The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-11-26

JOHN IN THE SOUTH.
The Chinese ON the Plantations Of I's,-
EsiRSP.

Inquiries have lately been made
through the columns Of aNew Orleans
journal in regard to the auooesa Of giii.
nese labor IN the sugar pis'1ehss IS f'otfs
iaiann. Suggestions were made in tn"
same article that it might benefit the
planters if large numbers were brought
to the plantations Of this state.
We do not know what satisfaction Chi
namen arc giving in 70, hut we hov"
some facts about them as lahorers in n.
DR.. Kittrcdge brought fourteen China
men from Cuba to his plantation ON the
Iafourcho, in 1868 or go. They worked
very well for awhile, but wore slow and
weak. They ut length became almost
worthless would not work; stole eve
rvthing they could put their hands on
mndc an assault on the manager with
their shcath-knivos- would have killed
him but for the intervention Of u faith.
ruI negro with n aix-shootcr, They w"r"
all driven from the plantation.
After this over two hundred Cinnamon
were brought from China to this FtNto
one hundred and fifteen werO sent to-
plantation on the LNfourchc, nnd forty
we're placed on one plantation and TWEEN
tv on another, in tho parish Of Torre-
bone. The one hundred and fifteen did
we'll for awhile, but Mt length q portion
ran away. others gave much trouble,
and we Uhink there are none left on the
plantation at the present time. 1t cost
1890 hend 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 f0rty.one Cinnamon from
California through the agency of one
Gum Wing, or Kim Wing ns it is some
times written. Tt cost about $12, 600 to
bring them to the plantation and start
them to work. They had not been Mt
work many weeks when Gum Wing made
his appearance on the plantation. When
the Cinnamon heard of it they made n
move in mass on the house, captured
Gum Wing, took him to their quarters.
took away his hat, coat and boots, and
it was Thought they would kill him.
The planter, agent, overaeer and ne
proeq, could have no influence IN re
etraining the wrath of the pigtalls.
They had to send for the city police who,
suhduod them with their clubs and
threatened them with six-shooters. The
cnuan Of the muss was that the China
men we're dissatisfied with their con-
tract, and demanded that Cum Wthg
and the planter should change it. AT
another time the overaeer was compelled
to shoot one of them. wounding hinlan
the arm. The whole body Of them,
armed with knives, clubs, axes and
bIudgeons, pursued him to the planters
house. demanded his blood, and could
not be restrained by any one. They are
BalN 10 nave Dten tIlb uuV5p ui"ppiiCt'i
crowd that ever assembled in and around
New Orleans. Their eyes and oounten-
ances we're like those of inearnate
fiends They were determined 10 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
were the most venial, thieving, 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 planter mp the
coast, and either ran away or were dis
charged. There are none on the Mil
laudon plantation now.
They have generally had the name
of being unfaithful, clanish, sordid,
slow and weak, and have in all the in
stances we have heard of disappointed
their employers sadly.
Most of the Cinnamon who were Oh
plantations in 1870 and 1871, we think,
have gone to the cities and villages to
hunt up light and easy work, and to the
north and west, and to California.
We can hear of none on the Lafourcbe'
or in Terrebonne, though some planters
may yet employ them. They may have
reformed since 1871, and may be doing
we'll on q dozen plantations in the state,
but we have no information TO that ef-
feet.
One planter once said he wished there
were million of them in the state.
We think million would seal the doom
of Louisiana, and we would then sink
to rise no more. %
DURATION OF TIMBER. 1t is curious