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WSCAii REESE,
Attorney at Law',
Carrollton, Georgia
JAMES J. JUII AN,
Attorney at Law,
Carrollton. Georgia.
CEO. W. 11A UP Eli,
Attorney tit Law,
Carrollton, Go.
GEO. W. AUSTIN
Attorney at Law,
Carrollton, Georgia.
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Carrollton. Ga.
L D. TIIOMASSON,
Attorney at Law,
Carrollton, Ga.
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Letter from Hon. John S. Bigby
Upon the Political Situation.
New nax, (r v., Aug. Gth, 1872.
llox. W. \Y r . Me Hit ell,
yjear A7r;—l have the honor to
acknowledge ilie receipt of your letter
ot‘ the 31st ultimo, asking for my
views on the living political issues of
the day. Recognizing your right to
call Upon me, as your Congressional
Representative, for an expression of
my opinions, as well as being most de
sirous to gratify the wish of one whose
good will I very greatly value, I now
place them at your disposal.
The nomination of Horace Greeley
by the Democrtic party, for the high
est ollice in the gift of the American
people, presents a strange anomaly in
the history of party policy. He* has
been all of his life in diametrical oppo
sition to all of their principles and
measures. It certainly indicates a
wonderful revolution in their political
faith. That it is so appears incredible.
Well has it been said that, “truth is
sometimes stranger than fiction.” A
few months ago, who could have be
lieved that the proud and time-honor
od Democracy would now have been
marching under th.'„ flag of their life
time enemy ? Wno could have thought
that their chosen leader in a great Pres
idential contest would have been the
editor of the New York Tribune? To
the curious it might be an interesting
boidy to learn how these antagonistic
forces were brought together—how
this unnatural result was accomplish
ed. lias Mr. Greeley changed or mod
died his opinions in any manner wliat
orer? Charles Sumner, who seems to
be the authoritative exponent of his
views, and one of the ablest champi
ons of his cause, says that he has not.
He declares that Mr. Greeley is now
the same Intense , uncompromising ,
progressive radical that he has al
ways been, standing fixed and immov
able upon the doctrine ofabsolute eq
uality of lights and social privileges,
and that the Democrats have gone to
him. 1 quote from his recent letter:
“It is idle to say that Horace Greeley
and the Republicans that nominated
him, are any less Republican because
Democrats unite with them in support
of cherished principles, and the can
didate who represents them. Con
versions are always welcome, and not
less so because the change is in a mul
tidude, rather than an individual.—
* * : Accepting the Republican plat
form, which places the equal rights of
all under the safeguard of irreversible
guaranties, and at the same time ac
cepting the nomination of a life-time
Abolitionist, who represents pre-em
inently the sentiment of duty to the
colored race, they (the Democrats)
have set their corporate seal to the sa
cred covenant. They may continue
Democrats in name, but they are in
reality Republicans.” In this same
letter to some of the colored citizens
of the District of Columbia, Mr. Sum
ner adds: “I am so much of a Repub
iiean, that I wish to see in the Presi
idential Chair a life-time Abolitionist.”
And with the view of placing the rad
icalism of Mr. Greeley beyond all cav
il, he says: “In the organization of Lis
Administration and in the conduct of
allairs, Horace Greeley will naturally
lean upon those, who represent best
the great promises made of equal
rights and reconciliation at Cincinnati.
It'Democrats are takeit it will be as
Republicans in heart, recognizing the
associate terms of the settlement, as an
irreversible finality.
This is poor comfort for those mem
bers of the Democratic party, who are
expecting encouragement in the shape
of Federal patronage, in case the Cin
cinnati nominee is elected. Air. Sum
ner subtantially announces that pro
vision must first be made for .the Cin
cinnati soreheads. The announce
ment need not however, cause any
trouble, for it is not remotely proba
ble that I lorace Greeley will ever be
elected President of the United
States.
If the Democratic party is prepar
ed to .give Horace Greeley its undivi
ded support, then, indeed, has the con
version of which ’Air. Sumner speaks
actually taken place. In the course of
a long and distinguished editorial ca
reer, lie has permitted no opportunity
to pass without erupting the vials of
his wrath upon the Democratic party.
In his condemnation of their princi
ples he has known no bounds—in his
denunciation of their practices he has
impoverished the domain of billings
gate. lie has left unemployed in the
expression of his utter abhorenee of
their meassures and policy no mean
phrase, no vulgar term, no coarse ep
ithet, no keen irony, no withering sar
casm. His anger has known no res
pite, his wrath no cessation. He has
not only denied them all virtues, but
imparted to them all manner of crimes.
