The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-20

cOntracuOn, dBalnSGreSu pUlOu, against every
effort to harden the currency and return to
the coin standard. What's the use in oratory
when the whole world knows that your party
does all that you condemn and upholds all
that YOU say should be torn down.
SOUTHERN RESOURCES AND SOUTH
ERN IMPROVEMENTS.
From the NJ Y. Times.
Attention has recently been directed and
not for the first time to the city and harbor
of Brunswick, Ga. as a point of first i'm
portance on the Atlantic coast, in view of
its new railway connections, since the war,
with the interior of Georgia and Alabama.
As long ago as 1886 the United States Gov
ernment surveys along the Atlantic coast of
the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida esta-
blished the fact that no such harbor as
Brunswick, for depth of water, safety of an
chorage, and salubrity of climate could be
found from Cape Hatteras to the uttegmost
coast of Florida. Looking back to the first
settlement of Georgia under General Ogle-
thorpe, almost contemporaneous with the
colonial grants to the two Carolinas, the
surprise is that Wilmington and Charleston
and Savannah should have then attracted
the attention of commerce along the Atlantic
coast, to the neglect of a harbor superior in
its essentials for shipping and more directly
on the sea than either or all of them. 1t
may be said in explanation that these loca-
tions were selected because they were either
upon or at the mouth of considerable rivers,
running from the interior of the colonies to
the sea, the consideration of the depth and
safety of harbor to foreign shipping being
overlooked or deemed of secondary impor-
tance, when the depth of water was ample
for the class of vessels then trading between
the mother country and her colonies Nor is
it surprising that for fifty or sixty years after
II - z'-fll ll.a.1 r.
Britain was declared and established, the
Cape Fear to Wilmington, and the Cooper
| and Ashley to Charleston, and the Savannah
| river to Savannah, should have been deemed
| important to these locations Railways were
| either wholly unknown or in their earliest in
| fancy, after steam or other navigation was es-
tablished. The very idea that depth of water
| should suggest itself, or that the bars and
| inlets at the mouth of the Cape Fear, or
| the bar and shoal water of Charleston, or the
natural distractions to navigation below
| Savannah, never occurred to the public of
the Carolinas and Georgia in connection with
| the importance of deeper harbors, until the
| General Government ordered the survey re-
| ferred to in 1886, when our great railway sys-
| tenn and its connection with the seaboard were
| attracting especial interest in the Southern
| States. This movement had been anticipated
by Georgia and South Carolina They had
|
force their railway projects for the benefit OF
Charleston and Augusta on the one hand
and Savannah on the other. And although
the result of the survey was, as we have
stated, in favor of Brunswick as by all odd
the very best harbor on the coast, the Sa
vannah and Augusta influence was too power
full in Georgia to suffer either aid or atten
tion to be directed to it.
OF late years the Georgia State policy ha
nndaroopa capcib1a chanoa RafOra th
war certain New York capitalists took hold o
the Brunswick and Albany Railroad, in con
nection with their interest in Brunswick cit
property They expended several million
upon it, and were in q fair way to make tn
work complete to the intersection of the pro
jected Florida Road when the Rebellion brok
out. Everything they had done, including
the road, its equipment, ETC., was swept ava
by the war. The rails were taken up; tn
! rails arriving at Brunswick in 1861 wer
| seized, the equipment run off, and a generi
r sequestraton con. slmmated by the so o-calle
S Confederate authorities, the State of Georgi
Q being party to the spoliation and conversio
o OF this property. Since the war the wron
has been acknowledged by the Legislature
Georgia. About three and half millions al
acknowledged to be due to the Brunswick an
Albany Road; the Importance of the repa
q and revival of the road recognized, and i
"a extension to the State line of Alabama OF Il
10 means of such extension, guaranteed III
re line is direct. to Eufaula, on the border {
IS Alabama, and thence TO Montgomery al
is Vicksburg. Fifteen thousand dollars per mil
st State Endorsement, on six per cent bond
" principal and interest payable in gold, on ty
s, hundred and thirty-sev miles, is secured, Il
IN State acting as trustee to the general mo-
;, gage, and pledging the punctual payment
d, interest as well as the reimbursement of t
,h principal at the end of forty years
is Nor is this all that Georgia has done,
ne proposes to have done, for Brunswick. Sta
us aid has also been granted to the Macon a.
g. Brunswick Road, line by all odds the short
It, and more direct communication as betwe
40 Macon, Atlanta, and Chattanooga, and {
entire centre of the State and the seacoast, tn
n the Macon and Savannah Road. referen
IT. to any railway map will confirm this fa
lg This road has also been taken in hand
he New York capitalists, and will soon be 90
)n pleted. twill harmonize with the Brunswi
lis and Albany, and will assuredly be complet
us in all the present year. Both lines pierce
very richest cotton regions of Georgia, be