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CARPENTER, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Residence, Canton, Ga. O ALL work done by me will be done with ne** mm end dispatch. Prices reasonable—Batisiac* 011 guaranteed. Aug 4, I_#Ul JAMES O. DOWDA, Attorney at Law, CANTON, - - - GEORGIA. WILL practice in the Superior Courts of Cnefokec and adjoining counties. Will faithfully and promptly attend to tlu awiteetion of all c'aitns put in his hands. Office in the court-house, Canton, Ga. ami 4, 1 ly. 13. IT- Payne, Attorney at Law, CANTON, - - * GEOJHA, Will practice la the etmr*a ot Cbervka. 41 ' 1 *4- Jainiug counttea. Orths ii» the Com t-bous J. M. liAllbll, HOUSE AND SIG P Canton Ga ra«st. @(je QCljewhee ©eargiatt. [For the Cherokee Georgian. YOUNG LIFE. AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO JOHN HALL AND WIFE. Young life is like the budding flower, Opening with its honey sweetness In Flora’s pure, delightful bower, Where all is beauty, love and neatness In the bright and dewy morning, As blooming nature fondly smiled, Death, without a moment’s warning, Snatched away the darling child. Like a sweet, untimely flower That faded on the parent bough, It is gone: and sad the hour — For my heart is weeping now. Jesus tells a pleasing story Os all children that have died : “Let them come to me in glory, Beyond the Jordon’s rolling tide.” O I may we meet them all in heaven, Upon that bright and sunny shore, Where life, joy, and peaqe are given, And with loved one's pArt no more. Acworth, Ga , Aug. 5, 1875. P. M. - 11 MB i > Andrew Johnson. Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, December 29, 1808. His father died while endeavoring to save a friend from drowning. At that time young Jwhnson was tour y< ars of age, and at ten he was apprenticed to a tailor in his native town, with whom he served seven years. Owing to reduced circumstances caused by the death of his father, his mother found herself unable to afford the lad any regular schooling and he was thrown entirely upon his own resources for an education. To this object he devoted all his leisure hours while learning his trade; first, with the help of the journeymen, acquiring a knowledge of letters, and thus going on step by step until, at the completion of his apprentice ship in the autumn of 1824, he was a fair English scholar. From Rtleigh young Johnson went to Laurens Court-house, S. C., where he worked as a journeyman tailor for about two years, and while there became engaged to be married, but his poverty ex cited the opposition of the girl’s friend*, and the match was broken off. In May, 1826, he returned to his native city, where he worked at his trade until September. He then determined to strike out into a new field, and with this object in view he in ttaced his mother, who was entirely depend ent upon hi n for support, to accompany him to Greenville, Tenn., where he again commenced work as a journeyman tailor. He remained there about one year, marri d and then went further West, but finding no place to suit him as a permanent home, he returned to Greenville and coinmence-' business for himself. Up to this time fits education was limited to reading, fi e now completed his ot the English branches u ulerthe instruction of tits wife. His first public °Gi *e was that of Alderman of the ,o which he was elected in 1828. H. *’“B re-elected to the same office in IS*' l again in 1830 In the latter y»*‘ r lie w,tß elected Mayor, which portion he held for three years. In 1835 was chosen to the Legislature. Takin g decided grounds against a popular sclieme of internal improvement which he considered would entail upon the Siaie a large debt, he was defeated at the next election (1837'. Events proved the wisdom of his policy and he was at the next sub sequent chosen by a large majority. In 1840 he ' vas Presidential Elector-at- Large f° !n Gie State on the Democratic ticket. In his canvass through the State he nv* several of the leading Whig orators. In he year following he was elected to the S»te Senate. In 1843 he was sent to Con .ress, and served in the lower house tor ten years. Among the prominent measures which he advocated were the bill refunding the fine imposed on General Jackson at New Orleans in 1815, the annexation of Texas, the tariff of 1846, the war measures ofMr. Polk’s Administration, and a home sfcad bill. In 1853 he was elected by the Ihmocrats Governor of Tennessee; his op ponent was Gustavus A. Henry. He was e-clected in 1855 by a large majority over Meredith P. Gentry. In 1857 he was fleeted to the United States Senate for a full term ending Alarch 3,1863. During his Senatorial career Mr. John son identified himself with all the leading Democratic measures before Congress, en tering into their advocacy with character istic energy and taking upon himself the special championship of the Homestead bill. His position before the country as a i thinker and speaker had become so promi- ■ nent that he was the favorite candidate of ; a portion of the Democracy South-west for 1 the party nomination for President, and in the Charleston convention of 1860, received the vote ot the Tennessee delegation for many