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road before any State in the Union. Ship building, mining and manu- 

 facturing are decidedly on the increase. Agriculture in tliis State is 

 rapidly improNing. 



The flour produced from the Virginia wheat is the only flour which 

 will bear transportation on the Pacific. The wool grown in Virginia 

 brings the highest price in Lowell, Lawrence, and all other manufac- 

 turing markets, of any State in the Union. By the census of 1840, 

 the sheep of Virginia produced more wool per head, than any other 

 State. Tobacco manufactured from the Virginia plant is the only to- 

 bacco which will not deteriorate from age. These facts I desire to 

 publish and make known. So well satisfied are the wool growers 

 becoming of the truth that Virginia soil and climate are the best 

 adapted for sheep, that one of the largest wool growers of New-York, 

 and the largest from Pennsylvania have migrated to Virginia with 

 their flocks. I understand a colony of wool growers are now on their 

 way from this state to V irginia. The state is losing its black popu- 

 lation, but emigration from Europe, New England, New York, New 

 Jtersey and Pennsylvania are taking their places. Virginia at this time 

 presents a fine field for young and enterprising persons. The system 

 of common schools has been adopted in about one-third of the State 

 with success. 



North Carolina until within a few years back seemed asleep — but 

 she is not so now. Recently she has started with decided vigor. She 

 has now a capital of twenty-four millions of dollars invested in rail- 

 roads, canals, with other modes of land and water transportation, and 

 in mining and manufactures. Her railroads when completed, with 

 those now in operation, will form a chain of over six hundred miles 

 in extent. The central railroad from Raleigh to Charlotte will bring 

 the rich minerals and agricultural products of the western part of the 

 State into market. Western North Carolina is a rich and picturesque 

 country. Her mineral wealth and water power are immense. 



Fayetteville on the Cape Fear river, is a flourishing manufacturing 

 town. There are more persons engaged in, and directly or indirectly 

 depending on, manufacturing for a support in this town than any other 

 in the South. Wilmington, the chief city of this State, is quite a 



