The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-20

and one thousand POUNDS OF cOltOn 10 Gle
acre on lands without fertilizers. And the up
lands on these beautiful slopes, 100, are rIca sl
in their harvests, and though net equal ior
grain are superior for cotton. Within the
view, tilTy snug little two and three horse
fans within the past three years have been
cut off those large plantations. There, near
BY you, are two snug little homes, two horse
farms, carved from the forest, within three
years, now we'll improved, and making, this
year, besides provisions, twenty bales OF cot.
ton to the horse-(abent eight bales to the Ia
borer)-cnltivation easy and light, health per.
feet, and all within eight OF the church spire.
the school-nouse, railroad, telegraph office,
&c.
Beyond Pine Tree. south to Swift Creek, on
the southern confines of the county, for Ten
miles below Camden, stretch the finest bodies
of lands, forming recently large plantations,
with their summer retreats and huge forests.
Right on the railroad, the process OF subdfvls.
ion into small farms Ia going on year by year.
but as yet this is dependent on our own popl.
lation. Our best youDg people are occupying
them, and establishing the basis of fortunes.
But the process i5 slow. From this hill top
could select farms for thousand immigrants,
and we appeal to the Northern people 10 come
In and settle them. Capitalist come and TAX e
these glorious water powers: Farmers! come
and be our nelghbors In delightful homes.
Laborers! come, and, with your wages for g
year or two, you can be Independently settled
for life. Gentlemen Of ease and taste! come
and buy these splendid mansions, whose own
ers want more contracted homes. Come and
build elegant villas on these crownlng heights
that cover this lovely scene.
Within fifty years from tn Invention Of the
cotton Gin this little county has grown from
wilderness to a population OF fifteen thou
sand, owning immense agricultural wealth,
huge plantations, rich farus and noble man.
sions-a railroad, manufactures, two banks,
&C., and had also built up, by emigration,
whole counties In the southwest.
Much of oil this beautiful land that lies
spread cut before you was once occupied by
small farmers, who dritted down from Penn
syvanla. Virginia and North Carollna-whose
descendants have given tone and character to
society az good as any in the South-many OF
them Presbyterian Irish, and many OF the old
Virginia cavaliers. The spreading demands
OF the old plantation style Of huge fields, and
the invading wave Of cotton culture, absorbed
these farmers, who sOnght new homes In
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi. Louisiana,
Texas. Arkansas and Florida. War and Its
desolating results have rooted ont forever
lheseold Plantations; they would at once natu.
rally revert to their normal condition OF small
farms, mt our population III too sparse. The
work offers high reward, but 1t is a work re-
quirlng brain, nerve. aspiration and muscle.
The white man has them all; The negro only
muscle as yet-and politics for him will. en-
gross ali the other ingredients until too late
for the opportunity.
Friends Of the North ami West, come into
this goodly land and possess 1t! These are the
fairest and best Of all the fields of the Sonth,
where often, again and again, In lifetime,
have our old clizens dug out OF the ground
half million of dollars from smaller beginDiugs
than these little two-hors0 farms, leaving,
after well spent lives, These large estates for
distribution among educated, cultivated de-
scendants.
/ know four little two.aorse farms this
season that have produced each, besides pro.
visions, forty bales If cuttorl, the, crop on each
reaching gross results of four thousand (s40OO)
dollars, produced by Two (2) horses, and al
cost (including everything Labor, fertilizers,
&C., of ttteen hundred (sl50o) dollars only.
these Instances are raCner exceptional. 1t is
true, but The exception results from what
should be the rule, !. e., energy and strict at.
tention TO business.
Fortune, here, Is within !he reach OF every
industrious and saving farm laborer. The tar
mer who can command capital of one thou.
sand (slO00) dollars to equip his little larm has
already taken long stride to the rapid attain
ment Of that fortune. II !.
Truly yours. &C..
WILLIAM n. SHANNON.