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Travelers’ Guide.
CHEROKEE HAILROAD.
"IN ROM and after this date the following
JP Schedule will b* run on the Cherokee Rail-
Leave Roc kmart at 7:00 A.M.
“ Taylorsville, 8:00 “
“ Stilt sboro, 8:25 “
Arrive at t artersville, 9:10 “
Leave Cartersville. 3:00 P. M.
StiLsboro, 3:50
“ Taylorsville... 4:30 “
Arrive at Rock mart,.?'. 5:15 “
WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
The following Schedule takes effect Novem
ber 28, 1875.
NORTH WARD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta ~..4 20 pm
Arrive Cartersville 636 pm
Arrive Kingston 6 43 p nr
Arrive Dalton 7 04 p m
Arrive Chattanooga 10 15 p m
No. 3.
Leave Atlanta 6 20 am
Arrive Cartersville 8 42 a m
Arrive Kingston 9 lx a in
Arrive Dalton 10 54 a m
ArrivejChattanooga 12 42 pm
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 5 55 p m
Arrive*('artersville 8 50 p m
Arrive Kingston..... .. ..9 24 pm
Arrive Dalton i 11 45 p m
SOUTHWARD- No. 2.
Arive Chattanooga 4 00 p m
Leave Dalton 5 51 p m
Arrive Kingston * 01 r
Arrive Cartersville 8 93 p ni
Arrive Atlanta 10 10 p m
No. 4.
Leave Chattanooga .....5 15 a m
Arrive Dalton 7 14am
Arrive Kingston 9 07 am
Arrive Cartersville 9 45 ant
Arrive Atlanta * H 55 n’n
No. 13.
Arrive Dalton 1 00 a m
Arrive Kingston 4 21 a in
Arrive Cartersville -.-5 18 a m
Arrive Atlanta —9 42 a m
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 3, be
tween New Orleans and Baltimore.
Pullman Palace Cars run ou Nos. 1 and 4 be
tween Atlanta and Nashville.
Pullman Palace Cars run or Nos *a3 ml 2be
tween Louisville and Atluata.
. BSTNo change of cars between New Orleans
Alobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore
and only one change to New York.
Passengers leaving Atlanta at 4 10 p. m , ar
rive in New Y'ork the second thereafter at 4 00
p. in.
Excursion Tickets to the Virginia Springs
and various Summer Resorts will be on sale
in New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Colum
bus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta,
at greatly reduced rates Ist ot June.
Parties desiring a whole car through to the
Virginia Springs or to Baltimore should ad
dress the undersigned.
Parties contemplating traveling should send
for a copy of the JTennesmo It out 1 Gaaette, con
taining schedules, etc.
Ask for tickets via “Kennesaw Route.” ,
B. W. WRENN,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent,
mn\22—dtt Atlanta, Ga.
KOMI’. RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Sunday, Dec. 13th trains on the
Rome Railroad will run as follows:
DAY TRAIN— EVERY DAY.
Leave Rome at 7am
Arrive at Rome 11.30 a m
SATURDAY EVENIHO ACCOMODATION.
Leaves Rome at 5.45 p m
Arrive at Home at 9 p m
ATLANTA * WEST POINT RAH-KOAD.
PASSENGER IB AIN—OUTWARD.
STATIONS. ABUITIS. LKAV*
Atlanta 10:35 p.m.
East Point 10:44 p. m. 10:44 p. iu.
Kel Oak -.10:59 p. m. 11:44 p. m.
Tuirburu 11:91 p. ai. 11:93 p.m.
Palmotto 11:37 y. ia. 11:38 p. m.
I‘owall’s 11 ;5* p. iu, 11:59 p. ni.
Ncwoaa 19:14 p.m. 13:15 a.m.
Puckett’s 13:30* m 12:35 am
Grantville 13:50 a in 13:51 am
Hogausville l:i)8 am 13)3 am
Whitfield’* 1:84 a m 1:35 am
LaGrange 1:54 a m 1 :55 a m
Long lane 2:31 a iu 2:21 am
West Point 3:40 a m
PASSENGER TRAIN—INWARD.
STATIONS. AHHIVK. LEAVE.
