The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-10-11
Our English Guests.

A company Of gentlemen are now seeing the
loved by number @ o of neWspapes @ repSrters. they
came from England to look at the resources Of
"the Great West" as it is called; and seem to
hsIG nf er
the Atlantic and Great Western, is a marvellous
success particularly when we remember that it
was built by English capital in the height eight Of the
dence in tho future Of the United Btates-somo-
thing very unusual; and therefore sweet and
railTead is pGotsaa6hls Illustration;
from town to town, ahd BhoS:! ttorh tho marvel
lous development Of prosperity and enterprise
which not even war could stop Tho madness Of
Q mania, like the tulip or the mulberry, has sot-
tied into a steady and productive business. There
are wonders to be seen by the barren and rugged
Lands that ten years ago were considered scarce
lyYorth their taxes are now sold for fhotsands of
dollars per acre. There arc spots on Oil Creek
that would command .as large a price as any part
Of Broadway. Largo towns spring up in "a single
month; and 10 part OF the country shows more
evidence OF Yankee thrift and skill than this Valley
Of the hieghany. Gentlemen who have been ac-
customed to moss, and ivy, and castles centuries
DID, and the calm precise methods of slow and sure
England, will certainly look with wonder upon pc
Nights. R.' ' Sess''' "'''''- ,'il0 1 DiAil "H
It is not morelyt to SEQ sights, md mako speeches,
oii-tanEs, that Sir Morton Peto and his friends are
in America. They represent vast English interests,
and have succeeded so wellswith their Atlantic and
Great Western Railroad that lth hey Will. probably
repeat the investment and go home and tell other
rich men the wonders they have seen. England is
so rich, and the American war, with alts paradcd
"distresses," has thrown so much money into that
country that its holders arc anxUusiy looking for
the Investments that will pay best. America has
been first in their minds, by reason of our noisy
war; and that interest must be increased and
strengthened by g success which bellies oil their
anticipations. When men find themselves false
prophets, they speedily form an immense respect
for the power that overthrew their prophecies; and
America commands oil possible respect in Eng
land. Every indication points to great flow Of
English capital hitherward. Petroleum in Penn
sylyania, gold and silver in the kocky Mountain
regions, the rich but now Frustrated and impover-
lshed South, are special attractions, not to speak
Of tho iron and coal and lead, the minerals that
underic millions OF acres and the fruits that grow
upon them.
Our Pacific railroads arc peculiarly inviting to
! moncycd men. 1t is the purpose OF the British
Government to open q path to the Pacific Ocean.
Let these gentlemen find one. They must see
that their Atlantic and Great Western, rich as il
is now, will become far more valuable when its
freight trains burthencd with the tens Of Chi
ma and the spsces OF the Occidental nations Eng.
land has long desired road to the Pacific, and
her engineers hByc time and again endeavored tC
find O way through British America, THE favor.
lite has been to continue the Grand Trunk Railway
to Lake Superior, and thence by way OF rivers ant
lakes and branch roads to Puget Sound. The diff.
ficuty with this plan lies in the. climate For ri,
months i'll tho year the route would not be useful
Accordingly, British enterprise will probably bt
compelled reluctantly to abandon the project of
British railroad, If Sir Morton Peto and hit
friends have much money to spend let them 60 tc
work and do for British America and indeed fo,
the British Empire, what its engineers have falet
to do.-N. Y. 1ribune. :