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Newspaper Page TextPUBLISHED WEEKLY BY COBURN & DWINBLL EDITORS. TEEMS—82 00 PER ANNUM# PAYABI VOLUME 10. ROME, 6A., TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1855. omc Courier EVERT TUESDAY HORSING. 'COBBRSJ BY COBURN & DTYINELL. Terms of Subscription* Ik j&TANcc, TER annum, . .Vl. . . . $2 00 Paid within Six MONTHS, ; .. ... . . . t2 50 PaID AT THE Etft OP YEAR. . . . ... $3 00 Terms se inserted Advertise- gnbSMUfftt llMTtlOP. Cr?t and % the IT ISA FACTESTABLISHED mod well liie—rUM Ilin Oisliiees Hleimfl a k^Atia the knowledge of medieine which ceased the whole world to woaflw aaflaflmlrf. With them the science of eh ecus try had its birth, end it is, therefore, not at all struge that* people ae wi—lfrr«uni.tasfoi In the hauling art, end ae p—0—Mg Ml Arafat h ohewwtw, ehoold, by actual end uoiir.ee expert meat, discover rem edies for surpsaang in efficacy all others, for diseases Incident tie them from of life. The greater part of their petit in faaiardons and bloody ware fare with the different tribes, they were subject to the most violent attache of rheumatism,-par. air sis, Mtaralgte pains, and varieas iaflasnma- tory disease*, aa also the raost horrid wound*, sprains, bruises,-turners, swellings, diseases of the joints, etc. etc. AU these diseases they were so surpririnelr'eOhdeat in curing, that the uninitiated locked wt«h wonder and attri- hwtedlhah dltelki jiwincf OKflfaf’: H. G. FARELLS ARAB TAN LIXIMhNT is a com position of balsams and oils, from rare plants peculiar to this country, and it was by the nse of the article! composing the great remedy that .net only their physician*, hot eren rite, wild Arabs of the desert were enabled to perform a—h -mharalwn cmoa.' The- Arab steed * ■mm id rHWldjW hi* beautiful symmetry of form, his unsurpassed speed and agility, and the Incredible fatigue ho is capable of cndorii Why is it? Because from the time of his bi: bis limbs, are carefully watched, and upon the first appearance of disease the magic lotion is applied, and such things as confirmed sweeny, poll-evil, fistula, ringbone, scratches, spavin, lameness, etc. eto, are unknown. The same result will follow in all cases where H. G,Far- ^rell's Genuine Arabian Liniment tensed in time. Therefore delay not in procuring a good supply -of it, for every dollar spent in it will savc-yon ftwentv. and a great deal of suffering/ If hot jwr&fe. Look omtfor Counterfeits! The public are cautioned against, ano counterfeit, which has lately made its appearr ante, called W. B. Farrell’s Arabian Liniment, the most dangerous of all ihctoBwuntertirfte, be- -cause his having the name, of Famll, maiiy will buy it in good faith, without the knowl edge that a counterfeit exists, and they will per haps only discover their error when tho span ous mixture has wrought its evil effects. ... The gen oine article is manufactured only by H. G. Farrell. « >!e inventor and proprietor, and wholesale druggist, No. 17 -Main street, Peons, Illinois, to whom all apolications for Agencies most be addressed. Be sure yon get it with the letters H. G. before Farrell’s, thus—H. 6. FARRELL’S—and his signature on the wrap per, all others are connterfeats. T' • -Sold by Kendriek A Pledger, Melville G. B. F. Mattox, Mt. Hickory c - Brown, Coosa P. O. Brunner A Moyers, Summerville Robert Battey, Wholesale Agent, Rome ’ authorized agents throughout i States. /arPrice 25 and 50 cents, and SI pcrbottle. AGENTS WANTED in every town, village -and hamlet in the United States, in which one la mj slrvedy esfcsbRsbed." Address H. G. Far rell as abovc^aecompanied with good reference as to diameter, responsibility, Ac. seen; e’en; THE LIFE-CLOCK. TRANSLATED PROM TBS GERMAN There 1* a little i No human eye Thatbeateth on—t From morning unt And when the soul te .... And hearcth notasoun It ticks, aad rich*, the live long day, And never runneth down. , wondrous is the work of nrt, jfhieh knells the passing hour, But art ne’er formed, nor mind conceived, The life-clock’s map ~ Not eetfti gdd.nm-deckedwn^JSM.. By pride ana wealthj But rich er poor, or high or low. Each bears it in his breast. When life’s deep stream,' ’mid beds of flowers, Alt still and softir glides, lake thewavelet’s step, with* gentle beat, It wants of passing tides* When passion r erves the warrior’s arm; : For deeds of bate aad wrong, . Though heeded not the fearful sound. The knell is deep aad strong. When eyes to eyes are gating soft, Then test and wild it rattles on, As if with lovef 'twere broken. Suehte the dock that measures life, Of flesh and spirit blended ; And rims twill ran within the breast, Till that strange life b ended. oborqia’and ORIO. SB. STEPHENS Iff REPLY TO HR. CAHP- BELL. Is ran House cur Represestattves. January 15,1855. TTEW FALL GOODS —PULL SUPPLIES. WILLIAM .SHEAR. ALGUSTA,GA, '. TT AS received from New l'ork, his Full Sup^ piies -if Fancy and Staple DRY GOODS, table for the Fall and Rich fancy colored SILKS, in great variety of style arid of superior qu.-.Iby : Rich Paris printed DELAINES, and Fancy all i*a cord, white and Mack MERINOS, and all wool of new and A very * ! .v!es: Fancy PRINTS, in Fancy GINGAAMS, of new EMBROIDERIES, embracing f collars chemizett, cnder- \ and HANDKERCHIEFS, of new of the CLOTH CLOAKS land Plain Parte Silk Velvet CLOAKS; ' A large eapply r.f Mismunii fThildrrm’g of the best make; Gentlemen’s superior Gauntlet Merino and Silk VESTS; \ . and Youth's Silk and Merino DRAWERS; ^ Warp and Colored FLANNELS, of » supply of MOURNING GOODS, ’ .of a superior quality; and Pil- Cai» LINEN.* - -Saperior <5-4 and 10 by 4 Table and Damask DIAPERS, slme of Extra quality; Rich Damask TABLE CL0TH8 and NAPKINS some of extra rise ; Scotch and Bird’s Eye DIAPERS, extra fine, for children'* wear : .-»•> «f: ;v J Heavy Scotch DIAPERS and HUCKABACKS for Toweling; ' , .Superior Whitney and Merino BLANKETS, of extra size and qualitv, 1 • .. Saperior CRIB BLANKETS, -4.r.......... Also a great variety of other new on nil o arti- eles suitable for Family and Plantation tr — The public are respectfully invited to call and examine the. assortment. rr > »S a, . *»' W. 8. especially solicit* a cal! from hi* long continued friend* and patrons, and assures them that no exertion on his part shall be wanting to supply them with the latest and most desirable styels of GOOD3, at the lowest prices. — nor. 14, 1854. DISSOLUTION. T HE firm of Russell k Wadsworth was thi day dissolved by mutual consent, all per sons having claims, and those indebted to said firm will please call on E. W. Russell, jr. for settlement E. W. RUSSELL, jr., W. 8. WADSWORTH. Nov. 14, '54. 