The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-10
TIE CITY AND TIE STATE.
Choice Extracts from Forney's Cha rles-
ton Letter.

The following choice extracts are made from
John W. Forney's Charleston letter to the
Washington Chronicle. It is comforting to
find That even this rabid Radical admits that
In this State ..Northern men are perfectly safe,
unless, indeed, they come here to provoke vio-
lence, when they will be as uncomfortable as
they wouldzbe In any community they entered
simply to disturb:"
THE LAND COMMISSION.
The last Legislature Of South Carolina pass
ed q law, the execution of which ought to at.
tract miultitudes OF emigrants. 1t provides
that Whenever large estates are put up tor
sale and can be purchased. as many OF them
can be, at greatly reduced prices, the State
Commissioner shall buy them, and offer them
to settlers at cost, allowing them to pay for
them, on good security, at the end OF I've ,s
years. ~ This comprehensive benevolence viii
They should at length see the folly Of hold
ing these vast tracts. and be ready to ac-
cept the necessity Of dividing them.
i4no IA NEW ENTERPRISE.
At Mullins Depot in the District of Marion,
stopped at the vineyard in charge of DR.. K.
Vampiil, containing five hundred acres, which
he bon ght with Confederate money, and is now
has, snns ana IL ss ney
it planted in vines, and is making an excellent
wine-not 80. good as the Scuppernong we
bought at Weldon fine, dry, healthy bever-
age. singulariy resembling pale sherry. DR..
Vampin's enterprise deserves mention because
it is one of the few, and may be the pioneer OF
many, as the whole country offers numberless
hereabouts can be bought for from two to Eve
dollars an acre, and some OF it was shown to us
that could be had for fifty cents.
CHARLESTON.
The approach to Charleston is far more agree
able than that to Richmond, Wilmington, or
rpo6n md 0lrync
in the midst OF a land of fruit and flowers. The
gnarled trunks Of the indispensable live oak
and emblematic p palmecto, acres Of strawbe rries,
cacies in store for us. When we came upon our
first view of Fort Sumter and the broad bay of
Charleston, stretching out IN the calm evening,
struck chord III the popular heart, and aroused
to arms twenty millions OF freeuen in defence
Of their rights. Charleston is built on penin-
gula, at the confluence Of Ashley and Cooper
Rivers, hRa population of 40, 600, and is the
largest commercial metropolis in the Southern
Atlantic States. Tna Charleston Hotel is
Of our best Northern hoteis and is filed with
company. Many of them were Northerners,
some 10 search Of pleasure, and many looking
for lands and other chances for investment. 1
have no time for a. elaborate description Of
Charleston, but it deserves all that could be
said in praise Of it. The scars Of the lombard
sns nonsas are s rh ManA
GIVEN 81 W4sssb We have heard SO much. The Street street
C&IS SoeIn 10 De UOln$S D ClTlVlnQ business, put
the general trade OF the place is dull. The
Yankees are. gradually but surely getting
foothoid in the trades and professions. The
old residents have no social intercourse with
them, especially the females; but our self-re-
liant New Englanders, many of them soldiers
OF the Republic, are as Independent and as out
spoken as If they lived in Boston or Hartford.
Many OF the windows OF the houses were closed
and it was remarked that nearly all the ladies
were still in mourning.
TILE STATE AND CITY GOVERNMENT
Meanwhile the State government4ds admins.
tered by General r. z. Scott, with firmness,
yet with conciliation. Wherever opportunity
offers he recognizes loyalty among the people,
forgetting the past, and asking only obedience
and submission to the present. Very little en-
couragement is extended to him by those who
have heretofore managed the State. He has
had q sore struggle with the speculators and
gamblers Who came to Columbia last winter to
subsidize the Legislature in the interest OF
certain railroad enterprises, and IL the effort is
made at the next session he will be found at
his post as inHexible as ever. The finances Of
South Carolina are well managed under his
careful and vlgllant eye. The whole State debt
does not amount to twelve millions of dollars
The bonds chat were selling at twenty eight
cents on the dollar when he took possession
are now worth fl ON fifty-six to ffty-seven.
Ihe city debt Of Charleston was five, millions
when the present Mayor was elected. and its
securities have risen from thirty three to sixty-
eight. Even the rebel papers OF the State
regard this fact with evident satisfaction.