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SOUTHERN INDUSTRY. 
William H. Garland, correspondent making returns from Pike county, Missis- 
sippi, after deploring the status of labor relations in that section, says : 
“ Not only is the south destined to feel the blighting influences of the pres- 
ent state of things. but their baneful eff cts must be felt through the whole 
country. Let the south limit its agricultural productions to its own consump- 
tion, and it ceases to be a market for the productions of thé west. What a 
beautiful chain of self-interest bound this whole country together! The south 
consumed the productions of the west ; the north manufactured the productions 
of the south, and sent them, increased by her labor, to the west to bring com- 
fort to their homes and to give life and vitality to her lands, and thus this great 
country was bound together by a golden circle of self interest. But unless 
some change shall come in the councils of my country, this chain is broken, and 
the broad fields of the south will no more bloom with joy, happiness, and wealth.” 
The assumed evil here deplored, the breaking of the chain of abject depend- 
ence of one section upon the industry of the others, will yet prove the indus- 
trial salvation of the south. The cotton States, producing mainly one staple, 
sent it through numerous middle-men, at great expense, to Europe, and brought 
food supplies from tie west, clothing from the east, and various luxuries from 
foreign lands, paying enormous prices and running in debt in this unprofitable 
exchange of products, while the country was left bare of improvements, desti- 
tute of good roads and public buildirgs, with a general air of poverty and thrift- 
lessness. A shout of rejoicing should resound through the south that this false 
and ruinous system of slavish dependence is broken, with a possibility that a 
varied and self-supporting husbandry may be substituted, manufactures be built 
up, and the women and children of the poor furnished with suitable and conge- 
nial employment. The transition state may be bitter, but sweet results will 
follow, if all, black and white, shall cease idling and repining, and put their 
shoulders to the wheel of progress. The old complaint that the cotton States 
were enriching the north was true only in this comparative sense: they were 
impoverishing themselves by a suicidal policy, while States with varied and 
well-balanced industries were becoming enriched through a system of universal 
and profitable labor. ‘They will become prosperous, if ever, when they grow 
their own grain, make their own cloth, and sell only the surplus results of their 
industry. 
RECEIPTS OF WHEAT. 
William J. Langson, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Milwaukee, Wis- 
consin, furnishes the following statement of the receipts of wheat at that point from 
September 1 to November 16, 1867, compared' with the movement of four pre- 
ceding crops : 
Bushels wheat. 
Received September 1 to November 16, 186% ............ die Sesele 7,938,879 \ 
September 1 to November 16, 1866. ...............: sess 7,402 
September f to) Novemper! 16, 18659... 0... 222 eae 5,408,245 
September 1 to November 16,1864 .............-0%0. 1,658,901 
September 1 to November 16, 1863. ..............200 5,740,953 
The above figures represent wheat alone. Including flour reduced to bushels 
the figures would compare as follows : 
Bushels wheat and flour. 
Received September 1 to November 16, 1867 ..............--6- 9,088,284 
September 1 to November 16, 1866 ..............-.4- 6,778,387 
September. 1. to, Novembers16, 1865 .s2205..-..-.---++ 6,022,340 
September-t to November=16; 1864.22.20... ......2- , 1,988,886 
September 1 to November 16, 1863 Re. i xa Sees 
Showing an increase of about 34 per cent. over the receipts of 1866. 
