The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-16

- The steamer City of New York, ar
rived at San Francisco from Sydney,
brings the news that the American flag
has been hoisted at Samoa, and allie
glance formally rendered to the United
States.
- Arlington will not be surrendered
to the heirs of Gen. Lee without strug-
gle. The first point in the legal battle
is that the ownership rests in the United
States, which cannot be sued by an indi-
Yidual.
There is scandal over the disrespect
shown to the bones of Gen. Custer while
en-transit, recently, from the Yellow
stone battlefield to Chicago. On arriv-
ing at Fort Lincoln the remains we're de-
posted in shed, where they lay several
days, and were thence transferred to
freight-car at Bismarck, and on the whole
journey they were dumped around in
freight-cars and handled as if they were
ordinary baggage or a roll of buffalo
robes.
We believe the estimated population
of the South is 100000 souls, one-third
of whom are negroes. 100000 of this
population doubtless live in the cotton
belt, and purchase two-thirds of the meat
they annually consume. The Georgia
Commissioned of Agriculture says that
State buys annually $4,000, 900 worth of
meat. Allowing an average expenditure,
based upon this data, for each of the
other cotton States, there can be no ques-
tion but that the cotton States spend an
nually one hundred millions of dollars
for the meat they consume. This is al
lowing twelve and half dollars per cap
ita for the annual consumption of bought
meat by the men, women and children
of the cotton States. If this were paid
for in cash it would buy enough to do al
most two years; but as the bulk OF it is
bought on credit, nearly twice as much
is paid for it as it is worth. We are con-
vinced that if each family in the South
we're to buy in October an Essex pig, 1--WE
have no pigs for sale) that by the end of
twelve months there would be enough
home-raised meat in the South to save
one-fourth of that vast amount of money,
if these pigs received daily the slops
from the kitchens which are now thrown
away. Think of it; the slops of our
Southern households properly utilized
are worth about S25,0OO,O00 annually.
Are they not worth taking care of?
A representative of the New York
Tribune, travelling in Louisiana, thinks
that would be far more attractive coun-
try for Northern invalids than Florida,
not because one threatened with or suf-
fering from, consumption (which, in
some form or other, seems to be sort OF
universal disease among Northerners)
could or would be more easily and surely
cured there than in Florida, but because
an investment in sugar plantation
would yield more immediate and heavier
returns in money than an orange grove.
Well, if money and its heavy interest is
what is needed to cure consumption, we
would think it would matter but little
when or where it was invested. This
Tribune writer thinks that, from an in
vestment 10000, any judicious North
ern farmer would realize net income
annually of So, 900 from sugar planta-
ton. Just so. We never saw North
ern man but that thought he could invest
in Southern farm and make money,
hand-over-fst. And wehave seen good
many of them try it in South Carolina
and other Southern States, and, where
| one succeeded, twenty broke. They be-
lieve all Southerners are lazy and don't
work, (which, we are sorry to fear, is not
an unfounded accusation) and all that is
necessary to make a fortune is little
Yankee vim and perseverance. Expe-
rience has taught hundreds of them that
Yankee habits don't hear luxuriant fruit
| on Southern farms.