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VOLUME 1. TOE VXFORGOTTIt.'f DEAD. Dedicated to the Ladle ’ Memorial A teociatlon, of Saton.nah. Spring smiled upon the sleeping laud— Thtk mother land of ours— An<l gently Hung o’er brow and hand Bright coronals of flowers. “Arise! fair mother-land,” she cried, “And deck once more the bed Where leep the children of thy prtde— The unforgotten dead! “Son* of thy sorrow and thy pride— Love hath no fitter nnine For those w tio gathered at thy de Ami battled for thv fame! And smile, sad mother, through thy tears; Lift up thine eyes and sec The promise of the harveat years They died to win for thee.” Oh! Sleepers, when the ripened grain Its rich abundance yields, If we forget the toil ami pain Which ploughed these bloody fields, Then may the golden sheaves, which cost Such agony and death. Be swept away, like dead Vaves tossed, Upon the storm-wind's Iff" 'SU — Einilf. a Charter*. For Thk COi rant. Reminiscences of the Cberokees, By HOV. J. W. H. UNDERWOOD, of Rome, Georgia. CHAPTER IX. Copyrighted ]s#s. All rights reserved. J Benjamin Cleveland was born in the year 1710, on the Yadkin river, N. C., at a bend of the river called “rounda bout.” Of bis early life but little is known by nte. He was one of the ten colonels who fought and defeated Fer guson at King’s Mountain. Fergu son’s position was a strong one, and he was a very fine oillcer. The plan of at tack agreed upon was this: The whole force of Americans were to surround the mountain and move on every side at once in making the attack. These ten skeleton regiments were composed of the rillcmen and hunters who settled eastern Tennessee and Ken tucky. Sevier, Shelby and Cleveland, had been trained as Indian lighters. Just before the battle began, Col. Cleve land drew up his men and made this memorable address: “My brave hoys we are about to at tack the British troops under a skillful and brave commander. They are well trained, and have the advantage of us in using the bayonet. But you will know how to meet them. You have fought on many a battlefield, and you will not ho atraid to meet the foe here. If auyone intends to run, let him leave now, for the rest of us will light it out. I may not have a chance to give you many or ders, but keep your eye on me. I have n rifle; you do as I do.” His troops under his comm :id obeyed him. They never quailed. Ferguson, with his trained veterans, would charge the men on one side of ttie mountain. The Americans would retreat, protecting themselves behind rocks and trees. As Ferguson would push on down the mountain, the troops on the other side would rush up behind him and pour a volley in his rear, and so the battle raged for a time. At length, Ferguson perceiving he was beset on every side, formed his men into a hollow sqi are and faced the foe on every side. The deadly aim of those riflemen told with terrific effect on his troops. The groans of the wounded and dying were heard on every hand. At length Col. Ferguson fell, mortally wounded. A panic seized the British troops and they surrendered. This battle was the turning point in the revolution. Cornwallis continued his pursuit of Gen. Greene through North Carolina and Virginia, and was captured by the American troops under Gen. Washing ton atYorktown. Col. Benjamin Cleveland moved to the place heretofore mentioned. Many a cattle thief was whipped after he was tied to a swinging limb on the banks of the Fugalo, by Blair and Coflee, and many a Torv and horse thief swung from the gallows pole on his big gate. For be it remembered the country was not very quiet. The Cherokee Indians occupied all the country west of the Tugalo river. Many thieves and Tories took refuge there, making incursions into the white settlements for plunder. When they were caught justice was dealt out to them In a summary manner. Cleve land was called the Governor of Tugalo, and no delays of the law were allowed for particular offenses. He had two sous, John and AfTsalom Cleveland. John went by the name of “devil John,” to distinguish him from preacher John Cleveland, a nephew of “Old Roundabout.” “Pevil John” was the father of Oen. Benjamin Cleveland, who for rtjore than twenty years repre sented Habersham county in islature of Georgia. He was a man who spoke the truth from his heart and never! deceived his neighbor, even when it was to bis own hurt. He loved the truth aud hated falsehood. He commanded a regiment as Major at the battles of Aa tossie end Calibbee Swamp, in the war of 1812, under Generals Floyd and New man. It is e disgrace that the grave of John Sevlfeehouhl remain unmarked and un- this day. The American peo ple should he ashamed of it. Col. Baijamin Cleveland, “Old Round about,” lies buried on a hillside, in an old pine field, in the fork of Choga aud Tugalo rivers, without anything to mark las