Year: 1866

Hotel, crowd rushed ont TO welcome me,
and in few moments, I placed my blush
ing charge in her mothers arms.


I Immediately dispatched scout to
Gen. Early to explain the firing, and
turned to say good bye to my fail
friend. As pressed her hand, she whis'
pered,


"God bless you, sir, I shall ne'er forget
you"


From the Pottsvlle Penn.) Standard.


South Carolina Correspondence.


WOODLAND PLANTATION, !


7 Miles N. E. Charleston, s. c., :


July Goth, 1886 }
Editors fottsviNe Standard:


Before left home for this place, large
number of my friends requested me to
write to them. l took memorandum With
the intention of doing 80, but so far have
found leisure to address but few personally,
outside of my family and the associates in
our business, owing to the fact that all my
time and attention have been taken up in
experimenting the plantation. In order to
have this letter to answer as many of my
friends as possible, I will. endeaVor as,
briefly as possible, to make it interest.
ing to them, by noticing a variety OF
subjects that have fallen under my obser.
vation.


Above you will gee the location Of our
place it contains over 1121 acres, 330 OF
which are cleared, the balance heavily tim.
bered. Our northwestern boundary is a
bold navigable creek, sufficiently deep to
carry sailing vessel with from rs to 30
cords of wood. We are on salt water, the
tide flowing and ebbing 8 feet. Have oys'
ters and fish in abundance Our soil is
of the best sea.island cotton land, and the
crop now growing on it cannot be surpassed
by any in our neighborhood for size, vigor.
GUS growth, and healthy appearance. We
have also some rice land back from the salt
on fresh water (rice does not grow on salt.
The surface of our plantation is as level as
the bottoms along the Schuylkill river, and
so is all the surface of the soil for more
than one hundred miles back from the sea
coast throughout the South. The soil is Of
a very fine silicious formation, containing
an abundance of decayed vegetable matter
to sustain vigorous growth of vegetation ;
mostly on a sandy clay sub.soil; stones
there are none. I work both white and
black, preferring the white, because they
are more reliable, and believe with proper
care can stand the climate we'll. Our white
laborers have so far not been half as much
on the sick list as the darkies. believe
that it is owing to the filthy condition in
which the darkies live that so much dis
ease exists among them. tits an incontro'
vertible fact that personal cleanliness and
thorough drainage are great conserVators Of
health. have never enjoyed better health
than since l have been here, in fact never
80 good


Of the people can only say that they
are kind, warm-hearted and agreeable
their dispositions are as agreeable as their
climate. Such contemplate, low bred,
miserable, man. hating creatures, like the
Northern abolitionists and disunionists, the
Summers, the Wades, the Stephens, etc.,
and all who approve of their course-God
does not permit to exist here; the people
here are gentlemen and ladies, and not
blackguards of that low grade who hate
everybody that differs with them in their
political views, like the abolition traitors of
the North. A man who behaves himself
as a gentleman should, can enjoy the best
of society here, and if the reverse, he
is slighted and left to himself and his
equals.


The South enjoys many advantages that
make life agreeable. The climate is so
mild that during the winter months the soil
can be prepared for crops, the same as in
spring; there scarcely ever is any ice over
half an inch thick; and that does not last
over few days; a white frost is considered
cold weather; while snow and ice keep in
check the operations of the Northern agri,
culturist four or six out of the twelve
months; the husbandman can here prepare
all his ground for the following spring for

early planting. do not see why the cur
rent of emigration does not flow South in
stead of West. Here is cheap land enough b
to maintain ten times the population that
now occupies it, easy of cultivation, and
easy to clear where that is already not done.
Many plantations lie in wild, neglected
state, for the reason that the war has 80
their owners that they cannot
carry on their operations, and they are vii
ling to sell or lease. Here We are conven-
lent to the Atlantic, the best market in the
country In Charleston everything that
goes to support life brings high prices, and
here, too, is the climate to produce early
crops of vegetables and fruit The re.
sources are here-all that is wanted is pop.
ulation and capital to develop them-en-
terprise will follow. The Southern States,
by more dense population, which will ena.
BILE them to be sufficiently cleared out of
their wild condition and properly drained
and cultivated, can be made the Paradise
of the world. Wear and tear is 80 trihing
that it amounts to scarcely anything Wag-
ons last long time; they must rot before
they are worn out. There being no stones


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