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Cm<‘oro’i;iis. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY atiielltox.gj.. BY JOHN BL ATS. Terms—sl.oo ppp annum: 50 rents for six months; 25 ■cent*. for three months. Parties away from Beliton are rrauestotl to semi their names, with such ;p o’i » tsof money as they (an snare, fro:. • h. si CHURCH DIRECTORY. Baptist (’Hi nt n--Kev E 8 V Briant. Pastor. Pre;o hint everv third Saturday and Sunday. Pra.\ <r meeting Fr’dnv n»«J)t in every week. Sunday- < hoof at 9 a'in < very Sunday. Methodist ('in it. h I’. v I P Winter. Pastor. Prenehim ev< r\ fourth S.r •r.iav and Sunday. Prayer im rGiij every Tbnrs <lay Simda\->< hool :it 2. p m everv Sunday. Re\ E SV Bria n t’s Aithixtmen - 1 irst Saturday and Sunday in e:odi mouth at Oconee, in Jaclc.m county. Second SaJurda^ - a nd.-Sumi, v 'Uy. Banks <<»unty. Thind Sa:'.rd v and Surtax in Belli* 111. Fl Hit fit urd: its dnd Shinhu at Homer. Bajiks comity. L’r:\- L P NVi x ; i ids y\ vi-oin : mj x rs- First Saturday and Sunday ; t Pl- ■i-ant Grove. Fridax ui-jdit before first Sunday at Lony’virw. Second Snnd.i \ at Mr. Airy. Third Sat urday and Sundax ■ !! Flat. Fourth Saturday and Sunday at Bellton. FRATELXAI, KE< <!’.{D Beliton J.odtic No SI 1 < > < > F nvots first and fourth WcdiiPsca■. n J.t< in everv month. KF Qi ii.i.ian, NG ' J M Few lek. Si . S A <>LIX l- H. In.-ide Guard al). BANKS (Tn \T\ IHIfE( r TORN r .” COUNTY OFFICERS. T. F. H ill. < >rdinary. B. F. Si i.pi: i n. Sh- riff. 1L J. I>vAlt, Clerk Superior Court. 1’ A. Waters, 'fax Coll- ■ tor W.C. II aflkkook. Tax Be. river. G. It. Bow i»l x. Surveyor. W. It. ARi'i.rx. ('oronrr. NV. 11. M Er.i<s. ”i < oir- >. ItELIGIOIS. pRESDYTEUI AX (.‘HI 1.11 Bev. G. 11 <’artledye. Pastor. Pn aching every 2nd Sunday at 11 o’clock a. ni., in each mouth. Methodist (’tri m n It- v .1. T. Curtis. Pastor. Preaehinc every In st Sunday ami Saturday before, at 11 o’clock a. tn., in each month. Baptist Chiikh Hey. E. S. V. Briant, Pastor. Prearhin.. cv a y fourth Sunday mid Saturday before, «t 11 o'clock a. m.. in each month. FRATEKNAL IIECOED. Phi Delta l.odu- !KA. I M . meet • on the first Frida.' i-vunii: ; in <•.:«•!» nmntli at 7 o’clock. \V. A. Watm.x, W. M. Homer Lod.uc N - 32 I. o. ( >. F.. m< ir on the second and fourth Wednesday e.veuings in ra< h month, at 7 o’clock. HALL COI NTV 011ICERS~ John L Gaines, sheriff .1 B M WiNuritN, Ordinary »l J Mayne. Civil s uj>. rior Court M B Sewell. Ta> I‘>•< ■ ■ Be NJ II \WK INS, Tax Collector B <‘ Y.h ng. Treasurer M P Calhwell. Surveyor Robert Lowekv. Coroner W A Brown. School Commissioner TABLE OF A~LTFTVI >ES ON THE AIR LINE. Atlanta feet Sibley 1040 “ /roodwin’s K 1 ’5 “ Doraville less “ Norcross 1072 “ Duluth DOG ‘ Suwanee 1027 Buford 11P<; •’ Flowery Brain h IP-? •• Gainesville 1228 ‘ Lula i: T “ Bellton... LM “ Momit Airy iSKS i ‘ T0cc0a..... 102,2 “ NEAR THE AIR LINE. IJahloupga 2237 feet Porter Springs 2000 “ Clarkesville liioo “ Yonah Mountain Mi>B “ Tray Mountain 45.35 “ Black Mountain 11 <1 “ Blood Mountain 4070 “ Rabun Bald Mountain 4718 “ Euota or Jh assto.w:i Mountain.. .4790 “ Tallulah Falls 2.382 “ OTHER POINTS IN GEf»i{GIA. Savannah 32 feet Augusta 147 “ Fort Gaines I<>3 11 Columbus 200 “ Milledgeville 2<4 ‘ 4 Macon 332 “ Americus .300 u Marietta 1132 “ Dalton 77.3 “ Griftin 975 “ Newnan 955 “ LaGrange 778 “ West Point 020 “ Brunswick 10 “ S<* h cd ii le ATLANTA AND CHARLOTTE AIR LINE RAILROAD. KO. I—MAIL TRAIN—EASTWARD. L-’avi- Atlanta p m Arrive at Bellton. <>.27 pm NO. 2—MAIL TRAIN—WESTWARD. Leave Charlotte 12.10 a ni Arrive at Bellton 8.45 a in NO. •’—DAY PASSENGER —EASTWARD. Leave Atlanta 1.00 a m Arrive at Bellton 6.50 a m NO. 4—DAV PASSENGER—WESTWARD. Leave Charlotte 10.42 a in Arrive at Bellton 7.37 p m NO. S—LOCAL 1-HEIGHT —EASTWARD. Leave Atlanta 7.05 a m Arrive at Beliton 12.30 p in NO. 6—LOCAL FREIGHT—WESTWARD. Leave Central 6.50 p m Arrive at Bellton 12.36 a in G. J. Foheai he. General Manager. W. .L Hoi ston. General Passenger ami Ti- ket Agent. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, Is the paper for North Georgians, heeanse it is emphatically a People’s P.