The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-01-02
q 60 r GA.
our GEORGIA CORRESPONDENCE.

MACON, Ga, Dec 20, 1860.
Christmas week hero is week OF holiday celebrated
with the display OF fireworks. sumptuous dinners, par
ties Of pleasure and the cessation Of all labor Negroes
still do the agreeable to their old masters and masters
forget for time that they no longer tho owners Of
property in human flesh. Christmas week Is also the
principal time for the hiring OF farm hands and house
servants for changing Of houses by rcnter and for the
settlement OF debts.
Some Of the people here look upon an innovation upon
their tme-honored customs by tho introduction Of new
customs along with anew population, and the possible
absorption Of the southern race which has thus far
measurably kept free from mixture with foreign ole
ments, by nsposton the part Of immigrants to the
United states 70 settle among slsveholdng population
as the greatest evil 10 which they must be subjected in
the future; for the fact is that slavery is
abolished SO sure win this genial Cline and fertile
soil now allure the hardy and the enterprising
from our own foreign lands. In slavehoding
times the Yankee from New England or the New Yorker
found here q comfortable home and elevation TO the
highest Offices provided he willing to assimate
with those with whom he associated and many Of the
most persistent rebels from Northern latitude
but now Is anticipated by the psope here that such
will be the extent Of Northern and foreign immigration
this State that the element thus introduced will be the
controlling one, which, instead Of being subjected ABB
COOtIO ascend
ancy. Fully onefth more Of the population OF this
State already Of Northern extraction and that whom
those who immigrated here had lay aside prcjudces
encounter imaginary real dangers and put cnarac-
ter TO suit the people, but what will be the force OF
element introduced into the State when those who
property but and invest their means when they
come not bearing the reputation OF towards but
personalities OF victorious people; not as having to
assume characters among strange people, but coming
10 their lpnd BY conquest: not only amenable
laws passed by State but to live under the protection
Of the common hagf
Il is easy to see that Georgia will In future be much
attractive place for the mplantation OF Northern
ideas and Northern civilization and for tho realization
fortunes and investment OF capital by Northern men
than has been before The sub division or large
farms In majority Of cases into smaller ones the
prove to be profitable the numerous unimproved water
powers and the opportunities for investing in factories
and manufactures WILL whom the political status Of the
70 draw hither from the North and elsewhere men OF
capital and skilled and hardy Artisans and laborors In
S X. Is.
the highest civilization and development stands out In
bold relief good but the prospect Of thorosgh
than any OF conscaon and hanging for treason or
the placing Of the State under Territorial or military
dspsys Of % Us suscSs
surprises me to hear occasionally, and must ray, in be-
half Of tho people, only seldom, The remark that i would
be betteor Georg 70 be reduced TO Temtory and the
laws staying tho collection Of debts pasS by her last
LegslAure annuhed than to be Ia her present condition
Those who make the remark have veryimperfect
tdoa Of what Territorial government means, and
forget how cnorous Territories generally are for admits
sion ntche United States oven before they have popu-
aiion sufficient 70 justify their admssion do they
consider that II law IL offensive II may be repealed
st aside unconstitutional while theentire abrogstion
OF ono form Of government and the substitution Of
untred and offensive may not be transient but last.
ing, entaing suffering upon generation.
While this apathy on the part Of few may be seen by
close observer with far the larger portion of the popu.
ation there Is desire for resumption Of
friendly intercourse between the two sections which
must form the basis OF q united government Many are
stout Of heart and say they able sand their hand
With men Of such shrewdness "a the Northern man is
known TO possess, while others tired death Of
ocng kept IN state Of suspense and only guarantee
the STATE admission into the Union on any honorable
terms and ready 70 acquiesce--wc will be good
citizens OF the United States, have 70 be-
have just made comparison Of the cotton shipped
from depot shown bv the agents books and 6nd
that there has bscn just onehrd the number Of balcs
shipped the present year that shipped 1850 This
estimate makes the cotton OF the United States
third what It was before the war about l,200, 900
bales This State would have made half the guam
" 0f1 had nofh ,an for fha dronu