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The Sumter Republican.
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ments have been made.
Charles F. Crisp,
Mtomey at JLaw*
AMERICUS, GA.
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B. P. HOLLIS,
Mtomey at Law*
AMERICUS, GA.
Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank
building. dec2otf
E. G SIMMONS.
Mtomey at Law*
AMERICUS GA.,
Office in Hawkins’ building, south side of
I.a mar Street, in the old office of Fort &
Simmons. janOtf
JT. A. AA.I EY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AM) SOLICITOR IN EQUITY,
Office on Public Square, Over Gyles’
Clothing Store, Americus, Ga.
After a brief respite I return again to the
practice of law. As in the past it will be
my earnest purpose to represent my clients
faithfully and look to their interests. The
commercial practice will receive close atten
tion and remittances promptly made. The
Equity practice, and cases involving titles of
land and real estate are my favorites. Will
practice in the Courts of South west Georgia,
the Supreme Court and the United States
Courts. Thankful to my friends for their
patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf
I offer my professional services again to the
good people of Americus. After thirty years’
of medical service, I have found It difficult
to withdraw entirely. Office next door to
Dr. Eldridge’s drugstore, on the Square.
janlTtf It. C. BLACK, M. D.
Dr.J.A. FORT,
Physician an3 Surgeon,
Offers his professional services to the
people of Americus and vicinity. Office at
Dr. Eldridge’s Drag Store. At night can
be found at residence at the Taylor house,
on Lamar street.
Calls will receive prompt attention.
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LOOK!
Mrs. M. T. Elam
Has a Large Lot of
Buttons
Of various styles and qualities,
which she will sell at
5 Cents per Dozen.
Americus, Ga., June 2, 1883.
Wool Wanted,
BY THE
Laurel Mills Manufacturing
Company.
In exchange for good honest jeans tweeds
and linseys, we exchange our cloth to farm
ers, wool-growers and merchants on favora
ble terms, and will give you better value for
your wool than you can get by selling for
money.
FOR 10 POUNDS WASHED WOOL,
We give 8 yards Doeskin Jeans.
We give 10 yards School Boy Jeans.
We give 10% yards Tweeds.
We give 12% yards plain or Check Linseys.
FOR 10 FOUNDS WOOL IN THE DIRT,
We give 6 yards Doeskin Jeans.
We give 8 yards School Boy Jeans.
We give 8% yards Tweeds.
We give 10 yards plain or Check Linseys.
We will manufacture your wool into
jeans for 22% cents per yard, tweeds 15%,
linseys 12%. We pay freight on all wool
sent us. Send for circular and samples, and
you will send your wool when you see our
goods. Direct to
Laure Mills Manufacturing Cos.,
EOSWELL, COBB COUNTY, GA
aprll-sw&wly
TO THE PUBLIC.
Owing to the short crop of cotton which
has been made this season, we have decided
to GIN at 30 cents per hundred,
or $1.50 per bale, from September Ist.
We will shortly have running a Lathe
Machine, and will furnish Lathes as
cheap as anyone in this State or the seven
States will. We most respectfully solicit
vour patronage in our line.
HAWKINS & JACKSON,
at old stand of Burkhalter & Hooks.
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JDR. STRONG'S PILLS.
Old. Well Tried, Wonderful
Health Renewing Remedies.
STRONG’S SANATIVE PILLS
tor the Liver. A speedy cure lor Liver
Complaint, Regulating the Bowels, Purify
ing the Blood, Cleansing from Malarial
Taint. A perfect cure for Sick Head
ache, Constipation and Dyspepsia.
STRONG’S PECTORAL PILLS
insure healthy appetite, good digestion, reg
ularity of the bowels. A sure remedy for
Colds and Rheumatism. A precious boon
to delicate females, soothing and bracing
the nervous system, and giving vigor and
health to every fibre of the body. Sold by
Druggists. For Pamplets, etc., address C.
E. Hull & Cos., Box 050, New York City.
Fashion catalogue
For Fall and Winter 1883*84.
SENT FUEE
To any one sending full name and address.
Contains lithographed Fashion Plates and
above 1,800 beautiful Wood Engravings,
illustrating the very latest novelties in La
dies’ and Children’s Suits and Cloaks, Un
derwear; Infants’ Outfits, Hosiery, Gents’
Furnishing Goods, Laces, Fancy Goods, Sil
verware, Jewelry,Watches, Roots and Shoes,
Hair Goods, etc., etc. Prices lower than
those of any other house. 11. e. f. kol'H
A SON, 6th Avc. A goth st., Netv York,
DIVORCES —No publicity; residents of
any State. Desertion, Non-Support.
Advice and applications for stamps. W. H.
LEE, Att’y, 239 B’way, N. Y.
Newspaper Advertising Bureau, 10
Spruce Street, New York.
eisi:
Thankful for past patronage, a continua
tion isearnestly solicited. One new 45 saw
Gin for sale at 52.25 per saw. One 45 and
two 40 second hand Gins in first-class re
pair for sale at *1 per saw, all warrant
id. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Shop
on Lee street, Americus.Ga.
anglß-lm P. 1* MIZE.
SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN.
ESTABLISHED I.\ 1854, /
By CHA3. W. HANCOCK. )
VOL. 18.
