Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 "COLUMBIA. 1 Thursday Morning; November 8.18So Increase in Jtlaiiufa?turcs. The South is proverbially slow in taking lessons from, her Northern neighbors in enterprise. We should | learn from our enemies, mid in every j step in progress which they make, we should not be too stilted and proud t o reap any profit or advantage which their superior skill or energy rnay develop. During tho waf, the manu? facturers of the East did a thriving business, and the clothiug of the vast armies of the Union gave a stimulus to the factories which every person thought would die out; that the mills, aiter making fortunes for their proprietors, would be abandoned, the machinery* thrown away, and the capital accumulated by tho war prices for the products o'f the loom und spindle, turned in some other chan? nel, to increase and multiply. J3ut quito the contrary results are now being made patent to the public. The old mills and machinery have confirmed their operations with large profits, and thc prospective demand is thought to bo so promising, that instead of abandoning the business, extensive preparations are being made in New England for increased manufacturing facilities; and with the prospect of ?1 still higher protect? ive tariff, they ure spreading the area of their looms and spindles to quite an unexpected extent. We learn from our fxohcuges that every one who has passed through the Eastern States, during the last summer, did not fail to observe that, everywhere, new factories were ii process of erection, and old ones o enlargement. Now, all this is bein? done with the prospect of an activ< competition with the South aud tin West in . manufacturing enterprises and capital, ever watchful and sensi tive, especially in Yankee manufac turing districts, is being embarked v. a larger proportion than for man years back, in new manufacturing en tcrprises. The case of the Messrs Sprague, of llhode Island, for in stance, well-known manufacturer throughout the country, is cited a one of the principal evidences that new spring or start has been taken i the East in this respect. These gei tlemen have made arrangements t erect five cotton mills, with 100,0(1 spindles each, at Augusta, Main< which will give employment, direct 1 and indirectly, to 50,000 people. Th town of Augusta, with a spirit of ei terprise and forethought worthy < emulation, here and elsewhere in tl: South, offered these enterprising gei tlemen some facilities, which wei accepted. At Fall River, Massachi setts, a place already crowded wit factories ami work-shops of every d scription, new companies, with larg capitals, for the manufacture < printed cloths and other cotton good Again, we perceive that new aud e: tensive establishments for thc maui facture of steam engines are beii: started all over New England. ' Now, it is only common sense : ask the Southern States to consid< theso matters. In every instance v have referred to above, New Englai capital and enterprise 'are reward? by a single article of raw materi:: Cotton she has to get from the Sout with heavy freight, commissions ai other charges snperadded. Iron ar coal she has to obtain from otb. States; and iu addition to all this, this time, they have to imporii thc new macliiuery from England, i stead of making it at home, from tl simple fact that, bu account of tl high price of labor and material ( this side, it can be produced in Eu land at two-thirds the cost at home People of the South! can you 11 learn some lessons of profit fro theso facts? Tho manufacture cotton at the South is much mo profitable than its production; bi with the two combined, there is 1 obstacle to thc accumulation wealth by both producer and mau facturer. Wo cannot, ie.eMng our 1 sponsibilities and duties a.* josrni ists, forbear to urge upon our fello citizens at the South to go vigorous to work and to open up this new ro to social, material and even politic independence. The Montreal Witness publishes map of the burnt district of Qnebc which shows that a space equal twenty acres in length, and nine width,' was desolated. Fifty-fi streets were blunt over. Thc Keftmn j.iovcmcni. Wc ?ire indebted to our fellow-citi? zen, Mr. John Alexander, now on a visit to his home in Scotland, for a copy of tile Glasgow Journal, of Oc? tober 17. It is filled with an account td' a popular demonstration of the Reform League, which, in magnitude and enthusiasm, exceeded every de? monstration ever made in the city of Glasgow. Tho procession-about seven miles long-of the trades, car? penters, masons, ship-builders, und 'almost every other craft, numbered, at a moderate estimate, between 50, 000 and 80,000 citizens, all orderly, ami mostly dressed iii their holiday array. On the green, of Glasgow, souie six or eight platforms had been erected for the public* speakers: and it is estimated that nat less than 500, 000 people responded.to the trades and working-men who raised, on this occasion, the watch-word of reform. Tn tlie evening, John Bright ami other speakers addressed the meeting in the City Hall. In the course o: his remarks, Mr. Bright said that out of every 100 grown men in tin United Kingdom, 84.had no vofes The whole afluir passed off very or derly, and tho mottoes on th s ma jority of the banners-"manhoo< suffrage and the vote by ballot,"' ?bc. indicated the general object song, it b be obtained by the reformers, through out Great Britain. A GLOOMY FOKE?ODISO.