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•boat 8 or 10 Irishmen in the
the party.
Jaws F. Bicrr
am.
Subscribed and sworn to A nr. 10,1855.
0. H. Strattan, N. P.
®Ijc Home Courier
TUESDAY MORNING SEPT. 4, 1855.
American Candidate far fiemaor.
GARNETT ANDREWS
OF WILKES.
Far CoAfrtfs.
nUKRDKXT C/NIDATt.
LEWIS T OMLIN,
POB TBS IBtil SLA TCK B.
COL. VV. S. COTHRAN,
Fir Ito icuU.
COL. S. FOUCHE,
WHITFILD ANTHONY,
Far (he Hone.
The Candidates of the American Party
for the Legislature will address their fellow*
althaea A the following places in Floyd coun
ty on the day* mentioned below,vis:
' At Gaea Spring. 1st September.
CourtGroamd, Etowah Oitt, Monday 3d Sept.
Borne, Teeeday 4fo Sept.
Barker's Vann's Talley. Saturday 8th Sept.
Court Ground, Tolio Dish Monday 18th “ .
Thomas* Mills, Saturdsy 15th “
North GeroHaa, Monday 17 th -
Cowen’b School, Wattart’ Dist, Saturday
22th Sept
Wolf Shin, Monday 24th Soph
Dirt Town, Satarday 29.
: of the undersigned In
foe Noam Cburwr is offered hr sola. Its sub
scription list amounts to about700 good paying
subscriber*. One who dosires sneh a location
-wadi do well to make pnrehaae.
August291855 SAMUEL & FINLEY.
Oenem* Letter.
This b an able defense of the principles or the
American party, and a traththl exposition of
aocne of tho causes which led to the formation of
this new party. Let every American read it,
and fta loan it tohls neighbor. Keep the doc
uments beftoe the people. Our principles ate
Josh pnro and patriotic, and we hare only to
disabuse the minds of the people of the misrep
resentation and base danders of our opponents,
and lay onr principle*, aims and objects before
, in order to secure their hearty co-opcra-
We sore requested to state, that on account of
a note being addressed to the American candi
dates for the Legislature, that a protracted
Religions meeting was going on at Cave Spring,
they did net ftdil their engagement on the 1st
will do so, on some day before die
i Fax ale IxsrrrrrB.—The exerci
ses of this school were resumed on yesterday.—
i is an enterprise in which the citizens of this
\ ought to feel a deep interest, it supplies
i and the oommnnity should
by no means suffer it to decline for the want of
» which ft so well deserves*
I the Tricks.
It isquite amusing to notice the eagerness of
the foreign party fa their efforts to fish up some
thing against the Americana. Their/cetera and
Setters are every whereat work, using nil sorts
uf devices and expedients in their efforts to
'warm oat something by book or crook, which
they may make subserve their purposes. They
work with a zeal that knows no abatement, and
use all means that promises sneoees, and this
ought to teaeh toe American party the necessity
of being up and doing. They work very slyly
—fitaC hunting seems to he their favorite mode
—hut yet they are sometimes eangbt in their
own lisps, and meet “the fate of fools, officious
in contriving; la executing; puzzled, lame and
lost.”
ffiSF* See in an other eolnmn the correspon
dence between CoL Lead better and Rev. B.
Pace. If any are in doubt as to why Mr. Lead-
better did not publish it, we presume ho wilj
take great pleasure in informing them.
Know ffotfclng Oaths fee.
For several weeks past the Southerner ha
published an article with the above heading
As to tin motives that prompted its publication^
or the amount of polities! capital expected to
he teslized by this attempt to deceive the poo-,
pb and tnduee the American party, will not at
this /time ho taken into consideration. The
fact is that, neither those nor any similar oaths
are required to he taken in becoming members
of the American party. At the meeting of the
National Council In June the old ritual and cer
emonies wen abolished, and since that time no
oaths - or affirmations of any form or shops
whatsoever hare been necessary to entitle one
to aBthe rights and privileges of the American
party, and if any have been used, it has been
for the want of Information. The only seeroey
now pertaining to the party is holding closed
mootings,"with certain signs, gripe and pass
words, and this is optional wtth the several
counties. Muscogee and Chatham, have alrea
dy abolished them, and wo are of the opinion
font the time has folly arrived when it should
ho don# in every county throughout the Stote.
The organizations, however, should every where
ho kept up for the transaction of business, ad*
Kitting all outriders who feel disposed to act
with the party to a fall participation.
Hr. HcGuIre’f Letter.
This fs certainly a very queer document,
and quite a variance from what .'was ex
pected by bis personal friends *"^ mpglsMs-
ees. There Is In it an evident attempt to smoth
er np and throw into the back ground tbe real
position be eeeapied np to the time of
bis nomination sod oven for soma days after it
Ho cays :
It is charged that I said Iwonld not vote for
Governor Johnson. This charge is predicated
upon a conversation held between two very re
spectable and truthful gentlemen and myself;
in which conversation I only Intended to say,
lbatl did not support Governor Johnson as a
Southern Rights man, leaving it to be infered,
that I supported him as the aatf-Know Nothing
Democratic candidate.
This charge was not predicated merely or
chiefly upon that conversation, hut upon the
position he has consistently occupied for years;
and that was only regarded as an assurance
that be still entertained the same opinion of
.Gov. Johnson as heretofore.
“In which conversation I only intended to
my Ac.” Is it not strange that Mr- McGuire,
in bis ovrn store, and in company with only two
or three of his personal friends, should be so
confused In speaking upon a subject so familiar
as not to give utterance to his real principles,
but should blunder onfc just the op
posite, and then not find out his mistake until
some of bis?‘new hatched, unfledged comrade"
from a distant part of the country reminded
him of it?
Now if Mr. McGuire sadddenly changed bis
mind in regard to tbe Governor, either because
be was nominated for tbe Senate or for any
other reason, of coarse, be had » perfect right
to do so. If he -scants to vale for tbe men who
has defrauded the people ont of $8,000 in or
der to secure the influence of on« man in the
campaign, and has nnlawfatly created an office
with a salary of $2,000 a year for the benefit
of one of his sloctioneering champions, this is
his right also. Bat ha mast remember that foe
oltisens of Floyd county have a right to Infor
that what bo says in regard to tha political
questions of the day U what he means; partks*
olarty when his statements are entirety consis
tent with his whole life.
