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JIACON, GA.. FEBRUARY" 19 1878.
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THIS GEORGIA P15ESS.
From the Swainsboro Herald we glean
aa fellows:
Mr. Thomas L- Mcore has a cow which
hna brought him six calves at three
births.
Mr. Charles Low hurt his hack at a
sawmill a few days since.
Colonel John McKinnie, of Emanuel
county, has been appointed a Deputy
United States Marshal.
The cyclone passed over a portion of
Emanuel county, unroofing houses, blow
ing down trees, etc. Dr. Kea’a buggy
was blown away, and has not been heard
.of since.
The exploits of a mule are thus de
scribed :
Mr. E. D. Rountree camo near having
a serious accident tho other day. He
bought a mule from a drover in Swains
boro, and started home, leading the mule
behind bis buggy. By some means the
mule got the halter entangled in the bug'
S , became frightened and threw the
ggy over. This caused his buggy mare
to take fright and break into a run: The
mare ran against a tree, inflicting such
injuries that it wss thought at first that
she would die. Wears glad to learn that
her injuries are not as serious as was
supposed, and that sho is rapidly recov
ering.
The Griffin News says Mr. George
Deane is quite sick.
The Montezuma Weekly gives us the
succeeding items:
Mr. Henry Roslim End Miss Ola Davis
are married.
Thebe will probably be two candidates
in the field for Senator in the 13th district
at the next election.
The survey of Flint river will be com
menced os soon as the appropriation for
that purpose is mede. Generals Cook
and Gordon are making every effort to
get the bill passed. May success crown
their efforts.
It is rumored that Maccn county has
aspirant for Congressional honors. It
will take & fast runner to get over the
track ahead of General Cook; but we
shall sco what we shall sec.
The Contt.tutional Guards, sn infantry
company of Liberty county, have received
arms from the State.
UISTRIBUTION 0* TEA PLANTS.—Mr. J.
E. Wheelock, agent for the Agricultural
Department at Washington, 19 at No. 3,
A. & G. railroad, engaged in distributing
tea plants. These plants are procured
from the tea farm of Mrs. R. J. Screven,
of this county, by the government, end
distributed gratuitously in order to en
courage the cultivation of this plant,
which has proved a success here. We
laarn that the government has purchased
$600 worth of plants already from Mrs.
-Screven, and that a still larger quantity
can be procured.
The Talbotton Standard narrates the
fallowing.
LeYert College still prospers. It num
bers between foity-fivo and fifty pupils
now, and still more to come in. We hope
Prof. Glenn will have a rousing school
this year.
Mrs. Rebecca Powell, one of the oldest
-settlers of Telbotcounly is dead.
Eleven chickens ware killed by one
stroke of lightning on Thursday last.
Talbotton wants a county fair end a
library association. We hope her wants
may be gratified.
Millxdqiville Union and Eecorden
The young gentlemen of Milledgeyille
will have their annnal masquerade soon.
Mb. J. E. Hatqood, of MiUedgsville, is
dead, aged sixty years.
The estimated value of vegetables
raised in the asylum gardens last year is
$12,058,50. The gardener reports 26,000
beads of eollards at 5 cents $1,300.00;
and 58,000 heads of cabbages at 8 cents
$4,fil0 00.
Mb. Casey caught his boy making too
free with the contents of his saloon on
Sunday night. He bad a ksyand could
enter the saloon at pleasure.
A colosed company, the Middle Geor<*
gia Volunteers, have reoeivod their arms
from General Colquitt.
' King Humbert has promieed to pre
sent his late father’s sword and the medals
he had gained on the field of battle to
the city of Toxin.
Fahjkq to secure an aot of Legislature
remanding her to the status of a town,
Vicksburg is going to compromise her
bonded debt of $700,000.
A resident of Lob Aug;be, CaL, is now
gathering rips tomatoes from the top of
a twenty foot ladder. The vine, wbioh
is twenty-five feet high, has been trained
on the Bunny side of the house, and
shows fclotsoma and fruit in every stage
of growth.
Mb. Montgomery Blair is credited with
telling this story: Van Boren said to me
in St Louis, when I told him his son,
Smith Van Boren, bad been married: ‘I
thought he had Riven that girl up. Well
he’s ruined. She is vory riob. Now, hell
give np bis profession of the law, where
he had great ability, and become really a
rich man—the least useful of human
things. Poor Smith!’”
At a nojut meeting in England, which
was ohcreo eilzsd by much religious ex
citement, an old man gave expression to
his joy by shouting, and continued it until
itbegan to interrupt the services. Brother
W ws3 requested to “go and stop
that ell man’s noise.” He went to him
and spoke a few words, and the shouting
man at cnco became quite. “Brother
W what did yon say to the old man
that quieted him so promptly?'’ “I asked
him for a guinea for foro’gn missions, 1
tepiiedlBrother W .
Tumble in New York Bents.—A New
York letter says a great falling off in rents
is noticeable in that city. Many renewals
have been effected at fifty per cent, be
low the prices charged tour years ago.
In one instance a large building i9 being
-offered in sections, the aggregate being
Ies3 than was received for the ground
floor fivo years ago. Nearly all the pro-
. perty below Fourteenth street has been
offered at much lower rental. It is report-
• ed that one of the Broadway hotels, here
tofore renting at $100,000 per annum, is
likely to close or chango bands unless the
■owner will consent to make more favora
ble terms. In the dry goods district the
hostility of tenants against the exorbitant
rentals of the past Is very general. The
wholesale men say that competition in
the selling of goods has been so great and
the profits so small that it has been very
difficult to pay even the running expens
es of many business houses, tossy noth
ing about rents. ^
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Th» Silver Bill was before4he Senate
Wednesday morning, and the night tele-
g.»mg may possibly bring some action
«Ponit
Americus, February 13,1878.
En route for the Convention of the
STATE AGRICULTURAL eoCIETT,
the writer was among the lucky ones
yesterday who secured half of a seat in the
smoking car, after paying fall fare pro
lemo publico. There was crowding, great
jostling, and we fear a little swearing
that the Central railroad having extended
the usual courtesy of free passes to ac
credited delegates, bad not
gome the whole hog
and provided seats for them alL Bat still
desd'heads should not be censorious, and
we are willing to believe that the Com
pany thought they had made every reason
able preparation in the premises, bat
failed to realise that our State Agricul
tural Society is the
BIGGEST POWER IN THE LAND,
and when they can nde free ore wont to
tnm oat unanimously. -
This was done in the present instance,
and it was evident that the
AGRICULTURAL STATES GENERAL
of the commonwealth were on the wing,
bornd for Americas, and determined to
save the country by far more potent means
than congressional legislation, to wit;
taking the necessary action to assure a
big com, wheat, oat, rice, rye, barley,
yrnp and ground pea crop, leaving the
wretched
overdone “staple”
to take care of itself.
The local representatives of the road,
Maj. Stellman and Conductor Bass, we
know, did their best for tbe comfort of
the tremendous crowd, and we don’t in
tend to grumble, though it is hard to
work a poor cart hoiss and then deny
him giub and stalls reom.