West Point 12:30 p m
Long lane 13:36 pm 13:30 p m
La Grange 1:09 p m ISJ3 p m
Whitfield's I:3lpm 1:21 P m
Hogan.-vitle I:3lpm 1:42 p m
Grantville l:slpia 1:58 p m
Puckett’s 3:13 p m 2:18 p m
Newnan 3:29 p in 2:30 pm
Powell’s 3;44pm 3:45 pm
Palmetto... 3:00 p m 3:07 pm
Fairbjiru 3:33 p m 2:33 p m
Red Oak 3:38 p ni 3:42 p ra
Last Point 3:57 p m 3:57 pm
Atlanta 4:ls|p iu
SELMA, ROME & DALTON.
MAIL TRAIN DAILY-NORTH.
Leave Rome 6:10 p m
Arrive at Da1t0n..... p m
Making close connections at Dalton with the
East Tennessee, Yirgiuia and Georgia Rail
road, and Western and Atlantic Hailroad lor
all Eastern and Western cities.
MAIL TRAIN DAILY—SOUTH.
Leave Dalton 6.00 T> ni
Arrive at Rome 9.10 p m
Arrive at Patera 5:40 a u
Arrive at Selma ..10;30 a in i
Making close connection atCalcira lor Mont
gomery amt points South, aud at Selma wit-
Alabaina Central Railroad for Mobile, New Or
leans, Meridian, Vicksburg, Jackson, all
points South in Texas, Louisiana and Missis-
M. STANTON, Gen. Sup’t.
Ray Knight, Gen. Ticket and Pass’gr Agt.
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Passenger Trains on Georgia Railroad,
Atlanta to Augusta, run as below:
Leaves Augusta at 8:45 a m
Leaves Atlanta at 7 : 0o ain
Arrives at Augusta '...."3:30 a in
Arrives at Atlanta .".5:45 p m
Night passenger trains as follows:
Leaves Augusta at p m
Leaves Atlanta at 10:50 p m
Arrives at Augusta 3115 a m
Arrives at Atlanta. 6)35 a m
Accomodation train as follows :
Leaves Atlanta 5:00 p m
Leaves Covington 5:50 m
Arrives at Atlanta 3;15 a m
Arrives at Covington .7:30 p m
THE COOSA RIVER STEAMERS!
Steamers on the Coosa River will run as per
schedule as follows: 1
Leave Rome every Monday at 1 p m
Leave Rome every Thursday. ~. ..8a ni
Arrive at Gadsden Tuesday and Friday-' 9 a m
Arrive at Rome Wednesday and Saturday 6 n ir
J. M. ELLIOTT, Gen’l Sup’*,
THE ETOWAH EIVEH.
Substance of the Remarks made br Gen.
Tilton at the Canton Mass Meeting:,
It has been well said, that he who
causes two blades of grass to grow
where but one existed, is a public
benefactor; this is so, but I tell you
here, that he or they, who removes
the barriers that exist* bet ween the
producer and consumer, and who
lessens the cost and embarrassments
that attend the interchange of the
productions of labor; is worthy of
the highest honors of the State, is
one of the noblest benefactors of his
day and generation.
Every step in the solution of this
problem, raises the. value of the pro
ducts of human industry, even be
fore they leave the farm, the mine,
the workshop, or the factory. They
stimulate production, and increase
traffic, or the interchange of commod
ities between man and man.
Therefore, the destruction of every
obstacle between the producer and
the consumer, wnether the obstacle
l>ea natural or artificial one, is full of
blessings to mankind.
The men who inaugurate those no
ble schemes enlarge the area of civil
ization, refinement, and constitution
al liberty, and are worthy of the
highest honors which man confers
upon his fellow man when his fame
rests upon such secure foundations.
History is replete with examples.
In our own short history as a nation
whose name stands higher than Gov.
DeWitt Clinton, the originator of
that great blessing to both East and
West, the Erie Canal ?
No intelligent man will deny, that
in proportion as the interchange of
products is facilitated ; there will be,
first, increased value given to them
while in the possession of the produ
cer; second, that production will be
stimulated, by which commerce will
be benefited, and reap larger aggre
gate profits; third, that while the
producers will be b?tter rewarded,
and the sphere and profits of com
merce enlarged, it is clear that every
one unless favored by some special
legislation, or individual advantage,
is vitally interested in freeing com
merce from every trammel and im
pediment, either natural or artificial.