\m:n, de voted to the int< rests ami wants of the people of this section. It will labor to develop onr vast r<- sources; to educate our people, and to attract immigr ation. The Paper as inbandod as a local organ for the masses of N' rtli G- orgia. It will strive to reflect the sentiments of the people, and its columns will be open to those who desire to discuss the issues of the day in a decorous spirit. Short itenas of news from our subscribers atd friends will be thankfully received. The lortltiGeorgiaii. Volume 2. LUTTI'R FROM LOVICK PIERCE. Beloved Brethren : This is perhaps tny lust salutation, but my love of you compels me to make it. I.do it with out St. Paul’s iuspiratioti, but with his sam mmisti-rial atlection: "Final ly, bia'thram, farewell. Be perfect, Ina of good caimforf, be of o,ue mind, ■live in peirw. p.i.al the God of love hind pa'uce shall be with von." .My | reiLsoii for ndopting this text in not to I explain all of these terms. b|t( tii.urge 1 upon you the necessity of being of one mind. I do this because the result of - my experience for seventy-live years I is. that tin- want, of this one mind lias been a desideratum in the Church. It is evident that in all corporate bodies di'. isinn works not. only damage, but destruction. The Christian miinl is tin' Christ-lika' mind, for it is said: "Let this mind be in you which was. also in Christ Jesus.” This mind was tin* procurement and conferment of tha> greatest goml upon all mankind. 11. is. therefore, evident that the Chris tian religion cannot exist ami be rim on a lower plane. I make this < xhortatjqji to you be cause I believe, from the signs, that the ‘’time to favor Zion” has come. There is now a more general interest taken in this glorious, higher-life idea than has been for the last fifty years. The proof of it is found in the fact, that in the language of (he Psalmist: "God's people take pleasure in Zion and favor the dust thereof”; that is, they take pleasure in everything that adds to the glory of the ('hureh. I here call your attention to the consid eration of the chosen language of the Holy Ghost in regard to a revival of religion, namely, that the Clmreli never "brings forth” until the Church is "in travail’’and this travail is what I understand to be the status of the (’hureh now. I. therefore, in these last hours of my life, exhort amt on join you as the Church, to negative every motion and word that opposes the “perfecting of holiness” in the fear of the Lord. 1 am sorry to have to give you this advice, but you know, and I know, that every member of •he (.’hureh that f ills in this respect, fails to prmnoti religion. The < hureh as the ( hureh. is a failure by defeat, unless its ministers and members be emphatically of one mind, and, as we have already said, that must be “the miml that was in Uhrist J-sus.’’ Our deticieiicv in the need of this mind is apparent on many occasions, but in none, perhaps, more than in reference, to our great missionary work. As for instance, in reference to the salvation of all mankind. To secure this Christ gave himself, but we, for the want of the same mind that was in Him in reference to this -rreat issue, the salvation of all man kind, sometimes refuse, and often fail to make even the contributions which the Church assesses as our portion of the funds reipiisite for sending the Gospel to all mankind. Hereby the (.hureh must be crippled and (be will of God fail to be done, because we are not of the same mind. Finally, on this first division, I make this declaration : that as Christ commanded his disciples to “go into all the world and preach the gospel to ( very creature,” he virtual]}' com manded the (..'hureh to prepare, the ways ami means necessary to the ac complishment of this purpose. And now, this second division, I devote particularly to my own histo ry. Ido this because in a case like mine, and in reference to a man like me, there are many reports alloat; some of them, of course, are exagger ations. To correct this 1 make this communication. T was born in North Carolina, raised in South Carolina, and married and settled in Georgia. IMy principal vocation through life, as you all know, has been to preach ; the gospel. In this blessed work I have been engaged seventy-four years. i Os these years, Georgia has received seventy. My effectual general work is now done, laid by, not so much as a broken vessel, but as one worn out. In this blessed work I tried to do my best; but, like all other men, with limited minds, failed as I believe only in actual perfection. As to my present condition, I have been closely confined for nine months, have suffered much, prayed much, and enjoyed much. As to my personal hoNhe.ss, I think my friends have Tll V TH. JVST IC E, (L IBE R T 1’ BELLTOX, BANKS (AU NTY, GA.. OCTOBER 23, 18?.). crowned me above my experience. 