The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, August 28, 1865, Image 2
JCOLITMBIA/
Monday Morning, Aug. 28, 1865
Cotton-Its Value.
Everyday's exp?rience satisfies, more
and more, that the estimated amount
of cotton in tho Southern States has
been grossly exaggerated. Some iwc
months ago we were censured for giv?
ing tho cotton quotations in Columbia
at 30 cents. By whom were we cen?
sured ? By Yankee speculators, sent
hero with all expedition, to buy cot?
ton a^low as possible. They suc?
ceeded. They bought from some of
bur farmers, who needed money and
?had *to sell, at prices ranging from
12>? to 15 cents. They expostulated
with us ,then for saying that every
pound of this cotton was worth ait
least thirty cents. We told them then,
as our readers "will remember, that
there was always a material difference
in the estimates of buyer and seller
. we said: ''Our people are the sellers
you ard the buyers-the speculators,
or buyer?, must take care of them?
selves-wo will do* our best to take
care of our own people." Your cotton
is your specie. It is valuable. Do
not suffer yourself to bc swindled out
of it. Get for it as much as you c?n
You will "need all you can get. In the
C|se of a country so dreadfully impov?
erished as ours, wc cannot afford to
be swindled. Every dollar that is
made by the speculators, is lost to the
South. Every cent additional that
you can make is st) much clear gain to
the South, and it is our policy to save
to our section all that we can, from
thc small resources loft us." Well,
what is the condition of things now.
Cotton is over thirty cents. It will
be still higher. We would not take
? less than fifty cents, in greenbacks, for
any cotton of fair quality that we had
to sell. Wo only wish that we had
one thousand bales. Do not heed any
reported fluctuations in tho cotton
market. These'are more shows de?
vised by the .speculators. Hold on fri
your cotton. Get thc best prices.
Keep the money in the country. So
shall you be enabled to replenish your I
stocks; to restock your' farms and
plantations; to buy mules and horses
and implements; to put yourselves
above waut and starvation. Another
year and there will be very little cot?
ton any where to sell. Before Janu?
ary this fact will begin to bc apparent.
The consumers will discover not onhjf
that there is a smaller supply in the j
country than has been reported, but
that, during the present year, the
quantity, raised will be purely nominal.
Tn a few months more-thanks to abo?
litionism-they will discover that the
prospect of cotton raising for the fu
" ture is utterly ?one unless wo can pro?
cure labor from Europe, for our mid- |
die and upper Countries. In those
regions, with European labor, we jnay
hopo to make a fair amount of cot?
ton-vastly less than of (dd-but still
better than the present. We give up
? all calculations of cotton, based, in the
future; upon negro labor: Most of
tiie negroes on the plantations are
luxuriating in dreams of sybaritic life j
inthecit?es and along the coast. As
for tho rice culture-thc; get urns of
this very season will save us thc ne?
cessity of any comment upon its pros?
pects.
Negro SiiiFruge-?orfll and South.
As tho case stands at present,, suf?
frage is accorded in few States of the !
North to the negroes ofthat region. I
Our conservative, friends at the North I
have planted themselves on this
ground: They say it is absurd and in?
solent, on the part of the North, to in?
sist upon negro suffrage at the South
while denying it in the Northern
States. Suppose that, resolved on
subjecting thc South to this humilia?
tion, they proceed to accord suffrage
to tho negroes *of their own States.
This will be a frand and delusion.
The negroes in tho Northern States
constitute so small an integral of thc
population that they cannot, by any
possibility, effect tho returns, or in?
fluence tho vote of the white bodj
politic. They are but a drop in the
bucket. Tho matter will bo more
fccrious in thc South, where tho
negroes constitute* so large a. por- ?
tion of the people. In some of the
States, thej? are, in numbers, the as?
cendant population. Iii ?di of them,
from the inequalities of whites and
bltieks, in different counties, the con?
test between the two classes may not
only be of dangerous results, but may
end in the elevation of tho inferior
race,flacking all education, all culture,
all intellect, all morals, an ck> de gradin g
to any Legislature or Congress in
which they may'appear. Take the
ease of South Car .lina. According
to the census of lKOO, the number ol*
Districts in South Carolina in which
thc white race preponderates, is but
ten', that in which thc black prepon?
derates isttcenti/. Beaufort, for exam?
ple, which contained a choice white
population of the first .intellect and :
finest manners, a people of great re.
finement, high culture and exquisite
courtesy, numbers but 0,714 whites
agaidst 33,339 blacks: Charleston it?
