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The Cherokee Georgian.
P. H. BREWSTER, ) Fditors
J. J. A. SHARP, f Kclltors -
CaHtOll 7 C3-5L- 7
WEDNESD/YY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1875.
Cartersville.
In the last number of the Mari
etta Journal there is an editorial in
regard to Cartersville, which is both
severe and truthful; and the causes
therein enumerated for the decline
of that city should be considered
by others who would avoid a simi
lar fate.
The Journal truthfully refers to
the want of public spirit among the
citizens of Cartersville as the prime
cause of her want of prosperity;
and gives as an evidence of her
blind policy her niggardly support
of the newspapers -which have re
cently been published in her midst,
and which labored faithfully to ad
vance her interests, but which were
left to languish and die for the
want of patronage. The same may
be said of her schools and other
public enterprises. One by one
good schools have been opened,
and one by one have been starved
to death; and the teachers, who
were gentlemen and ladies of cul
tivation and refinement, have been
compelled to leave, or continue to
perform their thankless duties un
derdifficulties and embarrassments.
And what is true es tlie skillful me
chanics who went to Cartersville a
few years ago, for the purpose of
building up the town and of making
it a permanent home for themselves
and their children after them?
Driven away by sharpers and ex
tortioners, whose policy it is to
“kill the goose that lays the golden
egg.” “Give ! give !” has been the
cry, until there is nothing left to
give.
There arc some of as whole-souled
and clever people in Cartersville as
can be found anywhere, and we
hope they will not consider them
selves as embraced in our general
remarks; and we also hope that
none of that penurious, hypocrit
ical, two-faced, hollow-hearted, cod
fish and broken-down aristocratic
class, to whom we refer, will con
sider themselves unrebuked by
what we say.
Opening the T'tmvah River.
Correspondence of The Georgian
Rome, Ga., Sept. 13, 1875.
A few days ago one of your citi
zens was in this city. 1 inquired
of him if the citizens of Canton
and’of the county were taking any
interest in the movement now on
foot to open the Etowah river +o
navigation from Rome to Canton,
lie replied that he bad heard some
speak of it, and express a wish that
it could bo done, but. they were
like he was; do not believe there
is enough water to make it naviga
ble at all seasons of the year. 1 I
then asked him if there is not suf- j
ficient at the lowest stage of water i
to make a channel thirty feet wide '
and two feet deep. He said there I
is, and more too. I then told him'
that is as much as would be need
ed, and woul I admit any steamer
now on the Coosa.
I am aware that those who have ]
had no expefiencs in steamboating,
nor opportunity for observation,
arc generally of the opinion that it
takes at least five feet of water to
float a steamer. Therefore it is
quite natural that there should be
“doubting Thoma«es” in reference
to the opening of the Etowah. Any
one that knows anything absut the
river knows that it affords water
enough to mike a channel thirl}
feet wide an I two feet deep, at the
lowest stage of water, by means of
wing dams. The Etowah affords
much more water than the Coosa,
winch is now being improved by
the Governmeni. and now navigat
ed successfully to Col. Carter’s.
A convention will be held here
on the 6th of October next, in the
interest of our river enterprises
and the Athntic an I Great West
ern canal. Tour ci: izens have been
invited to attend an 1 look after
their iiit-'r'-r. and 1 here a goodly
number w II be here: not is “doubt-
have faith, for they have much at stake.
Just think of it! With uninterrupted wa
ter navigation fiom your little hill city to
the gulf, via Rome and Mobile, and by an
other route via Macon to Savannah or
Brunswick; again, via Rome, up the Oos
tanaula to Knoxville, Tenn., and on another
line to St. Louis—what would your to.\n
soon be? It wi uld soon be a city of con
siderable imp wlancc in more respects than
one. It would be the market for a large
section of country around and above you.
It would be the means of enhancing the
value of your properly . from one to two
hundred per cent. It would bring your
fertile lands and your minerals into notice,
and would open out a good market for your
produce down in the cotton belt of Ala
bama. Your merchants could get their
groceries direct fiom New Orleans or Mo
bile without reshipment at any point, and
at cheap rates.
