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The Cherokee Georgian.
P. H. BREWSTER, ) „ ...
J. J. A. SHARP, ’[Editors.
Canton,
WEDNESDAY, - - AUGUST 4, 1875.
Salutatory.
After a few months of respite from edito
rial labors, I again appear upon the stage
of journalism, as one of the editors of The
Cherokee Georgian ; make my bow to
an intelligent public, fling my banner to
the breeze, and re-enter the con'est for edit
orial honors and emoluments. An experi
ence of several years has taught me that
the pursuit to which I now purpose again
to devote a portion of my time is not devoid
of unpleasant incidents, responsibilities and
trials, and that there are also many consid
erations connected with editorial life which
render it interesting and pleasant. As an
editor of The Georgian, it shall be my
highest ambition to act well my part, and
tojfiake the paper an instrument of good
J© the people with whom my lot is cast,
and among whom I expect to live and die.
by a desire to promote the wel-
all, it shall be my constant aim to
encourage aid in the use of the best
thg greatest good to
tbj>*greatest number of iny feSaw-men. I
therefore, ever be the faithful though
humble, advocate of whatever is just, use
ful and right In the discharge of my du
ties; I ask the co-operation and good wishes
of all good people; and especially do I
crave the indulgence of my brethren of the
Press, with whom, in the future, as in the
past, I hope to cultivate and cherish the
most friendly relations.
P. H. Brewster.
It is with no little diffi lence that I ap
pear before you in the capacity of Associ
ate Editor of The Cherokes
To me it is a delicate task. I am aware
that it is no small matter to conduct a
weekly newspaper as it should be, and
while this is true, I have determined to
spare no pains to make The Georgian an
interesting and useful sheet. We can do
nothing without help, therefore we hope to
have the hearty support of the people gen
erally? We hope to m ike The Georgian
a medium of much good in developing and
building up our mountain country.
J. J. A. Sharp.
NO. 1.
This being the first No. of The Geor
gian, we have labored under some disad
vantages in getting it up, owing to a want
of exchanges from which to select matter,
and other causes; but we think (without
wishing to subject ourselves to the charge
of vanity) that even tills, our first jsSuc, is a,
very respectable sheet, and will not fail to
interest our readers. We expect to im
prove, of course, and to make our paper
second to none gt its class. See if we
don’t 1 *
Wlutt We Will Not Publish.
Ist. Anonymous articles. *
2nd. Communications which are per
sonal in their character, and intended to
wound the feelings of others,
3d. Communications which are designed
to promote individual interests, without
compensation.
4th. Articles which we would be ashamed
to read 1 aloud around our own firesides.
sth. Communications which would not
interest or profit any considerable number
of our readers.
T<> Correspondents.
9 B'sh to secure an able corps of cor
dents, who will give us regular and
reports from variom sections of
|Pnlie country. We have already secured a
' few, and hope to hear from others before
long. We wish our re id era to see the local
news from every part of the country, and
X. intend to spare no pains to accomplish this
Georgian will have a great
men and 1 iiiugs, and
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The Secret of Yankee Prosperity.
The following article accords so well
with our own views, and is so appropriate
for the tim s, that we publish it entire in
the place of anything that we could write,
to stimulate and induce our people to
encourage manufactories an 1 a greater di- I
versity of industries in our midst. Read j
the article, and seehowplain is the road to
wealth, comfort and independence:
Under this head the veteran editor of the
Mobile Register, Hon. John Forsyth, has
this to say:
“ A Southern man, after having made a
flying trip through the New England
States, comes backfilled with astonishment
at what he has seen, and perfectly discour
aged with his own section of country.
There he saw little villages sticking in the
midst of barren and uninhabitable moun
tains, with no surroundings to support
them, evincing a spirit of life and prosper
ity unknown to even our large towns —the
recognized trade-centres of our best agri
cultural regions. And in the country he
saw little farms producing like first, class
English gardens, though on soil originally
too por t > have grown bear-g ass, and in
situations that a Southern man never would
have thought capable of being converted
into a goat pasture. The people, all as a
general thing, seemed contented and pros
perous; and if he had inquire 1 into their
circumstances he would have found,
strange as it may appear, everybody in
these little villages well off and making
money, and the little farms, with their stone
piles here and there, and their stones con
stantly working to the surface to be car
ried off into o'her piles, and their annual
calls for fertilizers to the extent of one
hundred and fifty dollars per acre, actually
clearing their owner from one to three
hundred dollars on every acre inclosed. No
wonder that he is discouraged when he
looks from this picture upon our favorably
located towns and notes their inactivity,
their poverty and general dilapidation, and
upon our broad and fertile acres, and reflects
that they are really, in very many in
stances, not paying the expense of cul
ture.