grave. He was an extremely large man, weighing three hundred and forty-nine pounds. •Col. Benjamin Cleveland and Gen. James R. Wyley were two grandsous of Col. Benjamin Cleveland, of “rounda bout.” r ßese cousins were born in the THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT. year 1 783, on the east bank of the Tugalo fiver, just above the mouth of Choga creek. Gerr. Cleveland was the son of John Cleveland,and Gen. Wjley was the son of Miss Cleveland, who was the first wife of James Wyffey, of Franklin county, Georgia. Gen. ’Cleveland’s father died when he was an infant, and left hfs son and two daughters rich for that day and that section. Gen. Wyley’s father was In moderate circumstances, and although born in Iredell county, N. C..he was a full-blooded Irishman. The two were educated together, and were bosom friends from their infiney. They lived to a green old age, and died universally respected. Gen. Cleveland died poor, while Gen. Wyley left a large estate. Both were soldiers in the Creek war, serving under Gen. Floyd at the battles of Antossle, Calibbee and Oth tawalla. Gen. Wyley commanded as Captain and Gen. Cleveland was Major of the same regiment. Both were gal lant soldiers. Gen. Cleveland was a man of popular manners and address. He served in the Legislature many years, was a candidate for Congress in 1848, against Howell Cobb, and ran ahead of his ticket and his party. At a public meeting in Habersham, a man remarked that Cleveland was a man who, If he had but one bushel of corn and you were to go to him in dis tress, he would divide with you. A bystander contradicted it and the re sult was a light. When that was over, the man who contradicted, observed: “If Cleveland had but one bushel of corn and you were to go to him In distress, he would give you the whole, not the half of it.” “Well,” said the other, “If that is what you meant, I beg your pardon and ad mit that you are right—l did tell the lie.” Thereupon they shook hands and remained friends afterward, One of Cleveland’s friends told me the following: Owing to a severe drought the corn crop was cut very short in Na coochee Valley, where Cleveland resided. He went thirty miles to where Jarrett and Wyley, lived for corn, for which he paid one dollar a bushel. lie took all they had to sell and started home with his loaded wagons. Wyley went with him as far as Clarks ville. On the Toceoa mountain they met a man with an ox-cart going to Jarrett’s or Wyley’s to buy corn. As he saw the wagons were loaded with corn, he asked Wyley if lie or Jarrett had any more to sell. He was very much disappointed by the reply, halted his team and said he did not know what he should do. Wyley re marked, “If you go on to Edding’9, five miles further, and have money you can get the com.” “Alas,” said the man, “I have no money.” Up to this time, Cleveland had not spoken, lie then in quired “llovv much corn do you want?” ‘‘Five bushels,” was the repl} r . “Drive around, turn your wagon, come up to the side of mine and get the corn .” The man moved up with alacrity, and trans ferred the five bushels to his cart. As they drove on, Wyley asked the man’s name. “I don’t know,” says Cleveland. “Where does he live?” “I don’t know that,” was the reply, “but I think somewhere on Ellick’s mountain.” No wonder ho died poor in worldly goods, but rich in benevolence and good deeds. He married “Argin,” the eldest daughter of James Blair, and they lived together titty years in great peace and happiness. He died in 1554. She lived five years longer. Thomas J. Rusk, United States Sena tor from Texas, when that State was ad mitted to the Union, married the daugh ter of Gen. Cleveland. A remarkable instance of personal friendship came under my own observation in this con nection about the year 1843. All of Cleveland’s property was levied on to be sold to pay security debts; negroes, wag ons, mules, and his home. Old Charley, who had been his wagoner for forty years, was among the negroes to be sold. Cleveland could not witness the sale and left home—went to see his children in Texas. On the day of sale, old Charley drove in the wagon, the six mules, with “Nellie” in the lead. Charley’s wife and children were in the wagon. Char ley was put up first, and bid for himself, “1 bid live hundred dollars for old Charley.” The sheriff' cried the bid aud he was knocked off. “Charge me to Gen. James Wyley,” aud it was done. Wyley bid it all oft' and paid for the property. “I asked, “What are you going to do with it?” “I don’t know. Cleveland has not sail a word to me.” In instant he called out: “You, Char ley, drive that wagon and those mules home; take them all back to your mas ter’s farm.” Turning to me, with tears in his eyes, o*Cleveland was very good to me when I was first married. I’ll stand by him now.” ' This is mentioned to show that there