South Carolina manufacturers; Southern Porcelain mentioned

MANUFACTURES IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

The late civil war and its results will undoubtedly produce an immense change in the ideas and actions of the people of the South. So long as the Southern planter, who always led public opinion in this section, had secured to him a certain kind of labor, he was content to continue the cultivation of the soil, which, to him, had its charms, and brought with it an independence of thought and ac­tion which characterized no other pursuit. The abolition of slavery will probably lead to the increase of individual competition, to the necessity of a personal supervision of all enterprises in order to make them successful, to the closer watching of every item of expenditure, and consequently the practice of a more vigorous industry and greater economy than heretofore.

These results will necessarily lead to the development of other forms of employment than those of planting, and the neglected water-falls and mineral deposits of the State will begin to receive that attention which has so long been withheld from them. These advances may not add to our virtue, but they will bring numbers and riches, two elements which are strikingly necessary in sustaining the manhood of a nation. This spirit is now manifesting itself in the revival of old manufacturing enterprises and the starting of new ones under better chances of success, notwithstanding the impoverished condition of the people. Among these projects few are more important than the manufacture of pottery from the immense deposits suitable for that purpose, which are located in this State, between Aiken and Augusta, on the line of the South Carolina Railroad. The supply furnished by nature in this locality is of the finest, description, and inexhaustible. The Southern Porcelain Company are engaging extensively in the manufacture of Kaolin ware in this region, and we notice in the Louisville (Ky.) Courier a mention of some beautiful specimens of table ware which were manufactured at this point. This branch of industry has been of much importance from the time of the Athenians and Etruscans, and the fame of the potteries of Staffordshire in England is world wide. Let us go to work and develop these valuable de­posits. This vicinity is also fast becoming a manufacturing region of prominence. Graniteville and Vaucluse Mills, under the management of the Messrs. GREGG, are strik­ing instances of the success which will attend the manufacturing of cotton in the South when managed with skill. The new Kalmia Mill, for the production of cotton goods, is located in this neighborhood, as well as the Bath Paper Mill.

The streams of this region are remarkable for the purity of the water as well as for the inexhaustible supply, they never feeling the effect of drought in summer or cold in winter. The Kalmia Mill will, we learn, soon commence work; and the Graniteville Mill is being supplied with new machinery throughout for a finer class of goods. The water-power of this region alone could be made sufficient to manufacture a large part of the cotton crop of the State, and when these mills shortly get into full blast, with the estab­lishments now located on the Augusta Canal, it will not be too much to say that some twenty thousand bales of cotton will be turned into cloth or yarn in this neighborhood. The middle and upper section of this State are covered with unsurpassed manufacturing sites, and how much more strikingly advan­tageous would it be for us, instead of exporting, say this year 150,000 bales of cot­ton, worth perhaps $15,000,000 gold, if we could send abroad the manufactured article, worth $50,000,000 or $60,000,000! What a stream of wealth this branch of industry alone would pour through the State, giving employment to every idler, and sending pros­perity and riches through multiplied forms of industry!