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VOLUME 1.
Jefliiiiiscences of the Cherokees.
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From D2 l to 1 10 Jndge Underwood
w: i;ng‘..rcl indust rinusly in the prac
tic. «*l his -profes-ion in nil the North
end of Georgia. lie was the counsel of
the Glierokces aid the Clicrokee Nation,
and <!• fended Worcester and Butler, who
were indicted in the county ol‘ Gwinnett
for refusing to take the oath of allegiance
to tie* Stale ot Georgia. He was the
ci, 1:11 d who prepared the brief in the
case of the Cherokee Nation against the
State ot orgia. Is. was that brief that
Win. WtlL, ami John Sargent argued
In tto J iprerne Court of the
I nit* d States at Washington, and al
though the Supreme Court of the United
States issued the writ of mandamus and
prohibition against the State of Georgia,
the State utterly refused to obey it, ami
set the government of the United States
at dt dunce, notwithstanding General
Jackson was president of the United
States, ami Worcester and Ihitler were
sent to the penitentiary from the county
of Gwinnett, and Tassel Is was hung at
Gaines ville.
There can bo no doubt among those
who 1 ave been raised and educated in
Stat< rights school of polities, hut that
Georgia was right in the matter and
so was President Jackson right in refus
ing to interfere. But how would that
agree with the practice, I would say
principles, of the republican party? 1
lean all this others to decide.
Judge Underwood was a tmui of line
address and popular manners, blit the
desire of the people of Georgia to settle
up and possess the land confined within
the Cherokee Nation was so great that
he, lost much of his popularity simply
for faithfully representing his clients in
court. lSut all that is gone, and he lived
down tiie prejudice of the ignorant and
much of the envy of his rivals.
Judge Underwood, after his election
to the Bench, in 1825, resided in the
Western Circuit.until 1857. This circuit,
from the hoginning, was always distin
guished for the ability and probity of the
Bench and I»ar.
Among the earlier judges may be
mentioned Grisham, Young, and Dooly,
and among the late, Clayton, Under
wood, Harris, Dougherty, llillyer, Jack
son and Hutchins. Some now living
will remember the many incidents and
anecdotes of the circuit. There was al
ways the utmost good feeling and kind
ness among them. .When from any cause
unkind feelings were discovered, anj’
misunderstanding existed, the judge,
whoever he might be, at once interfered
and caused a reconciliation. Among
the members of t he Bar there were many
able men. Thomas IV Carnes was long
known as the “boll weather” or leader.
Jeptha V. Harris, John A. Head and
George Cook, of Elbert county, were
men of mark and distinction. Win. 11.
Crawford, .Stephen Upson, George it.
Gilmer, and Thus. W. Cobh, of Ogle
thorpe, were great men. Duncan G.
Campbell, Felix Gilbert, and Judge
Tait, of Wilkes, were able lawyers; and
in later limes, Joseph Henry Uumpkin,
Gabriel Nash, Augustin S. Clayton,
Thomas W. Harris, Charles Dougherty,
Cicero Holt, James llillyer, J aim's Jack
son, Howell Cobh, T. It. It. Cobh, Win.
H. Underwood, John R. Stafford, JRoht.
Mitchell, Richard Venable, Nathan U.
Hutchins, James C. Terrell, Giles
Mitchell, Wm. 11. Hull, Cincinnattus
Peeples, Wm. I Ripley, Dickinson 11.
Walker, Samuel P. Thurman, Allen
Matthews, Hines Holt, Turner 11. Trippe,
Samuel A. Wales, Win. 11. Stelman,
Samuel Freeman, Temple F. Cooper,
John W. Hooper Milton 11. Gaithwaight
and C. 11. Sutton, were all ornaments to
the profession.
The Western circuit, in the times of
which notice is being taken, had no rail
roads. The Bench and the Bar rode the
circuit on horseback,in sulkeys and bug
gies. The most agreeable hours were
those when the cavalcade was moving
from one court-house town or village to
another, at dinner on the roadside, or by
the cheerful wood tire at night. It was
on occasions like these that fun jmd
frolic, practical, innocent jukes, ruled
the hour. These days the lawyer strug
gle! to lie first in argument and logic
in support of legal principles. They
'Jutaen did not hunt for a ten cent piece
a rat terrier for a mouse. The al
mighty dollar was not worshipped by
these tneu of high renown as now.
That was the ago when merit won. It is
money now.
