The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-01-12
Oar sseor' A. CerrespondonrS.

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The anticipated. <Slave insurreetioa Alir@ ou'oss
the GVhi;ss, Sc, Ste.
genera Consideration pervades all Darts OF this
State rorA lear OF terrible iosurrection, rumors Of
which re privately circulated. Many Of these M
mors nave proved false or exaggerated; but whilst
me circulation of such stories may he condemned
Sorse than folly, it may perhaps be equally danger
Gus and unjust to security that the press of the
State should treat the matter too lightly and turn
deaf ear to the voice OF alarm. Some time ago ad-
vices were privately sent across the Florida border
to Thomasvile, and communicated to the other
Southern counties, of anticipated rising of the
slaves In that quarter; and an importance was at
tached TO the communication by the Judge Of the
Superior Court of the district taking notice of it in
such way to have had the effect of calling out
he military companies and establishing an armed
patrol in that quarter of the State. At the same tim
private reports have been circulated of plots of in
surTection in Cass and Walker countless in the ex.
IRENE northwestern part of the State.
In Miledgeville the utmost CONSERVATION prevails.
The military Of the place have been kept under arms
Tor number OF days past, and gentleman just
rom ii ere informs us that they have loaded
with grape planted about the town. The excitement
Is at its height during the holidays, and the widest
runors are swallowed, without a grain of allowance,
by the timd and cIedulOus. Yet as there can be
to give for alarm there is undoubtedly
Just occasion for the strictest measures of vigilance
The forewarnjng which Florida has given, and the
simultaneousness OF a like report in the extreme
alarm throughout the State, while in particular
neighboIhoCds much stronger grounds Of suspicion
are reported. No discovery Of arms is as yet knOwa
on any reliable information, to have been made
arr Dg the negroes, but in making a search there
were discovered few days ago. within twelve miles
Of this place, number of incendiary pamphlets pub
lshed in the North.
The last advices from Florida represent good
deal OF excitement as still existing in Madison
county
Il il Judged here that the developments made in
this State are of Q part with those which have
travelled the length and breadth of the South in
GLIDING Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia and
Florida; and that spreading over such space, and
from other circumstances, they prove a concert
which the slaves themselves cOud never have effec-
ted, and which is plainly the work of Northern ennis
the latter are suspected in this State as many who
read and write, and, as am told, have besides
respondents in Liberia, are known TO have visited
the North on various pretexts such that OF wait
ing at the watering places during the summer
months, or attending gentlemen. In any event the
preceDt alarm will have the good effect of placing
this slave gentry under a strcter surveillance and
discipline and if Yankee should be nabbed with
the present state of public feeling he will be treated
to a halter.
MACON, GA, Dec. 81, 1856.
The Effect of Senator 7oombs Tariff Lsae,-2ne
african Sare Trade-7Ne Cotton Culture Cot
tom Manufacture in Georgia-bateynai Improve
n,ents-1He Siace Troubles-Aid for Nicaragua.
The proposition made by Mr.. Toombs in the Sa-
vannah convention, to exclude Northern goods from
the markets Of the South by State tariff, has fallen
stil-born. The Southern press has either been in
sensible Of its importance, or has but tamely dis
cussed it. On the other hand men of reflection who
do not usually express their Judgment through the
press, pronounce it one Of the most practicable ell
cient and clearly constitutional measures that has
been invented for the commercial interest of this
portion of the Union. This contrast of opinion is
not strange; 1t is Characteristic Of the South her
history proves that everything that has been done
for her has not teen by herelt not by the masses,
but by few choice spirits. The press, with honor.
able exceptions, has been of doubtful service; it has
INDUCED Itself most eloquenty the subject of the
woes and wrongs and pride OF the South, aud in use
less vocieration, while it has invariably sighted
Toombs tariff and the slave trade proposition-the
one To advance the commercial inter
est, the other the agricultural interest
and which, taken together, as they were intended
are characterized in the private judgment Of poll
ticians one OF the cornpletest Southern remedies
ever proposed end constitutional wthal. IL IL the
old story OF the lack of public spirit in the South,
and its extreme indocility when at all exhibited.
In the opinion Of the advocates of the African
slave trade IL is clear that the great want Of the
agricultural interest of the South is suiciency and
cheappess Of laber Even under a steady advance
in the prices Of labor and while the cotton crop of
other por Of the world is declining in point OF
production, that Of the United States alone has in.
creased, say three per cent OF 900 bales annually
With q siffciency Of labor from the re opening OF
the slave trade the whole difficulty might be solved
n ~ n w ron ln
would bring into the cultivation Of cotton an extent
Of territory six times that devoted 10 this sta
ple besides breaking down the monopoly and oblite
rating the hateful features of oligarchy, under
which the The agricultural interests now suffer.
BIT the South ships upon these considerations.
Nor II this strange when II neglects its own inter
ests immediately at home, and such a. are dictated
by far more potent reflection than those alluded to.
Thus TO mention il only by way of illustration, we
send cotton to Northern manufactures, when il
Is an easy calculation that it costs near twenty
per cent upon the price OF the raw material N
transport IL from Macon, Ga, to Lowell, Masa What
a commentary upon our enterprise Time
and again we have bad cotton planters conven.
tons sitting in this city, and instead Of
taking into consideration practical measures, they
have made themselves Supremacy ridi .ulous and
as well by visionary schemes as the most
nstrous plots OF monopoly. Such, FOR instance,
was the celebrated so called Florida scheme. by
which sn association chartered by the different
States should secure 10 Themselves the whole cotton
commission business of the United States, by guar
a certain price TO their customers, and
the manufacturers 70 buy at the mini
mum fixed, or the cotton would be purchased by
the association and sold only at cost adding storage
insurance, interest on the investment, with CON-
mission for purchasing and another for selling.
Despite, however, the lack Of public spirit at the
South, TO encourage practical measures OF security
and industrial independence, It is gratifying 10 Oh
serve the comparative growth Of the cotton manu-
featuring interest In Georgia. which enjoys the dis
tinction of being the largest cotton producing as
well as manufacturing State In the South. The d.
vdends Of the factories in the State are large and
il Is estimated, will average from 10 TO IL per cent
on the investments, while their cloths generally
RI much finer quality than those OF the Northern
e ctories. II may be easily understood the only
limit or check TO this branch Of industry is in the
investments, and az confidence increases the
planters, who should properly be It's supporters, will
probably he more liberal, since they have already
improved in this respect, and some Of the factories
are now owned mostly by them.
Among the instances Of railroad enterprise in the
10 a tho proiect of n road from Macon IN R,uns-