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F®lS¥f STREET,
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MR. SHAW is now in the Northern markets, purchasing his
FALL and WINTER STOCK of
NOTIONS, CLOTHING,
BOOTS
and
Hats, Umbrellas, Etc.
We must have room for these NEW GOODS, and we must
have Money to pay for them. If you want
Bargains !
Bargains !
Bargains !
IN
Ladies’ Hats, Parasols, Linen Lawns-
Figured Piques, lluslins.
and other SUMMER GOODS, call early, as
We are Offering Them Without Regard to Former
Prices!
€£¥§* SUMER CLftTHM
Oan be bad CHEAP for the CASH!
STRAW HATS,
Nobby and Nice, at “Rock Bottom” prices, and no mistake.
©SI HKSMT,
(Laundried and Unlaundried), is conceded to be
THE BEST SHIRT IN THE MARKET I
In the BOOT AND SHOE DEPARTMENT, we’are pre
pared to give the best values ever offered in this market.
k Stock is Sijly Incase, aal last le Eednsed.
It is impossible for us to specify all the bargains we are now
offering, and you will never know how much you have missed
unless you give us a call and inspect our goods and learn our
prices. This we cordially invite you to do.
JOHN R. 3HAVTS,
Forsyth Street* Mnericus Ga,
LOANED!
ON MORTGAGE.
APPLY TO
W. J. DIBBLE,
Real FjState •ftgent.
Office Up Stairs, over Peoples'
National Bank.
septs,3m
IF 1 OXTT Z 3 S
HORSE AMD CATTLE POWDERS
) r CUTZ 1
No Horse will die of roi.ro. Hots or Luxe Fe
ver, if Foutz's Powders are .used in tm
Foutz's Powders will cure and I'ivvi’M Moo' hot.kra.
Foutz’s Powders will prevent r-Ai’i - ix runs.
Foutz’s Powders will increase the quantity ot milk
and cream twenty per cent., and make the nutter firm
and sweet.
Foutz's Powders will cure or prevent almost kyeky
Disease to which Horses and Cattle are subject.
Foutz’s Powders will give Satisfaction.
Sold everywhere.
vAVID E. FOTJTZ, Proprietor.
3AL"?IttfOIIE. MD.
©SB-special edition.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1883.
AYER’S PILLS.
A large proportion of the diseases which
cause human suffering result from derange
ment of the stomach, bowels, and liver.
Aveu’s Cathartic Pills act directly upon
those organs, and are especially designed to
euro the diseases caused by their derange
ment, including Constipation, Indiges
tion, Dy&pepsia, Headache, Dysentery,
ami a host of other ailments, for all of
which they are a safe, sure, prompt, and
pleasant remedy. The extensive use of these
Pills by eminent physicians in regular prac
tice, shows unmistakably the estimation in
which they are held by the medical profes
sion.
These Pills are compounded of vegetable
substances only, and are absolutely free from
calomel or any other injurious ingredient.
A Sufferer from Headache writes :
“Ayer’s Pills are invaluable tome, and
arc my constant companion. 1 have been
a severe sufferer from Headache, and your
Pills are the only thing J could look to
for relief, one dose will quickly move my
bowels and free my head from pain. They
are the most effective and the easiest physic
1 have ever found. It is a pleasure to me to
speak in their praise, and 1 always do so
when occasion offers.
\Y. i,. Page, of AY. L. Page & Bro.”
Franklin St., Richmond,Ya., June 3, 1882.
“I have used Ayer’s Pills in number
less instances as recommended by you, and
have never known them to fail to accomplish
the desired result. \Ve constantly keep them
on hand at our home, and prize them as a
pleasant, safe, and reliable family medicine.
FUR DYSPEPSIA they are invaluable.
J. T. Hayes.”
Mexia, Texas, June 17,1882.
The Key. Francis B. Haulowe, writing
from Atlanta . Ga ., says: ‘‘For some years
past I have been subject to constipation,
from which, in spite of the use of medi
cines of various kinds, 1 suffered increasing
inconvenience, until some months ago 1
began taking Ayer’s Pills. They have
entirely corrected the costive habit, and
have vastly improved my general health.”
Ayer’s Cathartic Pills correct irregu
larities of the bowels, stimulate the appe
tite and digestion, and by their prompt and
thorough action give tone and vigor to the
whole physical economy.
PREPARED BY
Dr. J.C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists.
YOUNG AH experience the wonderful
. _ . ’ beneficial effects of
MIDDLE- A y or ’ s Sarsaparilla.
Ancn Children with Sore Eyes, Sore
AhtL). Ears, or any scrofulous or syph
ilitic taint, may bo made healthy and strong
by its use.
Sold by all Druggists; sl, six bottles for $5.
TUTTS
PILLS
TORPID BOWELS,
DISORDERED LIVER,
and MALARIA.
From these sources arise three-fourths of
the diseases of the human race. These
symptoms indicate their existence: Loss of
Appetite, Bowels costive, Sick Head
ache, fullness after eating, aversion to
exertion of body or mind, Eructation
of food, Irritability of temper, Low
spirits, A feeling of having neglected
some duty, Dizziness* Fluttering at the
Heart, l>ots before tbe eyes, highly col
ored Urine, CONSTIPATION, and de
mand the use of a remedy that acts directly
on the Liver. Asa Diver medicine TUTT’S
PILLS have no equal. Their action on the
Kidneys and Skin is also prompt; removing
all impurities through these three “ scav
engers of the system,” producing appe
tite, sound digestion, regular stools, a clear
skin and a vigorous body. TUTT’S PULES
cause no nausea or griping nor interfere
with daily work and are a perfect
ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA.
