The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-07
WHAT COTTON HAS DONE.
Great Credit Is Due to the South for
Helping Herself.
The Cotton Crop Increased When Mat
tiers Between Master and Slave Had
Adjusted Themselves Southern Men
and Women Who Have Won Dis
tinction at Home and in the North.

and Women Who Have Won Dis
tinction at Home and in the North.
From the New York Times
New Orleans, Dec 2-For the first
year after the war but few southern cot
ton planters tried to make a crop on their
own plantations. They could rent their
places for from $500 for the small
Ter to $4,000 to Slj, O0o year for the
great plantations, like Cabiuteel, belong
ing to the Mars halls of Natchez. in the
parish of Tensas, La, with 1900 acres of
cleared land, or wynn Forrest III the par
lsh Of Carroll, with nearly as much open
land, that had made. in lS6l-2. > 1000 bales
of cotton and 10000 barrels of corn, dhey
measure corn by the barrel, instead of
bushel, as in the far SOUTH
Philanthropists from Boston came down
TO Mississippi and Louisiana to teach the
gentle, docile negro-and incidentally. to
make little money at the same time.
This at first set the negro's mind against
the northern white man. The black did
not understand him. The old-time plant
ers rented their places and then waited
They knew Just what was coming as well
as they know it now. The negroes did
not work. The men who came here to
teach the southern white man how to
grow cotton lost terribly.
After standing SO long uuworked. the
rich lands of the Mississippi and its tribu-
taries had grown up to weeds and brush
When cleared away, the first wear there.
after, there came an immense crop of
growth of what is known in the south as
the cotton worm The old planters fore
saw it. and it happened as they said The
loss was $4,000, 900. The second wear was
not much better BY this time the
northern men who worked the great
plantations got away. The places they
had leased were well stocked and pro
visioned. Most of the old planters had
saved their rent money. They then took
hold. The E'reedmen's Bureau did not
exist. The negro and his old master
understood one another. That wear the
crop was nearly 4,000,0 O0 bales. worth SI25
per bale. This poured into the cotton
growing states the enormous sum of $500
100000. Think of this in country which
not four years back was being raided by a
terrible war.
The next year it was the same way
Matters between the late master and his
slave adjusted themselves. and the result
has been that the cotton crop alone in tho
south has increased from 100000 bales
in 1860 'Gl-the largest crop ana the last
one ever grown by slave labor - to
500, 900 and even 1,000,0O0 bales. worth,
even now. including the seed. from $50 to
so per bale. Is it any wonder that the
south is steadily growing richer MiSsiS-
sippi last year made 100000 bales of cot
ton. Here was so. 900, 600 of new capital
drawn from the soil to be put into some
thing. Texas last year made 1 $40 900
bales of cotton. Here was 500 900 600 to
h.,r inf,
money at home This is the money that
is opening the mines of Alabama, Of Geor-
gia and Tennessee. The town Of Biz
mingham, Ala, was surveyed, plated
and started on its prosperous career
by an old Mississippi planter named
j. K. Powell. He owned TWO great cotton
plantations on the Yazoo river, in Wash
ington county, Mississippi. one called
PLUCK" the other ''Daybreak.' Years
before ti}e war he went over the Site of
the present town Of Birmingham, Ala.
He was man of scholarly tastes and ed
ucation. He saw the most wonderful
combination of nature. Here were iron
ore, coal and limestone, all right together.
Every one knows that you cannot smelt
iron ore without coal, or purify it with
out limestone, which in England has to
be brought hundreds of miles and 10!
there they We're, side by side, and the
coolest, purest water with them For
about $1,000 Mr.. Powell bought what is
now the center of Birmingham. Ala. His
property covers, perhaps, 500 acres.
This was less than twenty-five years ago.
AnnisOn, Ala, another marvel was
nearly all owned by John Annis, native
of Florence, in that state Decatur. and
all the other places that are growing so
wonderfully, have been DEVELOPED by
southern money, drawn out Of the earth
by that most marvellous of magicans,
King Cotton But not only has the
southern white man developed his own
region, from Chattanooga to Richmond
and thence southwark. but many of them
have migrated north, where their pro
nounced individuality has made them a
quickly-recognized power. Among those
whose pronunciamentO carries with it
weight in Wall street are Victor New
comb, of Kentucky; the CARROTS. of Bal
timore; Addison Cammack james h.
Keene, the Inmans, of Tennessee: james
NJ Swan. of Georgia, the New York cot
ton king; Gen. T. NJ. Logan. of South
Carolina, president of the Richmond and
Danville road; Logan Murray, and a
great many others.
Not only has the sOutherner shown him
self a Compeer with his northern brethren
in the financial line but he has made for
himself an honOred name in the pro
fessions. Among the list of Gotham's
NfltBAd ltu pm yNlClduo are II. JOUn AItb-
calf, who is a Kentuckian, DR. + Caillard
Thomas, DR. Wiley, DR. Arnold. DR. Jones
and DR.. II. Marion Sims. South Caro-
linians. DR.. Polk is from Tennessee. Dir.
Mcntrose Pallen, from st. Louis DR.
Emmett, DR.. j. Wyeth and DR. BoZeman
are respectively from Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi. DR.. Benjamin Simmons,
who for his skill in medicine and surgery
was for years in New York known as the
American Sir Ashley Cooper, was Il South
Carolinian.
At the bar the south is represented in
New York by Roger A. Pryor and John
S. Wise, old Henry A. Wise's most brill
liant son, of Virginia; John r. Fellows,
Of Arkansas; John G. Calhoun, of South
Carolina; Burton n Harrison, of Vir-
ginia: A. II. H. Dawson, of Kentucky and
until called before another and higher
bar, Judge A. J. Requier, of South Caro-
lima, and AlgernOn S. Sullivan of Nir-
ginia, both since conspicuous among the
legal lights of the metropolis To a south
ern physician living in Columbus. Ga,
DR. John Morton. Prof. Morse twas in
debted for the conception of the electric
telegraph, the suggestion having been
given him while riding in a stage coach
during an electric thunder storm, the
the Georgian remarking, as huge trees We're
blasted by the roadside. that he saw no
reason why this powerful agent could not
be utilized for the benefit Of mankind.
Morse seized the idea and nourished IL