Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-10-18

who is accustomed only to the dull monOtOny
of brick walls, the appearance of these beau
tiful squares is refreshing indeed. In the
centre of one stands a monument, erected by
the people of Georgia TO the memory of Pu-
laski, who nobly fell defending her soil. It
is a handsome marble shaft, ornamented on
one side with an equestrian statue of the he
roic Pole, representing him at the moment
when he was shot.
There is but one thing to mar the beauty
of Savannah, and that is quite an important
one. The streets are not maeadamiZed, and
the authorities are obliged to sprinkle them
thoroughly every morning in order to keep
down the dust, which is from six to eight
inches deep. In the whole range of simile
the most fitting object, unpoetical as it may
seem, from which [ can draw a comparison,
is the peacock his feathers are so gorgeous
that they reflect the very rays of the sun, but
his feet are black. You will smile at my
comparing a city to peacock, but the COM
parison is a true one in this case, L assure you.
Among the many splendid buildings may
be mentioned Christ sand st. Johns Churches,
(Episcopal,) the Presbyterian Church, the
Scriven House. the Pulaski House, and Ma
sonic Hail. The latter is one of the, finest
edifices of the kind in the South. In the
southwestern part of the city is small park,
so romautically beautiful that it reminds one
of the fabled fairy land Towering pines
bend their plant stems with every breeze,
while water and live oaks, INTERVIEWING their
widespread branches overhead form leafy
canopy which the rays Of glowing Southern
sun never penetrate. Iu the centre stands
fountain, whose many jets, as they curved
gracefully in the night air and fell again with
subdued musical flash. presented perfect
picture of loveliness. Not Ear from the foun
tain is luxuriant banana tree, with several
punches of tempting fruit hanging from its
boughs this is regarded as n curiosity, for
bananas do not thrive we'll in Georgia. L
could have fingered long in this enchanting
place, but admonished by the lateness of the
hour, returned to my lodgings.
At half past five, a. NJ, the train started,
and | was soon whirling rapidly away over
the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, while Sa-
vannah fast receded in the gray twilight of
early morn. saw many large rice planta-
tions on my way, and the grain, as it stood in
the stock, reminded me of oats. The land is
ditched out and thrown into beds about one
hundred feet wide; these bitches extend clear
across tho farm aud into larger one running
at right angles. Once year this drain is
damned up and the whole irrigated.
l changed cars at Jcsup Junction, fifty
miles southwest of Savannah and reached my
destination, Eastman, ninety miles to the north
on the Macon and Brunswick Railroad about
3 o'clock, p. II. The pines here seem almost
interminable, nearly the whole of southern
Georgia is more or less covered with them
Every three or four miles one sees steam
saw mill, while along the line of the railroad,
vast quantities Of lumber are piled up await
ing shipment. The soil is sandy and easy of
cultivation it is thrown up in the spring with
n single mule and shovel pow, while our
heavy bar>share is unknown. The land,
though not so strong as the limestone of the
Shenandoah Valley, is well adapted to the
raising of cotton, corn, sugar cane, &c. Cot
ton is the staple production, and thousands of
bales are sent down to the coast-markets an
uualIy,
The greatest trouble which the Southern
planter has to contend with now is the want
of labor The negroes have become so utterly
worthless since they were freed, that they are
regarded as burden on the land. They all
insist on excepting house" and working by the
day in order to stop whenever their labOrs be-
come irksome; this does not suit the farmer,
his cotton requires constant care and cultlva>
ton, he must have labor upon which he can
depend from year to year, and my opinion is
that, ere many years, John Chinamau will be
trudging over the Rocky Mountains to supply
this imperative demand, and then, o ye
shrieking, naval-twanged philanthropists of
the North, woe to your cherished negro. His
fate, like that of the Indian, is already written,
it appears, unmistakable, in his squalor, in hiS
destitutiOn, in his increasing degradation, in
his aversion to labor, in his utter wretched-
ness.
Most persons who come here visit only the
cities. and they report the South prosperous
and hourislHng; they have never been through
the country and they know nothing of It's con-
dition, they get their information from those
| who are as iguOrat of the true state of affairs
among the agricultural classes as themselves.
To illustrate, | will mention a single instance
among the many that have come under my
personal observation | know q gentleman in
this vicinity, who owns a plantation of three
thousand acres, and cannot command labor
enough to keep one hundred in cultivation
Is this vast and fertile Tegiou, which is
capable of supplying the world with cotton, to
lie forever PROSTATE from this sole cause, when
the remedy is so near at hand Will civili-
cation, in its onvard march, permit it? viii
not southern energy arise, assert itself, and
thrust the encumbering African from its soil,
as did New England in days gone by?
These are questions for time, and time will
surely answer them. Yours, &C.,
AMEEICUs LABoRIs.
A CHARAcTERIsTIc INCIDENT Among
the many striking incidents of the late food
in Virginia is one related By a Fluvanna
county, Virginia, correspondent of the Rich
moud Wig, which We have already published,
of the attempt of the three heroic white citi-
zens of Fluvanna to rescue colored ferrymau
and his wife at the ferry house at the junction
ofthe James and Rivanna rivers: In making
the attempt these three brave men, by name
Davis, Fuqua and Agee, the latter youth,
lost their noble lives. The incident illustrates
not only the self sacrificing courage of gem