successive ballots. His fidelity to the Southern side of the great slavery contro versy was not then questioned. When, however, the flames of civil war broke out Mr. Johnson took an immediate and earn est stand for the Union. He beaune in the Soiate the bitterest opponent of the seces- CANTON, CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA., WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18, 1875. sion movement; and at home, in Tennessee, he took the stump in denunciation of the secessionists, greatly at the risk of his per sonal safety. Endowed with a pluck that never deserted him, he stood up before the most exasperated audiences and made his characteristic appeals for the Union cause Tennessee was nearly unanimous for the South, and when it was overrun by the Federal armies in 1862, President Lincoln felt the need of a strong, vigorous hand to govern it. He accordingly appointed An drew Johnson Military Governor of the State. His confidence was not misplaced. The Governor ruled the State with a rod of iron, and very much to his vigor was due the success of the Union arms in that quar ter. In-March, 1863, he made his famous speech from the steps of the Uapitol at Nashville to the newly liberated negroes, in which he promised to be their “Moses.” Qualities like these, together with his. weight as a Southern War Democrat, in fluenced the Republican Convention at Baltimore in 1864 to place Air. Johnson’s name as second on the Presidential ticket then nominated. During the campaign which followed the candidate for Vice- President spoke for himself and his cause with his usual spirit. In November he received a majority of the electoral votes for the high office, and in the following March he took the oath prescribed by law and entered upon his duties as presiding officer of the United States Senate. The assassination of Mr. Lincoln suddenly ele vated him to the head of the nation at the most critical moment of its history The events of the administration of Pres ident Johnson are comparatively fresh in the public mind, and do not require 'extended review. He broke with his party a few months after his inauguration. He de nounced its leaders just as he had the seces sionists four years before, and classed them alike as enemies of the Union and the Con stitution. May 30, 1865, he issued the proclamation of amnesty He vetoed in succession the Civil Rights bill, the Freed man’s Bureau bill, the Reconstruction bill, the Tenure of Office bill and other leading Radical measures. Early in August 1866, the Philadelphia Convention assembled and fully introduced his policy. Ho otortcJ wp on a tour through the Union immediately afterwards, taking the Cabinet and General Grant along with him, and addressed the people at all the large towns and cities on the way. Notwithstanding the enthusiasm with which be was at first received the mission was a failure, and the new Johnson party proved stillborn at its birth. The continuation of the President’s administra tion was a constant battle with Congress. The >rity in that body became so In flnn~d against him that, after several abor tive attempts, they succeded at last, upon the occasion of Ins removal of Secretaiy Stanton, in procuring his impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. The trial began March 13, 1868, and lasted until Muy 15, ending in the acquittal of the President. Air. Johnson received a hand some vote in the New York Democratic National Convention. From his retirement to private life at the conclusion of his Presidential term, Air. Johnson remained unidentified with any political movement or aspirations. Last year, however, he entered the field as a can didate for the Tennessee Senatorship. The result of the popular election showed him to be unmistakably the favorite with the people, but a stubborn fight took place in the Legislature, and it was not until the 26th of January last that he secured his election for the six years’ term beginning March 4, 1875. In the extra session of the Senate, March 22, he made a brief, but vigorous speech, concluding with his prediction that “an empire—a statocracy—was ahead.” This was practically his last public political appearance. Rumor accredited him with an intdhtion to canvass the West in behalt of more currency aud a desire to unite the farmers—Air. Johnson claimed to have been instrumental in founding the grange—and the mechanics aud laborers in a political party, with a view to his own elevation to the Presidency. The death of Andrew Johnson leaves the country without a single ex-Presideut liv ing This has not happened since the death of Washington, in the administiationof the elder Adams. When John Quincy Adams was inaugurated, fifty years ago, all the Presidents for the preceding seven teirns, twenty eight years, were living, namely, the I elder Adams, Jefferson, Aladison and Alon- i roe. When Polk was inaugurated, thirty years ago, the incumbents ot the previous I twenty years, five terms, were living (ex cept Harrison, who was in office but one i month,) namely, the younger Adams, Jack son. Van Buren and Tyler; and when Lin- . coin was inaugurated, fourteen years ago, \ no less than five of his “illustrious predeces sors” survivetl —Van Buren, Tyler, Filmore, INene and Buchanan. The mortality among our public men has been very great Os Lincoln’s Cabinet officers only two, Montgomery Biair and Gidoen Wells, are now living. Farmers and Newspapers.