Tho editor of a newspaper who pays
his way to enjoy tho privilege of “writ
ing np” tho proceedings of a great repre
sentative body, and seeks to popularize
their operations, and thereby help rail
roads and country, rising as the writer
has done on this occasion for that purpose
long before the first streaks of dawn, it
would seem ia equity ought at least to
bAve free transportation.
But then this is only one side of the
question, and the railroad magnates, per
haps, take into the account that the slid
newspaper official might peradrenture
HOIST THE CONCERN WITH DYNAMITE,
if the track was roagh or the conductors
disagreeable. Hence, it is well, to keep
them at a safe distance.
But this deponent, though he has paid
his fare, has nothing but kind things to
say, and koldly asserts that
SOUTH OP BALTIMORE
there is not a smoother or better appoint
ed road than the “old Central,” or a more
intelligent, attentive and courteous corps
of conductors to bo found.
And Mr. Wadly knows that this opin
ion is not paid for.
DESERVED PROSPECTIVE PROMOTION.
He must pardon us, however, for relat
ing an incident that occurred in the sleep
ing car of the train.
It seems that conductor Bass had ad
mitted certain parties to seats and the
privileges of the palace car, for which, in
obedience to orders he had collecteda
small impost. But when it became evi
dent that the Agricultural crowd
HAD RUN ROUGH SHOD
over all the other coaches and filling
them to their utmost capacity, still cried
out for more room, be assumed the re
sponsibility of announcing to the wide
awake occupants of the “ sleeper ” that
the exigencies of the situation required
the gratuitous use of that luxurious con
venience, and he was prepared to refund
tho money to tho3e who had paid for this
accommodation.
This statement was received with un
disguised approbation, and on motion of
e passenger
IT WAS RESOLVED NEM CON
that “upon the first vaoaney of tho office
of president of the Central railroad; con-
doctor Bass should be presented to the
stockholders as eminently qualified to dis
charge the important duties of that ex
alted position.” This overpowered but
genial official could only respond hat in
hand with a smile and bow.
Of oonrse, no disrespeot was intended
to president Wadley who we think “will
live long and prosper,” by this playful
compliment to his woithysnbaltern.
A. NOBLE SOLD OF PASSENGERS.
On board we were delighted to meet
and converse with Governor Colqnitt,
Chancellor Tuoker, Dr. Means, Attorney
General Ely, Dr. Janes, ex-Senator Mel
ton, Hon. George W. Adams, General
Geo. F. Harrison, J. J. Smith, Jaok Plane,
Professor J. TV. Glenn and many of the
liveetand most successful planters of
Georgia, who were too numerous to men
tion.
Of course wo can’t repeat all tho good
things they said, and as we hate to be
partial will reproduce none of them.
But the reader may well believe that
in that worshipful presence, all that was
WORTH KNOWING
of politics, literature, science and agri
culture cropped out richly to the sur
face.
Wo depart from this resolution simply
to chronicle the fact that the venerable
and almost
OCTCOXKARIAN BA VAN OF GEORGIA,
Dr. A. Means, retaining in his extreme
old age the houyancy and insouieance of
youth, i3 about to send forth a volume of
poems, embracing the lucubrations of over
a half century, and of course reflecting
the opinions, emotions and occurrences
of each epoch of this eventful period.
The Doctoi’s work will be entitled, “A
Cluster of Poems for the Home and
Heart.” May they endear to us the one
and cheer the other.
But, contrary to his custom, the writer
is forced to give the “go-by” to fire and
forty incidents of divers sorts which
might interest the reader if elaborated.
So, halting in mediae res, we got off the
train at Americas, and escorted by a di
minutive darkey who “totes” our valise,
set forth in quest of the hospitable man
sion of
DR. w. HARLOW,
who had kindiy invited your correspond
ent before leaving Macon to be his guest.
We were cordially received and welcom-
ed by the accomplished wife of the Doc
tor, and felt pained to learn that he u
confined to bio bed from an old injury
reoei ved in one of his lower limbs.
This is the more to be regretted, as
Americas docs not contain a more intelli
gent, public spirited, wealthy and excel
lent citizen.
The hospitalities of his noble dwelling
were freely extended to a large company
of visiting sgricolturists, who are com
fortably lodged, and feasted upon the fat
of the land.
After a hurried toil9t, the writer then
made tracks for the “City Hall,” where
the
AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION
held its sittings, and the popular Presi
dent, Colontl Thomas Hardeman, Jr., was
electrifying the audience by one of the
beBt, most telling, instructive, brilliant
andscriptural inaugurals ever pronounced
before that body. He spoke "as follows:
Gentlemen of the Convention: Thank*
to that overruling Providence that gives
us tbe changing seasons, the early and
the latter rains, the seed time and the
harvest, we aro again permitted to as
semble in general convention, where we
can connsil one with -.he other as to the
beBt means of stimulating and elevating
the agricultural interests of the State.
“Line upon line” has been written, and
“precept upon precept” has been pro
mulgated upon tno duties and necessities
of the hour—a progressive spirit has been
infused into the peepls, yet after all the
efforts and teachings of scientists,theorists
and educated pract tioneis, it cannot be
denied thers are fields of research yet
unexplored, and sources of
AGRICULTURAL BOWER AMD INFLUENCE
as yet unavailable which must b9 entered
and utilized, if we would attain that ele
vated position in wealth, intelligenoe and
power which would make ns the peers of
any, the inferiors of none.
THE AIM AND OBJECT
of this Society is to ctianlate a spirit of
enquiry and progress, to educate public
opinion upon the” great importance
of industrial pursuits, and to bring to
gether, in the bonds of a closer union, all
the workers in, and sympathisers with,
that great industry that stamps the im
press of independence upon character,
peoples and estates. Progress or retro
gression are the alternatives now pre
sented to this people, and upon their
selection will depend the future cot only
of yonr chief material industry, hut of
every other agency and element that give
refinement to society, wealth to the people
and honor to the State. Hand in hand,
with one, comes wealth, influence, popu
lation, power, while with the other is as
sociated poverty, thriftless homesteads, a
demoralized people and a rained State.
INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS AND AGENCIES
are sources of power, and individual
industry, properly directed, is the foun
dation stone upon which rests the pros
perity of communities and States.
THE OMNIPOTENCE OF WORK.
The pnblic should be educated to the
fact that nothing great or honorable was
ever attained without work. It is the
magician’s wand that transmutes into
gold the rough Etone3 of the quarry; the
Aladdin’s lamp that lights up with daz
zling splendor the princely palaces of
earth. Wealth fills its coffers, plenty
crowns its boards, peace broods over its
altars, joy kindles in its eye and glory
wreathes it with the fadeless flowers of im
mortality. Day after day,in unceasing tod,
the coral insects of the sea build np their
oaetle walls; with unwearied step and on
tireless wing the ant carries to his house
his winter’s store and the busy bee fills
her roomy cells with the sweets of forest
flowers. Stone after stone for twenty
years was laid by 100,000 men, before one
of the pyramids of Egypt,lifted its finished
head, the folly of that and the wonder
of succeeding ages. As with the ant and
the bee, so with the man> by labor must
he live, and by that alone oan he make
himself honored, respected and great.
