, 1872-11-02
. balmy climate, and eren strong mountain

Q ballny climate, and eren strong mountain
] ecenery.
a single stem Of new road, crossing the East
Tennessee ranges from Kentucky, will pick up
all the coast-skeins of track in both North and
South Carolina, and obtain sea-ports at Beau
fort, Charleston, Wilmington, and Newbern:
This road, which have outlined in the table
above, has stopped GO miles above the TeuneE-
seq state line, in Kentucky; and it has three
ridges to cross, one in eaoh State; the Cumbcr-
land Mountain, in Tennessee the Great Smoky
Range, in North Caroline; and the Blue Ridge,
| Of South Carolina. It intersects the Georgia 4
Virginia Railway at Knoxville.
| SOME SOUTH CAROLINA FIGURES.
In South Carolina there are but thirty-two
counties to FOG, 900 people. This puts the State
in the rank Of Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas,
and makes it more than equal in population to
New Hampshire and Vermont added to Nevada.
| It has 800, 900 whites and 416, GOO colored, Of
whom 402, ,000 were formerly slaves. As Slave
state, South Carolina exceeded in numbers the
slaves Of North Carolina by 1000, Of Tennessee
| by 1885, 900, and of Louisiana by 10000. Only
tfour. States passed it in slave property. viz:
! It's most populous County, Charleston, has
1000 souls tie next, Edgefeld, $4,000; Barn
we'll has $4,000, and Beaufort 1000. The
| strongest counties are along the Georgia line,
! adjoin North Carolina. 49, Charleston city has
$4,000 people, Grass grows in many, it not the
majority, Of it's streets. There are less than
5000 foreigners in Charleston. Columbia has
about $500 inhabitants, and is pretty, half
| burnt, and dull. The town Of Georgetown has
2,100.
The population Of the State has not proba-
bly, increased since 1860, and there are only
about 5000 foreigners in all.
/ In 1870, the State had more eheep than New
Jersey, but the number had fallen off nearly
one-haH in ten years the yield of wool had
fallen of, in like manner, 900 1bH. There
were 27 900 horses less in 1870 than in 1860, and
Ill., L1n1 1.ml l.o SO
cotton was 224, 500 bales. The State has fallen
in almost every material respect. It was tho
most Aristocratic OF all American Common
wealths; to-day it is the most Jacobin.
South Carolina bonds are nov quoted in the
| market at between 26 and As cents on the dollar,
State skies Of January and July bringing but
rs cents, and the seyens Of 1885 huttering
around 50.
Had the rpet-baggers and negroes applied
any portion Of their ectortions to connect The
railway system Of Carolina with the Ohio, their
domination might not have been without q mon
unlent. At present. Tom Scott's railway system
monopolizes both outlets, north and west.
RICH MEN.
1t will be remarked that the old planting
aristocracy brought all this WOO upon them
selves. True; but the responsibility is ours no
less to see the State rehabilitated. This must
be the work Of education and time. Fair crops
ere etill produced; the State is picked dry, and
there il little left to steal The business class
in Charleston is still mainly composed of the old
type OF white deaers but politics of ravenous
sort is the public Gfo Of the State. There are
but two classes the sullen and apatnetic. and
the rapacious.
The richest meu at present are those who
| thrive by the disadvantages OF the mauy. Nacle
Ind Scoft probably head The liet. IN former
I1mea, the richest man IN the whole South lived
in this State: Wade Hampton, father Of the
Rebel cavalry General
The anormous cotton plantations of Waf1a
rJan,rte,, -rara =, H. ri e. 49,, - n.1. r
r IT, -. 1
Ioueia,a. Aalu1'lou WIS IAe 11cuest plantel III
an tne Soutn, WorA1hB sugar a9 well as cotton,
with hls 5, ,0U0 slaves. He resided much of the
time in South Carolina. at Columbia and died
there, at the age of 81. in the wear lS35. In