—We have ’ been frequently sniprise’’, to see how many I formers, well-to-do in worldly riches, neglect; Virtue and Intelligence—The Safeguards of Liberty. or refuse to take some good newspaper for the benefit of himself and family. They seem to think that they have no interest in the affairs of the outside world ; that they have to deal with nothing except the land they plow, or the stock they feed, and the children they are rearing in ignorance. They forget that they are a part of the great human family, placed upon this orb to work out the plans of the good and wise Creator, and as such have no right to dam up the great streams of progress. The laws of progress are as unalterable as are any others in nature, and th at man who impedes those laws with an offspring — children uneducated and besotted with ig norance—commits a sin which reacts not only on himself, but on his descendants for long years in the future. Newspaper are made to spread intelli gence and improve the morals of mankind. To the farmer, above all men, they should be a necessity, from the very fact that they afford him in his isolated condition the only means of mixing in the busy scenes of life. Man in his hermit state becomes a personi fication of selfishness—caring for himself. Development comes alone from associating with our fellow men, and appropriating to ourselves the advancement which they make. No farmer should do without his social schooling, both for his own good and that of his children; and in no way can he ob tain it so fully and cheaply as through the newspapers and periodical literature of the day; and he, who neglects to receive these advantages deprives himself of light, and lives out his days in worse than heathen darkness. —[Louisville Ledger. Judge Underwood’s Advice-., Judge Underwood of Rome, in passing upon the application of four young men for admission to the bar, took occasion to give them the following advice: “Young gentlemen,” said the Judge-,. “I want to say a thing or two to you. You have passed as good an examination as usual, perhaps belter; but you don’t know i anything. Like those young fellows just back from their graduation in college, you think you know a great deal. It’s a great ever get account, you will be surprised at your present ig norance. Dou’t be too big for your breeches. Go round to the justice’s court and try to learn something. Don’t be afraid—let off upon a high key. You will no doubt speak a great deal of nonsense. You will have one con solation —nobody will know it A great mass of mankind take sound for sense. Never mind about your case, Ditch in—you are about as apt to gain as lose. Don’t be ashamed at the wise looking justice. He don’t know a thing. He’s a dead beat on knowledge. Stand to your rack, fodder or no fodder, and you will see daylight after a while. “The community generally suppose that yon will be rascals. There is no absolute necessity that you should. Yoa may be smart without being tricky. Lawyers ought to be gentlemen. Some of them don’t come np to the standard, and are a disgrace to the fraternity. They know more than any other race generally and not much in particular. They don’t know anything about sandstone, carboniferous periods and ancient land animals known as fossils. Men that make out that they know a great deal on these subject don’t know much. They are humbugs; superb humbugs. They are ancient land animals themselves, and will ultimately be fossils. “You are dismissed with the sincere hope of the court that you will not make asses of yourselves.” That Load of Wood. I never in my life knew a cord of wood to throw out so much heat. It was oak, maple and pine, mixed; but I suppose no stronger for that, as mixed liquors are said to be. The last load I had burned was not paid for, and it did not warm us much, though it cooked very well. I had made only a partial payment on the coal I was burning, and whenever I looked in the grate a blue flame flickered over it. Aly salary was scanty, and I knew it was nearly one-half less than my people ought to pay; and they knew it, and they knew that I knew it I had been trying to write warm sermons over a credit fire, and failed. I tried the cheerful strain over the coal, and it threw its blue tinge on my manu script. Our people did not seem to warm up at the evening prayer meeting, and when they called on me, they and the room too seemed cold, or else it was my fancy. Some times I thought I might be colder for wear ing the same suit of clothes I had worn through the summer, with a slight addition. But I bad previously tried to keep warm in the clothes of my tailor, and the cold chills would run over me, especially when I saw him. So I had passed the shortest day of the year. When the days began to lengthen, the cold began to strengthen, as the proverb goes. One day I came home and found a load of wood at my door. I had not order ed it, and could not pay for it if I had No bill was sent