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ELLIJAY COURIER.
I. G. ILLEI - - Editor.
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ELI.IIAY, OA, Jir.NK 2, 1877.
Tiik cotiitlry will pardon us for
nguiti noticing *U pulilic mads,
llioir condition, etc. We do so
with the firm conviction that the
jmihiic interests demand more
than a passing notice. Our pub
lic buildings, bridges and public
roads make an index to public
apiril in any county. There is no
better rule by which to judge of
the jirogress and substantial con
ditions of a county Ilian by (lie
condition of the public roads. Kv
erv traveller estimates the spirit
of internal improvement in a
county by the condition ol her
public roads. It will add to your
own convenience ; it will add to
Hie value of your property ; it
shows home enterprise. We are
remote from market,and this rea
son if no other ought io induce us
to hiiiKl good roads. We mean
roads according to law. There is
not five miles of public road in
the county but wliut can be put
in a condition ns required (jy law.
How many days do the hands
work on the public roads? We
say from one to liye in the year.
The law says to work fifteen or
put them in a condition as re
quired by law. Who are at fault ?
Are the Commissioners or over
seers < The fall season will soon
be here when ample time exists
for doing all this work.
We confess that the mainthor
nuglifares are in better condition
Ilian any other roads in the Coun
ty.- Why is it so i Because hands
on these roads do more work.
The Commissioners should see
that the work was equalized. No
tify your overseers to work ten
days this full. See that every
one does it. Till up your sign
hoards and mile posts in a neat
style. Cos at it like an industri
‘mis man goes at his own work.
I’ut overy road in good condition.
We linve in tho county not less
than one thousand road hands.
Every road in tho county can be
put in a condition us required by
law before another Grand .(jury
passes upon them. There is no
security to Road Commissioners
until it is done. One road should
he as good as another. If they
are for the public let the public
make them, and let them be made
according to law. Every road is
now upon the sumo footing in Gil
mer county.
Wo quote for tlie benefit of the
public, hr applicable to the couii
ties of Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens,
Union, Towns rind Rabun, and
amendatory of the Cede of (Jeor
gia Sec. 598, on the subject of
public roads by an act of the Leg
islature passed in 1872, that the
public roads shall be at least four
teen feet wide, side digging, and
cleared of all stumps, trees, grubs
and bushes, at least sixteen teet
wide, and of all such limbs of
trees as may incommode horse
men and carriage's, no matter
what distance on either side of
said road, and trees which are
lively to Tallin or across said road
shall be felled. The carriage
tract must be at least five feet
aud six inches wide.
The law means thin: That on
any other than sidehills the
road shall be sixteen feet wide,
and on sidehills at least four
teen feet wide.
Make this a point. See to it
that your roadß are made accord
ing to law. When this is done
the country will be. satisfied and
the public interests maintained.
The election for Convention or
no Convention comes off the 12th
jnst. Go out and vote as you
please, and we will do the same
thing. Vote for who you please
.—we think we will do likewise.
Don’t forget the time; don’t fail
to go. Let the people speak.
Gold Mining la Georgia.
| \ tinnl* • AitttiMi<fi.J
la.-. \v. v. ll.irrU'in was in
Chicago last week, where he had
an op|antunity to see the witlej
tide that it flowing to the Black
Hill*. lie could not restrain his
pen, and a Idler ill the latest
number ul the Chicago 7’/atliat
has cotiio to hand, gives his views
on the subject of gold milling
lie think* I>jddonegaofl\*ni heller
inducements than Dead wood, lie
shows how deceptive “pocket
mines" are—that quartz, mining
is the only reliance, lie then
shows what the Georgia mines
have produced. The estimate, lie
says, that placet in Georgia pro
duct at forty millions iu twenty
years is by no means extravagant.
After stating wlialllm stamp mills
in and near Dablonega are actu
ally and oing. lie adds:
The quartz, leads in this section
are very numerous 1 speak from
personal experience, having visit
ed within a t welvemonth the gold
region of Northeast Georgia.
During my stay there 1 saw an
old mine, out of which several
hundred thousand dollars had
formely been taken, re opened,
and out of a “pocket” in the vewi
S3OO was taken in a single pan
ful of ore. A ton of this pocket
ore would yield $30,000. Of course
these incidents are rare, and
really do not advance the gold
interest, for extravagant hopes
are aroused, and these not being
fulfilled the reaction is injurious
to all concerned. But there are
veins of quarts Horn four inches
to five feet thick, iu which more
or less gold will be found in every
ton of ore. The extremes range
from fifty cents to as many dollars
per ton. But there is a reliable
average which will all'ord a basis
of calculation which is really
more certain than almost any
business in these “hard times.
