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168 Mzm, & MvmU. ' ° r- - J. J. TOPS, EDITOR Ss PROPgIfiTOR. [Prom Tie Atlanta New Era.] Speech of Hon. Thomas Hardeman, at Ogle thorpe Park, Atlanta, Georgia, October 19th, 1871.—An Earnest Appeal to Geor gians to Build Up the Grand Old Com monwealth. Ladies and Gentlemen : At the request of the Executive Commit* tee of the Atlanta Agricultural and Industrial Association, I have consented to repeat, in part, an address which I had the honor to deliver at a recent Fair in Cartersville. lam sure, had I consulted my own feelings, I could not have complied with this request, and af ter the exhibition that we have had from this stand, to day, I feel that one must have cour age, indeed, to follow in the wake of the young orators who have preceded me. [Ap plause.] I say that, had I consulted my own feelings, I would not have been here to*day. But, where so much interest and so noble a spirit has been manifested by the people of Atlanta m rebuilding her fallen fortunes, and thereby enhancing the interests and prosper ity of our State, I think that it is eminently the duty of every one, when called upon, to aid her in her onward march of improvement. When we look back at her course and remem her her as I have seen her and as some be fore me to day have seen her, decked in her bridal robes, and then as we have seen her a widow in her weeds stricken by the blast and crushed by the whilwind and the storm, it must be a source of great pleasure and of pride to see her to-day a widow with her weeds thrown off, with the widow’s cap upon her cheek, and the bewitching smile that widows only have—more beautiful by far than when arrayed in her bridal robes. And, therefore, I say that when wc see such an ex hibition of enterprise and of spirit, we can but congratulate ourselves, and congratulate our whole people, that there is life in the old State yet. I speak not now of that melancholly ex istence that characterized the children of Is rael when they sat down by the rivers of Baby lon and wept, when they remembered Zion, nor of that life of angry repining and fault-find ing sorrow, which was exemplified in the prophetot the tribe ofZebulon when in the morn- ing of his troubles, as he looked upon the with ered gourd that the evening before had bles sed him with its freshness and its shade, he ex claimed in the bitter accents of a Providence defying nature: “ It is better for me to die than to live but of a life, despite the with ered palms that overhang every household, despite of captured cities, sacked temples, and ruined fortunes, that is binding its every energy to restore joy to the household, plenty to the coffers, independence to the people, and honor and position to the loved old Common wealth. [Applause.] A life that sits not griev ing over the fortunes of the past, but looking tearful! v at its glory and greatness, shakes the dust of its ruins from its wings, and pluming them for u loftier, bolder fight, will rest them not until she has gained that ex alted height where, overlooking her former greatness and position, in the fullness of her fortune and her honor, she can sing again the song of Georgia’s “uprising,” Georgia’s greatness, and Georgia’s glory. Gloomy, melancholy, sorrowful brooding, never re-, stored a lost joy, a wasted opportunity, or a broken fortune. Job sat repining over the conflagration of his property, the loss of his children, and the desolation of his hopes, until his calamities forced him to curse his fate and pray for death; but this did not restore his herds, his children, his fortune, or his happi ness. , Darker and darker grew the day of his being, until the sun of his hopes set in the night of despair, nor did morning dawn until, listening to the voice of Providence, heard above the roar of the whilwind, he arose and girded up his loins like a man ready for the duties of life, and the requirements of Heaven. Then was it that joy flowed into his bosom—a gladdening stream ; his deso late heart beat with pulsations of strange de light as new sons and daughters sprang up, the pride and solace of his years ; his pas tures, long herdless and abandoned, teemea again with increased flocks and folds ; and the old patriarch, in the decline of life, despite the afflictions of the past, its bereavements and its poverty, looked out upon a present rich with the posessifins of earth and a future radiant with the promise of a plenteous con tentment. Cease, then, ye men of Georgia, to weep over the wiecked fortunes of the past. The tree has fallen, so it must lie; yet from its branches ‘the acorn may be gathered that, if planted now, will grow up a mighty oak, under whose wide spreading shadow, in coming years, your children can sit and sing those good old songs that gladdened the hearts of their fathers and mothers, who will then sleep in its shade. The waters of plenty are spilled, but the vessel that contained them are unbroken; and here in the wilderness of your desolation are Horebs still, which, if struck by the rod of energy will pour forth tneir gushing streams thereby enabling you to fill them again even to overflowing ; but they will remain cold, barren rocks unless the Moses of the land stiike them with the rods of their power. The mountains of your State are rich with mineral wealth, yet it will remain valueless and profitless unless or ganized labor digs from its bed and converts it into uses, remunerative to the laborer, and beneficial to mankind. Your rich, eys, susceptible of a culture that would abu.wMitly repay the toiling husbandman, are as wortli -1 ss as so many barren wastes, unless that husbandman prepares them for the grain, that Providence, in his bounty, will ripen for the harvest. Y-mr noble streams will pour their waters to the sea as they did when the red man hunted their banks, unless aceumu lated capital combines to turn those waters into manufacturing utility, and thus give em ploy incut to thousands unable to plow a fur row or drive a plane. The elements of great ness and independence are vet in Georgia,and all that is requisite to secure them is deter mination and effort. Labor is the only talis man of success; action, will, application are all are we need to make Georgia the the pride of her sons and the glory of the States. With a soil susceptible of the high est culiure, with a climate unsurpassed for salubrity, with a people homogeneous in their wants and necessities, Georgia stands to day In these respects, without a peer ora parallel; and she is laggard in the great march of im provement. Why is it thus written of you, my countrymen 1 Are you degenerate