The key note of our national pros
perity is sounded in the simple
words, “ Cheap Transportation. ”
School boys should be taught that
the superior facilities for cheap trans
portation secured to Phoenicia, Ath
ens, Venice, Holland, the Florentine
Republic and England, the commerce
of the world. Each retained it until
its rival became the cheaper carrier,
and it iu a notable fact, that art, re
finement, in short, the highest civili
zation, attained in each State its
most complete development, du
ring their commercial sway.
Therefore, let commerce he free; the
only possible free transportation is by
water ; this is everybody’s road ; any
one can put a boat upon the free riv
er, or a vessel upon the high seas;
but it is the essential routine of all
artificial roads, especially when own
ed by corporations, to become mo
nopolies. Let commerce be free.
Tax the citizen by any just method,
to support the needful government,
with absolute freedom the products
of his own labor, with those of his
fellow men. Tax the wealth, but
leave free the stimulus which creates
it. For the only stimulus to surplus
production is the enhanced or remu
nerative prices which cheap trans
portation can alone insure. Then
will honest toil be truly dignified
and honorable, and then will agri
culture, once defied in ages past,
again be recognized as the guardian
goddess of manly independence and
the shelter of every manly virtue.
You are the sovereigns of this na
tion. You make and unmake the
laws through your representatives.
Those sad days when Georgia was
prostrate at the feet of an aiien gov
ernment are happily past, I frequent
ly hope ferever. Your delegation in
the Congress is not surpassed by that
of any other State in this union for
ability, and love of country. As
Georgians you may well be proud of
the noble character the Empire State
of the South. You have the right
and power to demand that money be
appropriated to deepen your rivers,
connect them by canal, and thus
solve the vital question of cheap
transportation.
I say to you, gentlemen, as an en
gineer of 30 years varied experience,
that water "communication--every
body’s road—not subject to the evils
of monopoly, nor bearing the neces
sary cost of "the large percentage in
cident to “maintenance of way,” re
pairs, replacing worn out iron, re
building decayed locomotives and
cars, that water, which will carry at
about one-third of the actual cost of
the rail, is the only solution of the
problem of cheap transportation.
At the present day, the best engi
neers of all civilized countries are en
gaged in solving hydraulic problems.
We Americans were a very fast peo
ple, and fur a generation, now rapid
ly passing away, thought canals and
rivers too slow’, and spent many hun
dreds of millions upon raihvajs,
which have ruined so many confid
ing stockholders, enriching only a
few unscrupulous officials, who have
brought such discredit upon the
American name, and the vast dis
bursement which have brought
about the panic, of which the nation
still suffers. No such combinations
as those of Fisk, of infamous mem
ory in EriG E. R. stock, or of
Gould, the present money king, or
ogre, can occur when the roads of the
country have as their natural compet
itor and regulator, the improved wa-
ter-ways of the land.
I well know that your noble Eto
wah can be improved, and made as
navigable as the Ohio between
Wheeling and Pittsburg; and I also
know that one-half of the amount
w hich the general government has
expended upon any one of the sev
eral scores of rivers throughout the
country lying north of the Potomac,
would* cause your noble and salubri
ous Cherokee Georgia, to bloom as the
Cherokee rose. That you wo 11 make
your voice potential to be heard by
those whom y° u delegate power to
disburse your money, for your bene
fit, 1 hope and believe; and as one
who has seen and served tne Repub
lic iu all its broati expanse, from
Maine to Oregon, aiad from Minneso
ta to the Riw Grande--1 say* Wl Y?®
slight help to nature, iu th e naauer
of water communication, °*. wlucn
part of the Etowah is upon th e nat
ural line between the great >.e
and the South Atlantic—your ones
are truly east in pleasant places; y° u
climate unsurpassed; your minerals
of excellent quality and most abnn
dant in quantity; your soil good;
water abundant, and people enlight
ened, hospitable and of the old
Anglo Saxon lineage. There is ev
ery reason to think that this Chero*
kee Georgia only needs her fair share
of the fostering care of the govern
nient to be filled witli a teeming pop
ulation for nature has certainly done
her full share and all that is needed is
the intelligent energy of man to
make her prosperous and mistress of
her own destiny.
