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LUCIUS C BRYAN, Editor & Proprietor.
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A Review of Use SoaaUi—Her
Armies and Resources our
I ans the AVar—fffier CoadKSozi
\ow,
New York, July:Sl.~ The World's
correspondent writes a long letter
commenting on the condition of af
fairs in the South. He says the South
is exhausted by her tremendous effort.
First and last, more than a million of
men.have bc-en in her ranks. The
six great Slates of \ irginia, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina
and-South Carolina, have each furn
ished from 85,000 to a 120,000 men
to the confederate army, independent
of militia. Louisiana, Tennessee, Ai>
kansas, Texas, and Florida furnished
each 50,000 to 80,000, and Missouri
and Kentucky 40,000 each. Mary
land furnished still less. Although
the musterrolls of the adjutant gener -
al at Richwon and contained 450,000
nsmes at the evacuation of that city,
of which not quite half were on duty
in the field. Yet in January, 1863,
t he rebel army numbered seven bun*
dred and fifty thousand men, most of
whom were in actual service. By laws
subsequently enacted, every man capa
ble of bearing arms, with the excep
tion of a few civil officers and profes
sional persons, was made a soldier. —
Although the list of eemptions, de*
tails for special service, and desertions,
reached the.point of absurdity, there
was still a large army, with sufficient
equipment and tolerable morale, in the
field. Os this number, the actual loss
can only be approximately estimated.
From the best judgement I have been
able to obtain, the proportionate mor
tality has been larger than that of our
army. The number of maimed, crip
pled and waisted forms every where
to be seen so indicate it. Nearly eve
ry family is in mourning, sometimes
for two, three or four victims. The
total loss is set down, by good author
ity, at a hundred thousad killed and
died in service, and a hundred thou®
sand permanently disabled; while
there were, perhaps, two hundred
thousand suffering under various de
grees of disability
Lack of medical skill, and supplies,
has undoubtedly added largely to the
1 number of deaths in the Southern &r
----■ my, which, it is claimed, are more
l than balanced by the ravages of dim-
I ate upon our o,wn troops. Want of
or hospital .organization, un
* 4<spbtwlJy, swelled the mortality at the
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1865.
South. The rebels never spared men.
when tlieir sacrifice would win advan
tage. Great as has been the loss in
men, the loss in wealth has been still
greater. The-unrecorded loss of the
South is larger than that of the North.
Togethoflwwith its national debenture
b inds, issued by the confederacy, to
support the war, it would amount to
about ’four thousand mi.lions of dol
lars, which, reduced ‘to our own cur
rency, would represent a thousand
millions. A full record of all -other
indebtedness of the confederacy wa.s
never made up, but may safely cover
another thousand millions. Beside
this, there arc State, municipal, and
individual sacrifices. One-third of
the first issues of currency was swept
away by repudiation, and worthless
bonds given for the remainder. The
real and appreciable losses of the
South may be summed up in three de
partments Ist. cost of army and war
material; 2d. destruction of property
by both armies ; 3d. less incident to
disturbance. The correspondent's esv
timate of these losses foots up to nine
thousand three hundred millions. In
Virginia there are thousands of miles
,of fencing destroyed, and half a mil
lion of acres in rank weeds, farther
South the damage.is greater
Through South Caiolina, Georgia,
and part of North Carolina, the cotton
fields are almost like primitive forest.
Gins, sheds, barns, and even wells and
cisterns, have been destroyed. Many
farms are uninhabitable. Alabama
has suffered in the destruction of cot-’
ton, railroads,, workshops, factories,
founderies, and in the cessation of all
industry, -beyond the vital needs of
her people. So of Louisiana and Mis
sissippi, although more fortunate in
getting . back earlier into harness.- —
Texas,, although hardly touched by
the feet of our soldiers, has been a
prey to the ravages of guerrillas more
destructive than enemy.