sons of illustrious sires 1 The same sun that ger minated tne seed and ripened the grain for your fathers, blesses you to-day with bis warmth and his power. The same seasons that brought that respective blessings for them yet return to you, laden with their gifts and their offerings. The same earth that yielded them a plenteous support and a rich subsis tence, invites you to labor in her fields, white ning still with richest harvest. The same God that gavetfa the sunshine and the shower in the da>s of prosperity is yet able to give the increase in this, the dark hour of your existence. Up ther, ye men and women of Georgia, and in the name of all that is bright in the past and hopeful in the future, with determined will— Strike one more blow for Georgia weal Strike with the plow th» fertile field ; Strike with the factory’* busy wheel; Strike with the miners edge of steel; Strike with the merchant's thrifty zeal; Strike oft, strike long, strike aft who feel Proud of her rivers and her rills; Proud of her valleys and her hills; Proud of the; Wealth her soil conceals; Proud of her grain and cotton fields; Proud of her varied, fertile soil; frond of her hardy sons of toil; THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: ATLANTA, GA„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26,1871. Proud of her women, her greatest pride, Lovelier here than in all the woriu beside Then will her bonds indeed be riven; Then will new hope, new life, be given To Georgians all, who, where’er they roam, Will point with pride to their dear Georgia home. Educated labor, diversified and directed, is all that is essential to realize for youi State all that patriot hope can anticipate or patriot heart desire, and for this diversified labor, every interest in the present and every hope for the future, plead and invite theeuer gies and enterpriseof her sons. Your streams must be vocalized with the music of machine ry for this. Cherokee Georgia has water ca pacity sufficient to turn the many spindles for Lowell, and contiguous to them you have fertile fields that can supply the thousands engaged therein, with the necessaries of life, creating at the same time a home market for the production of your soil and a home sup ply for the products of your looms. Here, too, is an inviting field for the mechanical arts in your great natural laboratory of min eral wealth, whose inexhaustible treasures lure you to day with their richness and their value. One of Georgia’s greatest wants to-day is skilled mechanics, not your mere builders of houses, but your Tubal Cains, workmen in copper, and brass, and iron, to make your en ginqs and machinery, your cars, your cultiva tors —in fine, to work to advantage and profit the ores now lying profitless in your moun tains. She needs, as friend Greeley says, more shops, more forges, more furnaces, more factories, more school-houses to develop the latent energies of her people. Let the fire of your furnaces be seen among your hills and in your valleys, and let Georgia aitisacs, edu cated in Georgia’s mechanical schools and work-shops, supply yoar necessities from these furnaces and forges, run by coal obtained from your mountains. Let the hum of the factory be heard above the roar of your waterfalls, and the song of the happy operative break upon your morning devotions or your even ing quiet. Let your common schools—sup plied with ail the appliances of education— be brought to the doorways of every citizen of the State, be he humble or in high place, and Georgia will have begun in earnest her march toward independence and greatness. Exhaust not your fertile soil in the cultiva tion alone of corn and cotton. Small grain and the grasses will prove equally remunera tive, for every pound of clover hay, every sheaf of wheat, and barley, and oats, will ever command remunerative prices in the markets of the world. Study, my country men, the ennubliug art which to-day engages your time and your labor, for agriculture, like the mechanic arts, requires patient study. It is a fatal error to suppose that every man who can plow a furrow, who knows when it is seed time and harvest, is therefore a farmer. Successful agriculture requires educated labor. I speak not simply of the education of theo retical agriculturists, but the practical experi ence, based upon a knowledge of geology, chemistry and vegetable physiology, of men who look upon agriculture, not simply as a great necessity, but as an art coeval with man’s civilization, and the basis of every art that adorns and ennobles the human race. The agriculturist should know the analysis of his soil, its wants and necessities; for old mother earth, like the human system, has wants, tjhe supplying of which is essential to her maintenance and support. He should have a correct knowledge of the properties of mineral, animal and vegetable manures, and the best mode of applying them. You would think strange of an accredited physician, who would administer to a patient, without having a diagnosis of his disease, or any knowledge of the remedies that the case demanded ; and yet, with the same culpable ignorance, you often administer to the condition of the soil, without knowing one of its constituent ele ments, and what remedies are best suited to its requirements and necessities. Yes, my Countrymen, the professed friends of agricul ture and the cultivation of the soil, you are in many instances the Cassiuses, the Cascas, and Brutuses, that have mortally stabbed the Csesar of your love. And when I look upon “ the bleeding piece of earth,” when I hold up the rent mantle and see where your dag gers pierGed, with stricken Antony I exclaim : ‘I am no orator: But ns you know me all—a plain, blunt man— For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men’s blood —I only speak right on : I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Casar’s wounds, poor, poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me.” And your miserably wasted fields are speaking; your gullied hillsides, your scaled hilltops, are speaking; your defective rotation crop system is speaking. The remedies and stimulants you are ignorantly administering to a famished soil are speaking; your exten sive farming area system is speaking; your defective preparation of soil is speaking; your dependence upon the products of distant localities in speaking; and each and all are speaking in tongues that should move the very soil upon which you stand to rise and mutiny. [Applause.] Study, my country men, the ennobling art of agriculture, which is engaging today seven-eighth* of the peo ple of almost every civilized community on the globe. Far