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

Georgia-The Empire State.

iul commentary:
"GEoR0A-'T There she HaaRs, Look n Hr,' =
Georgia has ever wely. hundred mile. ~ r,llroal
built and pud for and yielding to the s,ockhOlder
more than an average OF seven per cent, yearly div
ilenls
"Witnin the next year, two hundred miles of al
d'tiona roai completed and equipped, will he In op
GRAFTON. These roads with hut single exception AR
mainly the results Of the enterprise, the energy an
capital Of our own people
eve hly" cotton, anl wool. and paper factories
rolling mills, fonlrcs and mtchine shops, ncrrhlr
Mills marble yards, gold and copper, Rni coil mine,
al IN 4 lloUrshing condition, and remuneritEg ,h,
plcprelols ~ handsome returns on the capital u'
Vesled.
I '"lhe cotton crop Of the prcscn, ycar will hr,n;
twenty-five millions Of dollars at present price,
The crop of cereals is worth tSiic that sum-thc 81
gar and cotton cror not being included in the account
"ihe state tax is not quite ne.twciith of one pei
eent-hc net income Of the State road will he thre,
hun drei thousand dollars The State debt amount,
to about two millions, mud tax Of one-hith of one
per cent would pay it in two yoars. Our banks are
solvent -0ur merchants in tho best of credit and
the people generally Of debt. with full cron, o
cotton, corn etc on hanl The country is healthy
with The exception Of the epidemic IN Savannah. We
have six male colleges aud colleges for the fair sex
in almost every village containing five hundred iu-
hahitauts, in tho State Looking to this statement OF
fcts, is there S,l,c in Chrseniom in tho enjoyment
OF 80 many Of the material elements Of comfort
prosperity and success the great State of Georgia.
If then, at this time, she occupies proud position
what vii! she he when all her projected lines of rail.
road are comprehension the mines of gold. an,
copper, sni coal, that now lie deep in the bosom OF
her mountains, nrc opened, and the rich deposits
brought to mgIkcIt? When, instead Of but Fourth,
she has, Of her rich lands in cultivation, the
full half of the rich valleys in the north shall bear
golden harvest. and the plains of the South and west
shall he white with tho kingly staple. When that
day shall come, Georgia will not only be the Empire
State of the South, but the Empire State of the
world. ."---.hacoa (Ga.) Telegraph.
Yes, there sic stands; but as ii was named
after Rex Georpius, allow US 10 call the good
old Sac he If you please. There stand:
Georgia shon of lis chartered limits, which
once extended to the "Sourh Seas" by the
Yazoo fraud speculation, which exceeded in
aIrociiy the fraudulent certificate .windle at.
tempted by Wa,rous and hs confederates, in
Texas, but which was defeated BY the patriot.
ism Of The people. There stands Georga,
with his rival children Alabama and N,ssss-
Ippi "Lohbed ,h." There stands the State
which might have hoen bounded by the FAITH.
er Of Waters and the Gulf on the west, as ii
is by the Atlantic on the east, with its maguif-
NN''' NHiNoiru, uculihtu III W i've
Insignificant quantity Of ftty-eight thousand
square miles! There he stands, running the
race ior "Enpirr" against Texas, with FIVE
t'mes, the 9.Ge.i'y4of greatly superior land
There he stands, Onc-toIrh upon the unflh.
omed Okelinoke Swamp and the other ALI
gator holes" another fourth upon "piny woods, y
ul'erl y worthless except for the useless long
logs and turpeutine, and another fourth upon
the uuhaJitable mountains, full of minerals
mayhap, but cos.icg two dollars for every one
dug from the bowels of the earth; while in
Texas We have not ten miles squsre covered
by swamp, little useless pine woods-and no
unfit for cultva,ion-tull of salt,
IRON, silver ard other minerals though they be;
and all over the country We have endless Prai-
res aud vast a!uvisl Savannahs, tn say noih.
ing Of immense forests and river bottoms. af-
for!ing, in word, twenty acres of tiabe
land, 10 Georgia's one. There Georgia stands
with not river capable of carrying 2nd class
Steamboat. TGsre he stands, old aud gray,
dating hack to Og's'hrops charter in 1872,
and vet ~nh 10 t8wn exceeding thirty thou
sand nhahltants-a half dozen ranging
fran FIVE to ten thousand-with its hundred
smnky-coking villages, where
general mus,ers" held, and neishhorhood d'f
cuffs. There he stands with not an acre Of
pnblic lands, the large indian domain within
It's chartered limits having long since been
sambled away by the turn Of the wheel of for
tune, while Texas has hundred million Of
rich public domain. There he stands, with
black trrria. enough upon the old worn out
fields to cordial the whole world; with chest.
nuts and chinkapins oalg exceeded by the har
vest of winter grapes and mnskedines--the
verv food for ch,lls ,ud fever. There he stands
with the thousands Of "eIay holes," at which
so many "ague cake" sons and daughters feed.
Look at the old gentleman and his rising prog
eny. There he stands, with his twelve hun.
dred miles Of railroad, bless the enterpr!sing
old sire. "Bu, We cods!" think of the sacri.
flee Of horse fesh--the Lones OF oxen-the
graves of little mules, beat TO death by the
curslnq, swearing generation OF wagoners,
iack-.crewng through the clay roads with fv.
round bales of cotton, with little bundles of
seed tied in the corners, to which muddy dev.
lis swung 10 prevent turning over, before ever
a mile OF road was built! And think now Of
the danger TO life and limb, in get,irg over
gulies from railroad 10 town or farm. Neces-
slty is the mother OF inventions and let it he
confessed that venerable Georgia has been
driven TO improvement. Yes, there he stands,
with his million Of inhabitants, and we will
not say how many cannot read and WRITE
But he had half his grown children half cen.
tury ago, while Texas with twenty thonsand,
twenty years agone, now has half as many as
Georgia! Fstes! what chance Georgia
stands for "empire." There he stands, seven.
tv years iI the Union, with six ''male colleges"
Here ssands Texas in its twelfth year, with
five. which have more students than Gorgia's
six, to say nothing Of our hundred high schools
where almost every language and every science
are taught. There stands Georgia, with his
five hundred distillerip., where wait fifty thou
sand jugs for the "doublings," while IN Tesns
only one disiiIlery has ever been read of, and
that has blown out for want OF patronage.