Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-08-23

peasants, at Bellona Arsenal. of still grea-
ter ,x,ent. Both of these establishments
have raised considerable quantities OF CO.
coons the present season, and are now IN
The full ,ide of successful experiment. At
Pe,ersburgb, Va. several very satisfactory
experiments have been made. and among
them that Of Mr. Ruffia, a detail of which
was commenced in our last. and is concluded
in our presen. a.mber. There are, doubt.
less. ten times as manyin the old Dominion
as we have referred TO, but We have not the
particulars; it will BE-. obvious to the reader,
that We are wiring ,of-haad, and BY no
means making out a statistical document.
We must not omit to mention the contcn-
plated establishment of Morris Pehok, Esq.
the proprietorpfa silk factory nesr Glasgow,
in Scotland, who has recently determined 10
establish cocoenery near Danvlle, in Pitt.
sylyania county, in which he expects to pro-
due 8 1906 worth of raw silk annually,
10 supply his home establishment. His su-
perintendent and operatives have already
arrived. ~.
In North Carolina there are several CO.
cooneflesof greater or less exlent.--among
olhears, that of the Rev. Sidney Weller. OF
Bfinkleyvllle, Halifax county, one or two
near Rule;gh uus Benr sussiisbgr &c. dsc,
In Georgia, there are several companies
and individual establishments among 9TH
ers, those Of Messrs. Cheney 81 Hutchinson
Messrs PIa,t & Mff1m, and DR.. Osborne
d Mr.. J. Sibley, near Augusta, are most
prominens. II is mentioned, that so fully
satisfied have several individuals ofAugusta
: and i,s .neighbeurhood become, ofthe uli-
mate success Of the enterprise, that they
have embarked iB the business With similar
feelings 10 those which actuate q planter.
who purchases land and slaves for The pur.
pose, Of raising cotton.
u viii te observed that we have not
crossed the mountains in the grand tour
sketched aboS Except in brief trip to
see our old friend Rapp, at Economy. in.
deed we have skipped over the Atlantic
States with such rapidly that We have only
bssa able to catch glance here and there
Of what isreaIy doing in The silk business.
Tet;e in this very cursory view what q
number Of eaierprising people. what an inn.
insnse amount of capital, have we not dis
covered employed in the legitima,e silk bust.
ness? Enough Of both we should imagine
to induce our newspaper press 10 treat them
with common respect, if not with their
coun,enance and support. We have seen
enough of both, we imagiue, to convince all
thinking men, that there arc too many re.
spectacle men, & toe much capital engaged
IN this business to permit it being made
much longer lfie subject ofgbes and jeers.
Ia connection with this subject, and as
illustrative Of the sagacity Of some people,
we .iH recall to the memories of our elder
brethren ofthe press, the circumstances that
attended the introduction Of the culture Of
cotton, and subsequently, Of cotton factories
into ibis country: The opposition to the
cntinn c,,ln,re xsaa-a-.shoa,ssnd- -fald-naasa
fierce than any We now experience 10 the
silk culture. Ridicule and satire, then as
now, were The weapons Of warfare and
then as now, the old South Sea bubble
and The Holland. tulip mania,' were the
convenient texts from which they preached
their admonitory sermons. But the cotton
culture succeeded 10 spite Of them and
cotton factories sprung up in the very face
Of al opposition cotton has became the in.
ternational medium Of exchange, and our
cotton fabrics clohe the backs Of half the
world And where now are the old oppo.
nents the ridiculers and satirists Of the cot
ton culture /! They are where the present
opponents. Of the silk culture will be before
ten years shall have passed--No WHERE.
G. B. S.