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ELLIJAY COURIER.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1876.
Thanks to Hon. B. H. Hill for
proceedings of Congress, etc.
The Tredegar Works, at Rich
mond, Ya., resumed last week,
with nearly the same number of
hands that had been thrown out
ot employment by their brief sus
pension.
George W. Swepson, of North
Carolina, charged with slaying
Capt. Adolphus Moore, is released
on SIO,OOO bailj for appearance at
the spring term, Alamance coun
ty court.
Pesaeh Rubenstein, the murder
er of the .Jewess, Sara Alexander,
of New York, is endeavoring to
starve himself to death. On the
3d Inst, he had not eaten more
than two ounces of food in sixty
hours.
We learn Yhat the convention
bill as amended by the Senate
provides for submitting the ques
tion to the people at the January
elections, and, if concurred in by
the House, will probably be so
disposed of.
Hon. A. H. Stephens writes to a
Washington friend that he has
abandoned all hope of being able
to take his seat in the House of
Representatives during the win
ter, and that he has no intention
of resigning.
A colored member of the Mis
sissippi Legislature has proposed
the revival of public whipping for
offences. He says he does not
think it more barbarous than im
prisonment, and believes it would
be much more effective in repress
ing crime.
Gen. Sherman writes: “I never
have been, am not now, and never
shall be, a candidate for the high
office of President of the United
States before any convention or
the people.” He alludes favora
bly to Gov. Hayes. He says: “My
wife and family are strong Catho
lics, but Jam not; that, however,
is nobody’s business.”
TRe NEw York Herald sticks to
its belief that Grant will hold the
next Republican National Con
vention m the hollow of his hand.
It says: ‘‘lt is just as sure this
day as it will ever be that Ulysses
S. Grant will bo renominated for
President at Cincinnatti on Wed
nesday, June 14,1876, if he wishes,
and we challenge the production
of any evidence that his wish is
not fixed and firm.”
After the surrender at Appomat
tox Mr. E. S. Swann, of Caroline
county, Va., returned home and
bought a 200 acre farm for S7OO.
Last year he cultivated four acres
in tobacco, and sold the crop for
$1,400. His labor on all his crops
was himself and two sons, twelve
and fourteen years of age, and
they were at school four hours
in the day. He paid sl4 for outside
labor or hired help.
Southern journals, says the Bal
timore Sun, speak in terms of em
phatic condemnation of the late
abusive and inflammatory ha
rangue of Mr. Toombs, at Atlanta,
Ga., touching the “Yankees” and
the black vote. No one seems to
be pleased with it, except ultra
.Radical journals into whose hands
it plays, and whose party could
well afford to pay Mr. Toombs a
large per diem to travel through
the South this year and make just
such speeches.
In reply to the statement of the
New York Post that Nevada has
one United States Senator to
every 26,168 of population, while
New York has only one Senator
to every 2,352,604 of population,
til© Virginia City (Nev.) Enter
prise says: New York is a very
wicked State; Nevada is a very
virtuous State ; New York some
times elects Democratic Legisla
tures and United States Senators;
Nevada never does. Were New
York sunk down a hundred feet
below the level of the sea, and
the space tilled with water, it
would cheapen transportation of
heavy freights from the West one
half; but, were anything to hap
pen to stop the flow of Nevada
bullion,what would happsn then?”
State Aid and the Railroad.
On our first page is an article
over the signature of “Gloveless
North Georgia,” which we take
from the Atlanta Herald. The ar
ticle receives the censure and
scathing rebuke of its editor, a
portion of which is in these words:
“We do not indorse either the
sentiment or the insinuations con
tained in this letter. We publish
it simply because it comes from a
gentleman well known in Georgia,
and assumes to speak for a sec
tion that, having been wronged,
desires a hearing in the Herald.
The letter is bad tempered, fool
ish, and ill-advised; and will do
more harm than good to the very
interests it is designed to advance.
However, this is none of our bus
iness. “Gloveless North Georgia”
asks a hearing at our hands. The
hearing is granted.
“The main point contained in
the fetter is a threat (which our
'co/tesjpruleiit assures us, in a pri
vate letter, is “no mere threat,”)
that, unless the Legislature grants
Slate aid to the amount of SIOO,OOO
to the Marietta and North Georgia
railroad, the Democracy of North
Georgia will solidly wheel into
line against the party, and sup
port the Independent Republican
candidate. Now, we do not be
lieve the Democracy of North
Georgia will do any such thing.
