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BY BREWSTER & CO. It Will Pay You, § TO EXAMINB, K TO EXAMINE, B 4 s , AND PURCHASE, » 55 * ■ £» AND PURCHASE, gl h-< •w B. F. CRISLER, WIW XMMP* 3\j *!*> M-e •’» ***H A FULL VARIETY •C MMh goods m ar* k*pt in a Dry Goods»Grocery Store ▲lto prepared to put up Boots cvncX Shoes in the best style, and on short notice. Will furnish LKATHER in any quanti ties to suit purchasers. HP Will take COUNTRY PRODUCE at the l»f**t priecs, and pay cash or goods for HIDES. atig 4 1-ts SHARP <& CO., WALE.SCA, GEORGIA, Dealers in General Merchandise, ▲r* sehitig At LOW DOWN FIGURES. Will five >OR CASH QR BABTKR, Being anxioas to make room tor the Fall trrde. If you need anything la oar line, call and see as. SHARP * CO aug?\ 3 @lje ClSljcvokcc ©corgiint. LOVE'S ARITHMETIC. Yes, you may kiss me once— Just once, not even twic •; You wicked wretch, you g tve me two ! No; it isn’t nice. You have your orders, sir— Once, only once, I say— How very strange, you cannot coent! Now, dear, will you obey? Oh, well, if you’re so dull I’ll give you one chance more; Now try to get it right this time —• You horrid creature! Four I Just understand me, please I told you only one, And if you do me out of four They’ll have to be undone. There, then I give you up. The hopelessest of dunces ; But you can kiss me just once more, That means a hundred ounces! Contributed to The Georgian. What I Used to See, and What I See Now. At the commencement of the civil war, free government had reached the climax of its glory. Since then, everything condu cive to individual or national prosperity is demoralized, decay is written in unmistak able characters upon individual enterprise, and the nation’s doom is a question of thii<- unless we inaugurate a new, or rather an old, system. By this I mean that we must go back to first principles. The nation is now making prcpaiation for the grand Cen tennial show, which will cost or squander thousands of dollars and valna' le time — which is money wasted to celebrate a bank rupt and degraded failure. It would be in order if the Chief Executive had the moral courage and Christian qualifications to pro claim a big prayer-meeting, to invoke the God who lules the destinies of nations to turn back the tide of lawlessness and op pression which has been the order of con gressional legislation for the past ten years. But I am digressing. We hear a great deal sai 1 about hard times and scarcity of money. Lelnsinves tigate this trouble. Ours are an agricul people. There thould be nnmxn panic to a fanner—none to anybody out of debt. The fault, in a great measure, is our own. A few years ago I saw on almost ev ery farm an animal—now almost unknown —called a hog, which costs us a l«rge por tion of our cotton crop, to say nothing o' lard, which enters into a great many of the culinary fixings, and which, strange to say, is made from this hog. I used to see the females on almost every farm manufacture and make up, by hand, all the family’s working-clothes Our sweethearts, with a plain, neat, ten-yard calico harto-tl neater and more desirable than the stylish woman of to-day, with her double-skirt tie back and jigtrarees of thirty or forty yards, made up ragged on a high-priced sewing machine. I see a great many dissatisfied people young men especially, going west in search of a j<>b—the most of them without a dol lar. They want a good place to lioanl, good wages, and have a passion for tine clothes; fancy boots a specialty; warrant ed not to work a lick if it can possibly be avoided. Going west, because lauds are cheap. Well, comment is unnecessary. I see a great many salaried officers, which are so many drains upon the tax-payers of the country. A great many of them ate useless sappera of tbc country’s prosperity, and others are receiving sums in excess of the services rendered, and yet they claim to be the people’s servants. If I hire a serv ant, I claim the right to state the terms. If the people pay the expenses of running the machine, then let the people instruct those very obedient servants how to spend their money. There is a tax receiver, a collector, and a county treasurer, each of whom receive as much as half a dozen mtn who plow all the year round, and these of ficers could be dispensed with save one, and that one's salary be reduced. It’s all in “my eye, Betty Martin,” harping upon the brain, responsibility and qualifications. Anybody with common sense and an hon est heart—those are the great qualifies'ions necessary to discharge the duties, and there are hundreds ready to sacrifice themselves for half the present price, and congratilate ( themselves upon escaping plow-handles., Let the people memorialize the Legislature to do away with all the offices that can be dispensed with, and cut down in every way possible public expenses. If our pres-, ent members think it looks niggardly and undignified to retrench, then let us send other and better men, who will spend the people’s money as they would their own. Then we will have better times. As I don’t want an office, and have no friends to reward nor foes to punish, I make free to alate plainly the opinions of an Old Fogy Mrs. Mili is was asked the other day bow she managed to get along so nicely with Mr. Millie, and she frankly replied : “Oh, I fred him well. When a woman marries, her happinees for a little while d> ’ pends upon the state of her husband’s heart, after that it’s pretty much according to the state of his stomach.'’ Virtue and Intelligence —Tile Safeguards of Liberty. CANTOX, CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1876. Contributed to Tho Georgian. Why Go West ? “Westward the tide of empire w nds its way,” etc. And why westward, pray ? Can you tell us? Is it noi because at the S »uth we sleep? What has the West—though known to be wonderful in resourcesand abundant in such treasures as are craved by the hu man heart—to offer as equal in all aspects to those gifts s® lavishly liestowed upon the j people who inhabit tbc Southern slope of the Blue Ridge mountains ? The so-called “tide of empire” is surely unai quaiuted with this favored region. Your coirespondent has recently met a gentleman all the way from Denver, Colorado —yes, the tar famed city of Denver, which is nestled down upon the borders of Denver Lake, skirted around by scenery and mountain peaks as beautiful as a poet’s dream, where they tell us p* ople forget to die, and from which place it is said they must move away it they wish not to live. How much we have heard, read, and imagined about Denver. Why, Sirs, we had concluded that it surely was tin one place of our broad American Union which comprised the great nonpareil of natural beauty combined with climatic per fection in every sense. And yet, rtrange to tell, our ilenyer friend would like to move from Colorado and come to the Southern Blue Ridge country. The present period of our Southern winter, especially the past time weeks of murky, cloudy days, i»» the most unfavorable time imagin able to look at this country. And yet, the aforesaid visitor’s knowledge of it i- limited 'o such an unfavorable view. Certainly ’ln eyent, trifling though it. seems, lif s a bright feather to the cap of *our people Up > the citizens and acquaintance* met on his route, our new friend bestowed cordial ami well deserved praise. Why go West, then, young man? The writer, it is true, has not been to Denver, but has often been West, and through many of its best parts, and he has no hesitancy in saying that your country is good enough, possibly bet ter than you have merited Lay hold with gloves off it you would in piove, dry. lop, and beautify it, f«>r n» »“»•<• you W«—« you will ceitainlv tie removed from some one or more of Heaven’s choicest blessings lying in profusion around you, but whicn it may be you are too listless, or they are too common for you rightly to appreciate and enjoy. Certain it is that neither in the West, East. North or South, affluence co * - ’orts, a good name, or high p'-si’itm, or any golden prize can be attained without dili gence, good habits, Drain work, mtiM.le work and constant application. All the es sentials for the make np of a wealthy, populous, s< If- ustaining 1 nd ! : c within the superb belt of the South i • Blue Ridge slope. Nothing is lacking bit* phica and enterprise. Capital follows th*sc, it does not make them, but is produced and en ticed hy them. Far betti ris it ter a coni* inanity m a town to lie without natural I'dvantiges w Inn thev goto work with a ,b l< t mined and united spirit to make them, than for to oth* r provided with every gift nature can Ixstow, but who being content ed with their lucky Jot qtiw tly and de mnrdy fold thiir hands, awaiting at ease for great things to turn up lor them VIKOtL. Contributed to The Georgian A Temperance Essay READ XT A LADT MEMBER OF BALACOA GOOD TEMPLAR*’ LODGE. When I take a retrospective view of our history, and see the many pit-falls into which anient spirits have drawn many of our unfortunate race, the spectacle appals me. Amcng the fallen we see some of our country’s lieat men, brought to rain and shame by taking the first fabe step —yea, taking the first, the fatal dram. We have , known some of our country's noblest blood i who had wealth, talent, and scores of i friends, come down step by step, and get so low in the scale of respectability from the ; use of this horrid intoxicating dram, that their best friends deserted them, and their wiv< s, their onec bosom companions, would draw back from them, and their ill-tn ated children, bone of their bone and flesh of < their fl -sb, would fly from them as from I monsters; for they act noi as men, hus i bands, or fathers, but, when drank, they < i are worse than brutes. Once man becomes ■ fond of this intoxicating drink, and«he will ' neglect bis business, then his family; his j property goes to waste ; his helpless family ’ j comes to want, to poverty, and to tags, and. while they are ragged and gnawed by the pangs of hunger, and borering around a chip fire