1 hope, in every heavenly sense, that .1 am as good as my friends have re garded me Io be. 1 am satisfied in my ease that my failures are the re sult of my infirmities, ami not of mv , heresies. -My every purpose, princi ple and aim has been in the Scripture sense, perfeet. As to death ami its eternal hereafter. T derive my eom ' fort more from what I call insuraiii-e i than assurance. Me salvation is in sured if. lam faithful till death. Tl lias been mv habit never to consider , my salvation safe until it cannot be 1 lost. Therefore, following the direc ; lion of the apostle St. James, 1 am I passing Hie time of my sojourn here jin fear. I may at some time have I yielded too much to this fear; 1 feel indeed satisfied that 1 have done so; | but in my experience this fear has arisen from the true fear of the Lord, ft iswritten: “Without holiness no man shall see the Lord.” Os holiness 1 can have no just, conception, except that imputation of spiritual -jpiiritv which may be known always by its abhorrence of evil, and love of all that, God requires. Without the posi tive love and desire of holiness, no man can have religion. Therefore, I hold and believe that there never can be. and never will he an earnest seek ing after a revival of religion until the desire of holiness prompts it. I regret to learn that there is a theory 1 upon this subject going the rounds, j which will greatly embarrass the j present very general effort to resume our original profession, that we were i called of God “to spread scriptural holiness over these lands.” This theory is. that holiness is imh llnite, | and cannot, like e6un|.ies and States, be. known by boundary lines. Scrip tural holiness is a divine reality, for whatever in any sulistantial sense is a. c.-n 1 hy. huvo tiLonl. 16 boumbiry lines. In this case, the great boundary line is the holiness of God, and we are comnquided to be holy like He is holy, and because He is holy. The question I in control ersy is, whether this is a j state into which we grow as a matter of course, or an instantaneous act of faith in the sufliciencv of the atone ment to cleanse ns from all sin here and now. My opinion is. and long has been, that we are made holy through the, sufficiency of this atone ment for sanctification the same as for justification. As all must see from Ist John, chapter Ist, and 9th verse, that it was the express purpose of the Holy Ghost to assure us of pardon if we. confess our sins, it was no less His purpose to assure, us of the sufficiency of this redemption to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Redemption was intended to save us from all these sins, from which, if we are saved, it must be through faith in this sufliciencv in the blood of Christ which eleanseth us from all sin. Sanc tification, or holiness in Christian ex perience is Christ in us the hope of glory, and if Christ be in us, He is in us with his eternal holiness. The philosophy of this matter is, that if we must be saved from any sin for moral reasons, ive must be saved from rill sin for the same reasons. Most people look for and expect to ■ obtain the evidence of this entire sanctification or holiness by the rap turous joys which usually accompany it, and these indeed are pertinent to it, but the best evidence of the pos session of it is found in the following experience: the hatred of sin on ac count of its opposition to God’s gov ernment. Therefore, the growth in grace required in the word of God Is found in our growing hatred to sin, and love and desire for true holiness. With these remarks I finish this sacred farewell to my friends, by de claring that with David, I can say: “Thy word is very pure, therefore thy servant loveth it!” Amen. L. Pierce. Sow not wishes in other people’s gardens, wish not for that which you arc not, but earnestly desire to be the very best of what you are. Endeavor your best to perfect yourself where you are and bear manfully all the crosses you may encounter. This is the leading principle and the least understood, in a good life. Men’s muscles move better when their souls are making merry music. EDUCATION. Every boy should have his head, bis heart, and his hand educated. Let this trutli never he forgotten. By the proper education of the head he will ,be laughf»what is good and" what is evil, what is wjse and what, is foolish, j f what sis right and whal is wrong. By . the proper education of the heart he j will be taught to love what is good. ■ wise,.and right, and to hate what is ■ | evil,? foolish and wrong. And by , proper education of the band he wiil be enabled to supply bis wants, to add to his comforts, and to assist those ■ around him. The highest objects of a good education are. to reverence and obey God, and to love ami serve | mankind. Everything that helps us | in attaining those objects is of great ■| value, and everything that hinders is jeonq nratively worthless. When wis dom reigns in the head, and love in the heart, the man is ever ready to do good( order and peace reign around, and sin and sorrow arc almost un known. FAst Young Men.