The people of Georgia and of
the whole South have been strug
gling with dilliculties which only
cool and dispassionate minds
elsewhere can properly appreci
ate. The struggle has been lor ex
istence, and the destruction of
capital by the late war-'.ren
ders it impossible far them to eii*
gage to any large extent in quartz
mining. But they cordially wel
come le-nest aud worthy men
from every section of our country
whose purpose is to attend to le
gitimate business of any kind.
Large capitalists in the north,east
and west have suffered loss by
the non-employment of their
means, Here, in the heart of the
South, accessible by railroads
from all directions, is a gold re
gion in the compass of thirty
miles square, which can yield
$500,000,000.0f gold without driv
ing a shall live hundred feet deep,
and yet it is suffered to lie com
paratively idle.
If these mines were in the Black:
Hills, an-1 life and fortune were
stuked.upon reaching them, it
would be easy to excite public at
tention to them. It is time that
the foolish stories of southern
men were laid aside lor ever;
they have served tbeir purposes,
and are now too well understood
to frighten any one. A Chicago
man, what ever his politics may
be, is as safe in-any part of Geor
gia us a Southern man is in Chi
cago. Either might get into ditli
cullies, if he had a mind to do so,
and either will find himself among
friends if he shows lumself wor
thy of them.
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The Rumored Movement Against
Mexico,
[Savannah News.|
For weeks or more the couutry
has‘been filled with rumors of
filibustering designs upon Mexi
co. Some of the Washington
press correspondents have gone
so far as to declare that the plans
have been arranged for a formid
able invasion of Mexican lerrito
ry. and that both the refugee
President, Lerdo, and our own
government are aware of and fa
vor the schemes which has for its
double purpose the overthrowing
of Diaz,the usurper,the establish
ment of an American protectorate
in Mexico under Lerdo, and the
ultimate acquisition of another
important strip of Mexican terri
lory. Th<*# reports have be.n
denied by the prett on behjf of j
the government, and Dido ha*
published n card in • Itiolt lie dis
claim* any participation in or
knowledge of the enterprise.
Not withstanding that l*erdo re
pudiatas the whole business and
assert*'! liat the rumors connecting
him with it have been inspired by
the cmmiitsariea of Diaz to arouse
a feeling in Mexico again*t him,
(licrdo), correspondents who pro
test to be in the secret insist that
a movement against Mexico
teinplaled, and that extensive
preparations have been rqMewith
that view. “Buel,” the Washing
ton correspondent of the New
Orleans Democrat , who professes
to be well posted in referents to
what is going on accounts for Ler
do’s denial on the ground that he
has discovered that the men Jwho
are moving in this desperate en
terprise are bent upon accomplish
ing purpose of their ow'ii, and dare
nothing for him or his pretentions,
except to use him as a
and his pretentions as a cover for
their movements during its incep
tion. s.
The same correspondent reiter :
ates his assertion that the govern
ment, is’advised of the contem
plated filibuster movement, and
says:
“Whatever may be the public
utterances of diplomatic attaches
of the administration here it is
well known that the most potent
influence are working to bring
about a rupture with Mexico,
where thin grand filibustering
scheme is nothing but the enter
ing wedge. The future of Jhe
movement,as staled previous dis
patches is merely a questioif of
money and suDplies. The wen
are ready to begin operations
They await only tranportafion
and supplies.”
There may or may not be any
grounds for these filibustering
rumors, but where there is so
much smoke there is likely to be
some fire. Of one thing we feel
very confident, and that is, that
the people of this section of the
union have no inclination unnec
essarily to meddle with poor,
miserable, •ntongreltJTed
traded Mexico; much less are
(hey inclined to plunge tlife coun
try into a war with that republic,
either to despoil her territory,pro
mote the augmentation of
regular army, or advance the in
terest of those holding Mexican
bonds.