Arkansas has been eaten out, and
has little left her but naked territory
and its rude habitations. The broad
belt of . destruction, extending from
Chattanooga to Savannah, and thence
to the Potomac, has destroyed the
wealth of a powerful empire, hot to-,
mention what has been lost elsewhere-,
from the Ohio to the Gulf.-
The individual suffering has’ also
been yer}: remarkable. • It is the .com
mon story of almost every person who
had wealth that he is- now poor. —
Many of them who had large credit,
who lived on incomes of thousands per
year, have not . now enough-to buy
daily subsistence, but depend, on the
taxed charity of their less unfortunate
friends. Fops, who were .once elabo
rate in their attire, new appear in soil
ed jeans and gaping cowhide shoes.
The loss of slaves is most mourned.
Many young men, widows, and unpro
fessional persons, were living uponJhe
hire of a few servants who had been
left to them. Such persons are now
utterly at a loss to know how to live.
Os hard money there is much still
handled at the South. Specie was a
drag at New Orleans before the war.
The country abounded with gold and
silver coin. Much of this is undoubt
edly buried, and will only make its ap_
pearance when order is restored. The
cotton now in the country is very rap
idly exchanged for specie and com
modities, such as are much needed.—
For corse wearing apparel, except
shoes, the South has lacked less, per
haps, than of aught else. Cotton cards
and house-looms were in great demand,
so much so, that Governor Brown is
said to owe his last election to a judu
cius distribution of the former to his
constituency. A few tanneries have
sprang up, bnt most of their shoes are
evidently imported from England.
The South has lost its indepedence,
which it might willingly have surren*
dered after it had been obtained, but
it has also the prestige and power
and fame and name, compared to
which all other sacrifices are as a mere
trifle, in her estimation. Alldangers,
all labors, all hardsiips and all losses
might have been bone more cheerful-,
lv, if they had not Ken in vain. Their
conversation is fraigbt. with various
reasons for their future- Among the
more intelligent am] conservative, it is
placed on tho ground that numbers
and materials were (gainst them. It
is- the.con?inon belief with them that
our armies have been made up of the
hired soldiers of Eqrope.-
In reality they were sustained by
fresh promises.of intervention, or r.C’
cognition, by England or France, or
both, until, by force ot many. <Laap
pointments, they have tome to enter’
tain deep prejudice agahst both Gov
ernments. If it be reierved for the
United States to; maintain . a conflict
with either of these powers, the aid
of the South, iii men, will be given
without stint. They beat with some
surprise -and doubt, that the Northern
people have not, on the whole, been
united upon the maintenance of the
Union.
Exaggerated stories of political a is
sention at the North hae been circu
lated.’ The-opinions of .he South are
divided on the question ot Jeff, Davis’
merits. A division prevails m nearly
all classes, though as a mlc I think
those who remained at tome in civil
offices are the bitterest revilcrs of the
captured Piesident. Hehad a con
tinued battle to fight with the Gov
ernors of States, who cat led for the
theoretical rights oft Fie States. Had
his rule ben prolonged ‘.ill tho next
election, it is quite likely a strong
contest would have arben on the
ground of his encrcacliments upon
State rights. .
Quiet, but considerable interest is
manifested in the fate of Davis. Hi3
death would be the happiest solution of
the trouble for his friend*, as either
hanging or banishment would be very
seriously taken to heart by ’nearly all
classes.
On the question of reconstruction
the correspondent. says: The organ
ization of State governments, thus far,
gives great satisfaction, in most of the
States. . Men who have in favor
of the Union will have a fair chance
at the polls. • Many strong rebels say
they desire to make no opposition at
the polls, and they will advise their
friends to support the administration
candidates for the sake of giving more
speedy order, peace and law. •
Governor Vance ofA'orth Carolina,
and Governor Watts of Alabama, were
originally accounted Uuion men, but
swayed round after.their accession to
office. “
The inauguration of State Govern
ments is of the first importance Rep
resentation in the gene-al Congress is
most advisable at the present moment..
