The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-09-26

have been Dullt, or reDulit, Sitlcc int
war. In 1865, she was almost
dcsolate waste, her stock destroyed,
her farms and homes in ruins, having
been made the battle ground of great
armies. She bad not dollar in her
treasury. Her court house was in
ashes, and all her valuable bridges
were destroyed. Now she has a
magnificent court house built and
paid for at a cost of over twenty thou
sand dollars, and money in the treas
ury, and her roads and bridges 10
good order.
When / tell you that the planters
here cultivate mostly small farms,
twenty five to one hundred and fifty
acres, manure nell and ploso deep ;
that these little homes belong to
them that they are paid for and
not under mortgage that they make
a point to raise few colts every
year as well as other products have
mentioned that the lands here
which sold two or three years ago at
from FIVE to twenty dollars per acre.
now bring from ten to forty; that
the assessed cash value Of the taxa
bic property Of the county this year
is more than five hundred thousand
dollars in excess Of the year pre-
vious, - the tale is well nigh told.
will give you one item in regard
to this raising of colts. was told to-
day that the colts sired in the last
three years by one horse here, BLACK
Hawk" owned by NJ. G.. Whitlock,
of this place, would to-day sell for
more than twenty thousand dollars.
And another item in regard to the
chicken and egg business, as you or
your readers without it, may cons
clude make too prominent such
small matters, But are they small
matters? | am not able to toll ~
how many chickens and eggs ar" re-
ceiyed and sold in this market per
month. II is considerable sumner
resort, and large amount is CON
sumed hero, besides what are ships
ped off. But the number Is enor~
nous. can tell you, though, how
many chickens were shipped in tho
month Of July from much smaller
place near here. They shipped, be-
sides what were bought and con-
sumed in the place, over ten thou
sand chickens, ard eggs in proper
ton; and they say here July is not
a good month for chickens and eggs
either.
If an "old lady" here wants a lit
tie stocking thread or sun cotton,
she has only to carry a few dozen
eggs and chickens to the factory and
she gets it. If the "old man" wants
;ome hats or some shoes. or some
or sheeting, a few striped
dresses, or some jeans, cassimeres or
linseys for his boys or girls, he has
only to carry few pounds of wool
or little cotton or some dry hides
20 these factories, and he gets them.
If he wants some -four, sugar, coffee,
,r even few yankee notions, he has
,nly to carry good load OF his
wheat or corn SO as to have some to
sell for the money az well as ex>
change, and he gets what he wants
by barter, sale, and purchase. So
you see at once, they have nothing
to go in debt for. In
with large and we'll
informed merchant here, he told me
he was satisfied there was not as
much as twenty thousand dollars
worth of provisions advanced the
present year to the farmers OF the
entire county Who can say what
the enormous amount is that has
been advanced this year to the plan,
ters of Dallas People arehere able
to and pay their debts. One firm in
this place advanced fertilizers to the
planters last year on credit to the
amount of over hundred thousand
dollars worth (this is about the only
thing they go in debt for), and they
told me they collected all except
about one hundred and twenty-five
dollars, and that this was SO well Sc
cured they would not discount it at
ten per cent off.
Cannot our friends of Dallas aud
others of the regular cotton belt, now
''look on this picture and thes on
that" and answer tho question,
Why is Irf Some may say we have
been unusually unfortunate. We
have had worms and floods, and mis-
rule aud plundering in the high and
low offices os the State. So do they
at times here have droughts that
well-nigh destroy not only cotton
and corn, but many other crops, yet
the diversity of their employment,
investments, and production is such
that the loss OF one CD even two
crops does not at once and entirely
impoyerish the whole people. Aud
so to other sutferings, they nave had
corrupt governors aud railroad rings
plundering their State treasury by
the millions; yet by combination,
unity, cooperation, and hard work
.bo,, ora soottering To the four winds