Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-04-20
RICH Nj OND, VA.
Thursday Morning, April 10. ls49.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.


terna improvement policy Of our Stale, BIT
more especially the course of our present Ii
gislarure, in making heavy appropriations /
such number and variety of schemes, W
would commend The following article, from III
Savannah Republican. II has likewise been co
pied by our neighbors of the Times, who, w
think with reason, ask, il The system, ,ohcn car
RCD o.t, has been The fruitful source OF sucl
numerous blessings TO the State OF Georgia.
Southern and slave Stale-and heretofore, ik,
our own, almost exclusively agricultural auc
planting, may We not expect 10 derive similar
II mol SILL greater bsa!ssfls ,trope6 g5hFp,e
when our prudent and industrious planters anC
farmers, in all quarters Of The Stale, shall have
found ready access to market-when labor
shall have been diversfed-w the almost IN
limited trade and travel from The Yves, shall have
| found its way through The heart OF our Common
| wealth, and The exhaustless wealth OF The Mis-
sissippi valley shall have been poured into our
lapl
In INDUCING in This train of reflection, we
would not be understood as making ourselves
provemen, policy. We are aware that very
many in Eastern Virginia look upon The system
as one of downright plumber and robbery. We
merely throw out the above suggestions by way
Of consolation 10 those who take gloomy view
OF the financial condition aud future prospects Of
our State, and who can see nothing but bank
rup,cy and ruin ahead.
One Thing is deserving Of special notice in The
article which we copy ought moi our neighbors
of the Times TO admit, (and, knowing them TO be
very frank and candid gentlemen, we call upon
them to do SOY in view of The very sudden and
astonishing growth OF manufactures in Georgia,
in the last few years, that an increase oil The
Tariff is no, needed to enable our people al The
South 10 engage in the very useful and profitable
employment of manufacturing their own goods
The truth is that any great and sudden increase
OF the Tariff, such az restoration OF The law OF
1912, would be perfectly destructive Of Southern
manufacturing establishments. IL would cause
such an amount OF Northern capital TO flow into
that branch OF business that Souhera manufac-
lures would be ruined by competition.
Ii does seem wonderful y US tina, Southern
men should demand an increase OF the Tariff
Il was never intended that the General Govern
meni should develop the resources and prosperi-
ty OF the States. This is matter left, and mes,
wisely leil, to the States themselves, who arc the
best Judges OF their own wants and necessities
The example Of Georgia is mos, Instructive
Had she depended upon federal bounty and le-
gislative tavors from The General Government
alone, upon Bank and Tariff laws Tor her pros
perily, her condition would be now just as it is
described 10 have been a short time back, and
like that OF part Of Virginia and other Southern
States, one OF decay and exhaustion. II he
eternal fields OF cotton, and nothing but cotton"
would still be presented 10 The eye OF the traveller
through her borders. But Georgia, by her own
energies, has been the architect OF her own pros
perity. Lei The res, OF the Southern States imi.
tale her wise example.
From us SGuannoi Republican.
THE CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF GEoR-
GIA.-Whin few years past the State Of Georgia has
bound placed herself indsputaby advance of
any other Southern State In manufacturing enterprise
and internal Improvements. Georgia IL at this moment
celebrated In every section Of the United States for pro-
digous advancement in these respects and her actual
writers and travellers, We have between forty and f
" manufactures with from 100 5000 spnd.s In EACH
in operation in this State. our yarns and cotton fab
RIGS find markets in nearly every quarter OF the country
from New York TO Tennessee, Alabama and Mississip
pi. Our mines have been partially explored, and
producing superior railroad iron, castings marble,
lime price low that IL is used In considerable
quantities 10 revive the WORKOUT lands of the State and
| other articles which we need not stop 10 mention.
Coming down freight train from Marietta to At
anta the other day, we noticed the following articles Of
freight TO wit: in sacks -four in sacks and in bar
res, wheat iron castings, domestic goods and yarns,
cotton In bales lime and bacon. diversity OF labor
goes hand in hand with this progress The eternal
elds Of cotton and nothing but cation, longer appear
IN the upcounry, except TO limited extent The cul-
tivaton of that staple in the Northern counties will
comparatively cease in few years, and be transferred
more and more TO the fertile bottoms Of South Western
Georgia. The hill sides IN the Cherokee region and
middle Georgia. are now smiling with green crops of
wheat and other small grains There Touring mills
as the Etowah, the Lebanon Columbus, those In Clarke
and elsewhere where The wheat is purchased lib
era price and converted into flour, which has some
time since found its way to Atlantic markets, while
has been exported IRON this port TO Brazil and 9th
or counties. The article Of Northern -four is al
most banished from this market, and II has required
scarcelya year TO accomplish the change One year the
Central Railroad conveyed into the interior 60OU barrels
Of Northern 1uur The year following IL brought down
5000 of Georgia -four tho upward being
completely turned; and il now carries none, unless
1t be the Georgia article which travels back again, for
consumption at various points In tbs lower section Of
the State.
These manufactures and railroads have created home
| markets They have al the same time diversified ag-
rcul,ura and all other pursuits. They give employ
men TO the farmer, carpenter the mason the tanner,
the founder, the MINER and in short, almost all who
follow the various and devious ways of human indus
try The Of the last Legislature relative to
featuring associations ia on level with the most en-
ghi-ned specimens Of legislation Of this century And
yet, in surveying the present order OF things we ought
forget how recently il has been established. The
act Just alluded to was not passed until considerable
amount Of capital waiting for investment in manufac-
tories, was driven away 10 another State. Only few
lntr th~fs I'D b.
| Correction Of Errors, which has showered so many
| blessings the State The OF Education still
receives but iardy and Inadequate support IL Is a
which claims atto non loudly at the hands OF
law givers.
The moral and physical influence Of our airoads to
bring about this new order Of things Is not GENTLY
appreciated The country is now no longer sealed
book but scene which passes before the traveller IKE
a moving panorama. The travel on the State Road has
probably quadruplsd since il opened To Dalton II
will increase vastly more when II Is completed to tht
Tennessee River, and yet more when our commit nlca
tions penetrate TO the interior of Tennessee The Ia
mine in Ireland gave to the State Road extraordinary
receipts from eghts Of provisions and breadstufs II
October, 1877. In OCTOBER ls46, the freighfs were
greatly increased near $1,000, without any extra ordi
nary demand and il has estimated that when the
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad is completed, Tie
Georgia Road viii require four timeshs present locomo
| tive power-a condition which will probably involve
construction Of another track, unless The Tennessee.
business be done chiefly in summer.
Our great State work has already paid back to The
State Of construction In the shape of multi
tude Of benefits, beyond the power of calculation, ant
II is daring prophesy to make chat in less thar
twenty five years il will pay all the debt of the State
principal and interest-and relieve her citizens from
all taxation. The fair and impartial management o
such work should not be conded 10 tho control OF any
one man. Al least two C0nmi5sioners-nne from TN
Northern and the other from the Southern section o
the State-or perhaps ihree-anaogous 10 the Ne"
York Canal Commissioners, should be appointed to IT
guardianship. That such law is an eminent degree
necessary we shall undertake TO prove hereafter.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.