back in the annals of the ages gone we read of Noah, the husbandman, and Abel, sacrificing “ the firstlings of the flock.” Again, we see the Egyptians in their admiration of this Heaven-inspired art, “ wor shipping the ox for his services as a laborer” in the barn yard, and the ancient Roman ven erating the plow that broke this soil, while Rome’j greates encomium her sons was to say he was a judict'. -*sd indus trious husbandman. As it was glorious in the past, so it is eminently honorable in the present —an active instrumentality in build ing up those moral and industrial habits which give position to governments and per manence to their institutions. A thorough knowledge of agriculture, its wants and re quirements, will lead to a well devised system of diversified labor, and this important lesson Georgia should learn at once. Look at your State to day, poor and impoverished, not be cause you have not labored, for no people groaning under adversity have so heroically struggled against misfortunes, but because you have labored unwisely and too much in one channel. Learn a lesson, my countrymen, from those who are being enriched by your folly. Look at the great West; and she is great in all the elements of greatness. See her as I have just seen her, her labor directed in a thousand channels, and each one converging in the great ocean of her prosperity. She makes her own machinery from her own mineral ores; she makes her own woolen goods, her own t'urni ture, her own farming utensils, builds vessels and freights them; large cities and peoples them with a thrifty population, and in addition to all these, furnishes you, people of Georgia —and 1 say it to your shame—with your flour and corn, your bacon and your mules, that you may raise cotton to enable you to purchase again the products of her labor. All these you can do for yourselves. You have the minerals and the coal sleeping in your mountains; you have the water power at your very doors; you have the forest in all its native growth and beauty, and you have a soil peculiarly adapted to the wants and ne cessities of your State. Awaken, then, to the importance of living atrhome and supplying yourselves. Then will success brighten the horizon of your preseut, apd hope gild her heaven with the radiant splendors of your future. lam anxious to see the day again in my old State when our farmers will get their meat out of their own smoke houses; when the ox will know his owner and the ass his master’s crib, for I assure you if this latter animal could apeak, as did Balaam’s of old, it would be in denunciation of your present mode of farming, and your uncharitable prac tice of forcing him to earn a substance by grazing with Nebuchadnezzar in the scanty grass fields of the country. Aye, say you, these are stubborn truths; but our labor has been taken from us, and we are unaccustomed to menial service.— Where are the hands the God of Nature gave you, and the determined will that char acterized your fathers? Yes, say you, we have the will, we acknowledge the necessity; but then labor is degrading, and toil the bur den of a curse. Fatal delusion, miserable subterfuge for indolent pride ! Labor is not a curse attendant upon Adam’s fall. God did not intend in creating man that he should sit an idle admirer of Eden’s beauties, for he was enjoined to labor in that garden, to “keep and to dress it.” No briars or brambles were to grow among its buds and blossoms —no foul weeds among the plants that were unfolding for him their beauty and their loveliness. Creative agency the very day man was located in Eden—its trees untouch ed by blight, its groves redolent with the perfume of flowers, and sighing through their branches the sweet music of Paradise, with plenty above and around them—enjoined upon him the duty, hence the dignity, of labor. Read, then, my countrymen, in the very preface of your being, the assurance of divine will that you labor in the sphere as signed you. I know it grates harshly upon the ear of aristocratic refinement and wealthy indolence to assure them that labor is a heaven-enjoined duty, but there is the record and the decree, and he or she who would mar the one or efface the other should be forced to glean with Ruth in the barley field, or grind corn with Samson in the prison house. Our sensitive young man, ashamed to be seen at the plough or the bench ! Vain young lady, unwilling to acknowledge you can sew or cook! Go read the history of the first laborer upon record. It was the Almighty Godhead, the great I Am : “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” The very first line in creation’s history evidences the labor of His hands. Nor did he rest therefrom until He made the firmament from the midst of the waters, set the hills upon their everlasting foundations, fixed the sun and the moon in their spheres in the heavens, created earth, and placed man in dominion over it. Then, but not until then, did he rest from the works He had made. — Nor was He ashamed of the labor of His hands; for in the fullness of His exultation He pronounced it good. Away, theD, with the idea that labor is degrading, and toil un manly. Sweat of the brow and labor of the brain are the great talismen of success in every vocation of life. Work! It is the rod that strikes the Horeb of all honor, of all distinction, of all success. Wealth smiles in its coffers, plenty crowns its board, peace broods over its altars, while glory wreathes it with the fadeless flowers of immortality. Honest toil dignifies character, ennobles nature, refines poverty, elevates man. By it Gallileo wove for himsell a chaplet of stars, and Herschel wreathed his brow with a coro net bright as the satellites he discovered. By it Fulton ascended on wings of steam the rugged eminence of worldly renown, and Morse with electric rapidity transmitted his name to the coming generations. By it the golden gates of success are unbarred, and the avenues are open to these inviting heights, where wealth, and honor, and fame await the successful comers with chaplets and crowns. Labor, then, my countrymen, educated and diversified, will soon show its beneficial re sults in increased intelligence, accumulated wealth and universal prosperity. Are you too poor to effect these grand results ? Invite the labor and the capital from the North and South, the East and the West, to come in your midst. Give all who thus come among you, bearing in their hands the olive branch of peace, a hearty welcome and a God speed in their efforts to aid you in building up the material prosperity of the State, so that she may stand a peer among her sisters—an equal among them all. And it will not be long before joy will kindle again in the sky of your being, and prosperity gladden your hearts with the fullness of its treasures.