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The Cherokee Georgian P. H. BKEWSTER, I pdit ._ s J. J. A. SHARP, f Edltorß, Canton, CCn WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1875. There were several aspirants for Sneaker of the present Congress but a cur (Kerr) it acorns was the lucky dog. The Governor has appointed John W. Renfroe of Washington county State treas urer, in the stead of John Jones, removed The appointment is said to be judicious. The Albanv News editor has spent sev eral days in Atlanta recently, canvassing pnblic opinion, and deliberately decides ’ that General Colquitt is the coming Gov ernor. The extensive wholesale grocery firm of West, Edwards & Co., Atlanta has failed, with reported Itabilitu s of $300,000 above assets. The failure will cause considerable litigation, and the principal Atlanta law yers will come in for big fees. If it were not that, the election for Presi dent comes off in 1876, we would say there te* great'need of two political parties in Georgia. Parties should be true to their pledges to the people. No party can live long that poultices a sore that bleeds the treasury of $200,000. Hon. W. D. Anderson of Cobb county has resigned his seat in the Legislature, has l>een admitted to the North Georgia con ference on trial, and assigned to the church .at Eatonton. General Hansell and Colonel Waddell are mentioned as candidates for the vacancy. We publish this week so much of the North Georgia Conference as will specially interest the people of this section. We have not room for the entire list. Bes’des, the proceedings of the conference have already appeared in the daily papers, which circu late pretty generally here. It will be seen that Rev. R. R. Johnson is the preacher ap pointed for the Canton circuit, and Rev. J. ' H. Mashburn, Jr., for the Jasper circuit. President Grant’s message certainly embodies the accustomed element of Radi , cal progressiveness; but Radical ingenuity can’t conjure up sufficient important future • . i««ues to divert public attention from past ‘•cts of official corruption and pernicious legislation. A system of national education and the taxation of church property are important questions, but they are reduced to mere bagatelles in comparison with the paramount question of preserving nnd per petuating republican government in the United States. ' Are our schools now giving the country young men with minds trailed sufficiently to grasp the momentous i«4;ies of govern mental policy now upon the Union ? What, we ask, are our young men being taught about scientific industry, political economy, the effects of legislation, etc.? Finding tu pelo and piperidge is one thing in an edu cation ; but detecting and utilizing a mount ain of iron, or a vein of gold, or a bed of diamonds, ora medical virtue in a plant, is quite another; and the ability tn do the one or the other is a weighty element in estimating the value of a young man to the Republic. < —-———• It is now understood, since the late decis ion of the Supreme Court, that the sale of a homestead exemption is not legal under any circumstances. We hope the next leg islature will make provision for the holding of a constitutional convention (provided the members composing the same shall agree to serve without pay! for the purpose of so altering and amending the Constitution that it may be acceptable to all honest peo ple. Fifteen hundred do’lars worth of r ail estate should be set apart as a homestead for every family’ in the state with ut a special application. This we think would be just and right. Cherokee Georgia offers the most fl it terin* opening to young men of scientific ♦ducat on and skilled eyisand hands lo be found on the globe. A fortune can be amassed from her various vegetable.grow ths by the skilled chemist; from the quartz rock, gnrnet, etc., by the skilled lapidary; from her superior timbci by the skilled me chanic ; from her rich soils by the skilled agriculturist; from her nombeile«s water powers by the skilled machinist ; and from many other sources of natural wealth now totally untouched. It Is to skill, pluck, and determination, that a fortune is guaranteed to young men in Cherokee Georgia. While the profusions are crow hd, uu n skilled in utilizing natural elements ot wealth cun find here an unoccupied dominion. " Thr State Grange, Patrons of Husband ry. met in Atlanta last Wednesday, ami continued in harmonious sessi m for three