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s'oWWhK' — =3=i= throw ftreh* bee more peonU, But U«r does the number of church*. stend In proportion le th* population teftedi 8teto I By the oen*ft*, tl at ion In fftSk Is m fettoM: Georgia, 3.06 to every 1,000 population >Ohio, l.Utt :,OT5re«*inttriJct: «: to thelMMWthW Of W powlation. 1 To huve her Gil ratio of chueehe*, auaord- ig^SviMjSSt. to fie *Ad l» Qeoi$i», Ohio ought to hove 4,060, loataed *f :i,0.‘kk Sot&tt, *> far from being t*o thousand and seventy-fcor ahead, m the gondemM says, she is really, and hi Get, 198 Mind! It la tree the Ohio build ing* are efilnuied at a highe^ cost or value than those in Georgia; and thi* may he aocordiqg to the feet. But with us we do not look »o much to the splendor of arthiUotit***. ‘t r the outward appearaaoh of our temples of worship, as we do to having a bouie of some sort where the people of all classes, including th* “poor,” yea. even the "e'ave” may have “the Gospel preached to them.” .Itow, sir, aa the gentleman ha* seen fit to leave the original issue of the com parative agrieukanu developmenta of .the two States, and has given us statistics on other matters, I will tillow hla example, and call attention to one or two other subjects which Wilt throw aome nght Upon the workings of their respective social systems. Th* eihibition of eburohea.i* only one side of the moral picture. Let us turn it, and look at the other. How stand the fists of crimes In these States I By the oenaus, In Georgia, during the year for which the returns were taken, there ware but BO criminal convictions in the whole State, while in Ohio there were 848! There were, in Georgia, in the penitentiary, 89 convicts; in Ohio there were 400! and of these 406 then in prison for crime in Ohio, 44 of them were blacks! Fortv-fijur opt of a free black population of 25,279. This is a most striking feet, showing the immorality of that particular class of people, as well as their degradation. If crime existed in the same ratio amongst the whites in that State, there would bo ever three thousand of them in the State prison! The gentleman spoke of “carrying the war into Africa.” I thought that was the last place be would be disposed to carry it, as the sable sons of that unfortunate land seem to be his especial favorites. But as he hns carried it there, it is but proper that the result should be duly chronicled. Again, the gen*fit .condition Of n people is, to some extent, indicated by the amount of want ana dfektitution artiongst them. On this head, comparing Georgia with Ohio, the census presents the following results : Paupers. Annual cost of support. Geofgia.'.'J.v.... 1,036 27,820 Ohio 2,513 95,250 But, Mr. Chairman, my time is nearly out. There are many other matters I did wish to allude to, which I must pass over and omit. 1 wanted to say some thing about the present condition of things in some of the Northern States, par ticularly in the city of New York, where it is now found that there is, after all, something in life worse than being required, or oven made, to work. This is the great evil the negro in the South is subjected to, in the opinion of those who rail so much against our social system. But that greater evil which ia now felt in New York, ia the want of work to do, by which means may be earned to keep from starving. “ Ilunger is a sharp thorn,” was, a few days ago, the banner motto _ borne by thousands in that great mercantile metropolis. I'nder our system, sir, we never have such scenes. We have, it is true, our afflictions of diseases, and epidemics, and disasters of drought, floods, and hurricanes; hut the wail of thou sands crying for bread has never yet, under the blessings of Heaven, been heard in our land of snnshin* and plenty, “ r nr ted," though it be, with slavery ! Even the curses of our enemies seem to fall ns blessings on our heads. We have u “Social Providenea," to ua* a late very appropriate designation given by the New York