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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
AIT ILL he let, to the lowest bidder, before the
ii Court House door in Jefferson, Ga., on
Saturday, the 22d day of March. 187!). the contract
for building three double-room house* oi the
Pauper Farm of the county, according to the fol
lowing specifications, to-wit: Said houses to be
built of sawed lumber, forty-four feet by twenty
feet, with stack chimney, built of good rock, in
centre, extending three feet above (ecme. of roof;
k;ll.s to be ID by 10 inches, heart, laved oh goou
rock pillar*.-two foot high by M urclwi*.;
llooring. 7 by 1] inches, well dryed. dressed,
tongue anil grooved ; corner, door :rtid
posts, 4by inches’ all other stud<|ing 2 by 4
inches; joist, zhyß inches; plates, üby G inches; j
body of houses to he planked in perpendicular j
with inch plank, joints broke between plank with
f) inch strips ; rafters 2 by J inches, sheeted and
covered with 2 feed bQanjs, showing j. j#\drear;ft© j
he two doors, with batten, shutters, and lock and
bolt, and one window to each room, said windows
to have sash IS light., 10 by 12 glass. Doors and
window* to bo well eased and faced with timber
U'rs melius. Mo lumber to he dressed except
llooring, doors, shutters and casing. All work to
be done in a workmanlike manner. The person
bidding'off said contract \\'ill be required to give
bond, with ample security, in double the amount
of said bid, for a faithful compliance of the con
tract. immediately after the letting. Full and
complete specifications can be seen at this office.
febtt 11. W. BELL, Only.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in .March
next, before the Court House door, in the
town of Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., within
the legal lrours of sale, the following property,
to-wit: *
Kight y-four acres of land, more or less, in .said
county, adjoining lands of widow Parks, William
Davis and others, on the waters of Sandy Creel..
On said place is a tolerable good dwelling and ne
cessary out-buildings. The road from Athens to
Clarkesville and the Northeastern Railroad both
run through said land, about half mile from Nich
olson ; supposed to he 20 acres of land, more or
less, in cultivation, the balance mostly forest land.
Levied on by virtue of a fi. fia. issued from Jack
son Superior Court in favor of W. T. Thurmond,
Kx’r. and E. K. Park, Ex’x, of J. L. Park, dec’d.
vs. Green Nance. Controlled by J. B. Jackson.
Property pointed out by said Jackson. Notice
served on Green Nance, defendant, and tenant in
possession, as the law directs. Levy made by J.
S. Hunter, former Sheriff.
jan.3l T. A. McELIIANNON, Sh’ff.
Jiu'kMin (bounty.
the report of Reviewers appoint
ed in t<irm*jof the law to review, mark out and
report jfyori’ •htjpublic utility, ami said Reviewers
having in favsnr of establishing and mak
inpSßuwac the road beginning at the State road
nitf Uflp thence tie present traveled
rfrmr fhrone+v S%ni.Tlf pa teh in fcrmt of a cabin on
the land of Robert White, thence present traveled
route across the branch, .thence straight line along
right hand string, of fewefcto month oflaoe, thence
present traveled route into tho flog Mountain road
near the tapnsMnf Willi:nm Balky, unless good
caihe
day of February next, an order will be passed
making the ahofejdt ssribed one of the pub
lic roads of thqcolmly./ I
Given under my official signature. January 23d,
I (ft* WTfMfcL. Ord’y.
| •IsM'ktton i'oiiHl}'.
Whereas, A. Carithers. Administrator
de bonis non of It. T. Carithers, late of said coun
ty deceased, reprHctvts ltd Alifc Qofrt, In his peti
tion duly filed, that he has fully and completely,
administered the estate of said deceased, and asks
the Court to grant him Letters of Dismission from
the same—
Xlns.iiiAo.tate aLL concerned, 1 iudred axnL cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the lirst
MomlJiv ift Jrtafclt, DJT'J, in th Court of Ordinary
for sajjJ eotmtfe. why 1 letters <f Dismission frJfn
ulio estate not Be gr aim'd. *
Given under rnv official signature, December 4,
1878. dec7 f H. \)\ B-KLL, Ord’y.
Medical Card.