Labor is an ordinance of Heaven, stamped
in tbe title page of the world’s history,
and he or she who would disobey its re
quirements or skulk its duties, should be
made.to glean with Hath in the batley
fields or grind corn with Sampson in the
prison house. The channel in whioh
that labor should be directed Ehould be
tbe source of much study, for labor un
controlled by inclination and adapted
talent, will rarely result in “perfect
works,” for as the soil that we cultivate
requires different plant food, for snooess-
ful culture, so do the occupations of man
engage different tastes, faoulties and ed
ucations. As the streams from the moun
tain take different oourses to the sea,
owing to the conformation of the regions
they traverse, so will tbe industries
of man ran in those channels
most accordant with the taste,
talent and education of those en
gaged in them. And as these streams,
in their different courses, make at last a
grand ocean, so do different industries
converge in one grand element of power
and greatness, despite of seeming antag
onisms and opposing interests. Diversi
fied industries are not necessarily antago
nistic. They are but the opposing forces
that hold in proper check every material
interest of society. Diversity i3 written
upon the face of nature, mountain and
valley, land and sea. The springtime
green, the summer fruit, the autumn
leaf, the winter’s blight are but the evi
dences of different sentiments and prompt
ings in the Divine mind at eaith’a crea
tion. Change and variety are stamped
upon the earth below, while above we
realize the fact, there is “one glory of tho
sun, another giory of the moon, another
glory of the stars—for one star dtffereth
from another star in glory.” As in the
natural, so m the physical world, different
conformation?, different tastes and natur
al promptings, direct to different pur
suits, into which men gravitate as natur
ally as did the planets to thoir respective
orbits. And how wisely are these differ
ent pursuits adapted to tho growth of so
ciety and the permanent welfare of the
people?
DIVERSITY OF PURSUIT.
Were all men merchants, commerce,
that great refiner and stimulator, would
soon furl her sails and leave the ocean to
tempest and to storm.
Were we all mechanics the fields would
ripen no harvest, and the hammer and
the saw would be heard only “upon the
works of our own hands.” Were we all
manufacturers, the spindle and the loom
would quiokly stop and the wheel would
no longer move to the power of the
stream, for want of the raw material upon
whioh to operate. So were we all agri
culturists labor wonld oonfine itself to the
prodaotion alone of the necessities of
life. Energies would languish and die,
for there would be no remuneration for
toil. Sooiety would retrograde as the
people beoame idle",and listless, while pro
gress with no good in view and no motive
power to propei,jwonld leave the world to
abjeot necessity and slothful indifference.
How essential then to growth, prosperity
and happiness is diversified industry, and
how wisely was it ordained, that so large
a majority of earth’s laborers should be
engaged in that oconpation, upon the suo-
oess of which, that of every other one so
eminently depends. It antagonizes none,
for on it all lean for permanent pros
perity.
MUTUALLY DEPENDENT,
they should move in sweetest harmony,
e&oh guarding with sacred fidelity, the
best interest of the other. The plow, the
loom, and the anvil are the three grand
rounds in the ladder of advancement.
One broken, and the asoent is slow and
unsatisfactory While, then, I do not
overestimate their combined power for
growth and prosperity, I will not under
value that great produoing,8aetaining life-
giver power,whichiB the sourceof our com
mercial growth abroad and our prosperity
at home, I am aware there is a growing
disposition to decry its usefalnesB and to
underestimate it as a source of wealth
and prosperity, and the present unfortu
nate situation of the planting community
is cited as a proof, that as n wealth-
producing agency it has failed, bub the
records of other States do not justify the
conclusion that
THE AGRICULTURE OF THE SOUTH
is less remunerative than the industries
of other sections thought to be more
favored. As a people we have passed
through our ordeal of fire and of blood.
War after war of revolution, rolled over
us, sweeping away our property, desolat
ing our fields, destroying our labor, yet
to-day—thanks to the energy of her sons
and the self-sacrificing spirit of her
daughters—desolated Georgia will com
pare favorably with other States over
which no t'ds of revolution rolled. That
property boa decreased in Georgia, and
values shrunk, no one will deny, but
what people have not felt tho stock that
has shaken cur fortunes?
CONDITION CF OTHER STATES.
Look at Pennsylvania, the “Keystone of
the arch,” with her mineral wealth, her
coal, her iron and her agricultural inter
est. Has she advanced? In 1875 the
aggregate of her taxable real estate, esti
mating the retains of a few counties, not
enumerated even at the present value o!
landed property, wss, in 1875, $1,740,-
461,158; in 1876, $1,671,617,691, a de
crease in cue year of $63,843,467, while
her deorease’in household furniture Is
$8,287,052,
In the great 8 lata of Ohio, into whose
lip Georgia and other Southern
States have emptied yearly their
millions fer her 1 product?, I find
that her abatraot of personal properly was,
in 1874, $497,203,587; 1875, $490,094,116;
1876, (477,033,330, showing a deorease
in two years of $20,130,247, while her
consolidated returns of real and personal
property show a reduction of $1,105,890.
In the district of Colombia, that pet
place of tbe government, sustained and
supported by the money drawn
from the people of the States,
where wealh aggregates for pleas
ure, and I liked to have said for plnuder,
the shrinkage In vaioe of real estate is
over twenty per cent in tbe last year.
Tennessee, onr border Bitter, as rloh a-
she is, in all tbe elements of material
prosperity, real z-a a redaction of over
$30,000,000 in her taxable property. If I
go farther East, to toe land of pilgrim
habits and canning shrewdness, I find
from the zetnras of the Secretary of State
that in Massachusetts last year the loss
in real and personal property aggregated
$70,943,146. From the great State of
New York, the emporium of trade and
commeroe, each day brings the report of
rained values, of wrecked fortunes, of de
clining prosperity. Into her ports domes
the shipping of the world. Her great city
is the fountain head of America’s
commeroe. She is tbe great financial
son, around whioh ether State planets
revolve and from which, a great measure
they draw light and heat. Yet tbe tidal
wave of misfortune is sweeping away her
ooloesal fortunes, while honest toil strikes
for wages and for bread. This deorease
is not confined to isolated States for it
is estimated that throughout the common
wealth there has been a reduction in
value of 33 per cent. Yes my country
men, from every section of our nuion
comes
THE CRT OF HARD TIME3,
unremunerative labor, impending bank
ruptcy. It Is heard in the work shop of
the mechanic, whose steady stroke barely
earns a scanty subsistence. It is verified,
in the noiseless wheels of the factories
whose starving operatives cry in vain for
bread. It comes np, plaintive as the la*
mentations of the prophet over stricken
Israel from tbe collieries and the iron
works. It is heard in the wild shriek of
the looomotive as the desponding en
gineer opens for tho last time the throt
tie of the engine he is abandoning. It
comes from the fields of the agriculturist
('but thank God not in mob clamor and
labor strikes) as they open tho farrow,
whose every np turned sod remind them
of mortgage obligations and ruinous
interest. It burns, not in the
furnace or the foundry, but with searing,
blistering effect in the breasts of honest
toilers, whose daily labor will not afford
them daily bread. We have heard the
cry and felt in ail onr industries,
the shook that felled other great
interests and employments, for our aggre
gate propeity after an increase of $126,-
000,000 in a decade of years was de
creased in 1876, about $15,000,000, em
bracing therein every species of propeity
in the State.