is in this world some pure aud disinterested friendship, aud there have beeu some worthy of the name of friend. Gen. Wyley was a man of very tine sense and judgment. He served under James and Hezekiah Terrell as sheriff of Franklin county for twelve years. He was never ruled for money or complained of be cause of failure to do his duty as au offi cer. He was always prompt and efficient. He was engaged in those days in lauda ble efforts to increase commercial faeili | ties, ne served as one of the Comrais- I sioners of the State to improve the navi ! gation of the Savannah aud Tugalo rivers. He was one of the company that worked out the Unicory turnpike in 1804, leading from Walton’s ford, on the Tugalo river, to Tellieo Plains, in Ten- I nessee, and was connected with that road CARTERSYILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1885. as long as he lived. lie was a man of most extraordinary judgment, of fine manners and well read in the literature of the day. He delighted to study the characters of Washington and Jefferson. He would never allow himself to be car ried into jxditTcal life, refusing all offices but that of sheriff. He believed every man should pry his honest debts, and was willing to aid lawfully in enforcing the duty of such payment upon the un willing—not upon those who were una ble. He married the grand-daughter ot i Gov. John Sevier, of Tennessee, in 1801. | She was Sarah Hawkins Clark, daughter j 1 of William Clark, who in his early life | became a soldier under John Sevier. 1 After he was married he settled on the 1 Tugalo river, opposite Walton’s ford, j where he lived titty years. Gen Wyley j died in 1854, leaving a very large nosteri ' ty in Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas, j In all the relations of life he was one of j nature’s noblemen. lie was a generous, j just and honest man. This family of Wyley’s, wherever found, spell their name Wyly or Wyley, and all are re lated so far as knowq. In sight of the town of Elijay, Gilmer county,there are more than five hundred acres of very fertile river-bottom land. An eccentric individual, John Alexan der, owned about three hundred acres of it. He was very proud of the possession. There was one field in the fork of Elijay and Caftecay rivers, of about one hun dred acres, which was exceedingly rich. Alexander had once a severe spell of sickness, and sent for Hon. A. J. Hansell to draw up l;ig will. JJe had disposed of his personal estate and got to his land in the declaration of his will. He gave part to one, and part to another, nansell then asked what he proposed to do with the field in the fork (knowing his attach ment to it). Alexander turned over in the bed, so that Hansell should not see his face, a favorite position with him when he wished |,q say something im portant. “By God, Hansell, I’ll just keep that piece of land myself?” “I think you will,” said Hansell, “keep it some time yet.” That was forty years ago, and Alexander is yet alive, over ninety years old. Oae of the most indefatigable lawyers in the time of which write was Col. Warren Akin, of Cass county. His en ergy never flagged. Ilis industry, prob ity and application made him a very suc cessful lawyer. His fidelity to his clients was never questioned. His zeal was fully equal to hi3 knowledge and fidelity. He once had a witness on tlxe stand on cross-examination, and in order to parry the force of the damaging evidence of the witness, who was apparently a very artless and innocent person of no mental capacity, Col. Akin asked: “Mr. Wit ness, did I understand you to say, so and so.” “No, sir,” said the witness, “I never said that.” “Well,” said Col. Akin, varying it a little, “did I under stand you to say, so and so.” “I don’t know,” said the witness, “how you un derstood it, but I never said that.” Col. A. went on to some other part of the ev idence, returning after a dozen questions to the sumo point, “Mr. Witness, did I understand you to say, so and so.” The witness replied, with a smile, mildly and innocently, “I thought by this time you would know I never said that. You have asked me that twice before.” “Oh, yes,” said Col. Akin, “I know, but 1 am not smart, like you are, and it takes me longer to find a thing out than it does you.” “Yes,” replied the witness, “I see you are not smart, and I will tell you again, I never said that, and if I must, I will keep telling you until you do understand and find it out.” Col. Akin was long a prominent mem ber of the bar of North Georgia. He was an illustration of the success of ap plication in any pursuit. lie was born in the county of Elbert, in the year 1811. Left an orphan at an early age, he was thrown on his own resources. Manfully he struggled with poverty. He hewed his way to success, wit.h a broauaxe on his shoulder, conquering all obstacles and arrived at