To be at the head of steamboat naviga
tion is a feather in any city’s cap. Rome
has had it in hers for a long while, but she
: s willing to transfer one to Canton. She
has already transferred one to Carter’s
landing, by the aid of General Young, who
would have had the Etowah open long ago,
if he could have had any aid from those
living along the line of the river ; but as no
one would take any interest in it, be could
not succeed fully. He has got the matter
in such shape now, however, that an appro
priation can be procured if those interested
will but do their duly.
Your citizens are not called upon for
money. All that is wanted is for them to
furnish Congress with facts showing the
importance of the enterprise, and wherein
the Government itself will be benefited by
the river being opened. Your people can
show this as regards the Etowah ; will they
do it ? I hope so ; for if they fail to do it,
can they expect others, who are in no wise
interested, do so for them? Wake them
up. This river movement is worth more
than your railroad enterprise ; but don’t
neglect that; give it your money, tor it will
take it to complete the road. We only ask
your influence and data, in opening the
Etowa’i. See to it that it is given.
Very respectfully,
Thos. J. Perry.
Apot/ get c —Owing to the rec. nt un
expected cold snap, which found us with
out a stove in our office, and the indisposi
tion of printers, much important matter is
left out this week, and our paper does not
come up to our usual standard of excel
lence. We always do the best we can.
-
In bis speech at Canton, last week, Mr.
A. A. Campbell of the Tomotla iron works
of Cherokee county, N. 0., said that in Penn
sylvania they use iron orc from Tennessee,
down the lakes and from Missouri, combin
ing them in order to secure a quality of iron
for boiler plate that would, resist a pressure
of 6'), 000 pounds to the square inch. From
Cherokee county, Ga , to Murphy, N. C.,
there is a belt of iron ore which only re
quires one manipulation to produce iron
that w ill resist a pressure of over 60, 000
pounds to the square inch. Iron made at
the Tomolta woks was exhibited at the Cin
cinnati exhibition and bore off the palm over
all opposition. He predicted that within
ten years alter the completion of the Mari
etta and North Georgia road there would be
over forty blast furnaces in full Operation
rlong the line.
Mr. Blanton Duncan gives, in the Louis
ville Commerical an interesting account of
the Confederate currency. He says the to
tal issue never reached $350. 000, COO, and
its depreciation was less than si popularly
believed. He says the paper dollar was
worth 85 cents in gold in November, 1861 ;
GO cents in May, 1862; 45 or 50 cents in
November 1862 ; 16 cents in July, 1563 : 8
cents in November, 18C3; 5 cents in May,
18'il, from which period to the termination
of the war it fluctated going up once to 6
c n's, and only failing entirely as a medium
in the last two months prior to the capitu
lations, when every one saw that, defeat was
! inevitable.
The September number of the “Cherokee
' Agriculturist and Patron of Husbandry,”
i published at Dalton, Georgia, by 11. A.
j Wrench, is received. Its excellence, peculiar
l adaptability o on"section, and the extrenm
| lv low price at which it is offhied, should
s •cure it a pl vein every country household,
j A large eight-pige p ip-, r, and only fifty
' cents a year.
' This is the way the London Reniew under
stands the Winnebago matter: “Jefferson
i D ivis, the Americrn Rebel, has been invited
'o address the Winnebago natives. N. B.
, —The Winnebago are a tribe of Indians,
1 formerly of Wisconsin S'ate. but now re
moved to an agency in Nebraska State.”
The Columbus Enquirer. says: Rumor
reaches this city that H<m. B IL Hill has
. sol 1 his interest in the State Road to Balti
more panics tor $120.01)0.
A Goon Wouk D wv. —ln the First Pres
byterian Church of Franklin Pennsylva
nia on the fourth ■’-y nf July. 1854,t'm Rev.