The system of water improvement
in this district has been happily inau
gurated by your former able and en
ergetic representative. It is due to his
efforts that the government has caus
ed its engineers to survey and report
upon the practicability and cost of the
work. The amount of money ob
tained from'the wise action of Gen.
l oupg, and expended’upon the river
Oostanaula and Coosawattee have al
ready enhanced the value or lands
upon these streams from $3 to ?8 per
acre, and the saving upon the cost of
transporting to market the crops of
the present year, is greater than the
whole sum expended upon the im
provements of those rivers.
That such will be the result upon
the corresponding branch of
sa, your river Etowah, no engineer
can doubt. It is for you gentlemen, to
strengthen the hands of your repre
sentative, not forgetting the honor
due to his predecessor, the originator
of the improvement of rivers in
Georgia, Gen. Young. Thanking
you, gentlemen, for your kindly at
tention to my crude remarks, I ‘stop
upon this theme on which volumes
in gut e written.
Lotterfrom Col. John V Wofford.
James U. Vincent, Esq : Dear Sir
—Business which I cannot postpone
carries me to Atlanta to-night, from
which place it will be impossible for
me to return in time to be with you
on Tuesday. This I regret more
tnan you do. I will be with you in
spirit, if not in person, anil nothing
that I can do to promote the inter
ests of your people, will be left un
done by me.
With cheap water transportation
to your vicinity, it makes it one of
the most important parts of the fore
most cotton State. Cherokee possesses
every element of wealth that has
made Western Pennsylvania the
richest part of that great State. En
terprise will show r this. The utiliz
ing of our water lines is one of the
speediest means of doing so. As fine
ore is in your section as can be found
near Pittsburg; yet Pittsburg has
grown from an Indian fort, to be the
second city in the second State of the
Union. Much of the raw ore used at
Pittsburg is transported 3,000 miles
from the mines of Lake Superior,
yet.we, who live in a few hundred
miles of Pittsburg cannot sell our
ores there. The reason is, ours is
rail transportation and the other
water transportation. Now goods
can bo shipped from Savannah to
Liverpool, for less money than from
Canton to Savannah. Your copper,
lumber, marble and corn, the chief
elements of vour wealth, will not
bear protracted water transportation.
Hence the commodities that ought to
be the basis of great wealth, is now
of no practical advantage at all.
Therefore the great interest your peo
ple ought to take in pushing meas
ures that will redound to your pros
perity.
Returning my thanks for the kind
invitation of your committee, I am
By the Atlanta Constitution.
In an editorial giving the substance
of the proceedings of the Canton
meeting, without giving credit to
The Express as the source of its in
formation, has the following to say
of the matter:
Gen. Phillips made the best point
when lie stated that the river should
be opened to steamboat navigation
because a portion of Georgia, at least
would be developed thereby. On
that platform we stand also. The
Rome Commercial seems to think
Atlanta’s interests are inimical to the
project—that we are trying to tap
Cherokee Georgia, by the North
Georgia railroad, and want no rival
river route? This is a great mistake.
The interests of this city are pro
moted by nny enterprise that pro
motes t l *e prosperity of any seotion
of rite State, especially of the upper
section of the State. We hope Dr.
Felton will be able to get a stout ap
propriation for clearing out the Eto
wah, and that the time will come
when even the people of Dahloneira
will hear the welcome shrieks of the
whistle on arriving and departing
steamboats.
Critical Illness of Mr. Stephens.
Americans of all shades of political
opinion will learn with regret this
morning of the serious illness ef Mr.
Alexander 11. Stephens, of Georgia.
Our telegraphic report leaves but
little reason to hope that he will be
abler to leave his home again. Mr.
Stephens has long held to life by a
tenure so frail as to excite the won
der of all who knew him, and it is
not surprising to learn that he him
self looks upon the approach of death
with cal Dness, if not with absolute
satisfaction. It is an interesting cir
cumstance in the story now sent us
that the dying statesmen is reported
to have asked a friend who visited
him vesterday to sing a touching ly
ric which half a century ago excited
the admiration of Lord Byron, and
the author of which was long a lead
ing light in the literary horizon of
America. Yet how* many of the
present generation have read Mr.