days About one hundred and fifty dele gates were present. A resolution was unan imously ad’*pt«d nq testing the Legislature lo enact a d<>g law for the protection ot sheep husltandrv. The tollow ring resolutions introduced by Gen. Win Phillips, wire adopted as expiami’ory of the principles ot the Order: Ra*o|vcd. Tiiat the true obj et o ’ this or gtmsa ion is as taught in the ritual the i n provenu nt of the lann, tin increase et home products. that the farm he ni.vie m- f->us taimnr, that ic farm Ih- made p rfu tin all its pans, a grange in the Hue acceptation ot them, pn sith I over by a husbandman aided by a matron d< vot d to their cailmg. ami «cue:.ting the youih of the s’ate that laltor is nut only honorable, bu ’ necessary ro the happin<<* Hid pna»p rity ot tin. individ ual nnd hare ot the state. R solved. Tti tt the obj. <q< of the order of Patrons <4 Husbandry, sire mu t<> Ir.-tinnv 1 or derange roiwnc or t > han :»> r, < r iu terfvjvin any w .«> with thr met h-imc art-, but m every W o pis ilk* tv ptoicU am; aid the same, nevertheless we assert that it is altogether legitimate to so arrange, if possible, to lessen the burden of taxation in the way of commission, etc., on commod - ties while in transitu between producersand consumers. Tarious other resolutions, looking to the good of ti e Order, and to the benefit of the industrial classes geneiaily, were passed; and cheap transportation by canal and rivet w<s strenuously advocated The Master was empower! to appoint lecturers in each district in the state, for the purpose of stir ring up an increased interest in the Order and bringing about a revival. Able speeches was made by prominent Patrons, and the session was altogether interesting, profitable and exceedingly harmonious. The Literary Testi President Grant in bis late message rec ommends tiiat the several states shall pass laws making the ability to rea 1 and write a pre-requisite to the elective franchise. This is right, and should have been done long ago; but then if it had, Grant and his friends would never have been elected to office. What a blessing it would have been to the country if this test had been applied at the close of the war. It would have saved the South a deal of trouble and mortifica tion, and millions of money. The President also recommends compul sory education. We object to that. Let all who wish to remain in ignorance,be allow ed to do so, for there is no bar to (ne foun tain of knowledge in this country, but those who are wilfully ignorant should not jeopar dize the safety and perpetuity of our insti tutions by voting at random and in the dark. Lib-Tty and Democracy arc good things, but are liable to be much abused, and are in danger of being used to the utter destruction of all good government. In the present state of society, and under the pres ent constitution of things, proper restraints and restrictions are wholesome and neces sary. A man should have some knowledge or nt least the ability to acquire it, and some regard f r morality and order, before he shall have placed at his mercy the g>od of the whole country. Navigation of the Etowah. We are glad to know that many of our citizens are beginning to manifest an inter est in the proposed scheme of opening the Etowah river to navigation. We are at the s ime time aware, that when the subject is mentioned to some people that it causes a smile of incredulity, and they are ready to say that the enterprise is entirely impracti cable, and that the work will never be done. They cannot give any particular reason for their opinion, and confess that they know but little a’ out such things, and yet they are confident that steamboats will never plow the Etowah ! Such people never ' accomplish anything great themselves, and if others were influenced by their croaking, no important public improvement would ever be undertaken ; but it is well for the country that there are men of faith and en ergy, who believe that what has been done by others may be done by themselves, and who are ready to put their shoulders to the wheels an I pu«h forward the car of im provement. Such men have built our rail roads and factories, and navigated our riv ers too, despite the sneers of those who never think anything great can be done. We have recently been told by men of ex perience and sound judgment that it would be comparatively an easy matt r to make the Etowah navigable. It could be done at one-fourth the cost of a railroad