Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1869-01-13

daNnhp inunimpeachable correctness,
to remember this true story. 1t is not
always that the mischiefs incident upon
hchnistakes are thus happily yobviated.
The Position of the South.
Tie Washington correspondent Of the
New York Erpress writes:
letters from the West statesthat the
strilgency in.commercialacifcles there
is geater than it has been since 1851
tha,the country is over-stocked with
goo& and that the farmers refuse to-
sent tRh 1grain to market in. conse-
quspeof the decline in prices since
AZ ae souththe aspect is more cheey-
full. The high price.o cotton will put
:$25@Q0 600, for that product alone,
into ae pockets Of the reconstructed"
oftht section, to say nothing Of large
amounts for tobacco in Virginia, North
Carolina, Maryland, Missouri and Ken
tucl7, and for wheat and corn in the
samiStates and in Georgia and Tennes-
see The whole value of the surplus
Grips of the South this year cannot be
le@ than. $500 100000, of which proba-
BY 500, 100000 are paid to the negroes
ii 4he, shape Of wages, and $50,000,0o0
rs6feGfthc shape Of food.
Another year of equal prosperity
You'd put the South in comparatively
sound condition, although, Of course,
there. are and must be for many years
numerous cases of individual suffering
AS of persons in advanced life, total
y ruined by the war, their houses and
furniture destroyed, and all their in
..yestments of money completely worth
leas. When we consider that the accu-
n!dlatcd savings Of two hundred years
hive been destroyed at the South, we
-emnot cease to wonder that her re-
cc3uperation should be as rapid as it is.
Of the immense importation of for
dign goods, cloths, silks. velvets, laces,
itiselry, wines and other costly mer-
cEandise, the South now takes compar
atNely little. Her consumption is main
to the necessaries of life,
and will be for some years. Hence her
recovery from losses will be more rapid.
The Southern people, with few excep-
tio1s, never were a luxurious people, in
the sense that the New Workers and
Parisians are. They cherished for the
most part the homely virtues Of their
ancestors, and lived well upon the pro-
duce of their fields, their forests and
theirrivers-content with roomy houses,
wood.fres and old-fashioned furniture.
.sstvaos.aan their present depressed cqn-
,tlition, they arc moro contcntcd1thah a
stranger would suppose it possible for
them to-bc, We hear of few suicides
there, and the number of insane per-
sons in Virginia is only half the mum
Der in Maine, regard being had to pop
ulatiog.
limits best days there was very little
money in circulation in the South. Now
there is still less. In the commercial
panic which seems to be approaching,
the South will therefore sutferless than
the North from any contraction Of the
currency that may precede the restora-
lion to prosperity. In the South there
arc no real estate speculations, even in
the environs of the cities no artificial
values given to town-lots or embryo
Palmyras or Babylons. Festina lcl,tc
y cminently the rule there, SO far as
zeal estate is concerned. They are not
sgrcgarious people, but love elbow-room
above everything. Cities they regard
Is necessary evils, ard as such not to
le encouraged unduly beyond mode
rate dimensions. For the greater the
city the greater the evil.
It is very evident that business at
the North is overdone; that there are
too many non-producers there, too many
merchants, too many traders, too many
aschte, see- many lawyers, too many
persons, in short, who stand merely as
Intermediates between the producer
and the consumer. One Of the New
Yprk journals estimates that there are
two hundred thousand people out Of
wprk within sight Of the spire of Trini-
ty Church. Within an equal distance
ofthe State House at Boston there are
did dubtless fifty thousand more, and an
otl Ter fifty thousand in the interior Of
New England. Most Of these unfortu-
ma ac persons are anxious for employ
m Ent but cannot obtain it. Even the
hish tariff, which so enriches the. great
manufacturers, does not put a morsel
Of bread or an ounce Of meat into their
mouths.
What visible outlet to all this sur
pluI labor is afforded, unless at the
South? Tile West, for thespresent, is
pretty well filled up witk laborers ol
all descriptions, and thousands of these
are put Of work. The South, then,. is
the pnly vacant field easily accessible
on this continent for the unemployed
masses of the North.
CONFLICT OF RACES IN THE SOUTH
The news that comes to us almost dcily