Such Democrats as need SIOO,OOO
subsidies, once in a while, to keep
them in the traces, can be spared
very easily. In fact, they are of
the sort that might leave the
party for the parly’s good. We do
not believe that the stout Democ
racy of North Georgia—always
the pride, and frequently the sal
vation of the State—is made of
such miserable stuff.”
If the Herald thinks that North
Georgia, after laboring with the
Democratic party for fifteen or
twenty years for an appropriation,
only to receive at last the valua
ble advice of Governor Smith in
his message to the Legislature,
will wheel into line and support
whoever may be caucussed out,
and called the Democratic nomi
nee, it is woefully deluded. The
people expect something from this
Ligfftafojtpxp. They denjaiitf It asTIT
right; the Legislature cannot be
deceived as to the dignity of that
right. They have always been
able to see the dignity of claims
from other portions of the State,
and then speak of the appropria
tions as monuments of good to
the State. If this empire of sister
counties fraternize each other,
that law-making power—the Leg
islature and Governor Smith, must
turn their eyes northward. There
is a time to talk and a time to act,
and our people are determined to
act. If we are outside of the pat
ronage of the State, we are suf
ficiently inside to vote for the
man who will best represent our
interests, regardless of platforms
or policies. Our people endorse
the sentiments of “Gloveless
North Georgia” as the final resort
of our long neglected section. It
will pay to build railroads over
the sand hills and marshy lagoons
of lower Georgia, but over our
fertile hills imbeded with untold
wealth, and our mountain streams
adapted to manufacturing advan
tages a railroad, even at a trifling
cost, it seems neyer would pay.
Unless we get aid to build the
railroad our people will vote for
the .who is bold enough to
make it an issue, whether he is a
nominee or an independent.
The Democracy of North Geo
rgia has and will prove true to the
Democratic party as long as the
party proves true to them, but
they do not propose to elect men
to ee who, as soon as the elec
tion is over forget there is such a
place as North Georgia.
Should the Legislature adjourn
without making an appropriation,
(which we hope it will not do,)
and our people fail to elect a man
who will build the road, then, we
are in favor of petitioning Con
gress for a charter, and with a few
counties of Western North Caro
lina, East Tennessee and North
Georgia make a State in which
our people can get their rights.
The Louisville Ledger has the
following: “Happy thought—ship
‘Jim’ Blame and ‘Bob’ Toombs
to a desert island and let them
fight it out.” We’ll bet on “Bob,”
AND NORTH GEORGIA B. R.
Letter from Hon. B. H. Hill.
Washington, Feb. 4,1876.
Hon.ll.il.Carlton.llouse of Rep
resentatives, Atlanta , Ga.:
My Dear Sir : I write this letter
from a sense of duty to the future
of Georgia, and I drop it to you
because you are the Representa
tive from the county of my resi
dence.
Asa general proposition, I have
opposed indiscriminate State aid
to railroads. The abuse of the
system has justly made it unpop
ular. But there are exceptions
to all rules, and the exceptions
usually stand on the same basis
of wisdom with the rule. Indis
criminate aid to corporations im
poverish and oppress the people,
but the exceptions are cases where
a wise and prudent aid will enrich
the State and relieve the burddns
<ff the State. *
' Precisely such an
Ihat to which I now call your at
tention. The present session of
the legislature should not adjourn
without extending such aid as
will ensure the completion of the
Marietta and North Georgia Rail
road to the State line, or at least
to Morganlon, in the county of
Fannin.
In the first place, the people of
the counties through which the
road will run have shown the will
to do all they are able to do to
complete the work, and no people
have ever struggled more nobly
to accomplish it. This is conclu
sive proof that private capital
would build the road if the private
capital existed, and establishes
the fact that it must be a desira
ble enterprise.
In the second place, the amount
of aid needed to enable these
struggling people to accomplish
the task, will be small when com
pared to the amounts de
manded for like enterprises. I
doubt whether as much work has
ever been done with so small
means as has already been done
on this road, and this will give as
surance that the aid extended by
the State will be honestly apd
economically applied. j
AgaVnTTn" no event can the
State possibly lose one dollar.