— Work—well-directed labor—is the key that will unlock to us the treasures we desire. Fathers, teach your sons that industry is the parent of every virtue, idleness the mother of every vice. Teach them that David,the shep herd, was as honored as was David the King. Impress upon them that Paul, the tent-maker, was esteemed eminently fit to become an ambassador of Christ, and a spokesman of Heaven. Teach them that Franklin, at his printing press, Cincinnattus, at his plough, were nobler specimens of true manhood than are the fashionable gentry of this day, whose gloved hands never administered to a family’s necessity, and whose idle brains never origin ated a thought that elevated themselves or bedefitted society. Young men, to you, upon whom rests the future of your State, her position, her honor, and her glory, I appeal to-day. You must be the pioneers in her great march of im provement. Bowed not down with the mis fortunes of the past, you can bring to the discharge of your duties firm resolves, reso lute wills, manly hearts. Be not ashamed of the work before you. Georgia calls, you must obey, and in the field and the workshop, at the bench or the bar, in the laboratory or in the forum, show by your perseverance, your intelligence and your will, that her sons areeqm' to the duties of the hour and the of the State. Think not you are duty or your destiny. “ When you rise, tie on your neck doth, with skill and with ease; For,young men, when they go out in the world, if you please, Must have their necks tied up—there is not a doubt of It— Almost at tight as some men who go out of it, With moustaches well oiled, und boots that hold up The mirror to nature so bright you could sup Off the leather, like china ; with coat, too, that draws On the tailor, who suffers a martyrs applause; With heads bridled up, like a four-in-hand team, And muutbs that some say are run obiefly by steam; A cane, their only visible means of support— Disdaining cold water, they drink sherry or port; With cigar in their mouths —ah, that is glory enough, For their lives, like thin smoke, can go up in a puff, And with curls, like those looks to Mussulmen given. For angels to bold by, as they lug them to heaven.” Thus photographed, you may command the admiration of the thoughtless and the gay; but nobler far, in the eyes of the man of merit, is the humble laborer returning to his neat cottage home, the consciousness of duty performed gladdening his breast, the sweat of his brow jeweling his face, the dust of his field proclaiming his vocation and his calling. Mothers, learn your daughters that the work of the household, the kitchen and the dairy, is a jewel in the casket of their adornments; for, believe me, the artist never painted love lier picture than did Solomon, when he pho tographed his ideal of accomplished woman hood : "She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh diligently with her hands; She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff; She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eatetb not the bread of Idleness.” Verily doth the'work of such a One “praise her in the gates.” Young woman, be man’s helpmeet in this* the hour of his adversity. Go back to the simple customs and fashions of your mothers j for; while your fathers are struggling with poverty and misfortune, it were better that you should be a Rebecca at the well, clad in simplicity, with your pitcher upon your shoulder, ready to give drink to the servant of the Lord and the camels of his attendants, than Sheba’s Queen, clad in the silk and the purple of Eastern luxuriance. Economy now is wealth, and you, my fair countrywomen, whose sacrifices in war were only equalled by a patriotism pure as rain drops from virgin clouds,-must for the pres ent sacrifice, upon the altar of duty, your j fashionable follies and costly extravagances. Do your duty, young man—young woman— in this, the hour of your State’s necessity, and the historian, catching the inspiration of a rural bard, can exclaim: “ In vain fair Georgia weeps her desert plains, She moves her envy, who jo well complains. In vain has war’s oppression laid ber low, She wears the garland on her faded brow. Amid her bowers the conqueror’s hand is seen, And desolation saddens all her green ; But blessed with these, of native strength pos sessed, Though very poor, wo still are very blest. Cheerful home duties will create home pleasures and home comforts; and thus our children will become attached to the spot where their infant eyes firjst saw the sunlight and their infant ears caught the first notes of nature’s minstrelsy. To accomplish this, make home beautiful and lovely. Adorn the old homestead with fruits and flow ers, and you will attach them to the old walks of their fathers, and implant in their bosoms a desire to be buried in the shadows of the trees that surround the dear old home stead. Thus you will have a settled popula tion upon your soil —a population that, look ing to their present surroundings as their homes in the future, will, both for comfort and emolument, improve, beautify, and adorn them. No State can permanently prosper whose population has no fixed abode—no “abiding home.” Georgians, why leave your ow'n to link your destinies with that of an other State? Has any other fairer skies, more salubrious climate, loviier valleys, richer mountains, nobler forests, or loviier women than your own native State? Here lie the bones of your fathers and your mothers; abandon them not. Hei%, too, your sons are lying. Upon the ensanguined battle fields of your State—fromMissioiiary Ridge to their humble graves among -the flowers of our Southern coast, they are lying, and from their* patriot graves comes jLe eloquent appeal, stamped with the of the noble etead,. v abandon not the StateTiJl&cred with our dust' and immortalized by o&r deeds. Listening to that patriotic appeal to-day, let us, Geor gians, bury the animosities of the past, and linking our shields together, strike one more blow lor Georgia’s prosperity and Georgia’s glory. Working men of the State, laborers in her fields, her workshops and her factories, upon you hang our hopCs for prosperity and independence. You are the Atlas upon whose shoulders rest the present and the future of your State. Be not discouraged at the be reavements of the past, or the forebodings of the future. The night is dark, but through its mantling gloom a feeble star sends forth a glimmering ray. It is the star of duty. — Follow it, it