Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1880-09-30

iiO1iSSN OfCi WhSiS VIZ "Sh'
the general satisfaction Of the work.
ing negroes with their present conh-
tion; their good. humored and we'll
led look, their mules sleek and fat
and themselves sleek and fat. l am
satisfied that if they were just let
alone they would all go to work.
Those that did work were perfectly
contented and were treated in eve,
ry respect jnst as we'll as the white
people.
No SECTIONAL BITTERNESS.
"The feeling of the people towards
the North has no bitterness in it. All
they want, they said to Bayard and
me, is to he let alone and allowed to
go to work in qniet and retrieve
themselves. The Union and the flag,
whenever mentioned by any Of the
speakers, were cheered more Justify
that anything else that was said.
THE COTTON CROP.
'''lhe fields Of the eastern Carroll
mas were white with cotton hollis, and
the picking OF the cotton crop had
commenced. Most of it was upland
cotton; it grows shout 9! feet high.
We saw no Sea Island cotton, our
route lying too FAR inland; but We
saw on the poorer lands good deal
OF what they call humble bee cotton
which grows about 10 inches high. "
1t was shont this kind OF cotton
that a Southern Congressman told a
Northern member, who inquired the
derivation OF the name: why yon
see, it is so called because a humble bee
can sit on the ground, and, by simply
turning around, suck the honey out
of all The blossoms on a rhant with
ont moving from his place.
How ABOUT S55s71EEsus?
81 inquired al Gems Is re-
turns every place Twas in. They
told me that the census Of 1870 was
taken by United States Marshals and
their deputies who We're many OF
them utterly untitled for the work.
At least one half of these deputies
who took that census, they assured
ME. could not write. The present
census was takenby competent men.
This accounts for portion the
alleged fraudulent increase in the
returns. But the real increase in
the population has also been very
great. | never saw so many chill
dren in my life; large families Of
them playing around nearly every
farm house, and unusual numbers in
the streets of the towns and villages.
There seemed to be peculiar fecun.
dity everywhere we went. But the
greater part Of the increase apparent
Of the census returns, l was told ev-
erywhere, waa owing to the igno
rance and incompetency Of the dep
uty marshals who did no; half take
the census of 1870"
THE GOOD TINE COMING.
The present cotton crop promises
to be % per cent. ahead Of any for
mer crop, and one planter told me
that two or three more crops like it
would repay him for all Inc losses Of
the war, slaV everything.
Many expresseSpp Opinion that
slavery was never paying institu-
tion, and they could get alonr bet
ter with free labor, if the cou,d on
ly get hands enough. There is a
scarcity OF labor, and white laborers
are particularly wanted. 1t used to
he said that a white man could not
work in the cotton field, bnt that is
all nonsense. "
"Fhe country is being improved by
the emitting mp of some plantations
into smaller tracts, by renting l0
acre patches ont to these negroes lc
till for themselves. By this means
the land is better :illed and yields
more per acre than the large tracts
did in the days Of slavery. In the
Western part of North Carolina We
travelled through fine farming conn
try, where cotton gives away to corn
and other cereals.
The highest mark Of esteem wo
man can give man is to ask hi
friendship; and the mostsignal proc
! OF her Indifference is to offer hin
hers.