Dr. H. M*. A .1. < . DeliaiM'rriere, hav
ing associated- tHvm&r+vcs together, will en
deavor to practice Medicine on true scientific prin
ciplesngjH fcnjngljgL's^pidrftlil trout disease
n 'th the safest, latest and most approved reme
dies, Dr. J. C. DeLaperriere comes highly re
commended from the most influential citizens of
Merriwether and Pike counties, having been ac-
V VI^v -VbgagOLiitt h'is prtf>ssion iur rlr.rtf years.
uncritical cases, both will attend patients, with
out extra charge. We Hope, fev at-tentivenqss and
sucevAs, and cßifstant giutrdmg of every possible
interest of patients, to merit the favor and esteem
of those in the community. Our entire time will
he devoted to the profession, and no pains spared
in trying to relieve our patients. One or the other
_an always be tound at the office, when not pro
fessional ly,jtV> sent. Special attention given to dis
eases of children, and uterine and nervous diseases
of females, malarial fevers, and more especially
to surgical operations, such as amputation of
limhs, reducing dislocations and fractures, opera
tion for caleiili,.strictures, hernia, diseases of the
c > e, and treatment of chronic ulcers, sores and all
scrofulous affections. Chartres to suit the times.
W. P. DfcLAPHRRIERE, M. 1).
j-nun j. g. d.elaperriere, m. and.
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Notice.
PHE yjedicahaccputrts of Dr. C. R. Giles arc in
our handi/fitF cwßeCtiou. * Pay up. and save
os } >i of Suit, , r ijovl PIKE McCARTY.
I-IG-KT JOB WOBK,
Executed promptly, at this office.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
“ OLD JOHHNY~XPPLESEED.”
Ashland, Ohio, Jan. 15. —The immense
apple crop of this part of the State of Ohio
(luring the last season serves to recall the
life of its pioneer nurseryman, whose mem
°ry is yet green in the minds of many of
the oldest settlers. Asa hero of endurance
that was voluntarily assumed, and of toil
the benefits of which could only be reaped
by posterity, the name of Jonathan Chap
man, better known as Johnny Appleseed,
deserves a perpetuity beyond that of a gen
eration of lesser lights passed in the glare
and romance of the tomahawk and scalping,
knife period. Few men ao, unpretending
have been so extensively useful in their day
and generation. The evil that lie did, if
any, died with him; the good lives after him,
bearing annual fruit over an area of 100,000
square miles, extending from the Ohio river
to the great northern lakes. Many of the
best orchards of this and adjoining counties
are from trees which had their first growth in
his forest nurseries. The writer looks from
his window upon long row’s of apple trees
transplanted from Johnny's nursery, near
the old Indian Green Town.
Jonathan Chapman was born in Boston
about the year 1775. How he drifted from
that point to the wilds of western Pennsyl-
vania—where he was first known to have
indulged his peculiar monomania for the
planting of apple trees in the wilderness?—
>s not known. "The rapid settlement of that
part oTt,fie country’, however, soon drove him
further Westward. In 1801 he entered the
Territory of Ohio with a horse-load of apple
seeds gathered from the cider-presses of
western Pennsylvania—coming first to Lick
ing county, and planting his seeds in many
fertile spots on and about the banks of Lick
ing Creek. For the next five years he disap
peared, passing the period, doubtless, in the
establishment (if other nurseries in a different
quarter. In 1806 he was seen by a pioneer
settler of Jefferson county, drifting slowiv
down the Ohio river in two canoes, lashed
together and loaded with apple seeds. These
lie was transporting Westward for the pur
pose of creating orchards upon the furthest
verge of white setelement. Entering the
Muskingum river at Marietta, he passed by
various tributaries to the head of navigation
in this country. Still a region of forest
crowned hills and green valleys, and posses
sing a romantic beauty which railroads and
bustling towns and cities have not served to
obliterate, the wild surroundings and primal
silence of the veritable wilderness must have
been tenfold more picturesque to the eyes of
Appleseed Johnny in those early days.
In this instance, as in others afterward,
Johnny selected the most fertile spots in the
rich loamy grounds on the banks of the
creeks for his purpose ; planting often as high
as sixteen bushels of seed to the acre, and
enclosing the grounds with a slight fence or
guard of brush. He then left the place until
the trees had in a measure growth. The old
settlers describe tlife margins of the streams
upon which these early nurseries were plant
ed as thickly covered over with a low matted
growth of timber, while near the water's edge
a rank mass of long grass, interlaced with
morning glory and wild pea vines, among
which drooping willows and clustering elders
stood like sentinels on the outpost of civili
zation.
