Miscellaneous Back Matter [pp. 472A-RD06]

COMMERCIAL, AGRICULTURAL, ETC.
3.-PRESENT POPULATION OF CHARLESTON, S. C.
W.ARDS. | WI.iT
No. 1.............................2,681 l
No. 2............................ 3,102
No. 3............................ 4,522
No. 4............................. 5,926
No. 5............................ 2,739
No.6........................ 3,476
No. 7............................ 1,924 6
No. 8............................ 2,599
Total.......................... 26,969
4.-THE WOOL PRODUCT OF THE SOUTH.
According to a recent collection of wool statistics, there is produced in
all the Southern States, not including Texas, 10,000,000 pounds of wool.
The number of sheep in Texas in 1860, as shown by the Census report of
that year, was 340,000. With these, not then enumerated, and those since
brought into the country, there may possibly be 160,000 more, which, added
to census returns, would increase the number now in the State to 500,000.
Of these, at least 30,000 are Mexican coarse wool sheep, which will not
average more than one and a half pounds to the fleece-making of coarse
wool 450,000 pounds. Then counting the 200,000 Merino and other im proved stock to average three pounds to the fleece, and we have of fine
wool 600,000 pounds, which, added to the coarse wool, will make 1,050,000
of Texas grown wool.
Including the wool crop of Texas, it will be perceived that there is
annually produced in the Confederate States less than 12,000,000 pounds.
According to calculations, made in well-informed quarters, there are
required annually for clothing, blankets, etc., six pounds of wool for every
individual in the country. Estimating the population of the Confederate
States to be ten millions, we find that there is annually required for home
consumption sixty millions pounds of wool-or forty-eight millions pounds
more than is produced.
The deficit shown bv these statistics is certainly a large and serious one.
Fortunately, however, for the South, wool is the only article of manufacture
of which we have not an abundant supply.
It has been stated in some of our exchanges that there are now at work
in the Confederate States more machinery for the manufacture of woollen
fabrics than can be supplied with the materials.
5.-THE OLD NORTH STATE'S RESOURCES.
Referring to the past and present of North Carolina, Mr. Clingman says:
"When we contemplate North Carolina at the present day, we recognize
the features here described. There is on the coast the same lofg line of
low sandy islands, probably formed by the deposits of sediment, where the
fluvial waters from the interior are checked in their course by the opposing
current of the gulf stream. With the exception of the fine harbor of
Beaufbrt, there are the same difficult inlets, which terrified these early
voyagers, and on their maps were marked with figures of sinking ships.
Inside or' the range there are the same broad and shallow seas, most abundantly supplied with fish, and those other inhabitants of the deep, which
are alike calculated to minister to the necessities and luxuries of mnankind.
On the " main" there are lands not inferior in fertility to the famous deltas
of the Nile or the Mississippi. Cultivation for one hundred successive
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555
SLAVE.
1,5 78
3,13 7
2,221
4.365
21111
2,381
609
1,253
11 7,655
FREECOL.
121
161
3 70
815
853
760
201
504
3,785
TOTAL.
4,380
6,400
7,1-13
11,106
5,703
6,617
2,734
4,356
48,409