Des Arc citizen., 1859-10-19
SOUTHERN FACTORIES.

growth of old communities. A crowded population, comparative small profits from agriculture, and accumulated capital, are considered essential to the enlarged devel- opment of such industry, 4.s
 Many, therefore, regard the establish- ment of successful factories at the South as untimeiy and not to be anticipated With so large breadth of the richest land in the world yet covered with primeval forests, and such unexampled prosperity derived from the cultivation of sugar, cot ton, rice and tobacco, it is believed that neither the unemployed capital nor the personal desire to develop new source of Income exists in the slave States.
 To some extent this is true. But we have made so rapid progress that, in ad- vance of the ordinary period for the es- tablishment of factories, much has been accomplished in this direction, and the profits of such investments are now fully ascertained. ..s<4 .,.ss. sf
 But how few even of those most alten- tive 10 the statistics of Southern industry are aware of what has been done ? How many are ready 10 admit that the South is entirely dependen. upon the North for all articles of necessity and luxurys Some years since, in the attempt 10 arouse the people to a greater diversity of employ ments, with truth il was said that no arli- cle used, from the cradle to the grave. was of domestic production. Such statements now would be slander upon Southern enterprise. The South has entered upon the production of everything that artisans or manufacturers have attempted in !he Northern States. The first experiments, in many cases, have been on a small scale, but they have resulted so favorably that capitalists begin 10 examine enter prises which. few years since, they would have scrupulously avoided.
 In South Carolina, as far back as 1850 there were eighteen cotton factories, which were worked with profit. s. -l,
 In Georgia, thirty-fve cotton factories then were in full operation, with capital of Sl, ,736. l56, producing 7.209, ,292 yards of sheeing, and 4,l9S,35l pounds ol yarn. Three woolen factories were also in the full tide of successful experiment., manufacturing $40, ,660 yards of cloth.
 In Alabama were found thirteen cotton factories, with capital of $6Sl 300, and three woolen factories, which returned handsome annual profits.
 In Louisiana, beginning had been made, two cotton factories having com menced operations. pi
 Kentucky and Tennessee had embarked more largely in this species of industry the former containing eight cotton ane twenty seven wooden factories
 These facts. true in 1850, do not pre- sent the condition of southern manufac- turing enterprise in 1856. We have made a progress in this department of in dus,ry really creditable, and the influence of the success of such undertakings upol public sentiment, will undoubtedly rende our advance in manufacturing for ou home wants noticeable point of the mex census. tti"R
 We are not disposed to admit that in difference exists in any of the Southerr States to the true elements of home pros perity. We have done much, for new communities, to place ourselves in honor able rivalry with the older States, ant what has been achieved is promise Q the energy with which a greater division of labor will be pursued in the future IN. O. Picayune.