The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-04-10

SCHEME OF CHINESE IMMIGRATIoN.-Nelr
York, April 81 have had an interview
with gentleman who has for some time been
engaged III organizing Il company in this city
for the purpose OF transporting laborers i'll
mass from China to the southern States. He
is an American who resided for t,laiif wears
in China, and is thoroughly familiar with the
Chinese. He has lately been in the Gulf
States making investigations us to the de-
mand for Chinese labor, and entering into
contracts for its supply.
The compaIv has been organized with
capital Of two hundred thousand dollars, all
subscribed, and to he enlarged ut the option
Of the parties concerned. Operations have
already been begun, and it is expected that
the first ship-load OF immigrants, eight hum
dred or twelve hundred in number. will be
ready to leave China in about month from
this time. 1t is intended to bring over six or
eight thousand year, but to increase the
number is circumstances may require. They
will be brought from China TO San Francisco
hv the steamships of the Pacific Mail Line.
taken from thence by steamer to Panama,
from thence by steamer to Key West, and
from there taken to New Orleans, Mobile,
Galveston, and other points on the Gulf
Coast. 1t will be cheaper to convey them TO
the South by vessel i'll this way than to bring
them from San Francisco by the Pacific
railroad. 1t will he unnecessary to land
them at San Francisco. and they will THUS bc
saved from the maltrcatnICnt which Chinese
immigrants are always subjected TO there.
1t is intended that tic"c Cinnamon, when
taken to the southern States, shall he enl-
ployed almost exclusively in the cultivation
of cotton and rice on the plantations. This
is kind Of labor with which Cinnamon arc
thoroughly familiar, TO which they UlElt is TO
say. many millions of them,) Lave been ac-
cllstomcd to all their lives, and which they
carry on with great care and skill. Their
wages in the South will be eight dollars Il
month and "found." They will Of course
all come as voluntary immigrants, but after
their arrival in this country they will be put
under contract for four years to their en-
ploSerS, after which they will have the OPP
ton of returning TO their own country or
making new contracts.
The protector of the company says there
will be no difficulty in getting an unlimited
number of hands in China for this work OIL
these terms; and he also says he has found
that the demand for them in the south for
plantation labor is very great. He says that
few Cinnamon will hereafter 60 to Peru, or
the other South American countries, to which
they began to emigratc some years ago, for
they have been badly treated there and the
terms of the contract violated by their en-
ployers. He also says it will be impossible
for the Cubans to get any more Chinese la.
borers, for Il late decree of the Captain Gene
raj bas reduced all Chimamen to Il condition
of practical and permanent slavery. But he
is confident from what he knows Of the
Chinese that any number of them can be got
for plantation labor in the southern section
of the United States. | think the manage
ment of the company here is i'll competent
hands. - Cincinnati Commercial