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ELLIJAY COURIER, FDBLISHED BMT WEDNESDAY, BY a. a. iiUaxsDsw, At Two Dollars per aDßum, in advance, Office in the Courthouse. ItATES OF ADVERTISING. One square one insertion - - - $ 1 00 Each subsequent insertion ... 60 One square one year ..... 15 00 Two squares one year ..... 20 00 Three squares one year .... 25 00 Quarter column one year .... 35 00 Half column ene vear .... 60 00 One column one year ..... 100 0C Ten lines, one inch, constitutes a square. Advertisements not marked fora certain number of insertions will be published till forbid, and charged accordingly. LEGAL ADVERTISING. SherifT sales, each levy, - - $4 00 Citation for letters of administration and guardianship, - - - 400 Application for dismission from ad ministration, guardianship and executorship, - - - - 500 Application for leave to sell land, one square, - - - - - 400 Each additional square, - - 200 Land sules, one square, - - 400 Each additional square, - - 300 Application for homestead, - - 200 Notice to debtors and creditors, - 400 The following gentlemen are authorized to take subscription and tMvertisements for the Courier, *nd to receive pay and receipt for the satiie: Elder J. B. Lee, General agent. ,T. A. Butt, Blairsville, Union county. J. F. Adams, Morgauton,Fannin county. W. G. L. Butt, Vanzant’s Store, Fannin county. Robert McCutcheox, Sr., Jasper, Pickens county. Dr. J. G. Stephens, Jit. Eolia, Towns county. * Robert B. Trippe, Cartersville, Ga. Kilpatrick & Mosley, Ducktown, Teun. Any one sending us a club of ten sub scribers,accompanied with the cash —$20 — will receive cftie copy free. GENERAL DIRECTORY. N. B. Knight, Judge Blue Ridge Circuit. Charles I). Phillips, Solicitor. TOWN COUNCIL. C.Pickett, J. R. Johnson, J. E. P. Smith, B. Wilson, J. SI. Watkins. J. R. Johnson, President; C. Pickett, Secretary; G. H. Uandell, Marshal. o— BOARD OF EDUCATION. William Simmons, W. Woodard, W. 11, Rackley, E. W. Watkins. J. F. Pettit. President. COUNTY OFFICERS. E. Russel, Ordinary. Wm. Ellington, Clerk Superior Court. G. H. Uandell, Sheriff. W. E. Mulkey, Deputy Sheriff. T. H. 11. Tate'm, Treas’r and Tax Rec’r. P. H. Milton, Tax Collector. James A. Carnes, Surveyor. J. R. Johnson, Coroner. ' E. W. Watkius, School Commissioner. O RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Baptist Church—Every fourth Satur day and Sunday, by Elder J. B. Lee. Methodist Episcopal Church—Every second Sunday, by Rev. J. A.Thurman. aifHioiWsTnTainvfr'i.'tiifitun, wh •< a Every third Sabbath, by Rev. A. J. Hughes. FRATERNAL RECORD. Oak Bowery Lodge, No. 81, F. and A. M.—Meets first Friday m each month. N. L. Osborn, W. M. David Garrkn, Secretary. MAIL—ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE. Leave Morganton, Tuesday -- 6 ain Arrive at Ellijay, Tuesday - - 4 p m Leave Ellijay, Wednesday - - 1 pm Arrive at Cartersville, Thursday 0 pm Leave Cartersville, Friday - - 6 am Arrive at Ellijay, Saturday - -1030 a m Leave Ellijay, Monday - - - 6 am Arrive at Morganton, .Monday - 6 pm Leave Dahlonega, Friday - - 6 am Arrive at Ellijay, Friday - - 6 pm Leave Ellijay, Saturday ... 0 am Arrive at Dahlonega, Saturday - 6 pm Leave Ellijay, Wednesday - - - 6 am Arrive at Ducktawtl, Wednesday 6 p m Leave Ducktown, Thursday - - 6 am Arrive at Ellijay, Thursday - - 6 pm David Garren, Postmaster. WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD. TRAIN NUMBER ONE—NORTH WARD. Leave Atlanta - - - 4 20 p m Arrive at Marietta - - - 512 p m “ Cartersville - - 630 p m “ Kingston - - - 704 p m “ Dalton - - - 8 41 p m “ Chattanooga - - 10 15 p m TRAIN NUMBER THREE—NORTHWARD. Leave Atlanta - - - 6 20 a m Arrive at Marietta - - - 715 a m “ Cartersville - - 8 42 a in “ Kingston - - -911 am “ Dalton - - - 10 34 a m “ Chat tanooga - - 12 42 p m TRAIN NUMBER ELEVEN—NORTHWARD. Leave Atlanta - - -3 40pm Arrive at Marietta - --430 pm “ Cartersville - - 603 p m “ Kingston 6 30 p m “ Dalton - - - 9 48pm TRAIN NUMBER TWO—SOUTHWARD. Leave Chattanooga - - 4 00 p m Arrive at Dalton - - - 588 p m “ Kingston - - - 7 31pm “ Cartersville - - 802 p m “ Marietta - - -918 pin “ Atlanta - - - 10 10 p m TRAIN NUMBER FOUR—SOUTHWARD. Leave Chattanooga - -3 13am Arrive at Dalton - - - 7 14am “ Kingston ... 