The {blowing story lias boon told of j
4u t y persons ami located at many |
joints; it actually occurred, however, j
at Gumming, Forsyth county, Ga., the 1
lion. Owen A, Kenan presiding as |
-• ’gc of the Cherokee Circuit. Judge,
Kenan had been elected as Judge of the
circuit in the belief that the people were
rough and hard to govern. Kenan was
known to be a rough man, somewhat
overbearing, and, by seme thought to bo
of a disposition bordering on tyranny, i
A question which had arisen in reference 1
io tiro proper dell nation at an estate, was.
argued on side by Col, Judge Hutchins,!
then Col. Hutchins, and on the other
side by Judge Underwood. Underwood
, reposed to read gome authority. Judge
Kenan promptly and peremptorily called
him to order and stopped him, saying:
**God has given me intellect, .putting
his his finger on his head,' and I shall
decide intellect.”
Judge Underwood replied: “If your
Honor has two ways of deciding a ques
tion—one an intellectual decision and the
ther legal—we would prefer a legal de
ision.”
Judge Kenan promptly stopped him
and decided against him.
Judge Underwood rose with his fa
vorite hook, Black-tone in his hand, say
ing: “f know your Honor’s decision is
right, hut 1 would like it if your Honor
would allow me read a paragraph ot law,
not to show that your Honor’s decision is
wrong, but ju=t to show what a Wasted
old fool Biaekstone was.”
Of the ability of Judge Underwood
not only as a i uvyer, but as a writer
but as a deep thinker, there never was a
doubt. Kind and noble-hearted it was
impossible that he should be rich in
worldly goods. No object of charity
was ever turned away-from his door, and
for fear be might make a mistake he
gave to all who asked favor- at his hands.
At one time he was a man of considera
ble fortune, hut about the time he ought
to have retired from his profession, he
was ruined by being surety for others.
Perhaps the most prominent trait in
the character of Judge Underwood, ex
cept his great and signal ability, was his
great wit and humor. lie was the life
and soul of every company where he
was.
Judge Underwood frequently rode to
court on horseback. This he did through
his whole life and very oiten lie was
alone. On one occasion, travelling alone
going to court in the State ot Alabama,
to represent an old friend who had an
ejectment case in Talladega county, (it
was on Sunday,) a young man, very fine
ly dressed, rode up. lie was riding a
long, tall, guant horse, low in order
and old, who seemed to have been badly
broken down riding in a hard canter,
“gallop up before’’ and “jigger up be
hind.” His saddle and bridle were ex
ceedingly fine, all silver-mounted and
finished in the highest style and art.
Leaning away back in his saddle, with
feet stuck out and bridle rein tightened,
he said:
“Good morning, old gentleman.”
“Good morning,” replied Judge Un
derwood, in a low voice, not flattered by
the term, “old gentleman.”
“Going to court?” said the young
gentleman.
“Yes sir,” said the Judge.
“Have you a caso in court?”
“Yes sir.”
“Ah! bound over to court for what
offense ?”
“No, sir; not bound over to court.
“Oh ! then, a civil case, hah ?”
“Yes sir, a civil case; defending an
old friend, as attorney.”
“Attorney in fact, I presume?”
“No, sir, attorney-at-law.”
The young gentleman, with an air of
surprise, looked at Judge Underwood
and said:
“You are a stranger here, I suppose?”
“Yes sir, but stranger as I am, I am
an old man, and can give you some good
advice if you will take it kindly.”
“Well, what is it
“Well, then, it is this: If 1 were you
I would ride that horse with a double
barrelled shotgun.”
“Well, what would you do that for?”
“Why, you see, if the horse should
stumble and fall and injure you, you
could shoot him as he rose to run and
capture the rigging, which is all there is
of any value.”
“Humph! you bo d—-d !” said the fop
as he galloped.
Judge Underwood was riding his fa
vorite horse, R ipley, and in the evening
arrived at the village of Talladega and
rode up to the principal hotel, where he
gave his horse to the care of the landlord
and instructed him as to the care he
should take of him, walked iu and sa
luted the crowd in the piazza saying,
“good evening, gentlemen.”
Seeing among them the young gentle
man who had passed him, lie said, nod
ding his head at him :
“Ah! good evening, my young
friend.”
“Good evening,” said he.
Judge Underwood walked down the
piazza to the place where the bucket of
water was to bathe his face and hands,
and while lie was there, the young man
spoke sotto voce to those around him, and
said “Don’t fool with that old fellow, he
is tight.”