LOSSES IN VALUE
then are not confined, it appears, to the
agricultural gowing SlateB alone, for a
comparison of Georgia with Massachu
setts, and Ohio with Pennsylvania, will
satisfy the most sceptical, that agricultur
al industry, judiciously managed, is as
the ocean rock—though at times covered
by the tempest-tosBed billows, yet lifts
its head above tho water?, when the
tempest i3 hushed.
OTHER CAUSES.
Tho destruction of $ir values is not
owing alone to agricultural pursuits, for
other causes have been instrumental in
affecting these results. Extravagance in
town, city, state, and general governments
have burdened the people with taxation
almost unbearable. Ignorance, selfish in
terests, and designing demagogism has
tampered with tbefinances of the country
and in eo doing they have paralyzed
labor, have destroyed industries, have de
preciated values and produced a state of
almost general bankruptcy. To keep pow
er, they haveplundered the people, to sat
isfy capital they have burdened labor, to
distribute patronage they have corrupted
the Government. To gain favor with the
rich they have impoverished the masses
and to-day in city and town, in work
shop and field, the country’s history is be
ing written with tho tears of toil, and the
sweat of the poor. Shrinkage in values
arose from
SHRINKAGE OF MONEY
in circulation, and is tho causp, to a great
extent, of our financial troubles. When
the country wa3 prosperous and all indus
tries were thriving, over $1,000,000,000
of currency was withdrawn from the bue-
iness of the country, leaving now in cir
culation for the requirements of trade
not one third that wa3 in use before con
traction began. This is no time or place
for a discussion of these questions. I
have incidentally alluded to them to Bhow
tho people that this depreciation of their
property is nob owing to agricultural
pursuits for while labor in your State
and in the South has been reduced to a
mournful condition, it has more home
comforts—more of the necessities of life,
than are found among the productive
classes of tne North and East. Agricul
ture has been paralyzed by agencies
mentioned, yet thanks to her self-depend
ent, self-sustaining nature, though sha
ken by the storm, she will outlive its
power and its fury, and onr great staple
at last will bs our refuge and onr safety.
Decry cotton as you will, it is
THE SHEET ANCHOR OF SOUTHERN HOPES
of prosperity in the present and inde
pendence in the future. Gcd ha3 given
the Southern planter in the cotton plant
the source of wealth and power that no
other peopb possess, and if properly util
ized will re-establish his private fortune
and his State's independence. Think
not, gentlemes, I am going to mislead
you into the folly of exclusive cotton cul
ture, for this would be bankruptcy
and rain. The folly of raising
cotton to buy supplies for the farm, 1
endeavored to show, at your convention
in Columbus, and I cannot too stroei.lv
reiterate the stern truths therein ema
ciated—yet I do not hesitate to say that
after yon have filled barn and store house
with all that is essential for life, comfort
and happiness of man and beast, then
every pound of cotton raised by Southern
planters will add to their personal emolu
ment and the wealth and influeice of the
South. Cotton built up onr States before
the war and gave them on enviable posi
tion in the family of nations. And cotton
Is yet destined, in it3 culture and its man
ufacture, to make us again rich and inde
pendent. While it is the leading con
trolling element of our prosperity, ever
commanding a cash price in the markets
of the world, it should be subservient to
home supplies, home improvements, home
refinements. Thus directed and con
trolled, it will add each successive year to
permanent prosperity and growth. Fear
not that if yon give sufficient means and
labor to the food products of the farm, yon
will overstock the world with the cotton
of yonr fields. The cry of over-produo
tionhas has been wrung for over fifty
year?, and yet
CONSUMPTION MARCHES APACE
with production. In 1830, with a crop of
1,038,849 hale?, this cry alarmed the pro
ducer, and yet it was consumed, 182,142
bales being required for our ownmilte;
773,000 expoited to Europe and
the continent. In 1875 the United
States slons consumed 1,356,598 bale?,
which was 350,000 bales in excess of the
whole crop of 1830. Let me briefly re
view tho history, drawn from the reports
of cotton traders circulars) of the produc
tion, consumption and price of the great
staple, that you may learn its growth end
power, and to this end, I w 11 tabulate for
the years named, the ciop of the United
Stitcs, the number of bales consumed
here, tbe number exported aud the aver-
Bge price of middling in New York.
Crop,
Used in Export’d. Prico.
U. 8.
1.038.710 1SJ-6
S,g48.Ct6 0y,
2,533.400 11
2.310,113 1015-10
2.241,209 10%
2,051,GOO lOtf-lG
2,252,657 12%
3.021,403 1 2
3.774,173 11
3,127,363 13
2,206,480 23%
3,160,000 10%
1,057.314 20%
2,670,936 16%
2,840,081 17 .
2,334.708 15
S,233,195 IS
3,040,500 11%
485,014
689,603
803,725
737,230
700,417
777.738
819,938
927,651
978.053
843,740
865,160
1833 51—2,451,413
1551-52-3,126.310
1852.63-3,146,214
1853 51—S.074'970
1854- 55-2,982,034
1855- 56—3,665,557
1856- 57—3,257,859
1857- 68-4,015,914
1813*59—4,861,292
IS00 —3,849,469
1569 70-3,122,551 HI
1870 71—4,352,317 U10.195
1871-72-2,974.357 1.237,340
1872.73-3,930,608 1,*01,127
1873-74-4,170,388 1,306.941
1374-75 -3,832,091 1,193,000
1875- 76-4.632,313 1.354.192
1876- 77...4,430,CC0 1,300000
A tabulated statement of consumption
therefore, for a number of years, will
show you that it keep3 up with produc
tion. For instance. (Report cotton
planters convention.)
Production. Consumption.
Avers? c from 1825 to 18S0...1,231,000 1,187.000
1850 to 1835...1.450 000 1,540.000
1835 to 1840^.1,919,000 1,943,000
1840 to 1845.. 2,601,000 2,414.000
1345 to 1850..2.791,000 2,309,069
‘ ■" i fan*
Aggregate production, 9.932 COO; aggregate
sumption, 9,053,COO.
And thus it has gone hand in hand
with production despite of the prophecies
of those who fear the woill will be over*
stocked with cotton. And wh'li the to
tal delivery in all Europe last ootton year
was 5,570,000 bale?, the es^trated con
sumption is 5,430,000. And this is the
intimate relationship between production
and consumption, and as civilization ex
tends her oonquest, the consumption of
cotton will increase, for new markets for
cotton fabrics will spring up in her van.
