Show I ONE SOUTHErN STIflES ADVANCE I I I It is only about two score years since the brightest men In the Southern Slate believed in the divinity of slavery and that the highest civilization civiliza-tion came of a society wherein there was one superior race to guide the civil government and to light the battles and a servile race to do the I work The splendor and majesty of honest and enlightened labor had never dawned upon their minds I Is not yet forty year since out of the crucible of in unparalleled war the South emerged wrecked alike in property and In hope and In deep mourning for the gallant dead the lower of their people Hut the healing power of time Is something I wonderful I Mr Hannls Taylor of Mobile was recently asked lo write an article on Alabama for a new edition of the Encyclopedia nrllan nicu He prepared the artIcle and some of Us stalcmcnis are most wonderful We copy n few of his statements showIng I show-Ing the mighty material advance of j the State The States total output oC coal in 1S70 was only 1J200 ions in 1SOO this had increased to 7000000 tons I The total output of pig iron In 1870 was but TOCO tons in 1SOD it was 10S3 I 905 tons The Birmingham district Is now the third largest In point of export ex-port of pig iron In the world and Its coke tonnage in 1SDS was 1COOS39 tons only exceeded in Ibis country by Con nellsvillc district in Pennsylvania In 1S70 the total cotton product of the t State was 1294SC bales in 1S90 it was 1130000 bales In 1S70 the total population popu-lation was 990991 it Is I eslimatcd lhat the census will this year show 1500 000 There were thirteen colton mills I In 1870 there arc now fiftytwo with 813939 spindles and 18900 looms with I I an invested capital of Ci7S7SO The lumber and shingle mills have Increased in-creased from 300 In 3870 to 1000 with I an Invested capital of li700000 1 In 1S70 105 vessels with lotal tonnage of 70210 entered the port of Mobile en gagerf In foreign trade last year they numbered 635 vessels with a tonnage of 3S1000 Hope has como back to the people they would not restore slavery If they could they have learned to keep time to the music of spindle and loom and the deep bass of the rolling mill Their furnaces make clouds by day and pillars of fire by night to light the paths of glorified industries they have found that their halfbarren mountains arc after all richer than their most fertile valleys they have had to reverse a thousand ideas that were bred in their very bones but they have been strong and bravo enough to do it and they are quite as jubilant jubilantover over their conquest con-quest of themselves as over their wonderful conquering of material obstacles ob-stacles that lay in their path to nros perlty And they are a shrewd level l headed race They arc nearer a distinct dis-tinct race then arrt the men of the north for the tide of immigration thus I far has been far greater to the northern north-ern than to the southern States Sure ly I congratulations aro in order for them |