I will content myself with giving only
one or two extracts from the Tribune
to sustain my declarations. I quote :
“Point wherever you please to an
election district which you will pro
nounce morally rotten, given up in
great part to debauchery and vice,
whose voters subsist mainly by keep
ing policy-offices, gambling-houses,
grog-shops and darker dens of infamy,
and that district will be found at near
ly all or quite every election giving a
majority for that which styles itself
the “Democratic” party. Take all
the haunts of debauchery in the laud,
and you will find nine-tenths of their
master spirits active partisans of that
same Democracy. AVhat is the in
stinct, the sympathetic chord which
attaches them so uniformly to this
party ? Will you consider T
saio the other day a suggestion
that 1 would probably be the best
Democratic candidate to run against
Gen. Grant for President. I thought
that about the most absurd thing 1
ever heard or read. If the Demo
cratic party were called upon to de
cide between Grant and myself, 1 ,
know that their regard for what they \
must call principle would induce
CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1872.
nine tenths of them to vote against
me. If hy f lam a decided enemy
°J that party, even in its most re
spectable aspects."
In the very nature of things could
a wise and good Administration be
expected from Mr. Greeley, when ac
cording to his own declaration, lie
hates, even in its most respectable as
pects, tbe party upon which he would
have to rely to sustain his measures ?
Could such an illegitimate connection
produce other than a spurious is-ue ?
Mr. Greeley’s record has not been
one to inspire the confidence of his
countrymen. In great emergencies
ho is singularly unreliable and he has
shown asfonshing facility in trimming
his sails to suit the breeze. Iu 18GI
when the question of secession was
hanging in doubtful scale, lie threw
all of the great influence of the Tri
bune upon the side of secession, and
thereby made it a success. Said he :
“What I demand is proof that the
Southern people really desire separa
tion from the Free States. Whenev
er assured that such is their settled
wish I shall joyfully co-operate with
them to secure the end they seek.”
“Whenever any considerable sec
tion of this Union shall really insist on
getting out of it, we shall insist that
they be allowed to go, and we feel as
sured that the North generally cher
ishes a kindred determination.”
“We could not stand up for coer
cion, for subjugation, for we do not
think it would be just,. Wc hold the
right of self-government sacred even
when evoked in behalf of those who
deny it to others. So much for the
question of principle.”
“But if even ‘seven or eight States’
send agents to Washington to say,
“We want to go out of the Union,”
we shall feell constrained by devotion
to human liberty to say, let them go !
And we do not see how we could take
the other side, without coming in di
rect conflict with those lights of man
which we hold paramount to all polit
ical arrangements, however convenient
and advantageous.”
“If the Cotton States shall decide
that they can do better out of the
Union than in it, we insist on letting
them go in peace.”
“We have repeatedly said and we
once more insist, that the great princi
ples embodied by Jefferson in the Dec
claration of American Independence,
that governments derive their just
powers from the consent of the gov
erned, is sound and just; and that it
the slave States, the Cotton States, or
the Gulf States only choose to form an
independent nation, they clear
right to do so.”
Paragraph after paragraph of like
or even stronger import might be given
to show the influence lie wielded to
induce the Southern States to secede,
but the foregoing will suffice. His
best efforts were employed in behalf
of secession. But no sooner had the
people of the South done what he de
dared they had the unquestionable
moral right to do, than he turned up
on them with a most savage ferocity,
and demanded their complete destruo
tion. Nothing short of it would sat
isfy him. Said he :“ We hold trait
ors responsible for the work upon
which they have precipitated us, and
we warn them that they must abide
the full penalty. * * * The rebeJs of
that State (Virginia) and Maryland,
may not flatter themselves that they
can enter upon a waragainst the gov
ernment and afterward return to qui
et and peaceful homes. They choose
to play the part of traitors and they
must suffer the penalty. The worn
out race of emasculated first families
must give place to a sturdier people
whose pioneers are now on their way
to Washington, at this moment, in
regiments. An allotment ot land in
Virginia would be a fitting reward
to the brave fellows who have gone
to fight their country’s battles.”
As time advanced he grew more
savage. Hear him : “But, neverthe
less, we mean to conquer them—not
merely to defeat, but to conquer, to
subjugate them—and we shall do thie
the most mercifully’the more speedi
]y we doit. But when the rebellious
traitors are overwhelmed in the field
and scattered like leaves before an
an row wind, it must not be to return
to peaceful and contented homes.—
They must find poverty at their fire
sides, and see privation in the anxious
eves of mothers and rags of children.’
