The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-09

lar9eu ana lmprOVccs NE uo uot ua'o no
present size.
Fingerville Factory, on Pacolet River, ff-
teen miles FROM Spartanburg, runs 500 spin
dies and Is looms.
Hills Factory, on Tiger River, eighteen
miles from Spartanburg, runs 500 spindles.
Lawson's Fork Factory, five miles east OF
Spartanburg, runs 1000 spindles and 25 looms.
Reedy River Factory, on Reedy River, seven
miles from Greenville, runs 1850 spindles and
% looms, on both cotton and woollen goods,
large portion Of which are sold in Now York.
Valley Falls Factory, On Lawson's Fork, five
miles north of Spartanburg, runs 500 spindles.
Weaver's Factory, Greenville County, runs
1900 spindles.
Sloan's Factory, near Pendleton, runs 1900
spindles and A looms.
PAPER MILLS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Buena Vista Paper Mill, Bueua Vista, Green
vile County; capacity 500 pounds Of paper per
day.
Greenville Paper Mill capacity 800 pounds
of paper per day.
Bath Paper Mill, located just below the Kal-
mia Mills, on Big Horse Creek; capacity 5000
pounds paper per doy.
We could thus go on and fill columns OF our
papcr with the names OF the iron works and
gold mines OF the upper, counties, the machine
shops and other manufactures of Charleston,
the rico mills of the coast, &C.; but our object
is only to do enough Of this to show that al
ready South Carolina has manufacturing inter-
ests which are only to be measured by millions,
and to state our convictions that the time is
near when they will be greatly increased and
enlarged. No State in the Union has advanta-
ges over South Carolina as q point at which to
| manufacture the textile fabrics, and this fact
has been fully admitted by some OF the largest
and best informed manufacturers Of New Eng
land who have visited our State during the
past six months, and whose only wonder was
was that, with such great natural advantages
and such an abundance Of cheap labor, we have
not done more than wo have.
With tho revolution occasioned BY the re-
suits of the late war, new order OF things is
required to supersedo the old, and necessity
will inevitably force our own people into lie n
channels Of employment. In other words, the
mechanical and other arts including manufac-
lures, must blend with agriculture In the res
toratioa of our prosperity, and We believe they
will vet carry us immeasurably beyond any
former prosperity known in South Carolina.
That We should have 80 long contented our
selves with the inferior employment OF pro-
ducing tho raw material only (for though ne
are proud Of the manufactures named above,
they are as nothing to what we ought to have
had in the midst of us) without resort to those
superior arts which, whilo fitting it for the use
of man, more than quadruple it in value, is a
reproach to US as people, u reproach which We
should wipe out as soon as means and time
will allow us to do so. We once hau the mo-
nopoly of the greatest of all the great staples
of the earth, and we very much doubt If it
would be to our truest interests to regain 1t,
even if we could do so.
In all history we know OF no people who ever
became truly great and wealthy who limited
their industry to any one interest. That the
South ought to engage largely in manufactures.
particularly in spinning her own cotton, is the
natural conclusion, and the only one which can
| De QrlWu lTOui hDONlouSo VI Oil pAAS AHN'S W
the casc There is no reason why we should
not and there are many reasons why we
should. spin at least one-half Of our cotton
crop. Why should bale of cotton grown IN
South Carolina be transported from it to
Charleston, thence to New York, thence to Liv'
erpool thence to Manchester, losing in weight
and increasing in cost at every point, and then
be spun into yarn for the great India market
Why not spin it in South Carolina, where the
labor is just as good and just as cheap, and
where everything is in our favor, and send ii
from Charleston direct 10 India, to be used
with their short staple Surat filling in the man
nfacturc If cloth at Bombay and elsewhere
But we do not wish, in our enthusiasm on
this subject, to tire our readers with it. The
fortunes of the South, spite of all present en-
bsrrassments, arc within our own control. We
do not believe that there is another region on
earth so well calculated by climate and natural
resources, to develope greatness as the South
ern States of America. We have shown capac-
ity of the highest order in the terrible struggle
of tho war, and in the production of our great
staple, which so long held the monopoly of the
world. Let us be- true to our race and our
dniy bv using properly the great advantages
which a merciful God has vOuchslfed to us.
and tho day is not distant when u new order OF
II in Carolina.