New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-06
A CITY BY THE SCI.

The Atlantic and Gulf coast of the United
States, from Hampton Roads southwark, Is re-
markably destitute of good harbOrs. Those OF
Wilmington, Charleston and Savannah are
we'll inland, and scarcely one on either side OF
the Floridian peninsula has adequate depth OF
water at it's mouth to admit great going
steamer or man of-war The best of them is
that of BRUNSWICK, near TIE southern boun-
Diary of Georgia, formed by two islets near the
coast, with an inlet between them having six
teen feet water at low and twenty-three at
high tide. Inside, there is depth OF sixty feet.
with twenty-f feet at the wharyes. No river
emptyng into this harbor. it is salt as the ocean,
and free from the decaying vegetation which
ia apt to breed malaria in southern estuaries:
hence, the yellow fever has never been known
here Pure sweet water is obtained in album
dance by digging through thin stratum OF
hard-pan into one Of fine sand which underlies
this entire region. A fresh sea-breeze in Sum-
mer seldom allows the mercury to rise above
90; while the Winter temperature rarely falls
below so, which suffices for frost, but not for
a freeze. Gen. Oglethorpe, the eminent founder
of Georgia, while ruling the colonies of Georgia
and South Carolina, designated this as the only
depot; and his Judgment nearly century
after it was pronounced, was ratified by our
own Government, upon the report of Board
Of its naval officers.
Yet Brunswick has remained mere village
to this date, because no river brought the pro-
duce of the interior to her warves, while wide
belt of pine timber separated her from the pop
ulOus cotton growing region one hundred miles
above her. Add to this a railroad running
south westerly from Savannah to Thomasville,
passing but 40 miles inland from Brunswick,
and sweeping to Savannah the trade of south
western Georgia. Thus Brunswick has re-
manned In its shell to this hour.
But an important change is at hand BY the
close of November. the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad will be completed connecting the
latter city by direct line with Macon, At
lanta, Chattanooga and the Great west, while
a cross line by Columbus (Ga.) connects this
with tho line through Montgomery, Selma,
Meridian and Jackson, to the Mississippi at
Vicksburg. But, in addition TO this north
westerly outlook, Brunswick has another line
of railroad in progress nearly due West
through Albany and Eufaula to intersect the
aforesaid at Montgomery, meeting there or at
Selma q new north west line thence TO Mem
phis. BY these roads, she will be rendered
the most convenient and accessible Atlantic
port to q vast and fertile cotton growing area,
whence her receipts will be counted by
the hundreds of thousands of bales and
her harbor be crowded with vessels loading
with Cotton as it already begins to be with
vessels shipping Timber to various foreign and
domestic ports on either coast of the Atlantic.
Ten years hence, Brunswick will be among the
foremost of Southern seaports, with her lines of
steamers to New York. Havana, and Liverpool,
with prospect of growth and greatness where
of Baltimore affords the most striking pre-
mOnitiOp.