3m TROUT HOUSE. THE undersigned begs to announce to the citizens oi'Atlanta and the travel- ifl public, that he will open the Trout House on Monday next, for the accommodation of boarders and transient persons, with furniture entirely new. Rooms well ventilated, large and airy Balls, and by constant attention to the want* of his guests, the subscriber hopes to bis House among the most desirable to be Found in the State. AARON GAGE, Atlanta, Nov. 28, 1854-ly Proprietor. . Bat the gentleman says that the live-stock in each State should be taken into the account of the annual products. This te a most singu lar idea. -Butlet it be done, and then how standg the result? Still more favorable to Geor gia. Every step he takes plunges Win deeper in the mire of his errors.. For Georgia has much mom- live-stock, in proportion, either to her population, white ahdf black, or capital, than Ohio has. Of neat cattle, Georgia has 1,097,- 528. Ohio, with about double foe population, has only 1,453,947. This is exclusive of swine or hogs. For when the gentleman talks of driv ing Ohio fat bogs to Georgia, he must be re minded that Georgia has more hogs than Ohio ■has. Georgia, by the census, had 2,188,817 hogs, while Ohio, with her much larger popula tion, bad only 1,964.770. But if the whole val no of the live-stock in'each State be taken in to the-aceount, I say thevesult will sti'lbe more favorable to Georgia. The Ohio live-stock is pot down nt $44,121,741. In Georgia it is pat down at $25,728,416. If these amounts be ad ded to the respective products before stated, we shall have the Ohio aggregate, as the geutle- man statss. $189,959,97S,apd tbe Georgia ag gregate, $91,216,683. We should then have the Georgia capital, of $101,647,594, producing $91,216,683, which te 89 per cent., and - the Ohio capital, of $371,509.18S, producing $189,- 959.973. which is only 51 per cent. Being a production at the ratio of 3S per cent, on capi tal Jb favor of Georgia. I have, Mr. Chairman, gone through with this illustration more for the purpose of expos ing the fallacies of the gentleman than for any other-purpose ; And to show that, notwithstand ing hta most untenable assumptions as to the baste of priepp. and bis want of adherence, even to his own basis, first, in not abiding by fate own list furnished me for Ohio products, and then in not putting.Georgia potatoes at the New York city, market price, when he adopted that baste ; that, notwithstanding all this-, bis effort to make it appear that the agriculture of Ohio, under her system of labor, is more pros perous than that of Georgia under her system, Ins, according to the soundest principles of po litical economy most signally foiled. I. there fore. leave this branch of fhe’ subject where I left It before. The samo exhibits T then made on this subject, I again make, and hold them up to the strictest scrutiny.' J Tbeir results may astonish many who have never devoted' atten tion and Investigation on the subject* but the principles upon which they are founded, and the great truth they illustrate, may be railed at, but' they can never be referred. But, Mr. Chairman, my time, is fast passing away,-and I, tpb. mast pass hurriedly on. The gentleman says there are other statis tics besides those of agriculture ; and he goes Into an enumeration of several classes 'of them in comparing the physical, as well as intellec tual, developments of Ohio with Georgia; he Instances manpfcetures, public improvements, colleges, ehnrches, and some others I can only glance at. The first he gives,ds the following tables : JfAXUFACTCRES, BTC, Capital Xnr Saawat * to Cm* tenatr* amiU rrVwc- pr»!t Ml* saotaHS **M77.«*r satsw.as v-.w 'Amsfe Mtea/iWw *• - OfctaakmS ptfiSSJOBS gn.TT*."* 1 $S9^*r,TM li.fl From this table one would suppose that Ohio had the capital here stated invested in mans* fcctnres, with the result stated; hut. sir, by turning to the census returns, we shall find that mueb more ls covered by tho eteoetera than by manufoctures ; under this et catcra comes me chanic arts and mining. But in the census I find no clue to what these 'mechanic arts are, or the details of mining—I do, however, to manu- factnres proper, which is the leading ti tle of the, tablft. We have in the cenaas (Ghm- pendiam, page 180) the manufactnros of cotton, woolens, pig iron, wrought iron, iron castings, and distilleries and breweries ; these are all the detailed heads of manufactures proper that the census gives—and the whole capital in Ohio, invested In all these branches together, is but $6,161,644! Here 1s the exact amounts taken from the census: . ' t ' t '' : Capital invested in manufactures of . cotton $297,000 Capital invested in manufactures of . woolens Capital invested in manufactores of pig iron Capital invested in manufactures of wrought iron ' y Capital invested in manufactures of iron castings ' , Capital Invested In manufaetnresdf distilleries and breweries Under tho Head of distilleries and breweries, cation in contemplating tho working of our in- I find that Ohio had aoapitat Invested of $1,- | atitutions, is, that many of that great number of ‘ students, both male and female, who n«w crowd oar colleges and balls of learning, with sueb 870,220 1,503,000 164,800 2,063,650 1,262,974 $6,161,644 r I do not iaelnde fisheries and salt-making for bow they eaa be properly classed with man ufactures I cannot Imagine; so that eteatlera by the gentleman under the bead of manufac tures, etc. And now, I will take up two of the most important of these manufactures proper, to wit: cotton and woolen*, and see how they stand, respectively, in Ohio and Georgia r GEORGIA MANUFACTURES. / iroer »> v*i®t , • w s» ngas? nw « : OHIO MANUFACTURES. XhhVT. *EL. c ™2 r rrijae't 'S •rrrr ti*\ V. 001 * R3G4.70I '49 a» *$7wSim « From thisit appears that, in tho manufacture of cotton and woolen*, (which are thone things that the mind generally turns to, when sponking of manufoctures,) so far from Ohio being 13,91 per cent ahead, when we take the ratio of capi tal to production, she is, in the first, 22 per cent, and in the other, 25 per cent behind. I have not looked into the manufacture of iron, to see how the result, would stand, because Georgia has very little capital invested in that business, and Ohio has certainly not enough to make it a matter of great importance there*. mtauu- MKJfTr. 