IJOW JOHNNY pID Ills WORK.
The canoe voyage of 1806 appears to have
bff'en the only occasion upon which Johnuy
adopted that method of transportation, all
his other journeys having been made on foot
over the old trail leading fron Fort Duquesne
to Detroit, bv Way of Fort Sandosky. known
as “the second route thrcfitgtf the wilderness
of Ohio.” Having planted one atock of seeds,
he would return to Pennsylvania for another,
gathering them from the cider presses at
different places. Tltese seeds he conveyed
to their destination in rude leathern in
place of linen ones, the dense growth oT un
derhruMi ami briars encountered U|X) the
way making the use of some more durable
fabric necessarc. Sometimes the bags found
j ansoortiit ion on of an aged or
broken-down fio-rse which their owner had
mercifully rescued from hard usage, but more
frequently oh his own sturdy shoulders.
A long and toilsome journey it was; but
Johnny unhesitatingly shouldered bis bags
of apple see.ds ; and, penetrating to the remote
wildvrness; planted them in some secluded
spot, combining picturesqueness and fertility
of soil, letting them grow until required by
the settlers, whose homes had in the mean
time sprung up in the neighborhood of his
isolated clearings. In this way the wilder
ness was made to blossom and bloom like a
rose, and the foundation was laid lor that im
mense growth of fruit trees whose yield forms
so important a part of the annual produce of
this part of the State.
joiinny's business methods.
When the trees were ready for sale, John
ny either Sold them himself, at a very low
price, or left them iu charge of someone to
sell for him. And in this matter of sales he
was as methodical as any merchant. If the
customer was too poor to purchase trees,
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 28,1879.
which frequently happened, he got them with
out pay ; if in better circumstances, but., des
titute of ready' ©ash, Johnny’ made gome con
venient trade, taking old clothing or a sup
ply of corn meal in exchange ; but if the own
er was well-to-do, Jobnny r demanded money,
which he was seldom without. Ilis general
custom, however, was to take a note, payable
at some indefinite period. Having received
it, he trouble himself no further about tUepay*
ment, considering the transaction at an end,
as, indeed, it generally was. Caring little
for money 7 , and with very limited personal
wants, he frequently’ came into possession,
by the sale of trees, of mere money than Jhe
cared to keep. This he soon disposed of in
gifts tesotne poor family struggling agaftost
the misfortune common to a life on the bor-
der, in the purchase of doctrinal books of the
Swedcnborgain faith for gratuitous distribu
tion, and in the care of aged and infirm horses.
I his latter charity, indeed, seems to have
constituted an important part of his mission.
M herever he saw or heard of an animal be
ing abused, lie at once purchased it. and gave
it to some more hjamane farmer, stipulating
forth kindly treatment. Tim Severe labors
incident to a rough frontier life often maimed
or disabled horses, which, otherwise a burden
to their owners, were turned out to die.—
M henever he heard of such an animal lie imrne
diately made dilligent search for it, and bar
gaining for its proper care during the winter,
led it away’ in summer to some rich pasture
which fie had found in his wanderings. In
this way lie often collected a considerable
drove yf animals, the convalescent numbers
of which he persistently refused to sell, but
readily gave way to such persons as bound
themselves solemnly to treat them well.
AN EXAGGERATED BEJIGII.
Lpon the same principle he regarded the
infliction of [lain or death upon any creature
as an almost unpardonable sin. Ilis concep
tion of the heinousness of this sin, too, was
not limited to the higher forms of life, but
extended to the minutest insect, and to its
mere disturbance or inconvenience. One au
tumnal night, while lying by his camp-fire in
the woods, heobserved that the mosquitoes
blew into the flames and were Tburned. Tak
ing the huge tin dipper, which answered the
double purpose of cup and mush-pot, from his
head, he filled it with water and quenched the
fire, remarking afterward : “God forbid that
I should build a fire for my comfort which
should be the means of destroying any of his
creatures!” At another time lie made his
camp-fire at the end of a hollow log in which
he intended to pass the night, jipt finding it
occupied by a bear and her cubs, fie moved
the fire to the other end and slept in the snow
rather than disturb the bears. Walking one
morning over a small prairie he was bitten
by a rattlesnake. Some time afterwared, a
friend inquired of him about the matter. He
drew a long sigh, and replied : •• Poor fellow !