The New York Sun is not in
syitipalhy with Russia. It says:
“If we are found presistently Re
pudiating the pretensions of Rus
sia to represent an advanced state
of civilization, and to propagate
religion by the sword, it is not
because we think British interest
are endangered by theannexation
of Turkey to Russia or care
whether they are or not ; but
because we consider ir an outrage
upon civilization that the Rus
sians should consider themselves
justified in exposing millions ol
unoffending peasantry, who would
prefer rather to be misforgivgn
than beggared and slain, to the
horrors of a sanguinary war; it is
because we not approve of Mo
hammedan principles of religious
aggression, when they are adopt
ed by Christians, any moro than
when they are practiced by Mo
hammedans ; it is because we ab
solutely distrust the motives f
Russia, which, while engaging iu
a crusade to free subject races,
keeps in the most cruel bondage
the whole Polish nation, perse
cutingit on account of its religion,
denationalizing it by the unjust
confiscation and transference ef
the land to the conquering race,
by the attempted extinction of
its language, and by a persistent
policy of oppression which has
before now roused the sympathy
of every generous heart in Amer
ica. We have no love whatever
for the Turks; but if we are to
have a barbarism in Europe, we
prefer a decaying one to an ag
gressive one, a barbarism which,
if it is cruel and corrupt, is in
many respects more tolerant and
enlightened than the one which
is uow endeavoring to supplant
it.
Tb European Trouble# Ob%aoe#
of t Goaerftl War.
The New Voek UtraUi prints ftn
interview ly it* Washington cor
respondent with lion. Beitj. F.
I‘eixotto, on the Russian Turko
war. Mr. IVixotto lias spent five
years at the court of i'rince
Charles of Koiitnaiiia.as represen
tative ofthe United States at that
court. is fact, coupled with
the dttier fact that Mr. Peixotto**
vaticinations upen the war ques
tion printed six mouths ago in
Chicago have been borne out of
actual results since that lime.give
considerable weight to his very
interesting predictions in refer
ence to the other powers being
Involved. Here is-tlie interview:
Correspondent—You believe
all Europe will be involved ?
Mr. Piexetto —It is inevitable
the moment the mask is torn away
and the veil so long before their
eyes given to the winds. 1 mean
the great powers—England, Ger
many, Austria, France, and Italy.
All Europe hears to-day ‘.he
words of Hamid as he draws his
sword—“ Exposed to hostile sug
gestions, to unlimited suspicion
and to violations of internal law,
Turkey feels she is now contend
ing for her existence. Strong in
the justice of her cause,and trust
ing in God, she is determined to
ignore what has been decided
without her and against her, and
resolved to retain in the world
the place which providence has
destined for her” These are
ringing words, even in our lan
guage, in Turkish they will rouse
the Moslem to frenzy. Before
his vision the memory of the pa6t
will rise like a dream. We shall
see the Turk of Paroun-al-Kas
ceid’s day, the swift warrior of
Salaam’s peerless hosts, and
from heaven to their excited im
aginatiortMohammed will descend
to lead them on to victory.
Correspondent—Who of the Pow
ers will be tbe firat to interpose.
Mr. Peixotto—Austria first, but
hardly sooner than England?
Correspondent—And against—
Mr. Peixotto —Against Russia.
• Correspondent —And Germany?
Mr. Peixotto —Will hang off as
fioug'fls possible, but beioro mid
summer be deeply in the conflict.
Correspondent—For whom ?
Mr. Peixo.to—l dare to
nenture an oumion.
pend B—and 1 yet not lWieve
for Russia.
Correspondent—lf she should
so decide what then?
Mr. Peixotto—The religious of
France will cross the Rlnue, the
Italians come up to join the
French, Catholic Austria, Italy
and France, later supplemented
by Spain, with England, make
common cause against Germany
and Russia.. 'The old song will
come back again:
By the Danube anil the Dneiper
Will the t'ossack carrier sleep:
By the Volga and the Don
Will the Cossack mother weep.
There will be sobs, too, on the Severn
And wailing on the Thames;
And Europe will a picture be,
Of blood and tears aud flames.
Correspondent —And your de
liberate judgement is that such a
general war is impending?.
Mr. Peixotto —lain compelled
to say it is. The fire kindled by-
Russia in Ilerzevovina in June,
1875, has been a slow but consum
ing flame ; it lias burst-forth now
and I fear cannot he quenched.
Unholy, unhallowed is the war
begun on the 24th of April, a day
which, by a singular coincidence,
become memorable to our coun
try as of the day of final pacifica
tion.
■
Morton Favors Hayes.