HE FEELS LIKE A NEW MAN.
“I have had Dyspepsia, with Constipa
tion, two years, and have tried ten different
kinds of pills, and TUTT’S are the first
that have done mo any good. They have
cleaned me out nicely. My appetite is
splendid, food digests readily, and I now
have natural passages. I feel like anew
man.” W. D. EDWARDS, Palmyra, O.
Office,44 Murray St.,N.Y.
TUTTS HAIR DYE.
Gray Hair or Whiskers changed in
stantly to a Glossy Black by a single ap
plication of this Dte. Sold by Druggists,
or sent by express on receipt of sl.
Office, 44 Murray Street, New York.
TUTT'S CASUAL OF USEFUL RECEIPTS FREE.
THE HEW PATENT
DUST-PROOF
SlifflOlOPESHim,
MANUFACTURED BY THE
American Watch Cos.,
WALTHAM, MASS.
This case is formed in one solid piece with
out joint or seam, opening in front only,
thus avoiding the usual Cap, and securing
greater strength and durability.
These watches are all open face. The
bezel, into which an extra strong crystal is
fitted with an especially prepared water
proof cement, is attached to the case hy
screwing it thereon, and thus forms an air
tight junction with tlio body of the case,
which is proof against dust and moisture.
To railroad men, travelers, miners, lum
bermen and others who are almostconstant
ly exposed and who have to make frequent
reference to the watch, these qualities are
of the utmost importance.
The Following- Fetters tell their
own Story.
“Valdosta, Georgia, July 20,1882.
“I sold one ot your Patent Dust-Proof
Cases about ten months ago, and the other
day it came back to me with the request to
make it wind easier. On examination I
found that the stem was rusty, and I inquir
ed into the cause of it. The gentlemen
stated to me that lie was starting some saw
logs that had lodged in the bend of the river,
when liis chain caught in a bush and threw
ills watcli into about twelve feet of water,
and lie was about two hours finding it.
When lie got it out it was running and lie
thought all right. In about three months
lie found that the stem -was hard to turn
and sent it to me.
I can say that the watcli is all that the
company claims for it and recommend it to
all railroad and mill men.
B. W. BENTLY.”
“Clinton, lowa, April 29, 1881.
“1 wisli you would send me a spring for
the Win. Ellery Watch. * * * By the way
this is a watch I sold in your Screw Bezel
Case to a farmer last fall. The first of Jan
uary he lost the watch iu the woods, and
found it this week iu about one foot of
water. It had lain three months and over
iu snow and water, with but slight injury
to the watch—only a hair spring.
“C. S. RAYMOND.”
Tile above were very severe tests, and de
monstrate beyond a doubt, that for any rea
sonable length of time during which a watch
might be under water it would receive no
injury whatever.
We make these cases in botli gold and sil
ver, and as a Perfectly Dust-Proof Stem
Winding Watcli Cave, Challenge the
World to Produce its Equal.
Forsala by all first-class Jewelers.
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Administrator’s Sale.
By virtue of an order from the Court of
Ordinary of Sumter County, will ha sold at
public outcry, between the hours of ten a.
m. and four' p. m.; on tiie first Tuesday in
October ISB3, the following real estate, be
longing to the estate of Geo. F. Cooper, de
ceased. The house and lot on south side of
College street in Americus, known as the
late residence of Dr. Cooper. The house
contains six rooms and the lot contains about
four acres. Stable, kitchen and all neces
sary outbuildings outlie premises. The loca
tion is very desirable. Sold for the benefit
of the heirs and creditors. Terms cash.
W. J. DIBBLE, Administrator.
july2l-3W&Wtd
GEORGIA IN A NUTSHELL.
From Report of J. J. Henderson, Commis
sioner of Agriculture.
THE CLIMATE.
By far the most important natural
characteristic of any country is its cli
mate. Upon the conditions of temper
ature, rainfall, dews, and winds, de-1
pends health, soil production, facilities] 1
for labor and transportation, beauty of
landscape, and many of ihe pleasures
which goes to swell the sum total of
human happiness. Moreover, climate
is beyond our control. We cannot
modify it—cannot adapt it to otir
wants—but must adapt ourselves to
its inexorable laws.
Temperature.—ln respect of tem
perature the climate of Georgia pre
sents a wide range, and yet nowhere
reaching extremes. Latitude affects
temperature (iu the northern temper
ate zone(at tiie rate of two degrees of
heat for each degree of latitude. As
the State extends from the parallel of
304 degrees northward to the parallel
of 35 degrees—a range of 4j degrees
of lattitude—the difference of mean
temperature duo to this cause is about
nine degrees. But the difference in el
evation above sea level also affects
temperature at the rate of about one
degree for every 300 feet; and as the
general level of the northern part of
the State is about 1,000 feet above the
coast region, the range of temperature
due to differences in general elevation
amounts to over 3 degrees. The two
causes operating together, gives a dif
ference in the mean temperature of the
two sections of the state of about 12
degrees.
