The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-04-20

I progressive. AS Leather Stockings boaste
OF the purity of his blood, we pride oul
selves that not one fogyish idea ever enter
For entered our minds. Progress is til
order of nasure-she is always advancing
The history of man proves uncontroverti
bly, that he has ever been on the advance
Nations may rise and fall. but the worl
goes on. In the language of Galileo, ii
moves" It is nonsense, it is absurd, to sa
that Newberry or the State is retrogradipe
The clatter of the cars. the click of the tele
graph, the march of science, the restles
rovings of the wandering Ahasucrus of tn,
age-the irrepressible Yankee--in search o
the American eagle on II specie basis, viii
not allow it,
Newberry, to-day, is not what it wa
forty-five years ago. To-day we have ,
railroad; one of the best cotton marts in th
State upwards of 200 stores, of greater O
less degree. In a brief period, We will hav
telegraph, then another railroad Forty
five years ago we raised comparatively littl
cotton, there were but few stores and indif
ferent stocks; the procuring of goods wa
attended with difficulty and trouble, as vel
as vast expense; there were few of the com
forts and conveniences of life. Now thu
facilities OF transportation are easy; we car
obtain in day what required week, anG
at little expense t'..,s
The town of Newberry has been, next tc
Charleston, for years one of the best cottor
marts in the State. Previous to the wa,
there was sold at Newberry Court House a.
high as $4,000 bales of cotton in one year
while many of the merchants of those day.
had magnificent stocks Of goods, and dis
posed of from $4,000 to $50, 900 per an
mum. During tho last year somo of our
merchants did business of $4,000.
Such has been the success attending mer
been opened all along tho streets of New
berry, as If by the touch of some magic
wand, and they still continue to increase
not only in town, but all over the County
The metallic and mineral treasures that lie
hidden in the hills and fields and valleys oj
Newberry are loadstones attracting the rest
less spectator from every point.
We are not of that class who fear the
competition of other towns. It is what we
like to see, because we wish the State to re
vive. Neither do we believe that you care
it is what you wish. If other towns prosper
and flourish, then Newberry and her mer
chants are obliged to prosper in an equa
degree. AS the one fourishes. SO fourishetl
the other. Competition is the life of bust
ness. The town or the merchant, which
and who is not able to sustain itself or him
self must fall, give way, like one hotel -keepe,
to him who can.
1t is said that you should have bette,
stores; more concentration of business: but
this is all nothing at present AS water
rises to its level, 70 time will correct AL
these evils. The child must crawl before il
can walk.
1t has been thought that probably you
might do jobbing trade. Now, no towr
in this State, outside of the city of Charles
ton, can do it to any extent Merchant.
from the up country. no matter how small
will ever and always proceed to New York
Baltimore, Philadelphia or Boston to Low in
their stocks. It's to their interest to do SO
We would, our merchant friends of New
berry. call your attention to our special sill
of the day-lawlessnesS or lawless sefishness
The reign of every mans special interest OF
of whatever every man thinks his special in
terest, in antagonism to that of tho specie.
in general, and Of all and every other man
others. Ours is day in Which every maj
does his work for his pay, and for no othel
motive, in which excellence has ceased to bt
desired or thought desirable; a day in which
men no longer care what becomes of Other
peighbors, but centre all their thoughts or
themselves; ours is the age of trades unions
of speculations, of societies which hold thei
members and friends down to dead level
day in which q mans ability to govern il
any subject is proved by his making :
charge and remembering date; day o.
fraudulent bankruptcies of mercantile dis
honesty, of rampant craftsmanship 1t is
In in MI, tnI,
falsehood; gets the better of truth. It wa.
of such time that the Roman satiris
might we'll say:
$50! Cioes! Ci0es.' i-cunia pyfmun, qucsendt
Firfus posi- nananaos,"