The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-02-07
Editorial Pennings and Clippings.
Alexander II. Stephens

Alexander III. stephens.e,:
Col. John Lewis Payton has just published IN
England a work on .sThe American Crisis" We
select the following passage from the quotations
given in review Of it by the Cosmopolitan:
.'As passed out of the Office of the Secretary OF
the Navy, expressing hope that he might enjoy
his repast and digest it satisfactorily, which l
doubted, from the character of the provisions then
in the Richmond market, I encountered IN ethe
hall, lean, yellow, care-worn man, his back bent
forward almost into hump his chest bowed IN
word, one shoulder higher than the other, smal
wasted legs, hands and fingers long and bony'
dress loose and wrinkled, and shabby, gray-look-
ing. damp and mouldy. His face was bony and
emaciated wthered and twitching; his scanty
hair fell ON his shoulders in disorder. His chin
was smooth and beardless, his breath short, while
his restless eyes blazed with excitement. his
voice, as he addressed such acquaintances as he
met, was sharp, slrill and squeaking, and his
whole appearance faded, anxious, disappointed,
extraordinary-so much so that he passed 20 one
who did not turn and take second gaze l
thought had never seen so singular an object
and inquired of my nearest neighbor what apporl-
tion it was. Imagine my surprise when was in
formed thatit was Mr.. Alexander H. Stephens, the
eloquent Georgian orator. the Conservative states
man, and energetic vice-Prcsident of the Confed-
crate States"
Negro Labor and Cotton.
The Kingstree rs. C.) Star reports very con-
siderable emigration from that vicinity to Texas.
The Montgomery Adrertiser makes o similar re-
port in regard to Alabama. The draft which
Florida, Texas and the alluvial regions of Missis-
sippi, Arkansas and Louisiana, are making upon
the negroes of South Carolina, Georgia. and Ala
bama indicates pretty clearly that the upland por-
lions of these States will he all-but deserted by
this class of farm laborcrs. BY far the greater
portion of the negroes who are disposed to work
in the cotton fields, will seek employment in those
States where their labor will be more remunera-
tive to both themselves and employers. 1t was
stated, q few days ago, in q Georgia paper, that
agents of planters in Mississippi and Arkansas
were in the former Stale making engagements
with negroes, and that they were meeting with
great success from the fact that they were offering
much better wages than the Georgia planters We're
justified in paying The productiyeness of Mis-
sssippi, Arkansas, and Texas, will make them
the great cotton States of the South, and thither
will flock the larger portion of the negroes who
will assist in the cultivation of the great staple
This will leave the much worn lands Of South
Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama to be cultivated
by white labor ard such negroes as are content TO
remain 1t seems almost certain that the crops OF
these States will be materially changed in the
course of few years. Cotton will, no doubt, be
grown in these States to considerable extent, but
the proportion to other crops will be nothing like
that of the past.
..Hermes," of the Mercury.
Nearly all our readers will remember the Rich
mond correspondent of the Charleston Mercury,
whose letters were SO terse and pithy during the
war. Since the revival of that paper, "Hermes"
has been domiclod in Washington, and his letters
have afforded wonted interest. In q late issue,
We regret to learn that he leaves the capital and
ret,rcs from the Mercury The following is ex-
traced from his farewell letter:
81 came here this winter with certain fixed
opinions drawn from the study of history and from
human nature, so far as understand it, rs to the
inevitable result of the struggle which agtatcs the
country The fatc of Greece, Rome, the Floren-
tine Republics and France before me, colored the
facts Of daily occurrence, and gave desponding
tone to my earlier letters. Afterwards, l thought
best, in the view of the great depression of our
people, to say whatever cheerful and encouraging
thing could be said have not wilfully mised );
could not knowingly hold out false hope to my
friends. still think there is hope to my friends.
still think there is hope-hope from the finances,
hope from short crop in the West, hope from the
6rmness of the President, hope from the folly of
his foes hope from the struggle between the Radi-
cal asprants for the Presidency, hope from the un-
ainching Democracy, hope from many tbpgs-
from anything except the ESTABLISHMENT of the
South. Therein is no hope; for, prone MS she
lies, the South, now, even more than when she
was in the Union, is check upon Radicalism.-
Without that break upon the wheels, the car of
progress, so-called, would rush, Heaven only
knows whittier.
"And yet, while the waves come and go, the tide
seems to be steadily rising. That 1 confess. New
erthcess, tides do not always rise to the same
height, and ours may not rise to the mark of an
archy and empire for some decades to come"
Gen. Grant to be Temporary President.
In anticipation of Johnson's removal, says the
New York Herald, at all events, it is given out from
Washington that law will probably be passed by
Congress providing temporarily for the promotion
of Gen. Grant to thcNWhtc House as acting Presi-
dent-n whose very name carries with it the
prestige Of public confidence and success.
With Gen. Grant in the Executive chair we know
that the present unreasonable, implacabie and de-
fant rebel States would speedily realize their true
situation that they would be without difficulty
re-organized on the basis of the amendment, and
that with, if not before, the return of December