907 am “ Cartersville - - 945 a m “ Marietta - - - 1102 am “ Atlanta - - - 1155 a m TRAIN NUMBER TWELVE—SOUTH WARD. Leave Chattanooga - - 10 20 p m Arrive at Dalton - - - 100 a m “ Kingston - - 4 21 a m “ Cartersville - - 518 a in “ Marietta - - - 810 ain “ Atlanta - - - 942 a m No change of ears between New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Balti more, and only one change to New York. WM. MacU.VE, Superintendent. WEAVER & FANN, DENTAL SURGEONS, L. J. GARTRELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ATLANTA,GEORGIA. PRACTICES IN THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT and District Courts at Atlanta, and the Supreme and Superior Courts of the State. l-tf "ROBERT B. TRIPPE, , ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THE ELLIJAY COURIER. BY H. A. LDIISDEN. Uncle Ben's Christmas. He was sixty odd, wrinkled and gray, And black As the chimney soot, His clothes that scarcely covered his limbs Were all patches from head to foot; He sat on the curb and watched the crowds In their Christinas glee go by, And thoughts that busied his brain were read In his glistening, wistful eye, “Here! Herd Uncle Ben, this moping won’t do! Christmas is no time for care! Here’s joy and fun all arcund you— Come, get up, and take your own share!” “Well, I’m ’blecged to yer, master, but den, Dere isn’t no Chrism us fur me, De times is too hard, an’ gits hanler De longer we niggers is free 1 De fact is, I jes’ was a tbinkin’, sail, Ob de days dat is long since gone, When I lib’d on de old plantation Wid Miss Lu an’ old Marse John. Dem was jubilee davs in Georgy— Dere was plenty &a eb£ry hand, Apd. de nigger?, same as de-white fokes, Lib’d on de fat ob de land! When Chnsinus come den, ’twas Chrismus, sab ; Dere was joy on ebery side, And Marster’s big old pocket book, Like bis doors, stood open wide; De white fokes had all dat dey wished, An’ de niggers wam’t forgotten— Dere was presents bought up foi dem all Out de proceeds ob de cotton. We’d get up airly in de day dawn An’ ketch dem all “Chrismus gif,” Till Master’d come out on de porch A lookin’ mighty starn an’ stiff, An’ say: “What dis mean, you rascals?” Seein’ us all dar on de ground— An’ we’d all holler ’gin “Merry Chiasmus! Merry Chrismus to yer all Marse John!” Den he’d say : “You,Ben, come hyor sail!” An’ I’d go up into de hall To fetch out a big box ob presents Dat he got in de town for us all. Master he'd gib out to de men, An’ Missus she’d ban’ to de wimmen, Till we all had somefin in our hands. An’ de tears in our eyes war swimmen! Deu de young fokes come wid de egg-nogg, Made up in a big wide bowl, An’ gib ebery nigger a cupfull Dat warm’d bof his body and his soul; De rest ob de day was our-fieedom, sail, An’ we had all de fun dat we could— At night ebery tongue bressed de Lord, sal), i )at we lib’d so easy and so good. But dem day* is gone far away, sah, An’ we ain’t got no master any mo’, De nigger loots out for liisse’f, sail, An’ can’t keep de wolf from de do’; We is glad ’miff now to git bread, sab, To keep ourselbs byar on de yearth, An’ mighty few fokes seem to think, sah, - Dere’” myl’i* -a p’-rger i? y;r . >-Da* , -£-4e-iK.*'4Vw I ft.- ? so ss4f-sai},- An’ sigh wbeii (te-Chrismus am eum, For I t’ink how- happy I’d be, efc I was back at de good ole home! But, while dat is de sorrerful truf, sab, I m hopeful dat de Lord is kind, - An’ is sabing plenty Chrismus up in Heabeu, Dat dis nigger will some day find. —Constitution. The Duration of Life. In ancient Rome, during the period between 200 and 300 A. D., the average duration of life among the upper classes was thirty years. In the present century, among the same class of people, it amounts to fifty years. In the sixteenth century the mean duratijn of life in Geneva was 21.21 years; be tween 1833 and 1842 it was 40.68 years, and at the present time as many people live to seventy years of age as three hundred years ago lived to the age of forty-three. .In the year 1693 the British Govern mentborrowed money,the amount borrowed to be paid in annuities, on the basis of the mean duration of life at that time. The State Treasury made thereby a good bargain, and all parties to the bargain were satisfied. Ninety seven years later Pitt established another tontine or annuity com pany, based on the presumption that the mortality would remain the same as a hundred years be fore. But in this instance it trans pired that the Government had made a bad bargain, since, while in the first tontine 10,000 persons of each sex died under the age of twenty-eight a hundred years later only 5. *72 males and 6.316 females died under this age. From this fact it appears that life, under certain favorable inlluennes, has gained in many, and probably, in all its forms and manifestations, both in vigor and duration. s The Hon. William Welch, of Madison, Wisconsin, takes the lead in novel suflerage move ments. He proposes that each man twenty-one years old shall be given one vote ; each man for ty-two years old, two votes, and each man sixty three, three votes. His theory is based on the fact that patriotism, a sense of public duty and political integrity come with the knowledge which is the fruit of age and experience. ELLIJAY, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16,1876. North Georgia Getting Wrathy. [Special Correspondence Atlanta Herald, j The projected Marietta and North Georgia Railroad will be the longitudinal centre of North Georgia. The latent wealth of this section is universally admit ted by all men who have investi gated with intelligence