The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-02

bales, in all; and from there south, on the
Savannah River road, some thirty miles, to
Screyen's rice plantations, on which thirty
miles there were fourishing plantations, seven
or eight bales of cotton will cover all that will
be made this year.
To the ElllIaw. passing one Of the best sections
in this State, it is no better, if as good as what
I've described.
The negro has become utterly insufficient as
q laborer. and, as citizen, perfect nuisance.
There is, perhaps, no place at the South where
emgrants would be more warmly welcomed,
or where they could do better in the long run.
The lands are fertile, convenient to market,
and. for the most part, healthy. They are iu-
comparably superior to the sea islands. Range
for stock is excellent, and, on the salt water
creeks. abundance of fish and oysters.
Cotton cannot be cultivated except with
steady and reliable labor. Our lands have
been taxed from five to ten times as much as
before the war; For over month after the
taX-gatherer passed here not man or shop
could be found who could change q S15 bank
check. The tax collector had swept the coun-
try Of all the money, and l ain told many could
not pay at that.
As to the stealage, it would be almost in
credible by those who did not realize 1t. Many
have had to break in their corn out of the
fields, before it was we'll matllred. to save it
from theft, and cotton is stolen still worse.
The negroes are in large majority over the
whites. They, the former, will elect the magis-
tratcs, and you can judge what chance we
have TO bring thief to repentance through
the law. The whites may be said to have vir-
t,aly no rights; for right without the meaus
Of enforcing it, is word without sense or
meaning.
Some of us are looking to the arrival of the
Cclestials with some hope. but fear they will
too 1atn for most
that the Southern States could, with diversified
industry, reclaim immense swamps-Missis-
sippi and others-bnild railroads, make canals,
opcrate factories, &C., and in few years be
able to support and proftably employ two-thirds
of the whole population OF China. The value
of lands depends upon the laborlng population.
The laboring classes in China, learn, live
almost wholly on rice, onions and greens. All
along the seaboard and for fifty miles of,
more rice can be made per acre than corn or
small grain of any other kind, and hope be-
fore three years to see at least this section cul
tivated by the vegetarian Pigtail and the
granivorous buffalo. The first can live on
the grain, and the latter on the straw, grass,
&c, without expense. TWO Wen broke bnfia,
do as much as q good mule. I've
seen accounts that in parts Of China
they are regular cannibals, probably made
from histories from travellers, such as the ve-
racous Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, or Baron
Munchauscn. and this Of people among
whom human life is so sacred that man is
executed ii he happens to kill another by ac-
cident But. I say, if they are cannibals,
and will comfinc themselves to the nigger and
the rats and other vermn, let them go ahead.
Would they do the country much harm in the
long run Most of the recent accounts con-
firm impartial history, that they can livein
any climate, and are the most steady, ingeni-
ous and industrious cultivators of the soil in
the world Let them come, we say, not by the
thousands or hundreds of thousands-by the
of millions. If they are farm hands
and not town rats, as Tye-Kim Orr calls some
of them, the writer will give .hem one-half or
of his lands, some four or five
thousand acres, if they will settle for life. No
doubt hundreds of other proprletors will do the
same. Pass it to China, Mr.. NEWS, ifyou can.
A SUBSCRIBER.