eminence in & profession which knows more than any or all oth ers, in my opinion. As long as the Georgia reports are read and referred to, his fame will continue to exist. His name is in the first volume as attorney, and in the first case, and will be found in the fifty-ninth and six tieth and in all the intervening volumes. This is his monument that will endure ■ forever. He was an active and sincere ' Christian—a man of conyictions—one who held to his own opiuions and acted on them. He at one time represented : Bartow county in the general assembly, and was made Speaker of the House on the first day of his service. He was a ! member of the Confederate Congress aqd 1 served with ability in that capacity. In 1 whatever station, his service reflected honor on his constituents and on himself. He was an honest man. I omitted to mentiou in the proper place that Col. Akiu was a member of the Georgia State Convention in 1350, that dratted the celebrated “Georgia Platform.” His exemplary Christian character was the corner stone of his life. He was faithful to all contracts, and intended always to act uprightly and to do right.. I leave the task of doing i justice to the subject to a more gifted pen. What I have written has been in I the line of these reminiscences. The members of the high and honora ble profession of lawyers have sufiered : much from the calumny of the world. Uulike M. D.’s, they are usually friends | aud enjoy each other’s friendship social ! ly. Outside of the very large cities, ( their lives are full of toil and drudgery. * Writing bills and declarations, filing an swers, demurrers and pleas, and in ar i guing cases, frequently endeavoring to make the “worse appear the better rea- j son.” They are short-lived and like I clergymen, generally die young and > leave but a poor estate for their families, [f successful in a case, often after a hard fought contest, the client thinks the at j torney-at-law is the party under obliga tions, believing that the small compen sation paid is a full requittal for the sr -1 vice rendered. When the fee happens to be as much as a hundred dollars or more, the client wonders how any one could think of charging such a price for such a service—only a dozen or so pages of writing and a speech of one or two I hours. They wish to pay them as any I other laborer is paid, by the day or by i the hour, forgetting the long days and j nights, weeks and years of study, which the lawyer has struggled through to ed ucate himself for the profession, know ing nothing of the intense application in the office, the stqdy and preparation of j the briefs in the ease. After the lawyer has mastered the law r and the facts in the ease lor hmiseir’, he has then to impress that knowledge aud information on the court and jurj% which, in most eases, is a hard and diffi cult job. If the ease is of great impor tance the party on the other side be comes his enemy. No matter how kind ly the lawyer may feel, he, his sons and his daqfthterst, sons-indaw, Kiuiolks to the latest generation will watch for an opportunity for a petty revenge. Let the lawyer become a candidate and see them rush to the polls and put in a ballot against him, and fiow rejoiced they are to hit hint that lick in the dark. While this is not always the case, it is the gen eral rule. The people learn more in the court houses than in any other way. They attend court and listen to the fo rensic discussion of the law and facts in cases, and then get more information than in any other # \vay. Lawyers do know and are compelled to know, if they fully understand the profession, more than ail others. The tfiey have or hear in court, or read in books, bring them in actual contact witli the financial business and transactions of mankind. They must study and under stand the constitution and laws and much of the several sciences. People, in general, read but little. Many of them haye but little time to read, and many of those who have the time have not the books. Many have no inclination to study. Few minds become great by re flection alone. Much more is learned by absorption of the ideas of other men, in the forum, than by reflection or by con templation. In the country there is great prejudice against lawyers. Much of this is owing to a very mean and infa mous fable in Webster’s spelling book, about a lawyer and a farmer, which is put into the hands and minds of the peo ple when they are children as soon as they can read. The impress is made on the young mind and iDemory when it ie the most impressible, an J nothing but experience can efface it. Male and fe male, while they are yet children, are taught thus to believe that every lawyer is a scoundrel. The whole fable is a falsehood, and it is admitted to be a fiction, as well as the pail of milk. But it is not stated in the connection in which it is