262,974, In which they and 880,950 bushels of barley, 8,588,140 bushels of earn, and 281,750 bushels of rye; out‘of which, they made 96,048 barrels of ale, and 11.865,>50 gallons of whis- kyl Bat the prieooftbo corn or grfiin te not given, • > that it te Impossible to toll wbat ratio the value ofthe produet in this business bore to t&e investment. But it may be that it is under this head that a very heavy percentage eras counted, whioh increased the mean average on manufactures in all branches taken as a class. But in Georgiy on the. manufacture of cotton, the prodoetlon, after taking off the oost of labor and raw materials; bean to capital invested the ratio of 55 per oent; in Ohio but 33 per cent In Ohio, on woolen manufactures, the similar ratio of product to capital i* 31 per bent;' In Georgia 56 per cent! I cannot dwell on these tilings.. - Mr. CAMPBELL. You are wrong there, Mr. STEPHENS. No, sir. I am never wrong upon a~ matter I have given aselbse attention to aslhavwthis Mr. CAMPBELL. I can prove it Mr. STEPHENS. Yon had a chance to show that I was wrong once before, but you signally foiled. Try it again. Ieome, now to railroads. The gentlemnn says that Ohio has 2.367 miles of rail road in op eration, while Georgia has but 884 by the cen sus, placing Ohio 1,485 miles a head. Very well, sir. This te a very good showing; and if she had five timee as many more miles. It wonld have nothing to do with what I said about ag ricultural products. But, sir, as favorable as this showing seems to be for Ohio, if are look a a little into the matter, it will not be so bad for Georgia as the' gentleman seems to imagine. I find, by looking into the Railroad Journal, and taking all. the roads in Ohio and-Georgia—the condition of which te given in that publication —that 1,071 miles of the Ohio roads, which have a capital of $18,094,102, have, also, a ftmded debt of $12,225*400 ;..while In Georgia, 553 miles pr her roads, the capital or whieh is $9,099,973, have ofumded debt of only $732,- 401. From thisit appears that the roads in Ohio, as for as I have been able to get information, are two thirds unpaid for; while io Georgia less than one twelfth of hers is unpaid for; If all the roads in each State, therefore, stand in a similar condition; or if the 1,071 in one, and 553 in tho other, may be taken as a sample for the whole in each State, then Georgia has more road completed and paid for than Ohio has.— Two-thirds of 2.367 the number of miles of the Ohio roads, te 1.578. which, taken from that sum. leaves only 789 miles io'operation and un paid for. While one twelfth taken from 884 miles of the Georgia roads, .leaves 811 miles complete aad paid for. And why should not these improvemnnts, boasted of, as they are, os evidences of prosperity, be subjected to this test? Is it any more evidence of the thrift of prosper ity of a people, that they have railroads for whieh they are heavily encumbered, than it is of the thrift of prosperity of a man, from the fact that he accumulates property by running In debt for it ? A man's real thrift can only he eorreetiy ascertained by knowing not only what he has, and wbat he makes, but what he owes. And the same principle is equally applicable to States or communities. With this view ofthe subject therefore,.and especially when we take into consideration the much greater population of Ohio than Georgia, tho railroad showing fs. by no means, prejudicial to the character of the latter State, for that sort of progress, which pays as it goes, and' which never fails in the end to secure the most lasting and permanent prosperity. But the gentleman says that “there te another sort of development to bo considered—that of the min A” and he cites us to the colleges in Ohio, 26 in number, against 13 in Georgia, put ting Ohio 13 ahead. Now; sir, let ns see if he 'is entitled to this boasting exultation upon any just principles of comparison. Ohio, it is true, has, by the census returns. 26 colleges,. wbile- Georgia has but 13. But Ohio has a white pop ulation of L955.050, while Georgia has hu t 521,- 572. Ohio, therefore, might very well be ex pected to have more colleges; but if the gen tle man claims the number of colleges as evidence of greater development of mind, Ohio ought to have a number eqnnl to the ratio of her'popula tion to that of Georgia- And, upon this basis, she ought to have 48 instead of 26. so that' she is really 22 behind what she ought to have in stead of being 13 ahead. Bnt, sir, there is another view of this subject that the gentleman did not present, but which is one much more intorresting to those looking after mental development than fhe number of colleges, and that is, the number of pupils or students at them. Georgia, at her 13 colleges, by the census, has 1,535 pupils; and Ohio, to have as many in proportion to her population, onght to have 5,852, hut, in foct, as the returns' show, she has only 3,621. ' So, here again.upon the basis and ratio orwhite population. She is 2,231 behind. Georgia, by the census, has one pupil at college for eyeiy 339 of her entire white; population, and Ohio has only one for every 539 of hers. In this particular, Georgia by the ceqsns returns, is not only ahead, and a long ways ahead of Ohio, but of every State In the Union, and of any and every other State or na tion in the civilized world 1 This I will .set down as a legitimate “set off” against the gentleman’s array of those who cannot read and write in Geor gia. On this bead he says, that Ohio has but one to every twenty-nine of her population who eannot read and write, while Georgia has one to every twelve of hers. I shall not dispute tho returns of the census takers on this bead, either in Georgia or Ohio; hat there is ono rinealar fact about it which strikes me as something worthy of note, and that is, that out of the for eign population—alien born—218,099, in Ohio, there should be found no more than 9,062 adults vrho cannot read and write. If this he true, then much that we bear said of the ignorance and want of intelKgenee on the part of that class of people; cannot be well founded. But I have this to tay of this showing against Georgia. Moeh of itis owing to somo important facta ip her history. Geotgte, ft is tone, as the S entlerann says, was one of the old thirteen fates; bnt, in point ofsettlement, she should be ranked junior to several of the new States, particularly Ohio . It has hot been twenty years since she got possession of her entire ter ritory. And for