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The Cartemille Express I
T* published Semi-Weekly on every TUES
DAY AND FRIDAY, by
SAMUEL H. SMITH, Editor and Prop’r.
In the town of Canersville, Bartow County, Ga.
Terms of Subscliption i
One copy one year (in advance,)...... , $3.00
One copy six months. “ I.S
Thursday Morning Edition, one year) 1.50
This latter proposition is confined to citizens
of Bartow county only.
Terms of Advertising:
Transient (On* Month or Lent,) per square often
solid Nonpariel or Brevier lines or less. One
Dollar for the first, and Fifty Cents for each sub
sequent, Insertion.
Annual or Contract , One Hundred and Twenty
Dollar* per column, or in that proportion.
Jfaofewional (£ards.
John W. Wofford,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
V A RTF.RS VILLE GEORGI A.
Office over Pinkerton’s Drug Store. Oct. 17.
W. T. WOFFORD, A. P. WOFFORD.
Wolford Wofford,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
June 23, 1870.
IL W. iflurplicy^
ATTTQRNEY AT LAW,
OAETKRSVILLE, GEORGI A.
Will practice in the courts of the Cherokee
Circuit, Particular attention given to the col
lection of claims. Office with Col. Abda John
son. Oct. 1.
John J. Jones,
ATTORNEY AT LAW & REAL ESTATE AGENT,
CARTERSVILLE GEORGIA.
Will attend promptly to all professional busi
ness entrusted to his care; also, to the buying
and selling of Real Estate. Jan 1.
Jcre. A. Howard,
Ordinary of Bartow County, and
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Jan 1, 1870.
A. >ll. Foute,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Sj AETERBVILLE • .GEORGIA.
•{With Col. Warren Akin,)
Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cos
Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield and ad
joining counties. March 30.
JKO. COVE, J* H- WIKLE.
CoYfe Wikle,
ATTORNEYS At LAW AND NOTARIES PUBLIC.
C ARTERSVILLfe, GEORGIA.
C'hn Coxe, Coninllssioncr of Deeds for South
Camilla. __ «ept 0.
r. w. xusUW n - milxer.
yiflijcr A llilncr,
ATTORNEYS at law.
CARTERSVILLE, ~..i GEORGIA
Will attend promptly to business to
their care. Jan. 15.
"Warren Akin,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
C A RTKRSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Will practice in all the courts of the State.
Sain. 11. Patillo,
Fashionable Tailor and Agent
for Sewing Machines,
WILL attend promptly to the Cutting, Re
pairing, and Making Boys’ and Mens’
Clothing; also. Agent for the sale of the cele
brated Grover & Baker Sewing Machines. Of
fice over Stokely & Williams Store. Entrance
from the rear. feb 17.
Hr. J. A. Jackson,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
OF FIE IN DR. PINKERTON'S DRUG STORE
HE has so arranged bis business that he is
now prepared to devote his whole time and
attention ts the practice, and he feels confident,
with his extensive experience, that he can give
entire satisfaction. A liberal share of patron
age respectfully solicited.
Cartersville, Jan 6.
John W. I>ycr,
HOUSE-PAINTER.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Will attend promptly to business in his line.
Jan 19,1870— w1y
W. R. Mouiitcastle,
Jeweler and Watch and Clock
Repairer,
CARTERSVILI.E, GEORGIA.
Office in front of A. A. Skinner A Co’s Store.
Keimesaw House*
MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
IS still open to the traveling public as well as
summer visitors. Parties desiring to make
arrangements for the season can be accommo
dated. llooms neat and clean and especially
adapted for families. A fine large piazza has
been recently added to the comforts of the estab
lishment. * FLETCHER & FREYER,
junelß\vtf Proprietors.
English School.
MISS MIX DA HOWARD will open an Eng
lish Mixed School, in a School Room just
.completed, near the residence of J. A. Howard,
fCartersville, Ga., on the Second Monday in July
,next. Girls and little boys will be admitted on
Abe following terms :
JFtrst Class :
Spelling, Reading, Writing, Primary
Arithmetic and Geography, (per nonth) $1.50
Class:
English Grammar, Geography, Histo
ry, and Arithmetic, (per month,) $2.00
Xo deduction made for loss of time, except in
cases of protracted sickness.
