The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-19
THE STATE PRESS.
HIGHER WAGES.
The Winnsboro' News says:

hope that tolerable crops at tolerable prices
will enable them to pay them next winter, with
out repenting Of their bargain. For instance,
about eighty dollars is being offered for
ploughman, which is at least twenty dollars
more than last year. A third of the crop, but
with fifty pounds of meat, is another contract
in general favor, which IS also better, all things
considered, than last year. for the crop prom
ises to prove more valuable than it did at
the same season last year. Lot the treod-
man but work steadily, and sven better terms
NAV be made by him for 1870, and no ono be
loser by them. If he would work more skilfully,
that is. give as hearty attention to the making
of manure and to the preparation OF the soil,
as to ploughing and hoeing the crop, higher
wages than the present high wages would be
his tor 1870, to 3 certainty.
THE CHANGE OF VENUE.
The Abbeville Banner pitches into the bill
authorizing the Attorney General to change
the venue in State cases as blow aimed at
the dearest interests Of the citizen.
THE ooNsTABULARY.
The Walhalla Courier says:
Why is tnis county bulwark OF Radca!ism,
or espionage over quiet and respectable citi-
zens to be continued in Oconee? A county no.
torious alike for the similarity OF sentiment
and opinions of its citizens, aud the universal
It's limits since the overthrow Of substantial
justice and the inauguration OF innovation and
oppression.
SOCIAL EQUALITY.
The Orangsburg Nows says:
We want it distinctly understood that the
columns Of our paper cannot, and never will be
used, while We control them, to lift the colored
race above the white. And the white man who
will deliberately strive to make the colored race
think that they are superior to the white race,
is q knaye, and the truth is not in him. The
colored man himself won't trust him. And
whilst we advocate giving the colored people
our every effort to see that they are justly
dealt by in Christian land, We at the same
time assert to our own race that "whither
thou goest, will 60; and where thou lodgest
l will lodge; thy people shall be my people:
and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will
I die, and there will be buriea; the Lord do
so to me, and more also, if aught but death
part thee and me-"
BACON AND CORN.
The Newberry Herald says:
Cotton is royal article in tho worlds COM
merce; at present, it commands royal price.
We deem it proper to throw out suggestion
upon the next crop. From all VIC can learn,
more than ever, our planters have in view to
gerous experiment. Ev ry planter should. at
least, have in view to raise his own brcadstufs.
Tho scarcity of corn and bacon enhances the
price of labor Labor, for tho last twelve
months has advanced at least enty-hve por
cent. in value. The negro IS disappearing,
nobody knows where, aud white labor does not,
as yot, take his place. The white man will
pause before no comes, rs q laborer, to @ coun-
Try not well supplied with beet and grain.
Even Mt the present price OF negro labor, the
white laborcr would not be willing to compete.
If labor Is to commune scarce. aud the price OF
labor to advance steadily hy the increase Of
the surface in cotton, 1t is doubtful II the
platter VII DO remunerated sufficiently by
the probable advance iu the price OF the great
staple. In all probability, the price OF tho
bulk of the present crop is the maximum that
the staple will attain. The single article of
bacon now exhausts, to large extent, the
wages of the colored laborer aud the profits OF
the employer.
These matters should be we'll considered in
connection with pitching another crop. A fall
ure Of cotton crop, with no corn and bacon.
would entail ruin and starvatlon upon the ma
jority OF the population. Let US have bacon
and corn.
SHARING THE CROP.
The Winnsboro' News says:
The impression prevails amongst some that
the share of the crop contract between land
lord and laborer is something new under the
sun, and has arisen from the exhausted con-
dition IN which the war left the southern peo-
Pile. Now the truth is, that in perhaps three
fourths of Flance and one-half OF Germany, at
| this very day. "the metaycr system OF farming
prevails" which i, a notification ct the share
| OF the crop contract system. and from what
writer's o. the subject say, We b,eye that very
| MANY of the Contracts arc idcutical, III every
| respect with those which have been made in
the South during the last lew years. Alan
Smith, whose WORK WAS pub.lshcd in 1776,
comments upon the metayer system, so that 1t
is a century old at least IN Europe. What
ever Theoretical! obj .ctitns may be made to it,
SAYS Tucker. i'll II work publslcd on Political
Economy for People. long botire the war, Sin
France and many parts of Europe, . happy
aud prosperous pcasantry hourisucd under 1t.