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"TSLTIJAY COURIER. ■-HBIiHED mi moil, TEIIK: $( 50 PEH ANU* J. C. ALLEN Kittmit amu I'Mnrtiirnt. T. H. THRAkfr, - - - - Pkixtkk. Am pamc* i* ok ru * with '• fF Tb# ftil)owin rale* amt rule* are Universal and Imperative, aud admit of • exception ; _jjPg RATES OF ADVERTISING. One square on* insertion . . . | 10Q K*eh subawinont insertion ... 50 One square one year ..... 10 00 Tw* squares one year ' .... 90 uu (Quarter eolttinn one year - ... 25 00 ilaW cainma one year .... 45 00 One Ctmiinn one year ..... 00 0C Local notices 10 cents a line each inser- Ten lines.one inch,constitutes n square. Yearly advertisers wiU be allowed one change without extra ehareo, LEGAL ADVERTISING. Pthsrif sales, each levy, - - $4 00 Civmiou for letters of administration and guardianship, - - - 400 APplrtieatfon for dismissiou fPotn ad ministration, guardianship and executorship, - - - - 600 Application for leave to sell land, one square. - - - - 4 00 Each additional square, - - 200 Land sales, one square, - • 4 <>< Rash additional square. auo Application for homestead, - - 100 Notice to debtors and creditors, - 400 Karffll legal advertisements, the cash HjSst He paid in advaa-ie. Advertisements not marked for a certain miml>er of insertions will be published till forbid, and charged accordingly. GENERAL DIRECTORY. ' * George N. Lester, Judge Bluo Ridge Circuit. • Thomas F, Greer, Solicitor. TOWN COUNCIL. •L R. Johnson. President: J. M. Wat kins, B. Wilson, J. E. P Smith, G, 11. Ran dall, Secretary. ————o— ——• % BOARD OF EDUCATION. \V. R. Raoklcv, President; W. F, Itlll, Bawetary; W. C. ‘Woodard, 811 Whit alter, M. J. West. ———— COUNTY OFFICERS. J. C. Ailea, Ordinary. 1.. It. Oreer, Clerk Superior Court. Ur. J. R. Johnson, Sheriff. P. H. miton. Tax Receiver, Coilectoi and Treasurer. James A, Carnes, Surveyor. RELIOIOUS° SERVICES. B*PTir Church—Every second Satur day and Sunday, by N. L. Oaborn. MRTHomar Krwcop at On u rc— Every first Sunday, by Rev. A. F. Ellington MKTnoniMTEnecoi'ai.Ctftttcn, South Every third Sablmtb, by Rev. T. J. Kd. ward*. * o FRATERNAL RECORD Oak Rovkuy I.ohrk. No. SI.F. and A. M.—Mcct* first Frhlny in each inonlh. N. L. Oshokx, W. M. I>*Yt! Garkvx. Secretary. MAIL—ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE. Leave Moryunton. Snturday - - am Arrive at Ellijay, Satin day - - 12 in Leave Ellijay, Hiiturday ... 1 p m Arrive Carterfivfllc, Wednesday f> pin Leave C*rtersville„ Thursday - 0 ain Arrive nt Kllijav, Friday - - 12 m Leare Ellijay, Friday - • lpm Arrive nt Morgnnton, Friday - 8 pm Leave irnhlonega, Tuesday and Thursday Arrive at Ellljny, Wod’sdny i Friday 12 m Leave Ellijay, Wcil’aday A Friday 1 p in A rPlve at halilonega, Ths’day A SatitrdaT Mk<V■Ellijay, Friday - - - - 6 am Arrive at Drtcklown, Friday - - 8 pm Leavy Duektown, Saturday - - 8 ji in Arrive at KlHjny, Saturday . . 6 pm David GahkkX, Postmaster. J. C. ALLEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELLIJAY, GA., Wirt, practice In the Superior'*!lotirts of the Blue Ridge Circuit. Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to his care. Collections a specialty. THOMAS F. GREER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, jPLLIJAY, GA. As .Solicitor General will attend regu larly all the Courts of the Blue Ridge Cir cuit; also, Supreme Court of Georgia and U. 8. District And Circuit Courts. Land litigation a specialty. L. J. GARTRELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ATLANTA,GEORGIA. PHAOTIOICS IX TTTK UNITED STATES CIRCUIT and District Courts at Atlanta, and the Supreme and Superior Courts of the State. l-tf * H. R. FOOT. ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELLIJAY, GA. PRACTICES IN THE BLUE RIDGE X Circuit. Gives ntteution to claims against the United States Government. Also, Land Agent. Parties wishing to buy or sell land In any of the Cherokee Counties can address or call on him at Ellijay. l-tf E. WATKINS, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, ELLIJAY, GA. jTrTJOH KSQN, M D Physician and Surgeon, ELLIJAY, GA. Tenders his professional services to the citizens of Ellijay and vicinity. Will promptly answer all calls, wh en uot pro fessionally/ . jun2l-Iy. THE ELLIJAY COUTIIEII, VOL. 11. Banal of Moses. si O, By Nebn’s lonely mountaiß, On this side Jordan’* wave, In a vale in the land oi Moah, , There lies a lonely grave, And no man knows that sepulcher, Aud no man saw it e’er; For the angels of God upturned the and, And laid the dead man there. That was the grandest funeral That ever passed