Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-06-10

V1RG1N1A-A writer for the Elmira On
~ Gazette says:
son to Richmond" Your readers have,
in times bygone, often heard about but per
haps not all yet have been there. Those
who have not should certainly make one trip
to that beautiful city and surroundings. At
Baltimore any one calling on Mr.. N. H.
Hotchkiss, the travelling agent of the York
River line, will find most obliging and
large-hearted gentleman, who can give a
traveller more valuable information of Vir-
GINA than almost any other man.
With regard to the feeling Of Virginians
towards northern men, some have thought
it not kindly. This is a very great mistake
Radical carpet baggers in pursuit of Office
and spo!ls are not wanted there more than
they are anywhere else but to men going
to Virginia with honest motives, to buy them
home ana help place Virginia where it is
soon destined to be, the kindness, politeness,
and generous hospitality of Virginiain tosuch
cannot be surpassed, if equalled, in this
country. A better race of men does not ex (
list than the native Virginian. Any one in
doubt on this point can satisfy themselves
fully by making their acquaintance.
The Hartford Post says: ''Whilc David
Clark, Esq, Of this city, was in Jackson
vile, Florida, during his recent winter So
journ in that land of orange groves, there
came into town one fine morning in Febru-
airy planter from the back country. having
with him negro whom he wanted to sell
He said he wanted to raise little cash, and
So had brought the boy along to sell, and
wanted to get about 81 900 for him, He was
utterly unware that there had been war,
and that slavery had been abolished, and
when told that such was the case thought
that his informants were playing joke on
him, and for a while refused to believe it.
His plantation was in the interior his
nearest neightor was fifty miles distant ;
and, in all the years that have elapsed since
Sumter's gun, he had not heard from the
outer world knew nothing Of the changes
that had taken place and came into Jack
sonville in this year Of Our Lord, 1870, in
good faith to sell slave. Other negroes
speedily informed their fellow that he was
free man, and at last the master, that was,
let him go, and departed for his plantation
sadder and wiser man"
THE DECREASE IN THE Moro PopuLA-
TON OF South CARoL1NA.-General Hay
good, in his recent address as President Of
the Charleston Agricultural and Immigra-
ton Convention, made the following state
ments with reference to the decrease of
the negro population of South Carolina
"In 179C, it numbered 107, 900; in 1900,
146, 1000; 1910. 10000 lin 1920, $780,
600 in 1880, 315, 900 in 1910, 377 600;
in 1850, 384, 900 in 1850, 422. 600.
According to the annual average, from
1910 to 1860. the population of freedmen
in 1865 may be presumed to have been
42l GOO. But according to the State CEN
sus of 1869, it had diminished to 3S6, 900,
leaving deficiency of $4,000, or an aver
age of 8,76S per annum in the State Of
South Carolina alone.
If might be allowed to speculate on this
question, l would say that, in my opinion,
the decrease has been not less than $4,000
But taking the figures themselves, even at
that rate, in less than fortyfour years, the
entire colored population Of South Carolina
will have disappeared.