—A young man . of fortune, pleasure, fashion, folly and dissipation, not }e( thirty years of age, killed himself last, week in this city. His boon companions were with him when he did the deed. li. would be less deplorable, such a trag edy, were it not painfully true that hundreds of young men iti this city are pursuing the same career of idle ness, debauchery, drunkenness and gambling, wasting their lives in a j’otuid of vice, and plunging swiftly into the grave and a miserable eter nity of deserved woe. Religion, phi lanthropy, and every motive that in spires a benevolent heart, would im pel to effort for (he, rescue of this class . of nuu, but they are the farthest from hope of any for whom we work or pisif. .T.lined to their idols, am| (hose the, worst, of till gods, they arc let alone and seem to be doomed. Yet how great the misery they make. How many hearts they break. How many heads hang down in shame . when these fast young men blow out. ’ their few brains and perish in their . many sins!—New York Observer. Many a girl has had her whole, hap piness for life destroyed beeattse. she obstinately chose to form her estimate of the character of a suitor exclusively from his behavior towards her and his professions of love, rather than from liis conduct, towards others. It, is a . pretty safe rule that a man whose, whole life is but. an exemplification , of selfishness will not long continue generous in relation to his wife. We all complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more • than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either In doing noth ing at all, or in doing nothing to the . purpose, or in doing nothing that we. . ought to do. We arc always com ’ plaining our days arc few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. , It would do you immense good to have a quiet talk, once in awhile,with the man who does not, like you. He would probably open your opens to a side of your character which, excus ing friendship, does not allow you to look upon, and which your own self conceit lias kept covered up. Sin always begins with pleasure and ends with bitterness. • It is like the colt which the little boy said was very tame in front and very wild behind. Men and women make sad mis sakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague, uneasy longings sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion and oftener still for a mighty love. A man’s fortune is frequently de cided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful they decide against him. Let an independent thinker show a fearless fidelity tn his convictions, and the shafts of bigotry and envy fall helpless and harmless at his feet. It is not difficult to do good, for the means are constantly clustering about every man’s lips and hands. A Christian’s robes will become soiled if he wears them too flowiugly. MIXED MATTEILS. Seine people say that the onion bed is the scenter of lhe garden. It is so be hoped that cool weather i i has actual!y begun this time. Now is the time to subscribe for the i North Georgian—only Si a vear. she New York Gubernatorial elec tion comes off on X’ovember 4th. An old man with a brilliant red j nose should not be held up as a. shin j ing example for young men. Ex-Attorney General Akerman. of Georgia, would like to go to Con gress, says the New York Herald. Fifty emigrants for Utah left. Chat j tanooga a few days ago. They were from North Georgia and Alabama. The attempt to organize a general strike among the workingmen of lhe country is, fortunately, not a success. Up to last Wednesday, the 15th, the total number of deaths in Mem phis from yellow fever this year is 581. The Boston Herald alludes to some, ol Gen. Gordon’s ringing sentiments in Savannah as “eloquent and Web sterian.” The country is still ruled by farm ers, after all. Os the 9,01)0,000 voters in the United States, (>,000,000 of them are tillers of the soil. 11 is estimated (hat the liepublican majority in lowa is 35,000. There were, large gains all over the State. One of the largest wool growers in Pennsylvania, says that the red hills of the Carolinas and Georgia are vast ly better for raising sheep than any part of Pennsylvania. Many a man who has become a . bankrupt and a moral wreck, can look back and see. that his downward course commenced about the time that he got afraid to meet the editor, on account of that unpaid bill. If you wish to do a losing business, advertise on a fence. If you wish to get rich, advertise in a respectable ■ newspaper that has a good circula tion among people who buy your goods. We learn that arrangements are | being made in South Carolina for the i erect ion of a monument to her distin guished son, John (’. Calhoun, at his j country residence, on Seneca river, in sight of the Air Line Kailroad. j Judah P. Benjamin, the remarkable, man. who has made name and fortune over again since the end of the war, recently sent a poor country editor in Louisiana a check for £SOO. Would that there