on earth. But no man heart 1 the tramping, Or saw-the train go forth Noiselessly as the daylight Comes back when the night is done, Aud the crimson streak on the ocean’s cheek Grows into the great sun. Noiselessly as the springtime Her crown of verdure weave*, And all the trees on all the bills Open their thousand leaves; So, without sound of music, Or voice of them that wept, Silently down from the mountain’s crown The great procession swept. Perchance the bald old eagle, On gray BethsPeor’s height, Out of his lonely eyrie. Looked on the wondrous sight; Perchance the Uon stalking Still shuns that hallowed spot, For beasts and bird have seen and heard That which man knoweth not, Bat wlicn the warrior dfotli, His comrades in the war, With arms reversed and muffled dram, Follow his funeral can They show the banners taken, They tell his battles won, And after hint lead his masteries* steed, White peals the minute gun. Amid the noblest of the land We lay the sage to rest, And give the bard an lmnored place, W Ith costly marble dressed, In the great minster transept, Where lights like glories fall, And the organ rings, and tlu. sweet ctmtr' sings, Along tlie emblazoned walls. Tills was truest warrior That ever buckled sword; This tlie most gifted poet Tiiat ever breathed a word ; And never earth’s philosopher Traced witli his golden pen, On the deathless jiage, trutiics half so sage As he wrote down for men. And had he not high honor The lii!!-ide for a pall, To lie in state while angels wait With stars for tapors tall, And the dark rockspines, like towing plumes Over his bier lo wave, And God’s own hand, in that lonely land, To lay him in the grave I In that strange grave without a name, Whence his uncnfHned clay Shall break again, O wonderous thought I Before the Judgment day, And stand with glory wrapt around On tlie hills lie never trod, And speak of the strife that won our life, With the incarnate Son of God. O lonely grave in Moab’s laud 1 O dark BetlivPeor’s hill I Speak to these curious hearts of ours, And teach them to be still. God hath bis mysteries of grace, Ways tlirtt we cannot tell; He hides them deep, like the hidden sleep Of him he loved so well. Governor Tom Young, in his congratu latory addressed to the Slate troops oo their return to private life, say* that Ohio has reason to be proud of her National Guard. We feel disposed to go further,and say that the National Guard has reason to be proud of Governor Tom. He didn't scare worth a cent, and went on minding his own husis ness, as if there wasn’t a United Stales troop within a inilliou miles of Columbus. —Cincinnati Enquirer. % A youngster being required to writo a composition upon some portion of the human body, selected that which unites the head to the body; “A throat is con venient to have, especially to .roosters and ministers. The former eats the corn and crows with it; the latter preaches through his’n, and then ties it up. This is pretty much all I think of about necks.” Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise; but early to ryes and tardy to bed, makes a man’s nose turn cardinal red. “Error Ceases to Be Dangerous When Reason is Left Free to Combat It.”-Jefferson. ELLIJAY, GA., SEPTEMBER 7, 1877. War Notes The Daily News’ correspondent telgraphed from the Russian headquarters one Wednesday as follows; “The defenders of Schip ka Pass consist of but twenty companies. Tho second division has therefore been diverted from its intended destination before Plevna and is marching on Schip ka Pass. In a recent visit to the front before Plevna 1 was sur prised to find that so few rein forcements had reached the Rtfifc-' sian troops holding that pas*. They are unquestionably inferier in number toOsman Pasha's army. To-day eight thousand reserve* are crossing the Danube to fill iU> the gaps in the Ninth corps. Ofl the other hand, Prince Schackos kog has marched his brigade of the Thirty-second infantry di vision back to his original poai tion, confronting Osman Pasha. Accordingly on the Plevna front, when the Ninth corps gets itf. complement, the Russians will have two army corps, the Fourth and Ninth, including the forces at Watchers, Lovats and Selvi. I roughly estimate the whole Rus sian force confronting Plevna at from sixty-five to seventy-five thousand men. The bulk of the reinforcements are somewhat de layed on the way from the Rus sian base, but tlie cavalry division of guards is expeeted to cross the Danube in a fortnight, and a brig* ade per day to follow in a steady stream. The water is bad here. The