Judge Underwood returned with a
twinkle in his gray eye, and looking at
the young man in a patronizing way,
said:
“Well, have you concluded in the fu
ture to take my advice and ride your
horse with a double-barrelled shotgun.”
“No; and sir, I don’t thank you for
any of your advice.”
The persons present were all expecta
tion, and the interest excited was very
great to hear what else might be said.
The young man proceeded. Raising
himself to his full height, six feet one,
in the most imposing lie said :
“If I could, buy some men at their
real value, and sell them tor what they
think they are worth, I could make a
small fortune.”
The bystanders tittered and the young
gentleman looked triuinphat. Judge
Underwork instantly replied: “Well, |
you will perceive that would lie a specu
lation of the first impression, and out of
the natural order of tilings. It has fre
quently happened that men have specu
lated in jackasses by buying and selling
! them. But it has not, up to the present
, speaking, in human affairs ever happen
j *d that jackasses have thus speculated In
1 men.”
The crowd roared with laughter, ex
cept the young gentleman. The
landlord, a good-natured, individ
i nil, laughed so immoderately that the
fop became offended, ordered Ills horse
and left.
There lived once in Walker county,
j Ga., and afterwards in Floyd, a good
j matured, fat individual, of very limited
! education and aspirations, by the name
of Robert Hyde—“ Bob” Hyde he was
* commonly called. He was not notorious
CAKTERSYILLE, GEORGIA, TUURstuB
J for tolling the truth, in fact, in that re
rrird he might be said to be an economist.
Bob was fond of the marvelous when lie
saw it or heard it, and it it did not come
often enough Boh would make a draft on
his fertile imagination which was never
dishonored. At Walker court, on Mon
day before court Diet, Bob came to the
hotel, where the lawyers were all out in
the porch laughing and tattling, andj
being very fond of Judge U
luted him first, and after the
ji’!i, wen* on iu a i
say : “Judge, I saw a sight lI'SH
day on Lookout nK-u stain that a-tf
ed me very much. I killed a
snake five feet and six inches long
fiad forty two rattles and a button,
it had three legs on each side about ttifl
middle and walked on them.” “WeljH
Bob,” said Judge Underwood, “wouldj
you have believed such a thing if y°f>\
had not seen it?” “No, Judge, thatl e
wouldn’t.” “Well, Boh, you
did not see it,” replied the judge, M'ljrum*
upon the laugh came in at Boh’ f
pensc. 4j catfl
1 here was a peculiarity about • Tlm
Underwood —it made no different j
it was if any one stood fair hc/j
strike him, without any regard j
whether it was friend or foe, strung*
relative. In ISIS, when solicitor-g<£irß|
als were elected by the general assenter il
the judge’s son, John, was a cane oral?
for solicitor-general. Gen. Wiß^fcpc
Smith was the senator from Fieri 01
county, and William N. Bishop was boo'
senator from Murray county, Ga. Fat
ties (Whig and democrat) were ver 0j
close in the state. Smith and Bishop
belonged to the democratic party hut
were what was called “hank democrats”
and were elected by the entire vote of
the Whig party and a few democrats.
'flic parties in the legislature were so
close that Smith and Bishop held the
balance of power—upon their two votes
depended the organization of the senate
and the election of a U nited States Sena
tor and all the judges of the superior
courts and the solicitors. The struggle
among the party leaders for the votes of
these two senators was animated and
exhaustive, every effort was made by
the leaders of both parties. Joseph
Sturgis, Gov. Clark, J. McDonald and
Walter S. Colquitt were the principal
actors on the democratic side; Charles
Dougherty, Andrew J. Miller and
Charles J. Jenkins were the principal
managers for the Whigs. Before the
meeting of the legislature Smith and
Bishop understood the situation, and
being in full political accord and also
personal friends, they engaged rooms
together at MoComb’s hotel, in Mil
ledgevillc; they occupied two rooms on
the ground lloor, fronting on the Main
street. Their room was the chief at
traction, the centre of interest; parties
old and young hung around them, and
e*agerly listened to every word in the vi
cinity in order to form an idea of com
ing events. Aspirants for position watch
ed every movement and every consulta
tion, for upon the result hung their
hopes. On Monday morning, the day of
the meeting of the legislature, from sun
up until 10 o'clock a. rn., the throng
around McCombs hotel was immense.