Suppose the State shall appropri
ate a given sum to insure the
road’s completion. I venture now
to put on record my conviction
that in less than five years t 1 e ad
ditional taxes raised upon the
great increase of wealth and pop
ulation in that portion of the State
will return to the treasury a sum
equal to the whole sum appropri
ated, and in ten years the sum so
returned will annually double the
sum so appropriated. Or, suppose
the State shall endorse the bonds
of the company. The amount of
private capital already invested,
and the value of the road when
built, will more than secure the
State against possible loss, and
the same result in the way of in
creased taxes mentioned above
would also follow. Every dollar
thus applied will be returned ten
fold to the present generation,
and to the future generations of
our people a thousand fold. Even
then, the mere question of a mon
ey investment, every suggestion
of prudence and wisdom favors
the proposition.
But the half has not been told.
We must recover our material
power- Our people must get of
from their poverty. There are but
two ways to do it First, we must
multiply our industries; and, sec
ondly, we must raise our own sup
plies, of every kind possible, and
make cotton exclusively a surplus
crop. We shall be forever poor,
and finally helpless, if we heed
not those two things. With
railroad facilities through North
Georgia, we shall develop a field
for multiplied industries not sur
passed on this continent. The
active appropriation, by skilled
labor, of this portion of Georgia,
will add to the value of every
acre of land in the State, and will
increase the profits of every busi
ness. Such a region in a Northern
Stale would be permeated by rail
roads in twelve months.
Then, again, the addition to onr
population would add so greatly
to our political power. Since the
debate on the amnesty bill, I have
been the recipient of letters in
great quantities from every State
in the Union. Quite a number of
the writers express a great desire
to move to Georgia, and the oc
cupation they wish to follow point
to North Georgia as the region
that will suit them. But they all
desire to live in easy reach of rail
roads. It is astonishing to what
an extent the characters of our
people, as civilized people, have
been misunderstood by the mass
es of the country. They have been
taught by a licentious press, in
the pay of miserable demagogues,
to regard us as brutal and cruel,
and as having no regard for what
are called “human rights.”
These false impressions cannot
last. The masses of the Northern
people are not only willing to
know the truth concerning us,
but they will be really glad to
know it, and this knowledge will
bring great numbers of the best
of the laboring classes, to settle
among us. I could say touch on
this subject that would be' inter
esting, which I have learned in
the last three weeks, but I am
not writing a political letter. The
Northeastern road must also be
built, but I am glad to learn that
the present legislation is sufficient
for that. There ought to be a
branch from either the Air-Line
or the Marietta road to Dahlone
ga,but these branches will follow
if the main line is secured.
Now, my dear doctor, I know
you love Georgia, and will do all
you can to promote her prosperity.
Mark what I tell you—there is
honor, wealth, and power for our
glorious old State in the works to
which I now call your attention.
Don’t be afraid. In five years,
every man who helps in this work
will have cause to rejoice. Every
dollar so applied will come back
to the State, bringing a troop for
its companions. The good will be
ieturned, “pressed down, shaken
together and running over.”
I have not been informed what
measures or propositions (if any)
have been presented to the Gen
eral Assembly on this subject.
My mind voluntarily turned to
this work this evening, and my
interest is so awakened in its be
'half, and in behalf‘of The" wHoie
State, on account of it, that I
could not retire until I wrote you
thi3 letter. And I close it, feeling
I have discharged one more duty
to the State I love and to the peo
ple I serve.
With high regard, I am your
friend, Benj. H. Hill.
A correspondent of the Knox
vHle Age says: “If I owe you ten
dollars and give yon my note for
the amount, our law and custom
requires that I pay you interest
from the time the note is due until
it is paid. Now how is the law in
relation to our national banks?
Our law permits a man to deposit
say SIOO,OOO in the treasury, for
which he receives a certificate
which allows him to issue his
promise to pay to the amount of
$90,000 for which he is allowed to
charge you from one to two per
cent, a month interest. At the
same time the government taxes
the people to pay him six per cent,
in gold on his SIOO,OOO bonds in
the treasury. In this way the
debtor is allowed to collect about
twenty-five cents interest on what
he owes, for every dollar bill is
nothing more or less than a debt
due by the banks to the holder of
said bill,”
The Times gives a fearful record
of the number of murders com
mitted in New Tork during the
past five years, and .deduces the
following conclusions: ’’Punish
ment for murder in New York is
very rare. Imprisonment for life
is not common, and the large
majority of blood-stained crim
inals escape unwhipped of justice,
many of them without any serious
inconvenience. What with the
law’s.delay, the baffling tactics of
attorneys, and the apparent weak
ness of the courts, a murderer to
day has a better chance of escap
ing the punishment due to his
crime than the smallest offenders
against the law of the land. Hu
man life is as insecure in this
boasted civilization of the nine
teenth century as in semi-savage
times. The immunity from pun
ishment enjoyed by acknowl
edged criminals demands the
immediate attention of moralists
and legislators.”