Ntnperor has been slightly indisposed, but is now quite re covered." The Times’ dispatch from Trea rapea reports that the Porte bar officially informed tho British! Embassy that Mehemet Ali has gained a great victory between Osman Bazar and Eski d’Juma, capturing several guns and inflict ing great loss on the Russians, who were the attacking party. Several special dispatches re mark the hostile tone of the Ger man semi-official press toward Turkey. The Turkish Embassy at Berlin having, through a Ber lin telegraph agency,contradicted the report that the perpetrators of the Salonica massacre have been released, the ministerial organ, Nord Deutsche, expressly begs to observe that the state ments put forward by the Turk ish foreign department are noto riously unworthy. The Daily Nows’ correspondent at Russian headquarters explains the mystification concerning the reported capture of llainkoi Pass by tlie Turks. On the 16th in stant a column of Suleiman Pasha’s force attempted strenu ously to force the pas 6. It is re ported that they were successful, but though the column did, in deed, force its way into the defile, it was there so roughly handled by the Russian artillery and by the regiment holding the pass that it was compelled to retire. The Times’ Vienna correspond ent remarks relative to the attack of the Shipka Pass that all along the Tunja valley, the face of the mountains is precipitous rock, through which a road leads up in steep curves. However much the bulk of Suleiman Pasha’s force may have been used to mountain warfare, and however heroic the efforts made within the last two days may have been, it will be little short of a miracle if they should ultimately succeed in car rying the pass. Suleiman Pasha has been rein forced by two divisions, under Rossini Pasha,from Phillippololis. A Bucharest dispatch to the Times says: “On account of nu merous accidents on the over worked Roumanian railways, an agreement has been made by which the railways will pay four thousand francs for every soldier hereafter killed,and twelve thou sands francs for every officer killed.” The Street of Hell. In 18T0 there were in the United States 440,000 licensed liquor saloons, it formed into n street wit h saloons on each side, allowing twenty foot to each sa->! loon, they would make a street two hundred ahd sixty-five miles long. Let tis imagine them brought together in such a street ktid let us suppose the moderate drinkers and thoir families are marching into ft kt (he upper end. Go with me if you have the nerve and patience and stand at the lower end and let us see what lb at street turns out in one year. What army is this that comes marching down the street in solid column, five abreast extending five hundred and seventy miles? It is the army of 6,000,000 men and women who go daily and constantly to the saloons for in toxicating drinks as a beverage. Marching twenty miles a day, and it will take them more than twenty-eight days to go by. Now they are gone, and close in their rear comes another army marching five abreast and sixty miles in length. In it there are 530,000 confirmed drunkards. There are men and women who have lost control of their appe tites, and who are in the regular habit of getting drunk and mak ing beasts of themselves. Marclv ing two abreast the army is 150 miles long. Scan them closely. There are gray-haired men and fair-haired boys. There are, alasl many women in the army sunk to depths than tho men, be cause of the greater heights from which they fell. It will take them £eyen days to go by- It is a sad and sickening sight, but turn not away yet, for there comes another army—loo,ooo criminals. From jails and pris ons and penitentiaries they come. At the head of the column along line of persons whose hands are smeared with human blood. With ropes around their necks they are on their way to the gal lows. Others are going to prison for life. Every crime known to our laws has been committed by the persons while under the influence of Btrong drink. But hark! whence comes those yells, and those who bound with strong chains and guarded by armed men ? They are raving maniacs, made so by strong drink. Their eyes are tormented by awful sights, and their ears ring with horrid sounds. Slimy reptiles crawl slowly down their bscks, and fiends from hell torment them be fore their time. They are gone now, and we breathe freely. But what gloom is this that pervades the air, and what long tide of black ooming down the street 7 It is the line of funeral professions. One hun dred thousand who have died the drunkard’s death are being carried to their graves. Drunkards do not have many friends to nionrn their loes, and we put thirty of their funeral processions into n mile. We thus have a procession 3,833 mites long. It will take a good part of the year for them to go by, for funeral processions move slowly, yes, most of them do, but once in a while an uncofiined corpse is driven rabidly by and we hear the brutal driver sing, Kjuick, rattle bis bones, rattle his bones,. Over the stones 1 lie’s only a pauper whom nobody owns.’ Look into the coffins as they go by. Seethe dead drunkards! Some died of delirium tremens, and the lines of terror are still marked on their faces. Some' 1 froze to death by the roadside, too drunk to reach their homes, some stumbled from the wharf and were drowned; some wandered into the woods and died, and rotted on the sur face of the earth ; some blew their own brains out; some were feat fully stabbed in drunken brawls; some wore roasted in burning buildings; others were crushed in shapeless masses un der the cars. They died in various ways, but strong drink killed them all, and on their tombstones, if they have any, may be fitly inscribed, “lie died a drunkard’s death.” Close behind them comes another long line of funeral processions, but they are numerously attended by mourning friend*. They oontain the remains of those who have met death through the cruelty of drunken men. Some died f broken hearts ; some were foully mur dered by drunken husbands and fathers; some were burned to death in build ings set on fire by drunken men ; some were mang’ed on railroads be cause of driißt—. ■■ ■ —*-j, some were blown up on a steamboat be. cause a drunken eaptain ran a race with a tival boat. But here comes another army the children— innocent ones, upon whom has been visited the iniquities of their father. llow many are there? Two hundred thousand 7 Marching taro abreast they extended upon the street thirty miles. Each one must bear through life the stigma of being n drunk ard’s child. They are reduced to pov erty, want end beggary. They live in ignorance and vice, Home of the children are mourning with hunger and some are shivering with cold. A large number of them are idiots, made such before they were born by brutal, drunken fathers. And, worse than all the rest, many of them have inherited a love for liquor, and are growing up to take the places and do the deeds of their fathers. They will fill up the ranks of the awful army of drunkards that moves in unbroken oolumns down to death. It has taken nearly a year for the strsat to empty Itself of its year'a work. And close in the rear oomes the van guard of the next year’s supply. And if this is wbat liquor has dune one year in our great country, what must be its results in all the world through the long centuries. Thus for we hav* Kittened to the story that the figures tell. They give the outline alone of the terrible tragedy that is going on around us. They cannot picture to us the wrotch ed squalor of s drunkard’s home. They cannot tell us how many unkind and cruel words strong drink has caused, otherwise, kind and tender-hearted hus bands and fathers to utter to their dear ones. They cannot tell how many heavy blows have fallen from the drunkard's hand upon those whom it is a duty to love, chnrish and protect. They cannot tell us how many fond oxpeetationa and bright hopes which the young bride had of the future have been blasted and turned to bitterest gall. They canhot number the long, weary hours of night, during whieh ahe anxiously dreaded the heavy foot fall at the door. Figures cannot tell us how many scalding tears the wives of drunkards have shed, nor how many prayers of bitter anguish and cries of agony God has heard them utter. They cannot tell how many mothers have worn out body and soul iu providing for children whom a drunken father has left destitute. They cannot tell us how many mothers’ hearts have broken with grief as they saw a darling son bcootriing a drunkard. They cannot tell us how many gray hairs have gone down in sorrow to the grave, mourning over drunken children. They cannot tell us how many hard fought battles the drunkard, in sober moments, has with the terrible appetite; how many times he has walked his room in des pair, tempted to commit suicide because he could not conquer the demon. And ficslly we cannot search the records ot the other world, and see how many souls have been shutout from that holy place where no drunkard ever enters, and banished to the regions of eternal death by the fiery demon