Tribune, which prevents all thia A system by which capital, accumulated in the years of plenty, is required to sustain labor in the years of want. Tlicsc matters 1 wished to go somewhat into, but I cannot. But enough has been said to show « development, whether considered physically, morally, socially or intel lectually, quite sufficient to place Georgia (witli domestic institutions as much abused as they are by those who know so little about them) fully alongside of Ohio, “the giant of the West,” or any other State of this Union. That was mv proposition, and 1 think I have made it good. 1 want, in conclusion, however, to say a few things, Mr. Chairman, about one of our great staples. I omitted it in its proper place, but it will do, perhaps, just os well nere. 1 mean the article of cotton ; and I wish to say what 1 do on that subject, from the fact lhat 1 have seen it stated that the Ohio hay crop was equal to the Georgia cotton crop, and that the hay crop of the United States an nually ia quite equal in importance, as an agricultural product, to this great Southern, or, I should rather say, national staple. Those who thus think, or talk, or argue, take a very narrow, imperfect and unphilosophtcal, as well as nnstates- manlike view of the subject. As to the mere money value of this article, or its excess in value over the other, it is not iny purpose to speak; that—great as, in fact, it is—is a small matter, infinitely small, when placed by the side of other larger and more comprehensive considerations of the question. Some things have values extrinsic as well as intrinsic. Cotton is eminently one of these. Gold und silver are not so much entitled to be placed on the fist of such things as it is. The extrinsic value of these metals arises from their agency as the adopted represen tatives of all values. With their displacement, however, many substitutes could be obtained. But what substitute could be procured lor the agency of cotton ? Let us look, for a moment—and 1 have but a moment or two left—into some of the relations of this product to the active business operations of the world. To illustrate, I will state simple facts. These facts are collected from the very abis report I hold in my hand. It was made by Mr. Andrews, a Northern man. it is Ex. Doc. No. 13ft, 1st sess. 32d Cong. Full credit, therefore, may be given to the facts. They come with the stamp of the highest authority. From this document it appears that the cotton crop of this country gives employment to at loust 120,000 tons of inland steam tonnage, and 7,000 persons in transporting it to points for shipment. It gives employment to 50,000 American seamen, and one million of American tonnage in its coastwise shipment. It gives employment to 800,000 tons of American shipping, and 40,000 American seamen, in its for eign shipment. Twenty-five thousand other persons, at least, are engaged in receiving and shipping it. . It gives employment to at least 100,000 operatives in American factories, whose annual wages are over 817,000,000. In these factories there are invested eighty millions of American capital, which turn out, annually, at least seventy millions Worth of product*. Willi these fects before him, the writer of the report uses this language. I ‘isk the aMchtion of the committee to it, because it is no less graphic than truthful : “Every interest throughout the innd—at the North and the Sorth, in the East and th* Wert,,in the iqtyrior, and the Pacific as well as the Atlantic coast—re ceives from it (cotton) active aiid material aid. It promotes, essentially, the ag ricultural interests in those State* Where cotton is not produced. It ia the main source of the proeperity of the mechanic, the artisan, and other laboring classes, as well aa that of the merchant and manufacturer in every section of the Union. Everywhere it has laid, broad, and deep, and permanent, the foundations of the wealth and strength of the United States, and of their independence of foreign