TRANSPORTATIOX IX SOUTH CAROLINA. G27 



bargolaid by Congress; but they serve to show how frail were the com- 

 mercial ties binding the richest portion of tlie State to her own emporium, 

 and how habituated the peo])le of the upper country were to seeking 

 markets in distant States, After 1815, steamboats and teamboats were 

 added to the appliances for utilizing the rivers and canals of the State ; 

 and, for a time, they served to increase the volume of trade between 

 Charleston and the interior, and to render it apparently more stable. 



In INIills' Statistics, published in 1826. page 428, it is stated that there 

 were, at that time, ten steamboats plying between Charleston and the 

 towns of Savannah, Augusta, Hamburg, Georgetown, Cheraw and Colum- 

 bia. The average capacity of these was six hundred bales of cotton, of 

 three hundred and twenty j)ounds each, but some boats carried up to 

 one thousand bales. 



The movement of cotton to Charleston by water, between 

 1st October, 1826, and 1st October, 1827, was, through 

 the Columbia canal . • 45,612 bales. 



Shipped down the Congaree from Granby, about .... 10,000 bales. 



Total f[uantity from above Columbia .... 55,000 bales. 



Total quantity from Camden . 40,000 bales. 



Total cpantity shipped at the various landings on the Con- 

 garee, Wateree and Santee, above A^ance's Ferry . . 15,000 bales. 



Total Cj[uantity from above Vance's Ferry. . . 110,600 bales. 



Total quantity from Hamburg and Augusta 37,500 bales. 



Total ([uantity from other sources and wagons 51,900 bales. 



Total Cotton Receipts (320 lbs. per bale) . . . 200,000 bales. 



Flatboats, bringing cotton from Columbia, &c., passed through the 

 Santee canal. They w^ere manned, generally, by a " patroon " and five 

 hands, carried 110 bales of 320 lbs. each, and consumed twenty-four daj's 

 in the round trip, from Columbia or Camden to Charleston and back. 

 The tolls on the Santee canal were |40 on each boat each round trip. 

 The freight was |1 per bale, or $7 per ton. Cotton w^as brought from 

 Augusta and Hamburg to Charleston by steamboats ; freight average, 

 about $1.50 per bale, insurance, 25c., equal to $1.75 on 320 lbs., or $12.25 

 per ton. The up-freights were 50c. per 100 lbs., or $10 per ton, and in- 

 surance one per cent. The delays on this route from various causes were 

 very great, and, at times, the Savannah river was so low as to stop all 

 navigation. Travel was slow, difficult and expensive, and the mails only 