The population of the world is now com
puted at 1,423,917,000, of this number
Asia alone has 825,548,500, and yet the
use of cotton fabrics is in its infancy
among those people, but as commerce
opens her ports and civilization blesses
fc her, there" will be a demand for cheap
er clothing and that increased demand
must be furnished from the cotton grow
ing countries of the world, none of whioh
equal your own sunny South. In the
years to come the cry will be for moro
cotton; for wherever the British or Amer
ican commerce is extanded.thera the con
sumption of cotton will be increased. Tho
wars now progresiing in Europe will open
new fields of commerce, trade restrictions
will be removed, civilization will bs ex
tended and as civilization extends her
arts aud her requirements, the demand
for cotton fabrics is enlarged and neces
sarily more will be consumed. Cotton is
yet destined to clothe the world, and the
demands for onr Btaple product will con*
tinueas long as our civilization. We
then of the south, must not be luggard
in our duty in keeping up with all the
improvements and aids in raising this
great regulator of commerce and feeder
of the trade of the world. And why cannot
Georgia farmers realize their wishes and
their hopes? Why should discontsnt move
them to seek new homes and new fields
of labor. Compare Georgia with other
Stats* in her yield of cotton per acre.
According to statistics in 1873,
N. Carolina yielded per acre 159 lbs lint cotton
South Carolfua * 188 “
Alabama • 126 "
Mississippi * 172 “ «
Louisiana " 180 -
Georgia *■ 184 “ *
Arkansas " 195 “ ••
Texas “ 221 “ "
This same ratio was returned again in
1874, thus evidencing the fact that the
average yield in Georgia is equal to
any of the States except Texas and Ar
kansas, and their increased prodetotive-
ness is more than oounterbalmoed when
we consider the advantages of climate,
health and sooiety that snrronnd our
home?. And surely these should weigh
something in tbe soale of a value of a
homestead. But not only is our State equal
to most other sister States in the produc
tion, bnt in the mannfsotnre of her great
staple, Georgia has no equal in the South.
In 1869 the number of spindles reported
in operation in the Sontb was 225,063, in
1874, 262,221, in 1875,481,821. Of these
Georgia bad 131,340, more than double
that of any sister Southern State. Then,
again, no State in the South surpasses
her in
SALUBRITY CF CLIMATE,
in mineral wealth, nor in educational
privileges. These are the elements of
greatness, and in these Georgia is truly
great. Why, then, should Georgian seek
other homes in the vain hope of being
better satisfied? Has sooiety no charms?
Have old local attachments no chords to
bind them here? Are the graves of their
fathers to be turned over to tho strangers’
keeping and the strangers’,bare? Are the
old homesteads around whoso sooial
hearthstones our good old mothers’ sang
the dear old songs of the “sweet by aud
by,” to be oooupied by those who read
no saored memories on their time-soiled
walls, and hear no eohoes of chld-
hood’s joys in the winds that rattle
through the roof tree abutters? The
fault, gentlemen, is not in Georgia, her
soil nor her climate, for in these she is
eminently blessed. The error liss in her
sous and thoir system of labor. He who
is thriftless here, will be so in his new
found home, unless a change or place ef
fects a change of habits of life. Change
yonr agricultural eoonomy and yon will
prosper here. Feed and olrtl.e your-
selvesat home and your ootton ,;op will
soon bless yon with means and prosper
ity. Build up your interests in Georgia;
patronize your own sohools and oollegee:
ereot and ran your own factories and thus
utiiza your crops at your own doors; make
yourselves independent at home and yonr
industrial pursuits will be enlarged; cap
ital willl seek investments here and yon
will realize in all its fullness the blessing
of independence. My countrymen, had
I any of the attributes of divine power,
I would bring forth the people]from their
camps to the Sinai of their former pros-
parity and from the thick olond of misfor
tune that now darkens its summit, while
the thunders of disoontent rolled angrily
above and the lightnings of illfortnne
played incessantly upon its side?, the
voice of the trampet should sound long
and wax louder and louder until startled
Israel should receive the fiery law, “Live
at home/’
Tbe last words of Victor Emanuel to
his son, who was to succeed him on the
throne, were: “Live for Italy." This
was the dying injunction of a great
monarch, bat it is tho living
EMBODIMENT OF SPOTLESS PATRIOTISM.
With no sanction of royal authority, with
out the sacred force and power of a death
bed request, with none of that impressive
ness that characterizes the language of
those in position and place, yet with all
the emphasis of my nature, coming up
from a heart that loves its native State, I
change his language, and would to God it
could be heard by every man from
Eaotah’s heights to Tybee’a beacon
island—from the Savannah to the Chat
tahoochee. Georgians,
LIVE FOR GEORGIA.
Live in her fields and her farms; live in
her factories and her mills; live in
her foundries and mines; live in her
work shops and her commercial marts j
live in her valleys and her hills; live in
her hopes and her memories, and your
State, no longer crushed by loeses or dis
heartened by misfortune, will loom np like
some mountain height, upon whose top
“eternal sunshine rests.” The great
secret of Northern success and progres?,
apart fron. their energy and enterprise,
is keeping their money at home, while we
of Georgia, with a crop yielding yearly
over twenty millions of dollars, spend the
larger portion of it for their produota and
the fruits of their industry. Let this
stale o! affairs be reversed at the South,
and Georgians strike the first blood for
freedom and independence. The pond
will never fill—be the streams that feed
it ever so many—if the flood gates and
the waste-way carry eff the waters as fast
as supplied.
XCONOMY NOW IS WEALTH.
Gentlemen of the Convention, be true
to yourselves and to your State. Plantera
of Georgia, assume your true position—a
position of independence at home and
equality abroad. So regulate yonr do
mestic economy as to live within your
selves. Then the morning of prosperity
will break upen the long night of yonr
misfortunes. Yoarshipis now plough
ing a stormy sea. A “great wind is upon
the deep,” aud “the ship ia like to bo bro
ken.” Credit is the Jonah that ha3 en
tered the vessel and provoked tho storm.
Cast him ovciboard, and tho eea will
“cease from her raging” and the o!d ves
sel, freighted with your interest and your
hopes, under full canvas, and with pen
nants flying, will sail proudly into port
amid the rej dciugs of a proud, prosper
ous acd happy people.
When Co!. Hardeman bad conclu led,
the next speaker was cur excellent ana
patriotic Governor
GENERAL A. H. COLQUITT,
who does not allow the cares of State,
or the dignitr of his position as chief
magistrate of one of tbe most powerful
sovereignties (so called) in the Union, to
diminish or. impair his interest in the
agriculture of the commonwealth. We
never remember to have hoard his Excel
lency so felicitous on any former occa
sion, and his adiress was replete with
wisdom, research and wise suggestions to
the people of this section. His theme
was “The peculiar advantages of Soutn-
weBtern Georgia, as a farming section,
and the inducements which it offers to
settlers.” Wo give tho entire paper
as fellows:
ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR COLQUITT.