About S o’clock Sturgis was lucky enough
to get Col. Bishop about fifty yards
from his room, in the Capitol Square,
in fro nt of the Mapp house on a log for a
private conversation. Bishop and Stur
gis had long been personal and political
friends. They had in the fifteen years
previous passed through many a hard
fought contest. Shoulder to shoulder,
knee to knee and toe to toe, they had
breasted the political storms and receiv
ed upon their bosoms the shafts and
javelins of the Whig party. They had
suffered together in defeat and rejoiced
together in triumph. The consultation
was of intense interest, the writer watch
ed it with all the interest of an enthu
siast, and felt confident and hopeful
when he saw Bishop shake his large
head, with countenance stern and fixed.
At length the conference ended and
Bishop came into the room and drew a
long breath. Milller and Jenkins came
in and passed the usual “good morning.”
Smith had a hard contest and was
only elected by twelve votes. Judge
Underwood resided at that time in Floyd
county, and had supported Smith warm
ly. He was a very strong outspoken
Whig, and had worked in the contest
like a beaver, in fact, to his great exer
tions Smith owed his election. At the
time Miller and Jenkins came into the
room, Smith had just received his mail—
J. W. H. Underwood, then a young man,
came in at the same time. Smith excus
ed himself, asking the privileges to open
his letters from home. A general con
versation among the others was progress
ing, when all observed that Smith was
laughing immoderately. Mr. Jenkins,
with a bland smile, enquired what was
the matter. Smith continued in convul
sive laughter, an J looking at John Un
derwood, said : “It is a letter from your
father.” The well-known character of
Judge Underwood excited great curiosi
ty in all to hear and know the contents
of the letter. Smith would not read it,
but finally gave it to John, who read it
aloud.
Rome, Ga., Oct. 29, 1543.
llox. Wm. Smith —Dear Sir: You
will find my son John, at Miiledgeville,
a candidate for solicitor-general of the
western circuit. I hope you will find it
consistent with your feelings and vour
duty to the state to give him your cordial
support and cause him to be elected, for
he certainly has the greatest desire for
office with the least qualifications to dis
charge the duties thereof, of any man in
the shite of his age. I am, with very
high respect, your obedient servant,
Wm. H. Uxdekwood.
There was one long, loud peal of
laughter, in which all joined. The let-
ter and its contents were .
generally, and the son
Smith and Bishop
par.
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(CONTINUED XEX.T WEEK.)
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FKOSt OUR CASSVir.UK CORRESPON
DENT.
Last Saturday evening at the Cassville
Agricultural Club, in a discussion of the
subject, “How shall the farm be made to
pay?” The following pertinent remarks
were made by our fellow townsman, Col.
B. O. Crawford, which, to our mind, were
so sensible and full of pith, that we have
made an extract for the benefit of your
readers:
Gentlemen or-riiE C:\Bsvn.uK Agri
cultural Club :—There are three ele
ments of success in farming, without
which none can make it pay, and with a
liberal use of which none can possibly
fail: Industry, economy, and good
judgment. You will say, we all knew
that before you said it. Yes, we all
know the statement to be true, but how
many of us practice what we know?
We hire hands at big wages, send them
to tiie field to work alone and they do
only half work. This is neither industry,
economy, nor good judgment, and, of
course, the result is failure. If we
would work more ourselves, and when
we are compelled to hire, if we would
stick as close to the hand as the bell
collar to a cow's neck, you would see a
different state of things. We would
soon be done with the West, so far as
corn and bulk meats are concerned. We
would all have plenty and to spare.
It is not worth any man’s while to go
into details on fanning, because, be his
plans as good as they may, almost every
body will differ with him as to detail.
However, there are some points so uni
versally admitted, that I will refer to
them: The first point that 1 would make
is,cultivate no poor ground. Then one
answers, all will have to cpiit. Not so,
any means. If, instead of working
thirty acres of poor sassafras hills
we would take five acres of the same
ground and put all the work on it, in
manuring and cultivating, we would
reap fifty bushels of corn per acre in
stead of six, which L believe is a fair av
erage for the crop of this county, but to
work these li ye acres as they should be
requires strong horse-power. No man
can break his ground as deep as it ought
to be with one horse, therefore I con
clude that there ought to be t.vo first
class mules or two first-class horses to
every hand on the farm. Thus equipped
with power break the land not less than
twenty inches deep, put six hundred
bushels of good manure to the acre, and
there has not been a year within :ny ex
perience of forty years that you would
fail of a paying crop if you keep the
weeds and grass out. You see that I
am not much on King Cotton.