self contained but about 30,000 whites
to 40,001) blacks; Abbeville about,
12,000 whites to 20,000 blacks; Colle
ton 10,000 whites to 'kl.ooo blacks;
Edgefield 16,000 whites to 24,000
blacks, ?ve. Now, these figures aro
scarcely correct in their details. The
disproportion wc, believe to lie less
great, but it is still suilieiently so to
put the whit,)' at the mercy of the
black race, if the Abolitionists ure to
have their own way. Ami of like sort
is tho relative compulation sn Georgia,
Alabama. Mississippi, ?fr. What, then,
is thc prospect for white <?r human civ- I
ilization, if President Johnson is not
sustained in bis efforts to keep in tin ir
present relations the relative status of
whites and blacks* Lot the radicals
trinmphin their policy, and the expa?
triation of the white race must Follow*.
We must all-go into exile. The South
must be abandoned to tho negro. The
few districts and counties in which thc
white population preponderates, must ,
be overwhelmed by the neighboring
sections, flooded With blacks, a.id what
follows from the possesion of the coun?
try by the negro? Justice Ch:-;-.- fan?
cies tiie establishment ?d' ? beautiful
race, cut in ebon;,-, in which aristocra?
cy, chivalry, and a tar higher and purer
civilization aro to grow, which will |
throw tho doings of' the white vulgar j
Democracy entirely into the shade; |
and cotton, and rice, and tob.?eeo, and !
the sugar cane are all io (!i)i;*?sh i'mder
the perfect labor syst' m which is to re?
sult from tin? de viii ?pmentof this favor?
ed race. Wo augur differently. We seo
nothing from thc ?condition of things
but barbarism, the utter waste ol' the
country, savagism, vagabondism, li- |
cense, the utter destruction of all our i
staples, and the festering of the South
as an incubus upon the neck of the !
'North, to be the punishment forever
for her folly, fanaticism and the ?u rn- j
liar morals of New England.
COTTON- CIT.TI mr. IN TAI rm.- The!
Paris Moniten* <h: la Flott?, publishes a j
letter from Tahiti, of the Isl of April, j
which gives a very favorable account
of the progress of cotton planting in
.?hat island. One planter has cleared j
and planted 2?0 aeres, at which ne |
employ's 000 lal ?orel's. To render tho
cultivation of cotton more easy, the
planter divided his farm int?? squares
of ten a -res each byi ross roads, w hich
separate each row of cotton plants by
a distance of two yards. The cotton
seed was purchased in Liverpool, and
sown in September and October, lt
succeeded wonderfully well, the crop
being abundant and of'the finest
quality. Thc cultivation of cotton is
not the sole occupation ol* tlic Euro?
pean colonists. While the plains near
thc sea are planted wirb cotton, a
source of great wealth !:us leen dis?
covered in the vallovs by which the
mountains aro divided within about
five%nilos from the shore. ,A oompany
has undertaken to grow coffee, in thc
valleys,? from?whi<Mi they expect to
d'-rive an iuiiSLcnse profit, as the con?
sumption of codee, is making great
progress in the island. The Prussian
three-masted ship Ferdinand Brumm
had arrived at Tahiti with 330 Chinese
laborers. The Governor bad provided
for their reception, and they appeared
to be quite happy.
A Countess, living in a fashionable
quarter of London, was recently fined
five shilling by a magistrate for be ing
drunk and disorderly.
Among the latest additions to the
company at Montreal were Comman?
der Wilkinson, of the Tallahasse, and
?Taylor Wood, a former commander of
thu same.
Ladies patronize the faro banks at
Saratoga, tins summer. It is the latest
"foreign fashion" from the German
watering places.
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FiDiiiliar Q,??tations.. % .
There are many phrases and quota?
tions which are as "familiar in our
mouths as household Words," whoso
origin is either unknown or miscon?
ceived, and without encroaching upon
the sphere of the works devoted to
this purpose, we may mention a few
of them : "There is death in the pot,"
is from the Bible, 2 Kings iv., 40.
"Lovely and pleasant in their lives,
and in death they were not divided,"
is spoken of Saul and Jonathan, 2
Samuel, i., 23. "A man after his own
bea vt," 1 Samuel, xiii., 14. "The
apple of his eye," Deuteronomy, xix.,
21. ."A still small voice," 1 Kings,
xix., 12. * Escaped with the skin of
my teeth," Job, xix., 2th? "That mino
adversary had written a hook," Job,
xxL, 30. "Spreading himself like a
green bay tree," Psalm xxxvii., 35.
"Hanged our harps upon the willows,"
Psalm exxxvii., 2. "Riehes certainly
make (-not take, as it is often quoted)
theuiselv&i wings," Proverbs, xxiii., 5.
