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The Sumter Republican. SB ii-Weekly, One Your - - - *4 00 Wisely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 in advancers All advertisements eminating from public dices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Charles F. Crisp, Mtomey at JLaw* AMERICUS, GA. dec!6tf 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. may26-tf 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. septl-tf 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. jmi i. mm. F®lS¥f STREET, URHR - - - 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. auglo-3m __ 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, jtouil DOLLARS PER ANNUM, NO. 102. 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 Advertising Rates. One Square first insertion, - - - - f 1.00 Each subsequent insertion, - - - - SO I®”Ten Links of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements to occupy fixed places wiU be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices iu local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. 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,