may prove the'Bethlehem of your deliverance. Borrowing an illistration from an eminent Divine, “Let this, my countrymen, be Israel’s last night in Egypt.” Prepare the paschal lamb; sprinkle the blood upon the lintels and the door posts, and with sandals on your feet and staff in hand, begin your march from this land of bondage and of slavery. The perils of the wilderness, its lengthening gloom, its dark shadows, its threatening dangers, may ba before you; but if you are true to yourselves, true to your fathers, who have gone before you, true to old State, you too shall commemorate your exdus from the evil that threatened you, and sing in the fullness of your joy, your “pass over song of deliverance.” Then, my coun trymen, amid the green fields and rich pastures of your Canaan, where, in plenteous content rnent, financial independence, intellectual wealth, and social refinement, you shall dwell in fellowship and in peace with the children of your love, may you exclaim, with feelings of triumphant pride, “This i* my State, whose power is heralded, from her mountains, and whose greatness is echoed from her val leys and her hill.” [Applause.] What Georgia Needs. For the last decade no portion of the w’orld has attracted more general or deeper at tention than the Southern States, and no one of them has commanded so great an interest as Georgia. For four years of this period these States were engaged in a war which, for its magni tude, has never been equaled. For six years they have been passing through the reconstruction of their political destinies. Georgia bore her part of the war unflinchingly, and has had her full share of experiments in the way of reconstruction.— Since the war, tenders of advice and offers of gratuitous counseljhave been freely offered, but this has not reestablished our prosperity. To-day there is a wide-spread pecuniary des pondency throughout the State, with a dis trust of the present and gloomy forebodings for the future. The great cause for this con dition of our affairs is to be found within ourselves, and while it is true that the disor ganized condition of labor, the constant polit ical agitation and other- causes have had their damaging effects, the principal cause is to be found in an overgrown cotton production, thereby glutting the markets of the world and reduce the price below the cost of pro duction. While this is true, there are other causes at work all tending to-make us, if possible, more dependent upon others than ever be fore. The universal want of diversified interests, and diversified labor, has thus far kept us poor, and is daily sinking us deeper in the slough of despond. Our planters and farmers, while theoreti cally the most independent, are practically the most dependent of the community. Anterior to the war- <rexpended millions of dollars "annually fo*-yCrn and meat. Since the war there has beefr no improvement in this particular, and to-day it is said at least one half of our lands are pledged to pay for food, and that too in a purely agricultural community. The great want of is diversified in dustry. It is maintained by some political economists that each nation and each region should ascertain the special pursuits to which it is peculiarly adapted, and devote all its en ergies to that one production to the neglect of all others. They say let England give us iron, France silks, Belgium laces and carpets, and the South cotton. This is Vhat Georgia has done and is doing. Behold the practical result.— A Georgia farmer uses a Northern axe-helve and axe to cut up the hickory growing within sight of his door, plows his fields wiih a Northern plow, chops out his cotton with a New England hoe, girte his cotton upon a Boston gin, hoops it with Pennsylvania iron, hauls it to market in a Concord wagon, while the little grain that he raises is cut and pre pared for sale with Yankee implements. VVe find the Georgia housc*-wife cooking with an Albany stove, setting her table with Yankee chinawarc and knives, and even the food, es pecially the luxuries, imported from the North. Georgia’s fair daughters are clothed in Yankee muslins, and decked out in Massa chusetts ribbons and Rhode Island jewelry, while their dresses are fastened by Water bury hooks and eyes and Cohoes Falls pins. Georgia’s sons are clothed in Yankee cloths, boots and hats. Our school books, Bibles, hymn books, pen, ink and paper, as well as periodicals, are mainly furnished by the Northern States. Our machinery, locomo tives, wagons, carriages, furniture, hardware, dry goods, groceries, in fact not only the luxuries but the actual necessities of life, are furnished us by Northern thrift and in dustry. Thus, from the the grave there is a mortifying dependence upon others. Un til this state of vassalage shall have been changed, until Georgia shall have learned to supply her own wants, she cannot become prosperous and rich. Wars will come, and woe to the people that by a too exclusive devotion to any one pursuit have crippled their powers of self maintainance in a struggle for existence. The late war furnishes a most terrible ex ample of this truth. Will Georgia and her sister Southern States learn wisdom by the bitter experience of the past, or will they continue to serve others ? Will they leave their future in the hands of others, or will they, by developing their re sources, control their own destinies? Another paramount need of Georgia and the South, is rapid and cheap transportation. Our railroad freights are enormously high in comparison with those of the Northern Slates. Cheap freights develop a country and enrich the people. Dear freights check develop rnent and impoverish a people. The cotton crop of the South has, for many years, aver~ aged about 3,000,000 bales. To place this in market and effect its sale, costs an average of about three dollars per bale, or an aggregate of $9,000,000, of which one-third is paid' for transportation, or an annual outlay of $3,- 000,000. Additional railroad facilities, with diminished rates, would save 20 per cent, of this amount, or $600,000 per annum, equiva lent to an addition of $10,000,000 each year to the capital of the South at 6 per cent. The sale of the cotton crop amounts to about $200,000,000 per annum. Three fourths of this vast amount is expended in the North for dry goods, hardware, groceries, etc., giving $150,000,000 worth of merchan chandise to be transported over Southern Roads. More railroads with improved means of transportation would save at least 5 per cent, on the cost of these articles to the con sumer, making a saving of $7,500,000, equal to the annual addition of $125,000,000 to our