Growing more furious, he said :
“ Let the soldier understand that he
is enrolled to fight a parcel of knaves,
all liable to indictemeut, trial, sen
tence and execution —men who ha\e
wickedly disturbed the peace of the
world without provocation men
with whom no terms are to be
made—Dick Turpins, who call them
selves Generals, and Captain Kyds,
who call themselves commanders. A
thief is a thief-—a liar is aliar a per
jurer is a perjurer ; and every South
ern traitor,who is morally responsible,
is all three together. Pray, do not
let us have auy more talk about ou.i
“ misguided Southern brethren ! ’
there is one thing which Southern
success cannot compass, and that is
an oblivion, in history and tradition
of the Trauds, felonies aud falsehoods
with which the ignominous enterprise
began. These traitors are outside
the world’s respect forever. Neither in
its inception nor in its progress has
the thing been respectable. There
has been too much vulgar dishonesty,
like that of gamblers, footpads and
pickpockets, about it.”
I ask the honest advocates of seces
si on how they like this plain English
of Mr. Greeley. But he does not stop
here. Said he : “ The people, whose
Constitution and Union are at stake?
will tolerate in their rulers any thing
necessary to preserve them. They will
torgivc them for doing almost any act
tending to this end. But they will
not excuse them for hesitation timid
ity, blundering, nor, especially for do
ing or not doing anything through
fear of hurting, of despoiling or even
exterminating /Southern traitors, or
of offending their secret coadjutors
in the North, and their open apolo
gists in the Southern States.”
If language means anything tha;
proves Mr. Greeley to be a despot,
and ready, whenever in his opinion
the occasion requires it, to usurp and
g|e arbitrary and dictatorial powers.
At the outset he advocated seces
sion. But in a short time he azes
about and exclaims : “ 'We utterly
deny, repudiate, and condemn the pre
tended right of secession. No such
right is known to our Federal Consti
tution, nor, in fact, to any civilized
framework of government. No such
right was reserved, or supposed to be
reserved, when the States ratified or
adopted the Federal Constitution.”
What an inconsistent character is
here presented ! I appeal to the honest
voters of this country to know if they
can give their support to a man who
conceded to them a rights encouraged
them to exercise it, and when, acting
upon his advice, they dared to do it,
he immediately turned upon them, and
raged for not only the destruction of
their until their privations
might be seen in the “ anxious eyes
of their mothers,” and the “ rags of
their children,” but their own absolute
extermination.
Thus far I have given you the por
trait of Horace Greeley a3 painted by
his own hand. I will now present it
as it comes from the hand of a master
artist, one who lias enjoyed in a large
measure the confidence of his party,
and has exercised a potential influence
in shaping its measures and policy.—
Hon. D. \V. Voorhees, whose elo
quent voice and charming oratory
wins admirers whenever and wherever
heard, in his late Terre Haute speech,
referring to his nomination, said:
!“ You can hardly imagine, therefore,
the feeling with which 1 saw certain
uncertain newspapers hauling down
Democratic names at their mast-heads,
and placing in their stead the name of
one who has more fairly earned and
more fully enjoys the hostility and
aversion of the Democratic party, than
any other man in the United States
* * * Por thirty years, commencing
far back when these gray heads before
me were black and young, and con
tinuing until within the last three
weeks, there has been no form of
coarse, brutal and infamous assault
which Horace Greeley has not made
on the Democratic party in the aggre
gate and in detail, eu masse and indi
vidually- llis malevolence has been
unceasing, unsparing and universal.—
He has raged every where tor objects
of his hatred and vindictive abuse. *
* * But let us make a still closer ex
animation of Air. Greeley as a proposed
candidiate. Ido not object to him a s
a Republican candidate. lie is the
best embodiment of the principles of
radicalism now living. ** * He was
a violent republican when Grant was
a Buchanan Democrat in St. Louis. 1
commend Greeley, therefore, to his
own party, but how eau mine support
him t Sometimes a man is support
ed for a small office on purely person
al grounds, simply because he is an
amiable and worthy man, with g;ood
qualifications for the position. Such
motives alone, however, never gov
erned the choice of President, who,
to a vast extent, shapes the whole pol
icy cf the government for weal or woe.