We hope Mr. McQurax, for the future, will
ho moro fortunate in his statements, and would
respectfully suggest, font If be would be more
Intimate with tome of his new al-lies, he wonld
not find it so difficult to express his intentions
Th* New Stxaxsoat.—Capt Pbninoton’s
Steamer was safety lanched on last Thursday.
The seen* was witnessed by a large crowd of
ladies and gentleman, who looked, on with a
deop interest that was not entirely free from
anxiety. The Boat ia 180 feet long and 26
feet wide, and depth of hole 3} feet She Is to
ho propelled by a stern wheel and will bo able
to carry 225 tons of freight. This experiment
to for. Is entirety a successful one. Tho grand
object waste geta boat that would draw as lit
tle water as possible, so as to enable it to run
during the rammer months; she now settles in
the water but five and a half inches, and it is es
timated that when completed, with all her ma
chinery In, she will swim in water of twelve in
ches depth. Tho work of building has been
carried on with vigor and determination, and
the prospect is, that the boat will be ready to
run by tho first of Oetober. Wo congratu
late onr friends down tho river, on their pros
pect of a ehaap and reliable moans fur the trans
portation of freight, and doubt not that all
will unite in hearty commendation of the prais-
werthy energy and perseverance, manifested
by Capt Penington, in prosecuting this enter
prise so much needed by tho community.
How (hoy hole tho Light.
Tho opponents of tho American party seem
to base their hopes of success on misrepresen
tations, chicanery, and triekery. Instead of
stating fairly the prinoiplos of the party they
oppose, they asrame something which is either
unconstitutional or wrong in principle and
can easily bo made ridiculous, and against this
monster whieh exists only in their imaginations
they turn loose tho thnderbolts of their wrath
and indignation. They are very much like the
Irishman, who, crying vociferously while
arraigned before a tribunal of justice, was com
fortedby an assnranee from the judge that he
should have justice done him: “and fafo, yer
honor,” said ho, “that is just what I am afraid
Ml” They fear above all things, that the prin
ciples of the American party will be dearly and
distinotiy made known to tho people. Why all
his talk about a "religious tost,” and “proscrip
tion?” Why this incessant attempt to vilUfy
and abase the American party for that which
does not pertain to them—why not render nnio
Closer and truth the things which belong to
them bya statement of facts ?
It Is difficult to understand bow an unpreju
diced man can read the following rosolotion of
the American party of Georgia and not be con
vinced that their opponents willfnliy misrepre
sent and falsify their principles :
Resolved 2d. That the American Patty un
qualifiedly condemns and win ever endeavor to
counteract, all efforts, by any sect or party, to
bring about a onion of Church and Sate, and
nttoriy disclaims any intention to prescribe
religions test as a qualification for office."
u Revolved 6th. That this Council, while re
pudiating tbe policy of allowing, in tbe future
legislation of the country, unnaturalized for
eigners to vote in the Territorial elections, re
gards an opposition to the principles of the Ne
braska, Kansas Act, in relation to slavery, as
hostility to the constitutional rights of the
South ; and all persons who partake in such
opposition, as unfit to be recognized as mem-
hen of the American Party.”
Letter of Kev. C. W. Howard.
Wo wonld call the attention of onr readers to
this letter addressed to Gov. Johnon, with tho
statement of the eitixens of Kingston, and tho
remarks of Mr. Howard which follow them.—
The management of the State Road involves
tiia paramount pecuniary interest of Cherokee
Georgia. It is the right, yea the duty of every
citizen when the policy pursued is called in
question, to investigate tho matter, and if no
where else, at least at the ballot-box, be sure to
approve or disapprove, according as bis con
science and best judgment shall dictate.
By disregarding tbe petition of Mr. Howard
to be pat on the same footing with Maj. M. A.
Cooper, the Governor-shows that be did not
make “that arrangement” with Mr. Cooper
for tbe Veasons urged, viz : large amounts of
freight, and to cherish such enterprises as tend
to develop the resources of the country,” for
those reasons wonld hold good as regards Mr.
Howard. This and other evidence shows con-
elusively that Gov. Johnson Is not only willing
to diserimlnato'in tariffs on the State Road in
fovor of tho the rich and against tho poor, bnt
that ho is guilty of egregious partiality and out-
ragioas favoritism. Read the articles above
aligned to and then judge whether Herschel
Y. Johnson, a man who will defraud the poor
and cheat the rich, is worthy of yonr vote for
Governor.
Party. Certainly no unprejudiced man will do
otherwise. Go to the polls in Ootobar and da-
fond yonr interests. Tha worm Itself will sting,
when infringed upon—and certainly tha fraa
and indapandant voters of Georgia, jealous of
their rights and ••nsltiva to tneult and imposi
tion, will seek redress for this gross outrage at
tha ballot box. If with onr ayes open and tha
facta wall substantiated before ns, we tamely
submit and even promote tho hand that smot*
ns, we deserve to sink beneath a coward* base*
nest. WASP.
[For tha Courier.]
Mr. Editor:
In asmneb as the truthfulness of a state
ment made by ns in relation to a conversation
between ourselves and T. MoGuiro has been
called in question, wo deem it bat jast to onr.
solves to make the following statement of foots :
On last Thursday, the 23rd of August at Mr.
McGuire’s store while we were engaged in con
versation, Mr. MoOuire with his hand upraised,
made the following statement to wit: “/ want it
distinctly understood, that I am not for Johnson
and do not advocate it's principles.''
This statement was not qualified, or its full
strength stall abated by any following remarks
by Mr. MeGnire, and in as much as we have
known him to be a consistent opponent of Gov.
Johnson for years, we could but infor that his
position in regard to Johnson was still unchan
ged-
Southerner pleaso copy in next issue.
Fl<jtd Co., August 29th, 1855.
J.E. Pinson,
N. Kinnkbbsw.
Forthe Courier.
