The Hillsborough Recorder

From the Mobile Advertiser.

GEORGIA.

The people of the State of Georgia have good and sufficient cause for exultation, in view of their iron mines, cotton factories, cotton crop, general improvement, educational advantages, and general prosperity. Well may the Recorder ask, who would leave Georgia to go anywhere else! It is a rare circumstance now to meet a Georgian moving to a new country. Emigrants may be met from all the other States east of us, but it is a rare circumstance to meet a family from Georgia. Her citizens are contented at home. By diversifying her labor, developing her varied resources, and drawing on her immense mechanical power and mineral wealth, Georgia has opened up to her people a future of such promise as to fasten them with hooks of steel to the soil upon which they were born. She has adopted a policy which every State south of Mason and Dixon's line should have acted upon years ago. It is not yet too late, and we trust to see a like policy engrafted upon the legislation of Alabama. A very fair beginning was made during the session of the last legislature, but that body stopped short of what should have been done.

The State should have assisted, with her credit and money, the two important lines of railroad, the Mobile and Ohio, and Alabama and Tennessee, in a manner so effectual that their final completion would have been insured within the coming three years. Georgia adopted a similar policy, and we have before our eyes the result. Thousands of citizens are annually leaving Alabama, who, had these lines of railroads been completed, and her vast mechanical power and mineral wealth fully developed, would never have dreamed of leaving her soil.

To secure a rapid increase of population, of wealth, of comforts, of general prosperity and general intelligence, our labor and capital must be diversified. If our citizens are to remain at home contented and happy, we must add to the culture of cotton, railroads, cotton factories, iron forges and foundries, coal mines, etc., thereby giving all profitable employment and adequate compensation for their labor.

The Georgia papers are fully justified in shouting—Hurrah for Georgia! Hear the Milledgeville Recorder:

From a table of the railroads of the United States we notice that the total miles of railroad is 7,647, and that Georgia is the third State in extent of this improvement. New York is first, having 1,306 miles of railroad; Massachusetts second, having 1,049 miles; and Georgia third, having 655. Pennsylvania comes next, having 613—and so on. Hurrah for Georgia! She has more colleges and more students attending them than any other southern State, more manufactures of various kinds, more railroad, and will soon have more plank road than any other. She is the largest cotton grower, and has generally more varied resources, mineral wealth, natural mechanical power, variety of product, and all else to promote the prosperity of her people and her own greatness, than any other country in the world. Who would leave Georgia for anywhere else? Who will be rash enough to mar her onward progress—her onward greatness.