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

The Resources of the South

kTo-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 rico
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 hew 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 develope
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 Virginia; over seven hundred thousand
acres of timber, turpentine, cotton, and mineral lands in
Georgia and North and 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 practical 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 it, 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 aro daily filled
with Southerners, who examine everything of that nature
with the eagerness and- curiosity of a child, but also with
the appreciation of minds that are just discovering what
asleep. One " cultivator" is equal to ten negro hands,
we have been at during all these years that we have been
and one " coffee roaster" an ingenious little
invention—will save the labor of one stalworth African
per diem ; and as the old system of a dozen men doing the
work of one is wound up, it is discovered that any inven-
tion which saves human 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 great uprising and mental illumination is
in process of incubation among our Southern brethren,
needing only to be fructified by a little nursing on our part
to become a great and potent result. By these means the
South will be truly reconstructed, restored, and redeemed ;
a noble and beautiful country now laid waste will become
vivified and fruitful for ever, while new fields of labor for
the emigration of Europe, and new avenues for the use of
capital, will eventuate 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.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

THE EXAMINER ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE.---The
panic on the subject of the cow pest begins to show
some symptoms of abatement, for the more it is in-
quired into the less formidable does it appear. The
actual number of horned cattle that have died of it,
or that have been destroyed on suspicion of the in-
fection, amounts to no more than 18,000, and the
cattle of Great Britain being reckoned at 7,000,000,
the loss amounts to a fraction of one quarter per
cent. But as more than half the number destroyed
were sent to the shambles and the markets, the loss
is reduced to one-half even of that trifling fraction.
But the loss, estimated at the highest figure, has
been far more than counterbalanced by the increase
in the number of foreign cattle. By the returns of
the Board of Trade it appears that the number of
bulls, cows, and calves imported in the first seven
months of 1864 was 88,082, but it amounted in the
corresponding months of the present year to
119,591 ; the difference amounts to 31,509, and
therefore, supposing the whole 18,000 horned
cattle to have been lost as food, the im-
portation exceeds it by some 78 per cent. At one
time it was given out by the cow doctors, and
we are afraid believed by the Royal Commissioners,
that the sheep had caught the cow pest from the
cows. Of this, however, we hear no more, the
believers being, we should hope, ashamed of their
credulity. For our own part, we never for a
moment believed in this ridiculous story, and would
as soon as have fancied that the illustrious Gamgee
had caught the farcy or the glanders by visiting an
infected stable ; or that his horse, if he had one,
had died of hydrophobia from the bite of a mad
dog. The truth seems to be, that all kinds of cattle
have suffered more or less from the atmospheric
influence. of a very unseasonable summer, and those
subjected to an artificial life, the dairy cows of
London, in the greatest proportion. Whatever
mortality may have taken place in sheep, if any
beyond the natural rate, it has, as in the case of
horned cattle, been more than compensated by in-
crease of importation. In the seven first months of
1864, the sheep and lambs imported amounted to
189,334, and for the corresponding months of this
year they have risen to 322,074. We may add that
the supply of flesh meat has been increased, in a
comparison of the same times, by an importation of
swine and hogs, which has increased from 26,000
to 49,422. An allegation has got abroad that
the carcase butchers of London, taking advantage
of the pest panic, have raised their prices from 25
to 35 per cent. There is evidently no falling off in
the supply to justify such a rise, or indeed any rise
at all ; but certain it is that somebody is taking a
dishonest profit. Even London tavernkeepers,
who charge 2s. a head for ' dinner from the joint,'
have added, on the plea of enhanced price of meat,
from 3d. to 6d. to their charge on every dinner.
But now as to the source of the murrain. It must,
like every other plague, have, sprung up in some
special, favourable locality, and we think now, as
we did from its first appearance, that the London
.cow sheds were of all points of origin the most
likely. Our continental neighbours certainly trace
it to England. At all events, there must now be
an end to ascribing the cattle plague to Russia ;
for in consequence of the charge male against it in
England of being the source of the disease, the
Russian Government has instituted an inquiry, and
finds that since the year 1859, or for six long years,
the Empire has not been visited by what Germany,
calls Rinderpest, or any other form of cattle mur-
rain. We are sorry for the prophet Gamgee, and
for those who believed in his soothsaying.
THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE RECONSTRUC-
TION OF TIIE MINISTRY.—Lord Russell cannot have
thought of tendering office to Mr. Bright. If ability
and eloquence were the only qualifications for
power, the question would be, not whether Mr.
Bright should be a Secretary of State, but how it
was possible that a cabinet could be formed without
his co-operation. It would indeed be a triumph to
reduce into the condition of a docile colleague so
formidable an auxiliary or opponent. When Mr.
Bright consents to waive his opinions, to command
his prejudices, and even ostensibly to forgive his
enemies—though he will scarcely be any longer Mr.
Bright—he will be an ornament and support to the
Government; if the House of Commons can be per-
suaded to believeprovisionally in his conversion. It
would perhaps be difficult to find a suitable office
for the assailant of almost every English institution.
Mr. Bright would scarcely be contented with
a sinecure, and he has heretofore urged the
abolition of the Keepership of the Privy Seal and
of the Chancellorship of the Duchy. A s Presi-
dent of the Council, he would have to administer
the denominational system of education which
lie has loudly condemned, and at the War-office and
the Admiralty he would be providing means for
the warlike practices which he only tolerates when
Republics have empires to conquer or reclaim. The
Home-office would place Mr. Bright in official rela-
tions with the country gentlemen whom he has in-
cessantly reviled ; as Colonial Minister, he would
think that the colonies ought to be abandoned; and
as Secretary of State for India, he ought in consis-
tency to propose to split up the Indian Empire into
petty independent provinces. The Board of Trade
is occupied by his only political adherent in the
Cabinet, and, by universal consent, no change is to
take place at the Exchequer. It would be unjust to
complain that Mr. Bright's newspaper organ urges
his claim to office, although the announcement of
such an alliance would bring Lord Derby into power
within a fortnight after the meeting of Parliament.
A Conservative Administration, and a break up of
the Liberal party, would be not unacceptable to
the representative of extreme democracy. If Ihe
rumour of the Duke of Somerset's resignation is
well founded, and if any ally of suitable Parliamen-
tary rank can be found in the House of Commons,
the departments represented in the house by Under-
Secretaries will be reduced to two. At present
the Cabinet is 'almost equally distributed between
the Lords and the Commons. The Prime Minister,
the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Secretaries for
War and Foreign Affairs, are balanced by the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer and the three remaining
Secretaries of State. Lord Hartington, Mr. L a yard,
and Lord Clarence Paget, are not in a position to
be placed at the head of the respective departments
which they represent with considerable ability as
subordinates ; and if a new member of the Cabinet
becomes First Lord of the Admiralty, he will have
some difficulty in satisfying the house and the
country of his administrative superiority to the Duke
of Somerset. Lord. Granville, (A he necessarily
loses the lead in the House of Lords, may naturally
feel inclined to exchange his post in the 'Government
for a foreign Embassy. The managers of schools,
the inspectors, the clergy, and the schoolmasters
will hear not without alarm of the Duke of Somerset's
probable succession to the Presidency of the Council.
Vigour and industry are useful in the conduct of
every public department ; but when voluntary
co-operation and private pecuniary sacrifice are
of the essence of an organisation, a tolerant,
considerate, and conciliatory disposition is
not without its value. At the War-office, the
unbending character which is attributed to the pre-
sent First Lord of the Adiralty might have a bene-
ficial effect on the relations of the civil Government
to the professional administration of. the army. The
efficiency of the Cabinet is not like to be largely in-
creased or diminished by any internal changes. At
present it is in some respects weak, but it is impos-
sible to foretell the duration of a Government.
The Tory Cabinet, after the death of Mr. Perceval
and the extrusion of Mr. Canning, was supposed to
be hoplessly weak, yet it remained in power for 15
years. Lord Melbourne's Government survived for
seven years the withdrawal from the Whig party of
Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham, although both
its former supporters took an active part in the
opposition which was conducted with unequalled
skill and vigour by Sir Robert Peel. If Lord Rus-
sell can either pass a tolerable Reform Bill or per-
suade the House of Commons to dispense with a
change, he may not improbably remain in power
until the time arrives for Mr. Gladstone's entry on a
vacant inheritance.