"Heap coals of tire upon his head,"
Ibid, xxv., 22. "No new thing und -r
the sun." Ecclesiastes, i., 9. "Of
making.man y books there is no end,"
Ibid, xii., 12. "Peace, peace, when
!'.lu re is no peace," (made famous by
Pat lick Ibnry) Jeremiah, viii., ll.
"My name is L?gion." Mark, v.,
"Tokickugidnst'thepricks," Acts-, ix.,
5. "Make; a virtue of necessity,"
Shakspeare's Two Gentlemen of Ve?
rona. "All that glitters is iud. gold."'
usually quoted "Ail ia not gold that
glitdHf" Merchant of Venice. "Screw
your courage to the sticking place,"
(not point) Macbeth. "Make assu?
rance doubly sure," Mac be th. "Hang
?oui your banners on the outward (not
oulf?r) walis," [bid. "Keep the word
of jiromi.se io our (not thc) ear, but
hreaK it to our h upc," Ibid. "It is an
iii wind turns none to good," usually
quoted "It's an ill wind that blows no
oneariy good," Tlrumas Teaser, 1.58!).
"Christmas comes but once a year,"
Ibid. "Look, ere yon leap," Ibid.
"Look before you. ere yon leap,"
commonly quitted ..Look before you
leap," Hr.ilibras. "Out of mind as
soon as out of sight," usually quoted
"Out of sight out of mind," Lord
Brooke. "W hat though the field be
lost, all is not lost," Milton. "Awake,
arise, or be forever fallen," Ibid.
"Nectssity tl io tyrant's plea," Ibid.
"That old man,* eloquent," Hud.
"Peace hath her victories," Ibid.
"Though this mav be play to you, 'tis
death to us," LiogerL'Estrange, 1804.
"All erv and no wool," (not little wool)
llud?bras. "C. tint t'ieir chickens ere
(not ix fore) they're hatched," Ibid.
"Through thick .and thin," Dryden.
..When Creeks joined Greeks, then
was the tug of war," usually quoted
..When. Greek meets Greek, then
comes tin-tug of war," Nathaniel Lee,
lo'?2. "Of two evils, I have chose th?
least," Prior. ^"Richard is himseli
again," Colby Gibber. "Upper ten
thousand," N. ?'. Willis. "Classit
ground." Addison. "As clear as a
whistle," Byron, 17(53. 'A fellow
feeling makes one (ind MS) wondrous
kind." Burns. "A good hater," John
soniana. "My name is Norval," John
Home, 1S0S. "Ask me nd questions,
and I'll tel! you no fibs," Goldsmith.
"Not mindi the worse for wear," (not
//.>,.-. the worse) Cowper. "What wit
Mrs. Gnublay say." Thomas Morton.
"Mo pent up Utica contracts youl
powers," Jonathan M. Sewell. "Hat!
given hostages io fortune," Bacon,
"His (God's) imago cut in ebony,"
Thofhus Puller. "Wise and masterly
inactivity," Mackintosh, in 171)1? but
generally attributed to Randolph
"First in war, lirsi in peace, and firs'
in tho hearts of his fellow-citizens.'
(not countrymen) resolutions present
ed to House of Representatives, De
comber, 17'.*'..', prepared by Genera
Henry Lee. "Millions for defence
but nol uno cont !\->r tribute," Charlo
('. Pinch M ey. "Th8 almighty dollar,'
Washington riving. ".Vs good us ?
play," King Churlos, when in Purlin
tneui at teliding the discussion of Lon
Kos. .' Divorce I Jill. "Selling a bar
gain," ii in Lov< i's Labor Lost. "Pas
and lo ?se, "'Ibid. "Pumping a mau,'
Ot way's Venice Preserved. "In th
wrong- box," POM'S Martyrs. "G>
snacks," Pope's Prologue to Satires
"To lanni in thc sensu of to heat,
King .t ul No King, by Beaumont am
Fletcher. Tile hackneyed newspnpe
Latin quotation "'frntpora mutantui
Dime! mu!: i mai' in .7is not foui?
in any classic or Latin author. Th
nearest approach to it was "Omni
mnlaitlur,"' etc., and this is found i
lionrbonius, n German writer of th
middle-ag s. "Smelling of the lamp,
is to be found in Plutarch, and is thor
attributed to Pythias. "A little bir
told me," conies from Ecclesiastes, x
"For a bird of tho air shall carr
the voici?, and that which hath wing
shall tell the matter."
"Ho that iiviiits and runs away,
?lay live to light an..;her day.''
