The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-05-10
The Heathcn Chinee.
Another Plan for Their IntrOducti0A
into the South.


into the South.
A New York correspondent. OF the
Cincinnati Commercial writes l have
had an interview with gentleman
who has for some time been engaged
i'm organizing a company in this city
for the purpose of transporting labor
ers in mass from China to the Southern
States. He is an American who re-
sided for many years i'm China, and is
thoroughly familiar with the Chinese.
He has lately been in the Gull, states
making investigations ss To the de-
mand for Chinese labor, and entering
into contract for its supply.
The company has been organized
with a capital of two hundred thoa-
sand dollars, all subscribed, and to be
enlarged at the option of the parties
concerned, Operations have already
been begun, and it is expected that
the first ship load of ofimmigrants, eight
hundred or twelve hundred i'm mum.
Der, will be ready to leave China in
about a month from this time. 1t Is
intended to bring over six or eight
thousand year, but to increase the
number as circumstances may require.
They will be brought from China to
San Francisco by 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
in this way than to bring them over
land from San Francisco by the Pa
cific Railroad. twill be unnecessary to
land them at San. Francisco, and they
ment which chinese immigrants are
always subjected to there.
1t is intended that the Chinar11en,
when taken to the Southern States,
shall be employed almost exclusively
in the cultivation of cotton or rice on
the plantations. This is a kind of labor
with which Cinnamon are thoroughly
familiar, to which they (that is to say,
many millions of them,) have been
accustomed all their lives, and which
they carry on with great talent and
skill. Their wages in the South will
be eight dollars per month and
"found.n They will, of course, all
come as voluntary immigrants, but
after their arrival i'm 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 i'm
China for this work Oh these farms;
and he also says he has found that the
demand for them in the South for
plantation labor is very great. He
says few Cinnamon will hereafter go
to Peru or the other South American
countries, to which they began to
emigrate some years ago, for they have
been badly treated there, and the terms
of contract violated by their employ
ers. He also says it will be impossible
for the Cubans to get any more Chin
ese laborers; for late decree of the |
Captain General has reduced all China
men to a condition of practical and |
slavery. But he is conf
dent, from what he knows Of the
Chinese, that any number of them
IAN be got for plantation labor in the
southern section of the United States.
think the management of the COM
Dany here is in competent hands.