The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-22
CHINESE FOR LOUISIANA.

Five ShlplOads Of ChIuamea Eu Route for
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Character Of tho
MOvoncnt-Alarm OF she NegrOes--A Ooa-
orcd Convensi0a Called % Consider the
Matter.
NEW 0RLxANs. Oct. H. 1850.
Chinese labor viii be thoroughly tosted IN Louisiana
In tho coming SPRING Ko0pmsnsohap's agents have
already closed contracts for some four or Ave ship
loaas. TO DO delivered at Key West by the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company. Mr.. John Williams, Jr..
one OF the New Orleans agents, now on his way to
Hong Kong 70 complete the necessary arrangements.
lie Is accompanied BY Tye Kim Arr, native OF
Hong Kong. educated In England, who has been for
some years resident along tae coast of che Missls-
sippi, and II thoroughly familiar with the soil, tho
crops and the capabilities OF louisiana Tye Kim
promises to engage the Of the finest class OF
c00e laD0rers, such a. most familiar with that
Kind OF cultivation that pays best Ia Louisiana,
namely, rice and sugar. me contracts drawn up
are for five years aud the face Of them seem I'M
exceptionally liberal. both regards rations and
pay. These are the loading features:-
Of S,efo
period OF 1--WE years, beginning at the 10
! ssss :s:;s y
year employer rcss o. SoanS f IN his hands
twenty ays delIsss earnngs Of each year as guar
&. or ~ being a
mt M
Soon our passage to the United States and all Advances
70 s may be- n goa nns psa
frat wages or esrnng together With any other advances
that he may hereafter make 70 us
Portable quarters and raons OF I'VE pounds pork its
- bacon or beef ioa pounds Of rice ONE,
for garden spot asissd iaat during limo
cash dollar and half per dol
lars per for clothing and which sums II received
Fourth We agree to work from daylight Gil dark, with
making s 70 watch night a. asas,
sugar plantations but We TO be paid by employer OF
end Of the month bu. labor be required
% ss 70 w
right during the summer moas 70 take two hours for din
breakfast before we 90 out
These five shploads win be test experiment.
Should they as there Is the strongest reason
20 suppose they why 1t scarcely possible 70 over
estimate the eject the movement Will have on the
future OF Louisiana, Most OF the frat
shipments win be located on the rice and
sugar lands in the vicinity OF Bayou La.
fourche. In that same district there are
thousands OF acres OF prairie land now uncutivated
which can be turned into rice at little expense. In
the whole State there are certainly not less than
three hundred Thousand acres OF swampy land
available for rice culture. This crop has OF late
years been cultivated more and more In this State
better. Moreover the climate and soil OF Louisiana
produce description OF rice worth as least five
oents pound more than any East Indian imp0rta-
tion; the only thing lacking u labor That the
co0ne immigration Will supply
The negroes already are becoming alarmed. In
the newspaper edited by J, Willis Menard rejected
colored delegate to Congress rom Louslana) OF this
morning there ii published Gail i0r q coi0red con-
vont10n to consider the bess means Of promoting
the agricultural interests OF the coored race and TO
prevent the Introduction OF coOlle iaborers into
Louisiana. The call itself Ia so c1r,o1sy suggestive
that 1t ID worth giving entire in the HERALD. here
It's
To THH OoLonrD kRr or LoUIsfANA-CALr roa A
State Convention OF colored IL hereby called to
%s" Of Conn m
sderns and adopting the best plan and the
throughout State. and consider all other
looking TO their adsancenent welfare, pcS o. DE
As So S,hfs S.ns sp.a w ssas
oos Comm men throughout The State win wake
;sa q land aad y, h'".sa for he eo.oyea oy,ng es
ing msn Every parish and district viii be- entitled 70 sesd as
uses in The Lower House Of the Assemble,
this spporttonment the following persons viii be ocio
The coored members Of the General Assembly
The coored State oacers and The ooorsd ministers OF all
the churches, regardless of denominations
the attention of every liberal coored in the State
great work of advancing the agricultural interests Of
Why nots New Eng gland mill owners extort pro-
lection tor their manufactures 10 the detriment OF
the rest OF the country. why should not the power
ful ailcontr0lling political element OF the South
ext0rt protection for their labor to the injury Of
everybody elsef To this call are appended the
names OF fifteen coored state Senators and Repre-
sentatiyes, and four or i've c0i0red ''reverends.r
The proceedings OF the Convention may be looked
forward TO with some interest. They viii probably
BIO more to the point than the discussions of the
ponderous mutual advertising association now In
session IN LOUISVILLE and at least equally amusing.