The New York herald., 1865-06-18
An Interior View. OF Georgia Life.
SOUTHERN LADY AND GENTLEMAN.
Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette, June 10

Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette, June lol
MACON, Ga June 8, 1865.
Croxton's headquarters upon the estate OF Mrs
Lamar in the suburb Of Vinevile, which, you know
s itself the suburb Of Macon. This portion Of the State
CANT estates therefore, that distinguish vinevlle the
grounds OF which adorned with ali the grace that
culture gives to nature and whose mansions embowercd
in the midst of rural freshness without and Within
furnished with all that please the eye and render lie
deghtfuhis paradise that here blooms upon the hills
of Nacon-is nurured alone by the golden dews that
cend from the and rice fields of the So called
black belt and the region Of the coast
nm M Lamar rs ,s cousin % TO j. Lamar the member Of
years old yet without gray hairs her face is
old, however She lives here alone Her sons and
daughters have all married and left her. She to
have idea Of her estate which managed by her
and overseers She says the South longer para
negroes will not work. she says, without slavery. Her
ouhouses still swarm with their late chatels they will
not 60 though she tells them TO- sho is without culture
and, apparently without that mental resource that sup
ports refinement in solitude On the other hand her
negroes say she is cross and overbearing while they
alone and helpless. Old Aunty, out there, says she
"raised missus from a chile, and, though mssus
never glib uuthin' hardly-de dress she had her
ole man, who works ut shoemakn' down in
de town had glib her-she don't like TO leabe her alone
and helpless" Poor old thiugl She w much more an
object OF caro- and pity than the mistress In whose
service the wrnkled drudge lie at last / will
not deeper into the domestic relations Of this family
FOR fear OF woundng your sensbty by limiting at the
rentiy looked upon as secret here however Indeed
II is suspected at glance, and acknowledged without
reserve as though no proper subject for surprise
McCook's headquarters lower down the avenue
toward the city, in the mansion of q Mr. .Clisby late
editor and proprietor OF tho Macon Telegraph Mr. Clisby
still the building in which the paper n published
by its new propretors Mr. Clsby, too, thinks the
ter prospects Of the South recover from the
wreck Of abolition. His reasons you have probably
heard before-the climate uneuited 70 white labor and
black labor precarous, not impossible, without sla.
very. Mr. Csby is Of Northern BIRTH but at last fully
committed TO Southern sentiments. His admiration Of
the Southern character appears unbounded The North
ern in his opinion cannot compare with the Southern
in native ingenuity enterprise and energy occasion
considerably edihed 10 learn from this gentleman
that the fact illustrated by better management Of
Southern ralroadsthe last direction my experience Of
them would incline me TO look 70. Mr. Clisby claims
that the South look 70 ''bloodn and warns me- there
fore not TO seek the proper
Southern character in Georgia. which orgina ly was
penal colony; whle In addition an early policy OF dis
tributing the lands Of the State in small lots two hun
dred and forty acres each by lottery had
70 debase the standard Of lis population This result has
been modified TO some extent in the socalled black belt
and along the coast
He says there doubt about the wish Of Georgia to
reconstruct under any condition. Indeed he rays
far from the people OF the South here needing
any further 'puttng down." they actually 30 Grip
Piled and subdued as to need lifting up" The DANGER
TO his mind s that they will show TOO great subser
viency.
He still sticks 70 IL that the doctrine Of estate sove-
reigny Ia right; yet he 10 occasionally writing edno-
rails for the Telegraph urging reconstructon