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The Cartersville’ Courant-American.
VOL. VIII.
THE story of a great song.
A Bartow County Mountain Made
Famous by an Incident
Of Sherman's March to the Sea—History
of the Flag Mes-inge from Allatooua
“Hold the Fort for I am Coming.”
[Mr. Joseph M. Brown, General Passen
get- Agent of the W. A A. Railroad, sends
u3fl . most unique valentine, which will
doubtless prove interesting to many
readers]
Ho! mV comrades, see the signal
Waving in ihe sk.v!
Re-enforcements now appearing.
Victory is nigh!
••Hold the fort; for I am coming!”
Jesus signals still;
V ave the answer back to heaven,
-By Thy grace, we w ill I”
See the gloriofls banner waving.
Hear the bugle blow,
In our header’s name we'U triumph
Over every foe.
"Hold the fort,” etc.
Fierce and long the battle rages,
But our help is near;
Onward comes our Oreat Commander—
Cheer, my comrades, clicer!
“Hold the fort,” etc.
ALLATOONA PASS, W. & A. HAILROAU,
THE STOhV OF A HONG.
How true it is that fame does not. flash
>rth for an instant as the lightning
:om the misty sky of unsubstantial
cliievements, but, like the bright fire
indled and fed by adventurous or
atient hands on the mountain top,
hoots its ruddy glow, victorious,
hrough the clouds of arduous toil or
lood.v terrors, and like a beacon light
Imds its rays down the ages to guide
len to power or thrill them by the ex
mple of glorious deeds performed.
Such a story Allatooua tells to the
orld; and, as she heralds from amid
beclouds of furious battle tne valor of
rave men, curiously enough she links
Jth it the inspiration of a gospel song
Biich throughout Christendom is the
Bll.ving cry of the soldiers of the army
■ the Prince of Peace. jr
■The battle of Allatoona, which
Bcurred nt that station on the Sp
■estern & Atlantic Railroad,
■rty miles northwest of
■ Atlanta, Ga., October 5, 1864, has
B® been so often and so fully written
Bout that we will merely refer to it
1
■Vs is well known, about a month after
Me fall of Atlanta, which occurred Sep
.tjnber, 4, 1864, General Hood with the
■nfederate army moved northward in
He direction of Tennessee, for the pur-
Bh" of breaking Sherman’s coinmuni
s and forcing him to abandon
Hoigia in order to protect the States of
and Tennessee in his rear.
Hth his main army at New Hope
I Burch, General Hood, in the early days
■ October, sent a portion of General
Bwart s corps to destroy the AJ”estern
■ Atlantic Railroad at Big Shanty,
■worth, and points between. He sub-
Buently ordered General French's di-
Bion of that corps to move to the rail-
Bd bridge over the Etowah river, near
Btersville, and destroy it, incidentally
Hating in the order that he ‘‘fill up the
Bp railroad cut at Allatoona with logs,
HO rails, etc.” Hood was altogether
Horant of the fact that Allatoona was
Hougl.v fortified, that Sherman had
Hr f ‘d up there about a month’s supply
■provisions for 100,000 men, or that
V e VVils even a single soldier there.
■ hen Grneral French, with a portion
W ls division, numbering less than
■‘‘‘thousand men, arrived at Acworth
Bthe evening of Oct. 4,1864, he re-
B e d approximately correct informa
■ as bo the real status of Allatoona
!k its defenses. Marching forward,
r fer through the intense darkness
*” e n 'ghr, he reached that point in
e arly morning.
bout midnight, however, Gen. John
-orse had, unawares to Gen. French,
arrived at Allatoona from Rome, Ga.,
with nearly eleven hundred men as re-en
forcements for the garrison, thus swelling
its numbers until there was compara
tively little difference between his own
and French’s. Corse’s coining was in
obedience to a signal message sent by
General Sherman from the summit of
Kennesaw mountain “through the sky”
over the heads of the Coufederate forces
to the signal station on a tall pine tree
on the summit of Allatoona mountain
just north of the station and pass of the
same name—this being the only means
of communication, since the Confederates
had destroyed the railroad and telegraph
wires between the two points on the
previous day.