The mean annual temperature of
the State, then, not considering the
tops of the mountain ranges, varies
from about 55 degrees in the northern
part to 68 degrees in the southern part
with regular giadations between these
two points. The summer mean temper
ature of the two sections does not vary
so much, and the winter mean rather
more, than the annual means respect
ively.^
In Southern Georgia the thermome
ter rarely rises above 95 degrees in
mid-summer, or falls below 35 de
grees in winter. In North Georgia it
occasionally reaches the height of 90
degrees in July, and falls so low as 5
degrees in January. In the course of
25 years of observation the writer haß
only once seen the thermometer above
100 degrees in the shade, or so low aB
zero, in Middle Georgia. Ninety de
grees is considered very warm July
weather in any part of the State, and
ten degrees above zero very cold.
In addition to the causes which give
snch desirable variety of temperature
to the different sections, Georgia occu
pies a very advantageous position with
reference to the two great seas—the
Atlantic Ocean on the south and south
east, and the Gulf of Mexico on the
southwest, A wind from either of
these points of the compass comes
loaded with the balmy influence of
these semi-tropical waters and the
Gulf stream, and greatly modifies the
winter temperature. Moreover, not
withstanding our longer summers, the
longest summer day in Savannah, Ga.,
is nearly one hour shorter than the
corresponding day in New York or
Chicago, and the nights are corres
pondingly longer—thus giving a shor
ter time for the accumulation of heat
from the direct rays of the sun, and a
longer time lor the heat to radiate at
night. The same law results to our
advantage in winter, our nights are
shorter and days longer than in the
Northern States.
There is no state in the Union which
enjoys the peculiar advantages due to
the geographical position of Georgia.
Stretching from the sea coast in a
northerly line, 320 miles, the face ot
the country constantly rising until it
attains the general level of 1,000 feet
and upwards, and finally terminating
in monntains, some of whose peaks
reach the moderate elevation of nearly
5,000 feet, there is a variety of soil,
climate and productions that can he
found in no territory of equal extent
in the Union. The mean annual tem
perature of Atlanta, the Capitol of the
State, is about the same as that of
Washington, D. C., Louisville and
St. Louis. Atlanta enjoys a cooler
temperature in summer and a warmer
in wdnter than either of those places.
She has the winter climate ol central
Italy, and the summer climate of Paris.
The ground is rarely frozen to a
greater depth than two inches, nor re
mains frozen throughout the da}’, and
farm work goes on almost without in
terruption throughout the winter.
Snow falls occasionally, and sometimes
remains on the surface a few days—in
the northern part of the State—but is
never a hindrance to work, and is real
ly a rare sight in Middle and Southern
Georgia.
Rainfall. —In this feature, Georgia
is peculiarly blessed. The annual
rainfall in the Southern portion ranges
from 55 to 60 inches, in the Northern
50 to 55 inches. This is distributed
throughout the year in such manner as
to secure a vary good average of
crops. We have occasionally droughts
of short duration, but our streams and
wells never fail, and such an occur
rence as a winter famine was never
known iri Georgia.
SOILS.
The soils of Georgia are ot the most
diversified character. In every section
of the State are found soils of every
variety, suiting the several products of
the farm and garden. In the South
ern half, the soil is generally of a light
texture and color, having a large ad
mixtures of sand and entirely frefi from
stones —affording great facility of cul
tivation. This portiou is generally
level or gently undulating. This sec
tion, especially along the sea coast and
the Southern border of the State, is
admirably adapted to the purpose of
the truck gardener. With a soil easi
ly tilled and generously responsive to
every demand, the country will even
tually become the early market garden
of the United States. No other State
or section can produce every variety of
melons to such degree of perfection.
Sugar cane (not sorghum,) sweet and
Irish potatoes, figs, LeConte pears
peaches, plums, oats, cotton corn, etc.’
are produced in the greatest profusion,
The middle region is a succession
of gently undulating fields and forests
—nowhere very broken, and permea
ted in every direction by rivers, creeks,
and spring branches, the latter afford
ing cold and delicious free stone water.
The hills and valleys are capable of
producing the finest quality of fruits,
cotton, corn, wheat, potatoes, silk, hon
j ey, sugar cane, etc. Throughout Mid
j die Georgia, peaches, grapes and pears,
and most of the small fruits, find a
hiscionsnesa of taste and perfection of
development rarely equalled in any
! State.
The northern region is more broken
than the middle, but its general char
acter and products are nearly the same.
The extreme northern or mountain re
gion has a climate and productions
very similar to those of Switzerland,
and affords the most attractive and
healthful summer resorts for invalids
and pleasure seekers, both from the
North and South.
Forests. —The forests of Georgia
abound in almost every variety of use
ful mountain region, to the stately pitch
and yellow pine, the mournful cypress,
the lordly live oak and the grand mag
nolia of the South. White oak, hick
ory, elm, dogwood, walnut, etc., are
everywhere found in quantities suffi
cient for all reasonable purposes for
generations to come. The pine and
cypress forests of South Georgia are
just beginning to be developed, and
the exports of pine lumber and naval
stores will soon exceed those of any
other State. Indeed, Georgia already
vies with the old North State, of “tar,
pitch and turpentine.”
