The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-04-15

The Greenyille, South Carolina, Daily
NewS recently published an elaborate
article on the condition Of labor in the
Sonth and closed by requesting Northern
journals to "please copy" The subject is
OF general interest and the article may
contain some suggestions worthy of at
tention. The NerS asserts that for white
laborcrs who have means 10 buy small
farms, there can he found nowhere in the
world, better market than in South
Carolina. II states that high price is
given for all kinds OF produce and that
market will always we found. No
Northern laborcr, IL adds, need have any
fear Of competition in any branch Of
skilled labor, and the superiority OF the
Northern farmer will also place him be-
yond the competition ofIthe Southerner.
The latter is slow to apply himself to
either farming or skilled industry, and the
rising generation OF .Southerners are, in
this respect, worthy descendants Of the
old slave driver. II is generally conCed.
ed in tho South that the present genera.
ton Of negroes will not develop into good
mechanics, and arc scarcely fitted for any
branch Of mechanical work. This opens
field for the skilled white laborer. The
colored people are excellent field hands,
and can always be depended upon except
when election time comes around, and
then they are exceedingly uncertain.
A Chicago Inter-Ooeal correspondent
writing from the "Piney Woods" district
in Pike county, Mississippi, ia quite en-
thusiastic in praise Of the inducements
offered by that section 10 Northerners.
The region is thinly settled, the planta-
tions consisting Of from 1000 to 5000
acres, upon which the people are com-
pleteiy isolated from each other. Pladta-
lions formerly held at $50 per acre can
now be bought for So and $40. The old
planters are disposed to retirefrom active
life, to sell or rent their farms, and sur
round themselves with schools, churches.
and other appliances Of civilization. The
products are cotton, ranging from half
bale TO two bales per acre; corn from 20 to
IS buslel per acre; oats cut as foragc,fro
/ TO q tons per acre; rice from 10 TO 10
bushels per acre; sugar cane from
200 TO $50 gallons Of molasses to the acre,
rye, barley, peas and all varieties Of gar
den vegetables which can DO raised from
ak weeks to two months earlier than in
the North. The only variety Of oats
raised is the red, or rust proof. The
country is admirably adapted TO sheep
raising and the wool is said TO have an
cvenness OF fibre which cannotbe obtained
where the sheep are halfthc year fed on
dry feed.
At n period when industries -haYa
.....sI.sI ait unusuariy low ebb through
out the North these statements come with
considerable weight. The documents Of
iered are strong enough il the state Of So
ciety in the South would permit the pres
ence Of Northern men who are too inde.
pendent TO sacrifice their opinions 10
Southern arrogance. In the districts
above referred 10, the Southerners unite
in earnestly asking the aid Of Northern
men to settle and develop their section oi
country. 1t would be better than going
to the Black Hills, and it would proba-
bly, be more profitable than longer 80
jOurn in the overseltled portions OF the
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