The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-07-01
Supplementary Report ofCom
missioner Of immigration.

SUPERINTENDENT BUREAU OF IMIIaRATIoN,
CHARLESTON, May IL, 1858. }
To HIS Ercelltncy Governor James
L. Orr.
SIR: Since my last report to
your Excellency, thirty-one per-
sons have been registered in this
office, and have found employment
in this State. There are now
twenty persons on the way from
Germany and Scandinavia, via
Baltimore, and may arrive in a
few days. The registries Of lands
now embrace $4,000 acres, in al
most every district of the State,
for sale at reasonable rates and
on favourable conditions; and
nearly 5000 acres Of good lands in
salubrious sections of the. State
have been registered to be given
as a free donation to actual set
tiers, upon reasonable conditions
of improvement. =
Lam glad to perceive a more
favourable consideration OF our
State in Europe, and the indica-
tions are, that as soon as we can
obtain greater and. regular facili-
ties for passage, we shall certainly
receive a share of immigration.
Indeed, there would now be no
want Of we'll inclined labour for
as, flour people could make the
arrangement for an outlay Of the
cost Of transportation. = :: :
In Germany there are now,
three influential papers that adj
vocate our cause, although I am
sorry to say we haze, as yet, a
multitude Of very bitter oppo-
nents. In Sweden and Denmark,
our ipAuence is also extending;
aud id after a While, practical re-
suits will follow. In Ireland, sew
cc.ral gentlemen arc kindly distrib
uptii,ng oar rssamplets: T have men
toned TO yoar ExcelIeneSS, on q
former OCCASION, that l. desired
very much the establishment of
direct, steam, communication with
Europe With. reasonable sacri-
fees this could be effected with
Bremen, Hamburg and Glasgow,
where ship-ewners are very IA
vourably inclined; to our project.
The railroads from Charleston to
Memphis being willing to trans
port imnaigrant=passengers at one
centper mile, and their, baggage
atvery reduced rates, would make
this route to the West a more
favourable one than over either
New York or Baltimore. 1t
should be our constant aim to. ac-
complish so desirable an arrang-
ment, and I trust, when our polit;
icaf position is once more assured,
that the State will liberaily suS-
tain every effort that shall be
made in that direction. / had,
besides, intended to have pub
lished a suggestion for an indus
trial movement which seems calcu-
lated not only to be Of great advan.
tage to our people. generally, but
would afford facilities for the prof
liable emplyment of a considera-
bic number Of immigrant employ
ees.- l. intended to suggest and
urge the establishment Of at least
one Cotton factory in central
and eligible position, in every dis
trict, for the making up of the
raw material into yarns, the CAPT
tai to be subscribed in lands at a
low valuation, and the lands to
be sold to immigrants. To make
the profits of these establishments
secure the planters to pledge a
certain number of bales of Cotton
to be yarned on toll. [ only in
dicate the outline of the plan for
your consideration, deeming the
confuse dstate of public affairs un:
propitious for attempting it at
present. It seems that even in
the city Of New York there is a
want of sufficient labourers for the
farmers in the vicinity-the pa
pers complaining that the bet
ter class of immigrants, however
in large numbers they arrive,