The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-10
Goa. Fornoy,s views % soatn oAFoiiha.

Coz. Fornoy's Vtevya OF Houfh Carolina.
The following extracts are from John
w. Forney's letter 70 the Washington
| ChTonic,e:- The last Legislature of South
Carolina passed O law the execution OF
which ought to attract multitudes of
emigrnnts. It provides that whenever
large estates are put up for sale and can
be purchased. as many OF them can be,
at greatly reduced prices, the State Conn
to settlers ut cost, allowing them to pay
for them, on good security, at the end of
five years. This comprehensive benevo-
lence will react upon the owners of the
great estate. They should at length see
the folly of holding these vast tracts,
and be ready to accept the necessity Of
dividing them.
The approach to Charleston is far more
agreeable than that to Richmond. Will
mington or Lynchburg. Here, indeed,
we found ourselves in the midst of land
OF fruit and flowers. The gnarled trunks
of the indispensable live oak and en-
blematic palmetto, acres of Strawberries,
peas, potatoes and tomatoes, foretold the
delicacies 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, they brought
back to us the first firing, which struck
chord in the popular henrt, and
aroused to arms 10000, 900 of freedmen
in defence of their rights. Charleston is
built on peninsula, at the confluence
OF Ashley and Cooper Rivers, has n
population of 10000, and is the largest
commercial metropolis in the Southern
Atlantic States. The Charleston Hotel is
magnificent establishment, reminding
n nf hnot N0rfl,nr, h~>fn =,
filed with company.
Many of them were Northerners
some in search of pleasure, and many
looking for lands and other chances for
investment. / have no time for nm Ella
borate description of Charleston, but it
deserves all that could be said in praise
of it. The scars of the bombardment
are everywhere visible. Many Of the
houses are palatial, indicating the aristo-
cracy OF which we have heard so much
The street cars seem to be doing q thriv-
ing business, but the general trade of the
place is dull. The Yankees are gradually
but surely getting foothold in the trades
and professions. The old residents have
no social intercourse with them-espe.
cially the females; but our self-reliant
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 We're closed, and it was re-
marked that nearly all the ladies were
still in mourning.
Meanwhile, the State Government IS
administered by Gen. r. X. Scott. with
firmness, yet with Cancellation. Wher-
ever opportunity offers, he recognizes
loyalty among the people, forgetting the
past, and asking only obedience and sub
mission to the present. Very little en-
couragement is extended to him by those
who have heretofore managed the State
He has had a struggle with the speculat-
ors and gamblers. who came to Columbia
last winter to subsidize the Legislature
in the interest of certain railroad enter
prises; and if the effort is made Mt the
next session, he will be found at his post
as infexiblo as ever. The finances of
South Carolina are we'll managed, under
his careful and vigilant eye. The whole
State debt does not SO, 600, ,OOO