The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-04-27

most successfully applied blythe Shakers
10 th;s branch Of our national wealth, and
we can see no reason why the peculiar
tenets of That singular people are necessary
To their peculiar success; there appeared
mo rood reason why the same system may
not he applied TO combinations Of persons
Of other or Of different religious sentiments.
It has been proposed that the experiment
be tried by some Of our young men that
they form companies Of six or more and
join their small capitals, and if not enough.
take in limited partners who may be willing
to entrust them with funds or with land,
and try to wiring from, the fecund soil of our
Old Dominion the wealth which has
fed. There can be no question of the
profits which the present prices of produce
will yield to well-directed efforts upon the
farms Of Virginia. III z
We are pleased to learn that the efforts
Of the gentlemen who have been among us
with o view Of securing the cooperation OF
ourlandoyners in the promotion Of immlgra,
ton to our State, from the middle classes OF
Great Britain, are meeting with the success
such laudable undertakings deserve. Al.
ready, we understand that the people OF
several counties are desirous OF following
the example of those of Prince Edward, ana
we hope the movement will be continued
until enough land be united in the scheme
to warrant an extensive canvass OF Great
Britain in the interests of our good old
State. BY securing the cooperation OF the
owners of few hundred thousand acres Of
land, the expense of most extended efforts
will be SO little upon the share Of each
person that it will be unfelt.
ssMr. Hazard, we are told, will remain o
few days longer among us, in order to per-
feet the necessary arrangements for carry
ing the project forward, and General limbo
denis Endorsement of the scheme and vigor-
Gus prosecution of it give us hope for its
complete success.
'sThe suggested method Of cooperation
between the landowners and capitalists is
briefly for the planters in county or neigh
borhood to form themselves into an associa-
ton by subscribing their surplus land,
choosing their own committee to manage the
sale, who appraise the land and notify the
agent of the company of capitalists Of their
willingness to treat with them the company
then furnish the necessary means for sur
veying, mapping, and dividing the tract or
tracts, the cost of which is added to the value
fixed by the committee of owners at the
end of the year the general expense of in
ducing emigrants through the various means
used in Great Britain is apportioned among
the various tracts which may have been
brought under the direction of the company,
in proportion to their values. The money
thus expended by the company is paid for at
the rate of six per cent. per annum, then
the dividends arising from sales are paid to
both land and money alike.
The great advantage of this cooperation
between land owner and capitalist is in the
extended efforts which can be made to in
duce the better class of emigrants, who have
some money and much knowledge, to come
from their beaten paths to the Northwest,
down here where superior advantages will
greet them, but which are as yet unknown
| across the Atlantic. This duty of making
known the true interests of the class we
need is undertaken by the company, who
will put competent men in the field and on
the press, and there can be no doubt Of the
result, if but the half of the truth be told
of our natural richie in all that conduces to
the making of happy and desirable homes
for millions of our fellows"