The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-09
From the Macon Telegraph
NORTHERN VISITORS AND IEIMI-
GRANTS.

NORTHERN VISITORS AND IMMI-
GRANTS.
In the three arrival lists published in
the Telegraph yesterday, about seventy
of the arrivals are from beyond the State
line-mainly from Northern States and
a few from Europe. This is an unusual
number for Macon, at this time of the
yeal; but other Georgia towns on the
greater thoroughfares show still more
striking indications of the general inter-
est felt in the Southern country, and par
ticularly in Georgia, In Savannah the
hotels have been crowded to access all
the Winter, and it is to be feared that
the scantiness of accommodation have
put visitors in some instances to incon-
venience.
This movement in the South is one of
the most gratifying signs of the times !;
and we trust is the certain precursor of
large immigration and heavy investments
in Georgia landed estate. We want to
see the Northern people flock here by
thousands, and find pleasant, profitable
and permanent home on Georgia SOIL
Twenty. five per cent of those people In
the New England, Middle and Western
States would not only improve their for
tunes by immigration into Georgia, but
vastly improve their health and increase
their longevity.
Every man who finds himself or his
family scrofulous weakly and predisposed
to puImonic affections, should seize this
occasion, while there is so much cheap
and verdant land, to locate himself in
Georgia to suit his own taste. The range
of climate and soil is so vast, that every
man can please himself, if he will take
the trouble to examine the country and
make a selection; and he can buy any
where for half what the same lands will
be worth year or too hence.
He will find, too that success and COM
fort are the certain results of industry
and common prudence and sagacity.--
Nowhere in the North or West can man
be SO sure Of comfortable subsistence
and steady gains as the certain reward of
even judicious labor. Agricultural en-
terprises in those sections, even when
prosecuted with ardor and discretion,
sometimes fail of adequate rewards. But
HERE, we can farm leisurely and in a
somewhat slovenly fashion. and still show
better pecuniary results at the end OF a
wear. than hard work and the best man
aeement can evolve at the North.
We were astonishcd in reading, the
other day, an elaborate account of some
of the great milk farms near New York,
to see that with all the extraordinary
care and large outlay expended upon
those farms, yearly nett profit of fifteen
to twenty-five hundred dollars Ws the
average exhibited results from a diary
farm of forty-fve or fifty cows. Half the
investment of capital and care and labor
in the South would produce from FIVE to
ten thousand dollars profit.
We want to see some of the best tar
mers of the North and West come down
here and show us what they can do
THERE'S not an intelligent farmer in Geor-
gia who would not be glad to give them
all the information and neighborly
counsel they would desire in new eli
mate and new soil, and to receive, In re-
turn, such information as they could I'M
part about the better processes and agri-
cultural implements of the North and
West.
We presume every man who has made
the tour of Georgia will be thoroughly
emancipated of all lies and delusions
about the lawlessness and savagery OF
our people. They will have met every
where civil, polite and kind reception
They will have appreciated the univer,
sal anxiety to inspire a pleasant and
agreeable impression, both of the coun-
try and the people, and they will have
seen for themselves that any welldisposed
emigrant from any section of the U. 5.
or any part of the world is as sure of as
hospitable and neighborly reception in
this State as he could be in any part OF
the Western country. Indeed, we are
certain he will find our Georgians much
more open-hearted and friendly.
Let them come, then, without appre-
hension on any score. Let them lncor-
porate themselves among our population
and help us to build up a great and pros
porous State strong in all the attributes
of virtue, intelligence and wealth.