New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-07
THROUGH THE SOUTH.
GEORGIA.
MINERALS AND MANUFACTURES.

Northern Georgia is almost wholly undeVelOped' |
Near Augusta visited some extensive beds OF kaoIh
or porcelain clay which, at present is sent North'
mart being used 10 make crOckery and another part
as was told, TO adulterate white lead, candy ana
flour large pottery was built a few years ago, at
n cost exceeding 100000 and considerable ware was
made specimens of which saw and it was fully |
equal to any from Europe but the enterprise failed
because as was said, they had no workmen sum
GENTLY skilled, and the glazing of the ware OF sew
eral kilns cracked entailing great loss ana the
works stopped They are still in good order ana
await men who understand how to manage Wisely
One other difficulty was mentioned, when was INC
necessity for sending the ware to New-fork lot
market. even 70 supply Georgia merchants, which,
owing TO the excessive frelghts. made great draw
back. 1t seems that whatever shelf goods are man
ufactured in this country and at any point however
remote an agency must be established in New-fork
CITY that is if the business IS to be carried on largely
and at profit; and it would seem that the question
of manufacturing in the interior is inti-
mately connected with points of dstriOu-
ton Chicago is becoming such point
and. in time. Norfolk, and perhaps
Atlanta may also become such, but at present large
buyers will not go thither. One might think that
remedy could he found; but when Philadelphia, the
largest manufacturing city in the country, and Bos-
ton with all its skill and capital well as the whole
of NewEncIand are obliged also to have agencies in
NewYork less powers need not expect to emancipate
themselves. Much more could be said on this sub
iect but il must be treated on another OCCASION
Seven miles from Augusta is the Rock City paper
mill which is the largest establishment of the kind
in the South, and it furnished the principal supply
of paper to the Confederates during the war 1t
stands on the railroad but the adjoining country is
almost wilderness.
This is the region in which the burr mill stone is
found and the rock extends east and west for many
miles rising in lodges and hills to great hight 1t
seems to be formed of oyster shells, which by some
chemical change have been transformed into sharp
conglomerate. Near Aiken saw vast ranges Of this
Stone and in places there were half finished burrs,
which had been abandoned account OF some de-
feet or accident, and it seems the country mills
havo been supplied from this source for
long time But tho merchant mills Of the
country arc supplied from France, since
no one there understood how to select and work the
quarTies. 4 company with an expert superintendent
ought to engage IN this business the cannot
be great and as to the cost of the land was told
that it could be bought rs low as 81 an acre This
would be several miles from station and 1t IS about
the price of many of the cultivated farms.
The soil is poor aud unless MANFRED will bring no
more than six bushels of corn to the acre, some
times not so much.
THE RU-KLUX,
Having been assured at Savannah and at Augusta
by every one with whom conveBed, and by leading
men, and those who shoud know, that the stories of
murders and outrages by the Ku-Klux were without
foundation; in fact the existence of this Order was
denied and, finding no proof of their organization
began to suspect that Georgia had been slandered.
1t is true Northern men had grievances, but sub
tracted considerable from their statements judging
that they imagined part, and besides was contin-
ualy told that they " carpct-baggers" and
"scallawags" who had no interest in the country
EXCEPT to plumber it. 1t is true also, that military
officer had shown me a Ku-Klux uniform taken from
one of a gang Of % men, which was q black cotton
cloak with hinge tin buttons, with ornaments OF
ghostly emblem, and a frightful mask, but was
willing doubt whether it was genuine. and, to tell
the truth had seen some few Northern men holding
Office whose morals were not what they should have
been.
Still that there no sympathy with our Govern
ment became more and moro manifest. / was in
company with gentleman for considerable time
and had no idea but nc had faith in the Government
until heard him say that no had real estate for sale
in one of the cities; but he would sell it only on
condition that the coming payments shOuld be In
gold. i was credibly informed that what money the
planters laid by last year converted into gold
that for a long time after the surrender. many
country merchants marked their goods on the gold
basis that even to-day few do 50 in remote places,
and that the amount OF gold boarded away is large.
This dstrust has arisen from their losses with Con-
federate money.
had seen several intelligent Southern men, who on
stating that they commanded and fought in the
Rebel army, added that they were as good rebels
ever they were, and they expected to die SUCH for
they could not help it, STILL they submitted to the
Government in good faith; but when war with En-
gland was mentioned they spoke with disdan Of the
idea that they would engage in it; for the reason
that they knew what was, and the Government
had oppressed them in manner almost insupport-
able had noted too, that many business men re-
ceived me with cold poteness; that a species of
Observation-Disclosures seemed common, and in a few
instances there were marks Of illconceaed contempt
and disdain which, under the circumstances seemed
10 me iujudcious, and would say extremely So
still felt resentment, for could not help seeing
that great misfortunes weighed them down; not only
had they lost what 10 them great fortunes but
their dearest friends sometimes all the male members
of their families, and those who had been associated
with them from childhood, and with whom they had
been educated had fallen on the battlefield OF per-
ished in the prison hospital and never could re-
turn to them, and it was not in human nature that
they should forget these losses and cordially
ciate with Northern men, aud least of all with one
connected with newspaper which from their ear
lest youth they had been Taught to believe their
enemy, and this notwithstanding an act of magnan-
unity which they had failed to understand They
complained that interIneddlers and worthless men
from the North had usurped their government, and
were depressing them with unheard-of taxation and
with most odous appointments, particularly Of col
ored men, and they said that all they wished was to
be let alone, for then there would be difficulty,
since they and the freedmen understood each other
and ou11 crafo1 ones md do xral laOic-