Major-General Sir C. Van Straubenzee, who has
been acting Commander-in-Chief in Bombay, re-
turns home on the arrival out of Sir Robert Napier. His
divisional command will, in all probability, be filled by
Brigadier-General Frank Adams, C. 8., now commanding
a brigade at Aldershot. Brigadier Adams had formerly
commanded a brigade in the Bombay Presidency, which
he gave up last spring, on the return of his regiment, the
28th, to England.—Army and Navy Gazette.

A monument, to cost $B,OOO, is to be erected in
Genessee county, New York, in memory of General Wads-
worth.

BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. —lfoniceopathic practitioners, and
the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as be n;
ttte most healthful of all beverages. When the doctrine of
homoeopathy was first introduced into this country, there
were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attrac-
tive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut was
either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manu-
factured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London,
homoeopathic chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn
his attention to this subje t, and at length sue 'ceded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to
produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined by
the pert, et trituration it receives in the process it passe]
through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For general use Epps' cocoa is distin;uished as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delirious aroma
Dr. Hassan in his work, "Food and its Adulterations,"
says--" Cocoa contains a great variety of important nutritive
principles; every ingredient necessary to the growth and
sustenance of the body." Again, "As a nutritive, cocoa
stands very much higher than either coffee or tea." Direc-
tions : —Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup,
filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured in tin-lined
1-Ib., i-lb , and lib. labelled packets, and sold at ls. 6d. per
lb. by grocers, confectioners, and chemists.