These lines, usually ascribed 1
Hudibras, arc really much older. They
are to be foiind in a book published
in 165G. Tho same idea is, however,
expressed in n couplet published in
1542, while one of tho few fragments
of Menander, thc Greek writer, that
have been preserved, embodies the
same idea in a sjjigle hue. The couplet
in Hudibras is:
"For those that fly may fight again,
Which ho cttu never do that's slain."
.'Heil is paved with good^uten
tious," though found in Johnson and
Herbert, was obviously in their day a
proverbial exptession. Walter Scott
ascribes it to "some stern old divine."
"There's a good time coming,'" is an
expression used by Sir Walter Scott
in Hob Hoy, and has doubtless for a
long; time been a familiar saying in
Scotland. ltErepuil cohf uhuen, sce?j
trunique tyrannic," was a line upon
Franklin, written by Turgot, the Mi?
nister of Louis XVI. It is, however,
merely ti modification of a line by
Cardinal Polignac, "J?ripttU que Jori
fuluo:ri. Phd'boque sagitas," which, in
turn, was taken from a line of Marcus
M. uillus, who says of Epicurus,
? ?Eripuitque Jori fairnea, riresque' To
.rnnti." "Vox pop ali, vox Did." The
'origin of this familiar phrase is not
known, but it is quoted as a proverb
by William of Malmesbury, who lived
in the early part of the twelfth centu?
ry. "Ult hita red io region." This motto
was engraved on "the French cai Tuon
by order of Louis XVI.
"Whistling girls and crowing hens,
Always <IIi'. to some bad end.''
ly ono of the curious Chinese books
recently translated and published in
Paris, this proverb occurs in substan?
tially the same words. It 4s also an
injunction of the Chinese priesthood,
and a carefully observed household
custom, to kill immediately every hen
that crows, ns a preventive against tho
misfortune \\hieb the circumstance is
supposed to indicate. The same prac?
tice prevails throughout many portions
of the United States.
NORTHERN ACCOUNT OP AFFAIRS IX
SOUTH CAROLINA..The. New York
Herald learns from its Charleston cor?
respondent that "very little attention
has boon paid by the army officers to
the demands of Governor Perry's ? j vii
appointees for a surrender to them of
superior control in tho administration
of affairs, and the Palmetto State still
romains uuder military rule. There
has boon no actual collision, but con?
siderable disagreement and lack of co?
operation between the civil and mili?
tary ahthorities. Gen. Gilhnore, \rlio
recently returned to Charleston from
his tour through the interior and con?
ference with Gov. Perry, is represent?
ed as stating that, the military will
maintain direction of affairs until the
regular State Government is organiz?
ed. Slime progress bas boon made
towards the election of delegates to
tho Constitutional Convention."
The same correspondent goes on to
say: "It is wrong to suppose, as al?
leged by some letter writers, that there
is at the South a general feeling of
hostility towards the blacks. Tiny
may act in such a manner as to create
such a feeling; but at present it does
not exist. We know that there is an
earnest desire for their welfare, and a
sincere reglet that they are not educa?
tionally and mentally prepared for tho
freedom so suddeuly thrust upon
thom. As it is, liberty with them too
oftens runs into licentiousness; and wc
are certain that in the npheavings of
our social fabric, under the transitions
of the past few months, tho white
race has thus far been tho chief suf?
ferer, but hus nobly and without a
murmur stood thc shook, and done its
full duty kindly and faithfully to those
so long accustomed toits care."
CHAMP FEROUSON IN* MISSOURI.- A
St. Louis correspondent of the Chi?
cago Tr i iiiuie says:
Accounts aro received from the inte?
rior daily of difficulties between loyal
men and returned rebels. It is cur?
rently reported that there aro many
casesof shooting returned rebels which
aro never printed. The perpetrators
do not report such incidents, and tho
fricnds'ol the victim deem it inexpe?
dient generally to make any noise on
the subject.
And yet tho St. Louis Republican, a
thoroughly radical paper, comments
as follows on this statement:
It is but fair and true to say that
the rebels who have returned to Mis?
souri have generally conducted them?
selves in the most unexceptionable
manner. It is true, too, that some of
them have been killed, and that many
of them have boen driven out of tim
State. Of tho death and banishment
of these men the public hears but lit?
tle. No matter how unprovoked may
be tho homicide which ends their days;
no matter if it amounts to a cool and
cruelly barbarous murder, the friends
of the murdered man, as this corres?
pondent admits, think it "inexpedi?
ent" to*%ay anything about-it.
Local Items.
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To insure insertion, advertisers r.rc re?
quested to bund in their notices before 4
o'clock p. m.