-Dr. L. i W. Andrews, senior editor of th Macon Georgia Citizen, now on a visi to the North, writes the following among other things, of date Octobc 25, to his paper: The Doctor is n ' sensationalist, and what, therefor? so sober-minded a man as he may sa^ should challenge the most senor consideration. Bight here, observt the Griffin Herald, let us say, for fe: of being misunderstood, that we ho} tho South, guarantee or no guarai tee, never will pass the "constiti tional amendment," even il' the ai keeps her out of the Union for tl next five, huudred years. But t<> tl extract: . "With reference to; the aetion i the South ' on the constitution amendment to be submitted to the consideration, I have this to say, my opinion-not my leish-that i will hart- to swallow tin' bitter firauq to the, dregs, or (routent ourselves wi taxation without, representation f< perhaps, years to come! With this vie of the subject-without intending advocate the adoption of tho amen ment-it were perhaps best to 1 things take their course. Could i South have any guarantee that i more would be required of her th that now presented, it would perha be best to yield to the imperative c cumstances of tho condition, as h been done before, and submit, wi the best grace we can, to the ex* tions ami humiliations imposed on down-trodden people." Fon THE AMENDMENT.-Wo fi the following paragraph in tlie Nas ville Union ami American: "lt is understood that Holden, North Carolina, and Judge Magra! of South Carolina, favor the adopti of the constitutional amendment, true, they are tho only two men the South, of any distinction, w have degraded themselves by taki I that position." Wc know nothing of, and care li j about, Holden's position on any si jeot; but we are much inclined doubt the position assigned Jud Magrath. If he be correctly rep sented in ibe? above, he is the oi niau of any sort of position in t State who is in favor of tlie bill abomination. I A PERJURED VIELATN ARRESTED. Sanford Conover, alias Charles Duncan, who was implicated in 1 recent conspiracy to convict Jed son Davis of being an accomplice the assassination of President L coln, by means of suborned witness was arrested in New York, on Sat day, and taken to Washington. T arrest was made on tho affidavit Wm. H. Roberts, J. A. Hoaue, a L. C. Turner, charging Conover w forgery._ The European Governments, sil the exhibition of tho superior va of American arms made duriug l recent war, have become very anxi< to have them. American bree loading rifles have taken seve prizes at competitive examinations Europe, and it lias just been : nounced that the Russian Govei meut has ordered the manufacture 100,000 breech-loaders by the C Manufacturing Company, at Hi: ford. Tho last rebel prisoner was recen released from prison in Washing^ His friends had mourned him as de and respect of funeral services i paid to his memory a year ago. Condition of Ma?-ylttn/l. Hon.- Reverdy J.ohuson has just made an admirable speech oh the position of political affaira in this country. Of Maryland and her dis? franchised citizens, ho speaks -thus feelingly and eloquently: "No matter how loyal to this State and the General Govetnment a citi? zen now is, and is known to be; no mat ter how entirely lie has abandoned his opinion as to the right of seces? sion; how. sincerely, before the war ? ended, hf desired the success of the Government, if at any moment he entertained that opinion, and wished for a different result, he is excluded. Sweeping as these exclusions are, as the law was executed at the first re? gistration, they w.ere made more sweeping. We all remember that most of the l'cgisturs at that time, with an ignorance or audacity never before exhibited, refused registration not only upon the prescribed grounds, but upon the trlost ridiculous pre? tenses. And the result was, that nearly three-fourths of the voters were excluded. In tho city of Balti? more, about 10,000 were registered, when its voting population was then at least 30,000. And bad as tins was, many of those who were registered, at the elections which have since oc? curred, were denied the right to vote by partisan judges. At the Inst mu? nicipal election, less than 8.