with it, and the boy who threw it off did it, they said, as if he was perfectly willing. When I learned the facts the weather seemed to moderate, the wind hauled around from the north, by east, and as once happened to Paul, “the south wind blew softly.” I felt warm before I put any of the wood into the stove. When I tried it in my library, (I burn nothing else there,) it had a wonderfully genial influence on both the temperature and light of the room. It warmed me up from the heart to the ex tremities, and in the evening, though the stove is an air-tight, it threw a mellow, soothing light all through the apartment. For when in the evening I am thinking out a sermon, I put out my lamp, as it saves expense. In that peculiar light I found better texts, and while I mused the fire burned. The chill left my fingers, and I wrote more easily; my lips were touched as with a live coal, the people said; for my sermons were so much warmer. One evening a neighbor called, and in very good mood; and after sitting a little while said : “What a cheerful room this is, but don’t you keep it pretty warm ?” I told him there were only three sticks in the stove, one of oak, one maple, and one of pine. But I had no idea there could be so much heat in a cord of wood, and I doubt whether he had. I have already got several glowing sermons out of it, and it is not half gone., I keep it specially for the study. The coal in the grate has not now quite so blue a blaze, at least so my wife says, though it is not yet paid for. I wonder whether some parishioners know how many warm sermons there are in a cord of wood that is settled for, also how many cool ones there are in a cord not settled for. I know the latter, and. can answer for the former, when this wonderful cord is gone, if any one wishes to know.—[Advance. The Keyser Churning. They have a new hired girl over at Key ser’s farm, just outside our town, and on Tuesday, before starting to spend the day with a friend, Mrs. Keyser instructed the girl to whitewash the kitchen during her absence. Upon returning, Mrs. Keyser found the job completed in a veiy satis- 1 factory manner. • On Wednesdays Mrs. Keyser always !churns, and last Wediaesday when she was ready she went out, and finding that Mr. Keyser had already put the milk into the churn she began to turn the handle. This was at 8 o’clock in the morning, and she turned until 10 without any signs of butter appearing. Then she called in the hired man and he turned until dinner time, when he knocked off with some very offensive language addressed to that butter which had not yet come. After dinner the hired girt took hold of the crank and turned it energetically until 2 o’clock, when she let go with a remark that she believed the churn to be haunted. Then Mr. Keyser came out and said he wanted to know what was the matter with thatchurn, anyhow. It was a good enough churn, if people only knew enough to work it. Air. Keyser then work ed the crank until half-past 3, when, as the butter had not come, he surrendered it to the hired man because he had an engage ment in the village. The man ground the machine to an accompaniment of frightful imprecations; then the Keyser children each took a turn for half an hour, then Airs. Keyser tried her hand, and when she was exhausted she again enlisted the hired girl, who said her prayers while she turned. But the butter didn’t come. When Keyser came home anti found the churn still In action, lie blasted his eyes and did some other Innocent swearing, and then he seized the handle and said that he would make the butter come if he kicked up an earthquake in doing it. Mr. Keyser effected about two hundred revolutions of the crank a minute, enough to have made any ordi nary butter come from the ends of the earth, aud when the perspiration began to stream from him, and still the butter didn’t come, he uttered one wild yell of rage and disappointment and kicked the churn over the fence. When Mrs. Keyser went to pick it up she put her nose down close to the buttermilk and took a sniff. Then she understood how it was. The girl had mixed the whitewash in the churn and left it there. A good, honest and intelligent servant, who knows how to churn, can find a situation at Keyser’s. There is a vacan cy.—[Max Adder. ’l'he Teeth.—Horace Walpole wrote: “Use a little bit of alum, twice or thrice a week, no bigger than half your nail, till it has all dissolved in your mouth, and then i spit it out This has so fortified my teeth that they are as strong as the pen of Jun ius. I learned it of Mrs. Grosvenor, who , had not a speck in her teeth, until her i death.” 1 < A Georgia emigrant who has been liv ing in Kansas for about two years, started 1 to his old home not long since, and painted 1 the follow on his wagon: “Sunny Kansas! Farewell! i I bid you an affectionate adieu; i I may emigrate to hell, But never hack to you.” | VOLUME I.—NUMBER 3. J ALL FOR FUN. ’ i “Did you ever see the Catskill moiirt* 1 tains?” “No, sah; but I’ve seen um kill 1 mice.” 1 It is considered a Safe plan for a young man never to trifle with the affections of a woman Who whistles. I Young women should beware ol martyr i ing an accountant. If they do so, the/ take an adder to their bosoms. A boy astonished his parents by Casually , remarking that the back of that hair-brUstt seemed to him “almost a sacred thing.’ ’ Girls, don’t get Up and get breakfast irt ’ the mornings. A young lady attempted it recently, and was burned to deata. Bho\V J this to your mas. 1 A correspondent presents the questiort, ! “Where does all the cotton goI” For l shame, young man, for shame ! It doesn’t ! go to waste, anyhow. • It seems bard to see an Indianapolis wo man of sixty-five seeking a divorce because her husband wouldn’t let her wear a red i dress to camp-meeting. - Henry Godnose Bailey is the name of ;t i boy in Springfield, Ohio. If we were your parlent, Henry, Godnose we’d knock your ’ middle name out of you. [• “You look like death on a pale horse,” said a gentleman to an old toper. “I don’t k know anything about that,” said the toper, - “but lam death on pale brandy.” 1 Love’s language: Young bride—“ Was f she his own darling duckums ?” “Yes, she . was his ownty donty darling duckums.” , ; Exit bld man, enraged and disgusted- , Lady: “Before I engage you, f should like to know what your religion is.” Cook: p “Oh, ma’am, I always feel it my duty to be I of the same religion as the family I’m in..” I A ferryman was asked’ by a timid lady,. ’ whether any persons were ever lost in the: ' river over which he- rowed. “Oh, no,’” , said he; “we always find ’em agin the: , next morning.” When a Connecticut deacon nudged a. somnolent worshiper with the contribution' bo-x;„ the sleepy individual awoke partially,, 'smiled, murmured, “I don’t smoke!” andi .dropped off again.. , 1 “What makes you look so glum, Tom?”’ “Oh, I have had to endure a sad trial to my feelings.” “What on earth was it?” “Why,, 5 I had to tie on a pretty girl’s bonnet with, r ' her mother looking on.” ' An inquiring man thrust his Angers Into* -a horse’s mouth to see how many teeth he had. The horse closed his mouth to see . how many fingers the man had. The cu- J riosity of each was fully satisfied’.. ’ i A Pennsylvania seven-year-old was re ’ j proved for playing out doors with boys;. ! I she- was too big for that now. But with all > imaginable innocence she replied ? “Why* , gramma, the bigger we grow the better we ' like ’em.” A promising youth of nine summers in ; the East recently relieved his-overburdened 'mincil as follows: “Lord of love, look > down from above upon us little scholars; for we have a fool to teach our school, and, pay her twenty dollars.” A country paper tells this story of a new ! boy at one of the Sunday schools: “The i precious youth was asked who made the beautifiil hills about them, and he replied that did not know, as his parents only moved into town the day before. A young blood dining at a hotel was re quested by a neighbor to pass him some article of lood which was near him. “Do you mistake me for a waiter?” said the exquisite. “No, sir; I mistook you fora gentleman,” was the prompt reply. “See here, Joe,” said a gentleman to a stupid fellow, “what is the use of your stealing after that rabbit, when your gun has no lock ?” “Blast it, you jes keep still,” snarled Joe, “the rabbit don’t know nothin* about my gun havin’ no lock onto it.” Said somebody to a Boston deacon, on the day that Beecher was to lecture at “Tho Hub”: “Well, I suppose Music Hall will be jammed full to-night.” “Don’t know about that,” said the deacon. “If every' body felt as I do, it would be jammed empty.” A man who had saved the life of a Bos ton millionaire’s daughter received $2 50 from the grateful parent' He was so over come with the magnificent bounty, that bo paid out every cen t of it to seventeen organ- Kinders to simultaneously serenade his uefactor. A lecturer, wishing to explain to a little girl the manner in which a lobster cas's bis shell when he has outgrown it, said: “What do you do when you have outgrown your clothes? You throw them aside, don’t you?” “Ob, no,” replied the little one; “we let out the tucks.” “Alamma. where do the cows get the milk ?” asked Willie, looking up from a foaming pan of milk which he bad been intently regarding. “Where do you get your tears r” was the answer. After a thoughtful silence he again broke out: “Mamma, do the cows have to be spanked?” At Lapesville, Ohio, the young gentle* men wear a satin badge bearing the words, “Hire a hall,” under the lappels of their coats, and when bored by inveterate talkers they just turn up the lappel and display the badge. The plan is said to work ad mirably. “Now, then, Joseph, parse ‘courting’,” said a teacher to a rather slow boy. “ ‘Court ing’ is an irregular, active-transitive verb, indicative mood, present tense, third person and singular number,’’ and so on, said Jo seph. “Well, but what does it agree with?” demanded the teacher. “It agrees with all the gals in town!” triumphantly exclaim ed Joseph. Ed. Cox is a trump. The owls have been getting after his chickens. Eel deter mined to be even with them. He ground a scythe-blade as keen as a razor, and fas tened it edge up on a pole. He hasn’t missed any chickens lately, but every morning gathers up a basket of owl-feet. The owls must imagine that their roosting place is sharp set.