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Con -
oration: Upon a very brief notion, I have
oonsentedto disouss a most important;rab-
jeot. It is nothing less than to speak of
the resoaroes of thirteen thousand equate
miles or as blessed s territory ss in my
opinion, the tan shines upon. South.
western Georgia, embraeing a surface aa
extended as the Statu of Massaohneetts,
Rhode Mind and Conneotiout, and com
manding physical advantages and a range
of production that these States know
nothing of if walled oat from the rest of
the universe, oould be erected into the
most splendid of commonwealths. We
pause but an instant to ask, what Bhould
be tbe opinion of mankind of that 8Ute
whioh boasts snob a segment of territory
and composing less than one-fonrth of its
ares? Bnt in oar-habits of thought and
speeoh in regard to this portion of Geor
gia we ourselves, have never done it jus
tice. The production by this oirenmsorib-
ed seotion of the State of more than one-
fourth of the ootton raised in the entire
cotton producing territory of Georgia, has
betrayed ns into a habit of thinking that
ootton raising was the peouliar advantage
of this portion of the State, and that it
possessed hardly any other- What a
superficial and inadequate view of the
snbjeot is aueh an opinion. We venture
the assertion that there ia not, in all this
broad land, perhaps there is not in the
whole of Christendom, any given surface
of the limits we have assigned to South*
western Georgia whioh enjoys
SUOH A WIDE BANGS OF FSODUGTION,
and in this range, suoh a number of mag-
nifloent staples. Beginning at the lowest
tier of counties co-terminus with onr
sister State of Florida and asoending
through the two degrees of lattitude
whioh inoludes this favored boundary, we
shall find the habitat of the blaokseed
ootton,the short staple,sugar oane,tobacoo,
then all the cereals, and how far from
least, nearly every oonoeivable root crop,
inolnding that peerless*,one, the sweet po
tato. Now add the field pea,that finds its
poridge here,numeroas;forage plsnts^ome
of whioh are reluctant to extend their favor
ing help elsewhere,with the crowning glo
ry of that noblest of sll grasses, the “Ber
muda,” and you present suoh an array of
agricultural resonroes aa oan scarcely be
credited by those who have no personal
knowledge of this favored land. But
this enumeration soaroely exhausts the
half of the catalogue. Where in all the
world can finer pine Umber be fonnd?
We have not a donbt if the people of
Southwestern Georgia were reatrioted by
some invincible power to this single re-
sonree, and they oould hold commercial
repoit with the world only through the pro
ducts of their pine forests, that by these
alone they oould assert their impoitanoe
among the trading people, of the world.
Men are jaet beginning to suspect
what
UNTOLD TREASURE
is yet to be evolved from this quarter.
For a half century we have bad it dinned
into onr ears, that Georgia pine coaid not
produce turpentine, and Georgia lands
produce either blue grass and clover.
But stranger things have happened in this
world of surprises than that the good old
North State should send to ns for her
“tar and turpentine,” and Maine’s ship
yards look tone for ber supplies of ship
timber and spars. Nav more. While
the vision of prophecy elites us, let us
prooeed a litile further with this self as
sertion. There is nothing in it surely
whioh has tbe savor of vaporing or audac
ity. The day I trust is ooming when
yonr incomparable white oak shall be
utilized upon ten thousand vine-clad
hills in Europe,and the Tennesseean trem-
bis at the tramp of the swinish multi
tudes that shell make their way north
ward from the fields acd hammooks of
Southwestern Georgia. The roil trouble
is not the paucity of its reliable produotB,
bnt the embarrassment of selecting what
is best among so much that ie excellent.
It would, let me add, be a most faulty
enumeration of the rare advantages pos
sessed by this garden of the South if das
mention was not made of its capaoity as a
fruit raiBing section.
GEORGIA’S HORTICULTURAL RESOURCES.
We have at times seriously doubted if
one ever did really eat a true peaoh out of
Sonnth9rn or Southwestern Georgia. But
let this bs as it may, the critioal
in suoh matters will never deny that
in this particular portion of the State
that queen of fruits has attained its
queen
rareEt excellence. And, strange to say,
that no where perhaps in all Georgia, and
we suspect no where in all the South, can
more perfect or luscious pears be pro*
duced. Fruit fanoiers and viators are, I
think, beginning to see that the perfect
underdrainage and maturing warmth of
the silicious soils,’ which predominate in
southwestern Georgia, constitute the hap
pier condition for tbe prednetion of the
grape. Already, in the splendid 8ncce3s
of the pioneers who have made the ven
ture of grape culture for profit, we have
an earnest of what the future develop
ment of this industry is to attain. But
this is not onr limit to the capabilities of
this particular class of industries. No
where in America perhaps does the fig
attain greater perfection than in southern
Georgia, or is it of easier or more certain
propagation. Have you, gentlemen, ever
calculated what a sum might be saved, as
well as made, if such crops of figs as
oould be annually produced here, were
properly brought to market? But time
would fail ua if we were to attempt to
speak in detail of all the advantages of
fraitj culture in southwestern Georgia.
It is a most reasonable expectation that
we ehould see in the near future thous
ands, if not
MILLIONS ADDED TO THE INCOMES
of the inhabitants of tins portion of the
State, by shipments North of tha earliest
products of the orchard and market gar
den. Nothing could be more certain, it
seems to me, than the grand results
which associated capital and effort could
achieve in securing and shipping these
products in their deasecated state.
Without a serious effort we ship annually
from Georgia perhaps 150 or 200 thous
and dollars worth of dried fruits, which
is net the half of what this section of
itself should Bend off. I turn aside for a
moment to exchange a few words of
sober and earnest admonition with those
of my friends here, who have kindly and
politely followed me thus far. I am
here in the “true cotton belt,” where bnt
a decade or so ago, some who hear me
doubtless counted their annual crops by
hundreds of bales. Yourmagiatracy over
your labor was paramount—your plana
of operation were on a scale almost lord
ly and excelsior was your motto. For
two generations back of your advent upon
the field of action, small economies were
not insisted on and were very seldom
taught. A numerous labor force, an am
ple and wide extended territory and a
plantation policy which looked to large
credits daring the working seasoned at
the end of the year, to heavy receipts,
were the characteristics which distin
guished very many of the estates and
lives of our tillers of the soil. There is
little of this left now. The solidest es
tates that once distinguished our agricul
tural history are in ruin—all old ideas
and routine reversed, and we awake now
to new conditions aa well a? to unaccus
tomed exigencies. ’ Tis true tho change
in our ciroumstances come with a fearful
suddenness, aul wo were called upon
to acquire new habits and new tastes
upon an awfully short notice. Bnt the
necessity to make tbe change is upen us,
and how this shall be done is the ques
tion that shakes every Southern man in
every faculty of his soul. We are not
lefe without charming examples of de
tailed and minute industries which, while
they distributed iu infinitely small divi-
sioos the producing energy of a people,
achieved tho grandest resulti. In a sur
face not four times greater than Georgia,
FRANCK
has one million or more farms of only
ten acres each. Upon these the bett pro
vided peasantry in Europe live from gen
eration to generation, and are so wall proj
vided for that a Frenchman hardly ever
emigrates. On these small farms owned
in fee simple, aud sending out into the
grand reservoir of national wealth thsir
myriads of little rills, are nurtured one
of the most powerful and advanced peo
ple that ever figured in the world’s histo
ry. For there the statesman and politi
cal economist may deduce the wisest
lessons for the maintenance of a dense
and contented population. If we, and
especially in South western Georgia, oculd
acquire the Frenchman's art of saving
and utilizing,there oould be no rivalry with
us in all the oomforts acd luxuries of life.
