Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-08-24

correspondence of the Charleston Courier
CHARLOTTE, N. G., August 7.

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Speculation and trade seems TO have centcred
here, and everybody has some money. / find
quito npu Der of Northern men arriving cv.
cry day, 'tprospecting aud investigating the
gold rcston. Many Of them are broken down
sne;uators,I havh no money, and arc ready to
cngageiin any business that will cnable them
to turhapenny. They always desire to bond"
lands, expecting to realize profit by selling
them to other parties, Others have capital
and make dona tile purchases Many of them
are engaged in mining md are investing their
money in North Carolina lands without hcsi.
tation, and have no idea but that their titles
will be maintained. The following extract
from the " Raleigh Sentinel" F." will show that
very prominent men, who favor a scheme of
coniiscat'on, arc personally interested in prop
| crty here, and never dream but that they are
secure and their titles valid:
NEw,CuARrERs.- Governor Worth has re
Gently granted, according to Act of Assembly,
charter to the Cabarrus Mning Company,
for the purpose Of tho mining and manufactu.
ring Of ore. The capital stock Of the Compa
ny is not to exceed 100000. The Company
has already, we believe, purchased mining
lands lnSabarrus county and will 80 to work
at onces The corporators are: Thaddcus
Stcyonss Gold Thad?') II. b. French, John
+. Farnsworth, Harmon c. Judd aud G. Il.
Peck, Requires.
Also arcccnty, charter to the Blakcsley
Mining Company of MccE!"nhurg, with cap
itul stockSnot to exceed $500 900, composed
mostly of Northern gentlemen
If snot, men, who arc controlling spirits
among the Radicals, are willing to risk their
chances,8lt would seem that any man with
capital reed not fear the great bug bear con
tiscatlon,&nnd might invest his surplus green
backs inHSouthcrn lands We find too, that
large company with an immense capital has
had deedNSto them lands for mining and rails
ing stoclf They, no doubt, will make a hand
some PraYt by the Investment, and thereby
induce otners to ny the same experiment.
'Flo tileE emigration South seems to be free
r. !ssSears 1and wcsa need not fear but that
IN a. few years all our uiu us,.. ill ho
under cultivation, and thriving industrious
popnutions settled among us. The negroes
will be forced to abandon their careless and
proiligate habits, and become real citizens. or
cmigrate to another country The Northman
has but little use for him, and never settles
where tho African is in the ascendancy But
read the following announcement which the
author seems to quote from the Record"
and is evidently true:
LARGE SALE OF LANDs--R. ". Best,
Esq, Secretary Of State, left for New York
OIL Monday last, to close, as agent, a bargain
for the sale of $4,000 acres of State lands, and
from 70 to 10000 acres of lands owned by
Col Brysop, and Others perhaps of jackson,
lying in. the Counties of Jackson, Macon aud
Cherokee, to the American Agricultural and
Mineral Company. This Company was char.
tered by the last Legislature, aud its head
quarters are in New York Several Northern
gentlemen, as we'll as citizens of the State,
comprise the Company We learn that it is
the purpose OF the Company to put upon these
lands, i'll a short time 20, 900 sheep, for wool
growing. Besides this, several thousand la
borcrs will be employed in mining, &c. We
hope this is but the beginning Of large in.
gress OF industrious, enterprising people into
the State"
There are immense bodies Of fine land in
the Palmetto State which might he bought up
on reasonable terms and similarly appropria-
ted. There are but few land-hoders how arc
unwilling to divide their estates and sell the
surplus to men who will settle among us and
contribute to the rcsuscitation of our section
Of fino country Capital and enterprise are
what we need, and wherever money has been
furnished our people have gone to work and
cultivated their farms, built up their towns
and cities, and revived trade and commercial
intercourse with the world Nowhere is this
fact been more plainly exhibited than in Char
lotte, N. O.. There are large number of fine
stores in the place and all seem to be doing
handsome business. Merchants from Dur.
ington, Lancaster, Kcrshaw, Chester, York,
in South Carolina, and tho contiguous coun-
tics in North Carolina, trado to this market
Cotton is selling to-day on the streets at 21
cents, Middling. Living is cheap. Beef at
from to 10 cents per pound chickens 10
cents each; butter 70 cents per pound eggs
do; one dozen ears of corn and one dozen
s1unshes 10 cents each flour from s2.75 to
525 per hundred weight. The proprietor of
the Mansion House, it seems, has control Of
the hotel business Of the place, and when a
customer leaves he fits up q /" paying bill."
The fare is nothing extra. and the bed.r rooms.
though neat and comfortable, have no luxhri-
Gus appandages The currency is in green.
backs They trade in silver and gold and tho
brokers receive the benefit.
LAST week dstllery was seized in Neck
lcnhurg .cennty, Va, by deputy United
Staiesdnniahal, in obedience to mandate of
the Upitod States District Court The es-
tablishmentw was locked, and guard Of one
man was placed over it, and the deputy left
it in his charge. Twcnty-four hours after
ward some unknown persons Gale on him,
with dull razor and some turpentine soap.
md shavad nT oil hio ho;r ondfha,, .tortna