Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-03-22

my family. During my trip, which occupied
nearly two months, visited about o dozen cot
ton and rice plantations in South Carolina, Geor-
pia and Alabama, and I am free to admit that q
happier and more contented and better cared for
set of negroes than those came in contact with,
I never saw. There seemed to be bond Of af-
fection, as it we're, existing between the master
and his slave that puzzled me q little at first;
but as travelled further and saw more, my sur.
prise wore off. I talked good deal with the
Slaves about their condition, and do not remem-
Der that came across single one who was dis
contented or unhappy. To my mind, the negro
slaves of the States through which travelled
are the happiest people on the face OF the globe
and for the life Of me cannot see how some
writers can have the conscience to mlsrepresent
the facts as they have DONE"
- The last number of the South Arkansas
Democrat, edited by our odd confrsre, JOSEPH
81. BLACK, brings US the following item in re-
gard to our former townsman, 8. W. GrvENs.-
The we'll wisbes Of the Senior, to whom he was
personal friend, 60 with him:
"We see by the last number Of the Warren
SUNBEAM that our old friend fold in friendship,
not in years) q. W. Givens, Esq, is announced
to represent Bradley county in the lower house
of the next Legislature. If elected, We can
vouch for the ability and conscientiousness which
he will bring to bear in the discharge Of his du.
ties. No man ever. had better heart and
Aristides himself had not more integrity Of char.
acter than has our old confrere 8. W. Givens.-
Success attend him" .-,.
- Improvements in the manufacture Of Sin
struments of Death have tended to diminish
rather than in,rease the horrors Of war. They
make nations more respectful to each other
RoDmAN's cannon then, which is described below,
is, we judge, charitable institution
"The monster cannon designed by Major Rod
man, United States Army, and recently cast at
the Fort Pitt Works, Pittsburg, is now being
bored. The g1n weighs some forty EIGHT thous-
and pounds. It has bore Of fifteen inches di-
ameter and thirteen feet nine inches in length.
It has twenty-five inches Of solid metal at the
breech, making its extreme length fourteen and
half feet. At the breech the outside diameter
is four feet ct the muzzle, twenty eight and
nine-t tenth inches. 1t will'project ball Of four
hundred and twenty-one pounds a distance of five
or six miles, with tolerably accurate range OF
-four miles. No gun approaching it in size OF
weight has ever before been cast The largest
English guns are made Of iron slaves, banded
together. Some brass pieces of greater length
have been cast, but no gun Of more than twelve
inch bore"
- We take this item from the Columbia
Guardian. Is there no hope for that chaos Of q
country?
The Government, it is said, have prepared am
pie instructions for our minister to Mexico, Gov
ering any emergency that may arise. 1t is be.
lieved here that both the Spanish and French
governments ore aiding the Miramon party, and
hence the contemplated movement of Miramon
to blockade Vera Cruz and other ports on the
Gulf of Mexico 1t is said there have been two
or three Spanish ships sent to the Gulf from Gu
ba, undoubtedly to assist Miramon in carrying
out these measures.
Anew Orleans telegram of the 18th instant,
brings us the further news that United States
war steamer has actually captured Mexican
vessel on the gulf, and carried it into that port
as prize. Whether this has been done by au
thority of the r. States Government, is not an
nounced.
MIRAMoN has made his contemplated attack
upon Vera Cruz, but was repulsed by the Libe
rails
On account Of the border troubles Gen. SAM
HOUSTON, Governor of Texas, has not waited
for the u States to protect the frontier but has
organized an expedition against the Indians
which is to be commanded by Gen. BURLRsoN
Increase of population is generally taken
now, as criterion of the prosperity Of nations
II this be the case, the subjoined statistics ar
food for some reflection:
"In the six New England States the whites
from 1890 to 1850, period of sixty years, in
creased nearly q for one; the colored race in
creased only one third in the same period. Tht
increase of the whites has been nine times great
er than that of the blacks, and this, notwith
standing the influx of the fugitive and manumit
ted slaves, and the emigration Of the whites Il
other portions of the United States, which prob
ably more than uverbalanced the immigration o
foreigners In the six Southern States from
Delaware to Georgia, inclusive for the same Pc
riod the whites have increased nearly 2f for one
and the slaves fraction more, and this, notwith
standing the manumission of the slaves and tht
deportation of others to the more Southern States
where their labor was more productive.
These are facts, and the inference is irresist
ble, that the negro race in the six Southern
Ststes under the fostering care Of their masters
stimulated by their own interest, has increased
near eight times as fast as the same race in th'
six New England States, when left dependant OF
its own resources, struggling for life amid gu
perior race, although aided by charity and unde
the fostering care of the philanthropists Of th'
day.
We clip the following paragraph from
No. X article of Domestic Industry in tn,
Charleston Mercury. These able and timely pa
pers are designed to encourage the South to giv'
her patronage to Southern imports and domestic
industry. They enforce the duty well. Th'
author says Charleston can underssU New York
Hear his argument; keeping in mind that th'
Charleston and New York jobbers stand in th'
same relation to importing and manufacturing
agents.
"We will now try to illustrate the subject BY
following Southern merchant to New York
where he may desire to purchase an assorted stocl
of goods, amounting to from 10 to 80 or $50, ,OO(
even the last named sum will not procure hin
admission into an importing or agents stock
If he insists on buying from such houses, th'
price will be fixed at much higher rates than th'
jobbing merchant pays, and the custom of no
breaking packages will almost invariably rule
him out, and he is of necessity thrown into thu
hands of the? jobbing merchants of New York
the keenest and most adroit dealers known il
the world-men who live by their wits, and wht
cannot sustain themselves except by exorbitan
profits. Just for moment look at things as they
really are. A jotbiug merchant in New York
paying from fifteen to thirty thousand dollars {
year for store rent, clerk hire from one to 81,
thousand dollars q year, having two or three
partners in the concern, each living in palaces
at the most prircely expenditure. Compare
this picture with the same class Of merchants il
Charleston, where the most commodious ant
best located stores rent from fifteen hundred Il
two thousand dollars, and where clerks ore nov
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