The Russellville Democrat., 1875-08-05
A PROSPEROUS SOUTH.
Coming tO their Senses.---Thc Lesson Experience has
 taught us.
An Unparallcd Career of PrOs-
 perity Ahead.
Egypt and the East shall find
 Competition i'm the South.

10 the tnlnklnS man anu WO man, or even to the casual observ CT there is ample grounds for ev. cry body who loves the Sunny South and wishes to see her at tain that degree of greatness and prosperity for which she is so well fitted, to rejoice. The prospect ahead is certainly most fiatterine and the picture of prosperity, usefulness and power which looms up far surpasses anything we enjoyed in the South in our balmiest days of slavery when we felt all the pride and power ol autocrats and lords.
 The following pleasing picture of the "Impending Prosperity" oi the South is from the New Orleans Times. We believe that it con- tains facts and that we shall soon alize all the prosperity that is portrayed. A land possessing the elements of wealth and great ness possessed by the South can not be crushed out and will re-as- sert her greatness and power as one of the great commercial and producing regions of the world.
 Following is the Times article
 "Throughout the South jim cracks" have ceased to be market ble commodities. Cobweb fab. rics, gaudy trifes, costly condi- mcnts, canned goods, expensive preserves and pickles, rare wines and liquors, and the innumerable articles in which ten years ago tha country reveled no longer al lure. The lesson has been se- we're, but not without profit, and 1 already are the beneficial results realized. There is more home grown corn in Louisiana to-day, than at any time in it's history. In another year there will be as much home grown meat, as can possibly be consumed. Planters have learned the wisdom of de- voting their first hours to the cultivation of prime necessities, and whatever leasure remains to profit. As a consequence the more sagacious of the North al ready predict for us career of prosperity unparalleled in even American history. Few not in timately acquainted with our peo- pie can appreciate the ordeal from which they are about emerging, but the wisdom acquired by ex- perience will never be unlearned in this generation. A day is far from remote when aE will ac- knowledge how sweet are the uses of diversity, and discover that our past like the toad 'ugly and venomous" bore yet precious jewel in its head. The most cas- ual observer of commercial move ments, months ago was forced to admit that only in staple articles existed any activity whatever. The transactions in coffee, sugar, rice, corn, meal, pork and grits, among home purchasers, exceed those of any twenty other articles which can be named. A few cost ly fabrics are still taken, but they almost invariably consist of the very best material, and are guaranteed to wear a term of years. Despite a cutting down in expenditures, which quandam extravaganza considered, is sim ply incredible, our great staples have not been neglected. Already both Egypt and the East tremble at the increased competition, and a time is not far distant when, with our multiplied facilities and greater yield, both will be driven from the market.
 To a degree that philosopher never dreamed of, we have real ized Micawbers theory of pros- perity. "Income twenty pounds a year, expenditure nineteen pounds, nineteen shillings, eleven pence ha'-penny-result happi- ness."
 Within a year or two scarcely one fifth of the valuable products sent abroad have returned to us in imported commodities. Ten years of this experience will give to us a foreign credit sounder than the bank of England.
 With restored harmony, a soil producing the most valuable pro. ducts known to mankind, and more than all that, frugality, which, all things considered is heroism itself, why, within brief period, we should not be the most prosperous people on earth is one of the inscrutible mystcr. ies; that we will be, is foregone conclusion