A Washington special to the
New York World says: “In a
letter written upon business mat
ters to a friend in this city Sena
tor Morton incidentally com
mends the administration,without
.a direct reference either to its
course towards the South or its
so-called civil service reform poli
cy. It is not a letter intended to
be made public in part or in whole,
and the person to whom is addres
sed declines to allow any one to
see it or to state what its contents
are, declaring at the same time
that the letter is not devoted to
jtolitlcal questions. It is ***er
ttiiied, however, that Mr. Morton
ulttles In Ibis letter (but lie ha*
learned that Mr. Blaine intends
to pursue an opposite course from
himself, which indicates iiniuis
tnksbly that I lie Indiana .Senator
is as much in favor ol the admin
istration as the Maine Senator i*
opposed to it. Morton's rrietuls
here say that the outgiving in this
private letter precede, doubtless,
some public utterance either in
the form of a public letter or
speech indorsing all that the
Hayes party have done. It has
been no secret here for some time
that Morton lias been in accord
with Hayes in the matteT of ap
pointments. His interests have
been consulted in every appoint
ment in Indiana since the 4tli ol
March.”
The Way the United State Troops
Marched Away in New
Orleans.
[Extract from a Vew Orleans Letter.]
“Carry arms!” commanded the
colonel. They were carried. ‘!or
derarms!’’ “Carry arms!” he re
peated, in quick succession. The
orders were executed with mar
tial precision, and the'bayonets
glittered aboutthe soldiers 5 shoul
der knots. “Right by fours,
march!” The first note of the
noop day bells commenced toll
ing. “Forward, march l” The
drum major lifted his ponderous
baton, the immense red plume in
his bear skill cap nodding like a
scarlet poppy on the summit of a
mountain. The band struck up a
quick march as they defiled upon
St.Charlesstreet. “Columnright! ’
yeiled Colonel Brooke, looking as
mad as a March hare. Tins was
the second time he had evacuat
ed. The other time was in Ar
kansas. In this way the column
reached St. Louis street, where
the word was “column left,” and
so they kept on toward the levee.
'The music by the band was most
appropriate, being nothing more
nor less than a variation of that
ancient military tune known as
“Love farewell,” commencing in
tho song with the following ef-
feeling lines:
‘Now,.brave boys, we’j-e marching off to
Portugal and Spain,
Colors fly ing, drums a-beating ; devil a
back we’l come again.
So, love, fare you well.”
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A Washington special says:
“Persons who are watching the
European troubles with a deep in
terest and belief that nations
other than Russia and Turkey will
participate in what bids fare to
he the great conflict of 1877. man
ifest much coneevn regarding the
position to be occupied by the
United States toward the contend
ing parties.
While there is considerable
.speculation as to whether the
United States will observe a po
sition of neutrality in permitting
the naval vessel of either nation
to make use of American ports,
the preponderance of opinion is
that no formal action will be ta
ken by the President in this re
spect until there is urgent ueces
sity for his doing so. It is believ
ed, say the dispatch, at the State
D-jpartment that no proclamation
declaring strict neutrality will be
issued, as been alleged, except in
the event of complaint being
made by either the Russians or
Turkish Government,when action
will have to be taken.”
The European War.
London, May 23. —A Vienna dis
patch to the Daily Telegraph an
nounces that the Austrian gov
ernment’s attention is riveted on
increasing agitation in Hungary.
There is eager clamor for war
amongst all classes.
The council of ministers at Bel
grade resolved that Prince Milan
shall inform the Czar, after the
Roumanian proclamation **! inde
pendanoe, that Servia cannot re
main neutral.
Routnania's declaration caused
great excitement at Vienna All
the Hungarian papers, hpwever,
declare that the hour for action
has arrived for Austria and Hun
gary.
A letter from Kossuth, publish
ed, urges an alliance between
Hungary and Turkey againt their
common enemy, Russia.
TU£ STATE.
D\th*cf* Higusl: U"f •>
dir of rfaol— is tWs * ells*. A Wterri*
lirr infom,* isthtl In* tot i* l * wilt* •
litter of flltttrn • #*• *•
ett*r within the |>sttl two •eels* Cub-**
iben to wow •iwtowwnt In tlw rsrsfr* of
tbe rb.ilrn the pork Wippljr run con -
UdrraMy Short Ibis yrwr.
