New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-27
SOME RECENT PERIODICALS.
THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW.

"Sonth Carolina of Today by Edward
uooan which opens the February number presentsa
.ombre picture OF the present socia ana poucai con
dition OF the Palmetto State In 1876 the STATE pore
close resemblance to military camp. The young meu
Of to-day in fact, far better educated as cavalry
officers than as business men, They are more "' ho"o
in shaving potatoes aud in snung candles at ten PAGES
than IN the common rules OF arithmetic Tue mli'aiy
establishment is sl available and the old spirit OF Tue
recubs lives with It, Ii the negro ID the future No'es
the Democratic ticket he will be safe enough ana WI"
meet with mOlcstaton than he uOes no" iio'
drunken groups OF Young men in the country But "o
votes the Republican ticket, and still persists III cuuug
himself citizen, no amount Of peaceiu PROFESSIONS
will save him from beng pushed aside by men VINO are
dignapt al his assertion OF political equality HIS nghs
will never be recognized by the majority IN this seneI"
tiOn Tie ~bulldOZers Of the Democratic party arc III
the first place, the poor whites who rival the negro :"
ignorance but suTpass him in cunning They nate
negro erly and tier hatred Is fully retrheu NeN
10 them is class produced by the war. When the WI"
broke on, the education Of the Southern young men
came TO end Those abroad were called nome .noeo
in the State colleges lett them. Every a0leboded ooy
and man fifteen years of age went INTO INC army
The schools were all closed At the end OF the war; there
was universal ruin. He VINO had been rchest was ho"
the poorest The large class OF lads cut oil nom an
education by the war returned to homes OF poverty
and desolaon -Four years OF army lie I'll" ho' 'ehu "
inspire them with content. They have thus spent 'e
last twelve years mental employment OF coui'V
of vice. aud nursing their reverses and the rum OF
their families Most Of them at present are low down
in the scale social life They refuse to recognize the
negro as their peer and DEFY his citizenship with rc
shot. The must cmgIate to MAINTAIN MS poiuca
rights or enter upon the path OF enlightenment anu
progress There decided prospect OF any advance
IN the business Interests of South Carolina The state
appears be still mourning for the lost cause 1here
peryadng air age about the towns and decay seems
TO float in the atmosphere The City of Charleston If
market of considerable Importance for such staples as
cotton nava stores lumber and rice But the DuslDesS
spirit is at at standStill The torpid methods OF
Southern merchants give the city an air OF industrial
stagnaOn, sharp contrast with the DISK business Vi
Savannah. The depreciation of property IN charleston
since the commence meut OF the war is something won
derful The Charleston HOc', for instance, which cost
more than S2j0OO0 has been recently sold Tor S0OOoO
The Academy of Music, which was bmit Tor SZoO'VVo
before the war; brought only $4,000 at recent sale
piece of property which $4,000 had been refused
before the lately purchased by negro for
81 200 after attempts dispose of at shers
sale The society OF South Carolina exhibits peculiar
aspect. Not remains of the ancient TRADITIONS
and customs The ola families are scattered
throughout the country, live in sort OF
feudal retirement in the State Young sclons OF the
great families which have furnished six seven Cover
nors for South Carolina In ny years, and who mgh,
have followed the royal line, are now working III very
humble positions in Ncw-YOrk houses The ieel-
ing entertained 10y Southern women against
Northern people, and especially against avoWed
Republicans, is one of intense bitterness South
srn families visit each other and Northern people
are occasionally invited out not so freely as to disguise
the expression of dislike. Southern society Is closed
against Republican oice-holders and politicians ana
the South Carolnian who has become Republican re-
.eives less than from the families Of
Democrats. Republican physicians get no practice ex-
eept among the negroes. Republican lawyers make the
same complaint and assert that man will retain Dem
Ocratic counsel though against his inclination In order
not TO prejudice his in Democratic court The
Political Situation in France" by A. Talander. Me-
diaval German Poetry Vaticanism," by Karl Blind,
and The Roman Catholic Question:" by John Jay,
able and important articles, but whole the num-
Der is marked by excess Of popular interest Tie
statement by a contributor that The " North American
Review" for December, 1878, contains a paper by
Theodore Parker in opposition TO universal suffrage.
must be down. suppose, as curious instance Of
"heteropLeny"