The term will end on the 12th of December
nex t. Cartersvil ie, june 30-v. lin
G. W, LEE & CO .
JJAVE TAKEN CHARGE OF THE
Foundry and Machine Shop,
heretofore owned and mm by
MR. B. SCOFIELD,
of this place, and have engaged the services of
John *l. MjaJFontaine ,
Os Atlanta, Ga., as Foreman, which is a suffi
cient guarantee for the success of the establish
ment, as it is a well known fact, throughout the
State, that for promptness and ability, he can
not be surpassed.
We have, also, procured the services of the
Be§t Moulder in tiie South;
Also a corps of other Mechanics, and anew
supply of Machinery and Tools have been pur
chased.
Mr. J. R. HOWELL,
The Renowned Mill-Wrigdit,
Will make his headquarters at this Shop, where
his celebrated
Water IVheel,
MILL MACHINERY, will be built.
Orilers are solicited, at once, for anv kind of
Casting or piece of Machinery. We cl aim * trial
as we are strictly Southern mechanics and de-
tliu n competition to do better or cheaper
Kit* flguarauts Bbtrjj 3oS » ©o.
Will tell parties to the day Avhen they can h ive
their work, and, if not done according to nrnm.
ise, will make no charge. ° 1
We ask the patronage of our friends of the
South. Aid us, and keep the money at home.
Cr. W. LEE & CO.
Cartersville, Ga., june 20, JBTO.
SAM’L H. SMITH,
VOL. 9.
S. 11. PATTIULO, Agent
GROVER & BAKER'S CELEBRATED
wsm iMUia
BOTH THE ’
ELASTIC AID SHUTTLE
OR
«,OHM STITCH.
SUITABLE FOR ANY KIND OF FAMI
LY SEWING- JIONE BETTER-
Men and Boys’ Clothing
Made on the Most Reasonable Terms.
In fact, almost any description of
SEWING done
AsCheap as the Cheapest!
AND
IA THE BEST STYLE.
U. RED DING,
DEALER I
STOVES, CRATES, AND
LIGHTNING RODS,
PLAIN, PRESSED AND JAPANED TIN WARE,
AND
House Furnishing Goods,
Maiin Str., Cartersville, G\.
All kinds of Job Work done with neatness
apd dispatch.
The h" m Strange k Redding having
been dissolved, K mu *'\ al consent, I will
continue the businC ss a* tbeold stand,
feb 15 wly 2 KEPniNQ.
Atlanta Stencil & Variety Work*!
BEN. Z. DUTTON,
Manufacturer of and Dealer in StCllCli
Brasids Steel Dies, Steel Block Stamps,
*3 timing Brands, Brass Alphabets , (it'd all
Articles kept in a first class STEnCIm,-
HOUSE.
PRICE L IST OF MAI LADLE A R TICL ES
Name Plates for mark’g cloth’g, 75c
Steel Ring, f or keeping keys together, 25c
New Style key tag, name neat eng. 25c
Perpetual Almanac, the most ingenious
little article of the age,
Any of the articles in this list will be
mailed, to any address, on receipt of price,
or the whole of them for M
Address BEN. Z. DUTTON,
Lock Box 351,
mch 22-wly Atlanta, Ga.
N. B. —Circulars sent free.
— REPAIRER OF
JEWELRY, CLOCKS,
AND WATCHES;
Room in the store of Simon Liebman,
Cartersville, mch 22.
Every Stable.
Ford & Moon.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.,
IS prepared, at all hours, to furnish con
veyances into the country—saddle-horse,
buggy, hack, rockaway, or wagon. Also, to
board stock, &c. nov, 3.
Gear Shop,
Saddles
and GEAR, Manufactured and Repaired in
the very best style of the art, in the quickest
time and at the shortest notice, and for less
money than is usually paid for such work
and stock. Try me ! W. C. EDWARDS.
