The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-06-10


beef cattle aud stock Of all kinds total failure
Of the small crops the people OF this section
trved TO put last year left them In such deploabls
condition that hundreds II not thousands OF them must
have persh this spring had not the great North
To the Northern shipments Of the
OF thousands of bushels have come in and from the
different railway stations these timely supplies have
been distributed to the needy many OF Them poor
women, walking ten, fifteen and twenty miles more
for as much they could carry home children.
And some OF them get little taste of meat, now and
then Very few have died OF actual starvation although
some no doubt, have thus persisted, in The Northern
counties of Alabama and in Georgia South Carolina
back from the railroads Within striking distance OF
the railroads the suffering has not been great Sup
plies are sill coming in and the federal army officers
good men in their istibuton.
Another Intelligent Georgian says :" had their and
pigs and chickens been left to these poor people they
might have worried through with the produce of their
garden patches. Vegetables are now coming in. and
within three weeks, with wheat crop brought into
service we shall be able TO help these poor people our
selves. But are all poor now sir / mean shall
be abe 10 help our destitute neighbors We thank
fat To the good peopeo the North for their
aid and Tell YOU sur il is melting out the bitterness OF
the war and ping the work reunion enec-
lively than all the pol tlcians put together We can't
hate those people who come all the way down from New
York 10 Georgia to look after and relieve disressea
II is not in human nature, sir Our foolish pride gives
way sir and we forget our past wrongs IN our present
benefits om the federas We have richer country than
the North, but you how are, and how much prac
teal RECONSTRUCTION we want
The negroes seem TO be generally at work and very
tracabe, but whenever they are congresated in tho
towns and villages there IL suffering among them. In
the outskirts Of this little railway village Of kingston,
we overhauled to day lest OF log cabins soldiers
cabins left from the apparently densely populated
with blacks, women and children These shartes had
the squad appearance of poverty, fifth and disease in
shocking degree. The women complained of the hard
times, only little chore of work TO do now and then,
aud no money for IL when done, only q little
something Just what they give choose TO give in
the way OF trade. .'Under nassa had plenty;
but we was Mt free and could be sold Now we can't
We are tree ANYHOW, though is most starving and
children sick all dc time and no money for medicine
Does you know Congress- because if you does can
tpllt dnx ea hAan hin hafn la Ga
Treedmens bureau do what's right to Us poor niggers
wat can't help ourselves"
''But. aunty, there many white people all round
here that no better of than you are.''
Eyes, sab, OATS so and de Lord help us all. / sup
US down var, white people ana black people, and de
wheats coming in soon and den de corn, and spec
shall git along but its awful hard times Wild us jest now
Wus, hundred times dan do war; for do Northern
soldiers always had something to give US and always
left something behind"
Fresh from the turbulent and viciously disposed pot
ca parties under Browplows State government of Ten
nessee the contrast presented in the quiet condition OF
this section Of Georg really wonderful Calling the
attention OF intelligent citizen to this fact his
answer that we have had enough OF mischief max
ing politicians to last US for some time We have other
fish TO Try. In the struggle for existence not
squeamish about State rights, and not in the
least troubled about the Presidential question General
Pope is good man, and Is doing good work here in
maintaining law and order, without offence to the
people We don't feel that under a military
government. We wouldn't exchange General Pope Tor
Parson Brownlow and his Of State rights If We
could. The main thing to be done with us Is work.
work. and We working to secure something for
empty stomacns and something Tor our backs before
troubling ourselves again with politics General Pope
may take his own time in reconstruction. We are in
particular hurry about IT, for We suppose that the thing
Is fixed now, and we can tell that il Northern capt.
tasts and emigrants want to come among is
the time Lands and all sorts OF real estate including
Mines mills factories and factory sites cheaper with
Us now than they will ever be again, for although we
vour magDv DeIi,iean a sp''e q
Such the facts and views pick up in dippingnto
Northern Georgia, Az proceed farther down '.nto
fhn hnyvol IF In nd Snf
ton planters and politicians shall doubtless ind
political elements in active state OF combustion
Here they are dormant as II they not to have
Presidential election for ten or twenty years TO
A Fair Exhibit Of the Condition Of the Georgia
Planters-A Gloomy Picture-An UP at the
Pawnbroker's-Corn and Other Supplies mt
One Hundred Per Cent lnterest-A Fine
Openink for Northern Capitalists 20 Make
Neutrality-suspicious. Of the Negroes, &c.
MACON, Ga, May 80, 1867
The results Of full conversation with several intel.
gent and experienced Georgia planters this morning
the present situation and prospects herewith submit
ted for the readers Of the HERALD The facts thus pro-
sencd We think, furnish fair exhibit OF the actual
condition Of things in Georgia and the prospect before
the planters.
''You ask me" said Of them, ito tell you just
how stand in business affairs. and what
prospects. and glad to be able to meet your re-
quest First thon sir to sum up in word, our Losses
from the capital Our loss (Georgia the loss
OF our slaves will say two hundred millions OF
dollars. Next the losses through banks In
version Of gold and other articles Of substantial
value into Confederate paper cannot estimate Next
como mills, factories and foundrios besides rail-
roads, bridges, crops, farming implements, houses,
fences horses cattle, &C., destroyed during the war;
and next the failure Of crops both years the
war All these losses sir, have left with nothing but
ouv md N cantv If n nd
mprovident population OF free negroes make. shift
system Of free negro labor and with cribs and
meat houses all empty, and without money, without
credit, and without confidence wei are all up at the
pawnbrokers"
.How is that Governor?n
'The case is very plain, sir. We must have and
bacon for sborers and corn, II get nothing
else for stock. to enable to make growing
crops or wheat cotton and coru, must gvc them
up and TO the dogs Spectators in corn bacon and
other provisions understand our necessities, and OF
course they shave us TO the bone I don't know
whether these extorons may DO charged upon our
merchants, with whom We directly deal, or with tho
Northern traders with whom they deal but the fact
that in buying upon credit till November We shall have
to pay two dollars and half for busnei Of corn which
sells here for dollar and seventy cents cash.
and twenty-nv cents pound for bacon. which
get al sixteen cents for cash In short, sir, for
needfui supplies TIL November are paying at the
per shent, hundred per interest per
We have TO do H. because there no help for IT, Thus
In oni OF fact sir We arc all In the hands OF the pawn
brokersn
"But perceive, Governor. you have commenced
down here cutting your wheat crop. Some relief in
that, supposefv
"A little, sir. In this section cutting up our
wheat for our stockeeding IL, grain aud straw, you
feed hay, 10 our horses and mules They must have
sonnet hing and can't raise hay in this section OF
Georgia: the soil 10 too hot Northern bale hay costs
much more than our rpenng wheat; and so our wheat
gr0D rpfn ~ IN he norsa and muI
"We, what then are you going TO eat yourselves ~
Northern corn at hundred per cent interest until
wheat crop from Northern Georgia and Tennessee
comes in. Why, sir, there Is not county In the
state which last year raised subsistence enough for It's
own consumpticn-not one. and began the des-
ti,uc Of provisions The failure OF crops last year
was the blow Of all That the last parcel
which broke the camelis back
'Bat my dear Governor s there no way OF cscapcW
Yes SIR, there is a way. IL we could get somo OF
your Northern capitalists TO down here, Of
those men VINO are foollng about Wall street the
fluctuations IN g0ld-if We could get OF them 10