The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-10-08
NEWS AND REMARKS.


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LIB 2RALIsM ALIAS RADIcALIsM.-Dedd
ISsues--lhe principles of the Const'tu-
ton. Lire ESsueS-thc possession OF the
loaves and fishes.
The Nashville negroes have general
" abandoned the Radical party. They
nre understood to have kindly assured
the party that they shall return TO it If 1t
shall ever become respectable enough.
"THE immense patronage of the State
Road belongs to the Republicans. 1T
huta Era.
Yes, and all the contents Of the Treas
ury wrung from a suffering people.
JAS. w. NJ. Howl, of Dalton, Geo.,
saws that the State Road under the man
agemcnt OF Major Wallace paid $4,000
per month into the Treasury and that
now, with much larger business, it
pays Just $4,000, no moreno less.
THERE is to be a German Musical
Festival in connection with the State
Fair at Macon to which all the German
singing societies Of the South are invit-
ed. We like that feature in the bill OF
attractions.
The Louisville Courier-J Journal says
the Legislature of Tennessee which con-
vened on Monday last, will lst Elect
Andrew Johnson, U. S. Senator. End.
VIII reject the 10Th Amendment. 3rd.
Will call a Constitutional Convention
with reference to the disfranchiscd.-
All is well that ends well.
SMALL FARMS AND THE COMMON
SCHOOL SYsTEM.-An exchange denies
that small farms at the South can be
made as profitable as large ones and
thinks we will have to fall back on tn C
old system, and if so, the New England
Common School system will be found
utterly impracticable.
THE Savannah Republican properly
mindful Of radical aggression and the
inutility of continued concession of the
right, urges that the conservatives al
the coming session of the Legislature
take a determined stand against re-
seating the negro and the ratification o
the 10Th amendment.
Certainly we have nothing to lose
from an effort to hold on to the right
If we continue to surrender, slavery and
misrulc is ouEudoom if we defy the
usurpers and we forced TO submit we
can have no worse fate. The proba-
bility is, however, that we will not fail 4;
that sooner or later we will succeed, and
then honor, and fortune and joy will be
our portion.
AT the celebration of the completion
of the Northern Division of the Alabama
and Chattanooga Railway, Mr.. HUI
BERT addressed large asscmblagc il
Wills Valley and submitted some very
valuable statistics, portion of which
were as follows:
"Iet lis examine for few moments,
the coal field of Great Britain, and sec
if we cannot find in their history the Sc
cret of her rapid advance to the position
of the first power in the world. The
annual production of coal in Great
britain, is over 100,0oo,000 tons, val
ued at $3.50, 900, 900, atfording employ
mcnt for 700, 900 people.
II is estimated that 100000 tons
of this coal is employed in the produc-
ton of mechanical power.
AS u tons of coal will produce power
equal to year of manual labor of one
man, 100000 tons used in the pro.
duction of mechanical power equals thC
labor of 1900, 900 able bodied men one
year.
The coal area of Virginia, Kentucky
Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia anC
Alabama is computed at about 10000
square miles, or 25,GQ2,0 900 square
acres.
a coal scam feet thick gives 1900
tons per acre. Five thousand tons pei
acre, gives l2S, 600 100000 tons as the
probable deposit in those six States.
Mining at the rate of $4,000, O0C
tons per annum, the present product O.
Great Britain, it will take 1880 years tC
exhaust them.
Near Chattanooga and the line of this
read is coal mine recurring the labor
of 100 men.
It's annual product now is about So
600 tons.
This used for the production Of me-
chanicaI power would represent the Ia