The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-02-23
No. 80

CHINESE 1MaGRATIoN.-We find the subjoined re-
marks and letter in the Memphis Appeal ofthe 9th:
We make room for the following letter from Lieut..
Gift with pleasure and pride The Appeal the first
journal ID The southwest to move in the enterprise OF
securing Chinese laborers and from the first ably
seconded and sustained by Lieut.. Gift, Who from
previous knowledge Of the value Of Chinese labor
able to speak definitely of what he says in his letter he
has actually accomplished We congratulate our friend
upon his success and also the immigration company
whose sagacity selected and utilized the attainments
Of ripe and experienced scholar and sailor. Lieut..
Gift is sure OF welcome from his Memphis
friends when he returns to his home:
HoNG. .KoNG (Chna), Dec. 49, 1869.
Editors Appeat-The first vessels with Chinese emf
grants for Southern port New Oreans) will sail from
here in two weeks. She is the French bark Vile de
ST. Lo, which will carry $50 laborers for the "Arkan-
sas River Valley Immigration Company" They can
be procured here in any number, without paying any
commissions to Chinese hongs or brokers' It will
cost to transport each aborer to New Orleans about
800 in specie. They work for So monthand found.
hope to be with you in about 80 days after this let
ter arrives, when l will be able to talk the Chinese
question knowingly; for assure you that the past two
months in Hong Kong have not been spent in an ua-
profitable Hence Isay to my friends, possess
your souls in patience until come back. have got
the matter in such train that it must move hereafter
have not had time to write you, as intended, of
China and Japan. The great business question has
aOSOrDeu all my lilne ana tnOupubS alH ludIhtui,
however, that it is coming to satisfactory conclusion.
You may hurrah much you like now. | can see
nv way out of the woods. Yours, GEO. W. GIFT.
JENNY LIND.--In letter describing the recent ap-
pearance of the Queen Of Song in Exeter Hail. Lon
don occurs the following, which will touch the hearts
of all who have been entranced by the witchery
of her signing:
"We waited very mpatiently through Herr Gold
schmdts ambitious instrumental prelude, and through
the first of his ierky choruses 1t was not entirely
the fog which made our eyes dimy the sweetfaced
woman sitting his left hand thinner, Older sadder,
but still with the winning, pathetic atmosphere
about every pose, and every expression which con-
quered all hearts twenty years ago. disarms all crlti-
cisms oday and will continue to do long Jenny
Lind's soul dwes in Jenny Linds body. 1t there be
such thing perfect grace of clumsiness, perfect
beauty OF LONELINESS she has them and they are
more lasting than the grace of gracefulness or the
beauty of good looks As it is with her face, her
movements her attitudes so it is with her voice.
Sacred above all it has lost it has kept certain some.
thing of such individuality that would know it for
Jenny Lnds voice In spite of the husky chest tones,
in spite of the strained and hardly reached upper G,
there is peculiar soulful quality in it which has been
rarely heard on any stage, except when Jenny Llnd
has sung. Critics would say-and, perhaps, by rules
of art their assertion not be contradcted-that
Jenny Lnd's voice is gone. But men and women are
still moved to their hearts depth by her singing.
believe if she sings when she is three years and
ten, she will be the same"