of equal length, and the be-t p irt of it is the general gov rnment proposes to furnish the means for the work if it can be shown that the en terprise is feasible and would result in the public good. An old la’v orce, on being asked in class-meeting, if she loved her Maker, abruptly replied that she had “noth in’ agin him ” We certainly can have nothing “agin” the appropriation that Con gress proposes to make for the ope ring of our river, and we shoul I extend our han Is and say, “let it come.” A g •n'le nan who lives on Coosawattee river, remarked to us, 1 the other day, that the Etowah could be made navigable to Canton, at a great deal less'*ost than that river, and yet boats run to Carter’s Quarter, which is about two hundred miles from Rome by the river, m I forty miles by land. We also learned that there were twenty five dams on the Co isaw.ittee between Calhoun and the head of navigation, whica is but a short distance. We venture to assert that an equal numlxr I of dams from Home to Canton would make the Etowah capable offloating a boat of the largest siz-. The Mary Carter on the Covsawattee, carries, it issai 1. one thousand bags ol cotton at a time. A trout of equal capacity on the Etowah would answer our purpose, and be a great convenience and : blessing to the whole country. Then let us go to work to secure the offered benefit Let us ‘keep pegging away.’’ “Laugh at iinpossibilili -s. And s iy, it shall be done. ’ — < - Religion and IMitica. An Atlanta correspondent of the Cons'i tutionalist thinks that Governor Smith will . lx* influenced, in making certain appoint ments, by denominational considerations, but we think that a man of Gov. Smith's great common sense, "ill not stop to in- ■ q lire as hi what are the particular religious views ot tbvse whom he upjroiuta to office. , So lir fto.il being a». ctan.ui big' >t, we are I nut sure tiiat the Governor is even religious, i Tin- same correspondent thinks certain as- I pirantsil r the next Governorship are taking ' particular latius to secure the favor of the leading denominattons in the state. Tiiat 1 cou es t h>ud'.-nl must la* a v. ry close observer, ■ a d s doubtless a jt-dous sectarian himself, or his llio ight- would not hive such a pe culiar drift. \Yv think is unfortunate and out of place to mike religious opinions a i test m politicil milters Wc are in fav.ir of promoting none but g«*vd tnen to but is at man has a little Soul, a mu di tuiud. Hilda cwiifish heart, who prefers’ one uiiu rath<r than aucther because of his ; church relations. Such issues should be frowned down by every friend of religious toleration, for if a spirit of sectarian preju dice and religious intolerance be encouraged and indulged, it will inevitably lead to diis i astrons results, both to church and state, i The church should be “many ns the waves, but one as the sea,” and the one th it be conies the most popular is in the most dam* ger of becoming corrupt and would work its own destruction by using its influence and power in political eicctions. We should all cultivate and cherish liberal and charit able views, especially in religious masters, and ayoid any thing that savors of foolish, unreasonable, sectarian prejudice an I bigot ry. We are sorry that religious questions have been mixed up with the late elections in some of the Northern states. Such issue l ’ in polities, we repeat, are exceedingly un fortunate, and if they continue to be kept up, and are fanned by religious fanatics, they will one day cause rivers of blood to flow. It would be far better, in our humble opinion, to abolish the public school system altogeth r and everywhere, if it cahn »t lie continu *d without religious strife. Or. why not divide the public school fund an 3 let Prot- st ints and Catholics each have .their proportional part in cases where the two elements are the cause of strife and conten tion. Such is the policy in the South in regard to the whites and blacks, a»d no other plan would do at all. Ifthe Catholics wish to exclude the Bible from their schools, and to deny their children the pri viledge of reading it, we say let them do so. We would not dictate to them in the matter nor control them arbitrarily if we B>uld ; but at the same time, let the line be drawn and a separation be made, so that we can use the Bible in our »chools, if we think proper, and teach our own children its Di vine Truths. In our feelings we are intoler ant in our opposition