Richard Henry Wilde’s charming
“Love and Madness of lasso?”
How many who have heard or sung
the lyric with which the dying Geor
gian* asked that his failing spirit
mi*ffit be soothed, know that the au
thor of “My life is like a Summer
rose ” was a Georgian Attorney Gen
eral’ a member of Congress and a
professor of law in the University of
Louisiana? Richard Henry Wilde
did civilization the precious service
of discovering on the walls of the
Biro-ello in Florence that con tern po
raneous portrait of Dante which has
taught not Italy alone, but all the
' VOr l^ tl)W stern of lineament, how grim
The father was of Tuscan song.
Georgia was very proud of him in
his lifetime; and her pride will be
revived by this pathetic linking of
his name with the last hours of her
most conspicuous public man. But
it may be worth while to remind
both Georgia and the whole country
that this gifted lawyer, poet and man
of letters was a sou of Ireland, and
of the early emigration which at
tended the terrible events of Ly.—
New York World.
An Englishman was boasting to a
Yankee that they had a book in the
British Museum which was once
owned by Cicero. “Oh! that ain’t
nothin’ ” retorted the Yankee; in
the museum in Busting they’ve got
the lead-pencil that Noah used to
check off the animals that went into
the ark.”
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 13, 1876.
Hon. A. H. Stephens,
His Recent Alarming Condition.
LATEST REPORTS MORE FAVORABLE.
Liberty Hall, i
Crawfordville, Ga., I
Thursday Evening, Dec. 30,1875. j
Editors Constitution :—As the very
name of Alexander H. Stephens
starts a patriotic thrill in the heart
of every true Georgian, I am sure
you will publish, and your numerous
readers will pursue anxiously any re
liable account of his present condi
tion. Although he doesn’t now seem
to be suffering from any excruciating
pain, he is greatly annoyed with a
severe cough which, for the past two
or three weeks, has weakened and
confined him to his bed. In the af
ternoon during his time, he has suf
fered also with fevers whicu have
raised his pulse thirty or forty beats
per minute above its normal number.
His great sociability of disposition
betrays him into conversation often
times, which excites his bronchial
tubes, causes him to cough and ex
pectorate, when if ho would remain
silent, there would he no such inju
rious effect. But the lively interest
he feels and will ever feel as long as
he retains a spark of life, in the wel
fare of his friends and country, pre
vents him from keeping silent, and
disregarding the numerous letters
and newspapers which he receives by
every mail. When a letter or paper
is read to him, he at once comments
upon it, and this sets him to cough
ing and; expectorating. His mails
which is varied and extensive, seems
to be almost necessary to his exist
ence. But for this idiosyncracy of
his constitution which requires more
of mental than material food, I
would be of the opinion that he would
be benefitted if his friends were de
barred his presence and his mails
withheld.
Mr. Stephens himself says bethinks
that his afternoon fevers are hectic,
and he seems apprehensive that his
sickness will culminate in consump
tion. His physican, Dr. Steiner, of
Augusta, says that his lungs are not
at all affected, but that the cough
proceeds from the bronchial tubes.
I am inclined to the opinion of the
doctor, not simply because of my
confidence in his superior skill, but
mainly because of the unimpaired
strength of Mr. Stephens’ voice. For
this reason I think the cough is bron
chial rather than pu'inouary. Be
this as it may, it is very unyielding,
and unless checked, will prove to be,
I fear, a most deplorable calamity to
our country—now so sadly in need
of his super-eminent counsels. But
I am happy to state that the cough
to day is decidedly less violent, and
if i t continue to improve in the same
ratio. J have strong hopes of his
speedy recovery. The wonderful
elasticity and vitality of his remark
able constitution, have endured sev
eral attacks of sickness that have
been more alarming, if possible, than
this.
One more remark on this subject.
I would that the world could know
the resignation and fortitude with
which one of the greatest men en
dures this privation and suffering.
