Reminiscences of Charleston [pp. 312-314]

DEPARTMENT OF MISCELLANY.
NEW FACTORIES IN ALABAMA.
The Selma, Alabama, Messenger says:
"We hear of factories springing uLp all over the country. At Camden,
Wilcox county, a wealthy company have taken the initiatory steps to erect
a large building, and fill it with the most approved machinery. At Carrollton, Miss., a factory is now in operation, which in a short time will employ
one hundred and eighty spindles. In Marengo county they are making arrangements to manufacture on a large scale. At Cuba station, Sumter county, a factory is shortly to be in operation. These are a few of the indications
that the South will soon become filled with factories. The results of the war
in throwing capital into an entirely new channel, the facilities of easy intercommunication, abundance of material to be used in manufacturing, contiguity to the said material, equability of temperature, and a thousand other
facts, point out this region as the future home of the factory.
COTTON FACTORIES IN MISSISSIPPI.
A correspondent of the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion thus speaks of the steps
which the capitalists of Central Mississippi are taking to build cotton factories in their portion of the State. These, with the cotton factories at Carrollton, Jackson, Wesson, Meridian and Woodville, will give Mississippi a pretty
good start in the way of manufacturing its own raw staple. The correspondent writing from Louisville, Winston county, Miss., says:
The capitalists of this county, like others throughout the South, are turning their attention to manufacturing at home our own raw staple, instead
of sending it North to be manufactured by our bitterest enemies, and then
returned to us at the most fabulous prices. Several planters of the neighborhood of New Prospect, in this county, are concerned in the new company
which is taking steps to rebuild the Bankston (Miss.) Mills, burnt during the
war; while Colonel John W. Perkins, of Perkinsville, (formerly Buckhorn,)
in this county, is now actively engaged in building the "Perkinsville Cotton
Factory," which will be a mill of 750 spindles-working some fifty hands.
The buildings are all up and amply sufficient for three times the amount of
machinery already procured, and three times the present number of hands.
The location is one of the finest in the State, on the Macon and Louisville
road, twelve and a half miles from Louisville, and nineteen miles from Macon; at the latter place it is placed within easy access of Mobile and Memphis by the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
The mill is propelled by water power, the saw and grist mill and the wool
card are already in full blast. Colonel Perkins has secured the services of
an experienced cotton factory man from Georgia, who will be the general
superintendent of the establishment, which is designed to be very extensive.
Col. Perkins is very desirous of procuring a partner with $30,000 or $40,000
cash capital. It is a fine opening for a good investment. His present postoffice is Mushularville, Miss.
DEPARTMIENT OF MIISCELLANY.
1.-REMINISCENCES OF CHARLESTON. BY J. M. CARDOZA.
IT is from tradition we learn that Charleston had a Chamber of Commerce
in 1783, with a seal and minutes, etc., but that not a vestige remains of them.
It continued to exercise the functions of a chamber until the commercial
difficulties of the United States with the two principal Eurolpean powersEngland and France-led to the restrictive measures growing out of the
British orders in council, and the Berlin and MIilan decrees. These measures drove our commerce from the ocean. With the decline of our general
trade, declined the commerce of Charleston. In about the year 1803, when
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