found that it is false, and hence the slanderous impress on the youthful tnind. Now, I would not say or insinuate that the farmer was not as honest _as any other calling. They are the most numerous class, and conse quently there must be more honest men among the farmers than any other class. But it is not believed that in proportion to their numbers there are more honest men than there will be fonnd in other classes, callings and professions. (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.) For The Coirakt. COUNTY EXPENSE3. Inasmuch as our people are heavily bur dened with big taxes, and as there is a general complaint and great dissatisfac tion on account of the same it behooves us as a people to cut off all unnecessary ex penses that tend to increase this burden. Justice to the people demands this as well as the common safety of our gov ernment. High taxes are not only oppressive to the finances but demoralizing in their effects to our people. Why ? Because many seem to feel justifiable even in perjuring themselves in making their tax returns by giving in their property for less than its market value in order to avoid this unjust tax as they consider it. Now is not this a bad state of affairs? Yet we know that this is the case. And that being the fact, there should be a remedy applied at once. Nothing should be left undone that would afford any relief. And when we commence ! to remedy this evil, we should commence at home, in our county first. And I will here suggest to begin with, that we dis pense with the Board of County Com missioners for our county, and let this business be placed back in the hands of the Ordinary where it formerly was. By doing this we can save considerable expense, and I can see no reason why the business would not be as well at i tended to. I have no objection to either of our commissioners. I believe them to be capable aud honest. But still I cannot ! see any good reason why we should pay i five men to do work which one man can do. And at the same time paying them more than ten times the amount that it | would cost to have the one man do it. I | want the people to consider this matter well, and see if it is wise iu us to do bus-. 1 iness in that way, or even justice to the j heavy burdened tax-pavers to make such use of their hard-earned money. If 1 mistake not our ordinary at one [ time told me that when he did the busi ness of this Board of Commissioners | that it paid him about forty dollars a year. Now let us see the difference. I chanced to be in the room where this ! whs in sessiou at its last meeting, ; they were discussing the question j of the clerk’s salary, and I found that he Uas paid three hundred dollars per an num besides two dollars lor each day that the board met. So, according to that, it costs more than eight times as much to pay the clerk alone as it did to get the whole business done by the ordi nary. Then can we, with any degree of justice to ourselves, continue this un necessary expense? lean only say for one, I think not. Very respectfully, W. F. Coruin. I GEORGIA AND ITS PROSPERITY—AN INTERESTING LETTER, Prom City amt Country, March number.] Between fie Oostanaula and Et wih livers on both sides of the Western & At lantic railroad, one will find a highly favored region. Hills and dales, fertile valleys and rapid running streams. Farm ing lands which return remunerating crops to the laborer who cultivates with judgment and industry; streams which pour along their waters to waste over falls which, it utilized, w’ould supply power sufficiently to rqn all the spindles neces sary to work up all the cotton produced in the South ;beds of iron, Ac., wherein lie meta| enough to furnish rails to place on every line of railroad in the United States, and mines of ochre where can be had paints enough to color every house in this broad land. Just a little west of Car tersville, where your correspondent now sojourns, stands a mountain of limestone, and daily the smoke ascend from the kilns which produce and ship away oarloads of the famous Ladd’s alabaster lime, as good as this world aftords. On the east but a short distance away, the miners unearth tons of iron ore and manganese. Go down the Wertern 4. Atlantic rail road about three miles to the Etowah river and follow the wagon road along the banks of that beautiful stream, and in less than five miles one will see falls which will add up horse-powers about eleven thousands, and over these falls the wa ters waste away their forces day by day. When the traveller beholds these unu tilized bounties of nature he will expe rience a sensation of sadness. Taking into consideration the mines of buried wealth, the wasting water powers, and the delightful, equable healthy climate, where work can go along the year through, the question will arise, why do not these people improve their