Fertilizing Deposits. The South
ern and Southeastern sections are pe
culiarly rich in the deposits of marl—
including green sand—muck and phos
phates of lime. Though undeveloped,
they lie awaiting the developing hand
of enterprise, and the demands of the
farmers now tilling the yet virgin.soil.
WATER.
Under the head of climate, I have
already written of the rain and snowfall
of Georgia. I will now consider the
wells, springs, streams and water
powers.
Springs of water abound in every
section of the State, and there is no
difficulty whatever in sinking wells
that furnish a constant supply for all
purposes the year round. In the South
ern half of the State, the well water
frequently contains lime in solution,
and is too warm to be palatable to the
taste of persons accustomed to very
cold free-stone water. With few ex
ceptions, however, the water is whole
some, and the taste soon adapts itself
to the circumstances. It lias been prac
tically demonstrated that artesian bor
ings will furnish a never-failing sup
ply of pure mountain water, and they
are being used in several places with
great satisfaction.
In Middle and North Georgia the
water is generally free-stone and al
ways wholesome, cool and palatable,
ranging in temperature from 54 de
grees in the mountain region, to 61
degrees in Middle Geoigia.
Mineral Waters abound through
out the State, mostly chalybeate, lime
stone and sulphur; and many of the
places of issue have become noted as
resorts for health and pleasure. It is
not generally known that Georgia fur
nishes both winter and summer resorts
for turists and health-seekers from the
North and East—such is the equable
ness of her climate at both seasons.
Rivers. —Georgia is well supplied
with large rivers, navigable from 200
to 300 miles by steamer, and affording
abundant facilities—in connection with
smaller tributaries—for transporting
the immense quantities of timber and
lumber which jlier forests are annually
yielding. Augusta, on the Savannah
river; Milledgeville, on the Oconee; Ma
con, on the Ocmulgee; Albany on the
Flint, and Columbus on the Chatta
hoochee, are all thriving manufactur
ing cities, located at the head of navi
gation on those rivers respectively;
while Rome, in Northeast Georgia,
nestles between the mountains and the
limid waters of the Etowah and Ooste
naula rivers, which unite within the
city limits to form the beautiful Coosa
a navigable tributary to the Alabama
river.
Water Powers. —The facilities for
manufacturing afforded by the water
powers of Georgia are almost beyond
calculation. The Savannah, Oconee,
Ocmulgee, Flint and Chattahoochee
rivers each are broken into a success
ion of rapids above navigation which
extend to their headwaters, and with
the innumerable large creeks which
flow into them, can easily be made to
supply sufficient power to manufacture
the entire cotton crop of the South,
probably of the world, while the small
er streams affords abundant mill sites
and power to grind all the flour and
meal consumed in the State.
Fish and Game. —The streams of
all sizes, together with the clear ponds
and small lakes of Southern Georgia,
are stocked with a great variety of pal
atable fish, and the take of shad—once
very considerable —i3 annually increas
ing under the efforts of the National
and State Fish Commissioners, while
the clear mountain streams, north of
the Blue Ridge, abound in the speck
led or mountain trout, a delicious table
fish. The great forests and swamps
of Southern Ga., and the mountain re
gion still furnish, for the delight of
the sportsman and the tooth of the ep
icure, deer, wild turkeys and pheasants,
while quails squirrels and such small
game are abundant everywhere.
MINERALS.
The mineral resources of the State
are excellent in their variety, quality
of product, and the ease with which
they can be made available. The coal
fields are confined to Dade, Walton
and Chattooga counties, in the North
western corner of the State, and while
not extensive in area, the beds are re
markable for their great thickness and
ease of access. The supply is estima
ted to he sufficient for 150 years.
The iron ores, which occur in im
merse beds, chiefly in Northwest Geor
gia, arc remarkable for their richness
and the ease with which they may be
reduced, furnishing the best qualities
of iron more cheaply than can be ren
dered by the great iron works of Penn
sylvania. The gold mines of Georgia
have long been famous lor their rich
ness and the ease with which they may
be worked. The precious metal oc
curs chiefly in quartz veins which are
easy of access and convenient to water
and the alluvial washings are very
rich.
Silver, copper and lead ores are not
abundant though found in several
places.
Marble of the finest quality is abun
dant and easily accessible, and the
coarser building stones, including
granite, limestone, gneiss, elaystone,
soapstone, slate, etc., are found in
many places, only awaiting capital for
full development. Inexhaustible beds
of kaolin, brick clays, sandstone, and
pomiee stone exists in convenient locali
ties. In a word,the list of economic min
erals is found almost unbroken in tie
State.
DIVERSITY OP PRODUCTS.
It may be said with truth that all
the necessaries of civilization may be
supplied from the natural resources of
Georgia, or produced from her gener
ons soil. There is not a cultivated
plant in the Union that may not be
grown with greater or loss profit and
advantage. We an at present con
strained to except coffee from the lists
ot realities, but it is difficult to men
tion a product of the temperate zone
that is not, or may not, be produced in
Georgia.
PRICE of laud.
Good, eligibly located, improved
farms, may be purchased on favorable
terms in any portion of the State at
prices that seem fabulously low, when
compared with those that are demand
ed lor land of no better quality in other
States, North and East. Hundreds of
sales are made every year at five to ten
dollars per acre, of farms that will pro
duce more value per acre, per annum,
than the cost of the acre itself—wheth
er planted in cotton, corn, oats, pota
toes, sugar cane, or what not. The
cost of an acre is frequently less than
the landlord receives in rents. The
cheapness of Georgia lands i3 a cir
cumstance that should attract the at
tention of immigrants of small means.
