The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-07-24


him "see double" generally. But to re-
turn s.to our mutton" Speaking again
of the oily of 9 columbia. he says, and
here he grows very sehajble: =
Columbia willfbecome in the imme-
diate future one of the great centres of
cotton manufacturing. The rapids Of
the Congaree will soon have the hum OF
hundreds of Thousands of spindles added
to their murE1uring roar, and the clack,
olack, clack, clack, Of thousands of looms
will make tho music more E,elodious.
This city, and the city of Augusta, Ga,
are destined to be the NIanchesters OF
America. Wren I explain what is being
done in this direction, my American and
British readers will be able to under.
stand 10y meaning. The rapids of the
Congaree are about six or seven miles
long, and Astounding in first class mill
sites. The State had constructed canal
around these rapids 37f. Gin. wide, and q
few feet deep, there being $50 miles of
navigable water above the rapids. The
vast increase of railroad facilities have
made shoal water navigation of much
less Importance than it formerly was in
the regions of the South, so the State of
South Carolina. with commcndable good
sense, has turned the canal over to the
greatest and richest cotton manufac-
turers in the United States, and soon
destined to be the greatest in the world
tho Spragues, of Rhode Island-for q
mere nominal sum in fee simple. On
the 1st day Of last March, these gentle
men commenced to enlarge the canal to
seventy-6ve feet in width. The cotton
spinners of Glasgow and Manchester
can form some idea of the number of
splndles such a mammoth water power
Will drive. Within few years, Anaeri-
can manufacturers will be throwing vast
quantities. of coarse cotton fabrics into
the markets OF China, Japan and India.
New England has seen her palmiest
day in the cotton trnde. and Old England
will soon be compelled to fight for every
inch Of ground she holds in foreign
countries, rs the supreme dispenser of
cotton fabrics. Within five years the
South will be able to supply herself in
all numbers from eight to twenty, which
are largely used at the South for COM
mon coarse goods. Not only will this
be so, but it will supply large quantities
to the Middle and Western States; and
Boston itself will have its cotton goods
warehouses filled with full supply of
Columbia and Augusta ei9hts, tens,
twelves and fourteens-these beiug the
numbers host in use for certain kinds of
cloth which is largely consumed at the
South and the North. AL over the
South small mills are being built, and
each and all are making money. Some
fine numbers will be largely spun, and
weaving and printing the common md
finer qualities Of calico will be carried on
to al immense extent. Where, then,
shall New England turn for market,
after she loses the trade of the South and
West, and is obliged to compete with
the cheap labor Of the South, and the
vicinity of the cotton fields to the South
ern factories!
| From the upper windows of the facto-
ries Of Columbia end Augusta can be
seen tens Of thousands of acres of the
coNo'' plant. The planters around will
deal directly with the manufacturcr-thc
latter purchasing his stock less than his
New England brother, to the amount Of
railroad freight to the seaboard, then
carriage, shipping charges, freight and
marine insurance. to Boston or New
York, then carriage, storage, fire insur-
ance and commission at these points,
amounting in the aggregate to a large
profit for tie manufacturer, if he sold at
VIZ hStu S'ol4 VI PiONtuCllOu UG tuc loCtO-
ries OF the Eastern States. Nor is this
all; the carriage, shipping charges, freight
and insurance on the manufactured arti-
Gle must be added from the East to the
points of present consumption, South
On the raw article old England has to
pay the ocean frcights and insurance
from New Orleans, Savannah, or New
York, to Liverpool, CIR other British
ports, in addition to the charges already
enumerated, while commissions and han.
ding costs much more in Liverpool than
in New York or Boston, and must, Of
course, be added to the value of the cot
ton. These facts go to prove that it will
be most difficult matter for the two
Enslands to compete with the South in
the cotton manufacturing industries,
and bear out my former statement,
"That doubts may bo awakened in some
minds whether, in twenty-five years
hence, England will be able to cotrol the
trade.
Let US now take leave of Mr.. Stewart,
as we find him in sensible and reasona-
BILE vein. AS for his highly-colored rep