Messrs. Editors: The Foreign and Catho
lic party in this eonnty are charging that the
candidates of the American party in Floyd are
aristocrats. We stop not here to notice this
pitifol slander, as our candidates are known to
bo intelligent, clever and practical men, which
cannot to an equal extent be asserted of their
compeditors. What we wish now to notice is
something worse even than aristocracy, al
though this same evil is couched in it We al
lude to that abominable bribe tendered to Mark
A. Cooper by H. V. Johnson, In order to obtain
bis influence in the election. Mark A. Cooper
ia arieh mao, and as deserving of the title of
aristocrat as any man in this part of Georgia,
that wo know of, and yet the gloring fact stands
ont unrefuted and not even denied, yea acknowl-
edged by the very men implicated, that tbe
freights.opon tbe State Road hare been chea
pened in bis favor, while the poorer classes are
still made to pay tbe old and higher rates. This
rich man then, by bis own admission, wilt make
by this arrangement a ram of $6,000 a year,
and by tho estimate of others not less than
$8,000. Think of it voters of Georgia, and
remember that it it no Humbug, that your Gov
ernor, (who Is now rnnning about electioneer
ing, instead of attending to the duties of his
office) in order to secure the influence of a rich
man, and an aristocrat, has swindled the State
ont of $8,000 of the money, which yon have
been taxed to raise; and do not overlook tho
fact, that this most unprecedented outrage will
bo kept up year after year, so long os be remains
in office. “Will not an indignant people frown
upon this gross wrong—tarn this creature ont
of office, and spnrn the men and party who sus
tain him?” They ought, and we think will.—
Their Interest, their own self respect, and tbe
dignity of the State demands it. We call npon
tbe freemen of Georgia, to arise in their wrath
and bnrl this man from the position be has dis
graced, and let a better man be put in bis pisoe,
and let the party which advocates bis claims,
be overwhelmingly rebuked. In other words
vote for Judge Andrews, and the American
Kingston, July 25th, 1855.
His Excellency, Gov. Johnson,
Sir : Daring Mr. Wadley and Mr. Yonge’s
management of the Western and Atlantic Kail
Road, there was an arrangement between tbe
several Kail Roads, by which a reduction was
made on the freight of lime from my kilns to
any point beyond Macon and Augusta. The
reason of this special arrangement was, that
the usual rates of freight amounted to a pro
hibition beyond these points named. In con
sequence ofthese arrangements, I was enabled
to send lime and cement to south-western
Georgia, and a great deal to Carolina, as high
op as Anderson C. H. for tbe Rabun Gap rail
road. When Mr. Cooper took charge of the
road, this arrangement was broken up and an
extra charge made on these articles of lime
and cement. The freight on a car load of lime
from Kingston to Atlanta now is $16, the
freight on the same car load from Atlanta to
Augusta to $20; the first distance is 60 miles,
the second 170 miles and the State road has
no depot expenses, I loading tbe car—the
G.orgia road has to unload and store the lime.
The friegh.ton a car load of lim«- or cement
being $16 from Kingston to Atlanta,tbe freight
from Atlanta to Savannah is $40. lire one dis
tance60 miles, the other 300 miles, one fifth
the distance—I bearing all the* expenses of
loading and storing as before. When I poin
ted Mr. Cooper to this exceptive difference,
he simply replied ‘•that there was no compe
tition with the State road.”
It is generally understood that you have di
rected Maj. Mark A. Cooper to be placed on
the freight footing in which he was left by Mr.
Yonge, and that the excess of freight charged
by the present superintendent be refunded to
him. If this be the case, I beg that the same
tiling be ordered in reference to myself, being
precisely in the some condition with Maj. Mark
Cooper. I have written to day to the super-
intenden tadvising him that I shall address
you upon this subject
It is proper to state in this connection that
there is a deep dissatisfaction in this section
of the great preference shown to Tennessee
produce over that of Georgia. My establish
ment gives a support to between one and two
hundred persons. It is the market besides
for the small farmers in the vicinity. When
ever the road refuses to take off my produce,
they suffer; of course I cannot employ them
at an entire loss: when therefore, they see
cars loaded with marble, copper ore and wheat
passing by them, while they are thrown out
of employment for want of a small proportion
of these same cars, the murmuring is deep and
load. It isatime of great distress among the
laboring clases, from the scarcity and
price of provisions. I beg yonr Excellency *to
take their case into consideration, and direct
that the freight in lime shall be reduced, a
proportion of cars be allowed, and that they
may find the regular employment to which
they are accustomed. It is an additional mo
tive, that this lime employs Georgia labor
twice, in its manufacture and consumption.—
Not only myself and my laborers, but a large
number of builders throughout middle Geor
gia suffer whenever the Road refuses to take
off my lime.
If the freight on Lime, especially for ma
nure, were reduced, even as low as it was
daring Mr. Mitchell’s Superintendence and if
cars were supplied regularly, this one estab
lishment will pay 6,000 dollars freight annu
ally to the W. 4 A. road, besides greatly in
creasing the Cotton crop below. I am the
more emboldened to bring this subject to your
Excellency’s attention, as prior to your elec
tion, you expressed great interest in bringing
this valuable manure with'n reach of the plan
ters of Middle Georgia. In the cares of office
this has propably escaped you, and I avail my
self of this opportunity to bring it again to
your notice. The demand for this a. tide of
Line for manure, if carried at Northern rates
1 i cts per ton per mile, would warrant a reg
ular train for the purpose. This, besides in
creasing the cotton crop one third where it can
be used, would give employment to hundreds
of laborers in Cherokee Georgia. It might
not pay a direct profit at once, but must cer
tainly by an indirection in the increase of tax
able property. There is no reason why the
sale of lime in Georgia should not create a
town as large as Thomaston in Maine, a town
larger I believe than any interior temu in the
State.
In hjpe of receiving an early reply espe
cially to my request of being placed in the
same freight footing with Maj. M. Cooper. I
am with great respect,
Yonr obedient servant,
C. W. Howard.
Kingston, Ga. Ang. 17th 1855.
We, tbs .undersigned, residents of Kingston
and its vicinity, have had an opportunity of
knowing that Mr. C. W. Howard has been
greatly embarrassed in bis pecuniary affairs by
tbe failnre of tbe authorities of the W. A A.
Rail Road to furnish him with cars for tbe
transportation of bis Lime.
Mr. Howard gives food and employment to
between one and two hundred white persons
at bis kilns. When from any cause, the suc
cessful operation of tho Lime business is in*
tempted, the bad effect ic severely felt by num
bers in tbe neighborhood. Mr. Howard has
been compelled to discharge a number of his
hands, daring a season in wbicb work was dif
ficult to be obtained, money scarce and provi
sions both scarce and bigh. So that when Mr.
nowsrd coffers, all suffer who are directly or
indirectly coneorned with bim in the way of
business.
