The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-12-16
above specified

of Tennessee, for the two years
above specified:
PRODUCTS. 1860. 1870.
Wheat (bus) 5,459, 26s 6,Iss, 9It
Rye 254 ,9S9 233, 80;
Corn - 52,0s9, 926 4l,3l3,6I4
Cotton (bales) 296,464 ISL 81:
Tobacco Obs 43,44s, O97 p ,465, 40.
Wool 800 1,4O5, 236 1886, 764
LIVE STOCK. 1860. 1870.
Horses ...... 300 $50 247,254
Mules and asses. 126,345 1O2, 9Ss
Sheep. .......-. 773.3l7 S26,7Sa
Swine ..... 2,347, 32I 1,S2S,G9C
By which it may be seen that for
the year 1870, there is an increase
over the year 1860 in wheat, Of
729,64S bushels, and in the article
ofsheep, of 3,456 head; while there
is a falling off in all the other items
of stock and produce, as follows:
Rye, 24,654 bushels; corn, IO,746,-
3I2 bushels; cotton, 1I4622 bules;
tobacco, 2l,982,655 pounds; wool,
1914 pounds; horses, 43,628;
mules and asses, 23,362, and swine,
51S,63I.
The above exhibit will show, by
actual calculation at moderate esti
mates, a loss in valuation on Ten
nessee products for 1870, as COM
pared with 1860, of about $4,000
600, to say nothing of live stock
And this decrease entails upon Giles
county a loss of $4O5, 500, when we
consider the ratio of her population
to that of the whole State. But re-
membering the superior productive
ness of Giles over the great majority
of her sister counties in East, Mid
die and West Tennessee, we shall
see that she must share a much
larger proportion of this loss-say
at least 100000. Whence this
falling off in Tennessee and in Giles?
Doubtless it may be accounted for,
in part, by the deterioration in the
productiveness of our lands since
the war, through the constant cul
ture of cotton, and the ruiz Gus ten
ant-system Of labor to which plan
ters have been subjected during
this interval. But we surmise that
the controlling cause for this fear
full decrease in products and in
money, may be safely attributed to
the great surplus of idlers in 1870,
(black and white, whose labor was
utilized in 1860. Only think that
out of the 100000 males over ten
years of age in Tennessee in 1870,
114,OOO of them are set down in the
census tables as without any en-
ployment whatever. And 1000 of
these idle hands and eating mouths
fall to the lot of Giles county.
A vast swarm of Egyptian lecusts
lowering over the land, a hungry
horde of rapacious cormorants be-
our cribs and houses,
and vampire-like, absorbing the
very life blood of the land! Is this
not enough to bring hard times, ir-
of contraction? Think
of this formidable army of 1000
consumers that infest Giles county,
eating up her substance, and pro
ducing absolutely nothing! $780,,
900 worth of labor idle every year
within our county, is enough to in
vite gaunt Famine, and all her hid
eous troop of evils, to our very
doors. The land mourns because of
this incubus, while the sturdy sons
of toll stagger beneath the burden
some tax. Where are the vagrant
laws and the warehouses OF Ten
nessee and of Giles county?
We have for sometime thought
that this feature of the case had
much to do with the "hard times"
so much and so justly complained
of. Will not this falling of in la
Dor also tend to explain the greater
relative prosperity Of the States
North of us? We are told that it is
the numerous factories that dot the
Northern States that bring that sec
ton its greater prosperity. And
beyond question it as a source
of material thrift and prosperity
for people to produce the raw ma
terial, and manufacture at home all
their needed supplies, instead of
paying freight to and from a distant
factory. And why do we not profit
by the example and do the same?
We have largely the advantage over
these seemingly favored sections
Benign nature has given US a pro-
pitious climate, a friendly soil, album
dant water power. in the free rivers
that thread the land, together with
the boarded thousands of untold
mineral wealth. What lack we yet?
The answer comes, we are>too poor
haven't the means to establish
the shops. the foundries and the
mills. There is much truth in this.
But where is the cause of our pow
ertyg Doubtless this question is,
in a large measure, answered in the
differences justly deducible from the
foregoing statistical figures.
In next weeks issue we will un-
dertake to show that the revelations
of the census tables do give q reas-
enable solution of our present i'm
impoverished condition.
MARRIAGES.
MARRIED-Dec. 10th, 1878, at the
residence of Mr. VIM Hardin nv