Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-04-27
Fl. j. WRIGHT, Secretary.
The /" Chinese |" Coming South.

We had already heard something
here of the plan set forth in the follow
ing letter from the New YORK. cores
pOpdent OF the Cincinnati Commercial,
and our information was that the mat
ter was in tue hands of men who. knew
what they were about and had ample
assurance of success
have had an interview with gen
tleman who has for some time been en-
gagged in organizing a company III this
city for the purpose Of transporting
Iaborprs 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 us
to The demand tor Chinese labor, and
entering into eoutla.ts for its supply.
The company has been organized
with Il capital of $20J.000, all sub
scribed, and to be enlarged at the Op
ton OF the parties concerned. Oi@iss-
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
u month from this time. 1t is intend
ed to bring over six or eight Thousand
year, but 20 Increase the number as
circumstances may require. They will
be .nDught from China to San Francis
90 by the steamships OF the Pacific
Mail Line, taken from thence BY
stramer to Panama, from thence by
steamer to Key West, and from there
taken to New Orleans, Mobile, Calves
ton, and other points OH the Gulf
coast. 1t twill be cheaper to convey
them to the South by vessel in this
way than to bring them overland trom
San Francisco; and they will thus I've
saved from the maltreatlnent which
Chinese immigrants are always sub
jectad to there. -
1t is intended that these Cinnamon,
wheu taken to the Southern States,
shalt DE ensploynd almost exclusively
in the cultivatiOn of cotton and rice,
on the plantations. This is "A kind Of
labor with which CkInamen are
thoroughly familiar, to which they
THAT is to say, many millions of them,)
| have been accustomed tOall their lives,
and which they carry on with great
care and skill. Their WAGES in the
South will be eight dollars a month
and /" fouud." They will, of course,
all come as voluntary immigrants, but
after their arrival in this country they
will he 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 OH these farms and he
also says he has found that the de-
mand for them in the South for plan
tation labor is 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 he i'm,
possible for the Cu5ans to get any
more Chinese laborers for late de-
cree of the Captain General has re-
duced all Chinemeu to condition Of
practical aud permanent slavery. But
be is confident, from what be knows OF
the Chinese, that any number Of them
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