There will be questions whether, the
State indebtedness .incurred during
the rebellion shall be assumed/ Secu
rity for property needs to be strength
ened, for at present every species of
moveable property is terribly insecure.
Next comes the question of kiegro
suffrage. There is up doubt but this
measure is looked upen with the ut
most alarm and horror at the South.
At present they are unable to see it in
its true light. They have not yet be
gun to distinguish between the prop
ositions that the negro has no right to
vote and that he is not fit to vote.—
Very few of the negroes are capable
of exercising intelligently political
privileges. This objection the South*
ern States will make and can sustain.
It is not improbable they find it
to their own interests to give a por
tion of the negroes votes. General
amnesty should prevail as early as
possible. It is remarkable that fight
ing men, on both sides, agree, and
forget the ill feeling which the war
may have fostered.
The So uthlnAd versify*
When Napoleon overran Prussia, in
his brief but. terrible Jena campaign,
dosing with a peaoe which confirmed
to him moat of her fortresses and near’
ly half of her population, her ruin on all
hands was deemed complete and beyond
remedy. Very few even cf her own
statesmen,-supposed she could within
the next generation, resume the place
won for her by her great Frederick
among the controlling European pow--
ers. Vet seven years had not passed
when, before she had fought a fresh
battle, or recovered a square of terri*
tory, threw a weighty sword into
the scale of legitimacy, and entered as
the ally and peer-of Ilussia, upon the
triumphant War of Liberation. ■ For
the genius of her. statesmen, the ardor
of her patriots, the organizing skill of
her great soldiers, bad meantime reno.v
rated and enlarged her .strength, and
Lom the. ruins of--the kingdom had
evoked the might of the nation. And
Prussia remains to this day a substano
tiai gainer by her sudden, stupendous
downfall in 1806.
The South stands to day substantial
ly where Prussia did at the close of
that disastrous struggle. She has made
a wild, mad venture, and incurred an
overwhelming defeat. Her song have
been slain, her fields and cities devas*
tated, her resources exhausted. She
staked her all on a great throw, and
lost; hence, she now sits amid ashes
and ruins.
Vet the South Las still the elements
of a great prosperity —& speedy recoi
•very of all the material wealth she hag
sacrificed, and a rapid advance in in*
dustry, knoweldge, wealth, refinement
and power. In.climate, soil, timber,
minerals, inland navigation, water
power, and nearly every element of
material well being,she is scarcely sur
passed, while the commercial world i*
hungry for immense quantities of her
staples, and ready to buy them at ex*
traordinary prices.. Capital from either
hemisphere is eager to flow into her
lap— to buy her lands and hire her la
bor at far above those of the past, and
to purchase all the cotton, sugar, rice,
tobacco, naval stores, &e , &c., she can
produce for years to come at not less
than double the cost of their produc
tion. In all the known world there ig
not another field for the employment
of capital and labor so promising as is
afforded throughout the length and
breadth of the late Slave States of our
Union. —-iV. V. Tribune .
T&© Evil of a Bad Temper,
A bad temper is a curse to the pos*
sessor, and its influence is most dead -
ly wherever it is found. It is allied
to martyrdom to be obliged to live with
one of a complaining temper. To hear
one eternal round of complaint and
murmuring, to have . every pleasant
thought scared away by their evil
•spirit, is a sore trial. It is like the
sting of a scorpion-—a perpetual net
tle, destroying your peace, rendering
so a burden. Its influence is
y ; and the purest and sweetest atmos*
phere is contaminated into a deadly
miasma wherever this evil genius pre
vails. It has been said truly, that
while we ought hot to let the bad
temper of others influence us, it would
be as reasonable to spread a blister
upon the skin and not expect it to
draw, as to think of a family not suf
fering because of the bad temper of
any one of its inmates. One string
out of tune will destroy the music of
an instrument otherwise perfect, so if
all the members of a church, neigh
borhood and family, do not cultivate a
kind and affectionate temper, there
will be dwcord and every evil work,
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Advertising—lts Benefits.