nations. More than anything else has thia product made other nations, even the most powcrftil, dependent on the United States of America. More than anv other article, nay, more than all other agricultural products united, has cotton ad vanced the navigating and commercial interest* of the eastern Atlantic States, and of the whole Union. It, more than any other agricultural product, has cherished and sustained those Interests, not merely by Its direct contribution, but by awak ening commerce in other countries, from which they have received profitable em ployment. Neither the whale fisheries, nor the mackerel aud cod fisheries have been of the same importance and vulue to thoee interests as the annual cotton crop of the United States, since the war of 1812, has been, for its transportation coastwise and exportation to foreign countries. Like the light and heat of the sun, the genial effects of this inestimable blessing which Providence has bestowed upon this favored people, reach every portion of the land. They extend to every city, and town, and village, and hamlet, and fnrm-houac-r-to the ship, to the steam boat, to the oenat barge, and to the railroad.” Yea, air, throughout the length and breadth of thia vast Confederation of States there ia aot a tenement, whether cebin or palace, where the life-giving and life- sustaining Influence of title Southern product ia not felt and realized. And be- " * aides this, It may Be added that Uie same article gives employment, and the means of supporting human life, to at least three millions of persons in Europe, and the investment or at least three hundred millions of their capital! Figures almost Dill, sir, to calculate the extent of the hfeafle of thfe'.article. hnos .the dbMiirt the happiaea. and well-Uto* of manl£l«fj {JhSM, £ uUfM’jhese results is da* to thst portion of this product contributed by Georgia. This Sfcetdfgtve* us Jiljt ft snght glpncc at some of the extrinsic values of cotton, to which the money value to the grower, great aa it is, i* but s drop in the ocean. B«t whea ia the face of theae Gets, and these grand results, can be bold enough to maintain that thi* " in the balance end w cotton crop of frsa cev. feed, i . ware eouetfea 'amscsUuMtr it ebout him, but he < tie* to oo* of the most important elements of hi* country’* ^ the figure of the adthor of the tef compare the Wd laraps, or ings of the nineteen hundred ti the fell blase of the “glorious I here just nod few, w# might muoh bot es, or whatever elae lights up the dwell- inhabitents of (hrt State every night, to glorious Ring of Dey," at noon, shedding abroad not only light, lait heat, animation, and life, upon ft smftirtg world around os. —— ."itifetiw n* wHe i.■.r—~ —-— BP WHOLESALE ANB RETAIL. T HANKFUL tar the POM galraeag* at atawaufeeKHM friend* a'hd easterners, tad hip!** * cuatiaaano* of the seme, i tfsia take pleaser* la iftforatldg them that t h*ve bow la LAkaSlT aRdb&t aborted ■ TOOK FURNITURE. svsr befon offered in Atlanta, aad Aix at SOUTHERN MAKE, esd »n la almost daily rsestpt of Now and Varied Style* of all hied* of Fureitur* from It wall known Factory of of which F. W. FLYNN, fonnarly of th* Lfeeelty Work*. Oeoryia, ia For.ais, wh. . la a snlBciaat guarani** that all tba work from the ABOVE FACTORY la gild at th# mi ti substantial quality. ALL WORK WARRANTED GOOD Prisaa from 16 to it par oast, lower tbaa any other Fuaairoas Stoss la Gaotgia. MATTRASSE8, LOUNGES, LOOKING GLASSES, WINDOW SHADES. COlTaOi CHAIRS, AC., AC., always on hand. Pi truss Frames msd* and F urritcbe repaired with cosines# and dsapaleb. COFFINS OF ALL SIZES ON RAND. WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. D. M. YOUNG. Agent, WD. GRAY. Nor, S. dtf. For JOHfi WILLIAMS & MCLEAN, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE 1 floss ml flair Mattresses! LOOKING-GLASS PLATES, &C., PEACH-TREE STREET, ATLANTA, GEORGIA —SOLS AGENTS FOB— Wrigla^s Spring-Bed, Admitted to be the Best in use. mayl? SIX