forty yean after independence was declared, she bad possession of bnt little over half of it It was held by the aborigines, while the Indian title to at least two thirds of the Ohio territory—if I am not mistaken—was* extinguished by the treaty of Greenville, in 1795. . Ohio jvasadmitted ask St* to in 1802 ; and, as early as 1817, the Indian title was extingnifhed throughout her territory, with the exception of some small reservations. It was not until 1888—more than twenty years afterwards —that the Indians were remorod from that large and fertile seotfon of our State known as Cherokee country. This Is now, by far. tho most densely populated of any part ofthe St£to. The Policy of Georgia In tottering off her lands ia'snudl tracts ot 102j; and 160, and ,40 acres eaeh, witbont any price, except the grant fees, naturally induced tho landless, and tho most indigent, whose means for education in early life bad boon most limited in tho neighboring, and oven distant, States, to look to her cheap domain for homes whenever any portion of , it was expected to bo oponod for settlement. Ma ny of these pioncors, uneducated themselves, went Into tho woods, with hardly anything save a hor.HO and a cart, an ax and a gun, a wife and, perhaps, not a few “little ones." Without con venient schools for several years, the older mem bers ofthe rising families grew up os their fath ers had done. Amongst this class U to be found much the greater number of those adults amongst us who can neither road nor write; but, with industry and frugality, where labor meots with the returns it does with us, compe tency and comforts soon followed. Then came "men servants and maid servants;” and, then also, commenced that physical develop ment whieh it is ray prido here to-day to exhibit in such a high degree of prosperity ; and, what to me is a source of still moro prido and gratill- distinguished honor to tho 8tate,are tho young er sons and daughters of parents, who, thirty and forty years ago, commenced life’s career In our then wilderness, poor, illiterate, and des titute, as I havo described. Moreover, Geor gia has never .received any aid from .this Gov ernment for educational purposes. Ohio has reeeivod 69,120 acres of land for eolleges, which at Government prices, is $86,400. She has, be sides, received, for oomtnon schools, 704,488 acres of land, whieh, at the same estimated rates, makes moro than 800,000. And, for in ternal improvements, sho has received 1,050,- 287 acres more. And to this timy also he ad ded over half a million of dollars sho has re ceived as a porcontago on the amount of iand sales in her limits. Georgia has been yonr ben- efnetor to the nmonnt of millions in the grant of public domain, but the recipient of nono of these favors. She made herself what she is by her own exertions, energy, and enter prise. But sir, I pass on to churches. The gentle man gives this table: No. of Aceotn- * Average churches, modntion. Value. value. 3.936 1,447,294 $5,7*93,099 $1,471 1,862 . 647,197 1,269,359 shipment. It gives employment to 50.000 A- raerk-on urarnon, and one million of American tonnage in its'coastwise shipment, employment to ping, an*’ 40,000 eign shipment Twenty-five thousand other persons, at least nro engaged in receiving and' 17bat Is Loro? coastwise shipment. It gives } - ^, 0ua » od «sk«d this question.— 800,000 tons of American ship-' A thou, “ Dd P? r et * bave tlU *ed imagination to 0 American seamen, in its for- f n<We . r 7* Uncounted thousand# of mortals — have declared it unanswerable.. « - . Philosophers have analyzed Lovo. Mystics shipping It It’ gives" employ monVto'aUeM'ti , hav ®, MateriaHst* have material: 100,000 operators in American factories, whoso lfaS“ » SpiritualisU have spiritualized it. The Ohio Goorgia Oiho ahead 2,074 679 840,097 $4,523,740 $792 Hero the gentleman again, ns usual with him, sets down Ohio as airarf/ But let us see if suoh bp the fact? Ohio has more ehnrches, it is true, and ought to have, for she has more peo ple. Bat how does the number of churches stand in proportion to the population in each State? By the census, the church accommoda tion in eaeh is as‘-follows: Georgia 2,05 to every 1,000 population; Ohio 1,99 to every 1,000 pop ulation; that is, Georgia has over two churches to every one thousand of her entire population, white and black, while Ohio has less than two to the sarnie portion of her population. To have her full ratio of churches, according to popula tion. to be equal to Georgia, Ohio ought to have 4,059, instead of 3,936. So that, so far from being two thousand and seventy-four .ahead, as the gentleman says she is really, and in fact,' 123 behind! It is tone th2 Ohio buildings are estimated ‘at higher cost or value than those in Georgia i and this may be according to the fact But with us we do not look so much to the splendor of architecture, on the outward ap pearance of our temples of worship as we do to having a house of some sort where the people of all classes, including the “poor," yen even the “slaw," may have “the Gospgl preached to them 1" Now, sir, as the gentleman has seen fit to leave the original issne of the comparitive ag ricultural developments of the two States, and has given ns statistics on other mntteis, I will follow his example, and call attention to one or two other subjects whioh will throw some light upon the workings of their respective social systems. " The exhibition of churches is only one side of the moral picture. Let ns torn it, and look at the other- How stand the lists of crimes in these States? By tho census, in Geor gia, during the year for which the returns were taken, there were but 80 criminal convictions in the whole State; while in Ohio there were 843! There were, in Georgia, in the penitentiary, 89 convicts; in Ohio there were 406! and of these 406 then in prison for crime in Ohio, 44 of them were blacks! Forty-four, out of a free black population of 25,279. This te a .most striking fact, showing the immorality of that particular class of people, as well as their degradation. If crime existed in the same ratio amongst the whites in that State, there wonld bo over three thousand of them in the State prison? The gentleman spoke of “carrying the war into Af rica." I thought that was the last place he wonld be disposed to carry it, as the sable sons of that nnfortnnate land seem to be his especial favorites. But as he has carried it there, it is but proper that the result sjiould be duly chron icled. Again, fhe general condition of a people is. to some extent, indicated by the amount of ws.nt and destitution amongst them. On this head, comparing Georgia with Ohio, the census presents the following results: Annnaleost Paupers.' of strpport. Georgia 1,036 27,820 Ohio 2,513 29,250 But, Mr. Chairman; my timo.is nearly out. There are mrmy Other matters, I did wish to allude to, which I must pass over and omit I wanted to say somethin'* ab**ut the present con dition of things in some of the Northern States, particularly in the city oP- N«w Y ork, where it is now found that there is, after al’, something in life worse than being required, or even made, to work. This is the gr at evil the negro in the South is subjected to. in the opinion of those who rail so much against onr social system.