(100 votef were polled, though the entire voting population at the time was at leasl -10.000. ' The sanie wrongs, both as to registration' and voting, thougl probably less in number, have beer committed in the rest of the State Can this condition of things conti nue? Ought freemen so permit it? "The blood of our patriotic unces tors cries from the grave against, it Its continuance is inconsistent witl the vital spirit, of our free institu tions. It is absolute political des potism. Owing to tire wise* and pn triotic course of our present Govcrnoi the wrongs aro being diminished This has been effected by his appoinl ment of fair and honest registers. B theso. in the execution of thc luv the provisions of the Constitutio have not been transcended. And : is confidently believed that at tb coming election a Legislature will 1 chosen who will so change tho law ; still further to lessen them. Bi should this not happen, or the la be not chauged, there is still a renn dy left to us-not one to be accon plished through force, but peaceabl; God forbid that civil strife shoul occur in our State, and happy it that none will be necessary, peaceable one has been resorted 1 and is now going on. The validil of the Constitution in the particul; in question has been denied. M own opinion is that it is invalid, heir ex post facto within the meaning the clause in the Constitution of tl United States, which prohibits State from passing laws of that ch meter. A ease involving the questh was in our Appellate Court, and majority of the judges held it to \ valid. The case is now pending : appeal in the Supreme Court of t' United States; should that court cl cide otherwise, the matter will finally settled. But if not, and t judgment of the court below is ; firmed, there will be still left to an equally peaceable remedy. "Every people possess tho inhere right tb alter their political instit tions, when, in the judgment of t majority, it is necessary to their ha piness and freedom. The majori of our people have that right, ai may exercise it with or without leg lative sanction. To make it depen eut on such a sanction, would be place it with the people's servan instead of the people theinselv< The right may bo exercised by ele ing delegates to a convention, wi power to form a new or modify t existing Constitution-the work bc submitted to the people for : proval or rejection. If approve and it be republican in form, it Vi be binding upon the State, and mi be recognized by the United Stat "This remedy for political evils one of the chief excellencies of G vernments like ours. Intended secure liberty to the people, if th fail to do so, the people have the v doubted authority so to change tin as to accomplish that end. For th the ballot-box is all that is requin and in such a contingency, if th? be a contest, the ballot is the oi weapon with which a free people ci tends with each other. It was t weapon which was alone used in t struggle that rosulted in the establi: ment of the Constitution of t United States. And. in alike cont between ourselves, if contest th? shall be, by the same weapon, wen establish a Constitution which v secure to us and our posterity eve State right, and all the blessings liberty, that a State Government c confer, and start Maryland once rn? on a career of prosperity, which, tho end, will exceed any she has he toforejreaehed. Happily located, g< graphically, with a salubrious clima a fertile soil, capable of almost ev? valuable agricultural product, i haustless supplies of coal and ir? and unsurpassed water-power, need only a free and contented p pie to make our State one of the rn prosperous of the Union. But her natural advantages will avail lit without freedom of opinion, equal of rights and kindness of leelii I These, however, we can and must I cure. No low party scheming c prevent it. There is an inherent en . Vjy in our people Virnich such an obj ! stach? cannot resist. Should it prove otherwise, (hat that is impossible,) then it migjrt, with truth, be said, that life and heurt aro completely crushed out of Maryland. But it will not bi; otherwise, and we will show that her heart is as it was rn the Revolutionary struggle-de? voted to freedom, careless of danger, and preferring death to slavery. Tho present canvass opoYis n. way tc? her emancipation. Let patriotic men be elected to the Legislature, and all will soon bo changed. The fetters which now bind and dishonor her people will fall to the ground, and ere long, they will bo seen to bu amongst tin freest and happiest in our entire land." T?ortticrn Men in thc Soulli. It is the easiest thing in tile, world for a lying bohemian