The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-11-20
JOHN IN THE SOUTH.
The Chinese on the Plantations OF Lou
isiama.

| plbuuerb IL large nuuDerb were pIouBup
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 II.
DIR. Kittredge brought fourteen China
men from Cuba to his plantation on the
Laiourche, in 1868 or $50. They worked
very we'll for awhile, but were slow and
weak. They at length became almost
worthless; would not work stole eve
rything they could put their hands on
made an assault on the manager with
their sheath -knives-would have killed
him but for the intervention of faith
full negro with six-shooter. They were
all driven from the plantation.
After this over two hundred Cinnamon
were brought from China to this state (;
one hundred and fifteen were sent to q
plantation on the Lafourche, and forty
were placed on one plantation and twen-
ty on another, in the parish of Terre-
bone The one hundred and fifteen did
we'll for awhile, but at length a portion
ran away, others gave much trouble,
and we think there are none left on the
plantation at the present time. 1t cost
$3.50 head to bring them from China,
but they can be brought to the state
for much lower price.
The proprietor of the Millaudon plan
tation, near New Orleans, brought one
hundred and forty-one Cinnamon from
California through the agency of one
Gum Wing, or Kim Wing as it is some
times written. 1t cost about $12, 900 to
bring them to the plantation and start
them to work. They had not been at
work many weeks when Cum Wing made
his appearance on the plantation. When
the Cinnamon heard of it they made n
move in 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 i'll re-
straining the wrath of the pigtails.
They had to send for the city police who,
subdued them with their clubs and
threatened them with six-shooters. The
cause of the muss was that the China
men were dissatisfied with their con.
tract, and demanded that Cum Wing
and the planter should change it. AT
another time the overseer was compelled
to shoot one of them, wounding him IL
the arm. The whole body of them
armed with knives, clubs, axes ant
bludgeons, pursued him to the planter
house, demanded his blood, and could
not be restrained by any one. They are
said to have been the most diabolical
crowd that ever assembled in and around
New Orleans. Their eyes and counten-
ances were like those of incarnate
fiends. They were determined to search
the house in spite of the planter, but
the overseer escaped to Gretna, and
never came back again.
The agent Of the plantation said they
we're the most venial, thieving, tritilne
laborers he ever saw. Fifty of them
went to work for the chief contractor al
the penltentiary, and were afterward
discharged; forty ran away; twenty
five went to work for planter up th'
coast, and either ran away or were dis
charged. There are none on the Mil
laudon plantation now.
They have generally had the nam
of being unfaithful, clanish, sordid
slow and weak, and have in all the il
stances we have heard of disappointe
their employers sadly.
Most of the Cinnamon who were o
plantations in 1870 and 1871, we think
have gone to the cities and villages +
hunt up light and easy work, and to tn
north and west, and to California
We can hear of none on the Lafourche
or in Terrebonne, though some planter
may yet employ them. They may hav
reformed since 1871, and may be doinI
) well on dozen plantations in the state
but we have no information to that ei
feet.
One planter once said he wished ther
, were million of them in the state
We think million would seal the doom
: of Louisiana, and we would then sinl
to rise no more.
CAMPHoB AS A MEDICINE. Sclen
titic American lectures those people wh'
make frequent use of camphor as
medicine. 1t says: The physiological