S. I. M. Ea on D. D , b- gin a cour-o of Ice
tnres on the Bible, cmnniei'eing nt the first
, chapter of Gem sis, an ) taking it up vers > bv
;v. rsc. In twelve an ’ a nn’f y.-ars In- fiiii-h
--e<! tiie Ol 1 Testament, and in eight and a
h -ls veers more he comp e ed the whole
Bible, ending h : s twen*v-oi*e years labor on
Wedmsdiv evening Ju'v Ith, with the
1 ist ver-e of Revelation Th lectures have
: been given wi’h v< ry few in'errup i ms < r
o :ii ■>. ;■< in th- regular Wedn r «<lay renin j
pw e’ clings, the last one bring d<'fiv< red
, to a eonaregnbo". the niajo rity of whom
wme hut children when the le nri-s were
I e rim. Mr. L< vi Dodd, an active mendar
« f the c’ nn h t<>r sixtv-five rears, said that
w’ i'e raisi »g his eivldr m. he ha 1 road the
BiNn thr’Wigh in eivtr-o. at the family alter,
siren times—[B’P’ist.
At a lo r (s.ihhilv G< or>*i i pays $•» 0.
OH annually f»r imported w-.gons, which
e>»-< d *h're eh<:u»ly made at home auJ
1..5.2_ s..Vvl to lie; p'-'-’.N-
MISCELLANEOUS;
The Tennesee dog tax yielded S3OO, 000
last year, the State thus putting into one
pocket a portion of what went out of the
' other in damage to the wool industry.
Twenty thousand majority in California
for the Democrats, nine thousand Demo
cratic im Jjority in Connecticut, forty thou
sand Democratic majority in Kentucky.
| A few days ago the Etowah Iron works,
i near Rome, Ga, after working all the ore
I that was on hand, closed up,' and for the
present will make no more iron. The rea
. son of this is the want of demand for iron.
iP. Charles Joseph Bonaparte, granson of
Jerome Bonaparte. King of Westphalia, and
; Mrs. Patteison, of Baltimore, and who is
i now a practicing lawyer of that city, was
| married et Newport, to Miss EHen Chan
i niug Eay, of Boston on the 15. h instant.
| A German chemist says he has made a
; compound which in the concentrated form
of a powder, posseses all the qualities of
I lager beer. One ounce of it put into a gat-
I lon of water will produce a bevarage that
’ cannot be distinguished from ordinary beer.
| General Joseph E. Johnston, the Confed
erate hero, has been appointed, and has ac
; ceptcd the appointment, under the Khedive
of Egypt as commander-in-chief of the ai my.
He is allowed SIOO,OOO with which to
equip himself, and is to receive $25, 000 per
annum for his services. This is the third
time the appointment has been tendered
j him, and he now accepts.
Govenor Smith has delayed the collection
of taxes upon products in the hands of the
producer, untdl the Legislature settles the
point. Many claim that such was not the
intention of the Legislature. Therefore the
taq upon cotton, and other products in the
hands of the farmers on the Ist day of
■ April, is suspended untill the meeting ofthe
General Assembly.
It is strange, but nevertheless true that
since Madison county was laid off in 1808,
i there has only been one person hanged with
•in its boundaries. In 1832 a negro man, a
slave of Judge Walton, was hanged forsteal
i ing a pair of copperas-colored pantaloons ;
. this being the third offense, tbe r penilly was
! hanging. It would seem that the laws were
l a little more rigid in those days than now.
[Madison Journal.
There are thousands of men in the South
who need this sound advice from the. Rich
: mond AVkig. *‘To the hundreds of Ikon
sands of descendants of high but broken
down families that are now bewailing there
hard lot, we say, go to work! To recruit
an I restore your fortunes and your rank and
prestige, do what your ancestors did‘to es
tablish th°m, go to work: In these days all
■ honest work is respectable.”
