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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