Within a couple of hours after sunrrse,
General French, who, with his command,
had never been there before, having
placed his troops in position around the
redoubts on both sides of the pass and
railroad, and being still ignorant of Gen
eral Corse’s arrival, and supposing,
therefore, that he was facing less than
one thousand men, sent Major B. W.
Sanders with a summons for the surren
der of the post and garrison. The Fed
eral officer to whom the summons for the
handed did not find General Corse for a
number of minutes, as he had gone to
the east side of the pass to arrange for
the defense of the fortifications over
there. The General, however, on receiv
ing it, sat down on a log and wrote the
defiant refusal which hasgom? into his
tory. The officer took it bacx with him
to deliver to Major Sanders, but the lat
ter, after waiting for a half hour, had
concluded no reply would be given, and
that the Federals were consuming the
time strengthening their position for the
fight, and had consequently returned to
the Confederate lines, making this report.
The firing almost immediately com
menced, Thus the Confederates never
saw Corse’s famous reply until they read
it in history.
The result of the battle is well known.
After a most heroic struggle, which con
tinued for several hours, during which
the Federal; outer line of works was
taken by storm, the ninunition of the
Confederates became exhausted. Men
were sent back to the wagon train, which
had not arrived, for a fresh supply.
During the lull which succeeded, they
received information that a hirge force
of Federals, sent by General Sherman,
was approaching in their rear, and, that
they would soon be cut offlrom the main
body of Hood’s army if they remained at
Allatoona.
Compelled, therefore, by the danger of
being caught between two strong Fed
eral commands, and not beaten in tlie
combat, the Confederates retreated by
the road leading toward Acworth, up
which the Federal relief column was also
approaching, and succeeded in reaching
the road which led westward to Lost
mountain before their foot did. Before
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SIGNAL TREE ON ALLATOONA MOUNTAIN,
retiring, however, several hundred of
them threw away the old army muskets
with which they had been armed, and
took instead* the fine Saringfield rifles
captured from the prisoners or dead in
the Federal advanced line. The muskets
which they threw away, however, were
picked up by the Federals after the bat
tle, and numbered among their trophies.
The official reports show that the
Federals lost 707 and the Confederates
790 men in this desperate combat. These
figures prove that each side lost about
CARTERSVILLE. GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1889.
thirty per cent, of the number engaged;
and are the best evidence of the skill and
persistent! courage of the assault, and
the heroism of the defense.
After the war, the evangelist I’. P.
Bliss, to whom the circumstances of
“the signal messages through the sky”
was narrated, caught therefrom the in
spiration for the stirring song, “Hold
the fort, for lam coming.” lie wrote it
on the night after he firet heard the
story, aud sang it in the “Tabernacle”
in Chicago, the next day. It was caught
up by the voices of thousands, and from
that day to this has been the stuudard
gospel lyric.
SAM JONES IN CALIFORNIA
Wind Up of the <iret Meeting at Los
Angeles—Touching Farewell Service.
Rev. Sam Jones is now tit. Sacramento,
Cal. The meeting at Los Angeles was
one of the best he has yet conducted.
The Tribune, the leading daily of the
city, has the following farewell editorial:
Rev. Sam Jophh preached his iast dis
course at the pavilion last night to ns
large a company s could be packed
into that capacious building. It was
the most enthusiastic religious meeting
ever held in Los Angeles, and was a
genuine ovation to the Georgia leader.
There were 1000 converts in seats set
aside for them in the front part of the
pavilion. Twelve hundred conversions
were reported as the results of the three
weeks of services. At 4.60 o'clock the
people began to take seats in the hall,
and at 7 o’clock it was packed to its
utmost capacity, and the doors were
closed, leaving hundreds of later comers
unable to gain admission. The votes
of the evening, taken at the suggestion
of Rev. Dr, Cantine, were a, positive
expression of the high opinion in which
Mr. Jones is held by his colaborers in
this city. Some other expressions of
sentiment were taken by viva voice and
and standing vote, which are particu
larly interesting to some of the persons
who have made it their business to absue
the eminent evangelist.
The Tribune has felt from the begin
ning that Mr. Jones would be successful.