in some cheerless cabin, he., the red-eyed monster, is loafing around some little village dram-shop, or rolling like the i swine in the mud and filth of the street. | Man, when intoxicated, is not in his j right mind. He la comes highly offended j al some slight remark made in a joke that ;he would not notice when sober, flies into a passion, plunges his knife into the bosom, may be, of oae of his best friends, sheds I his life’s hlood, and sends a soul into eter nity, perhaps unprepared to meet his God. But it does not end here. The murderer is arrested and chained down in a dungeon. I W hen there he becomes sober, and Ixgius to reflect. “How came I here?” he asks “What does all this mean ? Ah ! fatal dram, it is thou that has brought me to this! It I could only go back and live my life over again, I would spurn thee as I would a viper. But, alas ! it is too late. I must now suff r the penalty of my heinous crime.” Now, my friends, let us unite our exer tions to drive this fiery-headed monster : troin our land. Let us neither buy, sell, t use,-or patronize any one who d<,es deal in . this obnoxious poison. Let us strive to sec how much good we can do ; for, if we try. we can accomplish much. Let us be more punctual iu our attendance upon the lodge, and zealous in the good cause. It is a cause in which every one should take great inter est. When the doors of the grog-shops are closed, and temperance prevails over our loved country, then we will be a prosperous and happy people again. Letter from Cherokee ( ounty. • Canton, Ga., Dec. 3, 1875. Editors Milledgeville Union and Recorder On leaving your city some days since, your correspondent proceeded en n»yte to Atlanta, via the Georgia rail-’ road. We are glad to see and learn that planWs in the sections from your place to Atlanta arc manifesting unusual interest in the sowing of small grain. The acreage will probably exceed any crop ever before planted in that section. We arrived at Atlanta, where we spent one d’ty. Business there seemed to be more brisk, and business men more hope- , ful and in better spirits, than in any city . which we have visited in some time, but _ all complained of a considerable falling off in business to what it usually has been at j tliitJ season. . While in Atlanta we had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Captain J. M. McAfee, a wealthy and leading citizen of tnis town and county, who gave us a cor dial invitation to visit this section of the t State, and to go home with him, as be was 1 to start the next day. As the heading of < this communication indicates, we accepted 1 tfie’fnvWiion. I According to agreement, we proceeded i from Atlanta to Marietta, on the Western i and Atlantic train, the latter being the ' nearest point of railroad to this place. We ] spent a good portion of one day in Mari- t etta, ami. the Superior court being in ses- ' sion there, tbc town was pretty lively, i H' p we saw a few familiar faces, among i whom was General William Phillips. Tbc ’ G<-n. ral was professionally engaged in the i court-room, but we had a pleasant conver sation with him before leaving. He mani- i fisted a great intciest in the Marietta and ■ North Georgia railroad, of which he is the president. The railroad is now gradt d to this place (Canton), a distance of twenty-two miles, ; and ties are being provided to lay the track The prospects for completing the whole line i to Murphy. North Carolina —where it will be met by the line projected southward from Knoxville—are very encouraging at I the pres* nt time. We think there is no load in the State that will be more profit able to the people generally than this one, < when it is completed. It runs through a connt’-y for which there is now no outlet. Corn here in Canton is bringing but fifty cents a bushel for the best, and I am in formed that a few miles above here in this county thousands of bushels can be bought ! for forty cents a bushel. Sweet pota’oes here are worth only thirty-five cents, while cabbages and apples go tor a mere song. Y’our section and southern Georgia need these things, and the completion of the Marietta and North Georgia road will en able you to obtain them at much less cost than you do from the West, and at the same time the money you spend for such j produce will remain in the State. We ! wish the General and the stockholders ■ ' great success in the prosecution of this ' j enterprise. Rich iron, copper, and gold . mine* are being discovered continually in this section of the Slate, and miners arc at work with encouraging success in a num b rof them, al> of which, when opened ! up properly by railroad facilities, will add . largely to the prosperity of our State. We J know not, Messrs. Editors, that you will ' agree with us, but we say this road should * be budt at all hazards. If it can not be ! done without State aid, the Legislature J should not hesitate to give it in reason, j ' The State can lose nothing by so doing. I I The taxable property in the section through j which the road runs