The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-06-11
Cotton Planters from the North.
[From The N. 7. Tribune, J,r,e7l

". Z. T.
notwithstanding the unsettled condition of the conn.
try many Northern farmers went South In the early
months OF this for the purpose of planting cotton
offered for the production Of cotton CROP would have
accompanied their neighbors but found to
ing season. Others stin would gladly have gone but
restrained for want of definite knowledge to
caies most conRen,al to Northern settlers Those who
went and who used reasonable judgment in selecting
and stocking plantations. send encouraging reports
Tho inducemen to embark in the enterprise remain
about the same Mt the beginning of ths year. There
Is no immediate prospect of material decline in the
price OF cotton and there Is much good land ready
the plough lying uncultiVaied ting capital and
bor to make it productive The Southern planters
always been short OF cIpital and, rs rule, lived at
least year tn advance Of their incomes The rebel
lion overlook them d"epl, indebted to the merchants
and the close OF tho involved both planter and fac
tor In bankruptcy IRON uhirh they be released
only by the intr1ductio OF means from abroad Most
plantations not now under cultivation des titute of
everything but good soil and abundance Of timber
The requirements convert these to are OF all
least s50Do with which to procure and sup
port ton a6or1rs six mules three ploughs two wagons
and small implement. in sets Of half dozen each, for
every hundred acres OF land to be cultivated In pos
session OF the money. tho planter procure all the
other articles in the South Ihero no scarcity Of la.
Dor; enterirsing merchants have shipped to every
Southern city ana considerable village plantation sup
phes &C. OF every kind a dr,ves Of mules. from Texas
ana the West are offered for sale in every county and
parish wnera there In money to buy them.
In the ,outh ri 'ates. as elsewhere, some sections
are settled hy Intelligent industrious. abiding
people, who would gi,diy welcome men from the
North who with capital and Industry to cultivate
the soil ether por'ions 4" the country settled by
tgnorant saf coIla tied brasgarts. who aff-ct to
deBpise h. nest labor and hostile to any and all
marrow notions viii not be difsnt to pick OH ont
the desirable commnnites they are found in almost
every ono O the cotton states aud will readily be dig
tlpgnished BY I'LL Intelligent agent who may be sent out
To- select piace Tor tho 70 nation of settlement
georgia Alabama. Arkaueas Louisiana mud Texas ara
setued In al theis nInst fertile desirable tracts by
hosp.tahie pe4ple In Central Alabama. from Mont.
gSmery to Gain svil.. on the rombigbee Bivor is ono
OF theae locate, where both tho people and the soil
Rpnld 90 acceptable N Bayou BOeuf, In / ouisiana
ana. II tho owe fl W can be prevented on Bayous Ds
craze and Tecbe and IN the 'sd River country from
oce at the Opportunity i've the proaper,tv nj tbair
oeanHa garden like countries by the aid OF Northern
1.-The time tor making tho necessary negotiations and
aItahRements Tor the occupation Of these lands IA at
nand fne planter should DO on hts pis .tatfou with
nis hporink force md implements before the frat of
insured by early planting In tho localities ust named
corn may be planted in FebruRry cotton as early aa
the middle o; haroh, and should certainly be IN the
ground oeire the middle of April There is much
lepArlhg pi buildings, roads and bridges before The
Paainnhg season beg ns Trouble, expense and labor
WIN 4, ue saved ny MI early heginuing
=, ihere ls, pernaps community In the soutbern
oSateS wh"rih the fainilius of Northern mon will be
sbeedfy wefc mad into society It s therefore, de ira.
% ~ 10 tornl ss't em nts. foi this purpose agents
aha G. htrhct for the purchase of the reouir,d
9uiansr o a.fts ior q tsmeut of half n dozen or
M MLioIe iainih"H Thus tho spters viii be ablo 10
nrguate their no and church afairs IN THAR NUN
20 ntlhLei by innivid Al effort The neiQhftors
aiso serve as efe to each other and by the
example of ~ CIR p oaperity wuud induca tbo od ,tt
IONS to court their c,ety. "Oo ~ oo '''
c,aan shseIS h,n neen abolished II ia agreed by all
The G~t a climate Of even the lower counties of
thai Ali the not inhosptab'e to white labor and
ha .e nrouuctH hitherto grown in the outb can
id prohtnbly cultivated by any race or
f''f'o ' Will ihdus'rfousiy apply itself to She work