Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-15
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The Latest RON the southern States
Letters from New Orleans report tn
appearance of ome of the new crop
cotton in that market. 1t was picked i
Louisiana, south of New Orleans. Til
most of the cotton arriving in New Or
leans is, however, old, much of it three
and some Of it four years removed from
the stack. That planted this year, in III
region about New Orleans at least, vii
not produce a tenth crop. The Southern
planters, generally, distrust the willing
ness Of the negro to work except upor
compulsion, and before full crops car
again be raised in the South, we mus
wait until Northetners have superseded
the present owners of plantations, anc
shown conclusively that negroes vii
work for wages and kind usage. Thi.
fact has been already fully demonstrated
On many OF the abandoned plantations in
the Southwest, but there are non so blind
as those who won't see, and the Southern
shareholders, Is a class, may be counted
in that category. But a few years will
have to elapse, however, ere the toll and
perseverance of the Northerner will make
the South richer by far in product than ii
RI, ever been, while as to education, civ
',ihation and refinement - but, as Mrs.
-lalaprop says, comparisons are odor-
GUS"
The Southern planters show their un-
belief in free labor by selling their lands
(worth at least sixty dollars) for three to
five dollars per acre. and throw in all the
machinery, buildings, etc. Chances to
make fortunes in a few years are as plen-
tiful as blackberries. and our people will
not be slow to take advantage of them.
Emigration has already commenced, and
though it is yet only to a limited extent,
By another year its amount will be enor-
nous. An obstacle IN the way is the re-
ported insecurity to life, owing to the
alleged bad feeling toward Northerners by
the SoYtherners. This is all bosh. The
South is fully subjugated. Her people
are willing TO do anything for peace.
There is none OF the sentiment spoken of
in existence except in the fertile brains Of
Northern spectators, who have already
reached the field of labor, and Of some Of
their partners in the military line. or
course their desire is to keep other people
out until they reap the profits. And that
is the whole basis Of the " danger to life
story.
The only real danger to life is one which
has existed for years, and that is to the
negroes who have cultivated the rice
swamps. That product Of the South is
doomed, for compulsory labor is the only
kind which can be depended upon. Freed
men will not work in the p%estilential at
mosphere which surrounds these swamps,
and slavery is dead. For the rest, the
States lately in rebellion are moving in
the matter Of Constitutional Conventions
to restore each of them to its old position
in the Union. The Provisional Governors
have issued proclamations appointing cleo
tons, prescribing the qualifications Of
voters. and fixing the day for the assem-
blage of the Convention, at the same time
all citizens to engage cheerfully
and energe,ically in industrial pursuits.
The Generals, also, are rapidly changing
their base, and protesting allegiance to the
Documents which have appeared since
the war ended show the exhaustion which
overcame the rebellious States.
Alabama, for instance. with a population,
according to the census Of 1860, of white
males between the ages of fifteen and fifty.
Of l25. 800. contributed to the Confederate
army 1926 troops, Of which number 35,-
300 were killed and as many more perma-
nently disabled. Now note the difference.
The white males Of Connecticut numbered
about the same of those of Alabama. She
has furnished 46, 900 soldiers to the Union
army, six thousand more than her quota.
In other States the same proportion exists.
The energies of the North have never been
half taxed, and yet when Lee and john
,ton surrendered we had a million troops
n the field. Since that time over 100000
have been mustered out, and the prospects
ire that in a few months the late magnif-
cent army a million Of men will be reduced
10 fifty or q hundred thousand.
1t is stated that the President and Sec
rotary Stanton were to visit Richmond the
part Of August, to attend a council
Of leading military officers Of the Depart
ment of Virginia ard North Carolina.
Upon this council will depend much in
the future, for there is little doubt that the
President will be guided very materially
his action in reference to the late and
elections by the opinions of the
men on the spot and who have had such
good opportunities to become possessed OF
q knowledge of the proper means to take
to restore the States in which they are
stationed to their proper positions in the
Union ; and that, too, without giving way
one iota to the secession leaders who ap-
pear, even vet, to have some little inau-
ence in Virginia and North Carolina.