The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-07-08
HoYT & CO., Proprietors
Artitles.
What Will They Cost.

A correspondent of the New York
Journal of Commerce, who lived six years
in California, and was able TO familiarlze
himself with the character and enterprise
of the Chinese, speaks in high terms OF
their industry end adaptabilty as labor
ers. The immigration of Chinese TO
California was large in lS49, and has
been steaGily increasing ever since;
Since the mencement of railroads ana
other enterprises in the Pacific States,
immigration has been wisely encouraged,
and Chinese merchants have been found
ever ready to supply any number OF their
countrymen to perform the LABOR required
onS those works. AS early as 1866, a
Chinese merchant named Ayuk, then do
inc business in San Francisco, went to
Louisiana and other Southern States with
view to make contracts with the South
ern planters to furnish them laoorers
from his native country. On his return
to New York he expressed his opinion
that his countrymen would be more con-
tented and better satisfied to live in the
Southern States than in any others ne
had visited. The correspondent OF the
Journal of Commerce also says that he Is
induced to believe that Mr.. F. Z. Fore
man, now beginning a lecturing tour IN
tho South, is employed by the Chinese
merchants of California, with the view
of promoting an extensive introduction
of intelligent, temperate, industrious
peaceable Chinese laborers, mot coolle
.serfs,) who being natives OF climate al
most exactly the same as that OF LOUIS
lana and Mississippi, will be perfectly
competent to perform the same task IN
the sugar cane and cotton fields as was
heretofore performed by the slaves
No considerable quantity of cane sugar
nor of cotton has been produced by the
labor of white men. In the South our
dependence is on negro labor, and the
nerroes- never sufficient for all our ag-
ricnltural purposes-become less numer-
GUS every day. We have not now more
than one half of the working force that
weyhad in 1860, and coolie labor is all
that we have TO look to as the means OF
increasing the yield of cotton and rice In
the bottom lands and on the coast, where
White men cannot work. Half million
Chinese introduced into. the rich sugar,
cotton and rice fields Of the South would
soon bring them back TO the productive
condition of times past, when they yield,
cd $3.50 bales of cotton, 45O:0oO
hossheads of cane sugar, 100000 barrels
of molasses, 100000 casks Of rice, and
10000 hogsheads of tobacco in a single
year.
The main question is, however, what
will the coolies cost? At this moment
we are not able to give any trustworthy
information as to rates of wages; but
something is known of the cost OF trans
portation.
The New York Journal of Commerce
SAYS that an enterprising New York mer-
chant in the China trade offers to bring
Chinese laborers in his ships aud deliver
them at that port tor s75 apiece. We
understand that his terms will be accept
ed il he will change the point of delivery
to the mouth of the Alchatalaya River,
one hundred miles below New Orleans,
and within twenty miles OF railroad
connection with that city. Putting in
at the Atchaf.laya would lenglben the
home voyage number OF days, and
would, on that account, be disadvan-
tage to the shipper. As the Louisiana
planters are very desrous to import
Chinese there is every prospect that a
satisfactory arrangement Will be made.
if not in regular New York packets, then
in vessels chartered for the purpose. A
St. Louis paper recently stated That Chi
nalnen could be brought from California
TO St. Louis for $50. The cost Of taking
them to New Orleans would be about SlO.
1t would pay handsomely to obtain them
by that route; but they could not be
contracted for on such favorable terms
round by sea. In response to the de
mand for this labor, it is probable that
competition will bring down the rates for
.Chname between Shangahae and San
francisco, and that they can be delivered
cheap enough across the Pacific Railroad
to make it pay to import them by that
route. But the voyage round the Horn
meets every present wish as to price.
1t is evident, then, that the trouble
some labor problem is in fair way of be-
ing solved. The future prosperity of the
richest portions of the South depends on
the number of Chinese immigrants that
can be obtained and put into the rich
fields now overgrown with weeds and
briers. The whole scacoast and low
country of South Carolina can be made
as fair and productive region as there IS
in Christendom if we have legion OF
Chinese Iaborers to supplement our negro
population. There is room for Cuffee as
we'll as John Chinaman; and :here is
room, and fortune besides, for all the Eu-
ropean immigrants whom we can induce
to settle in the midst Of u.s. Negroes
we have; Europeans we have, though
unfortunately in small numbers; Chinese
we have not. Who will be the first to
set the ball rolling by making arrange
ments fer introducing coolies into our