The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-06-21

Mr. Edward NJ Baykin, Emigration Com
missioner for the State of South Carolina, has
been in correspondence with Superintendent
Jackson, Of Castle Garden, for some time past,
with view Of securing desirable settlers for
South Carolina from among the throngs of imm-
grants who are now arriving at this port by
every steamer. The offer which Mr.. Baykin
was authorized 10 make on behalf of his State
was liberal one German or Swedish people
were preferred, he sad and large families, with
girls and boys Of from ten to eighteen years,
were especially wanted The travelling expenses
of the immigrants will be paid to South Carroll
ma. They will be given houses and garden
plots free, fair wages in the cotton mills and 9th
er manufactures will be guaranteed and for those
who are farmers certainty OF work at good pay
is promised. Superintendent Jackson was asked
to make the selections, the choice being left to
his judgment de has picked out seventeen
families, mostly Germans, who will be sent to
South Carolina to-day.-Neac York Herald
We publish the above to show what other
sections Of the South are doing in The cause of
immigration. II is o fact known 10 all readers
Of the dispatches that the largest foreign immi-
grafton ever known is now arriving on our
shores, and it is largely made up of The thrifty
Germans and Swedes-many of them being per-
sons Of mean. Florida has Bureau OF Imm-
grafton, with a Commissioner of said Bureau
with an appropriation Of $4,000 year at his
command but no one has ever heard of said Com
missioners making an effort to bring this class of
immigrants To Florida We need those Germans,
and here in Florida they would find better
field for their endeavors Than anywhere else in
the Unled States. The German immigrants
are enterprsing and thrifty, and the men could
Immediately find remunerative employment all
over our Stale while the women, those who
would not necessarily be employed in the man.
agement Of their own hous, holds, could find
homes, at good wages, in hundreds If families in
Orange County alone This rule would apply
the Sfafn "a fnr 0OlOrn6 Ia dOr
labor is so unreliable here at present that bet
ter class of household help would be hailed with
delight by household keepers everywhere. The
out after its share of these immigrants but as
yet Florida has done nothing. We earnestly
hope that if the Slate docs not make direct
effort to turn portion of this tide OF immigra-
lion In this direction, that the New York and
Florida lines of railroads and ocean steamers will
take as active an interest in the matter as do the
transportation lines leading to the West, through
whose effort nearly all the foreign immigration
is at present induced to go west.-Sdnt0rd Jowr.
MI.
The Sumter county Agricultural and Fruit
Growers Association has decided to send an
agent 10 Castle Garden, New York City, for The
purpose Of the securing German and other Eu-
ropean Immigrants The Bureau of Immigra-
ton has taken hold of this matter and it is to
be hoped that the suggestions Of the FLoRIprAN
on the subject of securing skilled gardeners and
fruitgrowers for Florida win yet bear rich fruit