resources. A reduction of rates of travel .and freight would at once create an immense productive capital in our midst. Shall we have this increase of capital ? and if so, how we can best attain it, is a question that we propose to discuss in a future article. —At lanta Constitution. The Autumn. The forests are donning theirgrandest robes. Just before they deck themselves in the som bre colors of dreary winter, they always swell our bosom with admiration of their last and richest garments. Who can describe it —who paint it? None but He who makes it to magnify Himself in the hearts of His children, and He who bestows it as the last great offering before the fall of death en shrouds beautiful nature. That heart is truly insensible, that does not experience a thrill of rapture over the varia bleness,and at the same time the uniformity, of the laws which control the universe. To night the Pleiades, in mystic splendor, are rising above the mountain top3. Before the dawn of day, they will have set. Soon a comet is to blaze across the zenith and disap pear, perhaps forever. The days are growing shorter and the nights longer. The heat of summer, though lingering, is soon to be crushed by the cold snap. Can we behold these won ders, enjoy their benefits, and persist in the yelief that “there is no God?” But, the autumn regales not the eye alone with its bounties and beauties, but is a feast to all species of animals and intelligencies. It empties its trsasures into the barns and store houses of industry, and gives unsparing ly to the birds and beasts of the field. It is the harvest-time—the glorious harvest-time ! But, while we are rejoicing in our well filled houses, let us turn to the Source, and confess that we are unworthy of the least gift out of Ills beneficence, ask a free and full pardon of our sins, and make a full surrender of our selves and, all we are, to His divine care and keeping. C. S. Silver Spring. This cup of crystal water, which bears the name of Silver Spring, has no streams run ning into it. The fountains that furnish its waters and form the river flowing out of it, come from below, and burst up under large ledges of limestone rock that form its bot tom. It fills itself to the brim, overflowing at a break in the edge of the cup. Owing to the uprush of this large stream, there is a constant undulation imparted to the whole mass of waters that is never seen in lakes fed by surface streams. The water seems to vi brate, aud this imparts a peculiar appearance to everything seen through it. The ledges of white limestone forming the floor of this cup are each set in a frame of long, waving green water-grass and verdant moss, whose vivid color and many shades of green reflect the rays of the sun as perfectly as in the open air. The water is so perfectly transparent that a pearl button dropped on the rocky floor can be as distinctly seen as in the palm of the hand. The deep borders of long grasses undulate continually with the motion of the water, and the limestone rocks at the bottom assume the hue cf richly-burn ished silver tinged with green. Myriads of fish of all kinds and sizes peculiar to this re gion, are seen swimming and sporting in these forests of grasses and moss. It is a pleasant sight to collect them about the boat and to see them scrambling for crumbs of bread. The trees around, cypress and moss-covered live-oak, crowd the banks, and thirstily dip their branches in the water. I have seen many wonderful things, and many beautiful things in Florida, but nowhere have I ever seen such a gem of perfect beauty as Silver Spring. —From More about Flori da, by J. P. Little , in the November number of Lippincolt's Magazine. Wild Nature in California. —There are still some nooks in California sacred to Na ture and her apostles. We just visited one of them—a narrow and weedy caflon full of spicy woods; a trout stream brawled lustily over the pebbles at the ford ; cattled browsed in the heat, mindful only of summer flies; birds and bees made the air busy in places; berry bushes projected their ebony clusters; and a cabin on the edge of these was the abode of a solitary hunter. We talked with him. He had tasted of the adventurous till no meaner fare could satisfy him. Anon, and as we talked, twilight flowed in and filled up the valley; the dusty sunshine climbed the steep mountain opposite; the hither hill slopes clothed themselves in royal purple; and down by the stream, where the bed of the valley broadened, a coyote sat alone, plain tively lifting his falsetto voice in a cry that seemed to penetrrte to the remotest recesses of the mountains, and return again like a wail from another world; and before the echo was entirely lost to our ear, we turned and fled to tho hotel.— From A California Seaside, by Charles Warren Stoddard, in the November number of Lippincott's Magazine, Americans and American Fashions in London. Americans are at a premium everywhere abroad just now, and in London more than anywhere else. American soda water, American tramways, hotels “on the American principle,” American ware3, and wares recommended to American purchasers, are advertised on all sides ; on the Fourth of July a “grand American fete” was held at Cremorne Gardens, with a special illumina nation, and announcement that “ all the Amer icans in London would be present;” in so ciety, American girls are decidedly “ the fash ion.” There is material in this for a very se rious article to be addressed to my country folk, but this is not my present intention. Whatever there is to be said on that subject, their beauty and charms are securing them a triumph which they are not called upon to forego. Yet, like all triumphs, it is over en emies. The universal sentiment in London sooiety regarding a stranger is the memorable one recorded by Punch during some agrarian or mining troubles in the Midland counties : “ There’s a stranger: ’cave ’arf a brick at him.” People who lack the charity which begins at home, whose whole social existence is a struggle to maintain his or her own place against all comers, be they nephews, cousins, nieces, btothers or sisters, cannot abound in any larger charity. The order of the day is selfishness, not in its most refined, but in its coarsest forms: the watch-words are, Chacun pour soi,” and “The and take the hind most. —From London in the Season, in the Monthly Gossip of the November number of Lippincott's Magazine. Our Bankers Abroad. Late files of European papers comment most favorably on the appointment of the London firm of Henry Clews & Cos., as bank ers abroad for all foreign countries of the U. S. Government and the Treasury Depart