Cartersville. mch 9—wly
M.
DESTIW '
Teeth drawn without pain, by the use of nar
cotic spray. mch 9.
W H GILBERT & CO.,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.,
Dealers In
HARDWARE, IRON, STEEL, NAILS,
CASTINGS, AGRICULTURAL IM
PLEMENTS, and GR ASS SEEDS,
TERMS FROM THIS DATE::
STBIOTLT cash.
Agents for sale of
Threshing and Mill Machinery.
# Agents for sale of
Murfee Sub Soil Flows.
Agents for sale of
FERTILIZERS.
Dickson’s Compound;
W GOE’S,
Baugh’s Raw Bone, TAnd
OTHERS.
Agents for sale of Polk County
Slates For Roofing.
G GEORGIA, BARTOW COUNTY.-Whereas,
Mrs. Fannie C. Pritchett, and M. L. 1 ntch
ett nave applied to me for letters of administra
tion on the estate of William 11. Pritchett, dec’d,
late of said county. .
1 These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all
concerned, to show eause, if any they have, on
or before the Ist Monday in September, next,
whv said letters should not be granted said ap
plicants. J. J. HOWARD, Ordinary B. C.
July 28 1870
CARTERSVILLE, BARTOW COtATY, GEORGIA, AEG. 26, 1870.
TO PHYSICIANS.
New York, August 15tli, 1868
Allow me to call your attention to my
Preparation of Compound
Extract Buchu.
The component parts are BUCHU
LONG LEAF, CUBEBS, JUNIPER
_ BERRIES.
- ■ jfllh. *—- ..
Mode of Preparation.—Buchu, in
vacuo. Juniper Berries, by distillation, to form a fine
gin.. Cubebs extracted by displacement with spirits
spirits obtained from Juniper Berries: very little
sugar is used, and a small proportion of spirit. It is
more palateable than any now in use.
Buchu, as prepared by Druggists, is of alight color.
It is & plant that emits its fragrance ; the action of a
flame destroys this (its active principle,) leaving a
dark and glutinous decoction. Mine is the color of
ingredients. The Buchu in my preparation predomi
nates; the smallest quantity of the other Ingredients
are added, to prevent fermentation $ upon inspec
tion, it will be found not to be a Tincture, as made
in Pharmacopeea, nor is it a Byrup—and therefore
can be used in cases where fever or inflammation ex
ist. In this, you have the knowledge of the ingredi
ents aid the mode of preparation.
Hoping that you will favor it with a trial, and that
upon Inspection it will meet with your approbation
With a feeling of confidence,
I am very respectfully yours,
11. T.IIELMBOLD,
C nemist vnd Druggist
&f 16 gears' experience.
[From the Largest Manufacturing
Chemists in the World.]
November 4, 1854.
“I am acquainted with Mr. H. T. Hembold ; he oc
cupied the Drugstore opposite my residence,and was
successful in conducting buslress where others
had net been equally go before ui m « I have been fa
vorably impressed with his character enterprise.”
WILLIAM WEIGHTMAN,
Firm of Powers k Weightman,
Manufacturing Chemists,
Ninth and Brown street:, Philadelphia.
Helmbold’s Fluid Extract of
Bu<?hu
Is the great specific for Universal Lassitude, Prostra
tton, &c.
The constitution, once affected with Organic Weak
ness, requires the aid of Medicine to strengthen the
syslem, which IIEMBOLD’S EXTRACT BUCHU in
variably does. If no treatment is submitted to, Con
sumption or insanity ensues.
Helmbold’s Fluid Extract of Buchu,
, ... * * _ ■ ■ - > ,
In affections peculiar to Females, Is uneqnaled by
any other preparation, as in Chlorosis, or Retention.
Painfulness, or Suppression of Custom ary Evacuations,
Ulcerated or Schirrus State of the Uterus, and all
complaints incident to the sex, or the decline or
change of life.
Helmbold's Fluid Extract Buchu and
Improved Rose Wash.
