The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-01-20
From the Charleston Daily Aews.1
On the Wing.

Se1rberry-TAe Trade Of the To1c,
.-Mstitutions -LmmiJrants II
German Colony, &C., DC.
NEwBEERY C. H., S. c., Jan. L.
Newberry is, and has been fol
years, the most thriving Of all the
up-coantry towns of South Caro-
; lima. True, it has not Jet regained
its former prosperity, but from
what I have seen and heard du.
ring my visit. it is my belief that
in the onward race, in which all
our midland and up-country towns
and villages are at present en-
gagged, Newberry bids fair to carry
off the cup. Her population is
aboRt 1900 now, perhaps fifty per
>cent. less than it was ten years
ago. The population Of the dis.
trict (now county, 3according to
the census OF 1860. was 20,S79, of
which mum ber 1865 We're slaves.
! The number Of acres Of improved
ia! m lands then was l45, 900, and
OF unimproved 100000 acres ; the
cash value Of which. according to
the same authority, EsS s., ,423,-
600, giving larger value than We
find in most of the other districts.
The amount Of cotton raised in
Newberfy is laid down in the
census Of 1860 as l7I76 bales. I
have no data at command by which
| could arrive at even proximate
calculation of the number of bales
grown in the county. at present.
! The merchants tell lne that before
the war Ncwberry Courthouse
shipped from $1,000 to 5000
bales. Last year the amount was
probably $4,000, and this year it
may not reach over 1900. There
is. hawepoa.. much .a.z.,.o--1ss..~e5vs1iin
! the district this year than there
was last. Some say the people
! thcrcahout. have more money now
! than ever before. The cotton
crop last year was sold in these
palt Is at an average Of about twelve
and half cents. This year it has
averaged about twenty cents thus
| far,
The cotton sold in this market
is hauled sometimes many miles
forty and upward-from New
berry, Lexington, Edgcfc'd, Alb
! bevilic, Laurcns and Union Coun-
ties, and this in spite Of cotton
buyers and railroad Iines and de-
pots much nearer home. The
berry people plume them
! selves not g little on this fact. A
notable feature to me vas the fact
l learned, that but few planters
about here ship cotton to be sold
I in Charleston. Tley prefer to
sell nearer home. Another fact,
by no means pleasing to- your cor
respondent. iS, that the greater
number u%.thc merchants Cotton
bnyers( slip to Baltimore and
! New Iork, via Charleston, alleging
! that they find they can do much
better there than in Charleston,
and that those who had slipped to
Charleston this year had done so
! to their SORROW.
And right here allow me to state,
if YOU please; that if in the course
of this series Of letters | shall oc-
casionalIy give utterance to facts
or rumors unpalatablc to one or
another Of your readers, I hold
myself justified in that it is my
desire to lay before the public, and
more especially before yonr Char
: lesion readers, the views of their
: ftiIow-citizens Of the Interior. If
these views are erroneous or. as
may be, founded on prejudice,
! those interested will have an op-
portunity Of defending the fair
fame of our good old city, and cor
rect those false impressions. Now,
! in regard to the opinion just eX-
pressed, that the markets Of Bal
timorc and New York are better
than Charleston, it may be that a
fair trial was not given our city;
| that. these merchants only shipped
to Charleston during the ca ly
part Of The season, and meeting
with disappointment in their ex-
pcctations, and listening with