the arrangement for an outlay of the cost of
transportation.
In Germany there arciuow three influcn-
tial papers that advocate our cause, although
l am sorry to say we have, as yet, multitude
of very bitter opponents. In Sweden and
Denmark, our influence is also extending:
and, after while, practical results will fol.
low. ln lrclands saversl geahmce ave-k -k;od-,
ly distributing our pamphlets l have men
toned to your Exccllcnoy, on former occa
sion, that desired very much tho establish.
mcnt of direct steam communication with
Europe. With reasonable sacrifices this
! could be effected with Brcmcn, Ham
burg and Glasgow, where ship owners arc
, very favorably inclined to our project. The
railroads 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 tho
West moro favorable one than over either
! New York or baltimore. 1t should be our
constant aim to accomplish so desirable an ar.
rangcmcnt, and trust, when our political po-
sitlon Is once moro assured, that tho State
will literally sustain every effort that shall DC
made in that direction. 1 had, besides, iu-
tondod TO have published suggestion for an
industrial movement which seems calculated
not only to bo Of great advantage to our pco.
pio, gcnorally, but would afford facilities for
,, tho profitable employment of considerable
number of immigrant employees. intended
to suggest and urge the establishment of at
least one Cotton factory in q central and eli
giblc position, in cvory district, for tho max.
ing up Of tho raw material into yarns, the
capital to be subscribed in lands at low yalu.
alton, and tho lands to be sold to Immigrants.
make tho profits of these establishments
secure tho planters to pledge certain number
of bales Of Cotton to DO yarned on toll.
only indicate tho outline of tho plan for your
! consideration, docning tho confused state Of
public affairs unpropitious for attempting it at
present. It seems that even in the City of
NorF York thcrc is a pcrccptiblc want of suf-
ticient labourers for tho farmers in tho vici-
nity-tho papers complaining that tie better
GLASS Of immigrants, however in large num-
bcrs they arrive, arc already, before they leave
| Europe, billotod for their destination in tho
Western States, and that only tho worthless
and indifferent romain for local engagements
This agrees cntiroIy with my formerly OK.
pressed opinions, although it seems that some
of our planters have obtained labour from
Now York. had made arrangements with
a gentleman in Pennsylvania to furnish labor
ofany kind, and of q superior character, to
such planters as could comply with historp,s;
which were very reasonab!o--and Whenever +
have boon applied to have furnished his ad.
dress. But I still continue to bclieyo that
our rcsuscitation must bo founded upon tho
incurring of an immigration of small farmers,
who will bo followed by reliable laborors and
skilled mechanics of ovory description, and
that tho most practical mothod of cffecting
tliat Is direct steam communication With Eu-
ropoan ports, proffors Of ofeap lands and a
multiplication Of fuur industrial pursuits
Is ( I havo a tthoo honor to 30, your Excelbnoys
,obediopt ssetsans. d aSs1s .sz iEe 49,
/ FIX = JOHN. A. VAC GENER.
] Commissioner Of Immigration, /