The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-10-23

ther iona than, In the Pacific Ocean, performed in
San francisco Saturday last The remains Of the de-
ceased were taken 70 Sacramento for intsrmsnk
late San Francisco despatch states that the damage
In that city by the recent earthquake mos quito
extensive at tho time reported though the place
psrisncsd pretty shaking. few persons
kned but it Is thought thaS hundred thousand dol
as win the leases fsn shattered and psostratsd
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TAs RscuperatiSn or The South-Ths Way
~ 20 Settle IL.
Tbs way TO settle the question Of reccastruc-
ion in the South ID to settle the country to be
reconstructed. The. great obstruction hereto
fore in the way Of Southern advancement born
Of tho system Of slavery, and existing ever since
that institution was retained by the South-has
been species of political and social antago-
nism and conflict Of interests existing between
the two sections, North and South. Thus sla-
very introduced into tn South patIiarchal
mode Of life, and political and social system
obnoxious both to tho progress of education
and to liberal association with other peoples
possessing different interests.
The South became strictly an agricultural
country, while che North, rejecting slavery,
naturally adopted the arts, commerce and
manufactures. On these two opposing grounds
the two peoples continually clashed While
one grew Industrious, inventive and educated,
the other remained slothful and ignorant; one
cried for a protective tariff, and the other
shrieked for free trade. Hot argument in the
forum, virulent abuse by the press, and con-
stantly increasing luminosity throughout the
body social followed of course. The abolition
of slavery cut away the foundation and the
whole rotten fabric foil to the ground, giving,
at last, an opportunity for the true American
sentiment to assert ITSELF
That this American sentiment is superior to
all extraneous influence the present condition
Of things amply proves. An entire revolution
in thought and action has taken place through
out the major portion of the Southern States.
As the French Revolution created ideas that
had never before existed among the people Of
that nation, or at least had never found OK
preston, SO this rebellion has totally changed
the opinions and views Of the Southerners
towards ourselves. Whereas we were formerly
"mudsills" without cultivation, laborers for
hire, now all these things are changed, and we
are found to be earnest workers for the adj
vancement of our country and people-at least
the acts of our former detractors would lead
one to believe SO.
To-day the one universal cry going up from
the South is for an infusion Of our energy,
originality, industry and ambition-as in
ancient times old men dropping feeble and
palsied into the grave were wont to infuse into
their thin and watery veins the rich blood Of
some youthful and stalworth slave, that thus
their current of life might continue to ebb
and How yet little longer. From every
State in the South-from the pine forests
of North Carolina, with their wealth Of tur-
pentine; from the rice swamps and cot
ton islands of South Carolina; from the
grain fields and exhausted tobacco plantations
of Virginia from the cotton lands of Georgia,
and the cedar swamps Of Florida, where even
now bright Northern axes are beginning to
hew their way to independence-from every
quarter the lands are calling for Northern capl-
tai, skill and industry. The Valley Of the
Shenandoah, one Of the richest farming coun-
tries IN the world, now lies desolate and fruit
less Near Brunswick, in Georgia, the most
valuable ship timber in the country is waiting
| to be cut Mines of wealth beneath the earth
remain hidden for want of Yankee enterprise
to develop them. In Georgia only one-sixth Of
the area devoted to farming is improved, and
to-day even that is almost valueless for want of
means. The tobacco lands Of Virginia and
| other States which have been thrown out as
exhausted could readily be renewed by proper
treatment, such as every Northern farmer m
| derstands. Daily our cities are filling with
| Southerners- extensive land owners, but other
wise penniless--who come here TO offer por-
tions of their land on our own terms. Property
can be bought in any locality desired for less
than one-sixth of its value before the war;
Land that sold for fifty dollars an acre then
can now be had at from five to seven dollars
These parties will make any possible arrange
ment, so that their lands may be again worked
to advantage.
There is even an organized company, having
for its object the introduction of Northern
energy and capital into Southern States. They
have one million three hundred thousand acres
of mineral, grazing, bottom and timber lands
in Virginia; over seven hundred thousand acres
OF timber, turpentine, cotton and mineral lands
in Georgia and North and South Carolina. Fac
tories, furnaces, granite quarries, cotton gins
in fact, every conceivable natural or artificial
wealth heretofore appertaining to the great
Southern interest can now be had for song.
immigration and capital are now the two great
wants Of the South, and within the past two
years shrewd men, whe discovered the fact,
have realized immense fortunes by putting it to
practical test
But another most important feature in this
great awakening in the minds of the South Is