to religious intoler ance. It is a bad thing and a little thing, but often produces great mischi f. “For modes of faith, let fools and zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in ’he right.” The new M ister of the National Grange, Judge John Thompson Jones, is a native of Essex county, Virgini i, having been born in that county in the year 1813 ; was edu cated at the university of Virginia, graduat ing in the year 1833, having taken the law course. He removed to within ten miles of Helena, Phillips county, Ark , where he settled on a plantation, and has lived there since that time. He was elected ju Ige of the first judicial circuit of Arkansas in 1842, serving two terms of four year* each. Was elected to the senate of the United Slates in 1866, before the state was reconstructed, and was not admitted to a seat, this being the only political office for which he ever offered. He retired from the bench in 1850, and has been devoted p planting ejfersinc-', as well as having carried on a largl plant ing interest while on the benchJu Ige Jones hife two large plantations iJrnlUips county, Arkansas, cultivating ycaDy about 1,000 acres, and one on R>l rivet having about 400 acres in cul ivation. His first care was to have an abundant provision crop, in which he nev< r failed, in ad lition to making about 800 biles of cotton annually, and other cr >ps in proportion. Ilis election gives great satisfaction, and it is felt that the grange will prosper under bis leadership. [Constitution. The President’s message occupiiaUabont ten columns of the daily papers, aud is en tirely too lengthy to be presented in The Georgian. The following is a n-enpitilla tion of the principal recommendations in the message, as made by the President him self : First—That the State shall be required to fiflord the opportunity of a voo I common school education to every child within their limits. Second—No sectarian tenets shall ever be taught in «ny school supported in whole or in part by the State, nations, or by the pro ceeds of any tax levied upon any communi ty. Make education compulsory so fur as i io deprive all persons who cannot read And j wiitc from becoming voters after the year disfranchising none, how- ver, on the grounds of illiteracy, who may be voters at the time this amendment takes effect Third—Deciare churc’i and State forever separate and distinct, but erfli free within i their proper sphere, and that all church 1 property sh.-.1l I ear its own proportion of i taxation. Fourth —Drive out licer.s d immorality. ; such as polygamy and the importation of women for illegitimate purpose. Fifth—Enact such laws as will in«utita speedy return to so md currency, sivh as will command the respe't of the world. The Best Famiuy Newspaper.—This is the claim which the publishers of the New York Observer make.in liehalf of ihtir paper. It is ab»l 1 claim lo make in our day, when there are sb many pipers; but i an undeviating course in sending out, for i fi ty-three years, a large, full, freak, readable, and pure newspaper, which is unsurpassed, jjustifl -s them in the c airn. Wecanrecom- ■ mend the Observer. It has no hobbies; it is sound in doctrine, impartial and unbias ed. reliable in its news, interesting and in- ' structive in its various departments, and of fers no cl* p-trap prt miums or pictures. For specimen copies, address S I. Prime <fc Co., New York. At.ARtM \ ha* adopted her new coasliin ! tio i by a remarkably heavy maj >rity. ! While the vote is i.i some sense a protest ! against the carpet-bag systen of govern i meat, this constitution h-« excellent frat- I ures of its >.vn iside form its marked con trast to Liat w'rc i it replies It do *s ■ away with special legislation ; it prohibits tlie General Assembly from lending the m >nvy or ere lit ol the stat • to works of in ternal improvement, and lim ts the rite of taxation to be levi 1; it reduces the sdaries of ill executive sn 1 judicial offi *ers by nt least 25 p r cent and thus and otherwise effw’* large economy. There mvtl b-; little J<»ubt that it will liv the foundation of n , renew -1 pr>''p.riiy for the state, and set an '< x i nulcto be c«>pi.