It knew from his success in other cities
that Los Angeles would be set on fire fay
hiseloquence, and it believes that he has
accomplished a great deal of lasting
good in this community. The churches
have been aroused and the individual
church members .increased in faithfulness
and fervor. A revival of interest in
religion can do community harm, no
matter by what means the interest is
increased. Whatever criticisms good
people and evil disposed persons may
pass upon the work of Mr. Jones, the
fact remains that the most enthusiastic
supporters he has in I,os Angeles are
the ladies and gentlemen whose religious
sincerity and practical righteousness
cannot be gainsaid. The new converts
granting that they weresvvayed perhaps,
by the prevailing excitement, have been
led to take obligations which will re
strain them from evil for a time if not
for the remainder of their existence.
Many of them will be better through
life from having attended these meeting.
Everybody agrees that a conscientious
Christum and righteous man of any faith
are good citizens. Good citizens make
good communities, and Sam Jones has
therefore placed the entire community
under obligations to him for the good
his efforts have brought to individuals,
and through them to the city at large.
The unique exponent of the gospel did
not come here for his reputation. It
was his reputation achieved in the East
that led our people to invite him to
make this city a visit. It is fair to say
that he has in no way disappointed his
admirers and he goes from this city to
the ungodly North with a name
which will insure him immense audiences
in that section of thestate. The Tribune
commends the gentleman to the religious
people wherever he may go, and assures
the secular press that the columns his
sermons will give them will be read by
nearly all of their readers. He never
talks unless he has something to say
and his talks are all worth repeating.
The Rev. Sam Jones will pleaße (take
notice that while The Tribune is worldly
in many of its characteristics and does
not entirely agree with him in doctrine
and sentiment, it notes his departure
with regret and only hopes he became
so much attached to the people and
country hereabouts that lie will not be
long in returning. It suggests to tho
eloquent pulpit orator that when he is
placed on thesuperannuated list heshould
join the Southern California conference
and take up residence in the city of Los
Angeles, Irom which earthly paradise
the step into that of eternity is short
and peaceful.
Farewell, Mr Jones; nud wherever you
go remember that the best wishes of
The Tribune follow you.
Let quality, not quantity.be the test
of a medicine. Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the
concentrated extract of the best and
purest ingredients. Medical men every
where recommend it as the suiest and
most economical blood medicine in the
market.
IRON CITY OF THE ETOWAH
Asa Place of Residence, or Profit
able Investment.
Her Mountains of Rich Minerals— Rapid
and Ht altliy Growth-Splendid Ag
ricultural Surroundings, Ktc.
‘The following Brief but comprehensive
and truthful sketch of our growing city
was prepared by Mr. Hiram Illaisdell,
president of the Cartersville Improve
ment, Gas A Water Company, after a.
thorough investigation of hercluimsto
consideration.
The city of Cartersville, Georgia, is lo
cated on the Western A Atlantic Rail
road, fifty miles northwest of Atlanta,
and about, ninety miles southeast from
Chattanooga, Tenn.
It is also the eastern terminus of the
East A West Railroad, connecting Car
tersville with Anniston, Birmingham and
other manufacturing centres of Alabuma;
and it is also the western terminus of the
proposed Cartersville A Gainesville Rail
road, about being constructed, which
wilj furnish a through line from Carteis
ville to Augusta, Ga.
The town lias now about three thousand
inhabitants, is theconnty seat of l%itow
county, and has nn assessed valuation of
nearly $1,000.000, and is entirely free
from debt. It has about fifty places of
business; six or seven churches; a court
house; school houses and the Bam Jones
Female Institute, besides various other
important buildings and industries; and
last, but not least, a comity jail which is
entirely empty, while its poor house and
pauper tax are next: to nothing.
It is the residence of two of the best
known men n the United States, Rev.
Sam P. Jones, (the evangelist), and
Charles 11. Smith (Bill Arp), the well
known humorous writer and lecturer.
The town is situated near the Etowah
river, in the midst of a large agricultural
district, the products of which, for a
radius of twenty miles or more, find Car
tersville as their market.
