Washington Telegraph

Georgia and its Prosperity.

Mr. Everett in a recent lecture the other evening, thus alluded to the growing power of Georgia:

In this rather uninviting sketch, it must be confessed that it is not easy to recognize the natural features of that thriving State, which possesses at the present day above eight hundred miles of Railroad, and which by her rapidly increasing population, and liberal endowment of colleges, schools and churches, and all other social institutions of a highly improved community, is fast earning the name of the Empire State of the South.

This does not do full justice to the State; there are one thousand miles of Railroad within her boundary, and the work is as yet but commenced. Great credit is due to the city of Savannah for the liberality and enterprise with which she has given her aid to works of internal improvement. A Railroad 287 miles in length has just been completed, which unites the city of Columbia to her in bonds of iron. The echoes of the cannon have scarce died away, and yet we learn that Savannah has already entered upon another grand Railroad scheme, in addition to those which she has now upon her hands. She has virtually pledged herself to build a road over three hundred miles in length which shall connect her port with the harbor of Pensacola, and do away with the tedious and expensive voyage around the capes of Florida. Hardly an instance can be found in the whole history of railway enterprise, of a city of such small population accomplishing so much.

But it is not in railways alone that the progress of the State is evident. To every department of industry the same impulse has been given. Nor has the material development been attained at the expense of religion or education. The church and the school house have sprung up along side of the factory and workshop. It is calculated that over half a million of dollars are annually expended in Georgia for educational purposes alone.

N. Y. Cour. & Enq.