We feel that an injustice is done, when cop
per ore, Marble, Ac., are shipped from Tennes
see, articles which merely pass through the
State, while our own produoe is excluded from
our own Road. More especially this article of
Lime, which is made in Georgia, is used by
mechanics in Middle and Lower Georgia, and
which might be used extensively by tbe plan
ters below to the great inereaae of tbe cotton
crop of tbe State We concur in urging upon
the proper authorities, the necessity of taking
this subject into consideration, as being part of
their duty and as an act of justice, not only to
Mr. Howard bnt to this villago and its entire
vicinity,
J. Allen,
J. Masters,
N. Cary,
8. Uerter,
Washington Herter,
John Summers,
G. W. Glenn,
D. Montgomery,
T. G, Roman,
A. J. Cary,
J. B. Cox,
James Barker,
C. Barker,
Win. A. J. Bates,
M. Sorrols,
Giles Coleman.
A. J. Lamb,
W. Herter,
B. Kendrie,
M. Uerter,
J. Loveless,
J. J. Cason,
F. M. Johnson,
W. J. McDermon,
T. R. Conch,
M. H. Smanx,
John Bats*.
Kingston, Aug. 62d, 1855.
Editors Rom Coleus—Gentlemen:
It ja with some reluctance that I send yon
the enclosed letter to Gov. Johnson, and
also a statement of some of my neighbor.',
relative to the subject matter of that letter,
with a request that you will publish them,
together with the remarks of my own which
will follow. A natural aversion to a step of
this sort is removod to a great degree, by tbe
impression of my friends, who think this pub
lication due not only to myself but to a num
ber of persons who are interested with me.
In fact I see no other resource tar one of the
people, tehen aggrieved by the chief servant
of the people, hut an appeal to the People.
My letter to Gov. Johnson is dated July
25th Nearly thirty days have now elapsed
and no notice has boon taken of it. It is not
td be presumed that the Governor of Georgia
is so long absent from his post—or, if absent
on the business of the State, it is to be sup
posed that his letters are transmitted to him
I cannot therefore consider his silence as oth
er than intentional. If there were anything
discourteous in my manner—if I asked any
thing improper for me to ask, or for him to
consider, there would be a reason for the si*
lence of the Governor. But I cannot see any
thing offensive either in the manner or matter
of my letter. It refers to a subject of much
pecuniary interest to myself and several bun
dred persons besides myself. Tbe silence of
the Governor is therefore both an incivility
and an injustice to all parties concerned.
Since Mr. J. F. Cooper has had the Man
agement of the Road, I have repeatedly
sought to be placed upon the Bame freight
footing which I occupied during Mr. Yonge’s
administration. There was then an arrange
ment, as stated in my letter to the Governor,
by which there was a reduction of freight on
Lime to certain points, as Savannah, Charles
ton, Columbia, Columbus Ac. the usual rates
amounting to a prohibition. The consump
tion of Lime in Savannah is very great. Hie
Central Railroad this summer agreed to make
such a reduction on freights as would enable
me to supply that market, if the other roads
would eoucur. But the Superintendent of
tbe State Road would not concur. The op
portunity was lost to me. The supply of tbe
City of Savannah with Lime, would not have
been less than $30,000 per annum.
When it was understood that Gov. Johnson
had interfered, and had directed such action
on the part of the Superintendent as would
place Maj. M. A. Cooper on tbe same position
in which Mr. Yonge left him, it gave me great
plasure thinking of course that it would be
necessary merely to inform the Governor
that I was laboring under similar injustice,
in order to secure justice to myself. You
have seen the result of my application. I
make no comment upon it.
I avail myself of this unpleasant opportu
nity to bring the whole subject of the manu
facture of time for mechanical nd agricultu
ral purposes to the consideration of tbe com
munity. I do this at this time for several
reasons. Build ersin the interior have recent
ly been at heavy loss, as their workmen have
been idle for want of lime. They have suf
fered in their contracts and have censured me
for want of promptness. I wish them
know why their orders are not filled- with de
spatch. Public attention is now largely di
rected to the management of the W. A A
Road. The Agricultural Society is soon to
bold its annual meeting. Members of the
Legislature are soon to be elected. It is
worth the hope of interesting in this suject
the members both of the Agricultural Society
and the Legislature that 1 give tbe details
which follow.
The amount of lime consumed in the State
of Georgia is not generally known. There
are not less than 200.000 bushels of lime used
in the State annually at an average of $1 25
cents per bbl. to the purchaser, this would
amount to $250,000 per annum. Hie whole
of this amount can be furnished bv Cherokee
Georgia.—This sum can be annually saved to
the State. A very large proportion ot it now
goes to the North. This trade has built up
the city of Thomaston in Maine—a State to
which Georgians are certainly under no very
g reat obligations. Hie only reason why the
me and cement used in Georgia ts not pur
chased in the Cherokee country, is the nigh
pnceof freights on the Railroads chiefly the
W. <£ A. Road The authorities of the State
Road steadily refuse to enter into any ar
rangements with the Roads below by which
freights might be reduced on this article
even during the summer months and when
their cars (until this summer), have been
many of them standing idle at the Depots.
Hie rates of freight on lime on the State
Road are excessive. Some of the compara
tive details are given in my letter to the
Governor. I add that the freight on a bushel
of lime from Kingston to Atlanta is 8 cents—
on a bushel of wheat 7 cents—on a car load
of lime it is $16,00—on a car load of wheat
$17.50. The wheat is stored and shipped hy
the road. The lime is shipped at the kilns—
saving of at least five constant hands—
equal to $1000 per annum at the Kingston
Depot. The car load of wheat is worth in
Atlanta $250—the car load of lime is worth
$40—yet the freight on the lime including
storage and loading is actually greater than
on the wheat
ippi .
Wm. P. Elliott.
Cbersbire A Groves,
B. V. 0. Ware,
N. H. Eddy,
Wm. Worthy,
F. R. Gouidiog,
W. A. Swlomond,
J. C. Hateley, P. M.
E. P. Smith,
H. C. P. Dodd,
W, B. Smith.
Win. 1L Hardy,
Excessive however as is the freight on lime
this excess is still not the greatest obstacle to
its extensive manufacture. A greater obstacle
is the uncertainty a9 to whether th • Road
will transport it at all. We are wholly at
the mercy of Tennessee. So long as there
is any freight at the head of the road, Geor
gia freight is neglected. In consequence
of this, I have been compelled again and
again to cause spoiled lime to be wheeled
out of the kiln and thrown away—and in
other instances, bbls. and hhds. which have
been put into tight cars, have remained so
long on tbe turnout—that the vessels have
burst and the lime and vessels have been lost,
or sent in a damaged condition to the detri
ment of the Purchaser.
