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Georgia Finances.

In the very lucid report of Colonel Peterson Comptroller General of the State of Georgia for the last fiscal year, it is stated that the Western and Atlantic Railroad, owner exclusively by the State, paid into the State Treasury of nett earning, in 1859, $420,000; in and in 1861 $438,000. Independent of the slave valuable property, Georgia buck stock and bonds, the amount of

This income of the State from its several course of revenue, including the cash balance in the Treasury on the 21st of October is $2,279,857.

The disbursements in the same time amount to

We are pleased to notice, in these times of trouble, that our Confederate sister Georgia presents such a favorable financial exhibit as is embodied in the able report of her distinguished Comptroling General.

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