The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-30

p"u OhSo III ehiltS CityS, unU III future
will expect it to be punctually made.
ELECTION OF PROFESSORS. We
learn that DR.. A. N. Talley, OF CO.
lumbia, has been elected Professor
in the School of Medicine, and Gen
A. G. Haskell, of Abbeville. Professor
of Law, in the South Carolina Uni
versity.
PosT OFFICE HoURs.-The office is
open from Sa. m. until 81 p. NJ.
and from 6 until p. M. The North
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How TO GIVE Prosperity re THE
iSoUrH.-We commend the following
excellent article to the earnest consi-
deration of our citizens-old and
young. BY a '1ong pnll, strong
pull and pull NIL together" the
South can be brought out of the
"Slough of Despond" in which, un-
fortunately, she is at present mired:
'''There is vast deal of idleness in
the South. A large number Of our
people are trying to live by their
wits; u large number are only nomi-
nally engaged in business, lounging
and dawdling through each week; a
large number are running loose, wait
ing for something to turn up. We
doubt if one-half of our population
are engaged in real hard work. The
absolute necessities of life cost so
little in temperate cline, where
land is abundant and rich and the
population sparse, that it is not diff
cult to live on half work. The pro-
duction of the South, we doubt not,
if all muscle and brain in the South
were fully taxed, and the labor pro-
perly directed, could be just about
doubled. There are young men pre-
tending to practice law or physic;
young men instructing half dozen
pupils; young men selling a few
yards of ribbon per day; young men,
who have no business there, at col
lege; young men 'farming'-all OF
whom ought to be differently occu-
pied. There are young men clerking
it III hotels and banking companies.
where there is not full employment
for them. There are young ladies by
scores engaged in reading novels or
entertaining beauX. There are all
sorts of agencies, 10000 shifts to
live, no matter how, so that it is not
by manual labor. In n word, the
market of headwork is giutted in the
South, while the hammer, the plane,
the trowei, the hoe, the axe, are cry
ing for stalwart arms to grasp them.
The idea is that trade is not lust
the thing for young man who con-
siders himself as good as anybody.
1t is thought better to be iackleg
lawyer or to murder people with a
doctors diploma, or to weigh butter,
than to build a house, or make
sewing machine, or construct q steam
engine. The agent of somebody's
vegetable pills is thought n more
eligible match for your daughter than
the man who prints newspaper or o
book. SO it is q foolish and often
fatal pride which makes thousands
shrink from mechanical arts; and
those very men who, by a life OF
honest industry, have secured high
position in the community and a re-
spectacle competence for their fami-
lies, turn their backs upon their
occupations, and trim their sons out
for something that will not soil their
white hands. Farming III the South
is the most prolific source of idle
ness, for we have few towns In all
directions, you meet not very hand
somely dressed young gentlemen on
horseback, who inform you that they
are farming. 1t is II vague deceiv-
ing term, thut means, perhaps, strict
ly, that they live in the country, and
may be overlooking n hand apiece.
They have traditional idea that the
farmer must confne himself to head
work. They sit on the fence until an
earlyi dinner, watching Il one-horse
plow, and come to court, and read
the market reports in Saturdays
papHr, and artlessly think that
they belong to the great agricultural