A ruinor rirrnlalinf on tlwstm-u of
Atlanta Wtewwtoy **y: A white man
n found on tlw ttw'i Ferry mad Tues
day night, dead, with n ftortured iw*l.
and bis tbrunt cut front ear to car. Mad
ame Humor states tlmt tbe mail was known
to have about forty Jollani in bis pocket
Iu the eaijy part of tbe evening, and that
it is su i|x ord that be was murdered by
someone a lio knew of this fact.
Tbto'to the way s Goo.gto woman got
even with a false end truant husband : A
young lady in Calboun county (■ grass
widow now) was married last year amt
separated soon afterwards. Tbe man went
to Florida recently and was married again
His Brat lore finding it out, rode-four hun
dred mile# in a buggy to bare him scut to
the penitentiary, and has succeeded inj
bousing tile gent for safe keeping for five
years. She’s a brave wotnau.
The Swains'ore Herald, discussing the
Convention, says: The people of this
county are considerably divided ‘on the
Convention question. Manv oppose it bit
terly, while others are equally zealous for
It. We honestly believe it is to the inter
ests of the whole people, white and black,
poor and rich, that a convention should be
held. If we did not think so, *e should
be far from advocating H. There are ma
ny reasons why a Convention should be
held, and but few why it should not be
held.
The .Savannah News has tbe following;
The regular passenger train which left here
yesterday morning for .Charleston on tbe
Savannah and Charleston railroad, had
cars attached containing the colored mili
tary excursionists who have been here on
a visit. At the junction with the Atlantic
and Cult railroad, about two and a half
miles from the city, a young colored boy
in attempting to get on the tf.i n, which
was going'at a moderate rate at the time,
fell front the platform on tho track and
the wheel of one of the cars passing over
his left arm, cut it off. VVe were unable
to learn further particulars of the accident
other than that proper attention as se
cured for the injured lad.
The same jwper sayt: I-ast evening
about half-past nine o’clock a wbitc*wo
man named Mrs. Charlotte Davis, living
at No. 40 Hall street, attempted to com
mit suicide by taking laudanum. She was
found in a stupor, and a messenger was at
once dispatched for a physician. In a
short time Dr. Stone arrived, anil at once
commenced upon his insensible patient,
and by eleven o’clock was enabled to* pro
nounce her out of danger. We arc in
formru this is the third attempt at suicide
by the saute method made tvilhiu tin: ast
three mouths.
The Marietta Journal gives the follow
ing particulars of a (Instantly attempt at
assassination : On last Saturday night, in
about eight miles of Acworth, some vil
lain perpetrated a diabolical deni. While
Air. Sanford and wife were eating supper,
tome person slipped up to the house and
evidently shot at Mrs. Sanford, and front
some cause Mr. Sauford raised his hand,
the ball struek it and passed through and
lodged in Uie forehead <*f liis wife. Wbat
is strange she procured a trumpet and
blowed it for some time before she found
that she was hurt. She doubtless would
have been killed instantly if the force of
the hall had not been lessened by striking
the hand of her’ husband first. Doctors
McEver and Cotton* were unable to find
the ball, which passed through the skull at
la t accounts. It is a serious hurt, hut she
does not complain pf the wound. As to
who did the deed no one knows, but pars
ties are suspicioned, aud we hope the guil
ty may be founa out and made to sutler
to the extent of the law.
The re opening of the barrooms in Pal
metto, after having closed for two years,
was celebrated on the 19th of May l>y a
murder on the principal street. A special
to the Atlanta Constitution say*: Many
there were whose blood was made to cur
dle at the announcement of a murder com
mitted on the priucipal street, caused by
whisky, aud this, too, on the second day
of the re-opening of ti e whisky shops. It
appears that some young men. went into
one of the licensed rum shops and asked
to be credited for whisky, which was re
fused. Whereupon they called out tle
barkeeper. A6 sm nas they got him out
side, an attack was made upon him. A
rough and tumble fight was the result, in
which the b irkeeper, named Morse, was
badly cut up. During the melee an old
gentleman named Eller appeared upon the
scene, my informant thatight, as a peace -
maker, but was supposed t& be tinder the
influence ef liquor by the promiscuous
manner in which he would- first grab one
and then the other of the belligerents, un
til one of them, thinking him in Ike fight,
picked up a rock and struck the old gen
tleman in the temple, knocking him sense -
less, and crushing his skull, from which
the brain oozed out! ‘lhe wounded, and
perhaps dying man, was carried to his
home. A sad ending, indeed, of the an
niversary, if it could be so called, on the
re-epening of the rum mills of that little
town,