282 now TO GET A FARM, 



perform these pecuniary wonders, and at the same 

 time acquire a homestead of his own, how brilliant 

 must be the prospect for the educated northern free 

 man ! 



It is thus evident that a new chapter is opening in 

 the history of South Carolina. In 1860 rebellion 

 defied the power of the Government. In less than 

 three years the result of this defiance was manifest. 

 The plantation despot became a fugitive. Over 

 100,000 acres of the sea islands, out of the 19,336,320 

 acres within the limits of the State, are being rapid 

 ly settled by soldiers, sailors, marines, negroes, and 

 teachers who have resided in the Department of the 

 South for six months. The lands have been put up 

 at auction by the Federal Government for non-pay 

 ment of taxes, and were bought in by its representa 

 tives. They are now being re-sold to actual settlers 

 at $1.25 per acre. Each unmarried man or woman 

 can purchase twenty acres, and each head of a fam 

 ily can buy forty acres in addition. So far, some 

 5,000 acres have been reserved for school purposes, 

 and the dwellings on the portion sold have been ap 

 praised at their value, and will be held at that 

 price ; the buyers of the soil can purchase the houses 

 only by paying the proper value in addition to the 

 $1.25 per acre for the land. There has been a great- 

 rush for the soil thrown open to .loyal settlers, and 

 as more of it is offered for sale the demand will 

 increase. A writer on the spot, describing the sale, 

 Bays : 



&quot; It is rather a matter for editorial comment than mere 

 correspondence, that the effect will be to inaugurate the 



