Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-06-29
RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH.

After all (says the Richmond Enquirer) the true
safety for the South is in the development of the
resources which nature has lavished on her with a
bountiful hand, and the consequent strength and
spirit which it will impart to her sons, and the
spect that must be rendered to her increased polti
cal power and social influence. The late move
ments in internal improvements in Virginia, destined
to connect the Atlantic with the eemng store houses of the
Wes-f coupled with direct steam communication with the
Of Europe, policy which all should chershmust
infuse life into people, and furnish them with
strength and inducements command justice the hands
the other sections Of the Confederacy Our people must have
their fondness for emigration checked by the attraction Of
enlarged of business facilities at homeland if the
tempated schemes carried out the desired advantages
naturally follow The completion of the railroad to the Ten
line will be Of the main elements of this realization
Of Vgnia hopes The results that measure, when carried
out by Tennessee be guessed from practical expert
ment which has Just occurred in Georgia. The Augusta
Constutionast publishes letter from ATLANTA, in that State,
describing successful shipment of bacon and four from In
diana in the far West Aalanta in Georgia The bacon
and four shipped at Lafayette the Wabash, thence
down the Wabash into the Ohio thence down the Ohio
Paducah thence around the Muscle Shoals the railroad
Decatur thence up the Tennessee Chattanooga and thence
the State Road Aaana. In spite Of these various
shipments the realizes handsome per cent in
instances nearly 100 per cent IT. in the language of our
Augusta contemporary, ga route long, crcuous, and
requiring many transfers and shipments be used pro-
ftaby what may not expect from the lines of railroad
that pass through Tennessee and to pour large
volume Of their trade into Virginia by the Virginia and Ten
nessee railroad
But it is not only the immense trade, following free in
techange of the products of the different sections with
of travel that must look for from this
great highway to the West The interest Of the people of
the Northwest is nearly allied with that Of the agricultural
States Of the South and the effect of uniting them to by
the strong cords of business and travel will be to their
sympathy and aid in defending the constitutional rights Of the
South This the least interesting speculation growing
out Of this important subject.
The immense resources Of the South may judged romthe
glowing sketch Of single State Georgia. presented to the
House by Mr.. STEPHENS few days SINCE Though Geor-
ga is unquesonaby in advance Of all the other Southern
States in works Of improvement she has greater natural
advantages than other States among them Virginia, audit
will be their fault entirely they do not catch her in the
of improvement Never SO important for the South to
be aroused her interests and to put forth every energy
increase and consolidate her power Mr. STEPHENS said
She has her beds Of coal and ron her lime, gypsum and
mar her qsaies of granite and MARBLE She nexhausti
bic Of minerals including gold the most precious of
metals She has soil and climate suitable for the growth
and culture of almost every product known husbandy and
agriculture. better country for wheat and and all the
cereal plants to say nothing Of cotton and tobacco, is not to
be found in equal space the continent There, too
grow the orange the olive the vne and the fig with forests
Of oak and pine sufficient to build and mast the naves of the
world She has mountains for grazing, rivers for commerce.
&C., waterfalls for machinery Of all kinds without number
Nor have these great natural advantages and been
neglected Young she is she is the first cotton grow
ing State in the Union Her last years crop will fall far
short Of six hundred thousand bales if does exceed it
She has, believe thrysx factories in operation and
great many Fastening completion. One of them has
will have ten thousand spndles, with hundred
ooms capable Of turning eight thousand yards Of cloth
per day. Her yarns already finding their way to the
markets of the North and foreign counres and the day is
not distant when she will take the lead in the manufacture
we'll the production Of this great staple She has also her
lour mills and paper msher orges founde and furnaces
lot with their fires extngushed the gentleman Of Penn
ylvania said of his State, but in full blast Her
'orts last year not less than thirty millions Of dollars
quail to, if not greater than those of all New England
,ether.
"She has six hundred and fifty miles of railroad in opera
ion at cost OF fifteen millions Of dollars and two hundred
in progress Of construction By her energy and enter
rise she has scaled the mountain barriers and opened the
for the steam car, from the Southern Atlantic ports the
waters Of the great valley of the West But this is not all
he has four chartered univeresnsy fve for she has
evoed exclusively the education Of her daughters She
vas the first State believe to establish female college,
which is in ourshing condition. and one Of the bright
ornaments of her character She has four hundred young
pursuing collegiate course; greater number, be-
eve than any State in the Union, in proportion her white
population. You will Hd only these things to be So
nut tell you also what you will not find You will find
nv body the State begging bread asking aims You
will find but few paupers You will not find forty thousand
engs pnched with cold and hunger demanding the right
abor stated to be the case, long since, in the
ity Of New York. j