The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-10
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ff4gh Prssesgsf the Eerth.
The New York Isses, In an article
on s'our Winter Supplies, . advises
its readers who may. be able, to lay in
their coal for the winter, assuring that
speculators and monopoists will run
up prices to "a frightful extent. 1t
then adds:
But while coal monopolists and
Their co-workers are thus actively
preparing the way for another raid on
the public, they are not alone. There
are indications of an unscrupulous
combination among the. dealers in
many other commodities of human
necessity. The cattle market pre-
sents q case in point. Last week and
the week before cattle were ample,
and to spare, and yet prices rose; not
becanse of an increased demand, but
because spectators willed, and had
the power to make them rise. We
suppose that the market at Albany
and this city will continue to be
regulated" and that next winter the
hearts of dealers. will be made glad
by a return to SO cents pound for
meat. There is no use in again sug-
costing the remedy of abstinence; but
there will be suffering this winter
among the poor, who will be more
numerous than before.
Another case is that of wheat.
Spectators at Chicago hold and in
tend to hold millions of bushels that
ought to be forwarded, and under Or
dinary circumstances, would be. And
this winter, consequently, or as soon
as the moderate supply is stopped by
the close of navigation, the poor
mans loaf will dwindle while specu-
lators grow rich. Of course those
who can buy flour and store it will be
wise to do SO. What price milk will
reach we do not pretend to say; con-
densed milk, of far better quality
than generally sold at grocery stores
and the masses of our population
are fed by the grocery stores lis now
rapidly coming into use. We can
testify to the excellence of the con-
densed milk supplied by at least two
extensive dealers. AS for other arti-
cles, butter, as we know, is 'sgoing
up" and Will be forced still higher
unless, as is almost certain, the large
holders are subjected to the just
result of their operations, and are
forced to sell at ruinous price to get
r1d OF their enormous accommodations.
The minor items of tea, sugar, &C.,
are also higher, and so we go.
AS we have said before, the public
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in their own hands, but we do not
propose to enter further now into this
branch of our subject. We only
would add that it will be the plainest
common sense to lay in stocks imme-
dlately of whatever winter stores our
readers can buy and have space to
keep safe and in good order.
NEGRO LABOR IN THE South.
Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Times says:
81 have conversed with a great
many Of these Southern people, and 1
find that no matter what State they
are from, there is only one opinion
among them in relation to the labor
question. They have made a fair
trial of negro labor, and they all say
it is complete and total failure. It
has been fairly demonstrated that the
negro, left to himself and allowed to
work at his own volition, will not
work in such manner as to make his
labor profitable, either to himself or
his employer. The people of the
South have been broug ght to the verge
Of starvation this fall, solely on ac-
count of the bad conduct of the ne
groes between the months of April
and September. There was abun-
dance Of time during that period to
have raised crops that would have far
exceeded the wants of the whole popu-
la5ion OF the South. But owing to
the desertion of the plantations by
the negroes after they had made en-
gagements to work, and the inability