A man of family with $2,000 may buy
a farm with one hundred acres, well
stocked, a supply of provisions to last
until lie makes a crop, and to get
money enough on hand to meet all con
tingent expenses until the farm crop is
harvested.
TRANSPORTATION.
Railroads traverse every section of
Georgia, forming important centres at
Rome, Dalton, Atlanta, Macon, Au
gusta, Albany and Savauuah, and con
necting by direct lines with all impor
tant points in every section of the coun
try. This feature is so well illustra
ted by railroad maps, available to all,
that it is unnecessary to go into details.
IN CONCLUSION.
Georgia presents natural attractions
in the way of climate, health, soils,
productions, scenery, etc., that entitle
her to rank high in the list of those
States that offer homes and employ
ment to the industrious farmers, arti
zans, miners and capitalists of older
or less favored States. Her people are
famous for their love of liberty and
virtue, their hospitality, and their in
telligence and morality. She extends
a welcome to the well inclined, indus
trious immigrant from all lands. She
points with pride to her past history,
and looks forward with confidence to
a future that cannot fail of a glorious
fruition of the hopes and aspirations
of her people.
Losses of Georgia by the War.
EFFECTS OF THE LATE WAR BETWEEN THE
STATES.
The prodigious retarding effect of the
war id to be observed as one of the great
elements which it will require time to
overcome. We went foot. We are
now spelling up slowiv. Population
and wealth were both set back, and the
relations of all business undermined
and revolutionized. One has well re
marked that we lost our very business
habits, besides our occupation.
The wealth cf Georgia in 1870 was
returned as 20 per cent less than in 1850
—2O years before. In 1850, she was
the 6th State in the Union in wealth,
the 9th iu population, and the 13th in
white population. In 1870, she was
the 20th in wealth. No study of any
Southern State can be thorough which
fails to recognize and examine this
huge factor which divides the old and
new South.
The changes produced in Georgia by
the war were as follows:
Population in 1850, 906,185.
Population in 1860, 1,136,692 —in-
crease, 230,507, 25.43 per cent.
Population in 1870, 1,184,109 —in-
crease 47,417, or 4 per cent.
At the former rate, the increase in
1870 would have been 288,720, instead
of 47, 417, making a loss of 241,303,
by virtue of the four years’ war or
60,326 per annum, of persons actually
lost by the war and the increase of pop
ulation prevented—the former being
the most active and valuable men of the
community, conducting its main bnsi
ness. This throws some light on the
losses by the war.
The pecuniary losses were as ful
lows. The wealth of Georgia was in
1850, $335,426,000; in 1860,645,895,-
000—increase $310,469,000 or 90
per cent; in 1870, 268,169,000 —de-
crease, 377,726,000, or 58.5 percent.
At the former rate, the increase
would have been 90 per cent —$581,
305,000, making the -wealth oi 1870,
$1,227,200,000; real wealth, $268,169,-
000; loss, $959,031,000, The loss was
more than three times as great as the
property left; and the estimate, ai that,
in greenbacks, not in gold.
The decennial tendency, moreover,
was decidedly upward every successive
decade, solthat probable increase from
1860 to 1870, aside from the war,would
have exceeded the foregoing ratio, and
did exceed it at the North, in spite of
the war.
The losses by the war have been
equivalent to about seven years’ loss
of increase in population, and 25 years’
loss of wealth, besides the loss of bus
iness fiahiu and tiie disorganization oi
industry.
The effect of all this is to make the
Southern States generally—Georgia
included—new States, now in their in
fancy, and have anew development.
IMMIGRATION.
Georgia presents to immigrants a
splendid combination of advantages,
natural and social. Many of them are
common to the B’out hern States and
some to the Cotton States; while others
are peculiar to Georgia. So numerous
and substantial are these advantages
and inducements, as only to stand in
need of appreciation to lead to large
immigration. They will hear, too,
the most attentive study. Few coun
tries can bear so systematic a treatment
and so rigorous an appeal to first prin
ciples, hy a direct comparison, institu
ted and carried out between.
THE WANTS OF MAN AND THE MEANS OF
SUPPLY.
Take all li uman wants, thoughtful
ly considered, and compare them seri
atim with the provisions here made for
their supply.
Air.— Let the air be regarded in a
wider sense as the synonym of climate.
It is balmy, delicious, and wholesome.
It has been said that no fitter climate
than that of Georgia is enjoyed by any
English speaking people—and they
hold one-fourth of the habitable globe,
scattered over every quarter. Take it
year iu and year out, it is only mh -
: passed in comfort by some of tiie “ta
ble-land” regions, which by way of
compensation, lack variotv. There is,
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especially in the Southern autumnal
season and the Indian Summer, an in
describable charm, a sense of delicious
repose, which makes existence itself an
enjoyment. Of many a day, it may
be said, “This is a gem—a perfect
chrysolite!” With its balmy breath
and its absolute freedom from every
sense of oppression or exaction, it suits
one, even as Sancho Panza said of
sleep; it fits him all over like a gar
ment.
