New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-30
THROUGH THE SOUTH.

rvsToN MAY 2i.-BefOre leaving TINS pace
.itod large wooden factory which is run by steam
o,d which not only buys its wool IN the Nortn' pu'
sends ITS goods thther when manufactured that -
a. New-York The quality and STYLES are hlgnH
oTod;tob,e From the superintendent, who is from
Massachusetts, learned that men receive from u 70
sga day and the women from 81 to S1a week. NO
are employed except 10 dye for 1t was stated
+bev were not trusty nor will they apply themselves
tbat they NAV learn. 1t is reasonable to suppose
.bot they who never have been trusted should be I'M
Saithful or unskilled when the only exercise thelr
muscles have received has been In coarse employ
epts 1t is singular that the coored people are IN
competent only when they compete with the whites
In the North it is not supposed that the negro can
learn any trade because he is so stupid but IN those
.ars of the South where there are no white mechan-
fcs coored carpenters masOns shoemakers ana DlacK
smiths are everywhere. The case is simply this: Ii
white men are in any business the blacks have no
right TO learn it, not even if their blood is seven
eipbths white Indeed one may be entirely white
and vet If he is known to have the least black blood
he is as incompetent as the BLACKLIST was told OF
"colored young man of this city, who being nee
and white changed his name and went to LOUISIANA
where he became an OveTseer. In time MS employer
died and no married his widow becoming vastly
rich and when the war broke out ne ehteTeu INC
Confederate service, and finally he was made a brig
ndier-General. Good for him. While al halelgn
N visited the colored Sunday school. and list
ened to the children they repeated Scripture texts
Nmong the many who arose in their turn, was girl
about ten wears old neatly dressed and exceedingly
bnodest. She arose with great difidence, she spoke
low and sat down abashed, for she was as white as
any girl the pink on her cheeks as delicate. her
hair as silky and long of any white child In the
,land-as of my own little girl at home far away but
on each side of her and all around were the muatto,
the ouadroon, and the coal-black, and in all this
world Of opportunity of schools, and OF Christian
privileges she had no other place. Inquired of Mr.
futile, the superintendent, about her, and he said
that her mother was dark Of her father he knew
nothing and he said she would live among the col
ored people, shocked and degraded, because she was
80 fair, and in all probability would be ruined Per
haps some good person may be willing to deliver her
from the bondage of lust more cruel than Slavery,
for now while all around her are Free she is in one
sense as much q slave as were any who years ago
were sold and carried away to work in the cotton
and the cane.
Through several Of the northwestern counties of
North Carolina the timber is hard wood and also
for some distance into South Carolina, the gold re-
gon extending thither but at last the old fedplne
appeared and the soil became sandy; passed miles
and miles without seeing house, or when one did
appear 1t was fOTlorn No fruit trees were seen.
We were in the very heart OF the old slave country.
Often we had in view stretch OF old fields spread
ing like q prairie with no tuTrOw turned, with no
human being, no bird or like thing in sight. was
told, of course that better land was on either SIDE
that railroads always through the poorest part of
country but knew that once this land had pro-
duced bale to the acre, and that these fields had
ibeen busy with life. At last entered Columbia,
ConfeSsedly of the handsQmest towns in America
The long wide streets are shaded; in the center Of
some are two rows Of trees and the houses without
being costly are retired neat, and secluded When
bheTman's army appeared across the Cheraw, and
from distance OF two miles, and cannon ball
struck the western marble wall of the State House.
Nbeeler's Cavalry hurried from house to house
through the length of Man-st crowded with stores
and banks and business houses and applied the torch
of madness and despair Since then portion has been
rebuilt. but still ruins on every hand Some of
the old families have sold out and are gone but the
greater part remain, neither proposing to sell nor to
improve, and they live silent and retired, seemingly
iparayzed with their great misfortune. Late in the
day rode through as much as five miles Of streets
lana along tne beautiful park lying in dell, where
springs furnish the purest water for the cty and we
met few carriages, where fohnerly carriages crowded
IN proud array scarcely met any passengers but
sometimes, dressed In white, beautiful ladies sat
the steps of silent houses in black walked in their
flower gardens. saddeT scene is nowhere presented
than these streets. Property is cheap; every month
there sheTs sales, at which Northern attend,
and they boast their bargains Hore too the New
England schOOmistreSSeS living solitary and teach
ing crowds OF young cOOTed persons. To some extent
the State officers Northern men, but the Secretary
of State Mr. CardOza, Is colored, and weeducated
The member of Congress from this the Hid District,
Judge HOge, is a native of Ohio, living uncertain of |
his fe of the counties of his district he does not
dare TO enter; in one, while he was speaking can
didate on his ticket was shot down by his side.
Toward Charleston the land is highly productive
for many miles, cotton fields of several hundred acres
are common, and often the view resembles Western |
prairie scene The stations insignificant, and of
the towns the name is the most considerable part
From Branchville commences a pine-forest country,
and tuTpentine stills were seen there We passed miles
of partly opened country where the wood grass COW
cred the ground with cheerful green, and was told
that It made good feed. Not hOOf was sesn, and
farm lOU9pG SOmPrYille Dleagzpt re-
sort among the trees 70 miles from Charleston
and after passing it seemed TO enter vast valdez
ness through which the train tore its way. for Wild
shrubDeTy encrOaches upon the track. lew planta-
tiOns partly abandoned, came next and large decay
ing mansions were half hidden ia what seemed old |
orchards, but which were groves of hve-Oaks from
be branches of which depended in long fringesa and
rails the melaGc n0ly Spanish moss. AT last ve IS
nod from the gloom vegetable gardens weIo on
,ither side, and We rolled INTO the ancient ClSS Oh
Va - fbe dull season of the year and the large trad
houses are doing little. Most OF the damage done
by the bOmbardment is repaired, put thO ls p
Southern city but 1t is singular 10 see puTseY anu
a IA Siass growing up through Tagging, ana nslng
10 the door sills of wholesale HOUSES III 81 tJ
&c rnnniepal officers, being republican, are IA
onarrel and city affairs are by no means PisaSane'
-. - il beautiful city, the houses are lOttys SUI
jed With trees and was told that not one Ten
ement house is in the city, orange,
and fg-trees are seen everywhere ah9 IOSes a. IL
any 80 Charleston evidently needs country
Iation 70 support retail trade and to give peTma7
hence to business, but It has nOthng VI nS hii
The negroes are the people; Ihey OnS St S 1
+bsy are wretchedly poor, and the me people are
LVS better for 60 a great extent, cctton failed
last wear through the ravages OF the cettOh WOIi.
senator Sawyer told me that no g4t D0'1ng RON
vested large sums in planting, ana VINO pTOPoS9u W
reside permanently in the south. returned nome
ruined doubt whether snen eS S ~ goS9 io
experience, and think there are no people 50 wei