The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-05-27

IMPORTANT TO PLANTERS.

| The completion of the Pacific Railroad,
| notwithstanding it, Northern locality, IL
great thing for the South. 1t holds
out a promise of supplying a need which
Is severely felt-the need Of labor to cu-
tivate her broad acres once ina high state
ofcultivation and Of supplying the re-
ouirements Of her workshops and manu-
factories which are destined to spring
| from the ashes Of her former prosperity
Without any other reward than the
qualification Of desire to do the public a
service, we have transferred TO our col
umns circular Of the Chinese lmmigra-
ton Company Of St. Louis, proposing to
supple planters and others with Coole
labor in time for the next years crops
The terms on which this labor can be EN-
ployed, are reasonable. Coneeding Its
cheapness, the next. and: main question
10 be considered is, will it answer?
With the knowledge which we have OBJ
tanned Of the qualities of the Chinaman,
We have no hesitation in replying that he
Is an apt, docile, patient and industrious
laborer.
The letter which We published from a
Californian a short time since, recon-
mending him as suited to the necessities
ofthe South, was written by a former cit
izen of Mississippi, who has had ample
means by observation and experiment OF
testifying truly to his efficiency.
Of Cinnamon, there are not less than
an hundred thousand in California.
There are hundreds of millions IN the
Celestial Empire; and thus Is the source
of supply inexhaustible These millions
are yielding their annual tribute Of many
thousands to the Pacific coast. The
completion Of the railroad affords the OPP
portunity Of transporting them TO the
fields and workshops of the South.
But will they answer her purposes
Our opinion is that they will. On this
subject, in connection with the circular of
the ST. Louis Company, we invite atten-
ton to the following extracts from the
Metropolitan Record:
"The Mongolians are coming to stay.
They are also coming to work. For that
matter, indeed, we are told between forty
and fifty thousand of them are already hard
at work on and along the line of the Great
Pacific Railroad. Tie mining districts of
California swarm with them, and the univer-
sal testimony as regards their industry, en-
terprise, ard peaeeable disposition, is alto
gether in their favor.
We have spoken of the multiplication OF
the Chinese on the Pacific. From san Diego |
TO Sitka. and back to Montana, Idaho. Neva- !
da, Arizona. and throughout all that con- |
tinuons stretch of country of which San |
Francisco is the commercial centre, we are |
told, they are everywhere to be found. Ev- |
cry town and hamlet has its 'Chinatown." |
Their industry is most remarkable. Mining, |
embarrassing, and kindred occupations |
were the first branches of industry in which |
they engaged but of late years there has |
been a great increase in the variety of their |
In the construction of the |
San Jose Railroad, in 1860, it was discovered |
that they were cheap and effective road |
builders; the Mission and Pioneer Wooden |
Mills found that they made first class facto- |
~ operatives, and now they are rapidly OBJ
tanning employment wherever patient man !
ual labor, without any great amount ofbrain
work, is requisite. Large numbers, are en-
gagged as servants in families, hotels, &c, Ia
king the places of girls in chamber work |
and cooking, in which they become very ex-
pert. y large proportion of the immigra- |
ton consists of boys from 10 to 10 years of
age, who are Immediately put out to SER
vice in families, where they soon pick up a
knowledge of the language and of house
hold duties.
I'm fact, the Chinese are rapidly monopo
lizing employment in all the lighter branch |
cs of industry usually allotted to women,
such as running sewing machines, making
paper bags and boxes, binding shoes, label |
ing and packing medicines, &c. They are
willing, and anxious to learn anything, and
everything that may prove of pecuniary
value to them, and in spite of the difficult
ties which their total or partial ignorance of
the language imposes, their patience and
initiative faculty enables them to learn to
work with surprising facility and close OBJ
servers of their habits do not hesitate to say
that there is not any manual trade in which
they could not become efficient workers in
a reasonable time.
These strangers are said to become Amer
icanized-so TO speak-very rapidly. They
learn to buy and sell, to labor, according to
American modes, just as they discard the
umbrella-shaped hat wide drawers, and
thick paper shoes, for the felt hat, panta-
looms and boots; but they retain all their
essential habits and modes of thought just
as they retain their cues. The Chinaman
running a sewing machine, driving sand
cart, or firing an engine in California. is
just as essentially Chinaman as his brother
who on the other side of the Pacific, is work
ing in the same way, and with the same i'm
plements as his fathers worked a thousand
years. Much has been said of his immorali
ty, and especially his proneness to lie and
cheat; but If lie can beat the Yankee Puri- |
tan in that line of business, he must. indeed
be a very bad fellow. Our own impression
is, that his infirmities in that respect have
been exaggerated; but even were it other |
wise, we repeat, he is as deserving of politi- |
cal rights, &c. sc.
The SORT WE NEED.-The Atlanta !
Constitution speaks of the emissaries of
mischief in the South, who in the garb of |
christianity, have made midnight hideous
in the Secret Lodges with their horrible
against the resident white
and who have flooded the
country with incendiary documents Incl
ting the freedman against his former mas
ter rs his worst enemy-and then de-
scribes another kind, who viii find any