-d throughout the South. —[NvW Y.rk Tri>uue, I NEWS SUMMARY. CONGRESSIONAL. The Forty-fourth Congress met on the 6th instant. Senator Ferry presided in the Senate. No changes are reported in the ore ganization of that hodv. The House was organized by the election of M C. Krrr of Indiana, Speak- r; George M. Adams of Kentucky, Clerk ; John G. Thompson of Ohio,Sergeant-at-arms; Lafavetto Fitzhugh of Texas. Doorkeeper; James M. St< w rt of Virginia, Postmaster; and Rev. J. L. Townsend of the District of Columbia. Chapl tin. Nothing of int rest his vet transpired, both houses being engaged in perfecting tiv-ir organization, preparatory to going to work in earnest. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Cedartown has a pig nine months old that weighs 300 pounds. In Troy, N. Y., lately, three families were poisoned by eating cheese. News from Indiana, Missouri, and Illi nois, states that thousands of hogs are dy ing of cholera in those States. It is estimated that the cotton crop of South Carolina this vear will be about 325, 000 bales, agaiftst 400,000 las’ year. GOV. Chamberlain of S. C., announced hitns-lf at the Anderson Fair as an advo cate for the abolishment of the fence law. The sum of $750,000 in Confederate mon ey and $50,000 in Confederate bonds was sold in Nashville last week for SSO in gold. Colon?! I. W. Avery, formerly of the At lanta Constitution an 1 the Herald, is a can didate f<>r the City Judgeship of Atlanta. He woul 1 grace the position. A Mormon church was recently op*ned in London. Great resentment was felt in the neighborhood against the community, and it is feared violence will be offered to them. The steamer Deutchland went ashore on the Kentish Knock sands, near the mouth of the river Thames, England, one day last week, and fifty of the passengers and crew wore drowned. The United States Grand Jury in session at St. Louis is reported to have found an in dictment against Gen. O. A. Babcock, Grant’s private secretary, for complicity in revenue frauds. The ladies of Mount Vernon Assncia’ion of Richmond are going to hold a Grand Cent nnial Ball on th *221 of February at which all of the dresses are to be in the style of one hundred years ago. The African Methodist Episcopal Annn al Conferenoe of North Carolina, now in session in Wilmington, represents the larg est colored organization ot Christians in the world, as well as the oldest. On the 10th instant, a leopard shipped from New York by the barge Chesapeake, escaped from its cage and holds undisputed possession of the vessel. E f >rts to capture the beas’ have been unavailing. The Young Men’s Christian Associa ion of Washington owes thirty-three thousand dollars, and can’t pav it, and the creditors em’t find anything but a table, three chairs and a long haired young man to levy on A feirful mine explosion occurred in England on the 6-h instant, whereby nearly two hun'lred colliers w< rc killed. The mine adjoined another, in which, twelve years ago. over three hundred persons perished from the same cause. Ex-President Andrew Johnson’s only son, editor of a wckly pip r nt Greenville, Tenn , was married the other day to Miss Bessie M. Rumbough, of Wann Springs. N. C . and the couple are going to live in the old family residence. Several b dlo's have been taken in the Virginia legislature for the United States Senator to succeed Hon. John W. Johnson. Messrs Johnson. John Goode. ex-Govcrnor Wm. Smith, and Tims. 8. Flournoy, are the candidates, Mr. Goode leading. An engine attached to a passenger train on the Macon and Brunswich railroad ex ploded on the 10th instant, at Buzzard Roost, twenty-five miles Irom Macon, kill ing the engineer and slightly wounding the fireman. Fortunately the passengers es caped injury. Mr. Pugh, a photographer of Macon, says the taking of pictures at night is not a new thing. lie claims to h ive successfully tak en pictures of the night fl iwering creeping cercus four years a go. The fl - W'-r b’ooms only in the night, and he took a fine nega tive of a handsome specimen in the short space of twenty second’s exposure ot the plate. J. M. Camp, whose farm is two and a half mil 's above Rome, Gi, on the Etowah River, made 36 bales of cotton this seas *n on 42 acre*, 30 acres of which made a bah* to the acre. He also made 38 btishrb of corn to the acre on 40 acres. buMi els of wheat to the acre The only fertiliz er he used was barnyard, produced on his own farm. The inhabitants of Vera Crux, Mexico, were attacked a few day ago by a cough, which proved to be contagious, and even extended to animals. About the same time thousands of dead fish were thrown on the beach bv tie waves. The two fads are supposed to have some connection, ns both have occurred together on