Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-08-09
k'ractical Advantages Of EnliSrn.
ton TO the South.

tiOM 10 the South.
Mr.. j. r. Clymer, in the Cincinnati
Enquirer, makes an appeal to the young
men ofthe North and West to turn their
eyes iu tho direction OF the Southern States
to find pleasant homes, profitable occupa-
tions and superior advantages in every rc>
spcct. Mr.. Cymer has travelled extensively
during the last two months in the South
west, and rcfutes the malicious. slanders and
falsehoods Of Morton, Blaine and other
politicians who have deluded tho people of
tho North with fears of insult and danger,
if they should Gust their destiuios with the
South. After travelling forty five hundrec
miles, and mingling with all classes, it
affords him genuine pleasure to testify that
during the Whole tour ho did not see any
abuse, quarreling, violence, resurrection, or
even an armed or a drunken man. He SUN.
marzes tho advantages offered to emigrants
IN tcrsc and vigorous manner, and as these
Inducements arc not confined to tho region
visited by Mr.. Cymcr, wo append his
truthful statement as applying in tho main
to this latitude:
What nrc the practical advantages of emi.
grafton to tho South7 Among many, I
}. The soil, quickened and enriched by
an abundant annual rain fall, is generally
of the most fertile character and capable Of
growing the most exubersut crops Gotten
two iu one scnsou) with less labor and
greater certainty than elsewhere.
2. The climate, except 10 low, malarial
districts, is pleasant, salubrious and healthy,
the weather. being tempered at all times by
guilt, lake, river or mountain brcczes. The
heat of Cincinnati and Central Ohio, though
less continuous, is moro oppressive than the
heat Of Memphis, Mobile aud New Orleans
3. Excepting few isolated portions Of
country, good we'll or spring water for drink.
ing purposes is abundant.
4. While there is no necessity TO feed
stock of any kind longer than Que mouth,
the winter bciug mild and the grasses ever.
green, juicy and succulont, it is necessary
in the more rigorous North to feed from five
to seven months. This is highly important
to stock growers.
s. % account Of tho numerous navigable
streams and lines of "airoad, whatever is
produced can be easily aud cheaply trans
ported, and, os consequence, the markets
arc excellent
6. AS as general rule, although average
Southern people do not seem to appreciate
the fact the cost Of living is less than in
the North.
7, Families moving South unlike those
who formerly cmigrated to the rxtrcme
West, can locate in good ncighborhuods,
where there are churches, schools, good
society, courthouscs, and where all the
machinery of law aud good order are in full
aud successful operation. This is notably
tho case since the despicablc carpet bag
regime has been supplanted by Democratic,
intelligent and honest government.
8. The families that may settle in the
South will be ut all times, by railway or
steamer, within cheap, speedy and convcn-
lent reach Of their Northern fr;ends-muoh
nearer than IN Nebraska or Colorado.
8. While farms in the North rate in
value from $50 to $3.50 per acre, according
to location, improvements, buildings, 60,
the very best of Southern farms, with few
exceptions, can be bought at prices ranging
from SO to SIS per acre. Any farmer who
understands the value of money will apprc-
oiato this difference.
10. The Northern tradesman, with his
superior industry and sagacity, seldom fails
to achieve fortune in Southern cities,
whore opportunities are 80 great and mani.
fold, and competition SO small.
II. The monufaoturer sen find 10 the
South iron, coal and limestone, for making
the best qualities Of iron and steel; cotton,
wool, wheat and cane, whore they are
grown, for running his spindles, looms,
burrs and refining apparatus, together with
tho finest water power for propelliDg engines
and machinery; making this. what God in
tended and destined it to be. ono of the
fuest and best paying manufacturing dis.
triots on this continent.
" IL. Summing up the oaso in simple
paragraph, it is my deliberate conviction
that there is no territory of equal proper
tions to that of the "Sunny South" that is,
blessed with so many natural advantages,
and that has so many possibilities Of mate
rial prosperity.
ssLct us Have Pcacc''
WASHINGTON July ga delnoafion