One would naturally conclude tint there
must be some secret connected with all
this, and so there is. At the village station
the close observer would notice piles of
cotton b iles, a circumstance calculated to
Ci eate no particular interest in the South,
but there, thousands of miles aw ty from
where cotton should be grown, it would
take the form of mystery. Stepping out
upon the platform in quest of a solution,
his ears would be greeted by a sound of a
waterfall having a peculiar humming ac
companiment—spindles. The case would
be made plain—the strange little village
would be recognized as a manufacturing
point, and then be would know that we in
a far off section were digging its prosperity
from our soil—feeding it into a vigorous
life upon the very food for which our towns
were starving, and asking it nothing in re
turn ; actually shipping our cotton at our
own expenses, and then, in order that it
might grow fat on its bus ness. buying its
fabrics at its own profitable figures, and
paving transportation on them to our
homes. What a kind hearted p*op’e we
Southerners must be !
Then lor the secret of success among the
farmers. Passing through the country with
hiseyrs open, the close observer would at
proper season soon have his attention ar
rested by an improved mower sweeping
over the meadow under the exclusive man-
of a youth of, say sixteen, imd
accomplishing more in a day than could i«
that time be wormed out of a dozen freed
men with their scythes. A little latei and
he would see the younger brother of the
youth turning the hay; and then in due
time would come a still small-r boy with
rake, followed by a tri >ot little fe lows hav
ing all sorts of futi as th£V, with a hay fork,
stored away the crop in the hay loft.
In everything d'We on the farm in New’
England this same plan is resorted to. If
the soil must be prepared, instead of setting
a dozen freedmen at it with their mules and
plows to sweat through a w’eek, as we
would do, out comes a machine managed by
a boy or two, aud in an incredibly short
space of time the job is done and well done.
A lot of seed is to be sown that would give
our hands a long, tedious task ; but there
a stripling with a seed sower puts it down
exactly right and in very short ord- r. And
when the crop is ready to be hoed, insUa I
of charging it with a black army to play for
pay, a boy harnesses his nag to a .horse-hoe,
takes his seat as in a sulky, and rides about
over the field hoeing several rows at a
time. In short, New England works by ma
chinery, and therein lies the secret of Yan
kee prosperity. She has simply changed
places with us—she owns her labor. If it
were otherwise, or, in different words, did
she have to work on our plan, and depend
on our kind of labor, and did we not in the
goodness of our hearts give her the profits
on our products, a few yeirs would find
her entirely depopulated, a happy hunting
ground, upon which the red man might
pitch his wigwam, never to be disturbed by
anv encroachment of civilization.
I There is no reason why we in the South
|MMd not own our labor in the same way,
||»‘t our spindles going. thus giving pios-
Ejjp to our towns ami villages. We can
be a success tili we do it. Let us
gBK the matter over.
Specimen Papers.
*® s *P ec * incn papers of this our first
to various friends, and request them,
|||fe • wish to become subscribers to The
to inform ns accordingly at
that we nr<y <-ntia their naiiu - upon
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Canton.
Canton is the county site of Cherokee
county, and was laid off and settled a little
more than forty years ago. It is situated
in a graceful bend of the Etowah river,
and is surrounded by beautiful and pic
turesque mountain scenery. Its water is
pure, its climate salubrious, and the valleys
around are productive, and well adapted to
the growth of almost an endless variety of
vegetables and cereals.
Canton contains two good church build
ings, the one a Baptist and tbe other a
Mediodist, where the gospel is regularly
preached to large and appreciative congre
gations. It also has flourishing lodges of
Masons and Good Templars, one good
school, and the prospect of another of a
high grade. - ~
The Canton bote 1 , by J. M. McAfee, a
polite and sociable gentleman, is one of the
very best in North Georgia, and is an orna
ment to the town. The new court-house is
a beautiful and well-constructed building,
and is the pride of the county. Canton
contains several neat store-houses, which
are filled with a good variety of merchan
dise, and are kept by intelligent, accom
modating and gentlemanly merchants.