— But that greater evil which is now felt in New York, is the waht of work to do. by which means may be earned to keep from starving. "Hunger is a sharp thorn” was. a few days ago, the banner motto, horn by thousands in that great mercantile metropolis. Under onr system, sir, we never have such scenes. We have, it is true, our affi ictions of diseas s, and epidemics,* and disasters of drought, floods,and hurricanes; but the wail of thousands crying for bread, has never yet, under tho blessings, of Heaven, been heard in onr land of sunshine and plenty, ‘- cursed’’ though it be, with slavey ! We have a “ Social Providence," to use a late very ap propriate designation given by the New York Xriouoe, which prevents all this. A system by which capital, accumulated in the years of plenty, is required to sustain labor in the years of wuut. These matters I wished to go some what into, but I cannot. But enongh has been said to show a development, wbdther considered physically, morally, socially, or intellectually, quite sufficient to place Georgia,(with domestic institutions as much abused ns they are by those who know so little’about them) fully along side of Ohio, " the giaut of tho West," oj- any other State of this Union.—That wasjny prop osition. add I think I have made it good. ; I want, in conclusion, however, to fay a few things, Mr. Chairman, about one of our great staples. I Omitted it in its proper place, bu It will do, perhaps, just as well bore. I mean the article of cotton; and I w'ali to say what I do on that subject, from tho fuct that I havo seen it stated that the Ohio hay crop was equal to the Georgitreotton crop, and that tho hay crop of the United States Annually is quite equal in importance, as an agricultural product, to this great south rn, or 1 should rather say, national staple. Those Who thns think, or talk, or Argue, take a very narrow, imperfect, and unphilosopbicai, as well as unstatosmanlike view of the subject. As to tho morti money value of this article,.or its excess in valuo over tho other, i£ is not my purpose to speak; that—* S eat as', in fact, it is—is a small matter, infin ity small when placed by tho side of otbor larger and more comprehensive consideration* of the question. Seine things have yalnos ex trinsic as well as intrinsic. Cotton is eminently ono of these. Gold and sijvor are not so much entitled to be placed on the list of such things as itis. The extrinsic valno of these metals arises from their agency ns the adopted repre sentatives of ell valncs. With thoir displace ment, howover, many substitutes ffouid he ob tained. Bnt what substitute could be procured for tho agency of cotton ? Lot ns look; for a moment—and I have but a moraont or two left—Into some, of the .relations of this product to theaetivebusiness opetotioUs of the world. To illustrate, I will state simple faefe. These foots nro collected from tho vory able report I hold in my hand. It was made by Mr.. Andrews,a northern in .in. It lsEx,Doo. No. 136,1st. sess. 32d Cong. Full credit, there fore, may ho givon to tho facts. They como with tho stamp of tho highest authority. From this documont it apponrs that the cotton crop of this country glvos employment .to at least 120,000 tons of inland steam tonnage, and 7,. 000 porsons in transporting it to point* fq annual wages are over $17,000,000. Tn 'these factories there are invested eighty millions of American capital, which turn out, annually, at least seventy millions worth of products! With thpso facts before him, the writer of the report uses this language. I ask the attention of the committee to it, because it is’no less graphic than truthful: . “ ’ “ Every interest throughout the land—at the North and the South, in tho East and the West, in tho interior, and on the Pacific as well as the Atlantio coast—receives from it (cotton) active and material aid. It promotes, essen tially, the agricultural interests in those States where cotton is - not produced. It Is the main source of the prosperity of tbs-mechanic, the artisan, and other laboring classes, at well ns that of the merchant,and manufacturer in every section of the Union. Everywhere it bos laid, broad and deop, and permanent, the foundations of the wealth andstrengh of the United States, and of their independence of foreign nations. More than anything else has this product made other nations, even the most 'powerful, depen dent on the “ United States of America." More than any other article, nay, more than all other agricultural products united, hhs cotton advan ced the navigating and commercial interests of the eastern Atlantic States, andpf the whole Union. It, more than any other agricultural product, has cherished and sustained those in- bteres(s, not merely by its direct cohtribntion, fut by awakening commerce in other countries, frdm which they have received profitable em ployment. Neither the whale fisheries, nor the mackerel and ood fisheries have been of the same importance and value to those interest as the annual cotton crop of the United States, since the war of 1812, has been, for its trans’-' portation coastwise and exportation to foreign countries. Like the light and heat of the sun, the genial effects of this inestimable blessing which Providence has bestowed upon this fa vored people, reach every portion of the land. They extend to every city, and town, and vill age, and hamlet, and form house—to the ship, to the steamboat, to the canal barge, and to the railroad.” Yes, sir, throughout the length and breadth of this vast Confederation of States, there is not a tenement, whether cabin or palace, where the life-giving and life-sustaining influence of this Southern prod.net is not felt and realised. And besides this, it