PRESSES ! THREE PROPELLED BY STEAM ! ALL OF THEM KUNMING NIGHT AND SAT 1 FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE -AND- BOOK BINDERY. WOOD, IIANLEITER, rice it CO., Desire lo direct public at* trntiou to their unequalled facilities for the superior and prompt execution of all work in their line, from A 8mall Card to the Largest Volume ! The establishment, in its various departments, ia perhaps the moat complete in the whole Southern country. It is the object of the proprietor* to es tablish on % permanent basis a Southern Publish ing House ! thereby effectually removing every necessity for sending North to have works issued. Thus far the enterprise has proved highly success- iul, snd the proprietors feel assured thst the beneficial results of such sn undertaking have ye to be more fully appreciated by our people. The several departments receive the person al su perrision of the firm, and satisfaction guaranteed to each and every patron. ftiE* THE BOOK-BINDING DEPARTMENT Is handsomely fitted up with all the modern improvements and ooarenieoces of that branch Blank-Books ruled and manufactured; Law Works, Medics) Works, Music, MagaEiaes, dec., bound in any style desired, and at prices thst cannot Tail to give satisfaction. ^ the JOB PRINTING DEPARTMEN Is specially complete in every particular ; constant additions are being made in the way of such improvements as are introduced into the Typographical world, by which the proprietors are ena bled to furnish the handsomest printing in the Confederated’J States! Everything, from a Visiting Card to a Mammoth Poster, tastefully executed hi any style snd color desired. Three rii their six Presses are prope" day and night! Bank Cheeks, YtiiwisJ Blanks, Programmes, '♦team, and kap< in nperatioi iatelll- 'Injue- Toedipt Bill Heads, Professional Curds, Circular*. Legal Blanks, Letter Heads, And every imaginable variety of Printing promptly attended to at prices hut n small advance ot. New York rates! Printing tn FANCY COLORED INKS, AND WITH GOLD AND NILVER HHONZ'KH. lx thi Rioifisr erru or thi ait! 0B- The Proprietors, confident of their ability to give entire satisfaction, solicit a share o public patronage. Mara (row ell parts of the ooaatry will receive their persoaal attention, and II work promptly forwarded par Express or otherwise, aa map bd directed All lettere should be sfifitusael M > • „ ' . _ . T ti- 1 : tfrw'fctL, " vaouuu <n emit Mutae it fiisaoy and Btfipl* DRY GOODS, MARKHAM S BLOCK, Conte* -Whitehall it Afetmnllft ■*»., ATLANTA, OBOBOIA. Feb. ll—ly. • <f titling ISSKWBB ad am reed/ ' >*ad feeder supply the t Inffteg eountr CHI5A DEPOT. COLE & WYLIE, Wkdliealt and Retail Dealer* tn sticks. Tee Trly», Tab!* Mata, Baeketa. Glam Shades, Table Cutlery, Ac., ft., CHEAP FOR CASH. While Granite and common Creek cry at wholesale, at Charleston pries*, aoerly oppe- site Beach ft Root's, Whitehall strut, Atlanta, Georgia. April fid, ISfil. WRIGHT & JACKSON, rACTOkS, COKKISSIOV —AID— F0RWXR0IN9 MERCHANTS BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, OA. ALLBX E. WRIGHT. WH. B. JACKSON. ;ry Corn Whisky 01 FOSTER k QUEEN. i'ittdAfie, ttfeU&v WOOD, HANLBITER, RK)E A OO. UaiH TBU afire* al leslrellwT III M wH.-* kemailfoTskto Ife '"t&v tthlrts, R EFER to Captain John W. Anderson, Sa vannah, Os.; Ciaghorn A Cunningham, Savannah, Oa.; Boston A Villslonga. Savan nah, Qa.; Erwin A Hardee, Savannah, Oa.; Carbart A Bros., New York; T. W. Flemming A Co , Augusta, Oa.; 8wan A Bro , Fernaudf- na, Fla; Biibee A Canova, Jacksonville, Fla.; H UHart, a) Palatka, Fla.; Simon Merritt, Hawkio'ville, Ga. Agent for the Everglade Line of Mail Steam ers to Feroandtaa, and Steamers Isaac Scott and Oak, to Hawkinavilla. aprlfi-lm. gen. iea h. foster. j. l. qobn* FOSTER & QUEEN, GROCERS —AMD— COMMISSION MEttHfiNTS, ■ARIETTA STBBBTp Atlanta.......... - ....Georgia, K EEP constantly on hand all kinds of re visions and Family Supplies, boy i all kinds of Tennessee snd Country Pr also, sell Goods consigned to the best advan- tege, and render aceounts r.f sale promptly.