Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-04-27
VIM. CRAWFORD,
President.
Fl. j. WRIGHT, Secretary.
The 8. Chinese !" Coming south

We had already heard something
here of the plan set forthin the follow.
ing letter from the New YORK cores
pondeit OF the Cincinnati Commercial,
and our iliformation was that the mat
ter was in tue hands of men who. knew
what they were ahout and had ample
assurance of success
have had an interview with a gen
tleman who has for some TIME been en-
gagged in organizing company IN this
city for the purpose Of transporting
Iaborers in mass from China to the
Southern States. He is an American
who resided for many years in China.
and is thoroughly familiar with the
| Chinese. He has lately been in the
Gulf States making Investigations rs
to The demand tor Chinese labor, and
entering into coutlasts for its supply.
The company has oeen organized
with u capital of &2N'.000, all sub
scribed, and to lie enlarged at the OPP
ton of the parties concerned. Oieiss-
tons have already been begun, and it
is expected that the first ship load Of
immigrants, $40 or 1900 in number,
will be ready to leave China in about
a month from this time. 1t il intend
ed t6.ltihg over six or eight Thousand
| A year, but to increase the number as
circumstances may require. They will
be .lnDught from China to San Francis
90 by the steamships OF the Pacific
Mail Line, taken from thence BY
st..amer to Panama, from thence by
steamer to Key West, aud from there
taken to New Orleans, Mobile, Calves
ton, and other points Oh the Cult
coast. .Iti'will be cheaper to convey
them to the South by vessel in this
way than to bring them overland from
San Francisco; and they will thus he
saved from the maltreatinent which
Chinese immigrants are always sdb
jected to there. .ns
i 1t is intended that these Cinnamon,
when taken to the Southern States,
shailJe employnd almost exclusively
in the cultivatiOn of cotton and rice,
ON the plantations. This is u kind OF
labor with which Cklnamen are
thoroughly faAilMr, to which they
] THAT il to say, many millions OF them,)
have been accustomed TO all their lives,
and which they carry on with great
care and skill. Their wagps in the
South will be eight dollars a 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 employers, after which
\ they will have the option 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 on these farms; and he
slso says he has found that the de-
mand for them in the South for plan
tation labor il very great. He says
| few Cinnamon will hereafter 60 to
Peru, or the other South American
countries, to which they began to en-
! igrate some years ago, for they have
Teen very badly treated there, and the
terms of contract violated by their EN-.
ployers. He also says It will be i'm.
. possible. for the Cu5ans to get any
more Chinese laborers ) for late de-
lcree of the Captain General has re
duced al Chinemep to condition Of
practical aud permanent slavery. But
be is confident, from what be knows o.
1.-The Chinese, that any number Of then