may he added tbatthe same article gives employment, and the mehns of supporting human life, to at least three millions 'of persons in Europe, and the investment of at least threo hundred millions of their capital! Figures almost fail, sir, to calculate the extent qf the influence of this article upon the comfort, the happiness and well being of mankind. The one sixth, at least, of all these results is due to that portion of this product contributed by Georgia. This sketch gives ns but a slight glance at some of the extrinsic values of cotton, to which the money talue. to,the grower, great as it is, is but a«drop in the ocean. But who, in the face of these facts, and these grand re sults, cah be bold enough to maintain that this product of the South, in value and importance, is to he put in the balance and weighed down by the hay crop of the North ? Or, that the cot ton crop of Georgia, that contributes one sixth of all these results, Is, in like manner, to*he put in the scales against the hay crop of Ohio? The dried grass, the cow food, that sustains life for a season in their herds of cattle; though they were conntless in number! The snbjecfo hardly allow a contrast, much less a comparison; and whoever attempts it, does injustice, not only to his own intelligence as a statesman, if he has asp&rk of it about him, but he does gross injus tice to one of tho most important elements of his country’s greatness! To adopt the figure of the author of the report I have just read from, we might much better compare the lard lamps, or wood fires, or whatever else lights up the dwellings of the nineteen hundred thousand in habitants of that State every night, to the full blaze ofthe “glorious king of day” at noon shedding abr ad, not only light, bnt heat, ani mation, and life npou a smiling world around ns. Naturaltzatxow.—Governor Price of New Jersey, in bis late annual Message to the Legis*. latnra. says • “Tho naturalization laws ofthe United States, and the manner of their execution by the Federal and State Courts, is a subject for grave, consider ation. The non-enforcement of the intention and spirit of the law has givon rise to an hbnse which demands a remedy, and has aroused a feeling and spirit becoming to patriotic Ameri can citizens, which is sympathized in by both naturalized and native citizens. Congress, un der the Constitution dftrfe United States* has established a uniform rnle of natutalization, and nnder It citizenship can only ho conferred. The law may not he so unexceptionable in itself as the manner of its execution* We are honnd, as a State, to faithfully execute the laws of Con gress, nnd any law passed upon the subject cal culated to exalt the Attributes of American citi zenship will be duly honored and regarded by New Jersey. “A law prohidi ting our courts from natura lizing for a period of time. previous to State elections would be attended with beneficial re sults and add greaterphrity to our hallot-hox. whieh must be vigilantly guarded. It is just upon the eve of an eiecton, when party spirit runs high, that foreigners are sought’ after by partisans', and brought before the coarta for na turalization ; and it is asserted that the court fees-are often paid by them ; indeed, it has been understood for a long time that it co : ts foreign" era nothing for their naturalization, if they are not/frequently paid for becoming oitizens. Evil practices should be checked, and any measure adopted by Congress will be enforced by this State.” To Conn Earacrr.—Earache maybe reliev ed by dropping a little sweet oil and laudanum, warm, into tho ear, and applying hot salt in flannel rags, so as to kcop the part constantly warm. , Wash for the Hair.—Olive oil, half an ounce; oil of rosemary, ono drachm ; strong hartsh rn, two drachms ; rose-water,' half a pint Add tho rose-water by degrees, other wise it will rot nraalgnurate. - Many lives might be saved by a knowledge of this simple reccip : A inrgv toaspaionful of mus tard mixed in a tumbler oi warm water and ewalfow it ns soon ae possible aots as ah instant emotic, sufficient to remove all that is lodged in the stomach. Farmers Make Yotm own Candles.— Take 2 pounds of alum, for every 10 pounds of tallow, dissolve it in water before the alum wa ter is put in, and, then melt the tallow in the alum water with frequent stirring,, and it Will clarify and harden the tallow as to make a most beautiful article for either winter or sum- mor use, almost as good as sperm.—American CctloH Planter. * Antidote Fon Stmchnixe. -Camphor has been discovered to bo an antidote fof that terri ble poison, strychnine. A man who had been thrown into convulsions by two doses of poison —one-sixth of a grain each, administered for tho rhonmatism—was relieved by 20 grains of camphor takon in six grains of almond mixture. Dr. Suddock, in q letter to the London Lancet claims te have mode the discovery. • —■ r Stino of a BBB.—-Apply selermtus wet. It is an excellent cure: This fact should ho re membered whon tho stinging season comes on. To Remove Ixk stains prom Cloth.—Tho moment the ink is spilt, tako a little milk and saturate tho stain ; soak it up with'a rag. nnd apply alittio moro milk, rubbing it well in. In a few miuiftps tho ink will bo complotoly re moved, Wise have sought for ik The Happy have •found ik For my part, I have believed in ik What it Lore f To become one flesh, says the Scripture.— To become ono spirit, says the Poet It is un ion, says Matter-of-facts. It- is harmony, says Love of-truth. It ja God, tay I, as others have said before me. God is love. Bnt what is God ) God is tho ideal perfection/ the mostintimate inward self, the utmost possibility we Can con- ceive-^-bay, the conleptmn of tho inconceivable. In many way* we imagine God, or the Ideal —as Infinite Force, as Infinite Space. Time. Knowledge, and Happiness. P In one form only we know—that is, feel— God; it is in Love. Love gives a form, a substance; an external reality, to our own inward omnipotence. To know God, wo must bo God: Love makes us g9ds. It is this infinite God, or Lore, which ani mates every individual living atom of the In finite living Cosmos, which is the cause of at traction, of coherence,: of motion, and -of all things. * Let us consider the phenomena of .Love. A man and woman meet. They are beautiful to one another. Wbat does that mean? It means that each'recognizes in the ether its own highest self. The sleeping god awakens. The invisible dream becomes visible. The in finite is not comprehended, bat <iLisfelt. Love is concentrated force. It is universal enjoyment. It is the concentration of every faculty upon one poink It is life in its most intense significance. Love is ibsblute attraction. Each is to the other perfect body apd sonL Each d. sires' to posses and be possessed by the other, bodily and mentally/ without reserve. Love is faith, law, principle, and paradise to the foyers. No man ever loved who hesitated - to sacrifice every other earthly consideration to his love.