wilt be greatly in creased, which will relieve property in other sections in the same proportion, and,; as we have already stated, will enable lax .. payers in other parts of the State to obtain | their supplies of meat, gram, minerals, etc., ; at much less figures than they do from the • West, which of itself leaves each taxpayer . more more money and better able to pay ; his taxes. So you see the interest will be a mutual one all over the State, and hence we repeat that, if State aid is necessary to the completion of this road, the Legislature should not hisitate to grant it. We left Marietta by private conveyance, in company with our friend Captain Mc- Afee, en route to thi? place. We had * nice time on the way, riding through and viewing the. fertile mountain country. We sav fertile, because the best lands we ever saw we have seen about here. The Eto wah river r ns very mar Canton, and along its ba: k lie the best of lands. We think we will m v r regret our trip to North Georgia. It is a beautiful and very desir able portion—yes, the most desirable to live in of any portion of Georgia. Canton is the county seat of Cherokee county. The court-house and hotel are excellent brick buildings, having been built since the war, Rt a cost of ten or twelve thousand dollars etch. There are some four or five other brick buildings in the place, most of which are business ho.uses, quite a number of nice framed dwellings, besides a number of others of less attrac tion, nearly all of which have been built since the war, the place having nearly been burnt out bv the enemy. But the bi st feature of all is the fact that there is no liquor sold here, it having been prohibited by a special act of the Legislature ; hence the place is a quiet one. The people are noted for their sobriety, hospitality and morality. Since here we have had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with the editors of The Cherokee Georgian, which paper is published in this place. We have had free access to the office anti file ■ H of the times —the creation of a system of water-line transportation gigantic in its proportions and incalculable iu Itt results in the advancement of the agricultural and mineral interests of the sections which the Coosa and its tributaries drain. The pro po-ed improvement includes water lines of about thirteen hundred miles in length, de veloping vast resources of agricultural and mineral wealth now comparatively locked up for the want of cheaper transportation than that secured by railread. These riv ers, propelly and thoroughly improved, will bring to the channels of trade a com merce astounding in its magnitude and be yond calculation in its benefits to the people whose interests are directly to be enhanced. Nor is the value of the work confined to the interests of the people immediately along the water line to be thus improved, but will add greatly to the revenue of the General and State governments. In this light the work becomes a matter of na tional import, appealing with great power to the national benefit for its consumma tion. The Etowah river is comprised in this system of transportation. Draining one of the most fertile sections of Georgia, with rich mines of minerals contiguous to it that would be more profitably' developed with cheap transportation, the removal of obstructions to navigation in it is a subject in which we of this section arc greatly and vitally interested. With the unobstructed passage of boats from Cartersville to Mo bile, our agricultural and mineral produc tions would find a cheap outlet to the markets of the world that would increase their value at least twenty-five per cent. These boats returning with groceries and the tropical productions would enable Car tersville and the towns upon the Etowah to successfully compete with Atlanta and Augusta in tbc sale of these commodities. When times become more propitious, and the financial pressure is removed, such a line of cheap transportation to the sea would rekindle at an early day the fires of our iron furnaces, and be the means of adding scores to the number already erect ed. The capital already invested would soon appreciate to par value, and the idle capital of the country, directed by skilled j enterprise, would seek investment ir the | development of the rich mines of mineral wealth that are so profusely imbedded in i our bills and mountains. Ex- It is proverbial that the early bird catch es the worm. But so,when you come to, think of it, does the early fish—who wants to anticipate bis brethren—and get hooked for his pains. There is no depending on these proverbs as far as great moral lessons are concerned. “If Jones undertakes to pull my ears, i said a loud-mouthed fellow on a corner, “he will just have his hands full, now.” The crowd looked at the man’s ears and thought so too. “I go through my work,” as the needle said to the idle boy. “But not until you are pushed hard,” as the idle boy said to the needle. VOLUME 1.