There is nothing, hovever, in Air. Gree
ley s .personal traits, and peculiarities
to commend him for the high position
to which he aspires. On the contrary,
a man personally more unfit to fill the
office of Cliief Alagistrate of this
mighty Government was never men
tioned in connection with it; but,
when distinguished gentlemen are
mentioned in connection with that
i
lofty station, their principles deter
mine the suffrages of an enlightened
people more than anything else. Tried
l>y this standard Horace Greeley ir
resistiblv repels every Democrat in the
United States. What is he for, and
what is he against at this time ? One
of the living issues that has been be
fore Congress during the whole of the
jiresent session, is Mr. Sumner’s Civil
Rights bill. It establishes by law and
enforces with heavy penalties of fine,
damages, and imprisonment, the abso
lute and unqualified equality of the
blacks with the whites,in every school*
house, seminary, college, church, tav
ern, boarding house railroad car,
steamboat, theatre, circus, stage-coach
in the United States. * * * Mr. Gree
ley warmly indorses this measure. * *
Mr. Greeley is so much in favor of the
principles which it contains that with
in ten days after his nomination he
went into a negro church at Pough
keesie, N. Y. and there declared them
as his own, with especial emphasis in
behalf of mixed sehoojs.”
“ In the same speech Mr. Voorhees
said: “ But is success possible with
Greeley if his election depends on the
votes of the Democratic party ? Can
any one who knows the history of this
grand party seriously think so ? I
think 1 understand the heart of the
laboring people who compose the
great majority of the Democratic par
ty, and 1 hazard nothing in saying
that even if Mr. Greeley should be
nominated at Baltimore, and every
Democrat of distinction, whether in
public or private life, from one ocean
to the other, should support him, he
would not receive an average of more
than fifty per cent., of the Democratic
votes of the United States. This las
firmly believe as I do that the sun
will rise to-morrow, and if the mad
ness and folly of the hour shall con
surnate his nomination, I am trilling
my judgment may be tested hereafter,
-by the record I make here to-night.”
Upon the question of mixed schools,
Mr. Greeley, previous to his Rough
keepsie speech, defined his position.
On the 9th of March 1870, he took
the Tennessee Constitutional Conven
tion to task in this manner. Said he :
“ The Tennessee Solons in Constitu
tional Convention assembled, have de
cided that the white and black chil
dren of the State shall have separate
schools, and tutors of different shades
of color. Since the familiar associa
tion of black and white children at
home is wholy unrestricted, is not their
separation in school rather a ridiculous
provision ? And in view of tlie fact
that this class distinction engenders
in early youth that bitter antagonism
between the two races which endangers
the peace of society, is not the provi
sion an exceedingly unwise one.”
I would like to know how this view
of Mr. Greeley, upon this very im
portant question, affects the minds of
those who have always entertained
such positive dislike for the doctrine
of social equality. Here it is, pure
and simple, avowed by the nominee of
the Cincinnati Convention. If they
can support Mr. Greeley with the
Platform upon which he stands, con
strued as Mr. Sumner, his intimate
friend, “ born ” as he says “in the
same year," and ardent supporter, and
no doubt authoritative exponent of
his opinions, construes it, they ought
never again in this life to utter a
murmur against social equality. Im
partial history will enter judgment by
confession against them.
Os all public men North there is
probably no one who has pursued
the South and Southern people with
more vindictive hate than Horace
Greeley. No one has manifested more
unrelenting ill-will, more gangrene
malignity, more chronic venom than
he. In his insatiate thirst for a vic
tim he singles out Georgia, our own
honored Commonwealth, and seeks to
hold her up to the contempt and scorn
of mankind for what he is pleased to
term the illiteracy and ignorance of
her people. In the Tribune of June
28t'i, 1871, he belches forth the fol
lowing slanderous and libellous charge:
u lt may surprise many people to be
told that in Georgia, one of the most
enlightened of the Southern States
there are not less than sixty thousand
native adult whites who cannot read
or write. Not oriiy is the native
white population grossly ignorant
"but a strange prejudice exists against
common schools. When we consider
that the great bulk of the colored pop
ulation has been purposely kept in
mentu|J darkness, we can understand
something of the depressed state in
which education now exists in the
South.”
What occasion was there for him in
this manner to insult and traduce the
good people of this State, as well as
of the whole South ? If he does not
know that in point of intelligence the
adult white population of this State,
will compare favorably with those of
any other State in theUuion, he is not
lit to be President. I can attribute bis
wicked crusade against Georgia to no
cause save a malignant desire to wage
an unprovoked and unending war
upon the feelings,habits ami usages of
her people. And yet, we are invited
by the opposition to look upon Mr.
