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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.