sufficient ly advanced to enable their minds to comprehend its illimitable wealth-producing capabilities. Its unsurpassed agricultral lands, its unequalled waterpowers, its forest of timbers, mountains of iron and copper ore, marble and slate, its veins of gold and silver, and its matchless manufacturing advan tages arsuall admitted. The people of this section have put iorth their utmost energies and means to construct this rail road, and thereby to develop and utilize the latent wealth in their possession—to lift themselves from darkening obscurity and poverty to, enlightened promin ence and wealth. They have drained their pocket books, emp tied their corncribs and smoke houses, and have hazarded their individual fortunes in the attempt to construct this railroad. During all their long, unequal struggle, men with influence in the State Government have eloquently told them that “the gods help those who help themselves”—that they must do their utmost, and then this great Commonwealth of Georgia would not let them go down and under. They had not only a reason but a right to expect State aid to this road. Unraur muringly for forty years they have paid their taxes to construct a railroad through every other leading section of the State —have borne the governmental burdens uncomplainingly, though they have been shut out from the world, from its progress, enlightenment . a i- •, and for a decade have rallied WxLe Dtrviciacv k* Ihe standard ‘.bearers of Rone: t Goveniment,JustGoveninent,aud Progressive Government. But to-day, without a mine de veloped, without a stone quarried, without a stream made navigable, without a factory established, and even without a road over which can be hauled the necessary machinery for a respectable man ufactory, and with their all staked upon the completion of this rail road—in this hour of their supreme need, what is their reward ? Why an unwieldly legislature drags itself into the Legislative Halls at the Capital, organizes, and gravely announces itself ready for business. Our political-popular, pulse-feeling and Pseudo-Econo mic Governor sends in his mes sage. And what a document! Far reaching sagacity, masterly grap pling with the issues upon the peo ple upon the State,Georgia exhibi ted at the Centennial, intelligent, statesman like progressiveuess— all elements of far-seeing states manship, give way! His message must be a mere recital of what “we’ve done” with many hard licks at the much mixed and wax ed Democratic State Treasurer Jones. - Was this all! Not quite, for His Excellency is most re markably inconsistent, or else quite uningenuous in concealing purposes from the honest, intelli gent, working men of North Geor gia. In Ins message, (page 17.) speaking of the Macon and Bruns wick Railroad, he says: “The Commonwealth has already been more than repaid the cost of its construction, in the increased value which the road has given to property in the section of the State through which it passes.” Now, bear in mind, that the Macon and Brunswick Rairoad cost the State $1,950,000, and all that is asked for the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad is SIOO,OOO, with first mortgage on an unencumbered road bed, and then read the fol lowing from his Excellency’s mes sage, page 19: “It is now believed that, with abandonment of the ruinous poli cy of State aid to railway enter prise, and a faithful administration of our finances, (such for instance as the late Treasurer’s alleged de falcation to the amount of $291,- 969 Sp,) the public debt will con tinue to be reduced,” etc. Now, that logic—the very quint esceace of statesmanship, isn’t it? True it is consistency, is a jewel ? It is not our purpose now to in quire why his Excellency favors the State’s operating a railroad in that part of the State which is so prolific in State appointees. Nor is it necessary to inquire now why the minds of his seemingly subservient Legislature are so easi ly forestalled, and their mouths buisfrd by a mere gubernatorial, opitj^a —“belief.” For thre £re statesmen in that body, far-seeing, progressive, truly patriotic states men! There’s your Hon. Potiphar Peagreen, who would, at one “fell swoop,” abolish the most potent vanguards of our material pro gress and prosperity, the bureaus of health, agriculture and geology. And there’s Hon. All wise Getufi dusky whose fearless statesman ship vents itself in the abolition of the acts granting aid to the State Educational Institutions, the bulwarks of our civilization and liberty. Then there’s Hon. Batbedhook Whangdoodle, w hose patriotism embraces the finny tribe of our mountain streams, and whose inexhaustible mental resources are straining after “An act entitled an act to repeal an act entitled an act to prohibit Solomon Snooks, etc.” Of course time are statesmen there. No body could doubt it after reading the proceedings of that body. But from such statesman North Geor giins