Listen to the sublime and Job-like
words of the Christain hero: “I am
neither hopeful or despondent. I
have no desire to live another dav;
itev. jonn r. L/uncaii cttfiru act \c
visit to Mr. Stehpens by the 5 o’clock
train this evening from Atlanta. This
distinguished divine is known all
over Georgia, not less as an eloquent
pulpit expounder than as a sweet
singer. He is now, I regret to say,
almest wholly blind. * * *
Mr. Stephens, who has often hoard
the melodious songs of Mr. Duncan,
could not resist the temptation to
hear him again. “Mr. Duncan,” said
he, “sing Howard’s song.” This hav
ing been rendered in rich and dis
tinct tones, ho expressed himself as
well pleased. The song in question
is a parody on Tom Moore’s beauti
ful lines:
“This world is all a fleeting show,”
and was altered and sung by Rev.
Jno. Howard, father of Col. Howard,
of Kirkwood. .
“Now, sing,” said Mr. 8., “Richard
Henry Wild’s “My life is like the
summer rose.’ ”
This, too, was rendered clearly and
melodiously to the great admiration
of us all. The third and last song
was a pharaphraseof the last verse of
the 17th Psalm : then fnlloweff * in
vent prayer, after which the company
retired from the room, leaving Mr.
Stephens to the care of experienced
and attentive watchers.
Friday Morning, Dec. 81.—Mr.
Stephens Jhis morning is quite per
ceptibly improved, and is now bol
stered upright in bed, and signing
some bank cheeks. Helms coughed
less this morning than he usually
does, and rested well the greater part
of last night. I think him better off
decidedly than he was on yesterday
morning. Ifthedamp weather,which
lms been oppressing both well and
sick for so long a time, would now
give place to sunshine, I think he
would feel much better. Indeed in
clement weather affects Mr. Stephens
more unpleasantly than any one I
ever saw.
[We are glad to state that infor
mation received to-day January Ist,
states that Mr. Stephens is still
better.—Editors Constitution.]
Bold Words.
The Greenville (S. C.) News owned
and edited by Mr. A. M. Speights,
formerly of Griffin, Ga., thus defines
the situation in unhappy South Car
olina :
Negro rule in South Carolina has
thrown off the mask and stands bold
ly out in the broad daylight of Amer
ican civilization in all its hideous
enormity. Its knife is whetted for
the white man’s throat. Its pulses
have made the negro orgies of St.
Domingo memorable against civilized
men. The same spirit animates these
people here which but a brief while
ago howled around the feeble white
element in Jamaica and lent its prow
ess to the butchery of the whites,irre
spective of sex or age. We have
! come to that point where these things
must stop—where order must be re
stored to^soclety—where the white
man must assert himself where
the negro must bend or break before
the race that never yet has sufferd
itself brought under the domination
of another. There is no more room
for soft talk in this matter. We must
say to the colored race: Give way
or die.
i A supposed inadvertence revision
of the Illinois statutes raises the
question whether quit-claim deeds
in that State are not converted into
warranty deedg, the statute making
use of the works “grant, bargain and
sell,” or either one of them, equiva
i lent to a warranty.
Training Shool for Girls.
An Article on tlie Subject by one of the
Noblest Women of Georgia.
The following is from the
Atlanta Jlerald, The writer is the
widow of the late Judge E. Y. Hill,
ofLaGrange; and is one of the best
women Georgia ever produced. What
she writes is worthy of all considera
tion. We commend the article to
the public generally:
Training schools where girls can re
ceive a liberal, thorough education in
those things which will qualify them
for tfie every-day duties of life, and
also give them trades and professions
by the practice of which they can
earn an income if compelled to live
by their own labor, is one of the
pressing educational necessities of
the South. In thesb institutions all
the machinery should be introduced
which will lighten and simplify
women’s work, and they taught to
use it skilfully, so as to realize satis
factory results with the least labor.
There is need of economy of strength,
as well as economy of means. Since
this kind of knowledge does not come
by intuition, schools to impart
this information should be establish
ed upon some well organized, sys
tematic plan, avoiding all fantastic
theories.
