The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-03-19

Carrabus county, North Carolina, Tor
leaving the old State, and taking up
their abode jim (what Is supposed
community as God-forsaken as MississlF-
pi. If the eyes of these gentlemen should
chance to fall on the following statement
published in the New York Herald of
te date on the authority of q, s. Sen
.or Ransom, they will not lament their
schange of homes:
pEMoRAIIzRD CONDITION OF NORTH CAR
oLISA
Senator Ransom, who has just returned
from visit to North Carolina, reports
the condition of the State, so far as agrl-
cultural and cotton interests are concerned,
as worse than at any time since the war.
He states that, while the cotton crop will
be large, the prices will be low, and hence
not so remuneratiye as heretofore. The
prices are lower because Of the increase in
the yield OF the crop, and also on account
Of the foreign buyers having anticipated
it by contract when gold was high. The
higher the ruling rates Of gold the lower
the market price Of cotton corresponding
ly is. Many of the plantations have
changed hands The labor is disarranged,
and there is not the same class of men IN
management of plantations as heretofore.
The former planters seem to have become
demoralized, and now accept positions on
railroads or in stores at from $40 to $50
per mouth, giving up their former occu-
pations.
The Wilmington Journal has repro
duced this article to endorsed as correct.
Whileall itsays in reference to the low price
of our chief staple, and the consequent
money pressure is necessarily applicable
to Mississippi, and to the entire cotton re-
gion, her citizens will bear US out in saying
that her industrial system does not pre-
sent the decentralization and retrogressions
of North Carolina. Farmers are not
abandoning their pursuits. Labor So far
from growing more disorganized, is
becoming more fixed. The experience
of the years that have interviewed since
the war has served as lessons by which
they have profted; and under the inspir-
ing influence Of the cooperation move
ment set on foot by the Changers, the
agriculture of the State of Mississippi
may be said to be looking up.
Politically the situation is not as we
would have it; and yet there is decided
improvement in the government of the
State Notwithstanding large mass
of the old citizens committed the criminal
folly of sulkily holding themselves aloof
from the election of members to the
Convention of 1858 and abandoned to
strangers and incompetent negroes the
Constitution, the authors of the instrument
"building wiser than they knew, insert
ed in it a clause forbidding the
loaning of the credit Of the State. Con-
sequently her people have been spared
such schemes as spectators and corrup-
tionists in North Carolina and other
States have devised for the creation of enor-
nous public debts to enrich themselves.
While North Carolina is groaning under
a burden of twenty-five or thirty millions
of dollars, the public debt of Mississippi
exceeds but little over three millions.
These three millions are mere robbery;
for which its authors deserve execration, i
but our people have cause for congratu-
lation that the Forty Thieves did not
serve them worse. Carpet-bag misrule
has become so odious that the authors
of it themselves have shown disposition
to fall in with the Retrenchment current
Reform is now the order of the day,
Bourbonism is dying out. The impraco
ticables who opposed inevitable negro
reimbursement, sometimes by frothy
defamation, and at other times by stick
ing their heads in the mud, and vowing
that they would neither recognize nor
see it, have gradually learned wisdom
The negroes have learned the folly of
putting themselves under the guidance
of strangers who have no permanent
interest in the country; and that nothing
but harm can result from the strife and
i'll blood between the two races They
have learned the uses of good, and the
evils of bad, government. A better un-
derstanding and disposition on both
sides to move onharmoniousiy is exhibited,
each race allowing the other to enjoy
the full measure of the civil and political
rights guaranteed by the constitution
and laws. Affairs in Mississippi wear an
improving aspect. The men of Carrabus
are all right. North Carolina is good
State to emigrate from; Mississippi is
good State to immigrate into.