Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-01-29
Cotton's Kingship.


lN.. new and strong impulse has been given
Ffsb the business Of the South by the large
crops OF cotton, sugar, corn, &c., of tho last
season, and the high prices which these pro-
ductions command in the markets of the
country. The favorable change is deeply and
| extensively felt by all the industrial interests
Of the South Muitituacs in the East and
West, it is said, are expressing strong desire
to emigrate to the South aud engage in the
raising Of cottou-ana will do so us soon as
they shall have full assurance that affairs in
the South arc in permanently settled con-
dition
We oil know that during the late var, called
the War of the Rebellion. Great Britain,
cut off from her supplies of cotton from the
Southern States, made vigorous an pcrsever.
ing efforts, upon large scale, to raise cotton
in the East Indies, hoping that an article
might be obtained which, by o modification
Eof machinery and other means, would sub.
SSRervo all the purposes of the cotton Of the
3aehn The British papers boasted much of
z yaEccss of this great and expensive enter
Use, and the British people generally, and
|ASR people of this country, North and South,
were under the impression that the boastcd
success was an actual success. There was n
deep and widespread conviction upon both
continents that, even if the South, restored to
peace, should raise as much and as excellent
cotton rs she ever raised, she would find no
sale for it in Europe. But the grand East
India experiment has failed. 1t has fallen,
alb ,ndoncd, to the ground. The British man
ufaoturcrs confcss at last, though with griel
and modification, that no portion Of all earth
can furnish such cotton for their use as the
Southern States of our Union Southern
cotton, therefore, is destined to resume it's old
supremacy. Its kinghood will be re. estab
lishcd.
The war very nearly ruined the South
hla.sovernment seemed to complete the ruin.
We feared that the ruin was for all time
But our Southern friends, even under all tho
disadvantages and expressions that weigh
heavily upon their shoulders, arc already
emerging from the tide Of ruin, dashing the
waves aside with lusty arms and hearts of con
trovcrsy. They arc hopeful. They behold
| above them some clouds, but much Of the
blue heaven and its stars. They prosper, cx.
ccpt where tho negroes are loosed against them
| like war dogs; and the shocking negro outra.
gcs cannot last long no matter how necessary
the radicals may think them 10 the attainment
of their ends. Radicalism in the South has
no other fate than to subside, to collapse, to
shrink up, to be decomposed into the foul va
pors and gases out of which it was made
Mutitudes of the better portion Of tho popu-
lation Of the East and West will go to the
South; go not to rule and oppress and des.
poll, but to engage honestly and in good faith
in the cultivation Of the richest land that
spreads out its flowers and its vcrduo beneath
the eye Of the sun.
Tho war was dreadful evil to the South,
but it is a bcnefccnt provision of God that
most evils have their compensation.
Louisville Gou,ter.Journal.
k0y- General Grant is AZ, and Mr.. Colfax
46; Andrew johnson is CT; Mr.. Seward,
68; General Schofcd but 38; Mr.. Wellos,
81; Mr.. McCulloch, So; Mr.. Randall and
Mr. Browning, SO; Mr. Wade, the President
of the Senate, is co.; Senator Sumner is SO,
and Senator Trumbull, Sc. The members of
tho House Of Representatives nearly are all
young men. James Brooks and Il. b. Wash.
burne arc among tho oldest, and are respeo.
lively 50 and So years of age.
EYy- A few days ago man in Platte coun.
ty, Missouri, named William Marshal, mur.
dered in cold blood his own mother and broth
or, in order to get possession Of property Of
which they were possessed, and which would
revert to him on their death. A reward Of
$4,000, of which the guilty wretch hilnsel
ounningly offered $1,000, put detectives k
work, who traced the deed to him, and few
days ago he was arrested and lodged 10 JAIL