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ELLIJAY COURIER. I. G. ILLEI - - Editor. rH I At. IXiH'CICMfcKT*. W. arc " |>re|.arc<t l <>#• Tur I.h rim l I'ltth* R|nß Mo following (•■i m*: I |H<R ret-rl|>l *f flo from on* Pilii#ri **.. will wkl the *<i m l •nbaerl- Wrtfnr twelve iHvntb.. ti|‘U ••--•••(. l |iir nill wild Ike nil IIKR In lnl| •ulMi'ril.-n riml i*m mlilillrlßl i*|i* l* i*• r it|. (! 4 Ini. for il.e Month*. Thi* |ir<i|Mi.iliAii bold- R'hml till tlif #r*t Hat nf May next. 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. .■■ ■ ■ 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.” •-*.. 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,