, 1860-06-11
n Down.CountT Letter.


ChAxrA1os, June .. 1850.
suppose a1eport On tue condition Of
growing cropa, abatement of the progress
OF business and the season, and little we'll.
considered "settllng up" Of the merit nnd
promise Of aoy growing town or county in I'LL
nois, Is alwaya in order for tho columns Of the
PnEss AND Tn.nusE
Tho Edinburgh RtuiesS for January, 1860, con-
taias nn eloquent md intclligently written arti-
Gle f. communion Of qualities rarely to be
found in an English periodical, when treating
OF American aff4irs,) on The Coal Fields Of
North America and Great britain. I find there
In several interesting statements and argu-
ments, which 60, in measure, to show where
our larger interior towns and cities are to be
located and grow up. The writer. referring to
Easlish experience, asks, "What has made
" for example, Newcastle. .on-Tyre, Leeds, Man
"chester, Sheffield, Birmingham, and Glasgow
"what they are, but contiguous coal fields?
"What has decided the locality Of our own vast
"factories and iron works but contiguous coal
"telds' What has, therefore. determined the
"courses Of cur principal lines Of railways Pri-
marlly Jour great coal fields. What has doomed
"some formerly populous and otherwise con-
"vcnient and venerable cities to langucr or de-
"cay? What has retarded the increase OF
"Salisbury, Winchester, and Canterbury-ali
"cathedral ci.ies or towns, and all otherwise
"favorably situa'ed? What but the absence
and distance Of coal tields: What, 1astly, is
"to determine the redistribution of political
"power in our representative system. accord.
ting to the scheme of Mr. BRIGHT. Evidently
"the existence of coa, which attract. nonulu-
"tions. concentrates industrv md mn.t Mt
"lerpth draw tn Tho coa1.beor;no s;,a. nnnsr.
"icai maioritv Of tho nation T,t> = o<oz,o;,a1
"map Of Il nm nnd ,5;o,,, xoou,of<d royn,r,,
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"future cities ean saffu be oy<diestd. from our
" own eyD<,ieuee a,en and mannfar.or;es I'll.
a1ow coal. The tro former ara the moreahte.
"the 1atter !. thu f,xsa attraction ~
yow we fellows holders of rc.1 estote ovn.
era Of farms and nrone,tr ;mnrored md ,,n;n,
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