Will radically exterminate from the-systems disease*
arising from the habits of dissipation, at little expanse
little or no change in diet, no Inconvenience of expos
ure ; completely superceding those unpleasant and
dangerous remedies, Oopaiva and Mercury, in all
these diseases..
Use Helmbold’s, Fluid; Extract Ruehu
In ail diseases of these organs, whether existing in
male or female, from whatever cause originating, and*
tone matter cf how long standing. It is pleasant in
taste and odor, “immediate” in action, and more
strengthening than any preparations of Bark or Iron.
Those suffering fromfbroken down or delicate con
stitutions, procure the remedy at once.
The reader must be aw'are that, however Blight may
be the attack of the above diseases, it is certain to af
fect the bodily health and mental powers.
All the above diseses require the aid of a Diuretic
nEMBOLD’S EXTRACT BUCHU is the great Diuret
ic.
Sold by Druggists everywhere. PRICE—
SI.2S per bottle, or 6 bottles for $6.50. —
Delivered to any address. Describe symp
toms in all communications.
Address
H, T. H EL M 8.0 L
DRUG ANJ CHEMICAL WAREHOUSE,
594 BROADWAY, New York.
None Are Genuine
Unless done up in steel-engraved wrapper
with sac-simile of my Chemical Warehoues
and signed
H. X. HELMBOLD.
SEMI-WEEKLY.
DR. JOHN BOLL'S
eat Remedies
SMITH'S TONIC SYRUP!
FOR THE CURE OF
AGUE AND FEVER
OR
CHILLS AND FEVER.
The proprietor of this celebrated medicine justly
claims font a superiority over all remedies ever offer
ed to the public for the safe, certain, speedy and ver
manentcure of Ague and Fever.,or ChJls and Fever
whetberof short or longstanding. He refers to the
entire Western and Southwestern country to bear him
testimony to the truth of the assertioti, t>rat in no case
whatever will it fail to cure, if the directions are strict
ly followed and out. In a great many cases a
single dose has beeJ sufficient foe a cure, and whole
families have been cured by a single bottle, with a per
fect restoration of the general health. It is, however
prudent, and in every case more certain to cure, if its
use is continued in smaller doses for a week or two af
ter the disease has been checked, more especially ia
difficult and long standing cases. Usually, this medl
c*n® will not require any aid to keep the bowels in
good order; should the patient, however, require a
cathartic! medicine, after having taken three or four
doses of the Tonic, a single dose of BULL'S VEGETA
BLE FAM’LY PIILS will be sufficient.
' DR, JOIIiV BILL’S
Principal Office
No. 40 Fifth, Cross street,
Louisville, Hy.
Bull’s Worm Destroyer.
.To my United States and World wide Head
ers:
I , received many testimonials from proses-
A sional and medical men, as my almanacs and vari
ous pub Ications have shown, all of which are genuine,
the following from a highly educated and popular
phpsician in Georgia, is certainly one of the most sen
sible cainmunicationf I hate ever received. Dr Clem
ent knows exactly what he speaks of, and his testimo
ny deserves to be written in letters of gold. Hear
what the Doctor says of Pull's Worm Destroyer
Villanow, Walker co., Ga. )
June 29th, 1866 $
DR. JOHN BULL—Dear Sir:—l have recently giv
en your Worm Destroyer” several trials, and find it
wonderfully efficacious. It has not failed in a single
instance, to have the wished-for effect. lam doing a
pretty large country practice, and have daily use for
some article of the kind. lam free to confess that I
know of no remedy recommended by the ablest authors
that Is so certain and speedy in its effects. On the con
trary they are uncertain in the extreme. My object
in writing you is to find out upon what terms I can
get the medicine directly from you. If J dan get it
upon easy terms, I shall use a great deal of it. lam
aware that the use of such articles is contrary to the
teachings and practice of a great majority of the reg
ular line of M. D.’s, but I see no just cause or good
sense in discarding a remedy which we know to be ef
ficient, simply because we may be ignorant of its com
bination. For my part, I shall make it a rule to use all
and any means to alleviate suffering humanity which
I may be able to command—not hesitating because
some on e more ingenious than myself may have learn
d its effects first, and secured the sole right tc secure
hat knowledge. However, lamby no means an ad
vocate or supporter of the thousands of worthiess nos
trums that flood the country, that purport to cure all
manner of disease to which humm flesh is heir.
