The southern press., 1852-02-21

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having the most independent carriage Of an
boy he ever saw, and he then predicted, "iha
young fellow will make a noise in the world be
fore he dies" George LAW struggled at har,
work in subordinate positions for a year or two
but soon embarked in enterprising undertak
ings, and became large contractor on railroads
and canals, from which his sound judgment
practical sense, and industry, and perseverance
enabled him in two or three years to accumu
late handsome fortune. But he was not salts
fed with competency, and was determined to
be millionaire. He became connected with
extensive internal improvements in North Car.
DINA, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey
as we'll as in this State. There is no man in
the United States whose name is more identi-
fled with such works in the States mentioned
thun his. After his removal to this city, some
years since, he became engaged in the construc.
ton of the Harlem High Bridge" one OF the
finest structures of the kind in the world. He
also built the Oregon" and other large steam
boats, and became the chief owner ofthe "Dfy
Dock Bank" Subsequently, he embarked ia
the establishment of the "United States Mail
Steamship company" between New York and
Chagres, and New Orleans and Chagres, to
which the federal government contributes two
hundred and ninety thousand dollars per annum
In conjunction with this line, he established a
line on the Pacific side, from Panama to San
Francisco, in which he employed several supe.
rior steamships. Recently these vessels have
been exchanged for those of VIM III. Aspin-
wall IL Co., on this side of the continent, and
Mr.. Law is no. the principal owner Of nine
! large steam ships on this side, plying as regu.
/ lar mail packets between New York, Charleston,
Savannah, New Orleans, Havana, Kingston
| Clamp, and Chagres. connection with J. 81
Stevens, esq, and others, he owns the railroad
across the lsthmus of Panama, which, it is anti
cipated, will be completed and in full operation
during this year.
/ The monuments of Mr.. Laws enterprise,
ability, and energy, in his own country, would
satisfy any man of ordinary aspirations; but
they seem to have merely whetted and aroused
his ambition. The Panama passage has been
talked of, and written about for more than two
centuries, by the English, and French, and
Spaniards. Canals have been projected at diff
ferent times. Railroads have been contemplated
for twenty years over the Isthmus, and surveys
and estimates made but Mr.. Laws attention
had not been devoted to it but few months be-
fore the work was underway, and already up
wards of twenty miles are finished. He saw
that this work would be Of immense import
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for once in operation, aud the English Mediter.
ranean route to Chin. and the West Indies, via
the Isthmus OF. Suez, will be gi en- up; for the
entire Atlantic trade to China, to the East In.
dies, TO Japan to the Pacific island, west coast OF
South America, and to Australia, must 90 over
this road, rendering it, doubtless, the most pro-
titable stock in the world. He now visits the
Isthmus, we learn 10 project and locate docks,
and to direct other improvements connected
1 with the railroad. No one doubts Mr.. Laws
pecuniary ability. 1t is estimated that he is
worth from fire 10 seren M lions, and his for
tune is daily and hourly sugmenting by his ac-
tivity and enterprise, regulated by great practical
foresight If Mr. Law would 60 into Wall
street, which, since the discontinue of all the
great men there, is without any expanded in' ell
lect to control monetary operations, his genius
would soon effect revolution and reform in
the financial world. Things would be carried
on upon large and magnificent scale, and he
would be worth more to the financial credit of
New York, than regiment Of the small specu-
lators that now have The sway. His letter above
shows, that his genius is not cramped or limited
TO mere speculatons of peace or ordinary mat
tiers; but conpa, SIS the drift # European
events, and the requisite means Of meeting them.
i We regard Mr.. Laws pronunciamento, above
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of the day. The republican patriots of Europe
have in il a practical means pointed out TO them
Of doing something Talking and writing mere
ly, will never effect any change there. The Lon
don Times, Galgnani, and the Moniteur Of
Paris, will, ofcourse, insert this notice, and IL
the revolutionists have any discretion, they will
dispatch an agent 10 this city Immediately, with
the "wherewilh" TO make proper arrangements.
George Law is their man. No one man, ten
men, in the United States can do what he can
for them. lie is yet young being scarcely
forty, and of large stature, standing, perhaps,
six feet three inches high, and well proportional
Though Mr.. Law, in early life, was not favored
with a classical education, he has cultivated and
improved his mind by laborious application, and
by extensive travel in this country and in Eu-
rope. lie is Of the same family as the famous
banker, John Law, the author OF the Mississppi
and South sea schemes in France and England
at the first part Of The last century, ard which
would probably have succeeded, but that fools
and knayes took their management out OF ne
hands. His ancestors were nearly allied 10
those Of Lord Peterborough, late Chief Justice
Of England, and Of Edmund Law, formerly OF
Washington city. Everything that Geo. Law
touches seems TO turn into gold, the same az II
touched by the wand Of Midas He IL, In him
self, placer-a quartz rock, richer than Colonel
: Fremonfs Mariposa diggings. He will proba.
bly, make out of his late canal contracts, in this
State, amounting 10 several hundred thousand
dollars, say fifty per cent clear profits, and still
the State will be the gamer by hi. great cxpe
renee and skill in such works. The practical
means and measures adopted by George Law
in behalf Of republicansm in Europe, are worth
all the speeches and efforts Of forty Kossuths IL
3 half century, and the revolutionary committee
to boot
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