Prices obtained at a recent administrators
sale in Troup county, Georgia, as noted by
the LaGrange Reporter: Good mules $5
■ each; good horses $5; oxen $2 each ; young
j cows with calves, $3, and $3 25; a good two
horse wagon $3 and a log cart with irons,
for sl. Wheat 50 cents a bushel; new bug
gv and harness $25; carriage and harness
SSO. A horse collar was the highest article
sold, bringing $1 80—almost, as much as an
1 ox. The sales were made on sixty days’ time
Admiral Reynolds announces thnt his
’ flagship Tennes‘ee pass ’d through the Suez
; canal without the least trouble. The draft
was twenty feet, and six inches forward.
■ The speed was four in five knots an hour
maintained in the canal, and the usnaLspeed
j through Citier Lake. The ship was r.ndcr-
1 J wav nineteen hours and seventeen minutes,
■ ’ including stoppage. Reynolds had an hour’s
interview with the Khedive.' Riynolds
, ■ says it may be considered! fortunate for
I ihat country th it Egvnt has now upon her
I throne a ruler of Ins Highness’s distinguish
; td abili’y and force of character.
It navs to advertise. Atthereeent opening
of the bids for furnihing internal rm-enue
J stamps.several firms off -rod todothe engra-
• ving for nothing The firm which now has
the contract off rs to pay the government
■ twi n tv-one hud red dollars per month, for the
i pr'v le;e of furnishing them free to the gav-
| ernment. This is a curons illustration of
■ the advantage of advertising. The firm
which is now doing the work is satisfied
that the advertisement is worth twenty-one
; hundred dollars monthly, besides the cost
es material.
! A train on the Cherokee narrow gauge
railroad ran off the track on the 17th instnt.
Bud Wofford was killed. He was the fire
man on the locomotive. All the passen
gers were more or less bruised np by the
accident. D. W. K. Peacock, the superin
tendant ofthe road, R. W. Vassar, Carters
ville. A. AV. Mitchell, of Atlanta, were n
mong the number of the injured, but none
were seriously hurt. The train was a total
wr ck, and the engine and cars were nil
throne into the ditch. The accident was
caused by the giving away of the track.
| The Southwestern States, including Mis
sissippi, parts of Al ibainn and Ge-ir ri-i and
Ai kens is, Louisiana and Tex is, contain at
this time the greatest body of nnopeivd fi r
til’ soil on this continent —millions of acres
which, when t icy are brought into .subjec
tion, will produce sugar, cotton and tobacco
enough to make the S mth the wealthiest re
gion in the world. But, beskb’S this, the
Southern States have very great deposits of
the best iron ore in the world, immense and
undevelop: d coal field, and much other min.
■ er.il wealth. Moreover, a fair exhibit ion of
’ the results of the cot ion manufacture alone
in Gcorgi i, South Carolina and Mississippi
at the Centennial could not fail to surprise
capitalist in the North and Europe and
draw their attention to the remarkably
steady success of this branch of manufac
turing.—[N. Y. Herald.
I FouewF’mEAtiMEn.—Ourn’pnr
t<r, b fore dinner: “B* g pardon, my lord, but
cu’ild votu- lordsh p kin lly oblige me by
giving’me a hint as to what yourc lordship
is going to say iu reply to the duku when
bis grace proposes yenr lord: “flow can I j
tell you want I'm going to siy untill I've
heard what the duke s.iysr‘ Our reporter: I
‘ Oh ! 1 can ob ige y >ur lord-hip with what !
. hi< grace ii going to sty; I've got it all iu ;
my p icket.”—[
CHEAP CASH STORE, i
W. M. ELLIS,
Second door west from corner Gainesville
ami M rietta streets,
CANTON, GA..
i Dealer in
STAPLE AND FANCY DRA r GOODS,
GROCERIES aND HARDWARE.
AVi'l also do a general Bartering business,
an I allow the highest market prices fi.r
| mnnTv produce. It will be to your inter-|
es* to call and examine mv slock ami prices!
K-f.-re parch i>iug elsewhere. lou w»ili
find go*» L at lav old pr;C<<, tor cash
AV. M. ELLIS. ‘
PROF. VINCENT’S
SEIECT HIGH SCHOOL
FOR
Young & Middle-aged Men
WILL OPEN TIIE REGULAR TERM OF TEN
MONTHS
At Canton, Georgia,
ON THE
FIRST MONDAY IN SEPTEMBER.