Please reply soon, and inform me of your best terms.
1 am,sir, most respectfully,
JULIUS P. CLEMENT, M. D.
Bull’s Sarsaparilla,
A GODD .REASON F°R THE CAPTAIN’S FAITH,
READ THE CAPTAIN’S LETTER AND THE LET
TER FROM HIS MOSH#R,
Benton Barracks, Mo., April 30, 1566.
Dr. John Bull—Dear Sir: Knowing the efficienov
of your Sarsaparilla; and the healing and beneficial
qualities it possesses, I send you the following state-
I ment of my case:-
I was wounded about two years ago—was taken
prisoner and confined for sixteen months. Being
, moved so often, my wounds have not healed yet. I
’have not,sat HP a moment since 1 was wounded! I
am shot through the hips. My general health is im
paired, and I, need something to assist nature I
have more faith in your Sarsaparilla than in any thine
else. I wish that that is genuine. Please express me
half a doz eD bottles, and oblige
Capt. C. P. JOHNSON,
i St. Louis, Mo.
P. S.—The following was written April 39,1865, by
Mrs. Jennie Johnson, mother of Capt Johnson.
» DR. BULL—Dear Sir: My husband, Dr. C. S. John
son, was a skillful surgeon and physician in Central
New York, where he died, leaving the above C. P.
Johnson to my care. At thirteen years of age he had
a chronic diarrhoea and scrofula, for which I gave
him your Sarsaparilla. IT CURED HIM. I have for
ten years recommended it to many In New York, Ohio,
and lowa, for scrofula, fever sores, and general debili
ty. Perfect success has attended it.. The cures effect
td in totnc cases oj scrofula and fever sores were
almost miraculous. lam very anxious for my son to
again have recourse to your Sarsaparilla. He is fear
ful of getting a spurious article, hence his writing to
you for it. His wounds were terrible, but I believe he
will recover. Respectfully, JENNIE JOHNSON.
BULL’S CEDRON BITTERS.
AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS.
ARKANSAS HEARD FROM,
Testimony of Medical Men
Stony Point, White Cos., Ark., May 28, ’66.
DR. JOHN BULL—Dear Sir: Last February I was
in Louisville purchasing Drugs, and I got some of
your Sarsapparllla and Cedron Bitters.
My son-in-law, who was with me in the store, has
been down with rheumatism for some time, commen
ced on the Bitters, and soon found his general health
Improved.
i Dr. Gist,, who has been in bad health, tried them,
and he also improyed.
Dr. Coffee, who has b£en in bad health for several
years —stomach and liver affected—he improved very
much by the use of your Bitters. Indeed the Cedron
Bitters has given yoti great Popularity in this settle
ment. I-think! could sell a great quantity of your
medicines this fall—especially of your Cedron Bitters
and Sarsaparilla. Ship me via Memphis, care ot
Rickett * Neely, Respectfully,
c a walker,
All the above remedies for sale by
L. H. BRADFXELD.
Druggist,
WAITEHALL STREET,
ATLANTA, GA .
feb*2Q, 1869m>1 y
Editor and Proprietor.
v [For the Cartersville Express.
llow Shall Tlie South he Built
pP?
