Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-09-25
MANUFACTURES IN THE SOUTH.

Ours is material, money seeking age. Its
favorite pursuits and Investigations are not
speculative, chivalric nor romantic, but are
employed in those fields which promise to
yield the greatest amount Of wealth, comfort
and independence to the individual, and to
society. The Southern people are in a
condition to feel the force of this fact rather
painfully. They have lost many hundreds
of millions of their poverty, at time when
other portions of the country have been &C
cumulating wealth rapidly. The Northeast
and West are rich and prosperous the South
only moderately so in a few scattered locali-
ties. Yet the mass of the people in all parts
of the United States belong to the same intel
lectual, active thrifty, enterprising Anglo
Saxon race. The agricultural capabilities and
mineral resources Of the South are of the first
order, while its climate is one of the finest on
the globe. There is no good reason why the
South should lag in the rear in the accumu-
laton of wealth, and the acquisition of mate
rial power generally. While our lack of de-
velopment is attractabe in no small degree
to political causes, much of the blame justly
falls upon the Southern people, themselves.
There is lamentable want Of enterprise ap-
parent in many Of the finest portions of our
territory. What city of thirty thousand in
habitants in New England would, for exam.
pie, permit water power like that of the
Ohio falls to run to waste for years as we
have done? Here is a mine Of wealth, if
worked with the right object, would not only
at once bring a force ofoperatives to our doors
in their own numbers equal to the population
of large city, but every interest and trade
now existing in Louisville would receive a
powerful impetus. The merchants would
double their retail custom, the wholesale
merchants would double their trade, the pro-
fessions would be benefited in the same pro-
portion, and every vocation, from the high
est to the humblest, would receive an infusion
of new life. Not Louisville alone sleeps over
patent advantages and opportunities. Many
instances Of like neglect exists over the South,
whose people are slow to learn the fact, shown
in the history Of every country in Christendom,
that the wealth of nation comes from her
manufactures far more than from the raw
material that it produces. 1t is nonsense to
say that manufactures will not prosper in
the South. We MAINTAIN, on the contrary,
that they can be made more profitable, with
fair business management, in the South than
they are to-day in Great Britain, Germany,
or New England An Alabama newspaper
of recent date says:
"Ex. Govcnor Patton, of Alabama, in let
ter to The South, says that the dividend paid
by the Augusta cotton mills is over twenty
per cent a year. A cotton mill at Peters
burg, Va, pays twenty-five per cent, year.
One at Columbus. Ga, pays over twenty per
cent. The mills in this State do at least as
we'll. And at this very time the New Eng
land mills are struggling along with small
profits, and even talk of working short time,
so as to reduce stocks and improve prices.
The difference between their feeble and sinking
condition and the vigorous activity of the
Southern mills is accounted for by the give
cents pound" advantage which the South
ern manufacturer has in his tilt with New
England and yet we have but few factories
in Alabama"
ries which aim to explain why it is that man.
ufactures will not thrive in the South. They
do prosper wherever good business men con-
duct them, and on their establishment in fu-
ture depends the hope of Southern restora-
ton; and not restoration only, but all excel
lence and prosperity which she never attain
ed in the past.-LounsviNe Courier Journal.
ANDY JOHNSON Cuts 4 SUIT OF CLOTHES.
Sam Bard told me some stories (narratives l
mean last night, and one about ex-President
Johnson will do to 20 along. He says:
| was in Greenvlle the other day, and
was talking about Andy johnson, when a
gentleman standing by me said ANDY is
as big demagogue as ever" A countryman
| oon,a in town last woak with q hundle of leans