to send off thc most absurd and slanderous stories to Northern papers, which print them under displayed head lines, au?! radi? cal Toaders devour them like gospel truth?. . It is not so easy, however, to establish the real truth and coun? teract the pernicious slanders nf these penny-a-liners. So glaringly false and unjust have these radical stories become of late, that a number of Northern men, living in Mississippi, hava como out ip a' formal card, ad? dressed io the NQW York WvenirtQ Post, emphatically denying, us far as they are concerned, any* injustice from their Southern neighbors. The document is so much to thu point, that wo give it in full, with tlie name: attached. Here it is: We, tho undersigned, N'ortheri men and new settlers, have bough and leased plantations in tho County of Madison, Mississippi, since; tin close of the late war, employing freedmen, and tilling our lands wit) their work. We have notieed mair letters in the Northern papers, which so far us our locality is concerned, wi consider defamat ory, exaggeratedah< uncalled for: and, should we remaii silent to misrepresentations of on locality and its old citizens, it won! be unjust to those who havereecive ns hospitably and treated us wit I civility. . In OTU* neighborhoods are man who have suffered losses nf inuit and horses-among themsouie of th undersigned. But old residents hav suffered from sm.ii losses more si verely than news?, ' tiers; thusprovin that mule thieves will steal mules, n , matter when found. Withour neigl hors we have hail no difficulties, an none but satisfactory business reif tions. The freedmen work for whom the please to contract with, in the sam manner as farm laborers at the Nerti in numerous instances are. employ? by Northern men, who an- their ol master's nearest neighbors.. We thia our lives and property as safe as tho: of old residents; that we eau obtai justice in the courts., if obliged I take that course; and that new come can feel as safe here as in any sparse settled agricultural community of 01 Western States. Signed by Col. J. A. Bingham, St. Louis, formerly 1st Pennsylvan Cavalry; Frederick A. Billings, ji formerly of Worcester, Mass. ; F. .1 Pratt, formerly of Worcester. Moss L. B. Smith, formerly of Grafto Mass. ; John Humphreys, formerly England; Arthur Mathewson, Ia Surgeon United States Navy; (ie Lyons, formerly of Ireland; J. ] Richardson, formerly of Besto Mass. ; R. J. Ross, late Capta United States Volunteers, formerly West Pennsylvania; C. H. Smit late of Trumbull County, Ohio; 1 K. Austin, late of Bergen, New Je sey; Chauncey Tyler, late of Cornie tient; Mark Prime, late Assista Quartermaster United States Volu teers, Maine; J. W. Deering, late Maine. The difference between tho signe of this letter and the wanderii Arabs who represent tho Northe press in the South, the Nashville J) patch says, is just the difference 1 tween men who know whereof th affirm, and fellows who mannfactu events to suit their employers-wi are, in short, paid for lying. The are, doubtless, occasional cases oppression of Northern men ai freedmen in the Sooth; but until h man nature is radically changed, -\ must expect to hear of incident cases of wrong and oppression the as elsewhere. NEG uo EDUCATION-YANKEE TEAC ERS.-Every man or woman w! comes to Kentucky to teach a ne? i school, comes to instill into the min j of negro children hatred to t i whites-their late masters and ni i tresses. Yankee policy is to educf ' negroes in snell a way, that if, hoi j after, they aro allowed to vote, th i will vote with the North against t i South. Hence the zeal of Yank j teachers to take, negro schools Kentucky. If our people would a wisely, they would take theeducati of the Kentucky negroes in their o\ hands, and, with tho enlightenme of their minds, give to their ?fft tions a right direction. Better endri almost any evil, than entrust t training of the young negroes to t pestilent swarm of Yankee teaclu who will, iu a short time infest o State.-Lexington Observer and I publican. X New Vori* Merchant on tnt* Con- i st i t II t ional Amendment? A New York mere liant, in ?i letter to a well-known business mun in j Washing tot), expresses confidence that Hoffman, the Democratic candi? date in New York State tor Governor, will bo elected, and speaks of him in thc highest terms as "a man beyond tlx; reach of calumny," so upright has been his life. In regard to the con? stitutional amendment, he says: "It will not better your condition; no, it will make it infinitely worse, because its ratification will degrade you, not only in your own estimation, but also in that of all '"ho value the right of self-government the world over. They want guarantees! You have already given all the guarantees that it is possible for any