Under the head of “Immigration to
the South,” the New York Turf, Field
and Fann, gives the following facts,
which are so important and significant
that no apology is necessary for quo
ting the article in full:
“The Southern people have opened
their eyes to the importance of foreign
immigration. They have a beautiful
country, genial climate arid broad
acres of fertile land, but labor is scarce
in proportion to the extent of territo
ry. Without abundant labor there
cannot be large production; and it is
production that makes national
wealth. The war emancipated the
slave, and with the end of slavery there
has been a rapid decrease of the labor
ing force of the South. Emancipation
removed a dark blot from our institu
tions, but whether the suddenness of
the act benefitted the black race is
open to question. It is certain that
the freedman is not so blessed with
health as was the slave. Those who
enjoy good health do not fall into ear
ly graves, but they pass through the
silver of life before making their exit
from this mundane sphere. And be
ing healthy and living long they repro
duce themselves and multiply in num
bers instead of decreasing. The stern
logic of statistics shows that the condi
tion of the negro has not been improv
ed by sudden emancipation. Since he
has been a freedman he has been dying
at an alarmingly rapid rate. We say
alarming, for the great mortality has
seriously reduced the-productive pow
er of the Southern States. Labor is
what the South stands in need of, and
yet month after month, the laboring
force of the section grows smaller and
feebler. In South Carolina alone, in
the four years that succeeded the clos
ing of the war, there was an evapora
tion in the colored population of 35,- |
107 souls, or 8,776 per annum. Prior
to the war the slave population of the j
State not only maintained its maxi-1
mum strength, but increased at the
rate of about 2,000 per year. These j
are significant facts. At the rate of ,
the present mortality it will take only j
forty-four years to render the black.
man extinct in South Carolina. And
what is true of South Carolina is true
of other late slave-holding States. —
Men who have taken the trouble to
ponder the figures realize that some- j
thing must be done to the
threatening danger. If the South
wishes to be great and strong through
the development of her natural re
sources, she must take some steps to
supply anew laboring force and anew
productive power, The truth is dawn
ing upon the minds of her people that
white labor must take the place
black labor, and that the army of la
borers must be recruited from foreign
shores. They see that foreign immi
gration has chiefly made the North
what she is, that it has enabled her to
anticipate her natural growth by near
ly half a century, and they propose .to
profit by the lesson. The colored
population is dwindling away, and fair
fields must not lie idle, must not be
overgrown with weeds, when there are
tens° of thousands^ of stout workers in
overcrowded Europe anxiously waiting
opportunity to carve out anew fu
ture in a land where there is a pros
pect of labor meeting with its just re
ward. Heretofore the South has
repelled these laborers. Slave labor
was the death of free labor, and, there
fore, immigrants turned their faces
resolutely from the Southern States. —
But the war has changed the whole
order of things. The South is now
open to an army of workers, and the
people invite the laborers to settle
among them. South Carolina, the
most autocratic of the old slave pow
ers, takes the lead in giving encour
agement to foreign emigration. She
invites the poor laborer to come and
fill up the waste places, and promises
to extend every protection to him.-
And yet, the problem of foreign immi
gration to the South is surrounded
with practical difficulties. Some of
these difficulties were briefly stated by
Prof. Maury in his letter to the Con
vention heid at Charleston in May
last. “There is, as you are aware,”
wrote the Processor, “a strong preju
dice in the minds of European immi
grants generally against the South,
owing to their educated ignorance with
regard to us. They think that we al
ways despised labor; that we hate the
laborer, and look down upon his occu
pation with contempt. They are still
taught to believe, and many of them
do believe, that if they were to come
to the South they would be made
slaves of instantly. There is another
large class of them who believe that
the Southern people are a lawless and
semi-barbarous set; that the South
ern. climate is deadly to the white la
borer, and that the negro is among ua
only because the negro, and he alone,
could endure our climate as a laborer.
One of the tasks before us is to enlight
en this ignorance and remove these
prejudices.” The Convention gave
thoughtful consideration to these views
of Prof. Maurv, and it promptly voted
P rent lit m lor Subscribers.
o will give anv man n sntonriitf iu'xs
silver Watch, worth $2(1.00, who will j-cnd ns th«
names of Fifty Subscribers with #IOO.
will give any man anew #25.00 Sad
dle who will do the same; or a #l2.ooSaddle, who
will send 25 nam '•> with #50.00.
JfcflT We will give aiiy man a soo.oW«et of bug.
gy Harness, who will <4* mi usthenafftes of Sixty
Subscribers with #120.00.
All the above articles arc new.-
| will give anv man a nOftiher one tort
i Buggy, worth #15(LOO, who w ill.-Send us tlm
names of 300 subscribers with #OOO.OO.