It is the principal shipping point for
immense auantities of iron and manga
nese ore, as well as graphite, ochre, slate
and other mineral products. Bartow
county being the greatest iron and man
ganese producer in Georgia, and Carters
r.fle .he centre of its operations’.
Bartow county has more diversified
resources with which to build and sup
port a large town than any other county
in Georgia.
It is situated at an altitude of more
than twelve hundred feel, among the
mountains of Northwest Georgia, and is
one of the warmest and most delightful
climates in winter; and ontrof the coolest
and least objective places in the summer.
It has always been entirely free from ma
laria, and the diseases incident to tropi
cal regions can not find a victim here.
Its agricultural and lumber interests
are second to none in the State, while its
excellent quarries of marble and slate,
and its deposits of iron, manganese and
ochre are sufficient to build and maintain
a city of fifty thousand inhabitants.
During the war, the Confederate Gov
ernment knew the resources of this vicin
ity and utilized them by casting their
heavy guns, and otherwise utilizing the
natural products of iron in that vicinity.
From this source of supply they were
abundantly equipped and enabled to
hold out so long, and to the bounteous
natural resources of this particular dis
trict, the Confederates owed much for
their supplies and munitions of war.
With the close of the war the people in
Cartersville and vicinity found themselves
destitute of nearly all of the comforts
and necessities of life, buy they soon
turned to these great natural supplies for
maintenance. No sooner had communi
cation opened up with the North than
had these people begun to build again
for themselves by the shipment of their
native iron and mancanese ores to Pitts
burgh and Northern manufacturing
points, and when the fires of the great
furnaces of Birmingham and Anniston,
Alabama, were lighted, these furnaces
found themselves in a measure dependent
upon Bartow county for their manganese
and other fluxing ores.
True. Birmingham had an advantage
at that time over Cartersville in the fact
of its home supply ot coal; but the pres
ent existing diflerenceof about fifty cents
per ton, or thereabouts, between coal at
Cartersville and coal at Birmingham is
more than met and offset by the necessi
ties which compel Birmingham to draw
its fluxes from Bartow county.
So matters have gone on for the past
ten or fifteen years until npw the people
of that vicinity, by the sale of their
varied products and the development of
their natural resources, hove brought
themselves from thecondition ofpoveity
at the close of the war, to that of their
present independence. They have now
determined that a fair proportion of
these products shall hereafter be treated
at home and worked up by the labor of
their own people into the thousand differ-
THE EXCITEMENT CONTINUES
Porter & Vaughan’s
NEW GOODS AND LOW PRICES
CERTAINLY DRAWS THE TRADE.
•
Onr buyer, Mr. H. .T. Porter, leaves tl>is week for New York, to purchase the
most stylish and attractive Stock of goods ever before shown in North Georgia.
The past week a big success with PORTER & VAUGHAN.
The people sppre date first-class goods at reasonable prices, and we establish our
business on that basis.
Big drive this week at
PORTER & VAUGHAN’S
£, y *
%
in all lines. See and price our goods before buying.
Don’t fail to see onr stock of BOYS, MISSES AND CHILDREN’S
SHOES We have received a full lire of the justly celebrated F. Swi>l& &
Cos s Cine Shoes. We have them in all styles. French Kid, Donvolo K d.and
Goat, machine and hand sewed. Truly a fine stock of children’s shots at
PORTER & VAUGHAN’S.
Every pair guaranteed. They are strictly fir?t-clas=. See them. See them.
See our stock of HAMBURG EMBROIDERIES. The patters are ex
quisite, the goods are fine, the prices are low.
Misses Blouse Waists at Porter & Vaughan’s. Just the thin* you
want. See than. In
-r:- TIOBIERY: : -
we offer some of the GRANDEST BARGAINS you ever saw.
Ladies lull regular made hose at 26c , worth 40c. Ladies fnll regular made fast
Mack hose at 86c., worth 60c. Ladies regular made fast Mack hrse, elastic knee, at
*0 worth 76c. Ladies r. gnlar made fast black India silk hose at 65c., worth #I,OO.
Cents full regular made seamless hose at 16c , worth 26c. Cents fufi regular made
bolbrigan hose at 20c. , worth 30c. Gents foil regular made bolbrieau hose at 35e ,
worth 50c
Mr. “DOCK” CUN YUS is now with us, and will be pleased to see hia
frienks and customers.
