The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-06-09
COLUMBIA, S.. G.
wednesday 1orning, June 9. 1859.

We republish below an article on Chi
nese emigration, from the Journal Of
Commerce, in which the writer intimates
that the Chinese may be used profitably
upon the Southern plantations. The
character of these people for energy and
industry is SO clearly established, if we
may credit the accounts of travellers
abroad, and the knowledge which we
ourselves possess of them, that it is n
d, plausible inference, they may be effec-
tually employed In restoring our planta-
tations and successfully supplanting the
negro in the cultivation Of cotton. Their
enterprise is unbounded; neither dis
tance or difficulty have effect to deter
them in pursuit of fortune. Ubiquitous
as the Yankee, and gifted with the same
exceedingly just estimate of the al-
mighty dollar, they are -ound wherever
money may be made. Frugal and in
dustrious, ready and willing to work,
John Chinaman appeared with the ear
liest in the gold fields of Australia and
California; he lent his valuable services
to the Pacific Railroad, and now that the
great Undertaking is accomplished, we
/apprehend, at comparatively small ex-
pense, \thay can be brought to this sec
@ion and, disenthrelled from the bond
-cage of the "man and BROTHER" we may
yet sSe our fields restored under the fair
Wnd honest labor Of these celestial
gentry:
h "The immigration from China to Cnli-
oraia during the next few months pro-
ises to be large. Yesterdays steamer
bought over 1900 passengers, of which
Zoo were Chinese. The ship Shirley
lived from Hong Kong yesterday
th 353 Chinese. The Windward and
a. Palmer, now on their way
Pre, have together $50 passengers The
)ational Eagle, which sailed from Hong
aong for SAp Francisco the day before
stsnmer Aeft. is supposed to have all
accommodates. It is also un-
lat the three sail vessels load
)ort upon the departure of
were likely'to have all they
49, heard that honse in Chicago
has AN agent to China to con
tract for $4,000 Chinese, to be sent East
by the raihApd. They are needed to
work the Southern plantations. It is
quite proonple that, for the next three
years, tho increase of Chinese popula-
lion VIII be limited only by the means
OF transportation. The Lower Califor-
MA Company, of which we have hereto
i1Ie rn;na @uae ;P1ention, the agent of which
associatap oASeading politicians in the
East-suSy 5utler and Logan-to en-
courage so1 emigration to the United
Hhiis ,i tohits immigration covers the
grA. prooie9 OF the future of the Ame-
ricEa-s&sPupse, involving our political,
religious ahG social destiny. We are to
have new race of people introduced
y 1nt2 our midst-a people with en-.
Atirely different manners, customs and
Aabits. imbued with different political
Anciples, aud protesting religion
Nch claims to be us moral as christian
in it's influences, and of greater an
W. These people will come among
pnr political equals, and give di-
Ap to the policy Of the Government
Aortion to their number, which
be much inferior to the ruling
&tain sections of the country.
Is but little doubt but this i'm
migration is to receive for some time to
come all possible encouragement. The
causes which proved so etfectual in pro-
noting European immigration will ope-
rate, and the saD,e Influences will be
brought to bear. The commercial people
OF the North are already reaching ont
tor the commerce OF the orient as the
fountain of wealth.
There is II demand for steady agrical-
urn !nborers in tue West, and similar
)nd in the South under the stimulus
munerative crops, with an album
ice of fertile bnt unused lands Be-
sides this there will be the incentive to
the yellowfaced celestial of an album
dance of cheap wild land for homesteatls,
and rate Of daily wages unhcard of in
celestial economy. OF course the new
ly-created steamship lines from Califor-
mia to China will lend every encourage
mint to the most profitable of all trans
p'rtation traffic, the passenger traffic,
ald San Francisco will be, on the Pacific
cast, what New York is on the Atlantic
--the eutrepot for migration-dra
fm Il source more than lOublr in GA.