The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-09-07
TIE NEEDS or TIE sourn The New

TuE NEEDS OF TIE SoUTH The New
York Tribune thus discourses on what it
considers the needs of the South, in IN
Industrial point OF viow., It says:
''The first need Of every Southern
State to-day is the application to its soil
OF the system of surveys which is one Of
the most benefcent devices for which
mankind are indebted to our Union. If
Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and
West Virginia, were surveyed into right
angled sections and parts thereof, as are
the public lands of the United States,
their real estate would be worth ut lenst
twenty-five per cent. more than it. now
is, and thousand acres of it could be
sold where hundred can now be.
''Snch survey would affect no mans
title, affect no existing boundary. No
doubt, owners would gradually buy and
sell, exchange and release, 80 ns to bring
their lines into conformity with the
oflicial surveys; bnt they would do this
only 30 fast ind 30 far rs their own inte-
rest should dictate. But cstntns of 5000
to AZ, 1000 acres, which are now scarcely
sa!able ct any price, would be readily
bought IN sections, quarters and elghths.
at rates now unattninable.
Having been surveyed, nll the lands
that the owners did not wish to retain
should be brought into market. That is
impossible, under the present no-sys-
tenn. Owners are anxious to sell; they
would gladly accept very low prices; but
there arc no buyers. Ho who has l, 900
or even 5000 acres to nell cannot afford
to advertise as his land should be adver-
tised; the cost would be ruinous; and
probably his advertising would sell ten
other estates and not sell his after all.
An inquirer who started Southwark cx-
pressly to look AZ his plnce would on
counter so many would-be sellers on his
wny, that he might mover reach that place
at all.
"Now, there should be very extensive
advertising OF Southern lands, not mere
ly at the North, but in Great Britain aud
Germany; yet it cannot be done in IN
isolated way. But let nil those who have
lands to soil in Virginia put them into
the hands Of one agent or company, aud
let that agent advertise them SO as to
reach every fre-side iii the North and
half those Of Grent Britain and Germa-
ny-let him advertise 80 many acres in
this, so many i'll that County, with capa-
cities mud prices-let him make arrange.
ments with steamboats, and railroads for
viz NaOoP GAhhopOlGhtlOu VI LuOSG Luz
tending to purchase, and advertise where
and how excursion tickets may be OBJ
tnined, and there would be no difficulty
in selling 10. 600, 900 of acres per annum.
The agent or company should pay all ex-
penses, take all risks, and be allowed u
liberal commission; such as would war
rant and incite tho most extensive ndvcr-
tising. and, unless e1orbitant prices were
asked, there could be no failure. We
are confident that 100, 900 tenant farmers
or sons Of farmers could be drawn from
the British isles alone to Virginin within
the next two years, if adequate efforts
we're made to enlightcn them with regard
not merely to the chenpness and value of
the lands, timber, &C., but to the means
and cost of reaohing those lands, the en-
hnncement of their value by railways al
ready built or in process of construction,
and the ease wherewith their owner
could be recalled to Europe by Telegraph
aud set down at his fathers or brother q
door within two weeks from the despatch
of the telegram. The masses in Europe
know just Us much of this country rs we
do Of Australia, and are generally in
doubt whether Virginia is in Boston or
little North of Chicago. Show them
that it is within days ride Of New York,
with ample and excellent harbors, bays,
rivers, &C., supplemented by canals and
by railroads. and they will much prefer
it to the remoter regions and harsher eli
mate of the North west. The facts that
Indians no longer stray within hundreds
of miles of its borders, and that it has
Episcopal Churches, roads 200 years old,
nn established social order, &C., will pre-
judice multitudes in its favor.
The South needs moro people, great
er diversity of pursuits, more skill, moro
energy and tLrift-moro mills, more
shops. moro factories. moro furnaces
she does not need more capital than will
inevitably flow in upon her if she can
but utilize what she already has We
submit these suggestions to her leading
minds, in tho hope that they may SOW
some seeds of future thrift and pro
gress."
News ABOUT THE FEVER. Tho city re-
gistrar reports only ono certificate Of
death from yellow fever during the twcn-
ty-four houra ending ut noon yesterday,
and this death took place on Saturday.
This is us cheering IL statement us wo
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