several former occasions. No serious consequences have resulted. On the 4th. Wm. M. Tweed, the notori ous New York politician and peculator, es caped from his custodians in New York citv, while on a visit to his wife, and at last accounts had not Ijcen captured. Il is sup posed hts friends bought a bark, in which the fugitive put to sc*. There are suits pending against Tweed to the stupendous amount of $6,006,000, of which hr had nt different times, roblaxl the New York t ity government. The Baltimore Sun, treating ol cotton manufacture in the South, thinks that l>e fore twenty-five years have passed away most of tin* cotton mi te w ill be found in the South, besides the cotton fields, enj ty ing virtually a monopoly of thh nianulict ure of cotton in this country. Heaven has ten the dnv. and when it comes the South will be indep n lent for true. The inflitiou by the Republicans of the gre'enbwk currency to s26,<K>) 000. is more thin they have reduced the bonded debt from that time tn the preacct. Yet a I uinistration orators would have the peo ple brliev: tbit th • nn 1 the. puly is now traveling is the hsonv “highway lo b ird money.” “Get thee behind me, S tteu.” “From over the desert I come to thee on a stillion shod with fire, and the win Is are i left behi id in the speed of my desire ?” was the epistle she got from her lover on the Ri<* Grande. Ihu he daln’t come in that way at all. He rndea little mule until he reach ed the narrow gauge from Denver, and then be sal in a smoking car and chewed tobac co and read a dimv novel the rest of the Appointments of North Georgia Confer" ence. QAfNEEIVILI.E DISTRICT —J R. PARKER, P. R- Gainesville, D. D Cox. Hall Circuit, C. L. Pat fillo. Flowery Branch, To be supplied by K. P. Martin, supernumerary. Cumming, M. W. Arnold.. Alpharetta. J. J. Harris. Canton, R. R. Johnson. Lawrenceville, V. V. Harlan. Logansville, J. II Bentley. Duluth. H. M Eaks. R sweil, J. Chambers. Cherokee, J. N. Mi’t-rs. Norcross, W. T. Laine. ROME DISTRICT —W. P. PLEDGER, P. E. Rome, W. 11. LaPrade. Ro.ne Circuit and Dj Soto Mission, S. P. Jones Forres'rille, D. J. Weems. Cedar Town, A. M. Thigpen Cedar Valley, supplied by J. W. Tray wick. Cave Spring, B. E. L. Timmons. Van Wert, J. W. Lee. Villa Rica, F. T. Reynolds. Haralson Mission, supplied by W. W. Simpson. Cartersville, A. J. Jarrell, J. T. Norris super. Marietta, W. F. Glenn. • Acworth, W. R. Foot, Sr, R. H. Jones super. Powder Spring. Sanford Leake. Dallas, G W. Dunval. Douglasville, M. L. Underwood. DAHLONEGA DISTRICT—J. N. STIPE, P. E. Dahlonega and Jones’ Chapel, J. D. Hammond. Porter Spring Mission supplied, E. L. Stephens. Dawsonville, J. W Baker. Cl veland, Eli Smith. NAOoochec, W. R. Branham, Jr. Blairsville, Thos J. Edwards. Morganton Mission, J N. Austin Ellijay, A. J. Hughes. Jasjier, J. H. Mashburn, Jr. Clayton Circuit and Mission, George E Bonnr. A Special Card. DR. D S. SOUTHWICK, formerly o" New Orleans, one of thr most su< cess !ul physicians and surgeons, has lopite«l in Atlanta. He •nr s privately, quickly, and certninlv, .-.11 di-e.isei brought on by abuse or indi cretio s of any kind. Ail diseases peculiar lo females confidrn;tally cured in a short time. Mclicinvs (pmelv vegetable) s nt C. O. I) or bv mdi to all parts of the country. All commnnicat ons strictly private. Ollie and rooms, 85 and M7 Whitehall street, Atlant i, Ga. 17-ly J. B RXRTON’S FAMILY SUPPLY STUPE. p p P j «: = MARIETTA A GAINESVILLE RTS., (Two-story Brick House,) *53 > CANTON, GA. K-O O ' I 3HO.LS A r lJ<iaS ATIKVJ s.Mounva u f “ Secure the Shadow ere the Sub stance Fades.” A. OAKLAND, Photographer, Ellis’s Brick Building, up stairs. CANTON, ... GEORGIA WILL remain for a short time, and would respectfully invite a call from all who wish any'hing hi his line. All sizes and kinds of pictures made in workmanlike style. Satisfaction given, or no charge. A. OVERLAND, aug 4 Iris BEN J F. PAYNE. JAB. U. VINCENT. Payne & Vincent, Attorneys at Law, CANTON, - • GEORGIA, Wilt prnHic* tn the Jtapertor courts CherokM »n<l adjoining counties, an t in the justice*' court* ot Cherokee, Prompt *ttention will »>e gi»«n t» th<» oolfe-tion of account*, etc. Oflic*, in the Cnurt hnusw. 