The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-30
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 80. 1869.
What VIII Thoy Cost ,

| .;WEDNEsDAY MORNING, JUNE 80, 1869.
laT@5 What Will Thoy Cost
l. "A correspondent Of the New York Jour-
nal Of Commerce, who lived six years in
California, and was able to familiarize him.
self with the character and enterprise Of
the CHR nsse, speaks in high terms Of their
industry and adaptability as laboEers. The
Immigration of Chinese to California was
large in ls4o, aid Kas been steadily indreas-
ing ever since. ;sincS the eomtnsncsrneht,
Of railroads and, other senterprisea in the
Pscific states, immigration. has been wisely,
encouraged, and Chinese merchants have
been found ever ready to supply any mum.
ber Of their oountrymen to perform the
labpr required on those. worksia AS early
as 1865, 9 Chinese merchant named Aynks
then doing business in San Francisco, went
TO- Louisiana and other Southern States with
view to make contracts with the Southern
planters to furnish them laborers from his
native, country. On his return to New
York he expressed his opinion that his
oountrymen would be more contented and
better satisfied to live in the Southern
States than in any others he had visited.
The correspondent Of the Journal of Com
meroe also says that he ,is induced to be-
lieve that Mr.. F. K. Foreman, now begin
ming q leoturing tour in the South, iB en-
ployed by the Chinese merchants OF Cali
fornia, with the view sof lpromoting an ex-
tensiye Introduction, Of intelligent, tempe.
rate, Industrious, peaceable Chimes es labor
ers, (not caolie serfs,) who being natives Of
climate almost exactly, the same as that
of Louisiana and Mississippi, will be per
feetly competent to perform the same task
in the sugar cane and cotton 6elds as was
hsretofore performed by the slaves.
Ne. A.es-sia.-Ahls 'rat...tssty " S..ss sus j..
nor Of cotton, has been produced by the
labor Of white men. aIni the, South our de-
pendence is on negro labor, and the
negroes s-never sufficient for all our agri-
cultural purposes-beoome less numerous
every day. We have not now more than
one half Of the working force that we had
In 1860, and coolie labor is all that We have
to Look to as the means of increasing the
yield Of cotton and rice III the bottom lands:
snds6R the coast, where whiteamen. cannot
work. Half q million Chinese .intredaeed
int the rich sugar, cotton and rice fields
ef the South would soon bring them back
to the productive, 200 condition Of times past,
when they yielded ave millions three huns
dred and eighty-ssven Thousand and fifty
two q, 1897 ,O52) bales. aof aeetton,s four hun.
dred and afty thousand esa (45o, ,0oo)- hogs:
heads Of cane sugar, seven hundred thou
sand (700,ooO) barrels Of molassesI, two
hundred thousand GOO. O.OOO) casks Of rioee,
and one hundred and eighty thousand
(18O, ,OOO hogsheads Of tobacco in single
year. ,,s....,,.,r. ..~
The main question is, however, what will
the coolies cost At this moment we are
not able to give any trustworthy informa-
tion as to rates Of wages; but something is
known Of the cost Of transportation.
ID The New York Journal Of Commerce
ssys that en- enterprisiag New York mer-
chant in the China trade offers to bring
Chinese laborers an his ships and deliver
them at that port for $75 tapissa.I y Vi i1nE
derstand that his terms viii 2be aScepfsd II
he will change tho point q delivery to the
month Of the Atohafslaya River, one, hun
|vdred miles below New Orleans and within
twanty miles Of. q railroad connection owitk
that city. Putting In at the AtUhafYlayA
would longthen the home voyage . nusnbsr
Of days, and would, on that account, be q
disadvantage to the shipper. As the Lou
isiana planters are very desirous to import
Chinese there Is every prospect that sat
isfaetory arrangement will be made, If, mot
in regular New York packets, shen in ves-
sells chartered for the purpose. A St. Louis
paper recently stated thai Chipamen could
be brought from California to st, Louis for
$50. The cost Of taking them to New Or
leans would be about $1oY It would pay
handsomely to obtain them by that route;
but they could net be contracted for on such
favorable terms round BY Gen. = In response
TO the demand for this labor, it is probable
that competition will bring down the rates
for Cinnamon between Sha1gahae and Ssn
Frsnoisco, and that they can Be, delivered
cheap enough acgoss the PApiac Rsilroad
70 make it pay to import them by thatrouts.
But the voyage round the Horn htsetl
every present wish as = price. 4 4 , ,..s, 4. I.
Itis evident, then, that the treubiespm,
labor problem 10 in . fair way Of being
solved. The future prosperity OF the rich.
est portions Of the South depshds on th,
number Of Chinese immigrants ,hat oan,e ,,
Iobtained and put into the rich fields nov
ovsrgrown with weeds and briers. nh,
whole ssacoast ahd lew country os South
osrolins oan bbs bbn mad ss! ~ fAis and prodno
tive region 90 thsTsds1in, Christenaom i
We have legion Of Chinese laborers 10 sup.