Through the infl lence of the Good Tcjn
plars, and other friends of law and
the liquor traffic has been banished fre/fU
the place, and the inhabitants all being
moral, social and religious, we know of no
place where visitors iro n less favored sec
tions. who nr® in quest of health and pleas"
ure, would find for a season a more pleasant
retreat.
The Marietta and North Georgia railroad
will be completed to Canton at no distant
day, and, when that enterprise shall have
been completed, we predict for the place
and the surrounding country a prosperous
future.
The Influence of Newspapers.
A school teacher who has been engaged
for a long time in his profession, an 1 wit
nessed the influence of a newsp iper upon
the minds of a family and chil Iren, writes
as follows:
“I have found it to be a universal f >ct,
without exception, that tho’e scholars, of
both sexes and of all ages, who have lioces
to newspapers at home, when compand
with those who have not, are :
1. Better readers, excellent in pronunci
ation, and consequently read more under
stand! ugly .
2. They are better spellers, and define
words with ease and accuracy.
3. They obtain practical knowledge of
geography in almost half the time it re
quires of others, as the .newspapers have
made them the location of
the.-important of nations, their gov
einmmit and doings on'the globe.
They become familiar with va
riety of style in the newspapers, from the
common-place advertisement to the fin
ished and classical oration ofjth# states-,
man, and’they nlore rbuCily
the meaning of the text,
ana'yze its construction with accuracy.
5. They write better
better lan more thoughts,
more. and mr»re correctly expressed
G. Thos£ young who h ive for years
been readc%/ of «iewspapers are always
taking the lead in debating societies, ex
hibiting a more extensive knowledge upon
a great variety of subjects, and expressing
their views with greater fluency, clearness
and correctness.
The Clerk ©f Cherokee Superior Court.
Some time ago, in a little communication
to the Cartersville Sentinel, we rem irked
incidentally that the office of Clerk fo£_
this county hi I bien vacated by the in
cumbent leaving for parts unknown, etc.
Our statement was founded upon a rumor
which was c irrent in the county nt the
time, and we merely published it as an
item of news, without inten ling to do our
frien 1, J. W. Hudson, Esq., the least in
justice; but we learned afterwards that he
felt aggrieved by the item in our commu
nication, and felt that he had been inj ired
by it. We now take pl- asure in sa;> ing
that Mr. Hudson has been reinstated in
the office, and is faithfully and efficiently
discharging its duties.
The Crops.
The growing crops all over this section
of country are unusually promising at this
time. We have been blessed with fine
s’asons, the people have been industrious
and the prosjwct for a large reward for their
labor is good. All we need to make onr
country one of the l>est aud—Mhißhfeißßßl
ous in the world is railroad
every one take an interest in the Marietta
and North Georgia Railroad, and we will
soon have away to send out large crops of
corn, potatoes, turnips, pens, cabbage, to
bacco, cotton, etc., to market
The Dist kt meeting at Acworth
was largely attended, especially on Sunday.
Bishop Wightman presided on the occasion
and preached with great power and accep
tability. His sermon on Sunday was on [
family religion.and was a fine etf-rt.
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A Word to Farmers.—Never keep your
cattle short. You can’t afford it. If yon
starve them th»*y will starve yon; besides I
it’s wieke 1. Be merciful to your ImtisL
Never hoe a great field for a little crop,'
or mow twenty acres foi five loads of bay!
you can't afford it
Enrich your land and it will pay you.
richly.
Take care of your tools, spides, shovel-*, s
hoes, p:’e»f>rk<, etc., keep them '
when n >t in us'.
; -i.-ngs ! .;•.!> r<> y---:r heir, as
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Important to Business Men.—“ Pr
udence and economy of course are the two
great lessons to be learned; there is one part
of these lessons, which, in dull times is
very liable to be forgotten. Be sure of one
thing: Whatever you have to seil there
are many people ready to buy, even in the
most depressed seasons. Find them out ♦
show them your wares; persuade them to
buy of you rather than another. When
buyers arc reluctant, sellers must be active.
It is neither cheap nor sensible to sit still
behind your counter and wait for the bustle
of trade to revive. When business is dull,
that is the very time when you most Deed
to advertise; and, in the second place, that
is when people devote most time to reading
the newspapers, and when your advertise
ment consequently is generally most seen.
A few dollars thus invested will do more to
revive a sluggish business than anything
else in the world.”
Islitn el’s hand is against every man; and
his posterity’ is as numerous as the sands on
the sea-shore—as the stars forever and
forever.
