The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-27
Letters from the country.


M. Efiior:-ThG prospects of trade from tho
nortcrn part Of This State with our city, are fiat
tcring, and if onr merchants, factors and bankers
do their share in providing facilities cotton will
go TO Charleston from all places OH their lines OF
lsailroaI. 1t will not do Ia send out prices cur
rents and cards-bnt there must be actual con-
tact, with man. Tic country merchant
wants tn sec tho city merchant md factor and one
such interview is worth dozen visits from
subnrdinatc. Rome, Cartersyle, Marietta New
nan, Granville, Augusta md West Point, all will
be filled with cotton, and arc scant of goods. It
is aJ natural for this pant Of Georgia 10 trade
with Charleston, il il with Savannah or Atl-
gusta. And from the fnrmnr city vast amount
Of merchandise ought 10 DO supplied To these places
well as to many other towns. 1t III amusing
to see low the intelligent merchants regard the
efforts made by New York houses to procure buy
crs through prices currents " AMI =. circulars"
For instance, the other day L met resident
merchant .of one of tho towns have mentioned,
and he laughed heartily ut, q circular. he had
just received from " Cotton IIouAo'' IN Now York.
This " circular undertook to toll him and the
Sonth, generally, "how the negroes wcrc work.
ing hnw much rain had fnilen, aud how tho cot
ton was affected by it, what tho effect OF guano
was "n corn and cotton, &C., mud gave quotations
ol prices for n week past the writcih forgetting
that the telegraph wIre carries to every Southern
merchant who deals in cotton, the prices al
Liverpool, Now York, Charleston, Savannah, &C.,
OF the day before, Within twenty y-four hours every
ono is posted of any change in any market in tho
world.
Let mo once moro recnr to tlIe subject OF Rail.
roads for the purpose Of nrging'on our citizens,
the project of tho NIillen and Salkahatchio Rail
road. Gentlemcn, ono and NIL just spread o map
Of Georgia before you and examine it as pro-
| ccch, n line dIawn from Newman to Griffin forms,
with the Railroads leading to Atlantn from those
towns, triunglc Around that triangle up to
| Atlanta, all Tho cotton and merchandise. from. or
to, West Point, Lagrange. Nownan aud tho intermo-
diate points, must pass at present. But Railroad
| ID now being built from Newman 10 Griffin, which
saves f.rty-seveu miles and turns nil this trade
perhaps, toward Savannah. Now look at tho map
and SEQ how tho road from Augusta to Columbia
Gnts across your line Of trado, and opening short
route to tho great Northern cites from tho far
Sonth ! would not oppose tho bnilding OF that
road or any other. II is moi pIlr policy to do.
Thnrc are only two things required 10 build any
where n railroad. First, tho donnnd OF tho pco-
pic, AMI, second, their ability to pay for it. The
Columbia md AuguAta Road ought to DO built and
will be- But what should wo Of Charleston do
Look once moro at yonr map; glance your eye
from POcotaligo to olillcn space Of sixty miles
close that by rail-and thence yonr ego runs
along over nearly straight limo Of railroad to the
Mississippi, and even beyond. You have almosi
all air lina TO Macon, Columbus and Yckaburg
making the shortest possible route from New Or.
leans to New York, and opening up q Yast country
| 10 tho trade of CharestOn-.a country destined Ia
bc the very garden OF the South. IL thcro not
cncrgy enough in the old city to take hold of thiH
work &? Il, ,200 00O wonld build and equip the road
which, whom complctod s0uJ increase our bust
ness one hundred per cent. II That road WAS now
buiI, am Huro thoro would ba sont oycr il hissea
son 300 600 bales nf cotton. This is no exnggera
ton. Hcorgn and Alabama are full Of Cotton
Good Judges arc placing tho crop OF Georgia
alone, ut GbO,O00 bales; and in o fnw years thil
State, unler the improved husbandry which il
being introduced, and about which have some
thing to say by and by, will produce q million ant
n haifbales OF cotton, and proyiaions enongl, Il
feed her people besides Looking ut the railroad
r ronies AZ now completed and as suggested aat
=, surveyed, mn painfully convinced that tho b,si
/ ness salvation OF Charleston depends upon tho i'm
4 mediate building Of tho Salkahntche md Mile,
I Road. II wo do mol build this road, thero mus
: be, by and by, a road hut from Millcn to Branch
. rl'c and then farewell, long farewell" 10 oil t
: commercial prosperity Of o,ir good old, but sorcI
afflicted, city. A,B.C