Greeley, as the very incarnation of
magnimitv, the soul of good will. I
say he has written his own biogra
phy correctly, he is now a novice in
these Christian virtues.
I approach another question to
which the honest voters of this conn
try would like for Mr. Greeley to make
answer. The utterance of such a sen
timent transcends in infamy anything
known in the annals of human deprav
ity. If he is innocent, let him speak,
else he stands convicted of the charge,
lion. James Lyons, an honored son
of Virginia and distinguished Demo'
crat, in his powerful letter to Mr
Griffith, after enumerating many of
the defects and vices of his character,
adds : “Horace Greeley is stained by
another, which is far more detestable
to me, which makes it as impossible
for me to vote for him as to denounce
my wife and daughter. If there ever
lived on earth, in Sparta or in Paradise,
a race of pure, spotless, heroic women,
the women of the South are such.
They gave their husbands and sons,
their homes and altars, and almost
every hope of earthly happiness, to
their country and her cause, and be
cause they did so this Demon of the
Tribune uttered and published in his
paper, as I am credibly informed, and
the proof of it will be exhibited, the
following false aud infamous libel upon
them :
“The women ot the South, nursed
by blacks, filled with animal passion,
inbibe it from their nurses and on ar
riving at the age of pubetry, immedi
ately manifest a desire to graify sensu
ality.”
Was ever before, by any mortal or
immortal demon such ahatelul thought
expressed ; such concentrated venom
poured out ? ”
But it is said that Mr. Greeley has
favored Amnesty, and, therefore,
ought to be surpported. Upon this
there is but small
reason for comfort. Ilis advocacy of
Amnesty has always been upon terms
absolutely repugnant to those for
whom it was intended. He has al
ways coupled it with impartial suffrage
hereby making it odious to those
under political disabilites. Mr. Voor
liees says that his advocacy of Amnes
ty in the manner he proposed it,
“ forms a small margin on which to
claim the support of the Southern peo
ple in behalf of the man, who more
than all others in the history of the
Government brought calamity, ruin,
woe, and death upon them.”
In addition to the foregoing con
siderations, Mr. Greeley is entirely un
fitted for the office of President by
reason of his want of discretion, pru
deuce and temper, lie is petulant,
quarrelsome and vindictive. He inis
been all of bis life erratic, fickle and
visionary. He is singularly gullible,
and easily deceived. One who knows
him well thus tersely describes what
Ids Administration would be in the
event of Lis election : “This advent
to power would stimulate all the worst
tendencies of the day, and those which
make most strongly against reform,
contempt for training, and for experi
enoe of all kinds; faith in blatherskite
and bawling as instruments of human
regeneration; disregard of character
as a social or political force; farcical
views of government and legislation;
recklessness and indifference to de
tails in Administration; and that sub
tle but never-the-less potent hinder
ance to civilization which consists in
the cultivation of grossness and vul
garity of manners as things, in them
selves, desirable.” T believe this to
be a just estimate of his character,
and, therefore, regard him unqualified
to administer the affairs of a great
Government. To place the destinies
of forty millions of people in the
hands of such a man will, be an ex
tremely hazardous 'experiment. And
this is not the time for experiments -
The ational Executive should be a
sound ana a safe man. The onward
march in all our material and substau
tial interests must experience no check.
The great work of the country’s re
liabili-lation which is so rapidly effac
ing all of the desolations of war must
suffer no abatement.
Upon President Grant, we can rely
with implicit confidence. He has
been tried, and the Nation, under his
rule, has attained an unexampled pros
perity. Viewing it in whatever as
pect you may, his Administration has
been a great success. His financial
policy lias excited the wonder and
challenged the administration of the
ablest financiers in the world. The
wisdom of that policy is a powerful
argument in favor of continuing his
Administration. Since the 4th of
March 1869, the time at which he en
tered upon the duties of the Presiden
tial office, the reduction of the Nation
al debt has been going on. At no
time has it appeared spasmodic, but
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Carroll Masonic Institute,
CARROLLTON, GA.
3laj. Jno, M. Richardson, President*
This Institution, under the fost-
A tering care of the Masonie Frater
. 1 -*1 nrtv. regularly chartered and or-
is devoted to the thorough
co-education of the sexes, on the
plan of the best modern pracUad
schools of Europe and America.
Spring Term, 187*2, begins February Ist
and ends July 17th: Fall 'term begins August
Ist, and ends November 20tli.
Tuition and board at reasonable rate*.
