The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-11-20

The Chinese ON Ihe Plan alta tfoms
Of Louisiana.
D. Bennett in Sew oFleang Times:

d. Bennett in New Orleans Times
Inquiries have lately been mad
through the columns of a New Orleans
journal in regard to the success of Chi
nese labor in the sugar parishes of Lou
isiana Suggestions were made In th
same article that. it might benefit thi
planters if large numbers were broEgh
to the plantations of this State.
We do not know what satisfaction Chi
namen are giving in '73, but we have
some facts about them as laborers In u
DIR. Kittredge brought fourteen China
men from. Cuba to his plantation on the
Lafourche, in 1868 or so. They worked
very well for awhile, but were slow anG
weak They at length become almost
worthless; would not work; stole every.
thing they could put their hands on
made an assault ON the manager with
their knives-would have killed him but
for the Intervention of a faithful negro
with six-shooter. They were all driven
from the plantation. - 5g 49,
After this over 200 Cinnamon were
brought from China to this State; lie
we're sent to a plantation on the La
fourche, and forty were placed on one
plantation, and twenty on another, in the
parish of Terrebonne. The 115 did
well for a while, but at length a portion
ran away; others gave much trouble, and
we think there are none left on the plan
tation at the present time 1t cost 1920
a head to bring them from China, but
they can be brought to the States for a
much lower price. 5@
The proprietor of the Millaudon plan
tatlon, near New Orleans, brought al
Cinnamon from California through the
agency of one Cum Wing, or Kim
Wing, as it is sometimes written. 1t cost
about S12, 900 to bring them to the plan
tation and start them to work.
They had not been at work many
weeks when Cum Wing made his APP
pearance on the plantation. When the
Chihamen heard of it, they made 9
move in a mass on the house, captured
Cum Wing, took him to their quarters,
took away his hat, coat, and boots, and
it was thought they would kill him. =
The planter, agent, Overseer, and ne
groes could have no influence in restrain
ing the wrath of the pigtails. They had
to send for the city police, who subdued
them with their clubs and threatened
them with six-sbooters. The, cause OF
the muss was that the Cinnamon were
dissatisfied with their contract, and de-
manded that Cum Wing and the planter
should change if. ao
AT another time the overseer was COM
PEELED to shoot one of them, wounding
him in the arm The whole body of
them, armed with knives, clubs, axes,
and bludgeons, pursued him to the plan
ter's house. demanded his blood, and
could not be restrained by any one
They are said to have been the most di-
abolical crowd that ever assembled in
and around New Orleans. Their eyes
and countenances we're like those of in
carnate fiends. They were determined
to search the house in spite of the plan
ter, but the overseer escaped to Gretna,
and never came back again.
The agent of the plantation said they
were the most venal, thiesing, trifling,
laborers he ever saw. Fifty of them
went to work for the chief Contractor at
the Penitentiary, and were afterward
discharged; forty ran away, twenty-five
went to work for a planter, up tie coast,
and either ran away or were discharged.
/ There are none en- the MilIaudon Ianta.
ton now.
Fifty Cinnamon were employed on a
plantation above Plaquemine. They all
ran away.
A planter below New Orleans EN-
ployed large number. They came u
to the city to complain of bad treatment
and gave their employer great deal o
trouble They were factious and har,
to manage.
Another planter paid fifty or sixt,
Cinnamon $26 month in gold. Thel
and their employer were all dissatisfied.
On plantation near Plaquemme. fiftv
three Cinnamon were employed. Thel
all ran away.
One planter below Plaquemine, who
had a stout, resolute overseer, who rea
ted them roughly, and made the pigail,
afraid of him, got along pretty well With
them, and they did better for him thar
these people did for any other planters,
Forty employed by one planter in Ter
rebonne Parish, either ran away or wer
discharged; and twenty-fve,x employee
by another planter, became so danger
Gus that he had to shoot and kill one an
wound another, and the gang left him.
A gang of these CelestiaIs was en-
ployed on the Teche, below Centreville
at $50 month in gold, they furnishin.
their own food. The overseer informe,
us that he was disguised with them; tina
they were mean and unreliable labor
ers.
Twenty of these men were employee
by planter above Franklin. on tn
Teche. They did well for awhile bu
at length all of them ran
They have generally had the name 0
being unfaithful, clanish, sordid. Slow
and weak, and have in all the in
stances we have heard of disappointee
their employers sadly.
Most of the Cinnamon who were on
platations in 1870 and 1871, we think
have gone to the cities and giIlges T.
hunt up light and easy positions, and T.
the North and West, and to California
We can hear of none on the Lafourch,
or in Terrebonne, though some planter
may yet employ them. 20
They may have reformed since 1871
and may be doing well on dozen plan
tations in the State, but we have no in
formation to that effect. -
One planter once said he wished Their,
were million of them. IN the State
We think million would seal the doom
OF Louisiana, and we would then sink t,
rise no more. 80
In the West Virginia Senate, on Fri
day, Senator Bennett declared that ths