ment, in place of Baring Bros. It is true that no feeling but the utmost cordiality of spirit exists between those two representative banking houses. it is not true, that Baring Bros, have trans acted their business with the Government in an unsatisfactory manner. On the contrary, the utmost good feeling has existed from the beginning of the trust up to the present time. It is true that the government has confi dence in the House of Henry Clews & Cos., and it is rather a testimonial of confidence in their manner of doing business, than a reward for services rendered to the government by Mr. Clews, that has secured the appointment of Henry Clews & Cos. as our bankers abroad. This house has risen rapidily in public con fidence, until it has reached the government, which nationalizes its popularity by conferring the present appointment of Fiscal agents. — Probity, tact, patriotism, and financial power thus get a compliment. The duties of their possision are such, that it cannot but tend to give general confi dence throughout this country and in Europe to the name and credit of this leading bank ing house.— Ex. Scrambles. —That entertaining and beau tifully illustrated series of papers, “ Scram bles among the Alps,” is continued in the November number of Lippincolt's Magazine, and will, for some time to come, constitute one'of the leading attractions of this interest ing periodical. A noticeable feature of the present issue i3 a searching and accurate ac count of the rise, character, and aims of the famous “Internationale,” by a writer of much ability. Fiction is amply represtnted by contributions from the pens of several well* known authors. The first part of “Ouida’s” new story, “A Branch of Lilac,” possesses the marked characteristics of that peculiar writer. Mrs. Lucy Hamilton Hooper’s little romance, “Two Soldiers of Jena,” will be found very attractive. SHARP & FLOYD, (SUCCESSORS TO GEO. SHARP, Jr.,) WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GA., Manufacturing and Mcrchaut Jewelers, Watch- Makers, Silversmiths, and Engravers. We Do First Class Work. We sell only First Class Goods* We sell the Diamond Spectacle. We believe it to be the best in use. We Keep the very Best ol Workmen. We have a large stock of Fine Jewelry. We have the Latest Styles. We have a large stock of Diamonds. We are legitimate Diamond Dealers, We have a large stock of Wutcbes. We sell at Small Profits. We buy our goods for Cash. We buy them very low. We sell them low as the lowest. We have more Solid Silver Ware manufac tured than any Jeweller in Georgia. We Entrave all our Ware free of charge. We have a motto -Quick Sales, Small Profits. We guarantee every article sold. We guarantee all our work. We make Gold, Silver and BroDze Medals. We want to tarnish every Fair in the State. We can make Premiums for Fairs. We know that we can m ike them at a less price than any house in Georgia. We oan make Premiums, then, as low ns nuy House in the United States. We cannot, shall not be excelled in Finish, Price or Quality. We shall not be undersold. Give us a fair trial. SHARP & FLOYD. 2543-66—25 t Important notice -L TO CONSUMERS OF DRY GOODS. All Retail Orders amounting to S2O and Over Delivered in any Part of tlio Country, Free of Express Charges. HAMILTON, EASTER & SONS, OF BALTIMORE, MD., In order the better to meet the wants of their Retail Customers at a distance, have established a BUREAU, and will, upon application, promptly send by mail full lines of Samples of the Newest and most Fashionable Goods, of FRENCH, ENGLISH and DOMESTIC MAN UFACTURE, guaranteeing at all times to sell as low, if not at less prices, than any houso in the country. Buying our Goods from the largest and most celebra ted manufacturers in different parts of Europe, and importing the same by Steamers direct to Baltimore, our stock is at all times promptly supplied with the novelties of the London and Paris markets. As we buy and sell only for cash, and make no bad debts, we are able and willing to sell our goods at from Tex to Fifteen Per Cent. Less Profit than if we gave credit. _ln sending for Samples, specify the kind of goods de sired. We keep the best grades of every class of goods, from the lowest to the most costly. Orders unaccompanied by the cash, will be sent 0. O. D. PRO MPT-I J A YIEO WHOLESALE B UYERS are invited to inspect the Stock in our Jobbing and Pack age Department. Address HAMILTON, EASTER & SONS, 197, 199, 201 and 203 West Baltimore Street, 2525 —2575 Baltimore, Md. SBELL foundry, Established in 1837. Superior Belle for Churches, Schools, etc. .of Pnre Cop per and Tin, fully war ranted, and mounted with our Latest Improved Rotary Hangings, the Illustrated Catalogue sent free, VANDUZEN & TIFU. 102 & 104 B. Second SL, Cincinnati, 2540—90—50 t THE STEWART COOK STOVE. WITH DUMPING GRATE. LATEST IMPROTE.HENT! BEST IN THE WORLD, MANtJFACTORBD BX FULLER, WARREN & CO., TROY, N- Y. The Stewart Stove, which has been in use for more than a quarter of a ceutury, and by its economy and complete adapiation to the wants of the kitchen,j-has maintained an acknowledged superiority over all other stoves, is now introduced to the public with all the modern conveniences of Front Draft, Ash Drawer and Damping Grate. The Flues have also been enlarged und improved, so as to ensure an excellent Draft at all times, and still to retuin in the Stove its unrivalled economical featores. No stove has ever yet been made to do as much work with as little fuel as tho Stewart. The following brief summary is the result of One Day’s Work, recently accomplished at Ulo versville, N- Y., with oue Stewart Stove: Baked 415 pounds of bread, half a bushel of po tatoes, 5 apple pies. Roasted 73 pounds of beet. Boiled 1 barrel of water; also, 17 gallons heated to 150 degrees. All this with one coal fire, not a particle of coal being put into the stove alter the fire was start ed in the morning. Those in want of Cook Stoves will secure the most economy by procuring the best. The Stewart Stoves are for sale in nearly every town and city throughout the United States. FULLER, WARREN & CO., Exclusive Manufacturers, Troy, Pf. Y. _ , „„ . 