This uncertainty applies not only to lime,
bul all other articles of way freight, as wheat
for instance. Some time since there had been
shipped through Atlanta for the North 260
000 bushels of wheat—of this amount [ on
derstand >ot more than 60,000 bushels was
Georgia wheat. Upwards of 200,000 bush
els, merely passed through the State, benefit-
ting no one in Georgia but the forwarding
houses in Savannah. While this was going
forward, the Georgia Depots above, were
locked up, being neither able to store any
more wheat, or ship that which was on hand.
The. Georgia fanner was compelled to see
the State Road, taking the wheat of Tennes
see to the earliest and bo<t market, while his
own wheat was locked up in the Depot. This
condition of things is intolerable. It has
been borne, “until endurance in no longer a
virtue.” It can le proved that the State
Road is now doing more to develop the mine
ral, mechanical, and agricultural resources of
Tennessee, than of Georgia. I am not ma
king this statement lightly. The freight
books of the Road will sustain mo in it Is
this right! Was this the purprse of the
Rood! I am notone of those who would
make this Road a mere Georgia affair. I
would be glad to see a double truck laid and
motive power sufficient furnished to transport
every pound of freight which the west con
offer. Let our neighbors share in its benefits.
But there is no reason why they should take
tbe Lion’s share. Until tbe State is able fully
to equip the Road, her own citizens who built
it should not Rlone bear tbe evils of her pov
erty. They should be first ser-*ed and then
others ns far ns possible. This order is now
exactly reversed. Under these circumstan
ces. it ia impossible prudently to invest large
capital in Cberoke i Georgia in the manufoc
lure of bulky and weighty articles, employ
ing large numbers of men. because there is an
entire uncertainty as to whether the prod uo
thus created can find its way to market in
time to prevent loss. Capitol may be thus
invested prudently in Chattanooga, but not
in Cherokee Georgia. If there were a cer
tainty of cheap transportation, there is no
reason why 200 men should not now be em
ployed at these quarries as ten.
It has been said, that $250,000 At least is
annualty expected in Georgia for lime for
mechanical purpofes. 1 f the Railroads would
give us the same opportunities os the north
ern roads give, even during the Summer
months, this amount could be more timn dou
bled by tbe use of lime for m inure. Under
Mr. Mitchell's administration of the State
Rond, some facilities of this sort were given
and in a financial condition of the road, when
they could not easily be afforded. But now,
the former who sends on empty hhd. to be
filled with lime to put on his land, pays
friegbt upon it, though it comes up in another-
wise empty car. I have paid $80 or $100
empty hhds. from others to Kingston. Tbe
freight on the empty hhds. is charged by
weight—so much per pound—so much for
every iron hoop! Was there ever such a
thing heard of before in Railroad Tariffs!
These details may seem small, but they make
up the aggregate of a policy, that is smaller
than the details.
I would call the attention of Farmers and
Planters particularly to the following state
ment. It the Railroads would transport lime
for manure at 1$ cents per ton per mile the
lime burner could afford to sell bis lime in bulk
where the demand and means of transporta
tion are certain, at 12 cents per basheL It is
solety the uncertainty of transportation whieh
keeps lime at its preset price, tbe profits of one
month, sometimes having to be applied to tbe
losses from this cause, on two or three conse
cutive months.
At the the above rates of cost and transpor
tation, nnslaked lime for manure coold be de
livered at Marietta at 14 cents per bushel—at
Atlanta at 16 cents—at Covington at 18cts.—at
Social Circle at 19 cents—at Madison at 20
cents—at Greensboro 22 cents—at Union Point
at 23 cents—at Augusta at 27 cents.
The car luad of lime at Atlanta at present
rates costs $56—at tbe propsed rates it »ouId
be $23 a difference of $24 in one ear load.
It will be seen from this statement that it is
perfectly possible, by reducing tbe freight on
lime and giving an adequate supply of cars,
that every farmer between this point and Au
gusta, within too miles of tbe Railroad can use
lime as a manure economically on his land. In
the present improved state ef agricultural sci
ence, it would be idle to enter ioto details as
to tbe valne of lime as a manure upon land in
the Primitive formation. One instance may
suffice. A gentleman in Clark county manured
a 40 acre cotton field with lime at tbe rate of
15 bushels per acre and increased bis cotton
crop from 300 to 1000 lbs. per acre. Whenever
lime can be transported as a manure, a two fold
result follows. A new and extensive industry
is created In the State. Every farmer who bas
abed of limestone on bis land along the line of
tbe Slate Rood above Etowah Bridge, when be
bas laid by bis crop, can become a lime burner.
Tbe cotton crop within reach of the Roads will
be inoreaaed at least one-third. When snch
an increase takes place, the addition to the
wealth of the State will be enormous—in the
approbation of land, in the increase of labor
a* d an increased revenue from increased pro
dacts sold.
These thoughts lead to a consideration of the
true policy of the W. e A Railroad. I would
not be understood, as even by implication cos
ting a censure npon tbe present Superintendent
of this Road His desire to do his duty no one
can question. His ability cannot be doubted.
He believes himself to be without discretiona
ry powers—that the policy of the Road has been
settled—that it is his duty to pnrsae such i
coarse as will cause the Road to yield tbe great
est possible direct revenue. If bis views of
his duty be correct, his cause is correct. He
is certainly bound to carry tbe freight which
pays best wherever it may come from. Under
this Policy, it would not be material to the Road
if the whole country between Atlanta and
Chattanooga were a second Zah&rah, (except os
to wood and water) for through freight will al
ways pay better than way freight. Mr. Cooper
is not singular in bis views—they were enter
tained by most of bis predecessors: They bave
been a millstone about the neck of Cherokee
Georgia for years. And it is only because the
Almighty has specially fovored this region
because it happens to be peopled by an uncom
monly energetio set of men, and because
produco within its own borders, by its own la- time when disorders that are common now, wore
bor, and in quantities in most instances more | regarded as impossible, and will then reflect
thao sufficient for its own consumption; cotton, npon tbe consequences of a .like decline, for
rioe, sugar, flour, corn, bay, meats, wool, coal, another quarter of a oentnry, they will be con-
alum, potash, salt peter, porcelain, firebrisb,
cement, lime marble, granite, slate, burrstone,
manganese, lead, lime, iron and gold.
