Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-29
snnthern Progress.

A New Highlander, writing from NlcAs-
burg. Miss, TO a Boston paper, and speak
ing of that city, which was the scene oil
one of the severest conflicts of the late
war. saws that. although containing only
about Il, 600 inhabitants, it is the chleI
city Of a state with 100000 people, ana
is ''budding into a veritable Lowell OF
Fall River. quite number of manufac-
turers having recently visited II with
view Of establishing manufactures
Aside from her river facilities,
Vicksburg will soon be connected with
both Memphis and New Orleans by ran,
and she is much nearer than either of
these cities to the coal fields of Alabama.
President John Scott of the Erlanger syn
dictate is using his utmost endeavors to
make this a great river city, and the cltl-
zens are cooperating with him with a
zeal that fills the old-fashiOned croakers
with dismay and chagrin. Mississippi
ought to have, and will have, great
city. and Vicksburg is pre-eminently the
point for such a city. / have been all
over the State, and have surveyed every
other ambitious point, but Nicksburg
comes out, after all, ahead "by a large
majority
Organs that were wont to allude sar-
castically to the mississippi PLAN are
finding out that the State has great fu-
ture before her, and that her people are
working creditably for its achievement.
The work in the next decade in the South
will bear surprising fruit. The I'M
preston that is sought to be con-
Yeyed in some quarters that the South
is behind the age has no basis.
and the progress of this section
is becoming more and more recognized.
We do not look for the phenomenal
growth that has marked the West and
Northwest. That was the result of well
organized and sustained efforts, but
the growth that will be made
here will be satisfactory and
will become the greater with time. The
South oftO-day eXcites wonder, considering
what her people have had to contend with,
but the South of ten years hence will be
rival that it will tax other sections to
compete with in the varied fields of indus
try. Speaking in this connection the
NdsuN lllt dHttfkCttt yum III ChChoAfNAs IL
marks:
The SOuth's railway map is yet to be
constructed. The States north of the
Ohio present such gridirOn of railways
that there is scarcely room for any more,
and consequently railway capital is seek
ing the almost virgin field of the South.
Wherever cotton is grown and manufac-
tured near the gin-whereyer coal is dug,
and coke is made, and ores melted into
pigs, from hills within a stones throw of
each other, there railways are sure to find
their way. The rapid industrial develop
ment of the SOuth-its proved economic
| advantages for the manufacture of cotton
! and iron, leave no room for doubt about
the future Of its railway system. That
the South is not receiving immigration,
and largely, is belied by every passenger
| list of every train that crosses the Ohio
river in the direction of the Gulf. That
| the civilized world is afraid of getting
| into the South has not a scintilla of proof
| to sustain a lie of such colossal proper
| tons. The towns that are growing up in
| the vicinity of the iron end coal regions
the census reports and statistics of popu-
latiOn, all refute the gross and reckless
| SANDER"