Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-09-03

twenty-five dollars to the taxabl,
wealth of the State; and both of these
calculations have no reference to thu
money or other property the emigran
may be possessed Of on arrival here.
Does not Norfolk and Virginia ant
the South desire some participation ir
the great stream of commercial ant
practical strength and wealth that flows
from Europe, at present almost wholly
to the North and West. The South
need not seek to or expect to turn any
large portion of that emigration into
her States, for reasons we'll understood
by all but the South can open up
emigration from Southern Europe to her
several States, although the ports of
Norfolk and other Atlantic ports
South, by the means of this Medi-
terrancan and Oriental Steam Naviga.
ton Company's steamship line, that
! will increase and swell lin volume, so
! that in few years the Southern States
can count European emigration 20 them
as the North and West does now by its
hundred of thousands. 't
! The Mediterranean and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company, as / have
said, connect with one hundred and
twenty FIVE millions Of people of coun.
tries whose population are emigrating
people, but who have for reason Of lack
of direct cheap communication with
this country, not emigrated heretofore
in any number; while during the last
few years from southern France ore
hundred thousand French people, and
from Italy quite three hundred thou
sand Italians have emigrated to the
Brazils, LaPlatte, and the other south
ern American countries; to say Moth
ing of the tens of thousand of the
people of Spain, Portugal, Swither-
land, southern Germany and Austria
who have also found homes in distant
lands.
The people of all these countries are
industrious and frugal; live in cli~
mate quite like our southern States,
whose products and the pursuits of its
population are identical. The emf
grants from Italy come from districts
where hemp and cotton are cultivated
largely, the crop of the latter staple
for the last year being valued at twelve
millions of dollars, and from the ma,
larial districts of Piedmont and Lom-
hardy, where the raising of rice is the
principal agricultural pursuit. The
Austrian is a producer of cereals and a
breeder of cattle; the Spaniard and
Portuguese have colonized abroad in
every semi-tropical or tropical climate
but ours, and are large producers of
sugar and coffee; the Swiss inhabit
the mountain ranges, manufacture tim
Der, and tho southern German under
stands rearing and raising cattle and
ereals and mining iron, coal, &C. 81.
The steamships of our line are to be
constructed in this country, of from, de-
signed to carry cargo equal to 1000
bales of cotton and of passengers 1900
emigrants. In plan of construction
and power of engines to speed so as to
make the voyage to and from Cadiz in
ten days and Marse;lles and Genoa and
Port Said inside of twenty days,
Connecting through the Suez Canal,
as it will, with India and China, Bonn
bay, Madras and Calcutta will be
brought within thirty-fve days time of
Norfolk and New York, and Singapore
and Batavia within forty-fve, and Hong
Kong and Shanghai within sixty days.
Teas, spices, gunny cloths and coffee, to
supply the requirements of the South
and Southwest, will arrive by this line
direct from the East through the Suez
Canal, and be landed at Norfolk and
other Atlantic Southern ports.
What vast sums will be added to ~.
wealth Of the South by the tras on,
commerce thus brought to 70, ;. 49, ",r>
Your population increasing rsn -, dI
your railroads taxed to tb> ~ f,' Ip oana
city in transporting the ,,odrcta Of H.
industry and skill Of onr naonlsNem nj,
grant passengers ss' ting i ny. ali through tn
various States-6 Ids now men lt;yate,
yielding Dor .ntiful harvests- cities
low, ,o"r.a ana ' .lIlages increasing in popu
''-eloh manufactures springing up Oh
every side, and your mineral wealth be
my rapidly developed.
The Mediterranean and Orienta
steam Navigation Company are pre-
pared. with the aid and cooperation 0
the South, next year to land twenty
thousand emigrants from Southern
| Europe, all destined for settlement il
the different Southern States; and eacl
| year to increase their number.
While for twenty-five years the peo-
pie of England and Northern Europ
have settled in the States of the Norti
and West, SO that the emigrant from
Ireland or Scotland, England, Nortl
Germany, Denmark or Sweden, coming
over now, have been preceded by kin
bred or friends who are located West OF
North, and to whose present homes nat
urally this newly arrived emigrant turn
his steps.
The emigrant from Spain, southern
France. Italy, Switzerland, southern
Germany and Austria has not been pre-
coded to any extent by his country PEG
pie, and hence naturally goes to tn
South where climate and productions
are congenial to him and if the people
of the various States will see to it tina
his new home is rendered agreeable
and facilities are granted. and aid ex'
tended in way of cheap lands, and pro-
lection under laws, the emigrant OF to-
day will be followed tomorrow by hi!
riends and kindred, and the same in.
fluence which to great extent tend t.
keep up the great tide from norther,
Europe to our northern and westexl