Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-03-26
From the Sparlanburg Spartan.
GREGG'S ESSAY ON DOMESTIC
MINISTRY

ut being an enquiry lliIo the eXpediency
of establishing Cotton Factories. in South
Carolina" This is we'll written and
well digesIed pamphlet; of some sixty pa
ees, devoled 10 the subject Indicated by its
little. We have read this work with great
care aud great interest, and if Mr.. Gregg
be right, and we do not say he is wrong.
it is well worthy Of perusal, aud aiixious
consideration, by every South Carolinian.
Although, MIR. Gregg is new teacher
i6 political economy, we are willing t"
learn from any, competent 10 impair, in
formation. That there is much truth in
bis theories, we doubt not, bur, that the
introduction of Cotton Manufactures into
South Carolina, would prove a sovereign
papacea for all the ills our people are Ia.
boring under, we are not prepared TO ad-
nit.
But there is substantial information Ia
these Essays; and, had such pamphlet
been put into the possession Of the public
len years since, il would have saved the
sacrifice of large amount of properly.
II accounts, apparently satisfactorily; for
some things that have been an enigma TO
US. We never could solve The riddle, how
we in the South, with innunerabIe advan-
tages over the North, could not prosecute,
with success, The manufacture Of Cotton
Yarns and Cloth.
Mr.. Gregg is right when he says every
body is ready 10 point out the failure in
Cotton Manufactures, when The subject is
brought before them for consideration, The
failures being without solitary exception,
so far as we are informed. Ii is true
some few small establishments have done
pretty fair. but that was because the
owner aced as his own Agent, Machiuisl
and Overscer and, we are happy 10 hear
that the unfortunate YauclGse, in the
hands of its present owners, is doing a
good business. bul it should be remembered
that, an establishment olIhe capacity Of
Vaucluse, would cost new Company
more than double he amount tha, Manu-
factory cost Messrs. Jones aud Gregg.
But. we suspect The Stockholders Of the
RivingsviIIe Manufacturing Company had
begun 10 fud out before the publication Of
Mr.. Gregg's Essays, the causes of failures
he indicates. We refer 10 this Establish
meut, withiu FIVE miles of US, because We
know more Of il and its Stockholders than
of any other establishment in the Stale.
The Stockholders have relied upon the
Home Market, and under the miserable
crodit system have found it poor reli-
auce. The majority of The best informed
of this Company, had come 10 the con-
clusion, that The Establishment was too
small 10 make the business as profitable
as it could be made, and that The home
market was no market at all. Should
they follow their own experience and lake
Mr.. Gregg's advice, we trust they may
yet realize their former sanguine expec-
tations:
We most cordially commend this pampIr-
let 10 The. perusal of every one desirous of
obtaining valuable information. Where
iu we should differ with Mr.. Gregg is suf-
6cienlly indicated in the preceding arli-
Gle aud need not be repeated. Sill we are
free 10 say that MIR. Gregg has given US
important and desirable Information, and
we return him our unteigned thanks.
A WholeSaLe Mlrderer.-The aImos,
daily accounts from South America bring
fresh nows of The atrocities Of "a monster
who il would scarcely be imagiued existed
10 the nineteenth century. Gen. Rosas, the
Dictator Of the Argentine Republic, still
continued his work of blood aud destruc.
lion. The details, as published in an able
work by one Senor Idarle, give the fol
lowing result eff the wholesale murders
which Rosas has 10 answer-Died by poi
son, a; cutting throa,s, 3,765; by shooting,
1863; by the poisnard, 732; in battle. H..
gu; and by various prosecutions including
executions for desertion, and attempts 10
desert, l,600.-PhH. Chron.
Horrid IMurder.-The subjoned extract
Of letter received in Baltimore, gives an
account Of a horrid murder recently perpe.
trated.
LEXINGTON, March 6, 1845.
"Clifton R. Thompson and his brothor,
Mr., J. Thomson had gone 10 Mount S,ar.