The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26
From the New York rimes.I
PROSPERITY OF THE SOUTH

! Evidence Of the growing common
sense of the South in business mat
ters, as well ss Of the fsct that she
has seen her darkest hour, is obtained
from recent careful summary O. the
business of Charleston, S. c., for s
year past, which appears in the
Charleston Ksss and Courier. Ac-
eOrding to this statement the cotton
receipts at Charleston, as compared
with those Of 1869, increased 92
ger cent; rice receipts, 50; exports
Of naval stores, 1S2; exports OF lum-
Der, u. and hank capital, 500 per
cent. This last statement is ex-
tremeiy significant. The money must
have come either from profits saved,
or from other places, and such acces-
sions to the resources OF q city are
rarely made unless there Is q good
prospect of profit.
The trade in phosphates has grown
to $4,000 tons OF raw material, of
which 10000 tons were used in
Charleston, and 80, 900 tons exported.
OF manufactured fertilizers, Charles
ton sent, this yesr, into the interior
$4,000 tons-a gaiu of $50 per cent.
over 1871. This fact will recall
our statement as to the increased
productiveness of Southern fields.
through the most extensive use OF
fertilizers. The export Of fruit and
vegetables TO the North has risen
from slmost nothing at the close of
the war, to handsome figure, q, 900
bushels OF potatoes and 90, 900 crates
oil other articles having been sent for
"ard-a gain upon last year of 73
per cent. in the former case and five
and one-half in the latter.
The magnitude of the present trade
OF Charleston is seen from the figures
OF the Ne'cs gives. Il amounts To
S4C, ,OO9,OOO for the stables (cotton.
rice, naval stores, etc. J, and $50. OOO'
OOO for the local trade in dry Goods
shoes, hats, etc We have oiyen
these figures because they are neces-
sary 10 convey some idea OF the com.
merciai resurrection which has visit.
ed this powder. begrimed and, to all
appearances, ruined town, and which
ID owing, the Nescs insists, to econo-
my, hard work, and free labor. We
Know that it has been done despite :
Durdensome State debt and dis
ordered finances. II renewed pros-
perity is possible in Charleston. there
IS no portion OF the South that need
despair. AS to the State at large the
NeUs states that the prospect is
equally encouraging. The agricul-
tursl aspect Is cheerful, except 90 far
az Sea Islsnd cotton is concerned
The use OF phosphstes as fertilizers
has brought about great revolution
throughout the State generally, since
the poor but healthy lands OF the up.
per and middle sections of the State.
where the white man can successfully
work, have been brought under cul.
ture, and cotton is now raised up to
the very mountains, aud in regions
formerly supposed to be entirely un.
suited to its culture.
The steady extension of RAILWAYS
has done much to bring about the
new order of things, and in this con-
nection it may be stated that it IL
proposed to run a new railway from
Chicago to connect with the princi.
pal Southern ports in order to give
additional facilities for the exchange
Of Western wheat, &c, for Southern
products. A significant addition to
our statement as to the prosperity of
the growing manufacturing interest
OF the South may be fourd in the
recent report of the Tallahassee Man.
utacturing Company, of Alabama,
which shows net earnings OF nineteen
and half per cent, and q largely
increased business for the first six
months of the present year. Persist
in well-doing is sll that is neces-
sary to give the South a prosperity far
greater than that of ''the good old
times' which some OF her fossils
regret so much. And she is rapidly
becoming aware of this fact