Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-07-21

"' ~ was HOY Wen received,
out pressing wants soon set aside flimsy
objections, and now it is used freely, and
has become an article of expectation, as
mach SO rs cotton, pork, cheese, wool.
Ice DC, dc. But who derives the benefit
OF thisnew article ofexport? Why New
York, Maryland and the valley Of the Mis-.
sissippi, only however because. of their
facility for shipping to New York Balti-
more and New Orleans. Give us the same
advantage. for sending our Crane to
charleston, and we too shall soon be the
exporters of the staff of life. fri.k q
1t is well known that the Gennessec
Country, now the finest grain growing
part of the world, was once valueless, the
land could be purchased at 25 to5o cents
per acre. What is it now worth? at least
one hundred dollars per acre. What has
caused this unprecedented enhancement?
Simply the Erie Canal; by the means of
which, immense quantities of produce
f'nd an easy transportation to Albany,
from there down to New York. ssa
The tennessee country is now cultiya-
ted like a garden, yielding from 40 to 60
bushels to the acre. What an improve.
ment of lands once yaiueless! Without a
market it would have remained n much
poorer country than Pickens; but with
New York for a market, and through
her the market of Europe, itihas become
proverbial as the richest country in the
Union, The master mind, the energetic
man. who planned and completed the
Erie Canal, now sleeps in death, but his
memory is freshin the bosoms of all who
love improvement. His genius has enrich
ed the State of New York; his indomita-
BILE perseverance and epergy has placed
her in advance of any State in the Union
ina commercial point Of view, ana makes
1t not presumption in her to hayo engra-
vedon her arms, her motto #Excelsior."
So may, and SO will our District pros
per With the means of transportation
give us a Railroad, and our deserts will
bud and blossom like the rose; oar rich
valleys will soon groan beneath the rich
est haryests; ; il will set us to workAre-
waad sweetens labor Only satisfy our.
farmers that certain cash payment viii
be maze for all their produbts. and you
will set them to work with e zeai and ac-
tivity that would excite the approval of
the most industriuos and Pickeas viii
become the wealthy grain growing Dis
tfict, and take her stand side by side with
the most favored in the State. ,.fgfa I,
His,a well known fact, that q country.
which produces grain becomes at last the
most wealthy--all the reader has to do
isto look atthose parts of the globe which
produce grain, as a confirmation of this
fact. Theiand by a succession of small
grain, becomes richer and richer, and
more capable of larger yields annually:
stock of all kinds thrive better, make bet.
ter horses, mules, cows, sheeves, sheep,
hogs. DC, (ses Tennessee ard Rentuckv.1
y is also known thai cotton, planted year
after year impoyerishes land, and viii
sooner orlatsr dTiser,the producers of it
to anew country for fresh 1s,,.tass, sssll,ich
m its time, becomes exhausted, and they.
again and again take up the line Of march
for fresher and newer lands. ,ses,J
4 Lem told, and by good authority.too,
that lands In Alabalha and Mississippi,
which wore once Che best, are now spent
and vaiue!ess torn and washed into gull
hes BY excessive cotton culture; and that
the ownershaye gone to Texas or Arkan-
geas foranew hone, 9fg ssl4fss
In two. years more, we, have every
rsasop to believe that the Rail Road will
be completed to Anderson q. III, coming
within Is miles ofous Districtiihe, and on,
" 20 miles from cur Village; thus, giving
ma a af,arJAR ~ so, n y ~ Z a J.