Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1859-01-19

other day, has one hundred and iilIy miles
aud is going ahead. There stands Georgia
, plyirg only one.twelhh Of one per cent. taxes
o and owing debt OF only two millions of dol.
lars! For the lnstseyeral years The people o
p Texas paid no tdxsJ TO their State Treasury,
and they have in the Treasury a surplus
: Of three millions There stands Georgia. with
It's banks with forfeited charters sail solvent,
except the dozen which nre acknowledgdly
blown m. and whose bills are conicssedly worth.
, less, while in Texas, thanks TO wise statesman.
ship, we have no banks and no use for an,.-
Georgia, a hundred aud thirty years old has n
cotton crop worth twenty-five millions Of dol.
lars; Texas, a State Of yesterday, exports
; half as much as Georgia, and feeds the fifty
thousand new immigrants, who come annua "
to swell its population, which doubles every
three years.
J And yet Georgia is n great, good. glori-
ous State, and wc love him. She 1--WE accept
your grammar in the right plare,) gave us
birth. We ploughed her red hills, where our
fresh shod horse cut through the most "Sphrly
SOIL AZ every step. In his schools and acade-
mics, where grammar and geography were
"high lnrnin," we learned the few rud,mrniS
which we know. Proud old State With
/ five "plouehincs," and as many "hocings" we
made two "barrels" of corn to the acre.
Noble old State! 1t has manufactures to be
sure-' papermills, &C." We were barn in the
/ first paper mill Georgia ever had and hence
our cacoei.es Sc,iIe"di. Generous State, gen
eIous people In our dar est hour we found
enc magnanim' US friend who loaned us tweu-
ty dollars, and another who let us read his
/ law books free of charge. Magnaumous and
/ glorious State, it has all the good things which
the Telegraph describes, aud women as pretty
as the Asinstc Georgans besides. 1t has
more honest Bapiis,s aud working Melhodists
than any State in the Union. Ii is a great
State with great people, hut there are two
sides TO the picture, and the boast about the
race for the empire Of the whole world is so
Tudicrous, that a native son of Georgia must
be allowed TO turn the picture around.
! Bless old Georgia, we love her for the very
perspir ton which We shed blowing ito old
worn out red hills, and ping its great heaps
of white flint rocks. Ii is good State to live
sa-a fne State to come ON.
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- The subjoinsi account Of the silver mines Of
HoDors may sound fabulous but are nevertheless
true. The facts state, possess peculiar interest at
this time The President proposes to establish pro-
tcctorste over that country. 1t is right on the line
of the Pacific Railroad.
Silver Mines in Sonora.
| About thirty years ago, say. the 'Philadel-
! nnst North Amerrsn.'a great excitement arose
| 10 England, respecting silver mines IN Mexico
BY the mining laws of that country, the ii e
to mine is lost by abandoning aad cessing to
WORK it. 1t becomes wait, and open 10 the
enterprise of any who may "rs-denouRcs" il.
| Now, in consequence Of revolutions and the
insecurity of life and property. many Of the
mines which had been extraordinarily produc-
tive, were abandoned. This fact becoming
known in London, excited the mania for spec
ulation and adventure to a degree scarcely
surpassed BY the South Sea bubble. Compa.
MES were formed, and the stock purchased
with the greatest eagernsss. Stories OF the
surprising wealth acquired BY the former Mex.
lean proprieiors, were circulated, and men were
infamed with the vision of sudden fortunes.
The result was, that fifty millions Of English
capital was swallowed up in Mexico. II we
mistake not, there is bu, one of these companies
now in existence, and this company has ex-
pended enormous sums in restoring the ahan-
doned but famous mine Of Real del Monte
They are likely, however, to reimbarse them
selves for theifcxpendiiufes, and derive lar. e
profit from its future productions. This mine,
in the last century, was known as the proper
tv of Count de Regla. He was so wealthy,
says that lively writer, Madame Caldero de la
Barea, that when his son was christened, the
whole party walked from his house to the
church upon ingo's Of silver. The Count in.
,iled the King of Spain to visit his Mexican
territories, assuring him that the hoofs Of His
N sjesty's horse should tonch nothing bnt solid
silver from Vera Cruz to the capital. He had
two ships of the line, of the largest size, con-
strncted at Havana, made of mahogany and
cedar, and presented them to the King. HIS
wealth and munifcence obtained him the title
Of Count.
His famous mine is STILL as we have already
ren,arke d, very productive. But the other
mines, which the English compani-. attempt-
ed to restore, proved an abyss, as it were, IN
which was swallowed up an immense capital.
We have thus referred to the history oil these
companies, because the public attention IS be-
ing attracted to Sonora, and our capitalists
msy be tempted to engage IN t'se restoration OF
the abandoned mines Of that territory. Al
ready companies have been formed, and 1t was
stated in our columns, yesterday, the sonora
Mining Company had begun 10 ship silver iron
Tubsc TO San Francisco, about thousand
ounces per week. Now, it is well known that
Sonora is one of the richest mineral districts
in the world. 1t literally abounds in silver
mines. But the i'll success Of the English
companies should induce great caution on the
part of our capitalists, when they are solicited
to engage in the reopenng of the silver mines
of that territory.
To transport thither the Necessary machine.
~ is attended with great expense. Life and
properly are insecure, and have been since the
great Apache war in-the last century, which
led to The abandonment of all, or nearly all
the mines that bad been opened@~S S1Hese fierce