were more Judah P. Ben jamins and fewer poor editors in the world. Thirty thousand men are just now pegging away behind the State prison bars of the United States, and the Detroit Free Press says the number would increase largely if every one was there that ought to be. Very true; but in that case what would be left of the Radical party? Seventeen counties, cities and towns in Illinois have refused to pay interest on eight and a half millions of debts. Kansas has repudiated five and a half millions, and sixteen comities and cities have suspended on three and a half millions more. These are Re publican States. Bill, did you hear that fellow make that speech in the court house? Yes. ■ ‘What did you think of it?’ ‘Well, 1 tell you what’s a fact, he can bring an argument down to a pint as quick as any feller I ever saw.’ ‘Yes. re plied the other, but he can bring a quart of whisky down to a pint a heap quicker’n that. ‘John, take this slate, you rascal, . and work out this sum: If a cat falls 1 in a well, sixty feet deep and crawls out six feet each day, falling back eight evyry night, how much time I would the cat require to get out of : the well ?’ John set to ciphering, and covered both sides of the slate with figures; then placing the edge of the slate on his knees, and resting his chin on the other, he gazed into vacancy. ‘Well, John, how about the cat?’ ‘Father, I aint got any room on the slate, but if I had another square inch, I would have that cat in fire and brimstone in just three minutes.’' • n!s < « ooi*<rjan, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, AT BELLTON, GA. HA TES OF stn-.SCltll’ftON. One ye.ir (52 iiunitiers) S 1.00; six months (26 numbers; 50 cents: three months (13 numbers) 25 cents. Oliiee in the S nith building, east of the depot. Number 16. THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS. The dying never weep. Immensity is made up of atoms. Is it impious in a good ihan to be ' sad ? Cant is useful to provoke common sense. Haste trips up its own heels, fetters I and stops itself. I To-morrow is the day on which idle men work and fools'reform. The truly wise man should have no keeper of his secret but himself. Nature is content with little, grace with less, but lust with nothing. He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity There is no friend to man so true, so kind, so real and so good as woman There is not a property in nature but a miml is born to seek and find it out. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. The. essence of knowledge is having it to apply it, not having it to confess your ignorance. When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, distrust is cowardice and prudence folly. When people’s feelings have, got a deadly wound they can't be cured by favors. It is with life as with coffee—he vho drinks it pure must iibt drain it <) the dregs. Man has to go out and seek his 1 >ath; woman’s path usually lies close ' inder her feet. 1 Envy makes us sec what will serVe lo accuse others and not perceive what may justify. The pungency of pleasure is as tran , sient as the foam that mantles round . its brimming cup. Generosity does not consist in giv ing, but in making sacrifices that you may be able to give. Every man has some, secret, which, were it revealed, would tend to make him hated or despised. Call to mind the heavier sufferings of others, so you may better bear your own small troubles. The maid that loves goes out to sea on a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety. Talents arc best nurtured in soli tude; character is best formed in lhe stormy billows of the world. It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon as what is. Have nothing to do with any man in a passion, for men arc not like iron, to be wrought upon when hot. Few attributes of character are more charming than the faculty of gracefully acknowledging one’s errors The great man is he who, in the ■ midst of the crowd, keeps with per fect sweetness the independence of solitude. To love in order to be loved in return, is man, but to love for the pure sake of loving, is almost the character of an angel. If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. Better a wrong will than a waver ing ; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all. The men who always say a kind word for their neighbors and turn a deaf ear to scandal, are not only very 1 blessed but also very scarce. The blessing of a house is piety. The honor of a house is hospitality. The ornament of a house is cleanli ness. The happiness of a house is contentment. There is but one way to be happy, and that is by hard labor; and the man who will not pay that price for distinction had better at once dedicate ' himself to the pursuit of a fox.