Ths Late Storm.
The destructive hurricane which
came down from the direction
of Lake Superior was one of the
most violent and extensive atmos
pheric disturbances that has ever,
perhaps, been recorded in this
country. Exceptional instances
have occurred of local storms and
tornadoes of greater force, but
cases are comparatively rare of
land storms extending over a
vaster area of territory, and main
taining throughout so great a max
imum of violence. It will be seen
that, in Baltimore alone, upwards
of three hundred and fifth houses
were unroofed, besides damage in
flicted to other property. Great
damage to churches and other
buildings in Frederick City and
county, Md., are reported in our
special dispatch from Frederick
City. In Washington city, where
some fifty houses were unroofed,
the steeple of the Metropolitan M.
E. Church was displaced d,nd re-,
mains in a leaning position. At
Cohoes, N. Y., a steeple contain
ing a set of chimes was demol
ished ; also a steeple in Webster,
Miss.; a Catholic church was de
stroyed in Woonsocket, R. I.; a
stage upset on the road near
Plattsburg, N. Y., and a dwelling
house in Atlantic City, N. J., de
molished. In New York and
Brooklyn the fury of the storm
vented itself mainly upon the
roofs. All along the path of the
storm telegraph wires were pros
trated. At one time there was
but one wire unbroken between
New York and Washington city.
Considerable damage is reported
at Philadelphia, including injury
to the towers of the Agricultural
Hall and the New York building
on the centennial grounds. In
the extreme North and Northwest
a blinding, driving snow added
to the dread grandeur of the
tempest. So far but little damage
at sea has been reported. A
number of vessels are reported
ashore on Cape Henlopen, Del.,
including the schooner Ralph
Howes, from Belfast, Me., for Bal
timore. On the New Jersey coast
a large foreign bark was seen
ashore. JChe full extat-at-tho
damage at sea and on the coasts,
however, is no doubt yet to be
learned.— Baltimore Sun.
The Republican journals of the
North and West are sorely
troubled about the number of bills
introduced in the House this ses
sion by members from the South,
making appropriations for the
improvement of their rivers and
harbors and other works of in
ternal improvement. The Chicago
Tribune prints a list of these bills,
which ask in the aggregate nine
millions of dollars. After this
amount it prints exclamation
points, and raises a truly loyal
howl about the extravagance of
the Democratic party and the dan
ger to the treasury if they should
obtain complete control of it. The
answer to all this is an easy and
a simple one. The Baltimore Ga
zette says that ten or elven States
South, great in resources, rich in
all that goes to make a country
great and prosperous, ruined and
plundered for years and years, ask
this amount of money to help
them maintain their place in the
Union, industrially and commer
cially. The only wondei is they
have not asked ten times the
amount. Why, the city of Wash
ington alone is now demanding
double that sum from the govern
ment. New York alone has re
ceived four or five millions for a
single post office; Philadelphia
and Chicago as many more for
the same purpose. The South is
entirely too moderate.
Senator Furlong, a former Fed
eral officer, but now a member of
the Mississippi Legislature, sub
scribed SSO in behalf of a proposed
statue of Lee. On paying the
money in be said: “As one who
wore the blue and fought for four
years in the army that opposed
General R. E. Lee, I am glad to
have an opportunity of contribut
ing my mite toward the erection
of a monument to the memory of
one of the greatest military chief
tians, bravest soldiers and purest
Christian gentlemen that this or
any other country ever produced,
and one of whom all true Ameri
cans ought to feel proud.”
wit lives, lives.
DAVID W. CURRY,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DRUGGIST,
CARTERSVILLE , GA.
DRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES,
WINDOW GLASS,
TOILET SOAPS, (all grades)
POTASH, FINE TEAS,
And everything usually found in a firat
class
DRUG STORE.
PURE KEROSENE ANp LARD OIL.
Best Tea only $1 per pound.
Prices furnished upon application.
Liberal discount to merchants. 6-6 m
JOHN HUNNICUTT,
Currier and Tanner,
ELLIJAY, GEORGIA.
PARTIES desiring any work done in my
line, will always find me ready to ac
commodate them on the most reasonable
terms.