have despaired of getting their rights. From a statesman ship that plays with the most vital issues upon the country like a boy whli a top—that knows no pro g jj’ssiveness and makes uo ad -save what a. djdjag mo mentum gives it —they have no hope. They have importuned for their rights—they now demand their rights; and in order to get them, they also demand a party of progresiveness—a praty whose sagacity and statesmanship sees not only the immediate but also the remote results of legislation ; not only what leaks out at the spigot unpocketed by the General Assembly and its attaches, but sees also how to increase what pours in at the bung of the treas ury. Progressiveness with a State under active development and utilization, as contradistinguished from retrogression with a State of inactivity and a loathsome sea of deathly stillness, they demanded as a plank in the platform of the party that bears their standards in the ensusug gubernatorial elec tion. They are fast solidifying and crystalizing arouud this bat tle flag, and are determined to be felt—if not now by their impor tunings, then by their votes at the next general State election. If you, Mr. Editor, doubt the earnestness and concert of this movement, telegraph General Phillips at Marietta, who has just returned from a month’s tour in the mountains. This solidification completed, North Georgia can and will, be a balance in State politics. From this cause will spring an entusiastic support of the independent candidate in the approaching Gubernatorial elec tion. Candidates who have no platform of principles to advocate, no policies to enforce for the ad vancement and progress of the State, might as well whistle jigs to sign-boards as to attempt to win the votes of this section. The next Gubernatorial election cau no more be run on the “shut-up, hash-mouth-idea” than you can hang the Chattahoochee on a clothes-line to dry. More anon. Respectfully, Gloveless North Georgia. Take the world right through, and three-quarters of the humans do not earn their bread and clothes. This is what makes it so tough for the other quarter. VOL. I.—NO. 24. Slander a Disease. The Jewish Messenger, at New York, discourses forcibly abont this fell pest. It observes that when we examine “the human form divine” we find that the tongue appears to have been es pecially guarded by what may be termed two breakwaters, the teeth and the lips, so that it should not pass them without a struggle for the mastery; yet totally un mindful of consequences, it passes the guards and runs agiant’irace to indulge in utter loquacity and slander. It is a disease of sq' viru lent a character that, even i days of old, it appears to have cr (meated society, even mg life. It was not without a pur pose that Israel’s sweet singer warned people against employing their tongues to slander their neighbors, showing the results in the following emphatic sen tence: “Who is the man that de sireth life, loveth many days that he may see happiness ? Guard thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking deceit.” No one had suffered more from the effects of slander than David; hence, as experience is the best teacher, the shepherd king was decidedly the safest instructor. If admonition of this character, however, were ueedful in the un developed days of David, how much more so must it be in this modern fast age—in this day of a thousand facilities for the utter ance of lies and unclean gabble by endless speech-making and circulation of the same by railroad and telegraph and multiplied printing. Guard thy tongue, in the press and out of it—in business and out of it—in the Legislature and out of it— and especially in the family circle. Unpunctual People. What bores they are! Wbat have thgy maqe with the moments of orderly, systematic men of business! A person who is faithless to his appointments may not intend to swindle people but he does. To those who know how to turn time to advantage, every hour has an appreciable pe cuniary value; minutes, even are worth so much apiece. He who robs you of them might just as well take so much money from your purpose. The act is petty larcencv, according to the amount of time he compels you to waste, and the value of it, at a fair ap praisal, to yourself or your lamily. The only capital of a huge portion of the community is time. Their compensation is measured by the clock. The moments of which promise breakers cheat them may represent in fact the necessaries of life; and the loss of an hour may involve the privation of a loaf, or a joint, or some other ar ticle urgently needed at home. Nobody places any confidence m persons who are habitually behind time. They scarcely succeed in any enterprise. Therefore, for your own sake, as well as the sake of others —be punctual. A Texas mob has been guilty of a most fiendish, unpardouablq,at rocity. Anthony Smith, a negro who had murdered J. M. Baker, a young