Food. —Nowheie can be grown a
greater variety of wholesome and deli
cious food. The range of food crops
tor man and beast is unsurpassed. The
cereals in their perfection, show both
to the taste and chemical analysis a
superior composition, quality, and fla
vor; “Corn bread,” North and South,
is not the same thing; sugar-cane, rice,
and field peas and vegetables of the
most varied sort; the sweet potato
through the entire winter and summer
—enough of itself to tempt an epicure
—substantial and delicious. At a
county fair held in November, a gen
tleman well-known to the country sent
from his garden for exhibition twenty
four varieties of vegetables; and this
entirely without special preparation.
Fruits of the finest flavor, and in abun
dance. And such peaches! and, what
is not generally supposed, such pears!
apples, plums—domestic and wild;
strawberries; raspberries—the flavor
of peaches and strawberries surpassing
ly fine. The figs, after all, regarded
by many as the finest fruit we have,
abundant, perfectly wholesome, and
covering a long season. The seuper
nong grape is a like resource.
In a word, for food raising we are
admirably situated; nor do we our
selves half appreciate our advantages
for abundance and variety of choice
food.
Clothing. —The South is the home
of cotton—the choicest of clothing ma
terial. It may be equally so of wool.
It is capable of flax and silk, and has
the best natural facilities for manufac
turing all these after their production.
In -this respect, Georgia is unsurpassed.
Lodging. There is abundant ma
terial, well diffused, for housebuilding,
of whatever sort, from the humble and
quickly reared cabin to the stateliest
mansion. Wood, brick, stone, marble,
slate—material for sills, and plank
and shingles—the pine and cypress—
abundant. Material for sills, and plank
and shingles—the pine and cypress—
abundant. Material for all furniture,
for comfort and luxury, abounds.
Health. —No greater errors abound
abroad than on this subject. Life In
surance Companies have discriminated
against some of the healthiest regions
of the globe. The character of sick
ness at the North and South differs;
hut the general health at the South
and the rates of mortality will com
pare favorably with that of the North.
The conditions of health are perhaps
more manageable. Certain low or
swampty tracts at the South have giv
en a false impression as to the general
and pervading salubrity of the climate.
These places are well-known and avoid
able; white at the North an all per
vading tendency—say to consumption
—-cannot easily he escaped. From this
disease, the health maps in the Census
Atlas show that we have an unusual
exemption, especially in lower Georgia.
This is also true of the mountain re
gion. In Rabun county a death from
consumption has never been known to
occur. The softness of our winters is
greatly promotive of longevity.
Locomotion: —The impediments to
this are greatest in a cold country—
winter-locked, ice-bound; or in a trop
ical country having an excess of heat
and rain. In our moderate and de
lightful climate, comfortable indoors
or out, little restraint arises either from
heat or cold, snow or ice, or any natu
ral cause. In summer, winter,spring and
autumn, ground and water are alike
open for use. The air iu winter is cold
enough for exhilaration, but generally
not chilling and repressive. In the
autumn, it is a luxury to move in it,
and breathe it in-. In the summer,
sunstrokes seldom ever occur under
any circumstances, white they are fre
vuent in more northern latitudes. In
summer, the days are longer and the
nights shorter. Nowhere can a pleas
anter out-door life he found, for the ag
riculturist whose duties require it, or
for the sportsman or pleasure-seeker.
Of the Southern people, it may he
truly said that they are a hospitable
people, friendly to strangers and given
to hospitality; and a foreigner with or
dinary prudence will not find them oth
erwise. If he exhibit good sense and
good feeling he will soon have numer
ous and attached friends.
To one other want we shall refer—
viz., Money. This is the means of
procuring, by exchange, those things
which money will supply, though not
all of the foregpiug wants. For mak
ing money or the things money will
buy—its full equivalent in comfort—
the South presents excellent opportu
nities to those who have skill or
capital, or both. Like all other conn
tries, it is subject to “hard times,” hut
no family need never know want. Ag
riculturally, it has the best of money
crops—cotton, if not abused. For
manufacturing, it presents the finest
opening to he found in the world. For
mining industry, also fine facilities.
For trade, good inducements to those
who have capital. For professional
work, it is not yet so ripe.
Various conveniences and appliances,
also, are necessary, such as roads, rail
roads, churches, schools, court-houses,
and the machinery of justice and law.
In these respects the advantages over
anew country are world-wide. The
roughness of a pioneer life is over, and
the advantages of-a social and indus
trial progress already attained. There
is land cleared yet woodland conven
ient, railroad facilities ample lor the
present and for many years to come, a
settled state of society, churches to go
t), schools for children, laws establish
ed.
It is difficult to convey a lull idea
of the presence of these advantages
compared with their absence.
SUGGESTION'S TO IMMIGRANTS.
Come and see for yourselves. Do
not expect fairy-land, or exemption
from labor and care; but come and com
pare climate, productions, and thegen
eral conditions of comfort with those
to he had elsewhere, and you will find
them to compare favorably. You wili
quickly see that we have not improved
our natural advantages adequately;
but will find that nature has done her
part well; and if you but bring with
you good habits of painstaking and
economy, you will soon build up a di
iightful home. You will find good
sense and good feeling; and in any
considerable community, men of culture!
and refinemeit. Still generally they
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do not show so well at first as on lon
ger acquaintance.