he only just touched me, when I, in an un
godly passion, put the heel of my scythe in
him and went home.’’ Again, while assist
ing in the construction.of a road through the
woods, a hornet, whose nest had been de
stroyed in the operation, found lodgment un
derneath Johnny's shirt. Notwithstanding
the fact that he was repeatedly- stung by the
enraged insect’, lUe removed it with the great
est gentleness. His companions laughingly
asked him why he did not kill. it. receiving in
reply, “it wouldnotke rigHt'lo killfchepoor
thing, for it did not intend to hurt me.”
JOHNNY’S RELIGIONS ENTHUSIASM.
Next to his enthusiasm for the cultivation
of apple trees in what he termed the proper
way, that is, from the seed—pruning and
grafting being an absolute s!n in ins eyes—
was the zeal with which he advocated ttffc pe
culiar doctrines of the Swedenborgain faith.
In the purchase of books and tracts
on this S3 r stem of religion he expended much
of his revenue, and rt was Wways
to carry a few old volumes with him. Al
most the first thing,he did upon entering a
settler's house, wearied with Upig tram j.
was to lie down on the floor, with his knap
s:tok tpr a piliow. an 1 inquire-if his
v-oliid hear t some news
i." Drawing forth his lew tattered hooks,
he would enlarge upon Use beauties of liis
faith until his hearers cUuglit the fkm of his
ehWnhiavhi, while scarcely cbm prehen ding
his words.
HTS SRTJfIiS Ni > AI’PEA RANTK.
The personal appearance of Chapman was
as singular as liis character, lie was a small,
wiry man, quick and restless in liis motions
and conversation ; his beard, though not long,
was unshaven, his hair was long and dark,
and his eyes black and sparkling. He lived
the roughest life, camping out in the woods,
or, if sleeping in a house, occupied the floor.
His dress was an in lescrihable medley, com
posed of the cast-off clothing he had taken in
exchange for apple trees. In later years he
seemed to think even this kind of second
hand raiment too luxurious, and wore pis
principal garment an old coffee sack which
lie bad bought, and in the bottom and .sk|&s
of which he cut holes to thrust liis head &nd
arms through. This he pronounced “ a very
serviceable cloak, and as good clothing as
any man need wear.” He scarcely ever wore
shoes, except in winter; but, if traveling In
the summer time, and the rough roads hurt
his feet, he would make himself a rude pair
of sandals. lie never purchased any cover
ing for his feet. When he used anythingin
the form of boots or shoes, they were cast-off
tilings, generally unmated, which lie would
gather up. however dilapidated ihey might be.
always insisting that it was a sin to
t. # 7|*T;
throw aside a boot qr she so long, as
it would adhere to a human foot. Ilis
head-gear was constructed on a like eco
nomical principle. For a long time lie wore
the large tin dipper in which he cooked his’'
mush wnilp travelling. But as it failed suf
ficiently to protect his eyes from tlfc sun, he
constructed a hat of pasteboard, with an im
mense peak in front, and bent down at the
sides to shade his face from the heat, thus se
curing an article that combined usefulness
with economy, and which l>ecame his perma
nent fashion. The same close economy John
ny carried into all the phases of his life, ex
tending it to his diet, which was as meagre
as liis clothing. He believed it to boa sin to
kill any creature for food, holding that the
soil produced everything requisite for human
subsistence.
INCIDENT AND ANECDOTES.
Among his other eccentricities was that of
bearing pain with more than Indian fortitude.
Very often lie would thrust pins and
into his fleSh without a tremor. Ilis nervous
sensibility seems to have been less acute
than those of ordinary mortals ; for if he had
a cut or sore, his method of treatment was
first to sear it with a red-hot iron, and then
cure it as a burn. This fortitude, together
with his strange appearance and eccentric
actions, led the Indians, among whom he
wandered nit molested. 1 to regard him as a
great “ medicine man,” and to treat, him with
much kindness. During the war of 1812,
when the frontier settlers were hunted down
by the savage allies of Great Britain. Johnny
traveled night and day, warning the people
of approach! ng danger. Visiting every cabin,
iie delivered this message : “The spirit of
the Lord is upon me, and hath appointed me
to blow the trumpet in the wilderness and
sound the alarm in the forest; for behold the
tribys of the heathen are round about your
doors, and a devouring (lame followeth after
them.” Denying himself food or rest, he
traversed the border day and night, warning
all settlers until the danger was past.
