New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-16

t up a of inducing citizens Of other States
to come here and get acquainted with us and learn
something OF our natural resources.
What we have needed most has been railways
which would reach all sections OF the State and
especially those rich regions which not entirely
agricultural The most of the lines built heretofore
have been intended to reach only the cotton planta-
tons. For years we have had only lire leading
from thls city toward the coaelds. and that indi-
rectly. Last winter coal reached the enormous
price of $l1 per ton in this city and $15 the city
OF Macon. This being an important manufac curing
centre, consuming thousands of tons of coal per
annum, our people have learned the importance of a
more direct line to the coal-felds. The extension
now being built to the Cole System from Rome
wa TINS city To Macon, will give us cheap Goa and
also supply the commodity to Macon, Savannah and
BRUNSWICK, the last two places being reached by
Coles own lines. The four cities consume about
1000 tons of coal annually. without supplying
line between here and Chattanooga. Five roads
enter here from he East, South and West and seven
roads centre aU Chattanooea all of which have been
pouring their freights upon the one line operat
ing. One can form an idea of the immense business
OF that line from the statement OF General Toombs,
printed a few days ago, showing that after paying
its president salary of $4,000 and all of It's
operating eTpe Uses and rental of 100000 to the
themselves, and that too, with the lowest rates Of
any road in the State The Cole line will divide
thus, and at the same time open up the richest por
tion of Georgia. In Paulding and Pope Counties it,
runs through the best copper mines this side of
superior ana the State beds IN That region
not surpassed by any IN the world. Below Macon
the road passes through fine forests of long leaf pne
OF which there IS fully $50,00oOOO worth adjacent
to the road. and which in few years must be car
lied to Savannah and Brunswick. The business of
this one part OF the Cole system alone will net
enough to pay the interest the bonded debt CT his
entire SYSTEM"
NATION WITH A BIG M
Captain, let me change the subject little. Are
we NatonY"
eyes sill. with big N. In spite of all the obiec-
tons and dread of such result we have been Ma
tionalizod by the war. met party of friends yes
terday. and while were discussing the State in
a political sense, some one asked another to name
the Governors of as many States possible Out
side OF our immediate neighbors found
that we knew who was Governor of New
York. because he had been mixed up in the
Conkling affair; knew the Governor of
Ohio, because he had been prominently associated
with Garfield; and we knew who Governor of
Texas because he had Just made conspicuous fool
of himself AS to the other States, they may be
without Governors for all the of us know
Afterward met Speaker Bacon again. ami asked
nm what he thought OF the future of the Demo
cratic party:
" l. has no future. as parties are now aligned.
Garfield will lie his own successor, unless some un-
looked foI circumstance prevents it. The Demo-
cratic platform to-day consists of plank 'Oppo-
siton to Republicans and all that they do But
why, no one can tell. unless he admits that II comes
from q prejudice against the name In Georgia, us
elsewhere You find high tarIt and hard money Dem
ocrats and free trade aud soft money Republicans
IN caSupg Their votes these not governed
10y principle. More than half the voters of the
Democratic party favor protective tarh and vet
they voted Tor Hancock and a tariff for revenue
only"
And yOu a Democrat ?' | said
" Yes, SIR, under the present party alignment and
expect to remain one as long as the party lasts,
less new party grows up VIII ch will be the repre-
sentative of such principles as | can indorse |
think the Republicans will carry the election
aud after that their party Will be SO strong that 1t
Will fall to pieces over the wreck of the Democratic
party, and then we will have reorganization which
Will div lde men on principle"