-NUMBER 22. I I’liosphorus. It is now a hundred years since phospho rus was discovered by a German chemist, and it is less than fifty years since phospho- I rus became an article of extended manu j ficlure in connection with lucifer matches, ai a medicine, in various combinations, as a' means for the extermination of vermin, and as a component in some of the very best fer tilizers, it being an indispensable food for plant life. The bones and brain of every human require a certain portion of phoe phorus, and there is said to bo more than a pound of pure phosphorus in a man or wo man of average size. It is true we d«> not actually eat this substance in its pure and concentrated state, but it is nevertheless •’ constituent of our food in combination with 4 other elements. The cereals obtain it from 1 the phosphates, and w*e g> t it in a similar manner from the particles of our daily nourishment. Phosphorus was at first ob tained, only in small quantities, by a long and tedious process from urine. It is now obtained in more ample supply from bone*.’ It is generally of a light amber color, and ir semi-transparent, and in appearance greatly, resembles fine wax. When more carefully prepared it is almost colorless. It is highly combustible, and burns in common air with great rapidity, emitting a luminous vapor, idhosphorous can lie easily cut with a knife,. Hid by the aid of suitable machinery can H' readily drawn out in a good sized “coni” H a considerable length. Its specific grar- H-is 1.77. It is insoluble in water; but subjected to a heat of 148 degrees it Hkes fire, and burns with a very bright Hme. When phosphorus is inflamed in Hygen, the light and heat are very inten-e, Hhile the flatne greatly dazzles and con- Hses the eye of the observer. Phosphoric Hid is a combination of phosphorus with a Hlifiable base. When phosphorus was first Hud in the manufacture of matches, its Hice in Europe was twenty dollars per Hund, but by recent improved and econom n*‘l chemical processes in its production, more accessible material, and other causes, its cost now does not exceed one dollar per pound, and is frequently much less. Th* seat of its largest pioaudiiou Txtn erenn*nT, with factories also to some extent in Great Britain and in the United States. Don’t Worry About Yourxelf. To regain or recover health persons should be relieved from all anxiety concerning die eases. The mind has power over the body. For a person to think that he has a disease will often produce that disease. Tin# we see effected when the mind is intensely con centrated upon the disease of another. It is found in the hospital that surgeons and physicians who make a speciality of cer tain diseases are liable to die of it them selves; and the mental power is so great that sometimes people die of diseases which they only have in imagination. We have seen a person sea-sick in anticipation of a voyage before reaching the vessel. We have known a person to die of cancer in the stomach when he had no cancer or any other mortal disease. A blind-folded man slightly pricked in the arm has faint ed ard died from believing that he was bleedfng to death. Therefore, w'ell pjrion«, to remain well, should be cheerful and happy; tnd sick persons should have their attention drawn as much as possible from themselves. It. is by their faith men are saved, and it is by their faith that men die. If he wills not to die he can often live in spite of disease; and if he has little or no attachment to lit* he will slip away as easily as a child will fall asleep. Men live by tbeir souls, and not by their bodies. Tbeir bodies have no life of themselves; they are only re sources of life —tenements of their souls. The will has much to do in continuing the physical occupancy or giving it up.—[Jour nal of Health. The Watch. —“Watch” is from * Sax oi word signifying “to wake.” At first the watch was as large as a saucer ; it had weights, and was called “ihe pocket cl >ck.” The earliest known use of the modern name occurs in a record of 1542, which mentions that Edward I. had “onne larum or watch of iron, the case being likewise of iron-gilt, with two phunettss of lead.” The first great improvement, the substitution of the springs lor weight, was about 1550. Ths earliest springs were not coiled but only straight pieces of steel. Early watches had only one hand, and required winding twice a day. The dials were of silver or brass; I the cases had no crystals but opened st the back,, and were four or five inches in diameter. A plain watch cost the equiva lent of |1.500 in our currency, and after one was ordered it took a year to make It. There is a watch in a Swiss museum only I three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, . inserted in the top of a pencil-case. Its hands indicate not only hours, minutes, and seconds, but also days of the month. It is , a relic of the old times, when watebe* were inserted in snuff-boxes, shirt-studs, breast • pins, bracelets, and finger-rings. Many were fantastic—oval, octangular, cruciform, or in the shape of pears, melons, or refites.