The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-05
TAR HEEL NEGROES ENGRAVING.
They Go Through Savannah by the
Train-Load, Bound for Texas.

They Go Through Savannah by the
Train-Load, Bound for Texas.
Another train-load OF 400 colored people
passed through Savannah last night, en-
route 60 Texas. 1t is estimated that 5000
negroes have left North Carolina for Texas
since the winter season began. The passen-
ger agents all over Georgia have been busy
furnishing transportation for them. John
a. Gee Of the Atlanta and West Point rail-
road was in Savannah last night looking
after train-load en- route to Louisiana.
They are going on farms near Shreveport
owned by j. Richardson, a wealthy planter.
The majority Of the enigrants, however,
are going to Texas. They 20 as laborers on
the large cotton plantations. The planters
in the west deposit at the ticket Office
located in the North Carolina town where
the emigration train starts the fare for as
| many negroes as the train will bring. The
fare Is about s23 for each emigraut. The
train Is usually two days on the road, and
the planters have TO furnish pro-
visions for the emigrants. The depots
In North Carolina towns, the agents say, are
swarming with colored people who want to
go west. From Kingston to Wilmington,
trunks and pine boxes, containing the
/ possessions of the North Carolina colored
farmers, are piled up beside the track as
nigh as mans head. The emigration
fever has struck them, and it will NOW a
wide field in the sward of North Cardinals
colored population.
The railroad agents say that the desire of
the negroes to go west is brought on by
short harvests in North Carolina last year.
Crops there did not turn out as the people
expected, and the loss has been felt by the
| colored people. Many of them are in need
\ The failure OF the crops has demoralized
them and they are willing to go anywhere
That portion of North Carolina where
the emigration fever prevails is
densely populated with colored peo-
pie. They live within a stones throw
| OF each other all through that section, and
the amount of land that each has to Guilt
vate is very small. They run farms owned
by white people living in the northern por-
ton of the state, and the colored people
| receive one-half of what is raised on the
farms. They get no money at all, except
In exceptional cases where planters living
higher up in the state employ them at
standing wages"
| In the west where colorad labor is not so
| plentiful, the colored farmers receive good
wages. Those who have gone out and
tried living in Texas and Louisiana have
| written letters back to their North Caro-
Ina friends giving them glowing descrip-
ton Of the west. The climate in those
portions of Texas and Louisiana where the
North Carolina negroes are going is
warmer than in the section of North Caro-
lima where they have lived This is an
other inducement for them to emigrate.
Travelling Passenger Agent Shaw, Of the
Central. knows more about the North Caro-
lima negroes in the section in which they
live, their habits, etc, than probably any
other railroad man in the country. He has
furnished transportation for more than any
other agent. He said that the railroads have
nothing to do with getting emigrants That
is the duty of the emigrant agent.
| There Is really very little trouble
about getting the parties, however.
All that is required is TO start train out,
let them know it is for emigrants, and in a
distance of less than one hundred miles it
will be packed.
Within the last ten days he said that over
800 negroes had passed through Savan-
nah. Mr.. Shaw had train of seventy-five
colOred turpentine hands going through
| from North Carolina to Southwest Georgia
yesterday, and he will have another train
Of about 400 to-day, going to turpentine
farms in the lower part of the state.