- hsnd, snd for sale by may b. n. a. McLendon, WHOLESALE GROCER, AND DBALBK IE FOREIGN ANO DOMESTIC LIQUORS. Tobecoo, Cigars, Ao., —*1*0— COSXN. LARD. CORN ft FLOUR. 8. Cherekte Klerk, 1•teteh-Trf* M., Atlanta, Georgia. T li F. attention of cloee Carh Buyer* ia ra- ipectfullr incited to tha aboraitook. March 28 *84 .racy th tog ata* in th* l aend quality ami at LOW deal re bargain* thould gir* m. * * -tuo, o* *A(*— J" ewelry! Oombsl And otbwr NoUoua.1 M. OPPI Whlteall atnat, ■ march Utr B. F. B0MAR, nmiaFMTninri 2d Door West of the Full** ] Alabama Street ATLANTA,. KBPS 00 lion of Freah FAMILY 8UP have been bought, and wiU be s * f for Oeehp tharaby enabling l. , ucements to cash buyers. In store— J5 kegs choice Goshen l to Barrels choice N. 0.( 8 Hogsheads choice 9. ( A complete stock of fine Sugars, ‘ erel, Flour, Candles, Tea, sod svc., ally lound in k first class Grocery A April Iff. I. Off McDAKIEl WB0LV8ALI MALES Bi llillr, YAH OM, Ltll, 1 ANO LCAOING OROCiRfl Hornier Street, between Whitehall 41 ATLANTA,.. April !S, I8S1. MARSHALL HOUt WH. COOLIDGft SAVANNAH, GEORSii March 18 COX, IIfLL, dt WHOLESALE GRi AN# MM0T mrORTtBS fl W1IB8, lalQUOKi CIGARS, TOBACCC Peach- Tree Street, Atlanta, 6 March 28. •AM K1BKUAM. KIliKMAN A LUK 1801. 1861. SALMONS & SIMMONS, Wholesale sad BeUil Dealer* la IV & DOMESTIC DRV < Corner of Whilehall and Alabama Bis., Atlanta, Georgia. NEW SPRING STOCK/ O NE of our firm having returned from Mar ket, where he has just completed an exten sive purchase of onr Spring Stock of DRY GOODS, watahe thi* method of adritidg th* pnblle of th* **m*. Our alack of STAPLE ft PA HOT GOODS were Barer more attraatlr*. Th* iilpply of ■LEACHtD AND BROWN SHEETING* AND SHIRTINGS, fto., I* am pi*. Crepe IT inflate. Barege Anftaie, Freath f'kiolt, J*M*tf|W, Brad* MMu. and a aplondid aaaortmoat of rialm fir Paacp mike. Silk Mantlee, Duet ere, fire., matjr ho found omoag onr aaoortmont; alw, ALEXANDER ELD 0L0TE8, BILE Ml id, ft*. Erary rarlatyof Ladiao’ and MiaaM* SHOES, manufactured In Phllofiolphla exprocoly for our trad*, ft more booutlful lot of CARRETINOt, OIL CLOTHS AND MATTINGS w* hero nonr displayed in thia mark*! ftl] of which wc will toll low for CAfiH. Order* promptly atusdod to. SALMONS ft SIM MOHS, fttlasta, March 28, 1MI. ~WILLIAM F. PARKER, —WIT*— THOMAS W. MURRAY, Pnrmarfy of 1*1 Chamber* SL, Vow York, laromrsBi a wsaLBOAU obalss* t* Wines, Liquors & Cigars, *ae coKMtmfo* «un* m BUTTER, CHEESE, Ao., Ate SOT, map terete, fts*s*eikfi, Da. ftpril IS-dawlm. «miM in 1 MRS. DURAND R espectfully *anoa*e*e th.t Friday, 12th April, flattest.) will he h*r rogeler oftaoieg duy for fe* ftawoei. aad eordiefily «- r„-yj:,sri.^U , ar *tX“ tnlltB MILIINERTI COMMISSION MERCHI No. 170, Sucond 8t: IT. LOUIE, MISSOHIli llalar to Joes Kiaaaa*. J»*« l OauansLO, Kaahriila, Tcdd. COLOHED FMOTOCKaM P 0RTRAIT8 taken from Lll*, ore Old D*gnerreotypo*, fic., byth*r is prn*e»», aad Eh’LftBOED TO ANY I i Miniature *i*» op to th* til* iraonc horihg D.nuerreulypC* ed raiotir** end friandt, now I eertnnity of her!** thorn copied I hoy may wife, and paiotaduptep OIL OR WATER pOLORS, 0E I with fe* eertetokj at Routog * ,0 Z- r L7J?°* *m*r Oeorgfa. C Apr, S. CfiNFECTUBNAf F*. M. JACK, . bsxt DOO* *0 w. r. muni WTiltufoadl St, Atlw.U.1 K EEPS cositantlron bond *■• of CONFECTION ARIES, FRUITS. CaI hutb, oftNum _ P ®S Alan. Fie* I m par tod WIEEftl TOBACCO, CIOABS, *e, fie. Alto, a graat rariaty of Ftncy 1 Tha tiadie* aid th* Pnblle I*" ■ poatfolly iarftod to call. dentistry h. HirrtTiNcTox, OFFICE i» BewjjJ] lug, corner Whltoholl »nd P"“* Roaidaeo* first boote to th* Hon. R. Raw*oi>. Maura Reach **»**£* ar*. Dr. tiogen, Atlanta: Ker. C A Vaw^lwr-, «• Lewtee, Hoery Tartar, Alkaaf- tt.ff.dk _l«a*rt, wh« era price, 0*IU from ad iMarnoRhm MEDIC^ DBS. ft»JDUk*I»«M i -■ •» mBteeewmaemrat,! •Ml *T*d t*di aradw iimem ha ila Forker'e sew hriefc h«ptt<e tUetaeoft April 11.