PORTER 1 WHAN,
Dry Goods, Fancy Goods, Shoes and Hats.
ent products for which iron, steel and
cotton are used.
Cartersville, and, in fact, the whole of
Bartow county have awoke to the fact
that they are in the midst ot one of the
greatest iron and manganese centres in
tlie world, and that they have but to
take the necessary steps to secure the
manufacture and conversion of the raw
material of iron, manganese and cotton
to the finished fabric at their own doors,
that tney have but to utilize these boun
teous products of nature, to promote
their own growth, from which effort will
spring a city which will bid fair to rival
any of her Southern sister towns.
If the public desire to see what Birm
ingham, Ala., (now with forty thousund
inhabitants), was ten or twelve yeais
ago, then look at Cartersville at the
present time. Should they be interested
to know what Cartersville will be eight
or ten years hence, let them look ut
Birmingham, Ala., and Pittsburgh, Pa.,
now.
Acting upon the certain knowledge of
the boundless resources at her own doors,
and upon the desire to build up and
maintain their own town, with a har
mony and unity of spirit as well as lib
erality, which challenges universal admi
ration, the citizens of Cartersville offered
to donate twenty-five acres of land and
twenty-five thousand dollars in cash to
any reliable party who would establish
in their midst a fifty ton plant for mak
ing pig iron.
This offer did no* have to wait long
for an acceptance, and be it to the last
ing honor and credit of Cartersville, her
superiority as a manufacturing centre,
was recognized by -one of her most pow
erful rivals. It. became the privilege of
Birmingham citizens to accept these
offers. Birmingham, Ala., that noted
centre of iron industries, is first to es
tablish anew plant for iron and munga
nese in this unparalleled location, thus
giving most emphatic and effective rec
ognition of merit to this newly selected
field. It is indeed worthy of a sober
second thought that Birmingham capi
talists should leave a city of forty thou
sand population, with its great railroad
facilities, its generous supply of coal, its
scores of furnaces and rolling mills, to
accept from a reliable and united people
this magnificent offer, and plant their
new industry at this never-failing source
of supply. There was a reason for this,
and that reason is found in the fact that
Cartersville is to be one of the great
Southern centres for iron products and
manufactories for the next-century. Hero
in Cartersville they find not only raw
material for their business, unlimited and
unstinted in amount, and of a suj>erior
quality, but also what was of great value
they found Warm-hearted, genial, self
possessed citizens, who had confidence
enough in the*' natural resources to
back them with their own cash.
So tire Cartersville Steel & Furnace
Company, with a capital of two hundred
and fifty thousand-dollars, have located
their plant and commenced the construc
tion of their furnaces at Cartersville, and
will soon add to their present plant cf
fifty tons daily, a twenty ton plant for
the conversion and manufacture of man
ganese ore.
A rolling mill to cost one million dol
lars to use the pig iron produced -by her
furnaces, and a cotton factory to cost
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
to work up and utilise the thousands of
bales of cotton produced and marketed
here, are among the contemplated indus
tries in this place at an early day.
Contracts have been made with the oity
for water-works for a term of about
thirty years, and the city has also made
a contract whereby the Cartersville Im
provement, Gas & Water Company will
construct and operate a gas plant and
also an electric lighting station.
Besides the large agricultural, timber
and quarry interests which are tributary
thereto, Cartersville has other solid busi
ness foundations on which to build.
A mining belt of iron and manganese
ore runs from southwest to northeast
through Bartow county; a distance of
twenty-five miles in length by about two
and one-half miles in width. This, how
ever, is not all, because excellent mines
of both grades of ore are found all over
the county, covering a territory approxi
mating one hundred square miles, with
as much more territory covered by lime
and marble quarries, including quartz,
slate, graphite, etc.
Lying just outside of the county and
on the line of the East & West railroad,
and directly tributary to Cartersville for
a distance of one hundred and seventeen
miles, are fofind iron, manganese, slate,
lime, marble and coal, all connected with
Cartersville by the East & West road,
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