opportu nities and gather wealth from all the sources which Providence has so lavish ly scattered around them ? When he be gins his investigation to learn the reason why, he will soon find the answer in that one fearful word, poverty. The inhabitants of this delightful re gion have no money to Invest in mining and manufacturing enterprises. These stores of wealth will remain unused to au£ great extent until such time as Yan kee antT English capital shall gather courage to come in and purohasc and convert. It should not be a matter of wonder why the Southern people do not take ac tiveholcl of the advantages that nature has given them on every side. Their poverty forbids; they have to struggle daily for subsistence, have no money to put into buildings and machinery. Had they the capital they lack the training, having been raised to other pursuits. In some localities hold young spirits have ventured and so fur have greatly pros pered. Such efforts cannot become gen eral for reasons given above. It does not require a prophetic eye of very great power to pierce the future far enough to venture upon a prediction of a grand future for this portion of the State of Georgia. The influx of population and capital will not be much longer de layed. Such advantages must secure at tention. It has come to the knowledge of the writer that English companies are investigating quietly and cautiously the mineral lands and will ere long take steps to possess some of these valuable properties. Your tattling wanderer will now jot down a few dots gathered hereabouts. The deductive mind can easily therefrom draw its own conclusions. At Carters ville one finds a population winch in ed ucation and refinement rank well. The people are quite intelligent and seem im bued with the spirit of progress. They meet investigators kindly and easily, readily assist them in finding localities and are generally pleasantly disposed. The loafer and the dude are not seen hereabouts. Every man appears to have something to do and is at his business with diligence. The merchants are wide-awake and cheerful. Some of the stocks of goods are quite city like. Conversing with a pleasaut old gentle man I learned that the legal fraternity were complaining about dull times. This argues well for it has been said that too much litigation has been inthepa3ta curse to this country. A gentleman of apparent “functions” once remarked in my presence that “much litigation was a sign of progress and prosperity.” The assertion startled me and when I got a quiet moment I began to revolve it in ray mind and see what I could work out of it. This solutiou came along, much litigation means progress and prosperity to one class of people—the lawyers. In vestigation developed the fact that the asserter was a prominent prosperous member of the bar. It does appear to me that in or near C'artersville would be a very fine loca tion for a large iron furnace and rolling mill, with foundry attached. Healthy equable climate, neither too hot nor too ; cold, labor can be used to full advantage the year round. Good water, cheap i lands, cheap lumber, cheap provisions, iron ore and manganese and lime rock in , great quantities, with coal near by, i which can be placed here at $2 per ton. , Two railroads already, with another to ! be completed soon, to distribute the products. B. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. To the Memory of Trof. J. G. Ryals, Jr. State Normal School, ) Jacksonville, Ala., April 20th, ISSS. ) A joiut meeting of the Board of Trus tees and the Faculty ot the Alabama State Normal School was this day held in the Normal Room at the College, to pay a tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased president of the institution, Prof. James G. Ryals, Jr. On motion of Mr. 11. L. Stevenson, of the board of trustees, a committee of two, consisting of Prof. J. Harris Chappell, of the faculty, and Mr. James Crook, of the trustees, was appointed to draft reso lutions suitable to the occasion. In pursuance of this motion the com mittee drew up and reported the follow ing preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted by the meet ing: Whereas, Almighty God has seen fit, in His inscrutable providence, to call from this world the noble spirit of our beloved teacher Prof. James G. Ryals, Jr., who for the past two years has filled with pre-eminet ability and success the position of president of our State Nor mal School; therefore be it Resolved, 1. That we are profoundly sensible of the fact that in the death of Prof. Ryals, one of the most brilliant in tellectual and moral lights of the south has gone out, and that the cause of edu cation has suffered a great calamity and our own sohool an irreparable loss. Resolved, 2. That we feel deeply thankful that our children and youth had the inestimable privilege of sitting, even