THE CURRICULUM
embraces a thorough course o’ the Enilish,
Latin, Greek, and German language ; the
Natural, Mental and Moral Sciences ; the
United States Military Academe Course of
Mathematics, and a Practical Business
Course. Special attention is given to Note
and Letter-W riting. Land Surveying, Science
of Accounts, Legal Forms and Commercial
Law, and the Applied Sciences.
THE SYSTEM OF TEACHING
discards intoto Wie memoriter and rigidly
enforces the rationale — the reason ?c7<,y and
wherefore— method. Students are taught
to think for themselves.
THE TEXT-BOOKS
used are the very Vanguards of Scientific
Progress.
TIIE RECITATIONS
are always lively, awakening and delightful
to young men who earnestly desire to get a
solid and progressive education in the
shortest time and at the least possible ex
pense. Only a small number of young men
will bo admitted, and 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 wanted.
CANTON
is situated on the banks of the Etowah,
twenty-four miles above Cartersville and
twenty-five miies north of Marietta, on the
projected Mariet'a and North Georgia Rail
load, is surrounded by beautiful mountain
scenery, water as pure as gurgles from the
earth, the atmosphere salubrious and salu
tary, its population quiet, indusiriou j , gen
erous, and highly moral—just the place to
do earnest, hard studying.
BOARD
has been engaged at the jusfy popular
Canton Hotel and with select families at
from $8 00 to $12.50 per month.
TUITION
invariably five dollars per month.
REFERENCES.
Believing young men who have forth?
most part been educated by the Principal,
and who are now in life’s arena, are the
best judges of his competency and efficiency,
he takes the liberty to refer those interested
to the following former pupils :
E. D. Little, M. D., Duluth, Ga.
Henry Strickland, Principal Bay Creek
Academy.
W. L Moore, M. D., Gainsville, Ga.
Geo K. Looper, Attorney, Dawsonvi le.
Geo. AV Hendrix, Attorney, Canton, Ga.
J. B. Brown, Merchant,Tilton, Ga.
J. C. Hughes, Teacher, Mt. Zion, For
syth County, Ga.
D. D. McConnel, Attorney, Acworth.
31. J. L'-wis, Clerk, Atlanta, Ga.
W. P. Huuhes, Teacher, Big Creek, Ga.
D. AV. Meadows, Teacher, Danielsville.
J. W. Estes, Merchant, Cumming, Ga
Thos. O. Wolford, R R. Agent, Carters
ville, Ga.
I. N. Strickl and, Civil Engineer, Duluth.
Goo. W. Collier, Teacher, Atlanta, Ga.
Allison Green, Clerk, Atlanta, Ga.
T. G. Donaldson, Farmer, Atlanta, Ga.
Jab- z Gall, Farmer, Canton, Ga.
1! 11. Parks, Traveling Agent Atlanta
Constitution.
J. A. Baker, Farmer, Cartersville, Ga.
For further particulars, addre-s
JAMES IL VINCENT,
Canton, Georgia.
Aug 42
CARTER S V I L L E
SALE & LIVERY STABLE
BY
Roberta Si Stephens,
(Successors to Roberts & Tumlin.)
This is one of the largest and best ar
ranged establishments in North Georgia.
The building is eligibly situated near the
di pot and cuurl-liouse, and is well stocked
with
GOOD HORSES AND SUPERIOR VEHICLES,
which are ready at all times for those who
wish to ride, cither on bii-iness or for plea
sure. The proprietors keep coustantly on
:hand a
i GOOD SUPPLY OF FOOD FOR HORSES,
and have in their employ faithful gnxnns
to lake* care of slock left in their charge.
j We will
BUY, SELL, AND EXCHANGE
| Horses ami .Mules on very accommo fating
j terms. jal ly
Bargain. Offered-
[CANTON NEEDS A TIN-SHOD.
