The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-08-05
AeR1ouIruRn IN GEORGIA

A correspondent of the New York Tribune
writing from Macon, Ga. says:
The agriculture of the State of Georgia is
certainly at a very low ebb. Many planters
are preparing to move away, They say that
cotton will never be grownagain To any extent
now that their slaves are gone. Sand as to
hiring Them" said one to me, @do you think
will hire my own niggers." rs 8 isl IA
Land can be bought at a very low price,
One hundred acres lying four miles from Ma
con-75 acres being cleared, with log house
on it-were offered me for fifty cents an acre.,
This perhaps is not a criterion, but any guam
tity can be bought for two dollars an acre.
This comes of Slayery-wicked, demoralizing,
fnhuman Slavery. It has cursed the soil, and
cursed the people. They Rugged it to their
bosom, staked their all upon it, fought for it
and have lost. Their cup of iniquity was
full. 9Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad.a Bitterly do they feel the
scourge of war. Towns and cities burned,
railroads destroyed, fields laid waste; destitute
of almost all things which make life comforta-
BILE or desirable. But the war is over now,
and the South have had enough of it. They
will never appeal to the sword again. How to
reconstruct is the question now. Isee
only one way to do it rightly. Give the South
ern people universal amnesty, and make them
agree to universal suffrage. In no other way
can the work be efectually and well done.--
The people are all Rebels yet. The spirit that
seeded, that got up the Rebellion, that held
slaves, that wants to hold them now, is all
alive yet Allow this spirit to rude, without
check, and we know what the result will be.
The same writer AYERS from personal obser-
walton that the negroes, except on the large
cotton plantations remote from towns, are bet
ter qualified to vote than the poor class,of
whites, not one of whom ever. saw a school
house, and not one in hundred can read or
write, and what is worse, these men always
follow the lead Of the rich, and are Rebels
They will argue yehemently, in their ignor-
ance, for Slavery, though not one ever owned a
Slave, Strange infatuationl. and yet such
men win be allowed the right to vote, while
the colored people are deprived of the privilege
yes, those who have fought for the Union,
prayed for it, exposed their lives for it, and
thousands have died for it, Justice, "equal
and exact justice" must be done to these peo-
pie, else the Union cannot be formed on
strong basis. = 8 3 So - Ek 81
POPULATION OF NEW YORK CITY.
"a In 1855 New York city contained 629,S10 !;
in 1860, S13,669, and in 1885, 1908 ,25O. The
several wards known as adown town. are de-
Ginning in population. I. The erection of great
stores drives the people to more congenial
quarters. The old Knickerbocder stock cling
to their dwellings, but they are fast passing
away. A very few families only remain "down
town" Once this was the most fashionable
portion of the city, at least Greenwich and
Washington streets were very fashionable
thoroughlares, and some dozen Of the old resi-
dences still remain. The Hortd says, /. TAX
ing the increase of population throughout the
State to be somewhat in excess of past years.
it is safe to Say that the census will show a
grand total for the whole State OF not far from
four millions three hundred and fifty thous-
and" New York maxwell be called the aEm-
pire STATE" We trust the virtue and patriot
ism of the "rural districts" will always over
power the evils prevalent in the great city,
q God makes the country and man makes the
town." s ss5i % a,lisaidtgs3 a5irq