The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-09

puts the sum at 81, ,OO0, 600 per week, but the
| probabilities are that the one is as much too
weekly outgo is about 81 25O,6OO. Real estate
is the object chiefly sought; but railroads are
| also receiving attention, and some are even
"a TO take the FISK Of putting their
and 1 think with considerable Justice, that
those going or sending South to invest, are
| very much more anxious to buy than they are
| Wiling to have appear, and that it is quite
| likely they will try to purchase at 1866 prices,
when, on the average, those rates are not
above one-fourth OF what they are willing,
statement coming to the writer on very good
authority, is respectfully communicated to
whom 1T may concern, with the ACCOMMODATING
moral, Don't sell too low" Spragues reported
Augusta factory, which he is said to have
stated to be the best of it's kind in this
country, is going tho rounds Of the Northern
press and oiciting such strain of comment
as makes one smile to see how exceedingly ig-
norant those folks are of tho real South. 10
the average Northern mind, the most favored
region Of this continent is an alienation of
cotton field, swamp and wild wood land, ton
anted alone by the poor, down-trodden nigger
and fierce and treacherous race of white men.
VINO swear by knife and pistol, and hate 'thc
great heart OF tho nation" and it's gizzard, and
it's lungs, and it's liver and lites, and all other
such intestines whatsoever, with hate that
is altogether disloil and ''rebel" beyond hone.
That IN this land there are noble and beautiful
T.
poTs, and hne rivers, and sublime mountains,
and healthful air; that here is q civilization
quite as Old as their own, and greatly more
pure; that, in one word, God has blessed this
heritage, and that there's life in the old land
yet, are things that seldom enter the ordinary
brainpan Of the troo]y lol. Once in a while.
though. dim presentiment that all is not
quite as Peter Farley and Sneak Sumner and
their blood-guilty parsons tell them, seems to
lnterpenetrate them, and some such shaft of
truth appears to be operating now. All Of a |
sudden they have walked up to the facts-first
tnat the South is not altogether given over to
Fever and aeue and yellow jack; and, second,
that the Southerner is apt to be- after ALL very
pleasant kind of man, and, acting in this sud- |
den influx OF light, are now greatly exercised |
on the subject OF investment in this new found |
land. To encourage this conversion it would |
be well for the Southern press to taper off |
somewhat in politics for while, and give plen- |
ty OF information, the more specific the better.
as to the ". nder1ul resources Of their section.
Negro suffrage and reconstruction are things
that may be called Fictitious imposthumes in
healthy skim Neither OF them can last: one |
good puff Of wind would blow the whole fab
rlc OF reconstruction, with every chinch that |
crawls within it, to the devil whence the whole
tnng sprang; while as to negro suffrage. it is
but the sport Of an idle hour, and will be-
laughed out of court before heads that are
now gray can turn from silver into snow. IN
dustrial writing is the thing needed now-full
OF facts, figures, thoughts, suggestion. and
pregnant hint. Politics, of course, as matter
OF news. must have attention, but for the i'm
mediate present it would help things wonder.
luI.y, by way OF Informing and attracting capi-
tallsts, to give industrial themes the larger
scope. VERB. SAP.