Send for circulars J
REESE’S SCHOOL, ‘W
Carbolltox, Oa., 1872,
Tuition for Forty Weeks, from sl4 to sl2.
Board, from sl2 to sls per month.
Opens 2d Monday in January next.
Terms one half in advance.
A. C. REESE, A. M., Principal.
For Board apply to Dr. I. N. Chkskt,
and H. Scogin, Esq.
~MEDICAL CARD.
Dr. I. N. CHENEY,
Respectfully informs the citizens of Carroll
and adjacent counties, that he is permanently
located at Carrollton, for the purpose of Prac
ticing Medicine. He gives special attention
to all chronic diseases of Females. He re
turns thanks to his friends for past patronage,
and hopes, by close attention to the profes
sion, to merit the same
J. J. PATMAN & CO.,
Carjicnters,
Newnan, Ga.,
Would respectfully inform the citizens of
Carrollton, and vicinity that they are prepar
ed to do all kind of Carpenters work at
short notice and upon the best of terms.
All communications addressed to them at
Newnan, will be punctually responded to.
ARGO & MARTIN,
House, Sign, Carriage
And Ornamental Painters,
Newnan, Ga.
Aiso plain and decorative paper hanging dona
with neatness and dispatch. All orders
promptly attended to.
Orders solicited from Carrollton.
Look to Yoiu; Interest,
JUHAN& MANDEVILLE,
131* agglsts^
CARROLLTON, GA.
Would inform the public, that they have
just received, a large addition to their stock,
consisting principally of a select assortment
of
STA TIONE RY, ALBUM S,
PURE WINES AND LIQUORS,
LEMON SYRUP, SUGAR $*C.
We make
PAIN IS A SPECIALITY
As we keep always on hand
A LARGE STOCK
of every kind of paint and painting mate
rial, also a varied and an immense as-;
soriment of Drugs. Chemicals, Oils,
Dyestuffs, Window glass aud
• Picture glass, Pfltty,
Tobacco, Pipes,
Cigars, &c.,
&c.
We have on hand the largest and best as*
sortment of
GONFECTIONERIES AND PERFUMERY
ever offered in this market.
STUDENTS
Will find it to their interest to purchas#
their Lamps, Oil, and Stationery from U3.
Virginia leaf Tobacco, best stock, and
fine Cigars always on hand.
June 7, 1872.
NEW STOCK! 1W STOCK!
NEW .INSTALLMENT OF GROCERIES
AT
J. F. POPES,
CONSISTING or
Bacon, Lard, Flour, Sugar, Molasses, Better
lot of Shoes than ever, Fine Cigars,
Smoking Tobacco, Snuff
and Whiskies.
You can make it to your interest to cal
and see me before buying elsewhere.
JAMES F. POPE.
april 2G ; 1872.
Savannah, Griffin & N. Ala,, Railroad
Leaves Griffin - 1 OOP x
Arrives at Newnan 3 45 r x
Leaves Ntwnau 7 00 a M
Arrives at. Griffin ...947m
Connects at Griffin with Macon and Western E.
Western & Atlantic Rail Road.
Night Passenger Train Outward, Through to N
York, via. Chattanooga.
Leave Atlanta 10:30.p. m.
Arrive at Chattanooga 6:16 a. m.
Night Passenger 1 rain Inward from New York
Connecting at Dalton.
Leaves Chattanooga’ 5:20 p. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 1:42 p. m.
Day Passenger Train—Ontward.
Leaye Atlanta *• m -
Arrive at Chattanooga..»■ 1;2 1 P- Ul
- Taseenger Train—lnward.
Leave Chattanoog’
Arrives at At1anta......... ••••••• • • *2* P- m.
Fast Line. Savannah to New York—Outward.
.Leaves Atlanta 2:45 p. m.
Accommodation Train—lnward.
Leaves Dalton 2:25 p. m.
Arrives at Atlanta, *10:00 a. m.
E. B. Walkeb, M. T.
Atlanta and West Point Railroad.
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN ( OUTWARD )
Leaves Atlanta.." 7 10 a. m.
Arrives at West Point 1140 a. m,
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN’ —{ INWARD' )
Le~ves West Point * - — l2 45 p. m.
Arrives at Atlanta. u* '— 515 p. m,
N T GUT FREIGHT AND PASSENGER
Leaves Atlanta 3 00 p. **,.
Arrive* at West Point 10 45 a. m.
Leave* West Point 300 p. m.
Arrives at Atlanta 1007 a m.
Time 15 minutes faster than Atlanta City-time,
NO. 32.