The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-12-21
Fortunes 10 be made in Cotton Raising.

The New Orleans Picayune has an
article setting forth the great profits of
the cotton culture, and stating that the
great planters are now so impoverished
that they will sell or lease their planta.
tions on favorable terms, and that there
are chances for men with enterprise and
capital to make rapid fortunes in the
business. The Picayune proceeds to
say: o
The prospects of the organization of
our labor are now good. The freedmen
will soon be placed between the alterna.
tive of starvation or labor. The plan.
tiers can afford to give them wages fot
good labor. The present high price of
our staples will justify liberal wages.
Capital can find no better, no more bro
fitable employment than in raising sugar
or cotton at present prices, either on a
large or small scale. Ten bales of cotton
are now worth at least 50, 5 10, and likely
to be as much this time next year. All.
most any ablebodied man can raise and
pick ten bales of cotton on our rich allu.
vial soils. We know of one man and
his wife and little boy, not one hundred
miles from this city, who made $4,000
in 1854 off ten acres of ground in cot.
ten, in spite of the worms, which were
very destructive that season. In all
that magnificent stretch of alluvium
north of the Red river which in 1850
and 1860 produced, in the four parishes,
1000 bales Of cotton, ten bales to
the acre is the average crop. There
cotton grows so luxuriantly and ripens
so richly that the great struggle is to
gather it. The hand had no time to
pick but grabbed it out, and with lit
tie Houble hurried it of to market.
This country is all open to cultivation
and capital, bnt the owners Of these
lands are without means or laborers.
The northern people will display great
deficiency of sagacity and enterprise, if
they do not quickly appreciate and pro.
fit from this grand opening-this bound.
less field of wealth-richer, far richer
than the mines of California and Ari.
zona. .......
LOOK ON THE BRrGHr sorpr:4-- ..vor.
on the bright side of things. II is the
right side. The times may be hard. but
it will make them no easier by wearing
gloomy and sad countenance. \ 1t is the
sunshine and not the cloud that makes
the flower. Full one half our ills arc so
only IN imagination. There is always
that before or around us which should
cheer and fiji the heart with warmth. I
The sky is blue ten times where it is
black once. You have troubles, it NAV
be. So do Others None are free from
them. Perhaps tits as well that none
shonld be. They give sinew and tone
to lite: fortitnde and courage TO man.
That would be dull sea, and the sailor.
would never get skill, where there was
nothing to disturb the surface of the
ocean.
1t is the du,yof every one. to extract all
the happiness and enjoyment he casi N isis.
out and within him !; and above s.
should look on the bright sideSof a
SAhat though things do Elook "a Iss1S
aslks The lane will turn ,S
l1i.t .end in broad day. Iu 81
81 and very often in the shoi
balance Of life rights itself
What i'll becomes well; %ilatSi Is
wrong right. Men we're not made to
hang down either their heads or their
lips, and those, who do only show that
they are departing from the path of trne
common sense and right. There is
more virtue in one sunbeam than a
whole hemisphere ofcloud and gloom.
Therefore, werepeat, look on the bright
side OF things Cultivate what is warm
and genial ;;nos the cold, repulsive, dark,
morose.
Only one Confederate soldier now
remains at the Fair Grounds HOSPITAL
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