The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-11-17
=, WEDNESDAY, MORNING, NOVEMBER II, 1869.
Oba3ges in Trade More Buyers f Small
Quantities, and all Through the Year.

Vu"n''''oS' "no "'1 Anfous" Tue Lear
The following from the New Or
leans Meas, is almost equally applica-
bic to Charleston and South Carroll
ma:
"Whilc our merchants are await, &
the arrival of planters from the conn
try, that trade has taken another di-
rection. The planters formerly bought
all the goods consumed BY the labor
cr. The laborcr now buys for him
self. In former tines the planter
purchased his plantation supplies by
the quantity, now the lahorcr buys
then, daily throughout the year.
Formerly the planters bought goods to
the amount Of not exceeding $50 q
head for his slaves. Now the freed
men buy Mt the rate of $3.50 a head
for themselves. Thrco results follow
this change Of trade
!. There is at least four times as
much cotton money laid out in goods
as formerly.
8. Thconuntry merchant bays his
goods in the Eastern market, becaus
he considers it cheaper, and at least
as accessible as our own.
3. a great deal Of the cotton plant.
ed by the freedmen is paid for in
goods, bailed and shipped in the name
of che country merchants, the pro.
ceeds being drawn for and sent North
to pay for tho goods. To countcract
this new trade, our merchants will
need ,Nereased facilities Of rail, tele-
ernrh and express, so as to be able to
hill orders in any part of the adjacent
country all the year round"
A correspondent Of the New York
Post, writing from Mobile on the
same subject, says:
"Ihe country store which supplies
Northern, Eastern md Western villa
ges and towns has since become II
southern "lnstitution," Freedom has
brorght this about. In the former
times the planter who held from fifty
to hundred slaves bought, or likely
MS city factor bought for him, all tho
plantation supplies IN bulk, in New
orleans, Mobile, Savannah, Charles
ton or tue nearest Southern city
NOW every negro laboTer, as an inai-
and q good share of his earnings goes
into the till Of tho country store.
Consequently these stores are multi
plying in the South the negroes buy
very little at a time. but there are
a great many of them, and they buy
frequently. A letter to ono of the
Mobile papers reports that some of
these stores havc stocks worth over
100000, and thu. tho Saturday
sales in moro than one of them will
reach $4,000.
"Estim"ting that Mt the lowest ono
fourth of the money yield Of the cot
ton crop will 60 into the hands oi
the freedmenfor distribution, not less
than Slo,Oo0,O0O will be spent in the
towns on tho railroad lines in Ala.
oama, this season, and us Mobile has
lost tho trade of tho planters, that
CITY Is now endeavoring to secure the
custom OF the country stores, and dry
goods, grocery and provision dealers
are sending an army Of drummcrs
through the State"
T. r.. , :s-,,..-.
IN MS thanksgiving proclamation
yen "fant makes the announcement
@ 'na' S'V.l ana re''g,1us liberty are
seourco 70 every lphaoitant OF tho
frcemen." Tho Chicago Times says
it is just possible Graut did not mean
to state that civil and religious libcr-
ty are possessed and enjoyed by every
,nhabitant of tho land; for, NANTES /.
ly such q statement would have been
ON untruth. Civil liberty is not pos
sessed and eujoyed by the inhabitants
OF Virginia, Mississippi or Tex,s,
among whom the civil law is subordi-
mated to the law Of the bay It
is, possible to suppoae that civil libsr.
ty is "secu,ed" to them, for use and
enjoym at como future time, but
the security 10 Of rather an uncertain