The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-11
Portland. White Mou ntains and Ogdens.

Press. in which Charles Francis Adams, Jr.'s
lament over the commercial decay of Boston
and the means of bringing it once more to it's
position of leadership in the mercantile world,
was skilfully used for the purpose of calling
the attention of the people of this city to the
rich prize within their grasp, has been re-pub-
lished in pamphlet form. Read it and study
it, people of Portland! Let not the great world
tell
of one. whose hand,
Like the base Judean, threw pearl away,
Richer than all his tribe.
This pamphlet shows-and If not let some
opponent of the road show why-that Port
lands natural conditions for growth, wide
| commercial connections and consequent wealth
| and power are more favorable than those of
any other city on the Atlantic coast, and that
even with the disadvantage she suffers from
having allowed others to get the start, she may
| yet become a great centre of business and
| commerce.
There is not a moments time to be lost.
| Portland has gained much prestige from the
promptness with which her people have Ie-
| covered from disasters which seemed over
| whelming and for the enterprise which of late
has shown itself in works of local improve
ment. Let not this prestige be lost Let not
| Portland be brought into unfavorabe compar-
| ison with such places as Norfolk and Charles
| ton. Both of these cities, but recently pros
trated by the calamites of civil war, are turn
| ing their eyes to the West Only few days
| ago Trade Convention, largely attended, was
| held at Virgina's natural seaport" the pur-
| pose of which was to take measures for the
| Of ti1o of NorfnlIx wit fba
Ohio "by the shortest practicable route" The
following dispatch received yesterday from
Charleston shows what the people of that city
have Ia view:
Gov. Scott, with Gen. Sawyer and deputa-
ton of prominent citizens, started for New
| York this morning with the view of advancing
the financial interests of the State and enlist
| ing Northern capital to secure the speedy COM
pletion of the Blue Ridge Railroad, which is
| the missing link in a continuous railroad line
between Charleston and Cincinnati.
Another dispatch says that Governor Scott
in his address to the Rebel delegation that call
| ed upon him with pacific overtures subsequent
to the election, said, after referring to political
| topics, that owing to the small debt of the
| State, compared with the liabilities of others,
with a successful administration of the State
| government and acquiescence and harmony
among the people, South Carolina by internal
| improvements and other wise measures must,
in short time become, financially, one of the
foremost States in the Union, as she was al
ready, from climate and geographical position,
one of the most attractive. He thought the
Blue Ridge railroad enterprise one of so much
Importance to the North and South that it
could not fail to command the attention of
railroad men and capitalists of the North, as
he believed it was to be the great connecting
link of line of railroad across the continent
from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast
This month two new lines of steamships go
into operation, one between Charleston and
Liverpool, and the other between Liverpool
and Savannah Shall Portland sleep while all
world beside is waking?