Time and capital, and a sea coast have de
veloped tbe resonrees of the lower country.—
Give to the Cherokee country, a certain and
cheap transportation to market. Let the capi
talist who contemplates removal to it, let the
property bolder now resident in it be assnred,
that be will bave tbe same facilities as if be
lived at or beyond Chattanooga, and tbe moun
tains will advance pari passu with the seabowrJ,
and bound together by iron bands, they will
form • commonwealth, whieh every Georgian
may look upon with pride.
I am respectfully yours,
C. W. HOWARD.
vinced of tbe danger of delay, and of tho rapid
ity and strength that Anti-American influouce
is acquiring in the country.”
Dr. H. F. H. miner and J. W* H. Under*
wood Esq.
The following correspondence places Dr. Mid
ler right before tbe coantiy, and shows to what
a desperate resort tbe Johnson and Cowart
Journals have been driven to lessen his infla-
enee before the people. All the. democratic
organs have published the alleged charges.—
Wonder bow Many will publish the refution ?
We shall see.
♦ - Savannas, Ang. 28th, 1855.
Dear Sir:—The publication in tbe Chronicle,
a few days since, of my note to a friend deny
ing a report wbieh be said was cironlated to
my prejudice; nccompnined, as it was, by an
[For the Courier.]
Fairie Known, 25th Aug., 1855. _
Gentlemen r—A fev^of my jieighbors a short | extract from some newspaper and an editorial
* _ . conjmentj connecting Col. Underwood with tha
origin of that report, seems to raise a question
of veracity between that gentleman and myself.
The subjoined correspondence will show that,
however the report may have originated, there
is no issue between ns, and will releire ns both
from an unpleasant attitude in whieh a misap
prehension on the part of some person has pla
ced us.
time since obtained my permission to ase my
name os a candidate to represent the 5th Cons
gressional District in the next Congress. I see
by yonr paper of the 21st instant that they
bave availed themselves of that permission,
and announoed my name. I accept the posi
tion.
My political life has been so nracb ont of
doors, and I am by character so well known
that bnt for tbe universality of tbe custom, I
should deem it unnecessary to say anything
about my political creed. As it is, I will only
say I am a Democrat. I am, os I always have
been, a strict constructionist of tbe strictest
seet; as saeh, I have always opposed a Bank of
tbe United States, Internal Improvement by
the Federal Government, and a protective tar
iff and bave ever considered such opposition
cardinal principles with the Republican or De
mocratic party.
I am, very respectfully,
. H. V. M. Miller.
Rome, Go., Aug. 24,1855.
Dear Sir :—It is reported in private circles,
and also In tbe public journals npon gpnr au
thority, (as Is alleged) fostl sought asd Agreed
to accept the nomination of the Democratic par
ty, for Congress R> this District Will yon do
me the Justice to state whether, when spoken
to on that subject by Democratic friends, I did
I know it is said the old issues are dead. Not not frankly avow to them my connection with
so. It is true the Bonk is abandoned, by its ) the so-called Know Nothing organization ; whe-
friends, and become obsolete, bnt tbe Internal ’ ther I did not expressly tell you, several days
Improvement and Bank questions are open and * " " ----- - - - ~
living issues, and I have bat recently learned
(with regret) that the exercise of the right
involved in those questions is admitted
by any respectable body of Democrats to “have
become tbe fixed and settled polley of the gov-
eaoment” (in democratic bands) I am still op
posed to both and regret that by such opposition
I find myself opposed to many of my old polit
ical friends.
In tbe election for tbe convention in 1850,1
was in a lean minority, but when the conven
tion promulgated tbe fourth resolution of the
Georgia Platform as the position on which
Georgia was determined to stand. I said it
was good enough for me, aod I adopted it with
out equivocation or mental reservation, and I
am now prepared to stand on it, sbonlder to
of
the crumbs, (when they were entitled to a loaf,)
wbicb have fallen occasionally from the hands
of the Railroad authorities, that it has ad van
ced with so great rapidity. One of Mr. Coop
er’s predecessors, when told by me of tbe in
crease of tbe cotton crop below by tbe nse of
lime as a manure, remarked in reply “But the
cotton will not come back over onr road.” The
reply is the key to a policy.
The W. A A. R. Road has already reimbursed
the State for every dollar she bas expended
upon it, in tbe increase of the taxable proper
ty of the State. And if the Road did not more
than cover its expenses, it would indirectly bnt
certainly be paying to the State a handsome
dividend npon her investment. Items from the
tax books of tbe several counties through which
the Road passes shewing the annual increase
in value of property would be as legitimate
portions of the Superintendent’s exhibit, as re
turns of tbe number of dollars directly earned
by the Road. The growth of such towns as
Atlanta, Marietta, Rome, Calhoun, D ilton, Ac.
are illustrations. Tbe effect has also been felt
the appreciation of land. For instance.
Before the Railroad was in operation, the tax
on the land on which I live was two dollars—it
is now nearly one hundred dollars. This is a
remarkable instance it is true—but the general
increase in the value of property in this section
bas been sufficiont to bear out ray remark.
Nor is this remark inconsistent with the po
sition previously taken. If the ernmbs from
the Railroad authorities have produced this
growth, to what a lusty manhood would Chero
kee Georgia have reached, if fed with constant
and hearty food. Great ns have been tbe results,
they would have been ten fold greater, if the
Road had pursued a different policy. These
results have arisen partially from tbe pleasant
ness of tb j climate, fertility of the land and
chiefly from facilities of access to passengers
by the Railroad. The full development of its
mineral, mechanical and agricultural resour
ces is def rred fora more enlightened Railroad
policy. I hold that direct revenue is not the
sole or even principal object of our Road. I hold
that it is its mission to increase the permanent
prosperity of the State of Georgia to the great
est possible degree—that it is not material whe
ther this is done direotly or by indirection—
that if it be instrumental in improving tho lands
of the State—if it cheapens the price of meats
and breadstuffs in tile lower country—if it in-
erease the eotton, corn or wheat crop of tho
State—if it gives facilities for the sale of min
eral and meehanical products—products of
Georgia soil or Georgia labor, thus saving for
home circulation the amount for these products
now annually expended at the North or in Eu
rope- that any or all of these results are quite
os useful ends, as the payment annually of
a given number of dollars into the State Treas
ury. And so I am euro the great body of the
people will decide when the question comes
fairly before them.