No man goes into business without
sticking a sign over his door at a cost
of from ten to tweenty dollars. This
gign bears his name only, and is seen
occasionally by the few who pass by
it. But how many business men think
of the importance of sticking his name
the newspapers, where it can be
seen by thousands every day, and in
every quarter—where his business and
TERMS *4,00 A Year, m Advance.
all its particulars can be explained
and presented in its most profitable as
pects ? Look at the lottery men, and
medicine iucu, how they advertise,
and what immense fortunes they real*
m 1 w
lze by the operation */ Should not the
merchant and mechanic avail himself
of the same means of making his
name and business familiiar to tb
world ?
. —■—
A Fable.—Aycung man once pick
ed up a sovereign lying in the road. —*
Ever afterwards aa he walked along, he
■kept his eyes fixed steadily on the
ground, in hopes of finding another-
Audio the course of a long life he pick
ed up at different times,, a good amount
of gold and silver. But all these long
years while-he was looking for them,
he saw not that heaven was bright,
above, him,, and all nature beautiful
around. He never once allowed his
eyes to look up from the mud and filth
in which he sought the treasure, and
when he died, a rich old man, he only
knew this fuir earth of ours‘as a dirty
road,.in which to pick up money as
you walk along.,
Once upon a time, on a plantation
in Kentucky, while a little nigger baby
o-r pickaninny was snoozing in its era
die, a streak of lightning came down
the capacious chimney of the cabin
and killed it. Old Sam, an aged ne
gro, came rushing in the stenn,
and after seeing what had occurred he
let himself out as follows, gazing in
tently at the defunct small darkey
“Now, Lord, you link you bab done
great tings—jest gone and killed a
little nigger baby who ain’t worf two
dollars and a half.” And then
ing up on his feet, almost bursting
with indignation, and with & defiant
tone, he yelled out; . “S’pose you try
yourse’f on old Sam V*
Miss Augusta J. Evans, author*
ess of “ Beulah,” “ Macaria,*’ &c,, hag
been spending some time in New
York, the guest of Mr. Darby, pub
lisher. -A correspondent speaking of
. her says: • * >*
. “ Miss Evans is not looking nearly
so well as when we saw he in 1860.—-
Her health has evidently been affect*
ed by the cares and experiences of the
past four years, and there is no doubt
that she is deeply disappointed at the
. result of the war. • Probably no wo®
man entered into the cause “of the
South more earnestly, believing more*
over in its justness than Miss Evans,
and when the bubble burst, and she
saw that the Confederacy was a faiL
ure, no one could feel the bitterness of
the moment more than she. “ Maca
ria/ 7 and also an earlier novel, “ The
Alamo/ 7 were both re-published here
during the war, and as they had a
good sale, there ought to be quite a
snug little sum coming to her for the
copyright. Miss Evans expects tore
turn to Mobile in the course of a few
days. 77
The supreme court of Wisconsin ha*
decided that the law of Congress re
quiring stamps on legal process, in the
beginning or other stages of a suit, is
unconstitutional and therefore void,
and that the stamps on legal papers
are not necessary. The ground of the
decision is that the imposition of a tax *
upon any proceedings in a State court
is an invasion oi the right of a State
to regulate proceeding in its own
court; that if Congress can tax these
proceedings at all, it can lay a tax
that will practically amount to prohi
bition, and .thus legislate the State,
courts out of existence. The decis
ions of other State courts on this point,
will be looked for with interest.
—° * ——— .
The Postmaster General has nofcu
fied the Provisional Governors that
the postal service will be resumed on
all the lines of railroad in the South
as soon as they respectively certify that
the routs are in proper condition for
that purpose
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