Department of Immigration and Labor [pp. 575-580]

IMIMIGRATION AND' LABOR. 575T
cents, gold, as many predict, its culture can be continued profitably in
Brazil. The New York Shipping List is of opinion that even at present
figures, say fifteen cents, gold, in Liverpool, India and Egypt are unable to
grow the staple profitably.
APIT. X.-DEPARTTMENT OF IMMIGRATION AND LABOR.
1.-THE LOUISIANA BUREAU.
lWE are indebted to J. C. Kathman, Esq., Chief of the Bureau of Immigration
for Louisiana, for a number of extracts from his official registry, showing the
wants of the people and the sacrifices they are willing and eager to make
to induce labor to come among them. We have space for only two letters
in this issue, but will recur to these papers at some future time. It will be
hard if such offers as the following should fail to attract attention.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 25th, 1867.
To the Chief of the Butreau:
SiR,-I have twenty acres of land six miles from this city, on the Gentilly
Road, on which I want to get a man and family to cultivate the same. It
has four hundred plum trees and nine pecan trees, is rich land and also a
go d market garden. The person will have to supply himself with a horse
and cart, as well as with his own rations, and I will expect in payment for
rent, half of the crop. The man can get possession of the land on the first
of December. Yours respectfully,
G. DAVISCOURT.
AMITE CITY, LA., Oct., 28th, 1867.
To the Chief of the Bureau:
SIr,-I have one thousand acres of land free from overflow, within twenty
miles of Jackson Railroad, and seventy miles from New Orleans. I propose
to divide said track in forty acre lots, and give to a company of immigrants
every alternate block, on condition that each settler clear and put in cultivation twenty acres, and build a cabin within two years; or I will sell said
track for $2,500 cash, or if they want time, ten per cent. interest for one to
three years., There are others adjoining my land who would divide, and
give half to actual settlers. No portion of the country can boast of as good
health and water; it is situated in the parish of St. Helena.
Very respectfully, B. MOORE.
The European agents of the Bureau encounter the same opposition and
misrepresentation of which Gen. Wagner complains. Mr. Kathman has
furnished us with reports from his representatives in Stockholm and Zurich, in which some of the influences brought to bear upon the emigrant to
divert him from the South are recounted. Despite these influences, however, the agent in Stockholm promises a large supply of hardy Swedes and
Norwegians in the spring. The Rev. B. F. White, agent at Zurich, writes
as follows:
J. C. KATHMAN, ESQ.
Chief of the Bureau of Immigration for State of Louisiana.
HON. SIR, —Your communication of May 21st, was received yesterday.