Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-11


district than he did up in this section. IL
illustrate, in Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Mar
shall and Wetzel he ran behind Wilson's
vote of two years previous !, PIE, whilst in
Doddridgc, Gilmer Harrison, Lewis and
TYLER he only ran behind 80 votes.
We repeat that the district is Democrat
ic and the Democracy owes it 10 itself to
send Democrat 10 Congress.
THE PEOPLE OF CHARLESTON SC.
Statistics show some interesting things
about the people of Charleston. That city
seems to be more distinctively American
than any other, unless it be Richmond.
The following figures from the New York
San give a good idea of the Charleston peo-
pie:
Out OF Il total population of 1896 in
1870, all except /, S92 were natives OF the
United States; and in 1850, though the
population had increased to 49,9S4, the
number of the foreign born had declined
To 3, $50, OF whom / ,6ll came from Ireland
and 9lS from Germany. In the Northern
cities generally the inhabitants OF foreign
birth were from 4 quarter To Il third and
more ofthe whole. In New York they
were over third, in Chicago 10 per cent,
in Philadelphia Il quarter, i'll Boston about
"A third, in Fall River about half.
The inhabitants of Charleston, moreover,
were allnatives OfSOuth Carolina, with the
exception of g, 40, whereas in New York
only half the population were natives OF
the State. In Charleston %, 81 persons
engaged in all classes of occupations, and
all except ,946 of these were natives.
Charleston, therefore, in respect of the
nativity OF its population, is now very
much rs our Northern communities were
before the great tide of foreign immigration
set in ut the middle of this century. II is
peculiarly American city, in which art
preserved the traditions OF the past to an
exceptional degree; and, indeed, 4 man
now wishes to see diStinCtively American
communities must 90 to the South TO find
them. At North, outside of the purely NJ
ricultural regions in the older States, the
whole face OF society and its general tone
have been greatly modified by foreign I'M
migration, more especially that from Ger
many and Ireland.
OF the 20, 325 persons engaged in al
classes OfOccupatiOnSin Charleston i'll lSSO,
the number of males was Is, go and of tc-
males 7,045. The women and girls were
almost wholly domestic servants, washer
women, and dreSSmakerS and milliners,
the number in the general manufacturing
,,,,1,,,Nr,n, h.i,,p, n,,l,s -
With respect to the emplOymentS of wO-
men also Charleston is, therefore, like our
Northern cities of fifty years ago.
The greatest number of male workers,
,6.S2, were engaged in what the census
claSSifieS rs professional and personal ser
viceS-as labOrers, servants, in the profess
sions, and the like. Trade and tranSpOrta-
ton employed 1910, of whom the great
majority were merchants, clerks, drivers,
railroad men, and persons employed on
ships or about the water and on wharves
Only 1905 were engaged in manufacturing
and mechanical industries, and of these
nine-tenths were natives. The greatest
number in any one employment were car
penters and jOiners, $50, and the maSOns
were only ID in all. The inference
from these last fignres is that whcr
Charleston begins the work of rebuilding
on large scale it will be good place fol
carpenters and maSOns. The number O
machinists, too, was small, only 10l, and
of mill and factory operatives there werC
no more than few hundred of both sexes
but since 1850 the growth of the manutac
turing interests has been very cOnSidera,
| bic.
The number of manufacturing establish
mentS, large and small. was 1871 in lSSO,
and they employed =, 146 hands had cap,
ital of 81, lis, 800, and produced 81, 1872, SOC
in manufactured articles; but after 1880
the city took start ahead in both pOpu'
lation and enterprise, so that in 1853 the
capital was increased to Sc, 12l so, the
production to 50, 341, 400, and the number
of hands to {, 1853. The,chief industry has
become the manufacture of fertilizers, for
which there is now so large a demand
throughout the South.
The valuation of the property of Charles
ton in 1855 WAS 81, 543, 423, of which Sli,-
SO, SIS was real estate, and s., go, COS per
sOnal property. This was Si5l per head,
as against STAT for New Haven, S547 for
Syracuse, $377 for Troy, and 1918 for To
ledO, Northern cities of not far from the
same population. The tax rate was So. 10
per 500, as against -. 80 in New York,
$2.05 in Philadelphia, and Sl.34 in Chi
eagO.
The majority of the inhabitants OF
Charleston were cOlOred, %, 276 colOred to
p, 500 white, and when the population
grew to 60, AS in 1886 the colored num-
cred -, $40 to y, COS white.