The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-13 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, lEEE.

The Resources of the South

ITo-day the one universal cry going up from the
South is for an infusion of our energy, originality, in-
dustry, and ambition—as in ancient times old men dropping
feeble and palsied into the grave were wont to infuse
into their thin and watery veins the rich blood of some
youthful and stalworth slave, and thus their current of
life might continue to ebb and flow a little longer. From
every state in the South—from the pine forests of North
Carolina, with their wealth of turpentine ; from the rice
swamps and cotton islands of South Carolina ; from the
grain fields and exhausted tobacco plantations of Virginia;
from the cotton lands of Georgia, from the cedar swamps
of Florida, where even now bright Northern axes are
beginning to how their way to independence--from every
quarter the lands are calling for Northern capital, skill,
and industry. The Valley of the Shenandoah, one of
the richest farming countries in the world, now lies
desolate and fruitless. Near Brunswick, in Georgia,
the most valuable ship timber in the country is
waiting to be cut. Mines of wealth beneath the earth
remain hidden for want of Yankee enterprise to develops
them. In Georgia only one-sixth of the area devoted to
farming is improved, and to-day even that is almost value_
less for want of means. The tobacco lands of Virginia
and other States which have been thrown out as exhausted
could readily be renewed by proper treatment, such as
every Northern farmer understands. Daily our cities are
filling with Southerners—extensive land owners, but
otherwise penniless—who come here to offer portions of
their land on our own terms. Property can be bought in
any locality desired for less than one-sixth of its value
before the war. Land that sold for fifty dollars an acre
then can now be had at from five to seven dollars. These
parties will make any possible arrangement, so that their
lands may be again worked to advantage.
There is even an organised company, having for its
object the introduction of Northern energy and capital
into Southern States. They have one million three hun-
dred thousand acres of mineral, grazing, bottom, and
timber lands in Viiginia ; over seven hundred thousand
acres of timber, turpentine, cotton, and mineral lands in
Georgia and North aud South Carolina. Factories, furnaces,
granite quarries, cotton gins—in fact, every conceivable
natural or artificial wealth heretofore appertaining to the
great Southern interest can now be had for a song. Im-
migration and capital are now the two great wants of the
South, and within the past two years shrewd men, who
discovered the fact have realized immense fortunes by
putting it to a practbal test.

But another most important feature in this great awaken-
ing in the minds of the South is their desire and demand for
the means of education and machines for labor saving.
Our publishers state that so great is the Southern demand
for the old standard books for education that their presses
can hardly supply iu, while it utterly precludes the pos-
sibility of introducing anything new in that line. Our
establishments for the sale of agricultural implements and
every known invention for labor saving are daily filled
with Southerners, who examine everything of that nature
with the eagerness tnd curiosity of a child, but also with
the appreciation of minds that are just discovering what
we have been at during all these years that we have been
asleep. One " mitivator" is equal to ten negro hands,
and ono " cafes roaster" an ingenious little
invention—will sale the labor of one stalworth African
per diem ; and as the old system of a dozen men doing the
work of one is would up, it is discovered that any inven-
tion which saves Inman labor and time is rather a useful
and beneficent article.

All these facts are portentous; they show that the
Southern people are at length outgrowing the old John
Randolph sneer about Yankee pedlars and mechanics ;
they show that a ;reatnprising and mental illumination is
in process of inclbation among our Southern brethren,
needing only to Le fructified by a little nursing on our part
to become a groat and potent result. By these means the
South will be truly reconstructed, restored, and redeemed ;
a noble and beattiful country now laid waste will becothe
vivified and fruiful for ever, while new fields of labor for
the emigration d Europe, and new avenues for the use of
capital, will evextuate in rendering this the most powerful
and richest country and people on the face of the earth,
bound together by ties of such intimate agreement that
only eternity shall ever dissolve them.--New York Herald.