people to give, consistent with self-respect, and tho true dignity of human nature. But this guarantee business is a swindle; its intent is not at all what the meaning <>f the word implies, but in plain English it is this: 'We want you to surrender a portion of your right of self-government into our hauls, and according as^ou are weakened, we shall be strengthened in tyrannical power. Thus shall wt be enabled to gain full control of th? Government, and you shall become our serfs forever!' <y "Guarantees! What guarantee hav< you when you accept, the amend nient, that you will than have th< diminished representation it wonk give you? Do not the more yut spoken of their leaders say you shal not? Have they not deceived yoi often enough already? Do you wau still further to degrade yourselves only that they may the more secure! place the iron heel of despotism 01 your neck? No, my friends; tb spirit of radicalism is relentless i: its savage ferocity and cruelty, an the more concessions you make, tb more stringent will be tho chains tnt bind you-tho more galling will b your yoke. *'I wish my feeble voice of va rn in could be heard through the entii South, that the;." might stand firm i this their hour of trouble and adve: sity; and though portentous glooi may now enshroud their land, yet, s sure as day followeth dawning, : sure will the eternal principles i truth and justice prevail, anti tl Southern people stand before tl world in the power of their might, redeemed and disenthralled people CONFEDERATES IN MEXICO.-A co respondent of the New Orleans Time under date <>?. September 'JO, writ' from the city of Mexico, and slates Among tlie ex-Confederates st remaining in this country may 1 mentioned ex-Governor Thomas < Reynolds, of Missouri, who is e gaged in the practice of law, and lie speaks no less than four diff?re languages, the Governor is driving very thrifty business. He has al recently received the appointment general inspector of the Mexico ai Chalco Railroad, representing t interest of the Government in t same. Gen. Joseph Shelby, of M souri, has just arrived in that cit He is at present engaged in transpc tation between Vert., Cruz and t capital. Maj. Cen. J. B. Magrud is also here, and says: "Tell r friends that I am still proud as Lu fer, and defy misfortune." T General's family is also here wi him. Major Lawrence, of Misson and Major Edwards, of the sat Statt;, and Major George W. Clari of Texas, ?ire all here, and thou none of them are getting decided rich, they aro all making a comfor hie living, and have "great expeci tions." Gens. HindmanandSlaughl are at Orizaba, and N. O. Grce Esq., Gen. Price, Judge Perkins a Gov. Harris are at Cordova. A BAD BREED.-Appleton's Cye peedia of Biography gives the folio ing account of one of Beast Butle aneestial relatives: "Bui/er, John.--The atrocities co mitted by this miscreant during t revolutionary war almost exceed 1 lief. Ho was a native of Cornice cut, but removed to the Valley Wyoming, where, in 1778, at t head of 1,000 men, of which OOO w< Indians, and the rest Tories paint like Indians, he attacked the tow and villages of that romanthj regie and indiscriminately massacred tin who submitted, as well as those w fought; women and children, as w as. men. To thc question, 'WI terms would he grant?' he replii 'The hatchet !' People of both se: and every ago were indiscriminate shut up in houses, which were th set on fire; some were held down the flames by pitch-forks, and in o instance, at least, a poor wretch li his body stuck full of pine ki splinters, and then burned, etc." The Kentucky Court of Appe has rendered a decision which is effect equivalent to a declarati that Maj. Gen. John M. Pain committed a felony while in co maud of tho Department of K< tucky, by aiding tho escape of a gitive slave. A merchant examining a hogslu of hardware, on comparing it w the invoice, found it all right exc< one hammer. "Oh, don't be troubl my honey," said his Irish port "sure the nager took it ont to oj the hogshead with." Che Phaxi?x office ia on Main strert, a few doora alu ive Taylor (or Camden ) street. DIRECT IMPOUTATIONS.- M. .-srs. Gregg & Co. have just received another lot of hand? some goods, direct from Europe. Persons Tn want of crockery cati get suited by giv iug tbfiu a call. Fou HISTOMY-As Ilr:iu-Loo:.i.-Preservo th? record of tho destruction ol Columbia, written by ono of .-South Carolina's histo? rians, who was present during tho whole sack and destruction of our city. It is the most authentic account published. FOK SALE AT THIS t?mcE.