You will say how about all that ma
nure? I reply, make it on the farm,
but to be able to make it you will have
to keep a good stock of cattle. Rut them
in your barn every night on g od beds
of straw and you will be astonished at
the amount of manure you can make;
and then, besides from the co \ shed and
horse stali gather from every other
available source, and with industry it
can be had. Put your poore; lands to
pasture. Plant freely of grass md clo
ver, and instead of fattening poor ne
groes fatten hogs and cattle and success
is yours.
What 1 mean by success is that you
will have a good fat living, or in other
I words, “food and raiment.” If you
! want more than this, there is but one
! way to get it, and that is to double your
diligence, make your econ miy more
j rigid, and last, but most difficult, double
I your judgment, for it is certai i that our
success in any calling of life is only eo-
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she had saved frolr. cotnrclßßßßßßil
$20,000 u your ever since \ as h^BBBB
Commodore. Her estate was vmlH
ably snug condition, and, considerm^jg si!l „
it consists almost entirely of stocks
bonds, it is a noticeable fact tliat it con
tained no “fancies.” What a contrast be
tween this woman and James D. Fish,
who seemed to have a mania for worthless
stocks ! Mrs. Vanderbilt’s property goes
to the Crawfords (her father and brother),
and the latter has been an attache of the
family for several years. Now that the
Commodore’s children feel the effects of
the shrinkage, they keenly regret to see
so large a part of the estate go out of the
family, but regrets are now too late. The
Crawfords will also have the homestead in
Washington Place, running through to
tlie next street, where the Commodore for
merly had his office. Here the Commo
dore and his first wife passed their best
years, and here they held their golden
wedding, which was the happiest scene in
the family history. These associations in
crease the bitterness of the loss of such a
beautiful property. The late Mrs. Van
derbilt indeed had a larger portion than
any of the Commodore’s daughters, and
they now' think that she should have been
pensioned instead of being endowed in fee
with such immense wealth. The Craw
fords are nothing to the Vanderbilts, and
yet they carry off a million of family
property. It is certainly very aggravating,
especially when the resources of the Van
derbilts are reduced more than one-lialf
by the shrinkage.
Speaking of the Vanderbilts, Cornelius
and Frederick have beth taken cottages at
Newport, but are merely tenants—not
owners. Cornelius will hardly make any
new purchases until he gets rid of his
splendid folly in the Fifth Avenue. The
latter can probably be bought at SIOO,OOO
less than cost, and would be dear at that.
Among other New Yorkers who will spsnd
the season at Newport, are Cyrus W.
Field, Ex-Mayor Cooper, Pierre Lorillard,
W illiam Waldorf Astor, General Meredith
Read and Assistant Bishop Potter. Ogden
Goelet and William Astor are cruis
ing in the vicinity of Newport in their
splendid yachts, and Astor’s Nourmalial
still holds distinction as the finest craft
afloat. Newport, however, will still miss
such solid New Yorkers and James Len
nox and Ex-Governor Morgan, who for
merly made that place their summer re
sort. August Belmont has become inter
ested in New r port by his wife's connection
with the history of the place, and hence is
now more closely identified with it than any j
other New- York man. Jim Keene will j
not be seen in Newport this season. He
cut a dash there while his money
but he will not reappear in the scenes of 4
his former glory, and the best representa
tive of Wall street there will be Wm. R.
Travers, who still holds his position among
business men, notwithstanding the chang
es in the financial world.
PERSONAL MOVEMENTS.
George William Curtis and a lady part
ner opened the ball given by the Staten
Island Vocal Society. Though now in his
sixties, Curtis can go through an old-fash
ioned cotillion as well as most of the young
folks, but when you put him into the Ger
man he is a failure.
Ex-Governor Tilden is also a young man
for his age, and though nownearlj twenty
years older than Curtis he still enjoys so
ciety. He is passing the summer at Grey
stone. Oswald Ottendorfer accompanied
the Scheutzen Association which recently
sailed for Germany. He is expected to
deliver a patriotic address at Bingen on
the Rhine on the Fourth of July, as the
stceragSV. 11
i'his appar:u f n\f ,tn !
moves as easily as gi! V
up as compactly as a i” r ' '
At the rear is a kite-.
composed of a large squ'tfjH,
stretched upon four arms, jonJ
common pivot in the middle. TfhJ n °t
attached to the car by one aam through '
a universal joint, permitting the rudder
to occupy any desirable position in hor
rizontai, vertical, or inclined plane, so
that a single rudder thus perforins the
work which hgs hitherto demanded both
a horrizontical and a vertical rudder,
either separately or in combination.