We will give any man 25 per cent, in
greenbacks, advertising, job work, or tmbscrip
iions to the tor all cash Subscriptions,
job work, ami ad vcrtS?ng, they will send us at
our Advertised rates.
f f&3F*'So. friends, go to work, and at ail tour-'
selves of one or all of the a hot e propositions.
IXO. 13.
to take steps to remove the prevailing
prejudice. It was decided to form in
each county of the State a Laiid Im
migration Society in order the
whole people might move reacpY co
operate in the movement. It was also
recommended that each of these soci
eties secure certain tracts of land, to
be divided into small farms, to be sold
or given to immigrants as the exigen
cies of the case might require. The
Convention was deeply in earliest, and
if the people at large sustain its action 1
much will be done toward making im
migration to South Carolina a fixed
fact. The State oilers superior in
ducements to immigrants. It is favor
ably situated, is mid-way between the
frozen regions of the North and the
heat of the tropics, and it possesses
great variety of productions. Cotton,
wool, silk and flax can be grown with
little expense and the ordinary care;
and the fertile soil yields large crops of
Indian corn, oats, rye, barley, potatoes,
&c. Game abounds in the woods and
fish in the streams and the ocean.—
So within the borders of the State, an
industrious people can produce all the
leading articles of clothing and food,
and when tired of work amuse them
selves with rod and gun. The topo
graphical condition of the State is re
markable. Wheat and sugar-cane
grow side by side, and the olive and
orange ripen under the same sun. To
take advantage of these blessings there
must be more workers in the State
than now. Immigration will make a
new power of South Carolina; and
what foreign immigration can do for
all the other Southern Suites. Once
fairly start the. tide of immigration
Southward States, and fifty years from
now a black face will almost be un
known in that section.”
But while an increase of laborers is
necessary to ensure the prosperity of
the South, more is needed. We need
improved agricultural implements and
all kinds of labor-saving machinery, so
that more and better work can be done
with a smaller laboring force. We
need to diversify our labor, so as to
feed and clothe our owm population,
instead of purchasing everything a
broad and exhausting our soil to furn
ish cheap clothing to the world.
Asa writer in a late number of tlio
Atlanta Period very truly remarks—
“ She (the South can never become
prosperous as long as she expends all
her energies and means in raising cot
ton to purchase meats, bread, flour,
mules, fertilizers, etc?., at higher prices
than she can make them at home.”
Such utterances as these have been
so often made that they have become
rather stale atid common place. But
they must be made again and again—
must be repeated over and over, until
put into practice. Increase of laborers
and labor-saving machinery is very im
portant and desirable; but diversity of
labor —the building up of home manu
factories—the retention and expendi
ture of our means among ourselves are
absolutely essential to our prosperity.
Besidse the development of our ma
terial resources by the means indicated,
we should build up and sustain our
educational institutions, and foster a
literature of our own. This literature
should be independent but not licen
tious—pure and yet progressive—con
servative but not old-fogyish. „ White
we avoid the dangerous mns that have
undermined morals and disorganized
society in some parts, we must not.
cling too tenaciously to prerogatives,
and distinctions having their origin in.
a state of things which has passed
away with slavery, the basis of such
distinctions and prerogatives.
Our press should be literal, as well
as progressive. Because humbug ad
venturers seek by various means to
make the press subservient to their
selfish, and often immoral designs, this
is no reason why our papers should re
fuse to notice, freely, and without so
licitation, enterprises that conduce
largely to the public good, though by
so doing private interests might be in
cidentally promoted.
I think the editor of the Albany News
takes a proper view of this subject
when he says: “Great enterprises,
though private, are not objectionable
as matter for letters. Men who build
up cities and develop resources deserve
our assistance.” And I may add,
whether the men themselves are wor
thy or not, the enterprises in which
they are engaged are often.of such im
portance as to merit notice, independ
ently of The character of those engaged
in them. • • - ■
For example the “Cotton and Wool
en Mills,” near Marietta, are manufac
turing, as we learn from an editorial