Thus this strangelj’-elad. eccentric charac
ter wandered for years through the forests
anrl border settlements, carving for his scat
tered nurseries and spreading the tenets 9!*
his peculiar faith. Leading a blameless and
moral life, he likened himself to the primi
tive Christians, literally taking no thought
for (he morrow. It was this conviction that
made him at all times serenely happy. Upon
one occasion an itinerant preacher was hold
ing forth on the public square of Mansfield in
a long and somewhat tedious discourse upon
the sin of extravagance, frequently emphasiz
ing his text by the inquir\ T : “ Where now is
the barefooted Christian traveling to heaven?”
Johnny, who was lying on his back in some
timber, taking the question in its literal
sense, raised his Imre feet.in the air. and
vociferated : “ Here's your primitive Chris
tian!” ' . .
In 1838 Johnny took a solemn farewell of
all the families in this part of the State, fol
lowing his vocation, for the next nine }’ears,
on the border of Ohio and Indiana. In 1847
be died in the cabin of a seltler, near Fort
Wayne, at the age of. 72 years, forty-six of
which had been devoted to his self-imposed
mission. The physician who was present at
his death was heard to inquire what was
Johnny Appleseed’s religion ; he had never
seen a man in so placid a state ,pt the ap
proach of death ; and so ready to enter upon
another life.— Evening Post.
Letter from Gen. Sherman.
What he Thinks o f the Future o f Georgia —
A State “ FavomJ in Climate, Health, Soil,
Minerals, Water and Everything which Man
Needs," with “ Immense Beds of Iron and
Coed," and “Inexhaustible Quantities of
Timber Offers Inducements to
Northern Settlers.
Atlanta, Ga., February 1, 1870.
Gen. W. T. Sherman :
Dear Sir—ln the course of several con
versations while you were in Atlanta, you
were pleased to refer to and pros
perity of the city and to the material pro
gress made by the people since the war. You
also spoke of the liealthfulness of onr climate
and the advantages offered here to capitalists
and industrious emigrants.
Your position during the war gave 3 r ou an
opportunity to study carefully our State, and
especially Atlanta.- By the time thjs reaches
you, you will pave passed entirely across the
State, and I have thought that if yon could
be induced to write the result of your obser
vations with respect to the natural advan
tages of onr soil, climate, and the resources
of our section, it.might lie the means of at
tracting the attention of those who control
and give direction to the tide of immigra
tion.
I know that continual demands, official and
social, are made upon your time, but I Was
so struck with the aptness of some of your
comments and the practical nature of your
suggestions, that I have ventured to address
you this letter. Yours truly,
E. 1\ Howell.
St. Augustine, Fla., Feb. 4th, 1879.
Captain E. P. Uowdl, Editor Constitution,
Atlanta, Get i
My Dear Sir—Your most acceptable let
ter of February 1, reached me here yester
day, and X avail myself of the first moment of
leisure to repl}\
My opportunities for studying the physical
features of Georgia have been even larger
than you mention. In 1843-4, I went from
Augusta to Marietta in a stage (when Atlan
ta had no existence); thence to Belfonte,
Alabama, on horseback, returning afterwards
all the way on horseback to Augusta by a dif
fered road; again, in 1864, I conducted, as
all the world knows, a vast army from Chat
tanooga to Atlanta and Savannah, and just
now have passed over the same district in
railway cars. Considering the history ofthis
period of time (35 years), the development of
the country has been great, but not compara
ble with California, lowa, Wisconsin, or Kan
sas, in all of which States I have had similar
chances for observation. The reason why
Georgia has not kept pace with the States I
have named is beyond questfoo that emigra
tion would not go where slavery existed.—
Now, that this cause is removed, there is no
longer any reason why Georgia, especially
the northern part, should not rapidly regain
her prominence among the great States of
our Union. I know that no section is more
favored in climate, health, soil, minerals, wa
ter, and everything which man needs for his
material wants, and to contribute to It is phy
sical and intellectual development; your rail
roads, already finished, giving your people
cheap supplies, and the means of sending in
every section their surplus products of the
soil or of manufactures. You have immense
beds of iron and coal, besides inexhaustible
quantities of timber, oak, hickory, beech, pop
lar, pine, etc., so necessary in modern facto
ries, and which are becoming scare in other
sections of our busy country.
