The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-06-12
A German Colony.

the following interesting details con-
cerning a German settlement below
Columbia:
All of our readers, perhaps, are
not aware Of tho fact that we have n
colony Of Germans already located
and at work in Richlnnd District.
The colony is rs yet very small
one, it is true, but it is nucleus to
which additions, to my desired cx-
tent, can be added. 1t is called
Germantown, and is situated on the
Wnteree River, twenty five miles East
of Columbia, and fifteen miles from
the South Carolina Railroad. It
consists Of four families of Germans.
and, ut present, numbers nineteen
persons. 1t is under the direction
and auspices of Mr.. 81. Leiding, of
the firm of Kerrison &Leidine, of
Charleston. The Germans COM
menced operations the first of No
vember last, by building five dwell
lings- cottages suitable out
houses, digging two wells, and clear
ing, Tor cultivation, over 200 acres of
land. They prefer to work uplands
rather than take the risk of bottoms.
They have hired few negroes;
and these mhko the effective force
actually at work in the ticlds-twclve
lnborers.
During November, they sowed
thirty acres of wheat and twenty
acres of rye. Since then, they have
added eight acres of Irish potatoes;
three OF sweet potatoes; thirty of
oats; seventy Of corn, thirty of
cow-peas; and fifteen of cotton. Be-
sides this, there are two acres of
garden lots, with the vegetables of
the latitude growing in them. They
work six horses. The aggregate
lands in cultivation is 213 ncrcs-
nearly eighteen acres to each hand.
1t IS the purpose of Mr.. Leiding
to increase this colony by immigra-
ton from Germany; and he is hopeful
OF the most complete success.
Wo see no reason why there are
not hundred such, or larger,
colonies already in South Carolina.
Ii farmers and landowners will act
with prompt and ScE-protcciing libcr-
ality, such colonies will spring M
A"P'iAJ HlA oFCl GllC IOlaIC.
Mr.. Leiding suggests tho follow,
ing siX points rs important for those
desiring to give substantial cncou-
ragcment to these movements:
l. Get such labor as the country
now already has. Ii thcv succeed.
they will induce others, their friends
or relatives, to immigrate from I;u-
rope.
!. Pntnpa comfortable little house
III II healthy locality for each family.
.. Turn over to tho laborer fifty
acres OF good land for cultivation;
and furnish him with i, mule, IL COW
and SOW with pigs.
1. Furnish him with bacon. corn
and provendcr for six or eight
months.
5. Pny him eight or ten dollars n
month us part of his earnings; and
then interest him in the nett pro.
cecds, (after having deducted his
wages aud his support.)
q. Give him Il written agreement,
that, after one year, and within five
years, yon will sell him the house
and land at stipulated price.
NJ. Leldlng, IS, himself, Ger
man by BIRTH, though Confederate
by adoption and service; and he
speaks on the subject with more
than usual knowledge of what the
German immigrants nee,l and desire
to make them comfortable and con
tented.
There are several agencies that arc
ready and anxious to furnish labor
ers or families at reasonable terms.
Wo believe about twenty dollars n
hand (seyen dollars for commission
and thirteen dollars for transporta-
ton from New York to Columbil) is
nbont the sum necessary to advance
in order to secure such labor.
Two installments of laborers have
already arrived ut Newberry, under
the auspices Of society there, tho
like of which there should be in
every other District in South Caro-
lima.
Our friends may perceive that we
are III earnest in our advice to cncou.
rage immigration into orr State.
We consider it the only chance for
her to recover from her present pros
tration. But, foremost OF ali, we
believe it is the quickest way to work
out the manifest destiny that God
has in store fer the demented Afri-
cans in orr midst