The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-11-13
THE ABBEVILLE AND ANDERSON
MARKETS.

5atel6oeacer contains the following
editorial, as Introductory to COM
munication which it publishes from
the Abbeville Medium, both of which,
editorial and communication equal
", do very great injustice to the
Abbeville market, and to the liber-
ality and enterprise of our mer-
chants:
HANpsoME COMPLIMENT TO OUR
MBRcHANTs.-"Long Cane,' cor
RESPONDENT of the Abbeuilk Medauna,
writes as follows concerning recent
visit to our town, in which he pays
q lust compliment to the energy,
enterprise and business tact OF our
merchants. The writer's evidently
puzzled. at the high prices paid for
Cotton III this market, and so have
other people been puzzled at the
same thing. We might possibly
offer an explanation Of this fact,
but the farmers all around only
want to know that it is fact, with
out entering into the particulars,
and it is useless to make the expla-
nation. Therefore, we desire to
reiterate the statement so often
made that Anderson is the best
cotton market in the up-country,
and to invite "all the world and the
rest of mankind to test its truth
fulness by. bringing their produce
to this place, where they con pur-
chase every desirable article at the
lowest prices, and meet with Ebero
ality and kindness at the hands OF
our mercantile friends:
8 Editors Medium: i: I promised to
drop you few lines if anything
turned up worth relating on my
way to Anderson. / met several
Abbesillei farmers driving their
wagons loaded with bagging, ties,
bacon, salt, hats, shoes, &c
saWhere have you been?' says l.
ssTo Andersen" says they-"selling
cotton and buying my necessarles.
They pay higher prices for cotton
in Anderson than they do in Able.
Vile, and they sell goods as cheap"
-Iinauired how that could be, for
Anderson was further from market
than Abbeville, and it cost more to
ship a bale Of cotton from the
former than the latter place, and it
cost more to ship goods from
Charleston and New York, how
then could they pay higher prices
for cotton and sell goods as cheap
The reply was, "They did not know
about that, but they knew they die
IT. 9,l5;I
On my arrival here saw many
more familiar faces, selling cotton
and buying groceries, and they al
made the same reply to my inter
rogatories. This, I confess, was
at9rn up" I was not. looking fol
and don't care to relate. 1t is al
wrong from beginning to end, the
merchants can pay as much for cot
ton in Abbeville, and more too, thar
they can pay at Anderson, and it is
a shame. and a scandal that ou
farmers have to sell their produce
and buy their groceries here
What's the matter?
An editor is supposed to know
everything, then please enlighter
us. Are the people here wider
awake? Have they more capital
More energy than they have a
home? I tell you we must wort
up and push, or we will be left ou
in the cold.
:, Anderson is lengthening he
cords and strengthening her stakes
you see signs of thrift on ever.
street. This is my first visit her
since the war. In ante bellun time
it was a little, old, one-horse concer'
Thought the most old fogy, stu
pid, dull town in creation; but, sir
things have changed-everything i
lively and looks smiling the clerk
move like Broadway boys, and tn
merchants seem eontented Will
their lots in life.
= Now weare not disposed to do in
justice TO Anderson, or to abate ON
jot or title of her just claims to favo
!apd patronage, but when these claim
are pressed to the prejudice Of Able
VILE and upon what we conceive tt
be a misconception of the true stat
of the facts, we cannot in justice
to ourselves be any longer silent. II
lit a fact, as alleged, that Anderson
gives more for cotton, and sells good
cheaper than Abbevilie, being fort!
niles further from market2
In the first place we may say thi
for Abbeville that the prices she ha
paid during the present season to-
section have been fully up to the prices
paid in Columbia, Augusta, Charles
ton: and New York, less the cost O
transportation, and in many instances
have exceeded these prices Ar
agent ofa New, York House was
..hereiduring the season, and finding
himself unable to compete with the
prices paid by the Abbeville buyers.
,ei.LL!ic ..d ~ looya When snch is