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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 m !■ . ■ 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 ®Aks in order that they may not x>w do:’! m-gl.-et -er! •-y. ■ you t b.i.-.k on P ip-r ■> « t i.: <-e Bbeek. twelve <■■■:!•- m-'trh. uv.’nt!.'. <>r.e d..r dollar I ! ''D f r GEom.t ( ant < Bbt rs to th ■ St at:m 1. - • • ■k . ■ ' ’ ,x -- r 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. MM. I O > 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 ' -V T l Cl >• A’ ! 'i ■ r ?«- «■ 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, © s - 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 ' Young- & Middle-aged Men will OPEN THE REGULAR TERM OF TEN MONTHS • • 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