— No woman ever loved who refused: forgive her self to her lover at any possible sacrifice. Love is desire without limit The whole universe be* yond grows pale befqreits glory. Love - is nec essarily irresistible. It is the supreme - force of Nature. Self-denial in love u a mere proof that fore did not exist What I understand by love, is the passion of passions, as little to be tem pered by moralizing, or modified by reason, as a flash of heaven’s lightning.' To make the terrible majesty of love—otter love—more clear, I will lay down this proposi tion :— That, were two lovers of the suprema order separated by a thousand possible crimes, they wonld of necessity commit them, rather than endure' aepara tion. Nay, I assert that, were the lives of all the rest of mandkind between their love and its ' realization, they would unquestionably, could they do it by an act of will, depopulate the globe in prder to possess one another? I go farther : I maintain that supreme pas sion . justifies ail possible enormities of crime conceivable by the mind; for I hold it better that a whole universe of imperfectly living be ings should parish, than that one, and conse quently two, perfect lovers should fail to enjoy the perfection of deligfak So great wonld be that delight, that it would immeasurably counterbalance all the pleasures of the rest of the universe! Is this au exaggeration - No! It is an ab straction. It is one mere formula of an impos sible infinite and unattainable perfection. It is evident that love te in proportion to or ganization. r Organization te the precise ontward. symbol and expression of spiritual force. /V Let neither man nor woman with drawled, deformed, or homely bodies dmre fo-pfoad mor al or intellectual superiority in extenuation. Nature writes with the pen of infallible truth. The soul is the body’s mould; the body is tire image of tho souL r . ~ F bateau ugly man or woman as I do the •devil. 4* - They ore'devils in truth, Yet what te hideous to me may be beautiful to another. ■ But wbat is true beauty? It is tho outward mantle of a great, a noble, and a generous sou!. The higher the judge, the higher the stan dard. Woe to those who love above them! woe to those who love below them 1 The essence of true love is* equality! Ajas! alas! how little love there haa ever been upon this earth! Is it net better to die young than to outlive b9pe? Let us sleep'! Wu. North. a— Sam Houston os Duellwo.—There have been rumors afloat to the effect that Houston would fight n duel as soon as bereached Wash* ington, hut Madame Rumor mistook the man. Houston is not a “duel fighter.” When he fights be fights for bis country. In a speech in the Senate on -th# 15th of July, 1S54, be said j ‘I would not fight.a duel. One of the gentle- men referred to did send me a verbal challenge: I do not know whether my honorable colleague. was.In Austin or not; but if he was, he will re member it. It'was a verbal.challenge, sent on a Saturday night, to meet the chailonger the next morning. I objected to it, first, on the ground tbat we were to have but*one second, and that was the man that brought the chal lenge. Another objection was,'that we were to meet on Sunday morning, and that I did not think anything was to be made by fighting on that day. The third objection was, that he waa a good Christian, and had a child baptised the Sunday before. The fourth was. that I never fought down hill, and never wonld. [Laughter] I'muat, at least, lose character, if I did not my life, and, therefore, I notified him in that way. Ho seemed to ho satisfied with this good hu mored answer, and it te the only challenge I have over reeeivod in Texas.”—America's Own, Ann Wk fob thf. Czar or TnE Allies.—A writer in tho N. Y. Courier thinks the rural pop- ulation of this country desires tho success of tho Allies, though a different feeling may pre vail in the cities. He says: I think tho universal sentiment of the people in the country is that of earnest hope that the Allies may succeed, and this, not becauso of sympathy with or affinity to England, for all. such relio of fatherland existed but a fow years after the Colonies left Crown, - bnt of the calm judgment of our people to . tho right, of their association in any-conflict with those who use war with the attributes of courage and humanity, of their belief founded upon what they hove made investigation—that the Allies have thrown themselves between the oppressed and the op pressor. This sohtiment is: perhaps strongest with the American portion of eur population — stranger in field and farm than in village; but that it exists with an earnest cordiality, an in tense association of solicitude, there is.good proof and though it exists out in the converse and-communication of quietjeitizens—though it te but latent now, it can be aroused to show itself. It was at Lexington, not Boston, that Freedom first roused itself. •j/ J MM . . v ' '-Ti * • jjgsht* & 'IN# , ,, ,..... ■ —s^-a. .“Property is RounnHY,"—Ill’s terns re position of a distinguished French Sock teems'about to be acted on in New York. At meeting of foreigners in the Tabernacle some days since, Mr. Boeder, nddres-jod to following language to bis countrymen: “Brethern, for the fiist time I speak in an assembly like this. Wc have not all the same language, but our feelings sro the same; they unite Os here with the Amorirnn people. For the advancement of theso.sentirr.ents wo must not only unito with them in speeches, lmt aho acts. In onr country we have fought for libe- ry, and many of ns have lost in battlo our fa thers, brothers/or sons. Hero we are free, but nqt free enough. Wo-want tho liberty of liv ing. [Applause.] Weiavafought in German The" Qermtnryiwiaagamts us in ti.:.