New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-05-08
THE UPLAND COTTON COUNTRY.

THE UPLAND COTTON COUNTRY.
AN Up-CoUNTRY COTTON MARKET - KU-KLUx
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF JUDGE ORR ON
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
tPRon OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
ANDERSON, S. c., May Silt is pleasant
change from Columbia and from all the buzz about cor
rupton in office the OF violence with which
is filed 10 these breezy uplands left the capital yes
erday morning having accepted the invitation OF Judge
Orr spend Sunday his house in this place. and go on
Monday with him 10 Greenyille in adjoining county,
where he holds court Our train started at O'clock and
ran about IL miles hour, bringing us to Anderson,
distance OF 122 miles, at O'Clock in the evening The
fare was about cents mile 1t was the time OF the an
nus meeting OF the stockholders OF the railway who are
allowed for two days in the year 10 ride ree and tho
cars were crowded with people, who had taken this
occasion 10 visit their friends along the road.
They we're wel-dressed, amiabe, and intelligent
looking people. The ladies, OF whom there were
many, had great bouquets of magnificent roses.
did not see at the backs OF OF the nen that ugly
protuberance that in the South soon comes to be re-
garded indicating the presence of revolver strapped
around the waist and there were no signs OF the hu-
Klux in their pleasant faces. We raversed rolling
country OF considerable natural beauty, but thinly
peoped and cultivated in the usual hrtess Southern
fashion The greater part OF the land not covered by
forest appeared be abandoned to broomsedges and
dwarf pines which had growth OF from one TO ten
years was told that land given up TO the pines for
several years recuperates and that pays to clear
the trees of and plant It again with cotton Some fer
zng virtue is attributed by the farmers to the roots
and dead leaves Of the The arabic land had been
planted fortnight previously and, in some places, the
light green leaves OF the cotton plants beginning to
appear above the red soil.
Cotton was the only crop during the first half OF
the Journey; afterward got into:higher country
an occasional field OF oats, barley or wheat could be
Il do fran riea
why Ia not more generally raised and the
always the the negroes steal 1t to such
an extent that il is improbable. IL Is exposed TO their
depredaons from the time the large enough to
roast until II ripe, and is impossible to keep them
from making nightly raids upon the fields one farmer
told me that planted 30 last year. and succeeded
in saving only CT bushels, and that like trouble is ex
perienced raising pigs which are stolen when young
Tho niggers" he said. "cant eat cotton, and what
they can't they won't steal, as general thing so
cotton is the only safe crop man can make"
Anderson, the county seat OF county Of the same
name bordering Georgia. and lying well up toward
the north west corner OF South Carolina, village OF
1000 inhabitants seldom reached by any travellers save
the ubiquitous New York drummers." who penetrate
10 the remotest hooks and OF the land To the
seekers Of the picturesque it is remarkable only for the
fine groves of oaks that clohe the hills around, the
towering Pride OF India" trees that shade the streets
the proson Of that climb the porehes, and the
quaint old white washed Court House tha.stands in the
middle of a little square. To the man of business, how
ever the town has more practical interest when no
learns that its merchants shipped 10000 bales OF cotton
from the crop OF last year. amounting in value to s5oOo
The crop of the county, which has but 22,co
inhabitants, was II 900 bales, worth S6 bale
Even at the low prices prevailing, the farmers
have done well, land are, | am assured, more
than theyever were in the days OF slave labor
The older men easily adapt themselves to the new
III and nv continuing the old dOminpeIlng
manner they frequently have trouble with their negro
hands; but the small farmers and 1.-THE young men who
go into the fields and work with their hired negroes nave
no difficulty in getting full days work from every man.
The black will always keep his row up with that OF
the white man who works beside him. The wages paid
the negroes in this county are from s6 to y month ana
ratons when they are hired by the year. Often they
WORT the land for onethrd Of the crop furnishing their
own mules and tools Good farming land, that Twill pro-
suce half bale of cotton to the acre. can DE bought
for from SO to SIS per and woodland and pne OLD
fields as the lands are called, are worth from
- to q per acre.
Judge Orr, once Speaker OF the National House OF
Representatives member OF the Confederate senate
daring the war; and Governor OF his State In the early
DAYS of Reconstruction, is almost the only one OF the
great oldtme political leaders Of South Carolina VINO
now belongs TO the Republican party. He IS circuit
Judge OF the five northwestern counties OF the state
and believe 1t due In great part 10 MS huenoo 'n"'
these counties are entirely free from the violence ana
that occur in sections The Judge Is con-
odent th. I'm no other equal population In the Uhed
states have fewer lcrmes against persons or property
hem committed during the past year than In his circuit
In tho county OF Pickens In his circuit mot single oil
a, indictment has been sent 10 the Grand Jury during
IN. last two terms OF court, period OF eight months
ri not single criminal has been tried. In the
all NJ Anderson County there is hut one prisoner, ana
y. "a waiting trial for trivial ofense. The people here
.n,iou. that these facts should he known and that
v,,.rr ,oen who wish 10 emgrate South may under
nd that in this part OF South Carolina they will be as
secur AZ in any part of the North have no doubt that
,h, onld lie the case at present. and probably always
~ Is; the towns but in the back country, in time Of
great political excitement, believe Northern Repub
lean who should freely his sentiments, would
rd A. uppleasnt II dangerous, leyen IN this quiet
region.
Tho Copgrrss District, OF which this county forms
mar, vave IN 1865 majority OF 5000 for Democrat but
m. evidences OF intimidation practced upon the negroes
we're 40 rarirg that the Governor would not give him
.or6ca,e and the House seated the Republican. Last
Vail I'm an election which both parties acknowledge TO
have been fair Republican Mr. Elliott was elected by
600 majority This proves that 1000 Republican voters
we're kept from the polls in 1868 was entertained the
other day by an account gwen by man from Edgeneld
took me for fellow Democrat, OF the way they had
managed w keep the Degr0es from voting hs county