The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-06-06

Letter from Georgia.


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Letter from Georgia.
MLLIDGEvILLE, Ga.
/ EDITOR WIG:
! Hlllidgrvillc, the old capital of thi.
| stat, by sDiue kind of division of the
state called Southern Georgia. though
actually it is Central Georgia, the exact
centre oi the same being less than twenty
miles distant, is a thriving home like
town OF $500 (probahl2) people. a large
per centum. possibly over one third o
which are Industrious. peaceable ano
thrifty negroes.
The capital o: Georgia was changed tt
Atlanta in 1865, duliug the carpet bag
regime of BulInc'; ~" al ministratic and
the q i capital grounds Of twenty acres it
the ntre Of tbs town with IT'S old legis
latur1 structure is row used as military
and educational institute, accommodate
ing 40 students of both sexes.
Two institutes here arc worthy OF
mention, one a large new industrial
school for girls will be ready by fall fol
occupation, and the asylum for the insane
the only institute OF the kind in the
state. 1t is commodiously provided with
imposing buildings on commanding
eminence two miles from centre of town
Its present inmates number about 200C
to 2200.
Cotton is of course the chief industry
nothing else to any extent being grown
Mules, horses. hay, hogs, corn and life
insurance are all in the language of the
Yankee, 'boughten." Religion and
politics are Indigenous. The first -four
ishes in midsummer, the last reaches its
finest stage after the lay of the first and
the cotton, viz: in August.
The rainfall here in March was Il
inches, and on April 1st Al 100 inches
! Not any has fallen since save about ter
days when we had 80 100 inches, until
this evening and now it promises to be
| seasonable. So you see the farmers did
not get to prepare their ground and plant
| the same until the middle OF April OF
later and then could not properly do SO
and for want of knowledge as well as the
use of roller, their cotton has not come
up well or indeed at all, and much it i.
feared has rotted in the ground SO they
have not got what here we call q
stand. Hence the farmers are blue ano
growl much. Past hostilities as well a.
seductive immigration has depopulated
this country of its negroes until the labor
| question like water has about leveled
itself, and things in that line have about
equalized themselves upon remunera
| tive basis. And for tho reason above il
will be plainly seen the best of the negro
population remain, so that this is now {
pretty good place for investment OF
foreign capital and labor, and one visit
ing southern locations for pastural life
can do well right here. Schools, churches
and all such attendant privileges are
| among comfortable if not wealthy
people of as fine gentlemen and ladylikt
sympathetic natures as are on earth. All We
grow with you can be grown here at 81
and 70 per cent advance on prices ever
after one gets ready. Hay $50, average
price clover | guess will bring that
home raised corn, $1.25 to S1.45 pei
bushel, and land So to $l5 per acre
Adjoining this town the biggest sale o
laui I've heard of sold for s45, - acre.
Of fine rich land and good gin mill anC
other buildings thereon. Under this
condition of affairs the race question will
solve itself il time can be spared. Mutua
dependencies for mutual wants will in
| augurate a friendliness productive OF
amity, when emigration of the one or tbs
other, white or black, or willing sutfranct
will take the place of hatred and BLOOD
shed.
Such is the conclusion | reach looking
independently from my standpoint aud
a business that takes me over every roaC
and to one fifth of the houses of this aud
two adjoining counties. These condition!
are less in some and greater in others
Speediest and healtiest is the coun o
Baldwin whose capital is Millidgevile
Come to our Piedmont Exposition thi.
fall friend Torbert, and see the big show
and your subscriber, and to such of your
Cecil friends as contemplate looking fol
county of commercial or agriculture
opportunities, let me say before yor
decide where to go and what to do, il
may be well to spend 500 in interview
ing Georgia. E. Z. BURNITE.