CLOTHING.-Thc attention of those need?
ing clothing, Ac, is directed to thc adver?
tisement of Messrs. lt. ?V, W, C. SwaOield,
in this morning's paper. Give thoura call.
Nirw Ax>VEKTisE3rENTS.- -Attention is called
to tho following advertisements, which aro
published for the first time this morning:
S. Maupin-Universitv of Virginia.
Change of Schedule ol NV. it .?. lt. B.
H. S. Thompson-Male Academy.
Jacob Levin-Wine and Ale.
" " -Variety Sale.
Solidlev House - Furniture for Sale.
lt. & \V. C. Swaltield-- New doods.
Simons' it Kerrison-New Goods.
CONFISCATED AND ABANDONED LANDS.
Tko following extract from a circular
recently issued by the appropriate
bureau will bo read with interest'
All confiscated and abandoned lands
and other confiscated and abandoned'
lauds that now are, or that may here?
after come under the control of tho
Bureau of Uefugees, Freedmen and
Abandoned Lands, by virtue- of said
Acts und sections t>f Acts and orders
<d' the President, are, ?md ??hall be,
set apart for the use of kryal refugees
and freedmen, and so much tts may bo
necessary assigned to them, as pro?
vided in section four ot the Act < s
t tublishing tho bureau, vii:: "To< very
muleeiti;-.( n, whether ref ug< e or freed?
man, as aforesaid, there shall bc as?
signed not more than forty acres of
such mud, and tho pr-rs-,^1 to whom it
was so assigned shall !><. protected io
the usc and eu joy mont of tin-land for
the term of three years, at an annual
rent not exceeding six percent, upon
tho value of stich land, as it was ap?
praised by tho Slate in the year lXtjO,
?or tito purpose of taxation; and in
case no such appraisal can be fouie.!,
then the rental shall be based upon
the estimated value of the land in
said year to be ascertained in sv-'i
manner as the commissioner may by
regulation pruccribe, .\t, the cud o?
sui? latona, or darin;;- auygpart of said
term, the occupants of any parcels so
assigned may purchase the land, and
receive such title thereto as the United
States eau convey, upon paying there?
for the value of the lam I as ascertained
und fixed for the,purpose of ascertain?
ing the annual rent abu-.'..aid."
TUE DI:Y Toirrr?AS.- Tv (If Edllvr*
if thii Ureiiiiiy l'ont: j have been taught
to believe that editors Know, if not
everything? at least a little *of every?
thing. I therefore beg leave to in?
quire about the Dry Tortugas. I am
aware that they exist at soma "jump?
ing ot! place" not far from Key West.
What are the productions ? Low do
the unfortunates living there manage
to exist ? Can they earn the means of
subsistence, or do they live in idl;
ness? Bow are they withheld from
escaping, and what protection hnvu
they from the clements? Can they
have any communication with tho
outside world? A small, ray of light
from the editorial pen would prove a
Sourer/ of knowledge and gratification
to many, but particularly to au old
patron and constant reader.
JULIA.
Thorn are several islands bearing,
the nani'- of Tortuga. The brui is
Spanish, and signifies a tortoise. Tho
"Dry Tortugas" constitutes an island
group and bankin the Gulf of Mexico,
about one hundred and twenty miles
west of Cape Sable, in Florida. There
are ten islets or keys in all. Tiny
consist of a coral formation, ?ind bave
little vegetation except mangrove
bushes. On one of them, known as
"Bush Kw" and "Garden Key," a
light-house has been erected. At the
beginning of the rebellion, the ( rovern*
nient undertook the construction of
Fort Jefferson, and sent thither re?
fractory persons to work upon tho
fortifications. Tiny are too remote
from any populated place to enable
prisoners to obtain means of escape ;
too desolate to invite trading vessels;
and all articles of food mu%t be sup?
plied by Government transports. Our
Correspondent will perceive that Hui
place furnishes a sch?re rather than,
au attractive place of residence.
Loss ?VTHE STEAMER GOLDEN Brm:.
This steamer Was wrecked in the Ca?
ribbean Sea, near Grand Cayman Isle.
The safe, containing#1,000,000 United
Stares Treasury notes and one hun?
dred and sixty seven-thirty bonds, in
charge of a Treasury agent, is sup?
posed to have broken up in the wreck,
as a package containing one hundred
and forty of the bonds for #1,000 each
was found by a diver.
GREAT FIRE IM NEW YORK.-At
about 1 o'clock, yesterday afternoon,
a most destructive conflagration oc?
curred in South and Water streets,
which resulted in the total destruction
of two buildings and a loss of over
5000,000.-Xa ic York World, 22</.