The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-08-17

w 63ut AXo tueye
Northern and European laborem
must be encouraged to become tiIlers
of Southern soil. Applications have
already been made to our Foreign
EmigraRt Commissioners, from South
ern planters, for field hands. The
pretence that white men Cannot work
under tie blaze Of Southern sun is
too stale now TO DC needed by any
body. The non-slaveholding Ger
mans of Texas long ago proved that
Southern cotton-raising is no greater
tax upon the white mans constitution
than Northern corn-raising. The
lands which produce cotton are gene
rally dry and healthy, and the white
laborer needs only to be little care-
full to be able to meet with perfect Sc
curlty every requirement in the cult
vation of cotton, from the first plant
6as he ssdst saknt for The agricul-
tural restoration Of the South ought
to be la2oor-saving machinery. 1t is
this which hns enabled the great
Northwest to develop its resources at
such marvellous rate. It was this
which made good the great drain of
the strongest laboring men of that
section, occasioned by the war; so
that, though hundreds of thousands
were taken from the field to fight
through the four years war, the
crops. instead of being reduced in
amount, actually. become lnrger than
ever. It is well-known fact, that
labor-saving farm implements enable
tho turner's of tho Northwest to ac-
complsl@ three times the amount of
labor that they could without them,
witA the same number of teams and
men. These implements are applica-
BILE, good Judges say, to the planting
and cultivation OF cotton in ell its
stages up to the picking, which must
be done by hand. Yet they hs~e
never been used for that purpose to
any extent worth mentioning, Slave
ry never had enterprise enough to
venture upon new methods. r. II
It was content with mere
brute force to produce its gnins. Be-
ing rid Of it, an opening is now made
such as did not exist before, for the
great inventions Of civilization. Ii a
prompt resort is had to them. and if
their management is consigned to in
teuigent and fuithful hands, they will
very soon restore the old cotton crops,
however backward the mass of the
freedmen may be in coming up to the
white standard of work. The import
ance of securing this end speedily for
bids its being left to the contingency
of the disposition or inddsposition Of
the freedmen to do regular labor It
should be subject to no contingency;
and this may be secured by relying
primarily upon white labor, and its
mighty auxiliaries, labor-saving i'm
plements. York Times.
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PARDoN-SEEKISG AMONG THUNDER
AND LIGHTNING AND BURSTING WATER
PIpEs.-While ex-Speaker Orr, of
South Carolina, wis bcseising the
throne of the Presidential grace, on
Saturday afternoon, for pardon, one
of Horace's Roman storms burst over
Washington, and sent down dire hail
and floods of rain, amidst the roaring
thunder and the forke d lightning, tho
wind all the while rising almost to a
hurricane. A friend who was in the
Executive ante-room waiting to see
the President, tells me the scene was
terrific enough to frighten tho Office
and pardon-seekcrs out of all proprie.
tv, but. ms if to add to the horrors OF
tn. occasion, one of the water-mains
OF the mansion burst all at once and
flooded the building. Nothing could
exceed the confusion. The damage
done, he thinks, will amout to five or
SIX thousand dollars. The President
may now e1claim:
Jam salts terris nivis atque dere
Grandinis misit Pater, ct rubento "a
Dextera sacra jaculatus arces ~
Terruit Urbenn.
Terruit gentes.
The st. Paurs Press is ''glad to
state that the BLOODHOUND stock is OH
the rise. A handsome fund has been