Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-15

different kind OF work. 1T you naNed
grand house yon want a cook. Kyou
have a big table you want a fo0tstooI.
They can do a great deal, but l warn
YOU MOTTO take them ndiscriminately.
If do you get the ofse0urings OF
the race. l went to the West Indies,
there i found nothing but misery.
You must not take the wharf
rats; you must get them from the
rural districts of CHINA hundred
miles or so from the coast, where the
people are agriculturist, what good
could a barber do in the field? What
good a shoemaker"
The speaker earnestly cautioned
again and again the audience not to
reIy on Specializing agents, but to
send agents to China and pick them
there. The various members OF the
Convention began to ask him ques-
tians and his answers were somewhat
as follows:
Q. How much food do they con-
sumo.
A. They are a very frugal people.
Forty pounds of rice will last them a
month. They raise their own vege-
tables. In China they get about Is to
$50 dollars a year wages. They grow
| their own cotton, rice and sugar IN
| China, and know the cultivation. They
are an expert people, and have
a very strong power to initiate
In China living is very cheap. You
can get 1873 pounds rice for 81. Here
living is dear. In the rural districts
YOU can get men in plenty. The fe-
| males work in the field with the men.
| Only in towns the women have so
little feet. l am small in comparison
to the average size of Chinese. They
are not big men, nor strong like white
linen, In the districts where / came
from they grow the nutmeg, Glove,
indigo, cotton, etc. The people are
not fond of ardent liquors-abOut ten
per cent. of the whole people use ar
dent spirits. In the rural districts
YOU occasionally find one that drinks
LIQUOR. As to handling horses they
don't know so much. They know
how to handle cattle, though.
While Mr.. Orr wa speaking it was
announced that Mr.. KOopmanschaap
had arrived and was on the platform,
and, as soon as the former ceased, the
Chair brought him forward and intro
duced him, amid applause.
Nh. KOOpmanschaap,in a few words,
made his acknowledgements, and
apQlogized for bis seeming delay, by
| explaining that TIE trains missed Cen
| nectiOn n or twice. he was aStCn-
| ished, he said, to meet so many per
y sons present, having been told that
there would be only q few planters
| and farmers gathered together. He
l had been the principal mover in the
Chinese importation business, and had
L~-~Isht out all those used by the
Pacific RaiIroaa There are now
{ in California, he said, some
fifty to si@tZ thousand Chinese, and
they are an orderly, quiet race, He
| was induced to think that the prices
: ranging in California will be too high
here. There they get S35 per month.
He thought the labor could be pro-
, cured at SD per month. In Cuba and
a Peru they are got at IS. There are
still some 5000 at work for the Pacific
Railroad at S35. He did not think
that they could be relied upon TO carry
out contracts with planters If other
planters offered them better wages.
, Gen. Pillow moved that a commit
tee of three be appointed to confer
a with Mr.. KOopmanschaap and with
+ I've Kim Orr, and report through the
papers in the morning.
This resolution was amended 50 as
, to include one member each State
represented.
Gen. Pillow reported that the
Finance COMMITTEES had had q con
ference with the two gentlemen YhC
had recently been added, As these
! gentlemen stated that their duty
; simply consisted in attending the
Convention and reporting back to
T. their constituents, after due delibera-
, ton they had determined not to serve
! on the committee. They had, how
) ever, advised the following amend
! ments to the report:
1St. That the number of directors
, be changed from seven to twelve.
%: That books for subscription u
, the capital stock be OPENED in New
! Orleans, Mobile and other Southern
cities.
Mr.. PEBBLES moved that the sugges'
; ton Just made be adopted as an
amendment to therep0rt, and that the
report be adopted. Both resolutions
prevailed.
The Chair appointed the following
gentlemen to confer with Messrs.
KOopmanschaap and Tye Kim Orr:
ClaDp Of Tennessee. John Williams
of L09isians, JOHN Martin Of Ken,
lucky, T, @. FlournOy, E. 7, BleWett,
G.. A. Henry of Alabama, William
Green of South Carolina, DR.. F. F.
Tabor of Georgia.
Col. Giles NJ. Hillyer, of the Com
mittee on immigration generally,
made a report, owing to the length OF
which we are compelled to omit this
nornias.
The committee OF thres, 70 9psn
books of subscription In accordance
with report of the Finance Commit
tee, was appointed by the Chair, as
follows: +. NJ. Apperson, Tenn. John
Williams, La; and John Duncan.
The Convention then adjourned un-
til 10 O'Clock this morning.