1 NO. 1 SET Pof Tinner’s Tools, with
lA. a small quanrity of Rtw Stock, can i
: be tioanlil it I >w figures, or on short time, i
with approved notes. For information, :
; app v to the editor of this pajxr.
Aug 4,13 m 1
It Will Pay You,
§ TO EXAMINE, S
X ’ g
TO EXAMINE, E
AND PURCHASE, »
> AND PURCHASE, H
OF
B. F. CHISLER,
WHO KEEPS
A FULL VARIETY
of c’ich goods as ere kept in a
Dry Goods»Grocery Store
Also prepared to nut up
Boots and. CiEioeß
in the U‘st style, and on short notice.
Will furi'.ish LEATHER in any quanti
ties to suit purchasers.
SST Will take COUNTRY PRODUCE
at the best prices, and pay cash or goods
for HIDES.
aug 4 L ts
SI LA IRP & CO.,
WALESCA, GEORGIA,
Dealers in
General
Merchandise,
Are selling
At LOW-DOWN FIGURES.
Will g.ve
Extra Bar gains
>OR CASH OR BARTER,
Being anxious to make room for the F ill
trade. If you need anything in our line,
call and sec us.
SHARP & CO.
avg2s, 5-
DnJAL Turk.
WILL CONTINUE THE PRACTICE OF
Medicine and Surgery.
DTSE VSES Os WOMEN and OBSTET
RICS m idea SPECIALTY. Office on
M tin street, west cud.
Aug 4 1-ts
CANTON HOTEL,
Canton, G-eu.
J. M. McAFEE, Proprietor,
WILL ANNOUNCE to his friends, and
the public generally, that everything
IS IN FIRST-CLASS CONDITION,
•nd that, the Tah’e will be supplied with
he best the market affords. Charges mod
erate.
As soon as your hunger is appeased, you
will please
WALK ACROSS THE STREET,
to my Store, where you can be supplied
with any and everything kept in a first »law»
X>RY OoOBSi
AND
GROCERY HOUSE.
COUNTRY PRODUCE taken in ex
change for goods, at fair prices.
TO MY OLD FRIENDS AND
CUSTOMERS.
I desire to call your atten ion to the fact
that the year is drawing to a close, and
that I AM COMPELLED TO HAYS
MONEY. I have endeavored to acc m
moiiate all those who have applied to me,
and now in return I ask all who owe me to
r» spond, in pul payment at least, and re
lieve me from a press—and especially those
owmg McAfee <£' Mom. All failing to give
me some assistance within thirty days, I
will put their notes or accounts in judg
ment.
LADIBS
arc especially invited to call, as my Clerk,
Mr. E. B. HOLLAND,
la Exceedingly Anxious to Marry,
and he will always take pleasure in show
ing you goods, and selling to you very
low, as he
WANT'S TO MAKE A FAVORABLE IMPRESSION.
2STew
I have a number of new wagons for
sale —one and two-hors?, and spring-wag
ons. They are of Hudson’s make, so f ivur
ably known to all in this community. I
have known them for twenty five years,
and will fully warrant them. Will sdl on
lime until cotton c urn s in, with good note
and security.
J. M. McAFEE.
Aug 4,
New House I
New Goods I
JOE B. BARTON. JLM H. KILBY.
DR. JAMES 11. SPEER.
J. B. BARTON & CO.
Cor. and Gainesville S(s ts
OcXntOTl., O-a.,,
Keep a full assortment of
DRY GOODS,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS,
G-ent’s Furnishing Goods,
NOTIONS, ETC.
GROCERIES,
HARDWARE, CROCKERY,
Drugs, Paints, Oil, Varnish,
PATENT GLASS FRUIT-JARS, ETC.,
ALL AT REDUCED PRICES FOR
CASH OR COUNTRY PRODUCE.
W? respectfully invite all to call and ex
amine our slock and prices. No trouble to
show goods.
Come and see the Red Bat.
JOE B. BARTON & CO.
•tug 4, 1-if