farmer, was tried and sen tenced to tie hanged at Cameron, and now a telegarm to the Galves ton News says: Just before day light an armed body of horsemen, forty or fifty strong, rode into Cameron and made their way to the jail. They forced an entrance, took the prisoner from Ins cell, and conducted him some miles out from the town, w here they pul him to death in a most horrible man ner. l’he condemned and doomed negro was tied up by the hands, fuel collected and heaped around him, and a lire kindled, which gradually blazed and enveloped Ins body, burning it to a crisp. Not satisfied with the torture in flicted and the consequent death, the mob riddled the charred re mains with bullets. Judge Broad dus iuforms your reporter that most, if not all, the mob were from Bell county. He says it was an unparalleled case of lawless ness, inasmuch as the courts had shown such vigilance. A Sketch of the Late Mrs. Andrew Johnson. Mrs. Johnsons’s maiden name was Eliza McArdel. She was born in 1811, and has consequently died in the sixty-fifth year of her age. Site was married in 1829, when she was eighteen, and her husband a youth of twenty. She bore her husband five childem, at the house of the eldest of whom, Mrs. Patterson, the wife of ex-Senator Patterson, of Tennessee, she has now died. Her eldest and favor ite son was thrown from his horse and instantly killed at the begin ning of the civil war while on his round of duty as Surgeon of the First Regiment of Tennessee Un ion Volunteers. TJiia blow great ly injured her already enfeebled constitution; and the sufferings which she subsequently under went, while caring for the com fort of her second daughter, Mrs. Stover, and her daughter’s family m the mountains -sL, Tenyesseo during the first year ot tile civil war, completely undermined her strength. Mrs. Stover’s husband, who was Colonel of the Fourth Tennessee Infantry in the Union Army, died of disease brought on by exposure before the close of the year 1862. Mrs. Johnson’s second son, Robt. Johnson, was removed to an asy lum for the insane during his father's Presidency. The young est, Andre w Johnson, jr., survives his mother. Few women of any condition in life in any part of this country were called upon to drink more deeply than Mrs. Johnson of the bitter cup of their country’s afflictions, and herxpatience, sim plicity of character and unaffected piety earned for her in the narrow circle of her personal friends and intimates the most sincere respect and affection.—A’. Y. World. Man and Monkey. | The London Echo of January 4 Isays: ‘The wonderful resem blance of some of the larger apes I to human creatures is especially , remarkable when they are suffer ing from illness, or from what, so great is their intelligence,we must acknowledge to be sorrow. An of comrui'q merit JiavUy; lately died in the zoological gar dens at Dresden, an account has been published of its last mo ments, which give an extraordi nary idea of the almost human dig nity and pathos of its behavior on the occasion. A few weeks of the destroying malady,says a sorrow ing friend, had been sufficient to change this being, so full ot life, strength, courage—this magnifi cent prototype of all quadrumana —into a spectacle of misery. The most complete apathy had taken the place of exuberant freshness and vivacity. Mafuka, as this interesting creature was called, appeared to suffer under a dim consciousness that she could ex pect no relief, but only the alle viation of pains, from those about her. This state of things lasted till within a few hours of her death. Then, as Director Schopf, (the director of the gardens,) lea ned over his favorite, the ape drew I him toward her, placed her arm around the neck of her kind friend, and looked at him for some time with clear and tranquil eyes; she then kissed him three times, short intervals between each salute, motioned to be laid upon her couch, gave her hand to Schopf— as though bidding farewell to a companion of many happy years— and slept never to wake again. Thus died the quasi-human Ma fuka, fortified not indeed by ‘the rites of the church,’ but by those common to the wider brotherhood of trusting and affectionate hearts.” Young man, go to India! It is the custom there for parents to pay men to marry their daugh ters. In Calcutta recently a rich Hindoo paid a man who came from a family of considerable dis tinction the sum ot 1300.000 to marry his daughter. The fellow married the young girl a mere child in years, and pocketed the money. Within two years he had gambled away all this money and was in debt besides. In this strait he sent the girl to her parents’ home, demanding SIOO,OOO more as a condition of living with her longer. The proposal was indig nant! j’ rejected, and the discarded wife now remains at her parental home. It is a stigma uuon a Hin doo family if the daughters are not married before arriving at the age of thirteen.