1 53 State St., Chicago, 111. BranchJHonses :[ g 0 ver Cleveland, O. The Warren Donbljp'Oven Cooking Range the most perfect operating Range in the market, and the Lawson Hot Air Fornaces, the very best for heating Churches, Public Buildings, and Private Resi dences? Are also manufactured and for sale by FULLER, WARREN 4 CO. Descriptive Pamphlets furnished on application. FoTla.e in Atlanta by J. WARLICK, 2486 Peachtree Street. BUSINESS CARDS. A. CONSTANTINE’.S Persian Healing Soap. Patented March 12, 1887. FOB THE lOILET, BATH ABB NURSERY This Soap hag no equal. It preserves the complex* ion fair, the skin soft, flexible aod healthy. Itreuiovei all dandruff, preserves the hair soft and silky, and pre vents it from falling off. It cures Pimples, all Diseases of the Scalp and Skin, and is a GOOD SHAVING SOAP. Agents wanted. Office, 43 Ann St., New York. Ask any dealer for A. A. Constantine’s Soap. 2582—t JpIRST PREMIUM Awarded at Cotton States Fair, Augusta, THOMASVJLLE FAIR, AND ALL SOUTHERN FAIRS WHERE EXHIBITED, 1870. THE SENTGKEER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, AT THE WORLD’S FAIR Constituted by the homes of the people, received the Great Award of the Highest Sales, and have left all rivals far behind them, for they sold in 1870, One Hun dred and Twenty-seven Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-three Machines. The Singer Manufacturing Company sold over tho Florence Sewing Machine Company 110,173 Maohines Sold over the Wilcox & Gibbs' Sew ing Machine Company 88,943 “ Sold over the Weed Sewing Machine Company 92,881 “ Sold over the Grover & Baker Sew ing Machine Company 70.421 “ Sold over the Howe Machine Compa ny 02,677 Sold over the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company., 44,605 “ It is the most simple and easily regulated Machine now in use. The shuttle gives an even tension from the full to tba empty bobbin. Makes the most durable, elastic and smooth stitch. Stitching the softest muslin without drawing it into the feed, and from that to heavy cloth or leather with out changing the tension, making it capable of a greater range ot work than any other Mucbine made. Wo use the straight needle, and it will do more and finer work than the curved needles. The work moves from you instead of sideways, which is muoh easier to manage. For speed and ease of operation it is unequalled. Our machinery is ail protected from dust. Our corder, tucker, gatherer, quilter, trimmer, ('ring er, binder, hemmer, braider, feller and embroidery at tachment, are simple and easily used. We have the best of silks of our own manufacture at wholesale and retail, of all colors and numbers. We will place the Singer in your family for a trial with any machine you may wish to try with it. The sales of our New Family Sewing Machine is steadily increasing, showing its popularity. The new No. 1 Machine, for Tailors and Boot-makers, is the best in the market. Examine before purchasing. Are now sold ou easy terms at the Atlanta Agenoy. R. T. SMILLIE, Local Agent. Corner of S. Broad and W. Alabama streets. Agents wanted everywhere. Silk Thread, Needles, Oil, etc., always on hand. Stitching neatly done. H. D. HAWLEY, General Agent for Georgia, South Carolina and Floiida. Pincipal Distributing Offices. 182 Broughton Street, Savannah, Ga.; 197 King Street, Charleston, and the Atlanta Office. Local Offices : J. 11. Bramhall, Columbus, Ga. A L. Clinkscules, Macon. Ga. E. H. Sumner, Augusta, Ga. E. C. Hough, Rome, Ga. Satterfield, Byron & Cos., Cartersville, Ga. E. H. Bloodworth, Barnesville, Ga. S. F. Wilder & Son, Forsyth, Ga. Mallard Brothers, Thomasville, Ga. Mrs. B. E. Johnson, Bainbridge, Ga. Montgomery & Shaw, Americus, Ga. Geo. A. Peek, Jacksonville, Fla. And in almost every connty, our Machine is now ully represented. Anyone ordering a Machine from reading this ad vertisement, please state it when ordering. 2541—2591—60 t TRAVELERS’ GUIDE. WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD CO E. W. Cole, Superintendent, Atlanta. Night Passenger Train — Outward. Leave Atlanta 10.30 PM Arrive at Chattanooga 6.16 A.M Day Passenger Train — Outward. Leave Atlanta C 00 A.M Arrive at Chattanooga i.21 P.M Fast Lene to New York — Outward. Loave Atlanta 2.45 P.M Arrive at Dalton 7.53 P.M Night Passenger Train — lnward. Leave Chattanooga 5.20 P.M Arrive at Atlanta 1.42 A.M Day Passenger Train — lnward. Leave Chattanooga... 530 A.M Arrive at Atlanta 2.20 P.M Accommodation Train—lnward. Leave Dalton 2.25 A.M Arrive at Atlanta 9.10 A.M GEORGIA RAILROAD. S. K. Johnson, Superintendent, Augusta. Day Passuger Train. Leave Augusta 8.00 A.M Leave Atlanta 7 10 A.M Arrive at Augusta • • • • 5.40 P.M Arrive at Atlanta 6.20 P.M Night Passenger and Mail Train. Leave Augusta 8.15 P.M Leave Atlanta 5 30 P.M Arrive at Augusta 3.45 A.M Arrive at Atlanta., 6.40 A.M Athens Branch Tbain leaves Union Point daily, Sunday excepted, at 1.15 P.M.. arriving at Athens at 435 P.M. Leave Athens at 9.15 A.M., arriving at Union Point 12.50 P.M. On Monday and Tuesday nights, n train leaves Union Point at 2.20 A.M . arrives at Athens 5.15 A.M.; leaves Athens, 8 P.M., arriving at Union Point, 11 P.M. Wash/noton Branch. —Train leaves Washington at 10 A.M., arrives at Barnett, 11.30 A.M.; leaves Barnett 2.15 P.M., arriving at Washington at 4.10 P.M. On Monday and Tuesday nights, leaves Wash ington at 10.20 P.M., arriving at Barnett. 12 at night. Leaves Barnett, 1.50 A.M., arrives at Wasliinglon, 3.30 A.M. Macon and Augusta Railroad.— Train leaves Camak. 12.40 P.M., arriving at Milledgeville Junction 4.20 P.M.; leaves Junction at 6.15 A.M, arriving at Camak, 9.25 A.M. Connects Augusta with South Carolina, Charlotte, Colombia and Augusta, and Augusta with Savannah Railroad. ATLANTA AND WEST POINT RAILROAD. L. P. Grant, Superintendent, Atlanta Day Passenger Train — Outward. Leave Atlanta 7.10 A.M Arrive at West Point 11.40 A.M Day Passenger 'Drain—lt ward. Leave West Foint 12 45 P.M Arrive at Atlanta 5.00 P.M Night Freight and Passenger — Outward. Leave Atlanta 7.09 P.M Arrive at West Point 10.45 P.M Night Freight and Passenger — lnward. Leave West Point 3.00 A.M Arrive at Atlanta 10.07 A.M NASHVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD J. W. Thomas, Superintendent, Nashville. Day Paseengsr Irain. Leave Nashville 9.30 A.M Arrive at Chattanooga 4.20 P.M Leave Chattanooga 3.45 A.M Arrive at Nashville 1.30 P.M Night Passenger Train. Leave Nashville 6.15 P.M Arrive at Chattanooga 4.30 A.M Leave Chattanooga.. 8.00 P.M Arrive at Nashvill#- 5 00 A.M Night trains run daily; day trains run daily, Sun days excepted. Both trains connect at Chattanooga for Rome, At lanta, and all principal Southern cities. Selma, Borne and Dalton Railroad. DAY PASSINOKR THAIS—NORTH. Leave Selma. 10:05 a.m Arrive at Borne. 8:85 p.ui Arrive at Dalton 11:96 p.m NIGHT PASSENGER train—SOUTH. Leave Dalton 8:10 p.m Arrive at Rome 11:86 p.m Arrive at Selma. 10:80 a.m AOCOKICODATION TRAIN. Leave Borne I;4C p.m. Arrive at Borne. i;46 p.m. The accommodation train runs from Borne to Jacksonville dally, Sundays exoepted. The through passenger train only will be run on Sunday. #
