The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-02-06
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Marvellous Progress Against Opposing Cir
cumstance-A Glorious Empire and Peo-
pic AID How they Have Recovered from
Wasting Wnt.
From the London Telsgraph.)
This is the time of year VIXEN Stats
tics find favor, and there are few quar-
tiers OF the globe in which the prospects
of the future appear more favorable than
in those Southern States of Amirics
which once seemed so hopelessly beaten
in war and broken in resources. mo
such advance in wealth." writes Mr.. G.
". Curtis the editor Of '.Harper's Maga-
zine" ..has ever been made in any other
cart of the American Union as that re-
corded by tho Southern States between
1880 ana 1885, In 1880, the fifteen
Yesrs which ha3 inteIvened since 1865,
wien the great rebellion uEder Mr.. JET
ferson Davis collapsed, had a5t iuHic:d
to restore prosperity 10 one OF the most
richly ehao&cd counties on tie face of
the atobe. It vas il that year, howeyar,
that the reha. :;:;:.atioa OF "Stc+ssis be-
gan, VIC nag nov perceive; III easnest, ss
is shown b. tae remarkable TACT that tee
Southern rail,osds covered about II: :CQ0
miles in 1880, and about $4,000 in 1888.
Still mors nctable has been the growth
of iron manufactures III Alabama, Geor-
gia, Virginia, Tennessee aud Kentucky,
and OF their collective products siEce
1880, in which year they tarned ont 200
600 tons of pig iron, against about 6
million in 1883. Last year there VAS
decrease il ttr total yield OF the bisst
furnaces Of she United States, but that
deere ase was confined to the North, erd
did not extend to the south Of the Poto-
niac and Ohio rivers. Alabama and
Tennessee continued TO advance while
Pe.rs7l7anja fell back: AID the pros
peritg of those two iron. producing
States Of the South NV is wholly out
strspping their Northern sidiferous
rivals. Moreover, the iron Ct the War
rior Fields" of Alabama is said to be not
only the best but the cheapest IN the
world. Turning next to cotton, which
many prophets Of woe declared could only
be grown by slave labor, Ne find that
nearly seven million bales of that grea:
staple were produced in 1888, against
800, 900 in 1880. Theohserving South
erner has discovered, moreover, that il
is more profitable to turn his cotton into
warn, and to export it to Europe. than to
send it raw and packed IN bales. The
result is that there are now 300 cotton
mills in the Southern States against
about half that number in 1880; and al.
ready the looms of Georgia, Alabama,
South Carolina, North Carolina and
Virginia are threatening the New Eng
land States and lowering prices in LEW
and Lowell, Mass, and Providence, E.
I. Fourthly, the lumber trade establish
ments of the South at present employ
about 100 900 hands, and turned out last
year planks and and sswn timber worth
nearly s2O, ,00O,000 sterling, Finally, the
value of Southern live stock has increase
to the extent Of s40, ,000,0 in the lsst
eight years, while her agriculture has
made a corresponding advance.
These really astonishing figures, and
many more of the same kind, are SUM-
moned up by Trans Atlantic Journal,
the New Orleans Time-Democrat, with
the statemens that in eight years the
available capital OF the Southern States
hes increased by e50,0O0,O00, in their
gross wealth by more than e2O0, 900, ,OOO
stearling. All this has happened in a
country one single State of which
Texas-possesses an area larger than
that of France and Spain combined-a
State which could, if as thickly as Great
Britain, support 70, 100000 human be-
ings. Bearing these figures in mind, We
can easily q innate the magnificent pros
poets of the Southern States of the
American Union when it is mentioned
that on the lst of July last there we're
fewer than 100000 inhabitants in the
whole of Secessia, three-hfths OF whom
were whites aud two-ffth blacks. More
over, the climate is equally delightful
and salubrious, especially to those who
in July and Auguttthe only two IN
conveniently hot months can afford to
retire to the mountains which overnang
the States OF Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia, South and North Carolins,
Virginia and Tennessee. Once, indeed,
in twenty years or SO, the yellow fever
appears at some little town where the
laEs of sanitation have been outcageousiy
neglected, and proc altogetat T
out of proportion to the mortality which
il causes. Last summer and autumn, !ur
instance, visitation overlook Jackson
Vile, in Florida, and kilograms were
scattered all over the United States, and
cabled to Europe, proolaiming the "favs-
ges" of pestilence which in five months
put four hundred persons to Geath-less 8
tban the number of victims killed by
consumption in this Metropolis every
two months. More than quarter OF q
century ago the still living Benjsmin F.
Butler, of Massachusetts, showed the in
habitants of New Orleans, whom he ruled
with rod of iron as Military Governor,
that cleanliness and yellow fever stand
to each other in the relation OF alkali and
acid. Last winter the whole area of the
Northern States was desolated with q
worse scourage than yellow jack
those "bllzzards in which hundreds Of
human beings perished and hecatombs
of hogs were frozen to death on their
road from the West to New York. Fer
the greater portion of the year the eli
mate Ct the Southern State is as soft as
that OF Italy and as brucing as that Of
the Tyrol. When Mr.. Cleveland sni his