It Will Pay You,
© TO EXAMINE,
H J
TO EXAMINE,
AND PURCHASE, 5?
s
AND PURCHASE,
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s
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OF
B. F. CRISLER,
WHO KEEPS
A FULL VARIETY
of such goods as are kept in a
Dry Goods | Grocery Store
Also prepared to put up
Boots cLia.d Slices
in the best style, and on short notice.
ties to suit purchasers.
Os Will take COUNTRY PRODUCE
-at The beat prices, and pay cash or goods
fur 11 IllEi?.
Secure the Shadow ere the Sub
stance Fades,”
A. OVERLAND,
Photographer,
Opposite McAfee’s Hotel,
CANTON, - * - GEORGIA,
XT TILL rennin for a short time, and
\ V would resp< ctfully invite a call from
all who wish anything in his line.
All sizes an I kinds ot pictures made in
workmanlike stvle.
Satut'actioa given, or no charge.
A. OVERLAND
aug 4 L't
Bargain Offered-
canton needs a TiN-snor.
A NW. 1 SET r of Tinner’s Tool’, with
a small quantity of Raw Stock, can
be bought at 1 >w figures, or on short time,
►with Approved notes. For information,
upp v io the editor of this paper.
Aug 4, I 3m
W. A. BRIGHTWELL.
CARPENTER, CONTRACTOR AND
BUILDER,
Residence, Canton, Ga.
O
ALL work done by me will be done with neat
ness a:ii dispatch. Pr.ces reasonable—satisfaction
guaranteed.
Aug 4. Ljkn
JAMES O. DOWDA,
Attorney at Law,
CANTON, - - - GEORGIA.
XVTILL practice in the Superior Court®
ot Chrn>k' c and >t<’,j>>ining counties.
Will ftilhfully and promptly nttond to the
colhction of all claim* p it in bis h inds.
Office in the court-home. Canton, G i.
ausr 4,1 ly
* J. M.
CANTOS HOTEL,
Canton, Osi
J. M. McAFEE, Proprietor,
WILL ANNOUNCE to his friends, and
the public generally, tbit everything
IS IN FIRST-CLASS CONDITION,
and that the Tab’e will be supplied with
the best the market affords. Charges mod
erate.
As soon as your hunger it appeased, you
will please
WALK ACROSS THE STREET,
to my Store, where you can be snpplie I
with any and everything kept in a first class
JOrit Goods
AND
GROCERY HOUSE.
COUNTRY PRODUCE taken in ex
change for goods, at fair prices.
TO MY OLD FRIENDS .AND
CUSTOMERS
I desire to return my sincere thank? for
your liberal patronage in the pas', and
hope yon will continue the same in the
future. I now say to you, that you can, a'
any ami all times, buy g-ods as cheap of
me, an I upon as liberal terms, as any live
man can aft ord. lam determined
NOT TO BE UNDERSOLD
by any one. So call an I examine my
stock before purchasing elsewhere, as I
charge nothing for exhibiting goods.
THE LADIES
are especially invited to call, as my Cl< rk.
Mr. E. HOLLAND,
Is Exceedingly Anxious to Marry,
and he will always hike nloasur- in show
ing yon goods, and selling to you very
low, as he
WANTS TO MAKE A FAVORABLE TMPIIE9SION
J. M. McAFEE
Aug 4, 1-ts
New House!
New Goods!
JOE B. BARTON. JIM IL KILBY.
DR. JAMI S IL FI’EKR.
J. IL BARTON & CO,
Cor. Marietta, and Gainesville
CcXITtOXA., G-a.,
Keep a full assortment of
DRY GOODS,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS,
event’s Furnishing Goods,
NOTIONS, ETC.
GROCERIES
HARDWARE, CROCKERY,
Drugs, Paints, Oil,Varnish,
PATENT GLASS FRUIT-JARS, ETC.,
AIL AT REDUCED PRICES FOR
CASH OR CO UN IRY PRODUCE.
invite all to rail and ex-
B stock ami p: to s. N«i trouble to
Illlll'iuv and see the Rud Bit.
PROF. VINCENT’S
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Young- & Middle-aged Men
will OPEN THE REGULAR TERM OF TEN
MONTHS
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At Canton, Georgia,
ON THE
FIRST MONDAY IN SEPTEMBER.
