The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-05-30
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Goods manufactured in same time.


1888 pieces "A sheeling, weighing l3'470
pounds, in 35, 44s yards, and cost for labor g..
643. 1000 mills per yard, and for sock s05.
1000 mills per yard, or 623.sOOO mills per
yard, total.
$3.50 pieces I 8 shirtiug, 26,369 lbs. 1850
yards, and cost 2 26l.l0OO mills per yard for
labor, and 2 57l.lOOO mills per yard for stock,
or, total, s32 1000 mills.
The building is warmed by steam and light
ed with oil.
Labor is all paid monthly in cash. There
are eighty. three dwellings, hotel, saw mill,
and all needed out buildings, and schooIhouse,
aud two ofthe neatest and pret,iest little gothic
churches ever seen emlnwered in the piney.
wood forest and tract Of nine thousand
acres Of land, including another mill site, all OF
which has cost the company 100000.
Most OF the dwellings are two.story, with
porlico and handsome front yards and gar.
dens, and large enough to give good room
for large family. For small families there
are numbers of snug little gothic cottages,
all painted like blue granite, and hence the
name of Grantevillc. The whole concep.
ton and finish appears 10 be due 10 the active
mind of The President OF the cdmpany, VIM.
Gregg, Esq, whom regret did not see.
As the place is only short mile from the
Charleston and Augusta Railroad, hope every
traveller who feels deep interest in the pros.
pcrity of our country will pay this place visit
as he passes along.
have the details OF the item o(cost, as | also
have notes of several other similar establish.
mcnts, particularly "Vaucluse," three miles
above and another large new mill at Augusta,
where there is one of the finest waterpower in
the country also, of Columbus, Georgia; but
| will not now burden your columns. IT, how.
ever, they should prove to be current, will,
when see you face TO face, give you few of
my notes.
AS am travelling slowly in my own carriage,
(as have been for six monlhs,) viewing all
that find interesting, as connected with my
agricultural tour through the South it will he
some weeks before | reach Washington, but
then, it not before, will try to write more
interesting sketch.
During my journey have had great oppor.
turities to see negro slavery as it is, and am
free 10 say lha, all the objections | ever had 10
the institution must give way 10 the strong ar.
g,lments of light and reason, that, at least 10
the negro, it brings thousand blessings TO one
curse. could tell you facts about the situation
Of the three hundred slaves upon the plantation
of Col. Wade Hampton, where | now write
this, that would 90 10 show the condition OF these
people to bc almost inconceivably hettss than
that Of thousands of white "free men, through
ou, all this regoin-the same class ofpeoP'e
from whence Col. Gregg has drawn bis factory
operatives, because they are found to be cheap.
er than blacks; and, for an Obvious reason, there
are no children, old, sick or infrm 10 be sup.
ported. They are free, which also means tree
to starve if unable to work while the slave is
always provided for at his masters expense.
The damage done by the late frost you
can hardly form an idea ofunless you were here
to see. The cotton crop mus, be greatly short.
cned, for the scarcity Of seed TO replant is very
great, while all that was above ground has been
killed. ~ addition TO this there has been no
rain for FIVE weeks, and of course the replant
cannot vegcae. Fruit has been almost entire.
ly killed. The persimnon and some Of the
oaks arc as dry as in midwintcr. Corn was
much of it killed little below the surface Of
the ground, and has to be replanted.
am, with much respect, yours, &c.
SoLoN ROBINSON.