New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-08-09
LETTnR FROM GEORGIA..


Special Correspondence OF the New Orleans Crescent
CoLuMBUs, Ga, August 4, 1865.
The course of my travels has recently led mt
through large portion of this State-that is t
say, from this point to Brunswick upon the sea
coast. My observations and the incidents of my
journey you may, perhaps complain partake o
the general dullness of the season but in weather
which makes you feel as Sydney Smith suggested
like taking oil your flesh aud sitting in YOU
bones correspondent almost owes it to himself
to be dull; no decent reader can expect other
wise. .........-
First, Of course, as to the cotton crop. In the
neighborhood of this city there will be three
fourths of the ordinary crop made, and al
things considered there will be no occasion fol
the planters to despond. Those that understan,
! anything about the business can make a 1ivinc
at it easier than at anything else, more
especially if they have a little capita
to start with and many who have beer
occupied during the present season in mer
chandisug will probably betake themselves next
year to this more congetial occupation. The
crop of the State, it is generally thought, will
amount to 100000 bales, and the entire crop is
| estimated at from 100000 to 100000 bales.
The payment of laborers monthly or weekly mad
thus far been found superior to any other mode
| for securing reliable labor and the freedmen are
| any interest in the years crop.
| What have had occasion to remark more than
once, is the scarcity of the educated class of
young men III many of the interior towns. Places
that We're once swarming with young lawyers
| scarcely have any representatives whatever.
| Those that did survive, you hear it sometimes
complained by the unmarried of the far, were
gobbled up Immediately after the close of the
war, and the amount of beauX and stock lovers is
now distressingly small.
Among the poorer classes there seems to be
much suffering and privation more especially in
| the neighborhOOd of this city, whose mills and
| factories once kept large number employed
! but the majority of the people appear TO be
| about as good livers rs ever. Everybody q rowls
| in their kerfidge, and yOu see more of these We
hieles assembled round the church doors on Sun
days than have ever beheld in the Crescent City
Otherwise Jas to the habits of the interior the girls
| wear mushroom hats, dress in pink ribbons and
| prints, ride out good deal in buggies with the
few nice young men that remain, and time, with
1 everybody, quietly passes in eating peaches
! grapes and watermelOuS.
/ Travelling over the road from Macon to Savan-
nah during the whole of hot summer day,
| think saw more Of the latter fruit eaten than
| have ever before during the same period. You
1 could buy one for ten cents and everybody
/ invested at every stopping place. TIE con
! duCtOr told me that SO many were eaten that the
| hogs along the railroad depended altogether upOn
! the rines for living, and were able to keep fat
| from this source alone. At any rate during that
| day, almost every gentleman and lady might have
| been discovered at almost any given time with
the half Of one of these geranium-coored biyalyes
in their laps, and eating, scraping or drinking
away with a satisfaction worth beholdinr Where
they happened to be inconveniently large for one
sitting, they showed the balance under their seats
ready to commence upon it when their energies
should be restored.
The road Of which have Just spoken has but
recently been completed, and what added much
to the discomfort of travelling on warm day was
that the cars were all bran new, and the passen-
gers on that account were not allowed to stretch
out their feet the cushions for fear of scratch
ing the wood or injuring the cloth. Still the ladies
dlsregarded this frequently repeated prohibition
but as the seats were not reversible with ouly
partial success. You would see them rolling them
selves up into balls and trying to get to sleep first
upon one side then upon the other very much as
you have seen Towser on a hot day adjusting and
readjustng himself. They never seemed to get
fixed exactly comfortable; and when they did, t6ey
would have to keep one eye open for fear their
look at their feet.
The city of Savannah has long been noted for
its refinement, and the antique and picturesque
character of its architecture-very little like what
you see anywhere else in the State-but / only
renamed long enough to narrowly escape being
arrested as generally suspicious character; and
as L was on my way to Brunswick, and had to
coast along the shore had some opportunity of
catching glimpse of the Sea Islands, so cee-
brated Tor their cotton. These lie so close To-
gether, and are so SMALL that most of the
time you seem to be sailing in a network
OF rivers, or as if the Mississippi instead
OF being stream, was laid out in plats
and squares with little green islands seDarated
from each other by narrow canals and lagoons
and dotted with mansion houses, shadoRy trees
and waving fields Allgators line the shore and
more than one passenger amused himself by
shooting at them as we passed The scenery il
worth seeing, though but comparatively little of
the celebrated staple, they told me, would be
made this year.
The city of Brunswick I feel almost like de.
scribmg at some length. 1t has the best harbor
upon the coast. 1t was founded a hundred and
fifty years ago, and it is remarkable for its health
during all of this time its inhabitants have been
dreaming OF It's coming greatness, and it still is |
as 1t hen was, the city OF magnificent hopes and
expectations. The difficulty is thatit is surround
ed by barren belt of pine land of hundred
miles width, which has no wealth or inhabitants
Two railroads. are however, being built which it |
u thought Will put it in communication with the |
wealthy portion of the State, and make it the en-
uepot for large portion of the commerce of |
Georgia and Alabama, from Macon to Montgom- |
cry.
The Magnus Apollo of the place is General |
HofdoA, under whose command the Louisiana
brigade won some of its brightest laurels in Vir |
glnia. He is now at the head of company in the |
lumber business, and has some half dozen mills in
motion day and night. Some Of his old comrades, |
who remember his energetic character will NOT |
be surprised to hear that he works in the hot sun
with crowbar in his hand-sometimes directing
somstimes helping and that none of the ffIy
hands he has under him are more handy and
active at lifting than the man who carried away
seven bullet holes at the battle of Sharpsburg,
We talked over the events which preceded the
close Of the war-the views of the yarious
generals about the situation and | should like
to narrate some Of the interesting anecdotes with
which mis- conversation abounded; and perhaps |
shall at some day, when have not SO MANY writ
ten pages already Before me. moRYN.
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ALABAMA ITEMs.-The Huntsville Independent
gives an account of negro celebration at that
place on the lst the anniversary of West India
emancipation. A Rev. Mr.. Chalfaut delivered an
address, and Nashville negro, named Sam
Lowry, another one.
The Troy Advertiser says the prospects of corn
crops in Pike county are very encouraging.
In Asheyille, st. Clair county, the other dav
band OF men went to the house of Mr.. Kindrick
10 Kill him. He and his son resisted, and killed
one Of them, when the band retired for a while
and n and his son fed The band returned and
burnt his house. They whipped two citizens of
Ashevile the same day, and burnt three gin
houses in the country, one belonging to Mr. By-
rs, who had 800 bushels of wheat. So says the
cherokee Advertiser.
The following has been received at the state de
from the consule ta oaneroI ~ +I Tr,,;+