The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-03-29

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pounds OF lint cotton made. This is
taken from both land and crop, and is
termed ''leIser y ..Iiqaidating" and .oon-
structive" tAxe6s-thatis, tsxts imro i
% build and 'mRintain the lesees, aud to-
liqpidate a debt long ego contracted in
ccnetructing these levees. In that very
section, where, gentlemen assure me.
Whole flelas OF corn can be grown that
will average from forty to eighty bushels
e pat of heaps Of rS bags Of i Notih.wess, @ vest
horse or, mule isa rarity. The cotton
mania is cursing the country. This ad-
hesIon 10 The culture OF single staple
is. doubtless, providentially checked by
q blessing in disguise-inefIicien labor.
If labor wore coutToliabie, and we're Us
Efficiently applied to the culture OF cot
ton as these Western planters would
have it, the cotton crop OF 1874 would
reach, 10, 000. 900 bales, and we, as peo.
pie, would be as poor aud perhapa moro
demoralized than We are now. Viewing
this matter from every stand point from
which have boen able to Inspect it, my
co9yiction ie, that the man of family
at least, ID the older States had better
bsare the ILLS he has, than fly to those he
is gu 10 iossdoo unteF in the South west.
Il have on several occasions, met with
Northern men. who arc engaged in ono
or two classes OF business that are likely
to develop this country advantagconsly.
One ~ .ths milling interest. .-Pprta l,ie
saw mills dre'located in the forests. Quo.
fourth the lumber is given for tho trees
one-sjxth the remainder, or its equiva-
lent in money, is given for cutting and
delivering the stocks, and the remaining
tive-eighths of tho lumber snwn is rapid
y cold mt the mill for S22 to S25 per
thousand. The mills work from Octo-
Der till May, and arc idle the summer
months.
Another is the stuve trade. Cypress
and white onk slaves arc rived Ill tho
swAmps of the Mississippi. put up iu
bundles, known es "shucks, F." and are de-
iivered on the levee in New Orleans at q
ooet of sos per thousand, where they
readily exchange hands ut SITS per thou
sand, and arc thence shipped to France
and Spain, to be converted into wine
pipes. 1t is estimated that the we'll
made empty pipe will cost the wine-
maker from Sl2 to $l5. It is filed with
wine, reshipped. to this country, and,
when empty. can be bought for couple
Of dollars. SO wags the world.
The approach to Vioksburg, down the
river, is one of the most unique have
ever seen. When eight miles off. the
city is presented in full on it's many
hills to the passenger, and seems to be
only over there beyond q narrow tongue
Of land. The river forms iu its front q
letter s. and it WIS from the upper bend
to the foot of this serpen,ine course, that
Grant attempted to change tho course of
the mighty stream. The folly of such
an undertaking is manifestly apparent to
the observer from the city's hills. I in
quired to-day ut the bookstores aud
news depots, if anything like pamphlet,
descriptive or in romance, had ever been
written about the siege of Vicksburg.
No, nothing of the sort. And yet, on
all their counters lies quite volume de-
scriptive of Stokes life and trial and Jim
Fisk's tragic death. TO refreshen the
memory about Vicksburg's terrible
siege, one must walo through pages OF
partial history. or study voluminous
military reports. In another century,
the sutferings Of the citizens ON that
occasion will have been forgotten.
Yours, Sc, SOUTH CAROLINA