Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-11-03

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rangement of their labor, which is done with
thoroughness and alacrity rarely found,
either with hired girl, or daughter who
feels that she has to do it with nothing to en-
courage and stimulate her in the work.
TORE OFF HIS STRAPS.
An incident of President Arthur's expe'
rieuce as Quartermaster General of New
York State during the war is told by friend
to show that, in addition to energy, foresight
and scrupulous integrity, he possessed cour-
age and great determination. In the early
days of his occupancy of the Office, New
York City was full of Colonels, Majors and
Captains, in dazzling uniforms, who had
taken advantage of the authority given BY
Congress to recruit and organize independent
commands for service in the armies of the
United States. These newly fedged soldiers,
whose commands were more or lesss mythical.
in many instances refused to acknowledge the
authority of the State officers. Prominent
among the men Of this class was "Billy" Will
son, formerly an emigrant runner, volun-
teer fireman, and man of somewhat unen.
viable notoriety. He had obtained authori.
ty from Washington to organize regiment
Of zouaves Hundreds of men of his own
stamp volunteered to serve under him. They
were unwilling to accept the Government
rations. and complaints as to raids by them
upon restaurants and liquor saloons reached
Gen. Arthur's headquarters. Gen. Arthur,
by direction of Gov. Morgan, sent for Will
son, and requested him to prevent his men
from making these raids Wilson, it is said,
coolly informed Gen. Arthur that he was
Colonel in the United States Army, and that
he did not recognize the right of Governor
Morgan or Gen. Arthur to give him any or
ders.
"You are not Colonel, SIR" Gen. Arthur
rejoined, "and you'll not be until your regi.
ment has been mustered into service and your
commission has been issued"
"Well," said Wilson, "at all events,
have my shoulder straps, and | want no or
orders from you or any other State official"
He turned to quit the room, but Gen. Ar
thur sprang forward. saying, "1'll make short
work of your shoulder straps, then!" and
tore Wilson's shoulder straps from his should
ers, and put him under arrest.
The sequel of this episode was that Gov.
Morgan, at Gen. Arthurs instance, petition
ed Congress that the authority to raise in
dependent regiments be no longer conferred
upon individuals. The petition was granted.
POSSIBILITIES OF COTTON PRODUCTION.
1t may be well to remark at the outset that
the production Of cotton in the South is prac-
tically without limit. 1t was 1880 before the
American crop reached 1,000, 900 bales, and
the highest point ever reached in the days Of
slavery was a trife above 100000 bales
The crop of 1SS0.81 is about 100000 in ex-
cess of this, and there are those who believe
that crop of 100000 bales is among the
certainties of the next few years. The heavy
increase in the cotton crop is entirely due to
the increase of cotton acreage brought about
by the use of fertilizers. Millions Of acres of
land, formerly thought to be beyond the pos
sible limit of the cotton belt, have been made
the best of cotton lands by being artifcially
enriched. In North Carolina alone the limit
of cotton production has been moved twenty
miles northward and twenty miles westward,
and the half of Georgia on which no cotton
was grown twenty years ago, now produces
fully half the crop Of the State. The
"area of low production" as the Atlantic
States are brought to the front by ar
ti6cial stimulation is moving westward, and
is now central in Alabama and Florida.
But the increase in acreage, as large as it is,
will be but small factor in the increase of
production, compared with the intensifying Of
the cultivation Of the land now in use. Un-
der the present loose system of planting, the
average is hardly better than one bale to
three acres. This could be easily increased
to bale an acre. In Georgia five bales have
been raised on one acre, and yield of three
bales to the acre is credited to several locali-
ties. President Morehead, of the Mississippi
Valley Cotton Planters Association, says
that the entire cotton crop of the present
year might have been easily raised in fourteen
counties along the Mississippi River. 1t will
be seen, therefore, that the capacity of the
South to produce cotton is practically limit
less, and when we consider the enormous de-
mand for cotton goods now opening up. from
new climes and peoples, we may conclude
that the near future will see crops compared
to which the crop of the past year, worth
S300,000,000, will seem small.-Henrq W.
Grady, in Harper's Magazine.
The LITTLE ONES GRAvE.-In the spring
of 1869, little girl died of consumption at
Frederick City, Nd, aged three years and
three months. A few days before she died
she called her father to her bedside and said
"Papa, when I die don't bury me deep-not
more than so Deep" holding out her tender
and emaciated arm and measuring from her
shoulder out. "Oh, it's so hard to be put
down so deep in the cold, damp ground, and
please don't put any marble slab on my
grave, it will be so dark under it; and it will
press so heavily on my little breast. Sod my
grave nicely, and plant tree al its head,
so that the wild birds can gather in its
branches and sing for me-" After pause
she continued "But it seems to me would
rather have our own birds sing for me than
the wild birds. Couldn't you let brother
Willie and sister Emma bring our cage Of
little birds out to the cemetery every Sunday
morning and leave them to sing for me all
day? When you are at church in town it
won't seem so lonesome out by myself" A
few days after this Anna died, and her af-
fectionate parent did everything as she re-
quested. She was buried shallow, and the