Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1865-11-25
What the South Needs.

Of the Southern States and Of South Carolina.
We 'allude to the following paragraph: X:
",It should be the pride of every farmer
and planter in the State to raise, grow or make
every thing WHICH he uses or needs. Slavery
has been abolished, and labor made more hon.
orable rs well as more necessary They who
have heretofore spout their lives in case and
illcness, will be- forced to work. Planting
and the learned professions are no longer the
Only honorable means Of livelihood for our
young men. They must become tradesmcn,
manufacturers, artisans or mechanics. Imm-
couiaged. Then manufactures vii! spring up,
commerce will revive, and we shall become an
Independent people"
This is plain and sensible talk to the pco-
pie. What we want now is uorh'ers in every
department. of industry in the field, in the
work -shqp, in the manutactory, and in the
counting house. The radical change in our
system of labor will not now permit any gen
tlemen, idlers or unproductive loafers. IF
the earth yields her increase to any remuncr-
ativc extent, it must by hard licks and un-,
tiring energy om the part of her people; if
We wish to advance our mechanical interests,
oaAr Young mon must notbe ashamed to 60
into the workshops and learn some useful
trade, and in every other department of the
great work of developing our resources aud
repairing our shattered fortunes, it is workers
---carnest, faithful workers-that are needed.
Heretofore, this State, our young men
from our colleges and schools crowded into
the learned professions, the result of which
Was .tlat numbers of them never, got practice
an5agif to Sd sport tteln and this fSt
vny other business, they too often, instead of
being active producers become burden upon
their. friends and an incubus upon the indus
trial energies Of society. Now everything is
changed; much of our property that constitu-
ted our wealth, and all Of it which formed our
labor system, has been swept away as in the
twi4kltng Of an eye; and if there is any other
way to rcsuscitate our resources and bring
back prosperity to the land. other than by
untiring efforts and stcadfust labor, we cannot
see it. There is work now for all who are
here, and for all who may come among us for
a quarter Of century to come. Lot each,
therefore, go at it with steadfastness Of epur-
pose and with a.dctcrlnination to succeed and
success will come Colunabia IAunta.
EXPORTS CorTo>, &c-We learn from
the New York Times, of the I'd, that the re-
turns of export Z" clearances from the custoiA
house, for the week ending on Tuesday even
ing, make up the extraordinary hoasy aggre
gate of S6,608, ACT in currency, or about one
hundred per cent. more than the total for the
corresponding week4of last year. Included in
The weeks exports have been l2,G2l bales of
cotton, valued at So, ,523,735 in lawful mones
OF this amaunt l2,450 bales, Of the currency
yahm of So ,O0l A 40, were shipped to Liver,
pool; 1,74l bales, valued at S439,899, to
Cork, doubtless 'f6r orders,' as the freight
brokers phrase it; and 143 bales, valued at
s9l,398, to Haare. These enormous, ship
mepts of. domestic produce must favorablyaf-
focu our foreign trade balances. increase the
supplyof exchange, lessen the demand for
gold and vastly aid the chief financial agent
>of the Governmentin his commendable. efforts
torres ire International finances oaspecie basis.
l%"T ,iness in cotton at all the e'shipping ports
continues quite vigorous. At the port|of N.
York, n" the receipts thus far. in the current
week have averaged 4,529 balesa day, max.
ipgs 1l9, ,O46 bales since October'1, againste ex-
ports Of, So ,964 balesin the same time, leave
inss an estimated stock on hand and on ship
board not cleared, Of: 155 900 bales.55l sIs.
s SSz'HThus far in the current cotton year, be-
ginning Sept. 1,,the,receipts at all the ship
ping ports reach 100000 bales, s(ncluding
{230, 900 balssSa this sportD against exports Of
s137, 900 bales, including. 12S,00OGbales to
Gfeat1}rtnin bales to France; and 2.-
0D0 hi1ne Z, ~ bo fnrn;syt, nnrts The nsti mn