This apparatus either acts to guide the
balloon during its natural ascent or de
scent, or the aeronaut at will can give
any direction to the airship by revolving
the propeller sail toward any point, or
by projecting the air flung Irom it
against the surface of the rudder kite.
The apparatus can perform a greater va
riety of evolutions than a bird’s wings,
spreads more surface than any bird or
other aerial mechanism, weight for
weight, and has the ability to create at
any time a wind for its own sails, and
can yet furl its wings almost as sudden
ly as a bird.
The apparatus has thus far proved of
great practical service, and demonstrates
that a common balloon may be readily
moved up, down, or around in the air by
a man’s unaided efforts —or rather by a
woman’s efforts —and on landing be re
lieved of danger of dragging.
A BRAVE RUSSIAN GIRT..
How She Succeeded In Saving Horgelf
Erom a Horrible Heath.
[Translated from the Russian for the San Fran
cisco Call.]
The correspondent of the Novoatcy
Dna (Daily News), writes that, near the
village of Kogoshna, a terrible murder
was lately committed. A Russian peas
ant who had been to the village to sell a
pair of oxen, was returning home with
his daughter, a girl of fourteen years,
when on his way he stopped at a kobach
(a drinking house), three miles from
town. In the place were several suspi
cious looking persons, who noticed the
peasant’s money when he paid for his
drink. The unsuspecting man left the
|house and went on his way. Soon after,
"under cover of darkness, he was assault
ed and killed. After rifling the corpse
the murderers threw the body of their
unfortunate victim into a well. The
girl, who had been a witness of her
father’s murder, returned to the house
where her father had stopped, and in
formed the owner of what had occurred.
He told the girl to keep quiet, and per
suaded her to stay at his place during
the night, and he would see what could
be done in the morning. Hardly had
he and his wife had time to put the girl
to bed with his own daughter, a girl of
same age, belore the murderers returned.
The kobachnik (saloon*keej.er) ac
quainted them of the girl’s return,
whereupon they avowed their intention
of completing their bloody work by cut
ting the throat of the innocent child.
The kobach nick objected to this mode of
dispatching the girl, as the body might
be discouered and lx; an easy means of
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M- . i t-- n ' hi
lion inis ever furnished -
brilliant names, names that
and on down the ages. He w;
judge of superior court of this d
1855 and tilled ic-wiseiy and well. The
state road having ll inked Cassville he
moved in 1855 to Rome where he has
since lived.
In 1857, during the great Know Noth
ing excitement, he was nominated and
elected to congress, as a Whig, in oppo
sition to Know Nothingism.
lie can tell of most exciting scenes dur
ing this fiery campaign, and many and
many were the blood}’ field fights be
tween the two political parties.
He formed a co-partnership in the
practice of law here with his son-in-law,
Hon. Frank Shropshire, one of the
ablest, unrest and best men, and with a
future all bright for him and those he
loved and was doing a largo paying bus
ness. The war came on and gallant,
brave Capt. Frank Shropshire lived not
to see the flag lie so dearly loved trailed
in the dust.
We have not the space to follow Judge
Wright on to the present but cannot
close without saying that that little fam
ily of his which landed iu Cassville in
1830 has most wonderfully grown and
flourished and increased ; likewise have
those aforesaid earthly possessions in
creased to most comfortable proportions.
We sinccrtdy trust the Judge may live
to en joy many happy returns of his natal
day.
He is the father of IS children—l 3
now living —37 grandchildren and 4
great-grandchildren, and he says, as the
last addition to his great-gramlchild»cn
was twin girls, lie is quite hopeful of a
most encouraging report later on.
Dade County News ; We have watched
and read with interest Tine Couant, a
weekly edited by Mrs. W. 11. Felton, and
published at Cartersville. We have never
had any doubt as to the real ability of the
editorial staff, but as to what ends that
ability and force would be used to effect—
its course and policy—was a matter of
some interest and concern to us. This
may have arisen from the fact, that Dr.
Felton in his recent political successes and
defeat never received anything near a
hearty support from .the people of Dade.
We would now be untrue to our convic
tions not to say that Dr. Felton deserves,
merits, and is worthy of the highest re
spect, confidence and trust, not only of the
people of this district, but of the entire
state. The Coukant has not compro
mised any of the rights and interests of
the people of Georgia, neither is there the
slightest probability of its so doing. Its
editorials deserve the highest consideration
from its readers. As seen elsewhere we
give an extract from two of them.