for the brief period of two years, at the feet of this peerless young teacher, who, by his whole walk and conduct in life, both in school and out, set before them a splendid example of all that is noblest in man’s nature and of all that is best and highest in human life. Resolved, 3. That while we can offer no other outward tribute to his memory than this expression of our esteem for his noble qualities and grief at his un timely death, we are assured that, by the profound moral and intellectual impress that he has made upon the minds of his pupils, he has erected for himselt a mon ument that shall last through the ages, “ more durable than brass and higher than the lofty seat of the pyramids.” Resolved, 4. That in giving utterance to the sentiments embodied in these reso lutions we are sure that we but voice the feelings of the entire community, upon whose affections he had so deeply im pressed himself. Amid the universal la mentation that went up at his death, nothing seemed to us so touching and sig nificant as the tears and heart-broken sobs of the little children of the school, to whom he had so greatly endeared him self by his sweet and gentle manners. Resolved, 5. That while mi. gling our tears with those of his grief-stricken pa rents, brothers and sister, we offer them the only consolations that can solace the bereaved heart. Their loved one, in all his relations with his fellow men, lived as a shining examine of the highest type of manhood. In the discharge of the trying and responsible duties of the vo cation which he chose for his life’s work, he wrought earnestly, nobly and welh Throughout his pilgrimage on earth he kept his soul erect and aspiring towards heaven, as befitted a being made in the image of God. No one who believes that it is not all of life to live nor all of death to die can doubt for a moment that our loss is his eternal gain, and that he now rests Irom his labors in the bosom of his Father and God. Resolved, G. That out of respect for his memory, all exercises of the State Normal School shall be sus pended on Monday, April 20, the day ap pointed for the interment of his remains at Macon, Ga., the home of his parents. Resolved 7, That these proceedings be published in the Jacksonville Republican and that a copy of them he sent to his pa rents ; and also that The Cautersville Cocraxt and the Macon Telegraph and Messenger be requested to copy the same. T. Harris Chappell,/ r . James Crook, j' Was It Not Bight? A passenger entered the car at a small village on the road. She seemed a little German woman. She was very short of stature indeed, and a little deformed. Her face was not attractive, for it was not only brown from exposure, but was also very careworn and deeply lined. She was very plainly dressed, and might have been called by some outlandish, and in her hand she nad a cotton umbrella so large as to seem out of all proportion with the size of the owner. She seemed like a child almost, as she quickly took the unoccupied part of a seat; and I no ticed that the lady already occupying the other part gathered up the tolds of her dress in a manner and with an air not in the least reassuring to the new-comer, in case she was at all sensitive. How ever, she seemed to pay little attention to anything about her until she reached her destination, a mile or two beyond. The conductor had not yet made his ap pearance, and our little old German lady was embarrassed, not knowing what do with her fare, and quite unwilling to leave the car without paying for her ride. “Who will take my money?” she said. “You had better not wait; the train will start,” replied several passengers. “But I ought to pay. I must not leave; I will go on to the next station.” “Quick! and never mind the money,” was the reply of some who seemed much amused. “Oh, dear me! I will leave the money here, then,” said the woman; and she placed the fare upon a window-sill and hurried out. Just too late the conductor came, and seemed quite incredulous when the mon- NUMBER 14. ey was pointed out. For a moment there was a tendency among the passengers to exchange amused glances and humorous remarks, as though some droll mistake I had been made. But this was quickly followed by serious thoughtfulness and a sort of a half-expressed appreciation, which led me to suppose that if the occa sion had required, there were many in the car who would have entrusted the good woman with whatever valuables the\’ might have about them. Sometimes the image of that face— once, perhaps, as lair as any, but wrin kled and much faded siuoc— seems to re appear at the car window or door. The face seems always full of confusion and embarrassment, a it was that day in July, but the moral beauty of the. soul of that little German immigrant never seems faded, and in contrast with her conscientious purpose, rather to go to the next station and walk back a dusty mile or two, than to retain what justly belonged to another, the “sharpness” of worldly minds seems ugliness and de formity.