of drink. What man, what woman, what child, would not vote to have that whole street, with its awful traffic in the in fernal stuff, sunk to the lowest depths of perdition, and covered ten thousand fathoms deep under the curses of the universe 7 The negotiations between Gen. Ter ry and Sitting Bull will be Terry-Bull. Governor Jenkins denies having used the language attributed to him by the reporter of the Augusta Chronicle in reference to the work of the Conven tion. Robert Toombs. ftSuon Conaiitution: Fprljr-fi vo years hare 1 known the man whone name stands at the !ffad of this article. I have heard him in college halls in boyhood days; in the legislature of his nadre state, in the true development of her great interest, not in enterprises of the adventurer to plunder and rob. I have heard him, in the pride and glory of a perfect man hood, in the senate of the United Slates, when assembled senators gathered around him to banjMbon his eloquent words. I havesecn him in trampling columns, fn tlie full uniform ot a Confederate gen eral; but no where, on no occa sion, under no pomp and circum stance of display have I seen him greater or truer to his sublime in -I---*- •-- 1.. -I^l—v -' w man rights than yesterday in the convention. Unexpected to every one and evidently even to him self, under the inspiration of tho hour and subject, he arose in the convention on the homesteads, lie plead for the mothers, wives, daughters aud children of Geor gia as no man ever plead before. When lie arose above the little hucksters of merchandise and the dollars and cents of the Shylocks, and talked about the rights of so ciety, the puritf of our wives and daughters, tho roads from tho poor house to the brothel, the sa credness of a home for tho poor, lie rose to tho morally sublime and moved tears from the stern est men of tho house. Gray heads aud young men alike bowed, sub dued like children, before tho great son and champion <jf tlie common people. There is room in heaven for Toombs. Salvation don’t come in prayers, and ritu als, and groans, and creeds but of great sympathies for human woe. “Come ye blessed,etc., for I was hungry and ye fed me, na ked and ye clothed me,” God bless the great commoner. Hard-Surll* Jfiak Billing's Guide to keahb. Never run in debt if you can find any thing else tn ran Into. Go to bed arly, and git up ariy, and be kareful wliat you dream nbotit. Eat fish twice a week, if you <cant git fish cat herring, Aiwa* be purlitc. It koste nothing ami will convince more thad loglk will. Never say No, if you can help U; am) grease your boots regularly Saturday nights. Eat rhi bread and onions, aud don’t fail to chew them well. Be kind to your mother-in-law, and if konvenient par her boon) at some good ho tel. NO. 38. Bathe tlmrely once a week in soft water and kas tell soap, and always titc boots. Exercise in the open air, but don’t saw wood till youjare oblige to. Avoid hot bread and tarrapins for sup per* Don’t fret and wurry; karo have been known to kill a large size tomaaket Laff every time yure tickled, and lafl once in a while any how. Don’t philosophise tu much, philoacfe la one of the luxuries of life. Eat hash washing dam and be thankful if you have to shut your eyes to do k. Don’t jaw back, It only proves that you are as big n phule as the other fello. Never gossip nor krilisize your nabors. The chances are they arc fully as good an you are. Eat no biled lobetc, nor biled owl juat before goin to bed, unless you waul to see how your graudinother likes yu. Be kind to everything. Better thro a bone to a strange dog than a paving stone, Don’t swear; it may konvince you, but It is sure not to konvince others. When you grease your boots use mot* ton taller, Injun rubber, and roshi biled together. Stay at borne at uite. If you han’t And anything else to do, play leap frag with your young uns. Keep your head kool and your feel dry and breath through yonr nozc as much M possible. # We acknowledge tbe receipt of a very powerful, splendid-written article against the practice of Ghristiau ministers luting _ mid-summer vacations, but haring since learned that tho author is a man who hasn’t once been inside of church, summer or winter, during the pant seven yean, we decline to publish it—not became tbe arti* cle may not lie good enough, but from a feeling of respect for the eternal fitness of things.—Burlington Uawkeye, It is confidently predieted that Jim Blaine’s candidate for Governor of Maine will eomeont of the contest with the smallest Republican majority ever known in the Fine Tree State,