North Georgia is peculiarly adapted to
fruit orchards, to gardens and small farms;
and ail yon need to make it teem with pros
perity is more people from that class of
Northern farmers and manufacturers, and
that other large class of European emigrants,
which has converted the great Northwest from
a wilderness into comfortable homes for its
millions of contented people.
I have crossed this continent many times,
by almost every possible route, and feel cer
tain that at tills time no single region holds
out as strong inducements for industrious em
igrants as that from Lynchburg, Va., to Hunts
ville. Ala., right an 1 left, embracing the nioun
ain ranges and intervening valleys, espe*
daily East I onnessoe, North Georgia and
Alabama. I hope I will not give offense in
saying that the present population has not
done full justice to this naturally beautiful
ami most favored region of our country, and
that two or three millions of people could be
diverted from the great West to this region
with profit and advantage to all concerned.
This whole region, though called “South
ern,” is. in fact, “ Northern,” viz : it is a wheat
growing country ; has a climate in no sense
tropical or Southern, hut was designed by na
ture for small farms and not large planta
tions. In the region I have named, North
Georgia forms a most important part; and
yotif city, Atlanta, is its natural centre or
capital. It frs admirably situated, a thousand
feet above the sea, healthy, with abundance
of the purest water, and witli granite, lime
stone! sandstone and clay convenient to build
a second London. In 1804 my army, com
posed of near a hundred thousand men. all
accustomed to a Northern climate, were
grouped about Atlanta from June to Novem
ber without tents, and were as vigorous,
healthy and strong as though they were in
Ohio or New York. Indeed the whole coun
try from the Tennessee to the Oc mill gee is
famous for health, pure water, abundant tim
ber, and with a large proportion of good soil,
especially in the valleys, and all you need is
more people of the right sort.
1 am satisfied, from my recent visit, that
Northern professional men, manufacturers,
mechanics and farmers may come to Atlanta,
Rome and Chattanooga, with a certaint}' of
fair dealing and fair encouragement. Though
I was personally regarded' the bete notroftlie
late war in your region, the author of all your
woes, yet I admit that I have just passed over
the very around desolated by the civil war,
and have received everywhere nothing but
kind and courteous treatment from the lygh
e?t to flic lowest, and I heard of no violence
to others for' opinion's sake. Some Union
men spoke to me of social ostracism, but I
'■aw nothing of it, and even if it do exist, it
must disappear with the present generation.
Our whole frame-work of government and his
tory is founded op the personal and political
equality of citizens, and philosophy teaches
that social distinctions can only rest on per
sonal merit and corresponding intelligence,
and if any part of a community clings to
distinctions oh past Conditions it will grow
less with time and finally disappear. Any
attempt to build up an aristocrac}’ or a privi
leged class at tlie South, on the fact that their
father's add grandfathers once owned slaves,
will result in a ridiculous failure and subject
the author to the laughter of mankind. I re
fer to this Subject incidentally because oth
ers have argued the case with me, but wheth
er attempted elsewhere in the South, 1 am
certain it will not b& .attempted in the State
of Georgia.
Therefore. I shall believe and maintain that
North Georgia is now in a condition to invite
emigrants from the Northern States of our
Union and from Kurope, and all parties con
cerned should advertise widely the great in
ducements your region holds out to the in
dustrious and frugal of all lands; agents
be appointed in New Ydrk to advise, and
others at Knoxville, Chattanooga, Rome, At
lanta, etc., to receive emigrants and to point
out to them on arrival where cheap lands may
be had with reasonable credit, where compa-
S TERMS. $1.50 PER ANNUM
) SI.OO For Six Months.
nies may open coal and iron mines, where
mills m*iy be erected to grind wheat and com,
spin cotton, and to manufacture the thousand
and one tilings you now buy from abroad ;
aud more especially to make known that you
are prepared to welcome and patronize men
who will settle in your region and form apart
of 3'our community.
lour growth and development since the
war have been good, very good—better than
I was prepared to see; but compare it with
San b rancisco, Denver, Portland, Oregon,
Leavenworth, Chicago, St. Louis, or hundreds
of places I could mention, less favored in cli
mate and location than Atlanta. These
cities have been notoriously open to the whole
world, and all tnon felt perfectly at liberty to
go there with their families, with their acquir
ed wealth aud with their personal energ}’.-
1 oil must guarantee the same, not superficial
ly or selfishly, but with that sincerity and
frankness which carries conviction.
