New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-23

M reason hat we can see beyond popular preju-
dice why clergymen who 40, like Aaron, speak
well. should not consent to give or sell, IL
need be- their sermons. Strong, helpful words
do not so abound in the world that we should
orudpe them to each other. The field upon
which the seed first falls may be obdurate and
unvieldine. and he who sows it should be the
most willing that it should be scattered abroad
and tested whether it be pure or WorthicSs
COMFORT. PROFIT AND BENEVOLENCE
Seldom is opportunity offered for promoting
these objects more successfully than by REFER
ence to the condition of things IN the SOuth'
Thousands upon thousands of N0rtherners
would gladly winter in the Southern States
on the score of health and comfort, were
nleasant resorts more readily attainable In
those regions Multiply the attractions III tllis
wav. and the crowd of Northern visitors to the
South in Winter would probably soon become
far more numerous than the Southerners seek
ing Northern climates in the Summer. Inc
intercourse thus promoted would be mutually
advantageous to South and North; and exist
ing circumstances strengthen the reasons Tor
encouraging such social interchange. Much OF
the "unpleasantness heretofore existing, and
yet lingering in the land, might be essentially
Modified, if not wholly eradicated. by better
acquaintance between people of different sec
tlons.
CAPITAL and Labor might be brought in unison
with this object. Some of our wealthy North
erners may advantageousy look Mt this matter
in a practical, business way. Thousands oil
Northern mechanics and farmers would gladly
settle southwardly if some OF their wealthy
fellow citizens would purchase and subdiylde
large tracts, so that men of small means but
great industry could get fair chances for mod
crate footholds in Southern soil.
Many largo tracts may now be bought for
low figures at suitable points on the Southern
coast, or in other healthy localities along the
rivers or in the mountain regions. Such tracts,
subdivided into town lots and small farms,
with provision for churches, and schools, and
aOod hotels, could be rendered attractive not
only to temporary Winter visitors, but also to
permanent settlers with moderate means -
persons whose labor and enterprise, under
rightly arranged plans of settlement, would
soon greatly enhance the value of the whole
property and that of the surrounding lands.
The Southern watering places thus created
Northerners seeking a milder climate during
our Winter-surrounded as they would be by
the "modern improvements which Northern
capitalists and colonists would introduce in
the new locations Without such comforts and
advantages, even climatic and other natural
attractions will be comparatively powerless In
securing many Northern residents or visitors.
Business interests should be prominently con-
sidered in this connection. The locations OF
colonies should be made where some mechani-
cal pursuits as well as farming, can be profit
ably followed by the settlers. Are there not
various branches of business that could be
adyantageously established in such colonies by
Northerners, to whom railroads and steamers
now offer facilities for acquiring materials and
transmitting their products to markets North
and SOuthR
By establishing some such colonies, capital
lists and business men would render themselves
public benefactors, as well as largely promote
their own interests. Investments, prudently
made and discreetly managed, could not fail
of paying literally to the projectors, while
promoting the comfort and prosperity of thou
sands of colonists, and advancing the welfare
of the regions where located. Many of the
waste places in the South could thus soon be
converted into settlements" beneficial to all
concerned and form enduring monuments of
well-drected business like, and philanthropc
efforts on the part of capitalists and other
enterprising people.
Now is the appropriate time for e1-
ploration in the South Many right
minded men may now render their
Southern visits alike pleasant and profitable
by securing suitable tracts for improvement
through colOnizing in the way here designated.
Well dlgested plans for such colonization
other natural resources, with roads opened or
to be opened through the selected tracts, with
arrangements for school, and church, and COM
.foridble hotel-wOuld surely meet with prompt
success. Fair experiment will quickly show
how readily good Northern colonists may be
secured when there is reasonable chance of
acquiring pleasant homes in a milder climate
and on fertile soil; where the essential requi-
sites are attainable by people who value the
school and the church quite as highly as they
estimate the factory and the farm Invest
ments in such well-arranged colonies would
"payn in more shapes than one-benefiting
the regions where located and profiting in
various ways the projectors and the settlers
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TIE INCOME KETENUE IN ENGLAND.
From the Report of the Commissioners of
Her Majesty's Iuland Revenue for the
year ending March 81, 1860, presented to both
Houses of Parliament, by command of Her
Majesty" We learn that the revenue received
in nr,t tlo