Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-04-15
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
WHAT SHALL WE DO?

Yes, that's the question; and it's not easily an
swered, either. and Sally have been talking the
matter over, and we can't come to any conclusion.
One thing is very plain, that We are going to the
dogs with the speed of one Of those two-wheeed
machines called velocpedes. By "we' don't
mean myself and Sally, for we don't expect to go
alone but I mean the country generally. MIR.
Spraguc says, we i. E. the country, are financially
going very fast, and he being good Republican,
| is good authority. And then, we Southern peo-
pie have got the cotton fever so that it is al cot
ton and no corn with our farmers; and that will
bring us all into the great highway of going to the
dogs There is no mistake about it. The papers
throughout the South tell us that the farmers are
planting cotton, without caring about corn, and
this against the warnings Of bitter experience.
What shall We do? Shall we continue to expos
tulate and argue the folly Of the plan, or shall we
say nothing and let the consequences come upon
us? The question has been argued by able heads,
agriculturists and economists, but to no purpose
so it seems to me that We must let the matter take
its course and abide by the consequences
Planters are busy now putting in the cotton, and
and Sally feel the effect very sensibly. Why,
bless your soul, they are so busy, they can't find
time to send in their surplus butter eggs chickens
and other indispensable luxuries to people who
depend on buying such things. I and Sally have
not seen pound of butter for sale for about six
weeks, and as for eggs, have faint remembrance
of having seen some during cold weather. Per-
haps the COWS have all gone dry, and the hens to
setting but I think it is owing to the fact that
everybody is planting cotton, and would rather let
the butter and eggs spoil than to waste time in
sending them to market. ...
Pity our sorrows, and tell us what We shall do: {:
emigrate, turn farmer and plant cotton, or "grin
and bear it, and you will much oblige constant
reader and a MECHANIC.
P S. like your correspondent, "P." He is
all right and knows his Ps and Q's.
MERE-MENTION.
Each member of the Legislature of this State,
for his services last session, received $5j2. &C. The
Speaker of the House $500 extra. '''Senator
Sprague has rented furnished house at Aiken,
s. c., for the use of himself and family. ''''Ten
thousand and forty-seven bales of cotton have been
sold in Charlotte, North Carolina, since Septem-
ber l, 1868. Strawberries from the South
command $40 per quart in New York, and green
peas So to 50 per crate. '''''On Tuesday of last
week, man named George McGnnis was run
over and killed near Fort Mills, by freight train
on the Charlotte Railroad ''''''''It is reported
that the assessed value of the personal and real
property in Charleston County will reach the sum
of about s45, ono, ,OOO ''''''''C. D. Melton, ESQ.,,
has been appointed a temporary Judge Of the Su-
preme Court The best interests Of the people
would suffer no detriment by his permanent ap-
pointment. '''.''''The Ne,es says that number of
interior merchants, who went to New York to buy
their spring Stocks have returned and bought Of
Charleston houses, on more satisfactory terms than
they were offered North '~'''''The Legislature of
North Carolina has finally resolved to locate the
Pententiary of that State, in the neighborhood Of
Raleigh. 1.-The ice-dealers at Wilmington, N.
Carolina, have fixed the price at one cent per
pound. ''''''''The Southern Express Company has
commenced the erection of building in Columbia
for an Office, to which is to be added commodi-
GUS hall for public exhibitions. The Char
lotte Democrat says that some of the old Govern
meut officers in North Carolina, do not appear to
be in very high favor with President Grant, al
though they served in the Union army and belonged
Ito the Republican party. ''''"''A large number Of