You should visit the country and
see the capacities of the soil and cli
mate. Do not regard the present ag
riculturists as knowing every thing,
nor yet fall into the contrary error of
snpposing they know nothing. In fact
they know much; yet the present is
but a transition state, and they have
not fully solved the problem of com
formity to the new conditions of life
and labor. The young men and the
new men are now on an equal experi
ence level with the old so you will have
a fair start.
The inducements generally referred
to are agricultural. Those for manu
facturers are equally great. For suc
cess in these, nothing is reeded but
capital and good management, and
where will they thrive without both?
All the needful conditions are here for
the development of the most profitable
manufacturing industry in the whole
country. We were just beginning
to reach that stage of development
when the war arrested it. Again,
in Georgia, more rapidly than any
where else in the South, this pro
gress has begun. There is, too, a
large population fit for it, and to be
benefitted by it. Climate material,
and power, all exists together in an
unsurpassed condition. Mining can
be profitably pursued, under like con
ditions of capital and good manage
ment.
Professional men we do not need so
much as men of science and skill. Our
people have, themselves, devoted much
more of their time to other subjects
than science or to expertness in labor.
We would not overestimate the ad
vantages. There are drawbacks to all
good things, and compensation to all
evils. We would not encourage Uto
pian views, hut we think Georgia, all
things considered, one of the most de
sirable of all of the States open for
immigration, and still inadequately
populated. In all lands, there are
sickness and death, hard times, evil
days and evil people, mixed with the
blessings and good things of life.
Trouble and discipline, labor and sor
row, are incident to all climes; yet
nature has been prodigal in her gifts
to us, and man needs only average care
and skill to make here as happy homes
as the world has ever known. The
earth, with its range of productions,
the sun and air and conditions of cli
mate, the abundant wood and
water power, the present settled
state of the country and degree of de
velopment, and the future promise for
one’s children of a still higher develop
ment-all point to the South as ad
mirably suited for immigration, and to
no part of the South more than to
Georgia.
HOI* CULTURE.
The following is a tetter from Hon.
Mark A. Cooper, a very prominent and
distinguished citizen of Georgia, in re
sponse to a tetter of inquiry addressed
to him by the Commissioner of Agri
culture, on the subject of hop culture:
Col : J. I . Henderson, Commis
sioner of Agriculture: Sir— Your
tetter of the 23d instant has been re
ceived. Hops have been grown in my
family in Hall and Bartow counties and
in Murray county, Ga., for more than
fifty years, and prior to that, in my
father’s family, in Hancock county,
seventy years ago, for family use.
Where I now live I have vines which
have been in bearing for thirty years,
and have never required replanting.
They have never failed of a crop, but
habitually produce abundantly. The
cost of cultivation has not been fifty
cents in thirty years, except the auuual
setting of poles, a have given them a
top dressing of barn yard manure three
times in the thirty years. They are as
healthy and vigorous now as they were
twenty years ago.
Since I saw you at the late meeting
of the Agricultural Society, I gathered
the crop of this year. From four poles,
standing four feet apart, I gathered
four pounds, weighed before they were
thoroughly dry. I kept one pound for
home use and sold three pounds, at
seventy-five cents a pound, $2.25.
Properly dried, I would have received
$1 per pound. The haker bought
them. The picking of four poles cost
ten cents. I have repeatedly furnished
friends with roots, and they have never
failed anywhere they have been plant
ed. I have annually sold my surplus
for cash at from forty to seventy-five
cents per pound. This is what my ex
perience and observation amounts to.
There is no question but that our cli
mate and soil arc well adapted to the
growth of hops, and there is just as
little doubt that an acre of ground will
yield more net profit than an acre of
cotton, with all the fertilizers you can
put upon it. The hops will not need
replanting for fifty years, and the same
acre will produce Irish potatoes or on
ions enough to pay for all the fertili
zers and the cultivation. When gath
ered, cured and sacked, they are as
ready of sale as a bale of cotton. Wo
men and children will gather them.
The cultivation of the potatoes or on
ions will serve for the hops. They
should be planted-hvtows, aix or -eight
feet apart, and trained upon poles from
10 to 15 feet high, two inches in diam
eter at the large end, set firmly in the
ground, four feet from each other in the
row, near the root as planted. When
gathered, they should be dried in the
shade, and protected from the dew,
rain and wind. They may be planted
frem the root or from layers, rooted in
the spring, as the vino comes out.
I suppose that the stock for planting
may be obtained by applying to gar
deners and agriculturalists, where the
hop is cultivated in this climate an en
tire crop of hops will be ready forgath
ering by the 2iiih of August, and ready
for market one month thereafter. To
those who are disposed to try it, I sug
gest that small farmers begin by plan
ting one quarter ol'an acre, and increas
ing, annually'. It is a very appropriate
crop to associate with cotton or corn,
since the harvest season for hops comes
on when labor is not called for in the
corn or cotton. An acre cultivated in
hops will yield a hundred dollars per
acre, and the potatoes will pay for the
cultivation. Mark A. Cooper.
Physicians use Shriner’s In
dian Vermifuge in their practice and
pronounce it a first class article. A
trial will convince the most skep'ical
of its intrinsic merit.
Ileal genuine and pure Port wine,
also fine cooking sherry, imported
French brandies, gin and pure whis
keys for medical purposes at
Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store,