But we can never attain such a
STATE OF MATERIAL PROSPERITY
and independence while we disregard or
throw away what would maintain and en-
rich a frugal people.
We now come to speak of the capabili
ties of Southwestern Georgia as a sheo p
raising section. We purposely omit any
allusion to meat cattle, while we are per
fectly familiar with the fact, that aa a
stack raising locality, beef cattle are here
first thought of and largely predominate.
We approach the subject of wool growing
in this section, we confess, with a little
nervousness. The history of sheep hus
bandry everywhere, from Texas to Aus
tralis, presents a picture of thrift and
sucoes?, such as distinguishes no other
industrul venture whatever. When we
take into view tbe speediness of returns
—the expenditure in capital stock, so to
speak, the expense of handling and the
amount of annual interest, it seems won
derful that a shepherd’sorookis notin
every man’s hand who is an inhabitant of
Southwest Georgia. The most reliable
statistics which we possess have given ns
large assurance that
SHEEP CULTURE IN GEORGIA
has returned an annual interest of from
63 all to the way to 80 per cent. It is
a most amusing, and quite rediculous, to
leara'how this splendid result ia aohievecL
Given the long-tailed Nanny of the piny
woods, and fifty miles of range, with any
number of etatveling cars and famished
eagles in waiting, two recognitions by
the owner in the twelvemonth, the re
sult is sixty-three dollars per hundred
for such generous and helpful attention.
What other financial venture in all
the range of human effort could thus
prosper and be thus treated ? Why, it
seems to me that a crop of rag weeds, or
of that stoutest of all things, a Bermuda
gra3s sward, would utterly fail under
such a thriftless and unreasonable treat
ment. Now, let U3 imagine how the ac
count would stand if wool raising could
receive only a small fraction of the out
lay and care which we give to all onr
other crop?. We have to begin with, a
sandy, well drained sheep walk,
embracing millions of 'acre?, every
acre of which would maintain a sheep
twelve months in the year. We speak
advisedly and in the estimate of better
judges far than your speaker, the matter
is greatly underestimated. The beat in
formed sheep master we ever conversed
with assured us that one acre well set in
Bermuda grass in Southwestern Georgia,
would maintain all the year through, ten
head of sheep. The actual expense that
would bs incurred in this part of the
State would be about the interest on the
original oost of the sheep and the charge
fora single shearing worth about five
cent?. To offset thi?, there would be or
should be, a clear dip of at least four
pounds of high grade or full blood wool,
worth $1.00 per head far every sheep in
the flock. But let ns not forget the value
of the nightly folding. This can .hardly
be called an incident to sheep husbandry,
eo immediate and vast is the benefit. In
one night’s time the folding of one thou
sand sheep on an acre of land would
transform a poverty-stricken spot into a
garden. The standard calculation is that
for this night’s folding on an acre, yon
might expect a return at the rate of 1,500
pounds of seed cotton.
THE UNIVERSAL WANT
of all agricultural communities out of al
luvial and malarial localities, is manure,
manure, and still more manure. The
cast of fertilizing is leading its desola
tions all over th9 country. Even the
transportation and spotting of what
bulky manures are home raked sll farm
ers know, is a serious labor aud expense.
See what the flock well tended will surely
do in obviating all this evsL Is it too
bold to say that if a lcck of wool was nev
er clipped, or a quarter of mutton never
found its way to our board, that nothing
at near its cost, wouli secure suoh a re-
tu:ii to a 1 inded estate as a fleck of sheep.
As a money crop, calculate tho advan
tage. What should be your share of tho
aggregated flock of the State. The king
dom of Great Britain, not twice the
size of Georgia, keep3 _ in closes
for the most part a flock of twenty-eight
millions. France keeps pretty much in
boy in far distant lands tarn hli
southward and sigh, “my mother’s hoo?
' The stalwart
the same way, a flock of thirty-three
millions. This she does on a territory of
about two hundred and seven thousand
square mile?. In the county of Logan,
in the State of Ohio, we have seen a re
turn of one hundred and eighty thousand
sheep. Your thirteen or fourteen thou
sand square miles will give Southern
Georgia about eight millions of acres.
Why could not three millions of sheep,
yielding a clip of twelve millions of
pounds, bo easily maintained on these
eight millions of acres, especially blessed
as they are, by natural pasturage, sandy
walks and element seasons ? Now super
induce upon thoso signal advantages,
the rort crops, and the field pea, and
these fully and finally supplement by
the boast of the South, Bermuda grass,
and tell us if a more reasonable exhibit
of a
GRAND AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMME
was ever made. Thu crowning excellence
of this industry would be the large and
general distribution of its benefits. The
family that secured its two hundred
pounds of washed wool wonld be assured
the same proportionate and timely re
turns, that ambitious flock-master would
derive from bis thousands of fleeces. The
Spaniard says the sheep’s hoof is tipped
with gold. Well may this plaudit be
made a proverb. This meek eyed minis
ter to man’s wants and comforts dis
penses all good and no detriment wher*
e ver it goes. To our calculations aa well
as to onr suggestions there may be
offered objections. There can b?, will
be, and ever has been to every reforma
tory scheme that man ever proposed,
some difficulty placed in the way. This
is natural and most human. But if we
sit still until the tuebid and forbidding
streams of doubts and perplexities shall
ran dry that we may cross dry shed we
will attemp little good iu this life and
accomplish less. The most that man may
reasonably ask in this militant itateof
existence, should be fair compensation
for risks and labors honestly incurred.
By this rule, it hardly seems just to the
merits and claims that the sheep has up
on society to charge, that he cannot
overcome a negro’s cur in a fair fight,
and that he is too unthrifty to grow
hard and fat mutton upon stubs of wiro
grass tough enough for a foot mat. But
it would be fair to tho sheep and mer
ciful to ourselves to know, that with
a most Imoderate kindness and care we
oould expeot, aud that too in a short time,
that the wool erop of Southwestern Geor
gia was at least worth half of its present
oottou yield. This erop, in the nature of
things, .we fear, must beoome dearer and
dearer in the future, while wool will in
crease in valne and amount as we shall be
advanoed in the method! of Us prodao
tion.
RECAPITULATION.
Now, we must, in a short recapitulation,
group the advantages whioh a bountiful
provldenoo has in sueh afflaenoe bestowed
of that favored Motion of the State,known
as Southwestern Georgia. The elevation
rising from 200 to 500 feet above the sea
krai, gives assurance of health. It is net
to be denied that there are localities in
this part of the State whioh are not favor
able to health. So you will find it even in
the mountains. But it is true, we are
certain, that In a majority of localities
in Southwestern Georgia, as mnoh health
may be enjoyed as in any other portion of
the State. Healthy, eld, and very old
men, and as many of them, oan be found
here as in any portion of the 8onth.
While the water is not of the usual moun
tain ioycoldneaa, its filtration is perfect,
and welh -andsprings abound everywhere.
The range of the thermometer ia of &
most equable sort, and great extremes of
heat and oold are net encountered.
Hard, wcois abound in almost every
kind and the universal and benifioent
pine whioh makes every resident feel
what a blessing it i« from the gift of pro
vidence. Frails are here, asserting a
'sway as hardly any other seotion oan
claim. The grape escapes its great
enemy, and its fall glory develops here,
set off by the long array of other finit i
which rival it in their beauty and aroma.
