Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-05-30

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may be safely estimated as exceeding eight
hundred millions. In 1850 the naxiinam
estimate vas six hundred milliens, show ing
an increase in half decade of two hundred
millions. Besides this permanent value al
ready acquired, the State has nearly 16,-
o0o, 000 acres Of unimproyed land get to &c
dewtoped and appreciated, and has besides
an un,a1ta5 product of rs, 600 hogsheatls of
tobacco; ! ) ,000, 900 bushels Of wheat; 500, :
Q00 bushels of rye 40, 600 600 bushels Of
corn: 2 500 600 bushels Of cats; / 00O Gee
lbs Of WOOL 500, 00o bushels peas aud
beans; l, sec, 000 bushels Of Irish and q.
500 900 bushels Of sweet potatoes; 250, eco
bushels Of barley and buckvheat; Il, OOo, :
coo pounds of butter 500 600 pounds Of
cheese 500, 0o0 tons of hay 900 600
lbs ii fay, besides 90 tons of hemp l..
.z5o o09 lbs. OF sugar--bcsidos her ether in :
numerable agricultural products, and the
products Of her mines of iron, copper, coal
salt, gypsum, lime, and the products cf her
forests and her fisheries. Aud she has n
peculiar source Of wealth IN her extensive
region Of mineral waters, her hygeia alone
bringing III million and half at least Of
t"N't't1 ~ S";tt E-A aAuuliis
And, sir, be not startled when I assure
you that al this is small. is nothing, when
compared with the development the gush
Of continent production of which VIC are on
the eve. Our progress thus far has been
slow, gradual, aye, on q hard, ascending
grade, but we have reached summit level
When Virginia shall haze completed her
leading State line to the Ohio river, from
Coyington to the mouths Of the kanawha
aud Sandy Rivers, and connected her COM
munication with the great network Of roads
and canals in the whole Northwest when
she shall have carried her James River and
kanawha canal across the Alleehanies, and
joined the waters Of the Chesapeake to those
Of the Ohio when her southwest line to
Memphis she'll have flushed its last LUX,
now only about fifty miles uncompleted !;
when that line shall have been connected
+ with the works Of Kentucky as well as those
Of Tennessee when the Central road shall
have been connected with the great South
western road when the Baltimore and o.
hio road shall have been turned at the great
iron and coal fields on the Potomac, down
that river to the city Of Alexandria; when
the Valley shall have been made to pour its
produce through the Manassas gap, by u
connexion with fredericksburg, into the
lppahannoek as well as into the Potomac
+ u Alexandria when the York river road
shall be completed from Richmond to West
Point when Richmond shall have connect
ed herself with the North Carolina works
by the Danviile road when the james and
+ 4 cbo1 bovo Lon, i,
of their bars up to Richmond and Peters
burg when the State shall, in addition 10
the improvement of the navigation of the
James River, have sent line of railroad
directly down to thirty feet of water at some
eligible point on the Hampton roads-when
these or the chief of these works shall have
been accomplished we will have radiatcd
back to every point Of the interior; a con-
Guenee Of the trade Of the continent will
have taken place, through its centre, on the
shortest lines, in the best temperature of
climate, and 4 CONVERGE. Of tfansporta-
! ton and concentration OF Il sa,lh aud popu-
lation will be found at Point where there
is barbor spa eieGs enough and deep Gu
oueh fer all the me- mt aud naval marine
Of the world, aud affecting a site for city
+ riyalling in the cn.srse Of time New York or
london, Aud - accomplishment of this
confluence and e.3.tergcnee and coneentra-
ton will fad fiseinia an empire in herself,
N the anomalous condition OF an old State
with all the un4gs,'apcd resources Of new
State, and Of a H. State with all the amel-
iorations Of an I'd State Her old Eastern
fields, diriGed ftr exhaustion, will not be
counted any longer 2 curse, for they are
cleared Of the virgin forest which requires
50 uuch work for the lockwood axe in tie
hands Of first laborers in the new States;
ami the ways will then be opened to fields
OF Goa! AID iron and limestone of the richest
quality and greatest variety in immediate
ju2ta-position, tenfold larger than those of
Pennsylvania to mines of copper ore of I'M
known extent; to innpmefable aud ex-
hauslless springs Of salt, which ballle up
from natural creyiees and through artesian
hores, with naptha and gas to perform all
the uses Of light and fuel, without wood or
coal to The luxuriant pastures Of more than
ten thousand hills and valleys now unoccu-
pied by horses, cattle mules, or swine, and
to a sheep-walk fer wool-wealth unequaled
IN Saxony or England; 70 greater extent
OF water power for manufacturing than is
known IN any other territory Of the same
dimensions; to mountain forests Of giant
timber without stint, aud to the lumber of
the low lands Of the growth in sal, sea air,
the 6ttest for ship building; TO immense
fisheries Of shad and herring, ana great
variety eff other floating fish in every river
OF the eastern slope; to a jas padlieam Of
more than two thousand square miles of
oysters and other shell-fsh, yielding now
more than thirty million bushels and en-
ploying nearly enc hundred thousand tons
of coasting vessels F.; to every variety of soil
for agriculture, horticulture, in every varie-
ty of climate, from sites for the turnip to
the garden for the strawberry, the peach,
the pomegranate, and the fig, as sweet as
those Of Smyrna. To these, all these, and
more resources in Nirginia's own limits, aud
now undeYeloped and almost untouched =
And this viii show you that Tirginia's
counted and amounted wealth alone is en-
ough Justify all her expenditure and taxa
ton, past and prospective. But if Virgin
ia were waste from the seaboard to the
Ohio, without a 1.-THE of this perpetual re-
source, still the back country beyond her is
interminable and exhaustless and her eligi-
bility Of truck for its produce is worth ten