Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-10-05
What an Industrious Man can do Siarthe
West M L'E

The Davenport Gazette" speaks OF Mr.,
james Thompson, who camo from Pesnsyl-
vanla to Scott county, Iowa i, ,dozcnsy ng0,
worth few hundred dollars. He now owns
f"rIy Jo"r farms averaging Que handrM and
sixty acres each, or in all about sevou thous-
and acres of land, at least half OF wliioll is
under cultivation the whole will be next year
| The land lies in Scott and Cedar counties, -,
The past year he put under cultivation 2 200
acres new land. He is now having twenty
farm dwellings, of six rooms each, framed
and gotten ready, in Davenport, so tlIoy can
DO hauled TO his farm, aud gotten ready for
his tenants. Tho tenants get one.third of
the crop and two dollars an acre for farming
new land, and same share of the crops with
scvcnty.five cents to one dollar an acre for cul-
tivutcd land
Ii such enterprise can succeed in the far
West, says the (" Daily Chronicle" We may
wei! ask "What can an Industrious man do
iii the South 2" How many uncultiyatcd
acres of tho richest lands that heaven smiles
upon are 8, day awaiting somo Revolutionary
touch to make them start into useful exs-
tence How many landowners there are with
the means all around them to build and peo-
pie villages and towns, of which they may pos
sess tho greater share; and yet who tries?
No doubt an occasional attempt is made to
do something after this kind, but how quick
ly small Obstacles deter and discourage What
we most require is persistent effort, combined
with courage, liberality and genuine enter
prise that which can wait unon the future
for its reward But now is the time to lay
its foundation for success. Now the eyes Of
the people Of the North aud Of Europe are
being directed to the South, and if favorable
inducements are offered in way that shall be-
come public, and excite in the many the in
tercst they arc calculated to create ina few,
we would quickly have an influx of intcli-
gent labor which would aid us in rebuilding
our shattered fnrruncs and Iii. ing us ont of
the slough Of DcSpond in which the whole
State would sccn to be hopelcssy submerged
PoMrlcAL CHANGES. s.-Thc " Albany Ar
gus of Monday, srcculating upou the re-
cent political changes in Maine and Califor.
MIA, says:
"Thrce weeks from tomorrow, elections
| will he held in the States of PENNSYLVANIA.
Ohio, Indiana and Iowa Twoof these State,
Pennsylvania and fndiann-hnvr been quite
closely contested. last year. the Republican
majority in Pennsylvania WAS 17;l7S Should
the Democrats gain opo,tionntcly in that
State az they have just gained IN Maine, the
majority against the radicals wonltbe 80 900.
In Ohio. at the last election, the Republican
majority WAS i2,6Sii and gain equal to That
of Maine would give tn" Democrats abnu,
100 mnin,i,y. In Indinna, the i1cptiicAm
crats there EN- have about $4,000 m,iorit>
mex, month. l., dung "a well as their broth
r"n in Nninv Applying the s,u,r rule to-
! New York SITE. and the result would be -,
founding. Frntons majority last yrar was
Is 7S0, and ut The rate Of gain in Maine, the
Democrats would have Il majority of about
round 100 1000"
REGIsTRArIoN.- Complete returns of the
registration have been received from Ala
hama, Georgia, hnnsf'na, Mississippi and
Virginia These returns show the following
results: In Alabrna the total number Of
voters registered is 1G0 095, of whom 72.737
arc whites, and 8S,2, blacks-a colnrcd ma.
jority of 1871. In Georgia the total regis
tr,tinn is lSS S.72O, of whom 05 1903 are whites.
and 03. ! II bIacks--a white majority OF 1886
In Louisiana tho total is l27.5SS. the whites
numbering HES. and tho blacks S2 500,
colorcd majority of 3S i2. In Mississippi
the total is 122173, of whom 5l.l5l are
whites, and 70,0l9 hlacks-a colored mnori
| ty of 1865. In Virginia the total il PIG,
| 247, of whom lis, 157 are whites and OF 400
| backs-a white majority of 1867. In Flor
ida. Arkansas, the Cnro!inas and Texas, reg
stration is a.ll incomplete. In Florida. ut
last accounts, 4,733 whites and 9,388 blacks
had registered "a colorcd majority Of 1855.
In North Carolina, 44,508 whites and 40 sos
blacks--a white majority Of 1908 In Sonth
Carolina, 21,l7G whites and 46,0I0 blacks
a co!orcd majority of 2t.S!3. Estimates arc
made of Arkansas and Texas, Of 40, 900 whites
and $4,000 negroes, white majority OF 5 900
for the former; and 10000 whites and so 900
blacks "a colorcd majority of 10000 for the
latter. The grand total of the registry through
out the South foots up 525,O ,OSO Whites and
6l7,316 blacks-a coorcd majority of 90 ,226,
and total registry Of 1,ll2,396 voters Of
both colors.
New ORLEANS, Sept 27, 1867 The
I" Republican has full rcturns of votes to-
! day in tho First Snrond md Third N,n,