-Let \dmiuistration. Declaration on ^ uah .! Note, Mortgages and Con o' !:..: ! Estate. CoLustniA AND ma: BUSINESS I'KOSPECTS. Wo have been favored with tho perusal of a. letter from George Anders m, Esq., a prominent citizen of Waterloo, Laurens District, in which he saya: '.Feeling a deep interest in the future prosperity ol' those who are engaged m re? building the ?itv of Columbia, t take tin. Ilbery of suggesting (to tin- people of tin city) the f-ropriety of devising some mea? sures whereby the greater portion ol' tho cotton crop made in this section, now goin^ forward, may lind a f irket in Co? lumbia. The article is now rapidly being disposed of in Augusta, Ga. Fifty-four wagons, going and'returning from" that, market, passed Waterlff) on Saturday last, ami there are two otb? r main roads falling into this road between here and Ninety-Six Depot, where the cotton crosses tin Green? ville and Columbia Railroad. We .ld it net he advisable for the Greenville ami Colum? bia Railroad Company to reduce the irei^ht on cotton, and ihe Columbia merchants to give &~ much for cotton as the planters arc getting in Augusta? The cotton is going to market earlier this season than I have known it for many years. 1 think half tho crop i.-. now gone to market. We have had heavy frosln, which have killed thc- \o.?? bolls. 1 i ntimate tiie cotton crop of Lau? rens District at 5,400 hales. Tile crop of 1S?0 was about 15,500 bales." NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. -Attention is call? ed to the following advertisements, which ?re published thi* morning lor the first time: Levin ,V ?. ixotto-Vurictv Salo. II. 1). Hanahan -Seed Wheat. Elections for Alderman and Policeman. Jacob Levin -Gas-LightBills. A. Feininger-Si gars. Tobacco, etc. M. David -Appointment of Ab?tit. .). '..'. l>ial -Sausage Cutters. .Vc. Gregg & Co. China Dinner Setts. E. .V G. D. Hopf--Seed Oats. Nomination cf Colonel Wm. Fort. THE ERROR or TH H NORTH.-If, says tito Richmond Wltig, the North? ern people could, by a miracle, be shown tlie real condition of the South- could sec into the interior of our households and business affairs could see how straitened we are in our circumstances-could learn how many families that hitherto knew, experimentally, little of life save its enjoyments and luxuries, aro now brought face to face with its hard? ships and privations-could see tho struggle that is going on in every household for the Bare necessaries of life, the economy that is practiced, and the patient endurance of old anil young, male ami female- if they could see how eager all are for some honest employment, however humble, that will yield a hare livelihood could soe how tolerant those who owned hundreds of slaves, who were at their beekj?and call, now are of the freedmen in their newly acquired piiviliges, and with what cheerful good humor they conform to the new order of things-treating these for? mer slaves with the utmost kindness -if, too, they conk! see the perfect indifference of all classes to politics, their freedom from passion und par? tisanship- if, we say, the Northern people could, by a miracle, be shown these things, they would wonder at their own excitement, and exclaim against the mischievous demagogues who have deceived and misled them. While tlie Northern people, thus de? luded, tire going about like roaring lions, the South is as quiet as a lamb. The radical measures are all calcu? lated for a condition of things bor? dering on revolution, when the South? ern people are as free from every thought or purpose of revolution as the dead who sleep their last sleep in the ancient catacombs. We are all utterly disgusted with politics, and desire ouly to be allowed to attend in peace to our business affairs. BLOODSHED IN MEMPHIS.-The Memphis Avalanche, closing an arti cle on the carnival of crime in that city, says: "We will now close this article by stating, that not in the wide world is there as much shooting, stabbing and killing, as in Shelby County, when wo take into consideration the intelli? gence of the community. Night after night affrays occur; men are shot within a few yards of our office; bullets are fired into windows-anti it is damn you! click! bang! Tm shot nightly, from ono end of the city^o tho other. One of fche most astonish? ing feature ia this revelry of blood is the nonchalance of the participants. They 'go fo one another' like men at .a rowing match. While wrestling, two persons became engaged in- a difficulty under our window, some nights ago. One made at the oilier with a knife, who replied with a^Liot and exclaimed, 'I've killed him!' 'You aro a liar!' says the individual hit, while he liad a bolo in him you could put your thumb in The city is mad; crime is epidemic, and the poisonous elements consist in tho evil practice of carrying weapons." ' An Irish schoolmaster wrote tho following copy fer one ?f his pupils: "Idleness covereth aman with naked? ness." PLANKS tors' or Di :e! or S vevance.