The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-23

The letters from our correspondents in Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and
Texas, published in yesterdays HERALD, offer
but a gloomy picture Of the actual state Of
things in the South. The deep shadows of the
picture are relieved by very few rays of hope
fal light To be sure, it is q noteworthy fact
that in the alarm and confusion occasioned by
Q sharp fight between United States soldiers
and exrebels at Raleigh, North Carolina, ex-
citing among the inhabitants q fear that the
war of races had fairly begun, "none Of the
Africans in the city were involved" Never
theless, the testimonies from all points concur
that amicable relations between the whites and
the blacks have been succeeded not only by q
growing disposition to have as little to do with
each other as possible, but also by a growing
spirit of mutual enmity Our correspondents
are startled at finding that the vague notion Of
negro supremacy begins to assume most ugly
shape before the eyes Of both ex-slaveholder
and ex-slave. 1t is gradually filing the imagi-
nation Of the one with dread and that of the
other with extravaganza and delusive hopes,
and the hearts Of both with ill-dissembled ha-
tired. All this fatally indicates that war of
races is by no means such chimera as some
Northern philanthropists would fain believe.
Nor is its possibility either so uncertain or so
remote as all true philanthropists should desire.
The dlsgraceful strife between the President
and Congress should cease, if for no other rea-
son than to avert so direful war;
The vast negro majorities which registration
reveals in certain districts Of the South might
well awaken the apprehensions even of North
ern radicals If they were to reflect on the dan
ger of entrustng the balance of power to such
masses of stupidity and ignorance 1t is not
surprising that gloomy apprehensions are enter
tanned by the disenfranchised whites Of the
South. A curious instance at once of the igno-
rance Of the newly enfranchised negroes and
of the impositions practised on them by dema-
gogues like Hunnicutt is mentioned by our
Richmond correspondent He deems it safe to
say that few Of the negroes who, voting for the
first time in Virginia, and, as some hold, ille-
galIy, voted that Richmond should subscribe
two million dollars her quota of the subscrip-
ton to build the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road, knew what they were really voting for.
One sable citizen when asked, Are you for
the subscription or against itf" answered,
"Skription! Use done glib Mr. Hunnicutt huff
skription already and amt gwine to glib eny
mo-" "Showing conclrsively," says the CORE
spondent, "two facrs-the voters extreme igno-
rance and Hunnicutt's imposition" He adds,
that had the Great Mogul opposed it the
negroes would have been as unanimous against
"skription."
. Happily one oasis In the desert has been
discovered by one of our correspondents in the
thriving, industrious German settlement at New
Braunfels, in Texas. He is inspired by 1t to
prophesy the time, not far distant, when, if the
clouds disappear from our political horizon,
emigration shall cover these millions Of waste
acres with fertilizing tides of life, and pros
perity shall shine upon the future homes OF
millions of earnest, toiling men. Even the
squabbles and blunders Of Washington poll
ticians cannot forever hinder predictions like
these from being fulfilled. Farsighted CAPT
talists should Immediately prepare for the
rapid and marvellous changes which emigra-
ton, together with steam, electricity, and
all the best appliances of modern civil
cation. will within a few brief years have
wrought in what John Bright, in one of
his speeches on America, described as 'those
beautiful States Of the South, those regions
than which the world offers nothing
more fertile or more lovely" When capital
and labor, under the free system, shall once
have fairly begun to flow into the Southern
States, their prodigious natural advantages Of
area, soil, climate, hydraulic power, rivers,
inexhaustible mineral wealth, and other cir
cumstances by which population and pro-
gress are affected, will astonish the world.
Before the war, large as the supply OF
cotton had become, and high as it's price had
risen, the supply was unequal to the demand,
simply fpr want of labor Emigration will
provide labor, as we'll as capital and enter
prise to stimulate 1t. In short time the pro-
duct OF the cotton plant will be restored and
doubled. The yield of the other Southern
s.aples-rice, tobacco, sugar-which had been
gradually lessening before the war, on account
of the exclusive loyalty exacted by King Cot
Ton, VIII ALSO oe Teetoreu anu ihcfe"eou' E'eh
during the brief period that somewhat di.
minished production Of all these staples must
be expected, that diminished production, az
Sir Morton Peto has predicted, "will be salts
fed by enhanced prices, which will be borne
by the consumers" Thus half Of the immense
cotton crop of 1850, amounting to five million
three hundred and eighty-seven thousand
bales, would bring, at double the prices then
realized, as much money as the whole. 1t ].
consoling 10 know that bountiful nature viii
require but few rolling seasons to repair thu
ravages Of war and to counterfeit the evils o
stupid and malevolent legislation. Let nj
hope that our national prosperity, which yer!
largely depends upon the organization and de
velopment Of Southern industry, will yet b