Highest rates paid for green or dry
hides. i_tf
DR. R. E. STEPHENS,
II AVING LOCATED AT MORGANTON
II tenders his medical service to the
people of Fannin and adjoining counties.
When not professionally engaged will
be found at the MORRIS HOTEL, front
room. 13-Gm
JOHN C. WILLIAMS,
CARTERSVILLE, GEOB3IA.
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO
k) the defence of persons charged with
violating the internal revenuelavvs. 19-6 m
FANNIN SHERIFF SALES.
WILL be sold before the Courthouse door
in the town of Morganton, Fannin
county, Georgia, on the First Tuesday in
March next, within the legal hours oi sale,
the following property, to-wit: Three
eighths of lots of land Nos. 64, 65 and 56, all
in the 9th district, 2d section of said
county, to satisfy a tax fi fa. In favor of
the State and county vs. H. Brown and
IV. D. Berry.
Also, at the same time and place will bo
sold lot of land No. 322, in the 7th district,
Ist section, to satisfy two tax fi fas. in favor
of the State and county vs. B. F. McDonald.
Also, at the same time and place will he
sold lot of land No. 91, in the Bth district.
-**■/■ aegtftßT,-Tf s„‘4Vy ill rf fa*. fflT
favor of the State and county vs. Daniel
C. Davenport.
All levied on and returned to me by a
constable, this January 31, 1876.
22-td NATHAN PARRIS, Sheriff.
Georgia, Fannin county. —court of
Ordinary at Chambers. Eliza Ann Har
shaw having applied to be appointed guar
dian of the person and property of William
H. Harshaw, a minor under fourteen years
of age, resident of said county, this Is to
cite all persons concerned to be and ap
pear at the term of the Court of Ordinary
to be held next aftei the expiration of
thirty days from the first publication of
this notice, and show cause, if any they
can why said Eliza Ann Harshaw should
not he entrusted with the guardianship of
the person and property of William H.
Harshaw. Given under my hand and of
ficial signature this Jan. 10. 1876.
19-6 t G. A -THOM AS, Ordinary.
G EORGIA, Fannin County. —ltobt. Jones
VT having applied to be appointed guar
dian of the persons and property of Jonas
Jones and Eliza J. Jones, minor children
under fourteen years of age, resident of
said county, this is to cite all persons con
cerned to be and appear at the Term of
the Court of Ordinary to be held next af
ter the expiration of thirty days from the
first publication of this notice, and show
cause, if any they can, why said Robert
Jones should not be entrusted with the
guardianship of the persons and property
of Jonas Jones and Eliza J. Jones.
Given under my hand and official sig
nature this Feb. 7,"1876.
23-4 t G. A. THOMAS, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Gilmer County.— Whereas,
William C. Allen, as the administrator
of the estate of Martin Keel, late of said
county, deceased, represents to the Court
of Ordinary that he has fully administered
said estate and discharged all his duties as
such administrator, and appeals for letters
ef dismission therefrom. It is therefore
ordered that all persons concerned show
cause, if any they have, at the May Term,
1876, of the Court of Ordinary of said
county against the granting-of a discharge
from the administration of said estate.
20-3 m E. RUSSEL, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Gilmer County. —Nathan T.
IT Tabor, guardian of Washington L.
Jackson, Nancy H. Jackson, David A.
Jackson, Isaac L. Jackson, Lewis C. Jack
son, and Massey W. Jackson, minor heirs
of Massey R. Jackson, deceased, having
applied to the Court of Ordinary of said
county for a dischaige from his guardian
ship of said wards, persons and property.
This is therefore to cite all persons con
cerned to show cause by filing their objec
tion, if any they have, in my office why
said Nathan T. Tabor should not be dis
missed from his guardianship of said wards
and receive the usual letters of dismission.
Jam 3, 1876. E. RUSSEL,
20-3 m Ordinal y.
'* ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE7~
GEORGIA, Gwinnett County.— By vir
tue of an order granted by the Court
of Ordinary of Gwinnett county, Ga., I
will sell on the First Tuesday in March,
1876, at public sale before the courthouse
door in Lawrenceville, of said county, lots
of land two hundred and seventy-five (276)
,and two hundred and eighty-eight (288),
in the ninth district (2) second section of
Fannin county, Ga., each containg one
hundred and sixty acres, more or less.
Sold as the prope.-ty of F. M. Wardiaw,
late of Gwinnett county, deceased. Terms
Cash. Nov. 26, 1876.
SAMUEL W. KNOX,
21-td Administrator of said deceased.