The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-10-26

South Carolina on the Factory System!
Let any one compare the nine hundred per-
sons Who have cOHgregated at GranIev.ile, 5. c.,
within the last two years, with the same number
IN any other part OF -tue interior, and their pre-
judices against the factory system, as it is there
conducted, will cease. The houses are better and
Neater, and more hea'thlul, than the occupants in
general ever mad before. The necessaries Of life
: are cleap and abundant, The climate good, and
excellent water all around them. There are two
$, convenient and tasteful churches, with Sunday
school attached to zach, and an academy, where
education and school books can be had sratutousy.
There are several stores well furnished with every
description OF goods usual IN country villages and
, orderly and well-kept hotel No liquor is sold
within reach Of the factory and there are Temper
ance associations which tend to promote sobriety
and good order. The whole air of the village
breathes q wholesome spirit of quiet industry and
honest independence and the very sight of the
machinery, all OF the best quality, and in the most
complete order, working with the incest accuracy
and the greatest efficiency, impresses the mind
with active and ener2 etc impulse. The opera
tves, consisting of near three hundred men, wo-
men, and Children all in apparent good health and
Spirits seemed to feel the influence OF the enginery
by (which thay were surrounded and attended to
their various duties with prompmess, and skill
and cheCttuness, that it pleasing to behold.
The wages, toD--the wages--for beautiful and
pleasant ffranjteve is and happy as the work
ing people appear, it must not be supposed that
they fed and clothed either by fancy or magic
or that ther liberal employers say to them in the
language OF one Of Shakespear's characters. \ X
"I'il employ thee but do not look for further re-
. cOmpenss, than thine own gladness that fhou art
employad''-the wages are such as to enable every
one to make reasonable support. Many families
I live comfortable upon the labor of Themselves or
their children; and what is a great point gained,
instead fIhis kind Of labor being deemed disrepu-
table and degrading, each person seems to feel at
tached 10 the place and to the peculiar task allotted
them, and an honest pride of industry appears to
be generally felt The congregations Sunday
consisted oi well-dreSssd and well behaved persons,
who certainly bore no marks OF being OverwOrked,
and more order and qu'eton the Christian Sabbath
could scarcely have prevailed any where. One
feature IN me aFFangemGnls at GranheVliie struck
me as Pecn'iarly iaVoFahle IL was mat the family
pilhC'PIs Ss7iHsG 10 os very much preserved IN
Eieau oI laise ooa'u,Ik house7' where 'he Peo-
t'e "ouu P5 'Go"uC" luSF!ne'' c''e hVuSeS were
pt loT Ll,e acco'IilonaIl2h IN oi lathll'eS, ana IN
many C@7gs were ocCtIeu py separate iaiIhueS ;
D,l even NI9Ls uo"feis were 'aAet' ue nulnoer
j3, @ iS ~ I'll t'i2 .oi''IE VI ~ o'tlI5
i M % ~ = 10 80 i.rt ~ 80 W : @ ~ t
L' NO., ,Lat CIV % 'Ty ; r1
c - 80 ' - ,ii sL s :, t,s.' "a ,ii!SsS 10y
y,hst ynrty 81 o,,grtsT, is srZ e,norhshia Al
Increased in,sr,st IL, IN, .nbisc; of rsiig1on ba a
been felI rerrriIv and addiii9ns have bpsn made
to ho,h of the churches,
The nuantiiv of cIoih manufactured drr;no the
last wear was near a milan and a half of Yards
and thev have received the first nrzes at two fairs
that of the Franklin Institute PHILADELPHIA and
that of the South Carolina Institute. Charleston.
The influence of Graniteville upon the mechan.
ica and industrial character of our population will