—S. S. Classmate. CONVICT LAItOK. Rome Corn ior. We publish the following from the Memphis Appeal, of the 2Gth inst., on the employment of convict labor, with our hearty endorsement, expressing, as it does exactly, our own views upon the subject, as heretofore explained. The convict lease system in Georgia, as now operated, is another one of the remnants of the period of political jobbery and corruption* in our State that should be wiped out as soon as possible. Abolish ing slavery, so-called, as it existed with us before the war, the people have suffered a few political jobbers and spec ulators to establish a system of slavery’ for their private gain, and to the detri ment of honest labor, that is a disgrace to the civilization of the age : The employment of convict labor to the detriment of free labor is so mani festly bad in policy and wrong in prin ciple that in several of the States dis cussion is carried on as to how convicts can be employed so as to benefit the pub lic without doing injustice to the laborer. That such injustice exists is seen in our own State. During the winter there was much levee w’ork doing down the river, and when tiie contractors advertised in the West for “hands,” owing to the trade depression, they had two men shipped down to them where they wanted one; and crowds of industrious fellows were roaming everywhere in search of work, and generally in vain. Yet all the time convicts in Tennessee were doing the work in the coal mines these men would have been gratef'd for. A way of so disposing of employment as to give work to the criminal and deny it to the hoi,‘.st man is so clearly wrong as to be utterly Indefensible, Tennessee practices it. It is time we abuse among other necessary changes we are making. The more the question is. discussed in the newspapers the more conviction extends that the best employ ment for convict labor is road making. Everywhere, even in old States, good roads are wanted, such as can be trav elled in all weather. With ready access by good wagon roads to railway and market, the farmer would become more prosperous, business would increase, lands would be settled, the population would be enlarged, lands would increase in value, and the general prosperity would be promoted. In and around Memphis we are practically testing the road making system, and so far with gratifying results. In Missouri the in troduction of the same plan is strongly advocated. In New York State the plan of giving the labor to the criminal that is wanted by the honest class has been abandoned and the introduction of road labor for the penitentiary inmates is urged. The New York Herald is advo cating the system. It says: “Road making is work which never is well enough done, because with hired labor it is too expensiye for any but very rich communities. Even in our richest coun ties the principal highways are generally bad. But convict labor at a price to be determined by the Co3t of maintaining the convicts, would enable any county or town to do two or three times as much work on its roads as now, without in creasing expenses. The inmates of hun dreds of village jails are utilized at road making; why not those of the State prisons?” There is work enough for all of them. WEIGHTS TO THE BUSHEL. For tlio convenience of farmers and others who have net the information always accessible, we give the following table of weights to the bushel, as adopted by the Merchants’ Exchange, of Nashville, and in use in most of the state of Tennessee: LBS.! LBS. Apples—green 50j Millet seed dried 21; German 50 Beans—dried 60j Hungarian 43 green in hull So| Missouri 50 Barley 4*' Tennessee 50 Bran 20 Oats .32 Buckwheat SOiOnions .50 Cement 80 sets 32 Charcoal. 22 Peas—dried . .00 Coal—stone (in yard,.7o green (in hull 30 Clover seed —red 60 Peaches 5) sapling 6 peeled 40 Corn—shelled 50 unpeeled 36 unshucked 74 j Peanuts 23 shucked 70 Potatoes—lrish 60 Flaxseed 561 (2J£ bu to the bar’l.) Grass seed—blue. .14 Potatoes—sweet 50 orchard 14 (2)i bu to the bar’l.) red top ... 14 Bye 56 Lan lplaster. 100 Salt 50 Lime—unslakc.d . SO ’Sorghum seed 42 slaked.. . .... 40 Timothy seed. 45 Meal—coru 50 Tomatoes 2o Turnips 50 Wheat 60, The Georgians that went on to Wash ington G’ity, to offer themselves up on the rugged altar of office are coming home wLh their minds full of the fore boding fear that they will be left. It is sad that men who are prepared to serve their country should not have the oppor tunity of so doing. But there is plenty of land in Georgia, and faithful farming pays. Let “gee haw” be their battle cry. Thus will the hard, unfeeling men at Washington be put to eonfusion—Al bany News and Advertiser,