The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-06-02

is not at all liked it bears no comparison with
that Of Major Beal.
MANUFACTURING IN THE SOUTH.
The progress Of cotton manufacturing in
the South aud the large profits which have
flowed from the establishment Of factories to
the community around, whenever the hand
Of well directed enterprise has demonstrated
beyond the possibility Of successful contra
d%ictiOn, their immense utility, has begun to
attract considerable attention at the North
The people at the North are proverbial for their
enterprise and business sagacity-and when
any branch Of business is likely to prove profit
able, no matter if it be making Of wooden
clocks and horn fints in New England, Dig
ging lead on the banks Of Lake Superior, or
gold in California, cruising after whales in the
Pacific or mackerel along the banks of New
Foundland-a Yankee is almost sure to be pi-
oneer in the enterprise. When such men
are forced by the rcumstances Of the case to
admit that Southern Cotton Mills have driven
the Northern manufacturers Of coarse cotton
out of the market, is sufficient proof Of the
proitableness Of the business, as well as
Of the ample capacity Of the South to excel
in the finer branches of manufacturing. The
same enterprise that produced the cOarser ia
brics will eventually produce the finer. Mr.
Bryant, the editor Of the New York Evening
Post, a known free trade journal, is now at the
South, and in a letter dated ,BarnwelI Dis
trict, South Carolina, describes a cotton mill,
where, he says, the poor white people Of GeOr-
gia and South Carolina find occupation. 1t
is a large mandatory, and the machinery is
in perfect order. His sketch is too graphic to
be omitted:
"Here," said a gentlemen who acCompa-
MED us as we entered tho long apartment in
the second story" you will see a simple of
the brunettes Of the piny woods"
The girls of various ages, who are employed
at the s%pindles, had, for the most part, a sal
low, sickly, complexion, and IN many Of Their
faces, | remark that look of mingled distrust
and detection which often accompanies the
condition Of extreme, hopeless poverty
q These poor girls" said one Of our party,
" think themselves extremely fortunate. to be
employed here, and accept work gladly. They
come from the most barren parts OF Carolina
and Georgia, where their families live wretch
edly, for hitherto there has been no manual
occupation provided for them; from which
they do not shrink as disgraceful, on account
Of its being the occupation of slaves. In
these factories, negroes are not employed as
operatives, and this gives the calling Of the
factory girl a certain dignity. You would be
surprised to see the change which a short time
efectsin these poor people, They come bare
footed. dirty and in rags; they are secured,
put into shoes and stockings set at work, and
sent regularly to Sunday School, where they
are taught what none OF them have been taught
before-to read and write. In a short time
they become expert at their work they lose
their sullen shyness, and their PhysiOgnOmy
becomes comparatively open and cheerful"
"They have a good deal Of the POke-easy
manner Of the piny woods about them yet''
said one Ofthe party,a Georgian. 1t was true,
l perceived that they had not yet acquired all
that alacrity and d~uickhess in their work
which you see in the work people Of the New
England mills. In one of the upper stories,
| saw a girl Of clearer complexion than rest,
with two long curls swinging behind each ear
as she stepped about with the air Of a duchess
GThat girl is { from the North" said our con-
ddctor; "at first we placed an expert operative
from the North in each story Of the building
as an instructor and pattern to the rest"
have since learned that some attempts
were made at first to iniuce the poor white
people to- work side by side with the blacks
in these mills. They utterly failed, and the
question then became with the proprietors,
whether they should employ blacks only, or
whites only whether they SHOULD give these
poor people an occupation which while it ten
ded to elevate their condition, secured a
more expert class of work people than the
negroes could be expected to become, or
whether they should rely upon the less %intelll-
gent and more negligent services Of slaves
They decided at length upon banishing the
labor Of blacks from their mills.
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