THE CURRICULUM
embraces a thorough course of the English,
Latin, Greek, and German language; the
Natural. Mental and Moral Sch nees ; the x
United Suites Military AchcL mv Course of
Matheinaiics, and a Practical Business
Course. Special attention is given to N<”e
and Letter-writing, Land Surveying, Science
of Accounts, Leg.il Forms and Commercial
Law, and the Applied Sciences.
THE SYSTEM OF TEACHING
discards intoto the memorite,r and rigidly
enforces the rationale — the reason why and
wherefore — method. Students are taught
'o think for themselves.
THE TEXT-BOOKS
used are the very Vanguards of Scientific
Progress.
THE RECITATIONS
are always lively, awakening and delightful
to y<mng men who earnestly desire to get a
sulhl nnd progressive education in the
shortest time and at the least possible ex
pense. Only a small number of young men
will be admitted, aud to them the Principal
will give every needed attention. Young
men who have time or money to throw
away—who do not mean to study for the
love and use of it —are not wauled.
CANTON
is situated on the banks of the E»owah,
twenty-four miles above Cartersville and
twenty-five miiej north of Marietta, on the
projected Marict'a and North Georgia Rail
toad, is surrounded by beautiful mountain,
scenery, water as pure as mirgles from the
earth, the atmosphere salubrious and satu
t -re, its popul ition quiet, indißtrioti’, gen*
rous, and highly tn >ral —just P-’-place to
do earnest, hard stu
Iris 1 eon engaged at
<'aiYton II 4- I _and with
from 00 tuSsl2.so p< r month.
TUITION
invariably five dollars per mon'h.
REFERENCES.
Believing young men who have for the «
most part been educated by the Principal,
and who are now in life’s arena, are the
b st judges of his comp tency and • ffieiency,
he takes the 'liberty to refer those inti rested
to the following former pupils :
E. D. Little, M. D., Duluth, Ga.
II nry Strickland, Principal Bay Creek
Aca 'cmy.
W. L Moore, M. D., Gainsville, Ga.
G‘‘o K. Looper, Attorney, Dawsonvi le.
G< o. W H< ndrix, Attorney, Canton, Ga.
.1. B. Brown, Merchant, Tilton, Ga.
J. C. Hughes, Teacher, Mt. Zion, For
syth County, Ga.
I). I). McConnel, Attorney, Acworth.
M J. L wis. Clerk, Atlanta, Ga.
W. P. Hughes, Teacher, Big Creek, Ga.
D. W. Meadows, Teacher, Daniebvillc.
J. W. Estes, Merchant, Cumming, Ga.
Thos. O. Wofford, R R. Ag< ut, Carters
ville, Ga.
I. N. Siri' kland. Civil Engineer, Duluth.
Geo. W. Collier, Teacher. Atlanta, Ga.
Allison Gn> n, Clerk, Atlanta, Ga.
T. G. Donaldson, Farmer, Atlanta,Ga.
Jabez Galt, Farmer, Canton, Ga.
II H. Pinks, TravJing Agent Atlanta
Constitution.
J. A. Baker, Farmer, Cartersville, Ga.
For further particulars, address
JAMES U VINCENT,
Canton, Georgia.
Aug 4, 1-lra
NOTICE
To Debtors and Creditors.
STATE OF GEORGIA, CHEROKEE
COUNTY.
NOTICE is hereby givon im all peraona
having demands against W. R. D.
Mogs, late of said County, d<c<ase<l.to pre
sent them to in-, prop• rly ma !e out within
the time prescribed by law, s > n* to show
"Iheir character and amount. And all per
sons indebted to said deee«sccl, are hereby
required to make immediate pmm-ntto
me. JOSEPH M McAFEE.
Administrator.
Printers fee 53.50.
Aug 4, 1- 4t
NOTICE
To Debtors and Creditors.
STATE OF GEORGIA, CHEROKEE
COUNTY.
N OTICE is hereby given to nil persons
having demands against Samuel Ix,v
ingg<>od, late of snid County, deceased, tn
pr- sent th«-m to me, properly made out,
within the time prescibwd by law, so ns to
show their cbaract r an I am- unt. And
all persona indebted to said deceased are
hereby requested to make immediate pay
ment to me. ELI LOVINGGOOD,
Adtuini«trav»r.
Aug 4. i _4t
Dr. J. Al.
WILL CONTINUE THE TRACT CE OF
Medicins and Surgery.
DTSE XSES of WOMEN nnd OBSTET
RICS made a SPECIALTY. Office on
M AIN ST REE F, W EST EX D.
I A'Jg I 1. if