2-1 Z W. A. BRIGHTWELL. CARPENTER, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Residence, Canton, Ga. O ALL work done by me wilt be done with neat oe« aud dispatch. Prices reasonable —aatisfisetion guaranteed. Aug 4, l-6m UROSjOOPIA. DR. G. W. MADDOX has practiced medicine for three years, with great success, in the rapid cure of diseases, espe cially those of tcm iles. Chronic dise ises. Ixith of m ties nnd females, yield rea lily to his pure medicines Cases can be sent to bi n bv express or bv h:»n I. one half ounce ot nrin»* being snffic'.ent io i •ca’e Die dt«- ens-. M’*d;em w sent to uay part ot th* U’lfted S'ntes nt his risk. All cases prompt ly attended to, div or night A hires*. G. W Madixmc, Walesci, Cheroksc county, Georgia. VJ Pj d. McConnell, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Acworth, _ - _ Georgia, Will pmctw in al! the courts of Cobh Cherokee, Paildiog, aud Bartow coi/uti**. A. Card* To the citizens of Cherokee county : After having been engaged for nine years in the mercantile buai ncss in your midst, I have become convinced that the credit system ia all wrong. To follow it, a merchant lias either to charge enormous pro fits, or ruin himself by selling on time. Those of you who poy promptly have to pay such largo profits that the merchants can af ford to lose the accounts of your neighbors who are not disposed to pay, or who are unfortunate and can not pay. In other words, good men have to pay for the goods pur chased by their unfort linate or dishonest neighbors. This state of things is wrong, aud when a man is satisfied that he is wrong ha should change his course, or ba held responsible for living in the wrong. Fully convinced that the above position is correct, I have deter mined to sell, after the Ist of De cember next, exclusively for cash or barter. I can and will sell at least twenty per cent, cheaper, the stock through, than I have ever sold. lam in favor of every per son paying for hi* own goods, and hope none of my old customer! and friends will be offended when I say to them that after the Ist of December I will sell for cash or barter only. I will be no respecter of persons, will require cash from evary one, and positively will not open my books to charge any item, be it ever so small, to the best man in the county. If you have cash or barter, call and examine my stock and prices before purchas ing elsewhere, and you wilt then be fully satisfied with my 1 new de parture. I charge nothing for ex hibiting goods, or giving prices, and when you have examined the one and heard the other, you will then be convinced it is to your in terest to pay as you go. AH those who are indebted to me, or to the firm of McAfee & Moss, must come forward and make immediate settlements. This is my last call. Very respectfully, 15-Im J. M. McAFEE. “ciiEAP CASiI”STORE.“. SY. m. e l l i s', S< cond door went front corner Gninesvills and Marietta tfrccte, CANTON, GA., Dealer in STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS, GROCERIES aNd HARDWARE. Will nlso do n general Bartering lni*ina».«, nnd allow the highest market prices Tor conntrj* produce. It will be to your inter est to call nnd examine mv stock nnd price* Iwfore purchasing elsewhere. You will find gooffs at the old prices, lor cnsh. Highest market price, in cash and barter, paid for Hides and Fur«. 8-1 y W. M. ELUS. J - - O’SHI 13UDS, HOUSE, SIGN AND ORNAMENTAL Painter, FRESCO AND SCENIC ARTIST, Canton, .... Gxa-Mia. . y * * * . , - . - Refers to Rev. P. 11. Brewster. W. M Elite, J. B. B*rton & Co., CnnUm.G*.; J A. Stover, J. W. Dyer, paraters, CUrfers vilh*; John A, Matthias, Cmb atatfaa, Ga Prices to suit the limes. aug 25 4-lan P’urniture! ALL persons wanting anything r> owr line will do well local] on us. Wa will put up as good and ns cheap Furni ture ns you can buy in Atlanta, or an v other market. Yon will save money by giving us a call, as we enn ami will maka anyihing you want in the line of Furni ture. All kinds of produce nt market prices taken in exchange. Material and trimminim turnished at any time. Shop on Main street, opposite MeA fa»’s hotel, Canton, Ga. J. D. HARDIN, 15-ly _ JAMES O. DOWD A, Attorney at Law, CANTON, - - . GEORGIA. yTTILL practice in the Superior Courte V V ot Cherokee and adjoining counlm. Will faithiully and promptly aUend to the c<>lh<*tion <*f ail claims pul in his hands. Office in the court-house, Cantoo, G<u 1 ly Mrs. M. A, Smith, Canton, HAIR WORKER, Manufactures hair into ail kinds ol braids, rmglets, setts, br&cnlets, wa ch-giinrds, necklaces, etc Will insure satisfaction in quality of work and price. All grades of mounting furnished when de sired Call and see style of work, on Ma rietta street. 430!