Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-07-26
From the New York Mercantile Journal.

IRON the New York Mercantile Journal
North Carolina.
It is with peculiar vexation that we read the re-
cords of business difficulty and failure in our
Northern States, while magnificent regions for set
Element and cultivation lie open almost at our
doors. The great political and military struggle
through which the Nation has passed, achieved
other ends than those that We're Immediately pre-
sent to the eyes of the Government and people of
the American Union. In a practical and business
point of view, it made the residents of different
sections OF this country better acquainted, not
only with each other as classes of men, but with
the resources and capacities of the different States
The establishment and delight of the Northern
born volunteers as they passed through the beau
tlful helds OF Maryland, and the Shenandoah Val
ley, In Virginia, not merely served to soften the
asper1ties of war, with kindlier pictures of some
later day when they might come to seek homes in
region SO enchanting, but actually inspired many
useful enterprise that has since been successfully
carried out Residents South of Mason and Dix
ons line, beholding the admiration awakened by
the aspect and other natural advantages of the
country they inhabited, or impelled by the hard
necessities of warfare, went to work to seek out
and develop the wealth that Providence had placed
at their disposal. Tie result has been singular
revival of commercial, we'll social interest,
in every part of splendid National domain,
and where homes and comforts for all have not
been secured or, at least, placed within REACH it
Is because carelessness, Incidence, ignorance or
unfrlendly teachings prevent. With proper legis-
laton at the centre of affairs intelligent inquiry
and persistent effort the part of the press to
make known the good tidings there would, we
feel confident, be no lack Of employment and no
dearth of happiness for every man, woman and
child, that the Republic possibly receive by
birth or immigration for generations to come.
We have felt it to be conscientious duty, from
time to time, to mention the facilities, which diff
ferent States of the Union hold out to those who
are seeking fields of enterprise. Since the war;
we have endeavored to call particular attention to
the South believing that section to have the great
est present need of living help and to offer the
best opportunities to those who wise enough
to appreciate them. Casting eyes upon them
again, are particularly struck by the geograph-
ical situation and the abundant agricultural prom
Use of North Carolina. In very recent number
Of the Raleigh Sentinel, we find published in full
the correspondence between His Exceency, the
Governor of North Carolina, and the President of
the American Aid and Homestead Company in
this city, who had written for practical informa-
ton.
Without going into all those particulars which
are best discovered at full length gezettcer or
geographical treatise, we may mention the main
features Of the Governors reply. The State lies
about half way between New York and the Gulf
of Mexico, extending 500 miles inland, and pos
Sessing an area about equal to our own State It
is crossed by several ranges of mountains, some
attaining elevation of 1000 feet has seven
large rivers which, with their tributaries, water
beautiful interior hily and rolling region, and fur
nish 900 miles of internal navigation, and enjoys
great variety of climate, being in some places as
mild as the Gulf States, and in the mountainous
regions as cool as New York. The soil is various
and generally prolific, producing all the plants,
fruits, graius, and esculent roots known to both
sections of the Union. wheat and corn, says
the Governor, ''are produced with facility and
abundance il all parts rye, oats and potatoes
flourish in the Middle and Western regions rice,
sweet potatoes and peas in the Eastern ; tobacco
in the Middle cotton in the Southern counties
of the Middle and in the Eastern section, while
turpentine and pine lumber peculiar to the
East" All sorts of grass and consequently, Of
live stock easily and proftably raised, and in
some counties the best green fodder grows wild.
The following table compiled from the returns
of the Z. S. Census for 1860, will show what North
Carolina produced under auspices much less favor
able than our increasing population can exert up
on her destinies