I trust that the Agricultural Society of the
State will at ita'oext meeting enter fully into
tbe sabjoet of the Transportation
before the meeting of the Calhaan Conven tion,
that I eonld not, and wonld not accept its nom
ination, and whether within yonr knowledge I
sought or agreed to accept it?
I am, very respeetfally,
H. V. M. Miller.
CoL John H- Underwood.
Bore. Ga., Aug. 24,1855
Dear Sib:—Yours of the 24th of August is
before me, and in reply thereto. I say, that no
one is authorized from any thing I may have
said publicly or privately, to assert that you
sought the nomination of the Democratic party,
far Congress in this District, or that yon agreed
to accept it. Sneh an inference may have been
drawn from my remarks^bnt*Tbave avoided’ma-
, - - - - . - , king that charge. Yon did not seek the nomi-
shoulder, with its most forward and sealons nation or agree to aceept it within my knowl.
supporters. edge. When spoken to by Democratic friends
I am opposed to all national parties, whether > on the rabjeet, (myself among others) yon did
American or Democratic, because the South admit your connection with the so-called Know
being the weaker section, I am well convin
ced that in tbe scramble for power among am
bitious men, her interest will be sacrificed and
bartered away for national powers for place or
pelf.
It would give me great pleasure if time and
strength permitted, to travel over and canvass
the district with my opponent; bnt old age
and bad health must be my excuse for confining
myself very much at home.
In conclusion I throw myself npon such
Georgians as, with me, love Georgia better than
all other countries, and prefer her interest and
honor to all other considerations.
I am, gentleman,
very respectfully your ob’t servant,
JOHN A. JONES,
[•-'or the Courier.]
At Home, wear Van Wert, nsr 28th.
Messrs. Dwinell and Finley, Gentlemen:
Will yon do me the favour to publish the two
Inclosed letters, as I fear Col. Leadbetter will
suppress there publication; at least until after
the election. B PACE.
Bomb, Ga ? Ang. 16th, 1855.
Rev. B. Pace, Dear sir: At the request of
some of vonr friends to which 1 comply cher-
fully, as I desire to hear from you myself I
write to you, to ask your opinions of the pre
sent self styled American or Know Nothing
organization for publication, if yonr health
will permit, and you should feel inclined to
give your opinions to the public. 1 also en
close yon an extract from a Know Nothing
paper assailing yonr order of uaptist, also the
Rev. T.C. Trice’s reply. I have not heard
from yon for some time and hope yonr health
has much improved, and that yon may yet
live to enjoy good health and other blessings
of this life. Yours very resp’y,
John Leadbetter.
Nothing organization; but I distinctly under
stood you then to say, that yon were opposed
to its secrecy and to its oaths. I opposed the
order for the earns reasons and others, and sup
posed we were Well nigh agreed.
Yon did tell mein a conversation several days
before the meeting of the Calhonn Convention, ■
that yon eonld not accept a nomination for Con
gress from the Democratic party, or any other
party. It is doe to myself to state, that I con
sulted with yon as a Democrat, on the lYslx of
July, 1855, and tbe impression was made on my
mind that if we fonnd it necessary to nominate
yon for Congress, yon coold be prevailed npon
to accept it. Thongfa upon taxing my recollec
tion, I cannot think of any thing yon said or
done to induce that belief, (except a little mat-
tor which yon will reeolIeet,)the impression was
made on my mind, more from conversing with
others, than yourself. I would '’not do yon in
justice, or any one else, and will respond far
ther to anything I may know on the subject. . I
despise tbe personal direction this canvass has
taken, bnt the contest is a heated one. and my
friends color highly what you say of mei and
yours I presume do the same in relation to what
I say of yon, and so we go polling each other
down instead of bnilding upward. I do not de
sire to be in the newspapers, though if you think
it necessary to repair any injnry, (bate misun
derstanding of my remarks may bave done you,
why do osyou please. I would not damage'
yonr fame if I eonld—it eonld do me ho good.
Yours, Ac., * John W.H. Underwood.
Dr. H. V. M. Miller.
At hove, near Van Wert, Ang. 28
Col. Leadbetter, Dear Sir : your note of the
16th is now before me; you say that at the re
quest of some of my frien (is to which yon cheer
fully comply, you wish to ask my opinions of
the present self styled American or Know
Nothing organization for publication. You
know sir, i am not now and never was a poli
tician. My mission through life has been to pro
claim the unserchable riches of Jesus Christ.
I am not now and never have been, unmind
ful of the blessings and privileges which I as
an humble Baptist minister enjoy. My
great fears that these blessings and privileges
will in a great measure be denied to our chil
dren, prompts me for this one time to over
come the repugnance I bave for political noto
riety. Again, I know that my days on earth
are but few; and as yon bave thought proper
to ask this favor of me I cannot well refuse to
comply with your request For many years
I have had fears that this glorious Union of
ours would soon come to an end. In contem
plating upon this unpleasant subject, my eves
! lave turned to each of the old parties, but
in them I have been enabled to find nothing
calculated to revive the disponding hopes of
an old way worn patriot pilgrim. The per-
E etual star in each was overshadowed with
orthern fanaticism and Southern disnnion-
but I turn from this. I give it to you as
my dying opinion that the great conservative
constitutional principles now offered to the
American people for their support by the A
merican party, are the only ones that can effec
tually suppress Abolitionism on the one hand,
or disunion on the other, and they are the only
ones that can or ever will bringback this gov
eminent to its original purity and perpet
uate it forever.* Oh that our Heavenly Fath
er may reign And rule in the hearts of the peo
ple, that our glorious Union mayjdescend as a
’egacy pure and untarnished to our children.
I thank you, dear sir, for the solicitude you
express as regards my health, also for the
hopes you entertain for my complete recove-
they are vain, I feel certain that I shall
never recover. Hoping you and family are
well, I am respectfully, B. PACE.
*1 do believe that it (the American cause) is
the cause of God, and like the little ®tone that
Daniel dug out of the mountain, it will even
tually cover this country.
Chronicle ds Sentinel, Atlanta Discipline, and
Griffin American Union, please copy.
For tbe Courier.