-: move ment, but we need not caro for wliat thoae pa pers say; we must act on our own hook. Here wc have social liberty, liberty of i berty of the press, , and wli thing that is just we nre bo [Applause.] If yon don’t know ] hunger will teach them tovou. bread nor wood, and there is plenty of t ourrevolutibn in Jane we obtained three i credit, and when we had no bread we soon c tained it, because we were 200,000 b strong. I bave nothing further to say advise you to put in practice tho principled the social republic. The Tribune said to day that the rich would give us a million if they were forced to it; but now they will hold their money in their pockets and refuse to give it up. When the wolf te hungry he has no considera tion, and ttSfees bis food fearlesly when he finds it; it must be the same with the masses. Help yourselves, and then God will help you. Wo must act as the wolf, and wo do not want any auxiliaries! Let us act by ourselves. TAfi- plause.] wo [Afl- , The Cost of a Worthless E.-cvor.—Tue The Philadelphia North American says: It is stated that the American merchants of Grey- town who lost their property by the bombard ment and destruction of that place, are low bes sieging the Executive authorities at Washington with the detnands for indemnity. President Pierce, in his annual message, spoke of the?e Greytown people as a sort of refugees, outlaws and pirates, not recognized by any government, nor entitled to respect. Congress has now a chance to see some specimens of the communi ty. and judge for itself. They are probably the most respectable and .'intelligent refagees and outlaws ever seen there. Though the ad ministration has felt itself necessitated to shoul der this affair, and defend it as unavoMahlo, yet we can scarcely believe it siucere in so doing, tho more especially as tho worthless envoy, Bor land, who was tho prime cause of the whole dif ficulty, has been consigned to merited neglect in Arkasas. Two such ambassadors as he and Soule .would be sufficient to embroil the nation in difficulties with half the sivilized world. The two neighbors who 'fel out’ got in again, Neither was injured. HI temper puts as *many briefs into the law yer's bag as injustice. very latest curiosity we have seen of in tho papers is a wheel that came a dog’s tail when it was a “waggin.,’ j?S£?*Tbat must be avery foolish, rash woman who will put tubs out of doors to catch soft wa ter when it is raining hard. country individual who was caught in the water-wheel of a saw mill, says be in tends to apply for a pension, as he tea survivor of the Revolution. People should understand that it is cheaper, and rn every respect much better, to look np neglected children, and to educate them than to hang them when older. ^ T -1 ». —; * ^^■There is no greatet obstacle in the way ofsuceess in life than waiting for something to turn up,instead of going to work and turning up something. ; Strange Bulboub-Root.—A poor gardener, on beiug asked what felicity meant, said he did not know, but he believed it was at bulbous Rooti . Talking of the ‘Dutch. of Amsterdam/' on Jim wants toknow what is the difference be tween an Amsterdam Dutchman r.nd any otbe dam Dutchman. Profane question—cani’t an aweP it.— Boston post. fgp-'Gartyoii tell me,"asked apundit “why, a conundrum that nobody can guess is like a ghost?”, “Shall I tell yon nowornextmonth ?” “Now if you: please.” “Well, sir, sooner or la ter every body mush give it up.” AROSE and ITS Thorns.—When Milton wts blind he married a shrew. The Duke of Buck ingham called her a rose. “I am no judere of colors,” replied Milton, “but it may be so, for I feel the thorns daily.” “C.ome, Bill; it’s ten o’clock and I think w had better be going, for-It’s time-honest men were at home.” “Well, yeh,” was the answer, “I must bo off, but you needn’t hurry cn that account.** < ^ , t Pithy. —An. oak te not felled a tona blow. , •'• i \ A single fact is worth a.shipload of argument. Get tby spindle and distaff ready, and,9od will send flax, -'Ho that is warm thinks ell are so One bad example spoils many good precepts.——One eyewitness is -better than ted. hearsays,, -j .’■■■ m'Z -Conundrum.—Why was Cowper in debt?— Becauso ho “Oh’fl for-a lodge in aomevaat wil derness.” ... . 1 • ' -;'vsl,V . We suspect that Cowper was not put to ser ious inconvenience, being like, the Cbrteiiaa of Bryant’s Thanatopsis— “Sustained and soothed by aa unfaltering trust.” v- ' to i : * ■ j®^“We like to see a woman.treading th > li'gh and holy path of duty'ttnblinded by sunshine and unscathed by storm. There are hundreds who do so from the crude! to the gm\« heroines of endurance, of whom the world has never heard, but whose names will bo bright hereafter, even beside the,brightest angels. The-Same Fault.—Laura was discbnlate.— Henry had fong flirted bnt never put the qnes- tfoli.' -Henry went his v.-ny. Laura’s aunt, for consolation, brought her a lovo|ofaspauiel pup. “My dear,” says tho aunt, “the .puppy can do every thing bnt speak.” Why will you agonzie me?” says Laura, “that’s tho only fault I-fonnd with lie other.” Auction Anecdote—Somo wocks ago, 0!-. cotl put tip for sale, at D. Owen A Co.’s, a copy of Sparks’ Washington. At first no one seam ed inclined to bid, but after a while, ouo qf.Wf spectators offorodltf/ieeu cents a volume! Look-, Ing. rifood, lit the' spcoulatpt. with Mfown most torible, Olcott ejaculated: “My friond, (font waste your monney; you cant read, and whffiFs tho usoofyour buying books! Iho bidder was sllont. After a liti<b * box of cigars was pnt np, whon the admirer of Gen. Washington rapidly cvolnimod—“Fifleon cent?, a—n you.' I’m entitled to smoke,if not to Sp«rIs!" Filial Affection.—Tlmt.a father’s is a ve ry bid part may bo proved, amongst other in stances, by an affidavit of an Irishman, who, swoaring the peace hgainst his three sons, thus concluded i— 1 “Arid deponent further saith, that the only one of his children who showed liiru any real filial affection was bis youngest son Larry, for he nover struck, him tchen he was down. , , At the Printer’s festival recently held at Manchester, N.H., tho following sentiments were offered: Woman—The fairest work of nature ; tho ed ition being large, lot no man be without a co- py*” Rabies—Miniature edition, issued periodical ly, and displayed in small caps.” .. The Principal powers—Printing Presses, Pulpits and Petticoats. \ The press—The electric battery of thought, by which Franklin direoted the lightnings of popular indignation-against tho might of op- prera on and destroyed it;—wbifo’it exists un fettered and fearltss, a free people have no eu- my to f ar.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Rome courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1849-18??, February 06, 1855, Image 1