Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-09-24
GEORGIA.

GEORGIA
Messrs JENKINS and JOHNSON, the candidates
of the two parties for the office Of Governor of
Georgia, having been called upon to define their po-
sition relative to the Temperance question: now ex
citing interest in that State have made joint
publication, in which they announce that whilst they
are friends Of the Temperance Reform, and bid all
enlisted in it Godspced in every legitimate effort to
advance it" they think the cause is more likely
to be injured than benefited by being connected
with the political contests Of the day. Such, we
apprchend, will ultimately be the opinion of many
who now entertain different views.
While penning the note Of the above incident in
the party canvass going on~n Georgia, we received
q printed paper from friend in Augusta which
serves to illustrate the wise energy with which the
people Of that important member Of the Union are
cultyating their resources and pushing forward the
improvement of all branches of industry and public
and private wealth. What has been done and is
doing in the making of railroads and the establish
ment of manufactures those inappreciable sources
of prosperity, readers in other States have been
from time to time informed. But Agriculture, the
foundation of all, and its auxiliary objects, have not
been neglected. The paper to which we allude
above is list of premiums offered by the Southern
Central Agricultural Society,"" which is to hold its
eighth annual meeting and Fair at Augusta, from
the 18th to the 21st of next month. These
premiums are fue hundred in number, many
of them as high as fifty dollars, for the most sue
cessfu cases of planting and farming, and the best
crops, the best specimens Of all products of the SOIL
of all kinds of cultivation, of all sorts of domestic
animals, domestic manufactures, and in fact of every
kind of useful industry We wish we could pub
lsh the list entire, but it is too long 1t fills several
columns of the paper in which it comes to us. The
five hundred premiums make an aggregate of near
foe thousand dollars
The title of this Society and the great variety of
articles comprehended in the list, we understand
indicating that its object is to embrace in its inu
ence, and to excite an interest in the improvement
Of every thing valuable to the Southern portion of
The Union, without, however, being exclusive in any
Of its features.
The geographical position of Georgia and its fac-
ties for travel render it particularly favorable for
the holding of this great Fair within its borders 1t
has already thousand miles of railroad complet
ed, well several hundred more going on; it has
lines running across the whole breadth Of the State
and one line through its entire length, to all of
which there are several branches; and by the time
the Fair takes place there will be continuous rail
road from Augusta 10 the capitals Of Alabama
and Tennessee. Even now the car which leaves
Charlotte, in North Carolina, may, passing through
the capital of South Carolina roll its freight into
Augusta. These railways will doubtless in a short
time be extended from the North through Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
1t is now only sixty hours, we believe, from New
York to Augusta. But we cannot pursue the grand
vista that these facts open to We will only add
that from the facilities of travel and transportation
in Georgia and the adjoining States, vast attend
ance is anticipated and several weeks ago the mana
gers had received notice Of contributions from near
ly every Southern State