Here too, open-air eultore of the rarest
flowers
BIB) OLD WINTER
of his frown?, and makes the wandering
my mother’s home.” The stalwart aUw
of life, breadstuff* of every variety, rka
corn, wheat, rye, are at command. Th«
true home of the oat has at last been ia
oated here,and that redeeming resource of
every old and heavily taxed population that
most live by agriculture, the root, ororn
no where in all the land ic;better provided
than In Southwestern Georgia. If
would, not a pound of sugar need be
bronght into the State, for South,
western Georgia oan raise it jii
There is hardly an assignable HmU
to short cotton production, » n d
your crop of bUck seed oould easily sub-
stitute any grade no higher than Em,
tian. This sound?, my friends, yen
like an overweening, partisan partiality
Bat it will not attract the critic’s atten'
tion more forcibly than what we tell, that
lands in this pre-eminently blessed sec
tion have been assesaed for a whole
county * oblow as 51 cents an acre. Then
are many reasons for this, but these will
notmnch longer obtain. These reaeons
are entirely extraneous to the true char,
actsr and traits of the section upon
which we have discanted. Here, whera
princely estates were based on such prone
as a great civil convulsion shook down of
course the revulsion amounted to disa*.
ter. But from under the tremendous
load of wreck and discouragement south
western Georgia is emerging. Her noble
struggle for life and recuperation should
attract the admiration of the whole coun
try. What I know of that straggle has
won my sympathy and excited the most
exalted appreciation! But emerge she
will from her sea of troubles, and the day
will come when sho withhold the “
KEY OF THE GREAT STOREHOUSE
of the State in her hand.
In concluding this hasty and for too
inadequate description of southwestern
Georgia, I have offered it as urn humble
tribute from the heart, to a people and
their home which I have known long and
well, I can bear personal and direct
testimony to mnoh of what I have pre
sented as applicable to this seotion, and I
have no donbt that those representative
men who hear me sow, who came from
mountain, and hill country, and seaboard,
all rejoice with me and
SHARE THE FRIDZ
AKOIHEB POMPEII.
tho Ancient City of glnnnlnm
Found After Six Centuries.
A corresponds!.! of the London Time*
writes: ‘‘Considerable interest has been
exoited among the archaeologists of South-
era Italy by xeports cf a late romarkablo
discovery. This was nothin glees then the
dissntombment of another Pompeii. The
scene is in the neighborhood of Manfre-
donia, on the Adriaiio coast, abont 140
mileB northwest of Brindisi, in the low>
lying ground which stretches from tbe
foot of Monte Gargaco to the se»; and
the acoient city which has been revealed
is Sipnntum. Already the disooverles
have brought to light a Temple of Diani
and acclcnade about sixty-five feet long,
and have partially explored an under
ground reoropolis, which seem to be
abont forty feet or forty-five feet square.
A portion of tho inscription and numer
ous interesting objects whioh were found
have been already deposited in the Ns-
tioml Museum at Naples, and the Italian
government has given the requisite in
structions in order that extensive explore-
lions shell at once be buried out in a
proper manner. The disappearance cf
Sipuntam was not owing to showers of
vcloanio ashes, Bimilar to those that buri
ed its Neapolitan sisters, but to
a sinking of the Bile on which it Btood,
the effect, probably, of enocessiva
earthquakes. It was a lucky fate, for to
it we owe its preservation in its present
state. The depression has been so great
that the ancient buildings now lie at t&
average depth of twenty feet below tta
level of the surrounding plain. A por
tion of the existing towa of Manfredonii
is built over tho remains of ancient Sip
nntum, exactly as Dr. Schliema&n found
.one town superimposed over the yet ex*
isiing remains of another at Hies&rlik-
Sipuntnm was originally a Greek oolony
of unknown dAte. Tradition, as in the*
oige of many other ancient cities of Apulia
attributed its foundation to Diomede. I
was old when the Romans resettled eu
that country after the scoond Punio war.
It was then, probably, its name took
the form by whioh it is historically known
St. Paui’s Cathedral, London, hat
strange to say, never had a chime of bell?-
Four years ago the omission was brought
to the publio notice, and now the city
companies, in asaooiation with Lad;
Bardett Contis, have undertaken to sup
ply this wan f , and a noble peel of twelve
bells will be supplied. The
will together coat abont £5,000, ex*
olnsive of the oage which is to held them,
and eaoh one will bear the name, arms
and the motto of the donor. The entire
peal will weigh not less than eleven tons.
It must not be supposed that these will
ta any way Interfere with the great bill cf
St Paul’s, whioh hange alone in the clock
tower, and weighs by itself five touB snu
a quarter. It is tolled only for the royal
family, the Bishop of London, the Lord
Mayor (*hould he die in office;, the Dean
of St. Paul’s, and by apeak 1 order for 5
very famous personage, snob as tbe kl°
Duke of Wellington. Sometimes it does
no work for years.
The Metropolis.—At the investigatioa
in Philadelphia into the loss of the steam
ship Metropolis, on Thursday last, Joseph
Monroe, inspector for tha
board of underwriters,
vassal was not worth $12,000 on account
of her general indications of wertm* 9
and decay. He thought it was a
want of prudence to take men who knew
nothing about ^
such a voyage. ffid not wmsw ^
Metropolis seaworthy with 8W *
“rgo^B board, and he socxpt^J
himsell to the member* of his
pany. He thought she mighthave^
Liorthy without
think she could have
«!, as ahe was with ordinary weaw» f
Disgotal stripe* had been put *r "E,
recently to keep her from breaking
half.
I feel that we may truly .boast such a
land. And yon in torn, my southwestern
friends, share my exultation, that within
our boundaries we have the lovely, valleys
of the mountain district, where nature
displays a lavish beauty that can hardly
be excelled in all this green earth, and
where in mineral productions we have
stored away an amount of wealth that
almo3t defies computation. You rejoice
with me that in our mid country we have
a soil and climate whioh has nurtured a
breed of men who are the peers of tho
noblest of manhood, and we are illustra
ting a social and political influence that
shall ba hit t o the remotest bounds of
the Union.
And last but not least, we all pay the
TRIBUTE OF OUR PROFOUND ADMIRATION
to the polished manners, the chivalric
honor, the enlightened enterprise and
publio spirit of onr brethren of the South
east and the seaboard, and embrace in
onr fraternal love and benedictions the
whols glorious commonwealth.
Let ns renew our vows of fidelity and
active zeal in her behalf, said pledge our
sacred honors that if we can prevent it no
detriment shall befall the dear old State.
After Gr.virnor Colquitt sat down
CAFT. J. N. MONTGOMERY,
of Madison county, read an exhaustive
paper on “Farm Labor; TVhat it Ehonli
be compared with what it if."
This is too long to print, but contained
many suggestions eminently practicil
and useful.
After a desultory debate on sheep in
dustry and a dog law, tbe society then
adjourned over to to-mo rrow morning at
9:30.
We close for lack of time and space.
H. H. J.
*2 elf air.