I know there still lives, in the
hearts of Southern men, much of the
old chivalrous feeling which regard
ed the idea of women being bread
winners, as a reproach to the man
hood of fathers, brothers, husbands,
but we are living under a different
state of society. Times have changed,
and we must change with them. In
many ways, not dreamed of before
the war, women must give active as
sistance to tiie male members of
their families. Sensible women have
a just and proper appreciation of the
situation, and earnestly desire to
come up to the full measure of their
duty; but in the very first steps they
essay to take the mortifying difficul
ty of incompetency for business meets
them, and in seeking to overcome
this, lime and energy are wasted, all
fur the want of well-trained effort.
To remove this difficulty, this want
of practical knowledge, will be one
of the prime objects of these schools.
It has been said, that more money
and science are expended in teaching
how to raise cows, hogs, sheep and
horses than in educating those upon
whom the conduct and happiness of
the family depend. Families are
schools, women are teachers. Is it
not then, a matter of the highest im
portance that they be well-trained in
their profession? Agricultural, min
eral and other colleges serve a valua
ble purpose, and the State makes a
wise use of the mouey in endowing
them; butsheshoud go a step further,
and make an appropriation for es
tablishing institutions for the instruc
tion of women in their specific duties,
and in this way, by science and
training, without any antagonistic
interest, well-trained wotnen may
stand upon an even pedestal with
well-instructed men.
To this view of the subject, it has
been replied; “Why teach such
things in schools; it is the duty of
mothers to'instruct their daughters
that mothers know' nothing them
selves? “The stream cannot rise
higher than the fountain.” “As the
mother, so is the daughter.” Asa
rule, the habits and ignorance of fam
ilies are trasmitted.
Some very capable energetic moth
ers, well qualified to educate their
daughters in all the complicated and
responsible duties that may some
day devolve upon them, Utter
ly fail to do so, from various causes,
want of health, the engrossing na
ture of their domestic cares, or from
lack of patience and perseverance.
Few girls take to such duties natural
ly, and many mothers rather than
compel them, suffer their daughters
to grow up.
“Idle, and gay.
Yawning all morhing, lounging (or gadding)
all day.”
Thus, life loitering away.
This is no idle picture; would that
it were. And when the goal of their
ambition—marriage—is won as wives
they are unprepared to be help-meets
to their husbands in the stern reali
!c?t S v?l tneHialerna\ l root, t’o'make her
home among strangers,where asham
ed to expose her ignorance, not sure
of fiuding sympathy, she must learn
as she can the duties of wife, mother,
nurse a.id housekeeper. No doubt
there will be many lamentable fail
ures, much dear-bought experience;
all of which could have been avoid
ed by faithful, thorough discipline at
home or in a good training school.
Mothers, think of these things, and
at whatever sacrifice, teach or have
your daughters taught everything
that will be practically useful, all
that will enable them to make their
homes beautiful and attractive, and
if reverses should come, independent
and self-sustaining.
A. P. Hill.
k Cruel Dilemma.
The Election of a Democratic-President
Inevitable.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.'!
The recent crushing Republican
reverse in Mississippi and suicidal
Republican folly in South Carolina
only make more probable what w’as
painfully probable before—that as
against any “straight Republican”
nominated under administration
auspices, the Democratic candidate
next year will scoop in the electoral
votes of every Southern State. Ag
gregate number of votes cast by these
States (not including Delaware, Mary
land, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mis
souri) 88; plus the votes of the five
ex-border and slave States, 137;
whole number of electoral vote (in
cluding Colorado) 369; necessary to
elect, 185; 137 from 185 leave 48—the
number of votes from the former free
States needed, in the supposed and
probable case to elect a Democrat
ic President. But the two States of
New’ York and Indiana alone cast 50
votes —and both those States have
Democratic Governors to-day. No
wonder that distinguished Republi
can politicians are exhibiting unmis
takable symptoms of uneasiness—
not to say alarm. As Pat remarked,
“they have raison .”
But it is not clear what they can
do about it. The dilemma is a grow’-
ing one whichever horn is selected.
To do nothing, to let events take
their course, is to drift with folded
arms over the fails. That might do
for Turkish politicians, brought up
from infancy on the Koran ; our
American sort are hardly equal to it.
But to resume the reconstruction
force bill business now would tie to
hazard and lose more at the North
than possibly could be gained at the
South—let alone the fact that there is
a Democratic House in the way.
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