Personally. I would not like to check the
flow of emigration westward, because of the
vast natural importance of that region, but I
do believe that every patriot should do what
he can to benefit every part of our whole coun
try. and I am sure that goo l will result from
turning a part of this great tide of human
life and energy southward along the valleys
oftlie Alleglmny mountains, especially of East
Tennessee, Northern Georgia and Alabama,
and if I can aid you in this good work I
assure you that I will do so with infinite plea
sure.
Excuse me if I ask you as an editor to let
up somewhat on the favorite hobby of “car
pet-baggers.” I know that you personally
apply the term to political adventurers, but
others—your readers— -construe it otherwise.
I have resided in San Francisco, Leaven
worth and St. Louis, and of the men who have
built up these great cities, T assert that not
one in fifty was a native of the place. All,
or substantially all. were carpet-baggers, i. e.,
emigrants from all parts of the world, many
of them frooj the South.
Our Supreme Court. Congress, and our
most prominent and intellectual men now hail
from localities of their own adoption, not of
their birth.
Let the immigrant to Georgia feel and re
alize that his business and. social position re
sult from bis own industry, his merits and
his virtues, and not from the accidental place
of his Girth, and soon the great advantages
of climate, soil, minerals, timber, etc., will
(ill up your country and make Atlanta one of-,
the mast prosperous, beautiful and attractive
cities, not alone of the South, but of the
whole continent, an end which I desire quite
as much as you do.
Our nation lias passed its infancy with the
usual disease peculiar to that period of life,
and now, in the second centrin', it enters on
its epoch of manhood. In this you, a young
er man, have more at stake than I. I beg of
3'ou to look ahead and not behind, and to en
courage by word and example every effort to
make Georgia the contented home of three or
four millions of industrious and virtuous
people.
For your personal courtesy to me on my
recent visit I give you hearty thanks, and
will, on my return to Washington, be most
happy to hear from you further on this and
kindred subjects.
\\ ith respect, your friend,
W.' T. Sherman.
A Beautiful Story.
Coleridge relates a story to this effect:
Alexander, during his march into Africa,
came to a people dwelling in peaceful huts,
who knew neither war nor conquest. Gold
being offered him be refuted it, saying that
his sole object was to l<*arn the manners and
customs of the inhabitants. “ Stay with ns.”
said the chief, “ as long as tipleaseth thee.”
During this interview with the African chief,
two of Ins subjects brought a case before him
for judgment. The dispute was this: The
one had bought a piece of ground, which,
after the purchase, was found to contain a
treasuer for which he felt himself bound to
pa3\ The other refused to receive anything,
stating that be bad sold the ground with wlinfc
it might be found to contain, apparent or con
cealed. Said the chief, looking at the one,
“ You irare a son and to the other “ You
have a daughter ; let them be married, and
the treasure given them as a dowry.” Alex
ander was astonished. •* And what,” said
the chief, “ would have been the decision in
ybur country?” “ Wetfhould have dismissed
the parties, and seized the treasure for the
King’s use.’’ “And does the sun shine in
your country?” said the chief; “docs the
rain fall there? Are there any cattle there
which feed upon herbs and green grass?”
“Certainly.” sail Alexander. “Ah?* said
the chief, “it is for thesark® of those innocent
cattle that the Great Reing permits the sun
to shine, the rain to fall and the grass to
grow in your country,”
—The Atlanta Constitution is exerting it
self to get Georgia emigrants, who are now
in Texas, back again by means of cheap rates
from that State. Now, it cost twice as much
to come from Texas to Georgia as it does to
get there, and it is claimed that there are
hundreds of Georgians there who would re
turn were it not for the high rates of travel
exacted from them.
Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 15. —Hon. Joseph
Knglehardt. Secretary of State, died here this
afternoon, after a brief illness ; aged 47.
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