The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-31

of which mention has been mado, the laws OF
trade will bring them to Charleston. The Gulf
of Mexico is so subject to frequent and terrific
storms, and doubling the Capes OF Florida is
so perillous to shipping, insurance is extreme
ly high. Although the cargo is paid tor py
the company, disappointment aud delay are so
pernicious to the interests OF business men
they will always elect the inland route. Give
rs the carriers, and will warrant the freight"
This is not idle talk South Carolina can
be made great and prosperous State and
Charleston q great and prosperous city.
We can have the trade and the commerce
if we will exert ourselves to obtain aud re-
tain it. Our position improves each day
There is no sliding back. All is steady,
solid progress. And the correspondent of
the Ledger does not 60 too far when he
says that Charleston may grow to the size
of New York. There is no reason why o
growth as rapid as that of the cities of the
West should not be ours. In ten years
time Charleston may have, if we 60 to work
the right way, double her present popula-
ton.
The correspondent Of the Ledger also
speaks of the necessity of constructing
railroad direct from Charlotte, N, c., to
Charleston, in order to secure the carrying
of the immense treasures now boarded up
in Western North Carolina. He says:
s'The Northeastern Company will hold out
the right hand Of welcome at or near the San
tee crossing The Black River valley will roll
up it's exuberent wealth. The Manchester
stock is So cents in the dollar with downward
tendency. The patronage OF that road will be
taken away by the completion Of the Augusta
and Columbia road, and it will likely go down.
Sumter cannot be isolated from the active
world. She will take her capacious and we'll
crammed purse by the bottom and turn the
mouth down. Bishopvllle will say we are all
at your service. More than half OF this route
will cost little more than the ties and rails. II
We deAeot away up to Klngville, some enter
prising company will, after awhile, occupy the
direct line and secure the business. Let not
our minds be diverted by the side issues which
the Atlanta and Chatham routes present. II
Charleston becomes what it ought to be, and
the seat Of government should be removed to
the Mississippi, briars and thistles will grow
between their rails. But the road now pro-
posed will continue to roll down the increasing
exuberance of this prolific region to our grand
Southern commercial emporium. II the free
holders along this route will subscribe sum
equal to half the enhanced value Of their real
estate, it will build and equip fully one of the
finest roads in the country, and construct
chapel and sohooLhouse at every station be-
sides. Let US no longer build up Northern
cities with our teeming commerce. Let us
have o New York at tho confluence Of the ash
Icy and Cooper Rivers. Ii We will by united
Efforts deyelope the agricultural wealth OF our
lands, and then oocu ~ this route with high
way to transport our products to the sea shore
and our supplies to our door, in ten years our
country will be 80 completely resuscirat.d you
could not tell the foot OF Federal soldier had
ever been upon our soil. Hol for railroad
z,rect from Charlotte to Charleston And it
ne cannot have it direct, lot us have one by
Camden. "A rail- Dad we olght and must have"
To this and other schemes for develop
ment of the interior of the State and So
curing "through business" we hope to be
able to give before long thorough con-
sideration.