The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-07
THINGS IN GEORGIA.
GOOD NEWS FOR CHARLESTON.
The Condition of the Crops-The Com
pletion of the Macon and Augusta
Road-A Smelling Committee.
ryRon OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE

MILLEDGEv1I.LE, GA, May 81.
A year ago my business led me over this
section of the Empire State, and in again trav-
elling from Augusta to Macon, via Milledge-
vile to Athens, and thence to Eatonton, and
again to Milledgeville, have had peculiarly
good opportunity of noting the changes Of the
year, If any there be, and of seeing the condi-
ton of the crops. It is with no small
satisfaction that 1 am able to report
both cotton and breadstuffs in fine con-
dition. The wheat crop OF Georgia is
unusually good, and the best. evidence of
this pleasing fact. is that every farmer admits
it. and the only grumbling Is tnat, as the crop
has turned ont so advantageotsly they ought
to have planted larger crops. The oat crop,
though not as good as the wheat, has yet been
brought out materially by the recent rains
One fact worthy of notice here, Is that the farm
ers are using commercial fertilizers on their
small grain crops with great success; and the
Wando and other Charleston manipulatlons OF
phosphate will probably be largely used In
planting In the fall. The smnd OF cotton
most instances is only few inches high, yet it
is beautifully green and vigorous. The cold, dry
Nav seems to have proved beneficial rather
than otherwise, for, while the grass has not
grown, cotton, especially where manued,
Seems to have gathered all ofits energies for
a race when the first rains gave the signal for
a start and II there is no foul riding, cotton
must distance its hardy rival. tertllizers nave
been used this year to an unprecedented eX-
tent and the manures that profess real merit
will establish themselves beyond peradven-
ture and who doubts but that the Charleston
fertilizers will win the day. And, apropos of
the dear old, and now much cursed, city, her
merchants must be up and doing, as the Au-
gusta and Macon Railroad $50 mat thoroughly
efficient superintendent, Mr.. B. X: johnson,
of the Georgia Road, tells me) VIII be done
benefited it. One ofthe largest cotton buyers
of Macon told me day or two since that last
year he shipped about &c, 600 bales over the
Central Road, but that as he bought to I'LL
Northern orders altogether, he would this sea-
son ship to Charleston, and thence by our
splendid steam lines to New York. 1t Is esti-
mated that from twenty to fifty thousand bales
of cotton will go to our city over the Augusta
and Macon Railroad. There Is one thing
in connection with the last season and this
road that cannot understand, unless my in
fornant is mistaken, and he has no business
to be as he Is, the agent OF Eatonton Road, a
branch of the Central at this point. He asserts
that his road is, mp to date this season, 1000
bales ahead of the Augusta and Macon r. H.,
Wnle laSG SettSUll, looo-uJ, IuC iootCi lo"u oS"'
him $50 bales If his statement is correct,
why this falling off?
The only crop that has been materially cut
short by the long drought is the plum crop,
and no doubt this gives great satisfaction to
the many anxious mammas Of refractory boys
who will eat so many green pluma Tho effect
of the recent rains is already visible; all nature
smiles. the air is delightful, and even railroad
travelling comparatively pleasant. Georgia,
although still under the iron heel and overrun
by Grants minions, fourishes. There Is re-
ffeshing independency Of tone pervadins the
whole people, and they look fora speedy release
from their burdens. Speaking ofburdens, there
is a batch ofmouthy Legislators, so-caled, call
ing themselves an investigation committee
upon the Penltentiary. ks far as | can learn,
it is lust such an affair to get rid Of the super
intendent as that scheme of Scott and his
brothers to get rid of Major Lee, the late able
Superintendent of the South Carolina Peni-
tentiary They are making mountain out OF
q moehill, as there are only some thirty con-
victs within the walls OF the Penitentlary; the
Others, some five hundred In number, are ,ln-
der contract building the Augusta and Macon
Railroad, and the Airline Road from Atlanta
to Charlotte.
Milledgeville is a ghost of its former self,
and, In mercantile point of view, is almost
a New Jerusalem once again. SEMLoH.