The Union we want is tbe Union of the Con
stitution, and we believe this to be the para
mount political good. The rights we intend to
bave—in tbe Union if we may, bnt oat of it it
we mast—are those guaranteed to us by the
of manures ! Constitution. AMERICAN.
upon our Railroads. I do not believe there is
a Turnpike in Europe, on which a enrt loaded
with manure pays toll. If I am correctly in
formed, discrimination in favor of manaes is
almost universal at the North, even in eomp my.
Railroads. It is the extraordinary policy of
the State of Georgia to ebarge a higher rate of
freight upon the road, for manure than for grain.
It is to be hoped that our next Legislature
will pass such a bill, ns will remedy the evile
complained of. These evils are not local. They
are not merely oppressive to the Cherokee ooan
try, but hurtful to the State.
consumers in tbe middle and lower country
equally with the producers in the np country.—
There is not a section of the U. S. more favored
by tho Almighty than tbe Cherokee country tf
Georgia. Let our Legislature deal liberally
with It, and there ia hardly an article whioh
middle and lower Georgia consumes beyond its
own produoe which Cherokee Georgia cannot
famish, and at lower rates than, those men paid
to the North. As a state we ean thus be made
independent beyond example. Where else can
the produota of theNorth and the tropios be
found growing in each close proximity. Ex
tremes here touch. What other sovoignty can
Will the People be Warned ?—Scarcely
an electioe transpires at the North and West
that is not steiqcd with the blood of American
citizens, shed by the hand of foreigners. The
horri’ le and wanton outrage committed in Lon-
isvillo, Ky., at the late eleotions have very na
turally awakened serious apprehensions in all
reflecting minds for the safety of onr Iree insti
tutions. That respectable journals in Georgia
should attempt to throw the responsibility of
those outbreaks upon the American Party, shows
They onneorn the | what a fearful hold foreign influence bas npon
party loaders, even in our own cherished State.
The New York Journal of Commerce, in a
calm review of tbe Louisville riots, closes its ar
tide with the following admonitory sentence :
“Every little while, some solemn warning,
ike the recent riot at Louisville, troubles the
minds of thinking men, and points forward to
that period of civil discord by whic^ we ‘ ijaay
some day be convulsed, it a remedy is not ap
plied to the evil created by our present natura
lization laws; but unfortunately the age is too
poauliarly one of excitement for any single
event to leavo a lasting impression. Yet If
citizens will look hack twenty-fire years, to a
Dr. H. T. H. Hiller.
Finding themselves unable to resist hy argtr*
meat, the stunning force of tbe freqn ent and hea
vy blows dealt ont by Dr. Miller, the Johnson
Democracy are now attempting to break their
force hy detraction and misrepresentation.—
Hence their organs and speakers are repeating
with parrot like facility, some charges recently
made by J. W. H. Underwood, to the following
effect:
“He charged npon bim, (Dr. Miller) that is
one day,'be was seeking the Democratic Anti-
Know Nothing nomination, os a candidate for
Congress, for the Fifth Congressional District,
and foiling to receive, of being in a Know. Noth
ing Council on tbe next; of actually caucusing
with Democrats to-day, and, disappointed in his
personal aspirations, of going over to the one*
my to-morrow.”
These are the charges, and coming from the
source they do, (J. W. H. Underwood,) they are
certainly very grave ones, indeed, if there was
a particle of troth in them. To expose their
utter want of troth, it is only necessary to state/
that, we are informed npon the most reliable au
thority,-Dr. Miller joined the American party in
this cijy in Febrnrry last, months before tho
nomination in the 5th Congressional Dist wax
made, or the Convention even called. If that
fact is not sufficient to disprove the charges, the'
following note from Dr. Miller to a friend in
this city, most effeetnally nails them to the coun
ter as base coin:
Rone, Ga., Aug. 21st, 1855.
Dear Sir :—The report mentioned in yotrr
note of yesterday, “that I had participated in a
Democratic canons, hod endeavored to get the
nomination as candidate for Congress,” or that
I at any time for several years past would havo
accepted sneh nomination from that or any oth
er party, is unqualifiedly and absolutely false.
H. V. M. Miller.
This is certainly a settler, or as onr friend Of
the Columbus Enquirer wonld say, “an eye clo.
ser” of the whole motte>. Bnt the coolest piece
of impudeuee in the whole affair, is that John
W. H. Underwood! should have the effronteiy-
and temerity to charge any man with inconsis
tency, or office seeking. We know foe aforesaid
John well, and have known him from his boy- *
hood—be is an amiable, pleasant, companiona
ble gentleman, but if there ever was a man af
flicted with an inordinate desire for office, it
is that same John W H. Underwood. From
the cradle of his minority np to the present
hour, be has been engaged in them os t contin
ued and hottest pursuit, and "wildest hunt
after office,” of any man of our acquaintance.
And as to consistency! we cannot better il
lustrate his character, than by repeating tho
response of that acknowledged wit, has esteem
ed father, when asked by a friend about 10
o’clock in the morning, “what position his son
John now occupied in .politics I” “Why real
ly, said tbe venerable man, in his own fami-
lar, peculiar emphatic style. I do not know,
for T have not seen the creature since break
fast”
This is a very brief, but true and faithful
history of the man who charges Dr. Miller
with inconsistency and office seeeing!
Chronicle & Sentinel.
We learn from tho Montgomery papars, that
foe Hoo. Henry W. Hilliard declioes tbe ap-
poitment tendered him, of foe Presidency of
foe Methodist College at Oxforn, Ga.
Resignation or Judge Andrews.—The
Wilkes Republican says: Judge Andrews hss
wtitten a letter to Gov. Johnson, tendoring his
resignation of his seat on the Bench of tho Nor
thern Judioinl Circuit. Unfortunately the let
ter was plaoed in the mail, instead of in the
hand of a bailiff armed with a soearoh warrant,
and we think it doubtful whether it will reach
our stumping Governor before the election ! if
our bretbern of foe press will copy this article
generally, perhaps it may overtako him, and let
him know that he has a smalt and unexpected
crumb of spoils for some hungry one of his new.
ly organised household. • '-.
To the Rescue, Friends of Temperanco.
Dr. Culver will address the citizens of Cava
Spring op Saturday the 8 th insb, at 8 p’cloci^
p. m., upon the subject of temperance.
Tho Dr. is an old advocate of-the cause, and
the friends of temperance may expect the ques
tion fully and efficiently discussed. We speak
for him a large attendance.