New-York daily tribune., 1865-09-15
DIR ENGLISH GUESTS.

OUR ENGLISH GtESTS.
A company of gentlemen are now seeing the
sights along the Ohio and Allcgany Rivers,
followed by number of newspaper reporters.
They came from England to look at the re-
sources of "the Great West as it is called;
and seem to have fine time, dancing, making
speeches and looking around the oii-wells'
Their new railroad, the Atlantic and Great
Western, is a marvellous success-parilcuiariy
when we remember that it was built by Englhh
capital in the hight of the American War AS
an evidence of English confidence in the iuture
of the United Statcs-something very unusnal,
and therefore sweet and grateful-this railroad
is profitable illustration. 1t is with pride
that We escort these gentlemen FROM town 10
town. and show them the marvellous
development of prosperity and enterprise
which not even war could stop The madness
of Petroleum has died away, and what was
recently mania, like the tulip or the mulberry,
has settled into a steady, productive business.
There are wonders TO be seon by the barren and
rugged banks of these greasy Pennsylvania
streams Lands that ten years ago were con-
sdercd scarcely worth their taxes are how sold
for thousands Of dollars per acre. There are
spots Oh Oil Creek tnat would command rs
large price as any part of Broadway. Large
towns spring up in single month"; and no part
Of the country shows more evidence OF Yankee
thrift and skill than this Valley of The Ale
chanv. Gentlemen who have been accustomed
10 moss, and IVY and castles centuries old, and
the calm. precise methods Of slow and sure
England, will certainly look with wonder upon
Petroleum's doings in America. Our sober
truth has surpassed the gorgeous fables OF the
Arabian Nights.
IL is not merely to see sights, and make
speeches, and climb slippery ladders TO look into
immense oi-tanks, that Sir Morton Peto and his
friends are in America. They represent vast
English interests, and have succeeded so well
with their Atlantic and Great Western Rail
road that they will probably repeat the invest
ment, and go home and tell other rich men the
wonders they have seen. England is so rich,
and the American war, with all its paraded " dis
tresscs," has thrown so much money into that
country. that It's holders are anxiously looking
for the investments that will pay best
America has been first in their minds,
by reason Of 0ur noisy war; and that
interest must be increased and strengthened by
a success which bellies all their anticpatlons
When men find thcmselves,ials prophets, they
speedily form an immense respect for the power
that overthrow their prophecies; and America
commands all possible respect IN England
Every Indication points to great How oi En-
gIish capital hithcrward. Petroleum III Penn
sylyania, gold and silver in the Rocky Mount
ain regions, the rich but now prostrated and in
poverishcd South, are special attractions, not to
speak of iron and coal aud lead, the minerals
that undcrle millions Of acres and the fruits
that grow upon them. Our Pacific railroads
are peculiarly inviting to moncyed men. 1t ID
the purpose of the British Government to open a
path to the Pacific Ocean. Let these gentle
men find one. They must see that their Allan
tic and Great Western, rich as it is now,
will become far more valuable when
its freight trains are Durdened WIN
the teas of China and the spices of the
occidental nations. England has long desired
a road to the Pacific, and her engineers have
time and again cndeavored to find way
through British America The iavoritc scheme
has beer 10 continue the Grand Trunk Railway
to Lake Superior, and thence by way of rivers
and lakes and branch roads to Puget Sound
The difficulty with this plan lies in the climate
For six months in the year, the route would moi
be useful. Accordingly, British enterprise vii
probably be compelled reluctantly to abandon
the project of a British railroad. If Sir Morton
Peto and his friends have much money to spend
let them 60 TO work and do for British
America and indeed for the British Empire
what its own engineers have lailcd to DO. They