Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-01-28
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Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
New YORK, Jan. %, 1875.
Some thoughtful friend has sent me recent
copy of the ENQUIRER, whose broad face and
genial countenance remind me of by-gone
days, and inspires me to write you commu'
nication. When lonely in a great city like
New York, the reception of paper from
ones native land is second in pleasure only to
meeting with living friend from home. l
shall atleast satisfy my own feeling if try to
recprocate by throwing together some items
of news from this great metropolis. The
printing world might like to hear of the pro-
gress of the
TRIBUNE BUILDING.
Well, this building is not completed but
enough is done to give the passer-by an idea
of its real proportions. 1t is not only fitting
memorial of Horace Greeley, the great editor !;
but it also illustrates the great tendency OF
the age, to unite the beautiful with the useful.
l have assembled to the very top of the great
Bunker Hill monument; and as looked at
its immense granite blocks, placed one upon
another in such grand and towering proper
tions, have asked the question, "What is the
use of all this ?" There it will stand tor q
thousand years, simply to mark the spot and
recall the memory Of Revolutionary battle
field. But, when looking upon the Tribune
building, you see something very different. 1t
is beautiful building of the most tasty de-
sign, eleven stories high, with tower ascend
ing far above the roof, in which is clcck,
and superscribed on which are the words,
The TRIBUNE. In this edi6ce this world re-
nowned paper is in future to be conducted.
BUSINESS PROSPECTS,
Keeping still in view practical tendencies,
I am led to speak of the truly alarming de-
cline of business here at the North. Any one
who has visited this city annually for the
past seven years, as I have, can mark this
decline in whichever way he turns his eyes.
Until within the last two years, building was
going on in every direction. Nearly every
store and cellar was occupied with the whirl-
ing business of the city, while every dwelling
and room was occupied by the busy people.
But now along every street, in every block
and almost every house, is seen the familiar
card hanging out with the words, "To let"
"This house." "this room," and some times,
even, "this whole block, to rent"
And the people are just beginning to real
ize the cause of this sad decline of business.
They now know that it was caused by the
late war in the breaking up of the South.
The South was wrecked almost in day and
ever since that day, the life-blood Of Northern
prosperity has been slowly leaking out, until
the mighty North lies weak, consumptive
invalid. Some predict that there is no hope
of recovery unless the patient goes to the
warm sunny South.
eyes, POLITICS CAUSED 1T, /"
Is common expression here. Sitting, the
other evening, with promiscuous crowd, at
the hotel, I silently heard conversation which
I suppose is common all over the North.
"The crushing of the Southern States did it."
said a violent Yankee, as he rose to his feet
"The Radical party: what desolation has it
wrought" and he grew more eloquent as he
said, "That party set out to free the negro,
and gain immortal honor as patriots and ben
efactors. But what is the result !? They
have ruined the negro, ruined the South,
ruined the North, ruined the sovereignty of
the States, ruined the Nation, ruined the
whole framework of the Republic, and last
but not least, ruined their own party" l said
"Amen"
IMMIGRATION,
From the Northern States, Southwark, is one
of the best remedies for all these evils. These
are the people the South needs; and the South
alone can give scope for these progressive
people. Seeing, the other day, card in the
New York SIM, which set forth the induce
ments to settle in the Piedmont regions pub
lished by Mr.. Gaines, of South Carolina,
called at 29 Broadway, where I found that
gentleman, whom I had met once or twice
before. On entering his office, found half
dozen or more well-dressed gentlemen atten-
lively listening to his lecture on the great ad-
vantages of the Piedmont districts of Carroll.
ma. There sat man, a little gray, who said
he had come down from Massachusetts to look
into this matter. He had machinery for man.
ufacturing spokes, hubs, &C., for wagons and
carriages. He Guessed" he would 60 home,
wind up his affairs, and move his machinery
to the Palmetto State. There sat, also, full
blooded old Vermonter, who had lived sever.
al years in Brooklyn. As he arose to leave,
be said, "If were only young again, there
is where l would co. Just at this moment
in came gentleman, with his wife and four
little children. 81 am the man," said he,
"who wrote to you from Wappinger's Falls
New York State. I have come to 60 on to
the Piedmont" And then the wife, full
blooded Irish, much excited, said, "And pray
tell me how it is doom there. They have told
US since we got to New York, this morning,
that we be as we'll to 60 to our graves" The
agent soon Gained her fears, went out and
got their tickets and that night James Math'
ews and family set out for Greenville, S. G.
I looked over the record of those whom
Mr.. Gaines had sent on during the past two
months; and found that seventy-three persons,
all we'll to do, had paid their own way, and
gone, with more or less money, to the Pied
mont region, mostly to Greenville. The
family Just referred to, had come from place
in New York State, 160 miles from the city.
Others had gone from Massachusetts, Connec-
ticut, New Jersey and other places and all,
as far as heard from, were pleased with the
Palmetto State. The agent showed me the
advanced pages of carefully written PAM
phlet which he has prefaced, entitled, "The
Palmetto State" 1t was in press and would
be ready for circulation in few days.
left this Office feeling that great work
was here begun in the right direction. Mr..
G.. told me that he suffered heavy losses from
various causes during his efforts, last year, in
this cause. As he was now requiring all to
pay at this end, it would secure, not only
far better class of immigrants, but would en-
able him to make the work pay better. Such
cause should receive the hearty and liberal
cooperation of all Carolinians.