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■»' TERMS OF THE WEEKLY: lCopjoM jta |i ml Club* of Twenty or more $1 so each 1 Copy *Jx mouth*................ fl 00 THE DAILY: OfllehU Journal of tlio State of Georgia. tho pert ain party of tho Union; a man who abased and misrepresented by cratio press. And yet the assumption ii that Andrew Johnson is the friend of the South, whilst General Grant is the enemy of the Southern people 1 The Mends and admirers of th*y modern Democratic leader—this vulgar Tennessee Demagogue- assume that they are, exedknee, the representatiro types of Southern chivalry and manhood; whilst Southern men who an the political Mends and admirers of Gen. Grunt, on characterized by this bastard "Democracy” as enemies of the South or traitors to their section! Tbs Pilot who our and will etnas tbs Sbif or Stats satslt thboush stskt stow. Will Yirdioats tbs PaiscirLss and tbs Policy or tbs Bsfobuoas Pabtt, and Snr- pobt its Horatszs. State abb National. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, s : OCTOBER 18 OUR TICKET FOR 1872, (Subject to tlM action oi tho Republican National Convention,) FOR PRESIDENT, ULYSSES S. GRANT. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, AMOS T. AKERMAN. Republican Congressional Nominations. FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. fob roBTT-niurr confiness, RICHARD, W. WHITE, of Chatham. SOB TOBXY-SKCOND COBOBSSS, VIRGIL HILLYER, of Camden. SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, sop. Focrr-riBST amp foktt-he^ohd comobiss, RICHARD H. WHITELEY, of Deeotnr. THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, FOB FOBTF-FTBOT eOBOBBSB, MARION BETHUNE, of Talbot. FOB FOBTT-8ECOIIP COMUBZm, JOHN g. RIGBY, or Coweta. FOURTH. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. fob FoBTT-meir coxobess, JEFFERSON F. LONG, ef Bibb. FOB FOBTr-OBCONP COXOBXSB, THOMAS J. SPEER, of Pike. SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. FOR FOBTT-FTBRT AMP FOBTT-SBOONP COXOBBSS,' GEORGE P. BURNETT, of Floyd. TIIE LATEST By UAH to the Era. J An eminent English engineer says that the walls of Paris will not stand an ordinary siege. Spain cannot send any more troops to Cuba. „ Brigham Young's resignation as Trnsteo of thoMormon Church has been rejected. Temperance lecturers are canvassing Con necticut The Election Uw. No law was ever 'passed by a legislative body that gave universal satistation. Of course such a thing would be impossible; and it is the beauty of Republican institutions that the Majority is the umpire of publio sentiment It therefore beoomee ss much the duty of the citizen to obey a constitutionally enacted lew, as it does to obey a decision of a legal tribunal. Both may be objectionable, or in conflict with in dividual interests, hat the motto of Republics is the greatest good to the greatest number. We can readily understand why oar Demo cratic Mends ore not pleased with the present election law. They, for obvious reasons, would have preferred an election trader the old laws, enacted before the colored man become a voter. And for the same reasons, they would prefer that the nomination of the two Man agers by the Ordinaries, provided for by the House amendment, should be valid without tho concurrence of the Senate. In other words, they were quite wilting that the Chief Executive should be checked by tho Senate in the manner prescribed, but they ore not wil ling that petty magistrates should be sub ject to tho tome restraints. The action of Governor Bollock therefore, in taking the precaution to got the Senate's con struction of the law, before issuing bis Procla mation to Uie Ordinaries, and tbs Senate's con firmation of the Governor's construction, gives our Democratic Mends occasion for much useless complaint. In the law is too plain to be misunderstood. The w nomination of two of the Board of Managers in each county, the Ordinary is substituted for the Governor, end it would be absurd to say, in the absence of on rapteea provision, that one may moke the appointment inde pendent of the Senate whilst the other may not. The complaint of the Dexaoc press is both useless and absurd; and it im plies, on the part of the Democrats, an im peachment of the. honor of tbs Senate no less than a will to preveitlhe law itself. Folk County Alive to Her Interest*—Large Assemblage or l<oiU** and Gentlemen nt the Court House—Able and Eloquent and Great Enthusiasm Got. KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPI.E1 FIUUHKS DO NOT LIE! WHERE A* THE EXTRAVAGANCE? Who Sqwfcwflk're* the People’* Money 1 UKAD! RKADX RKADJ When Governor Jenkins was inaugurated the total debt of this Htato was only $2,356," 635--when he was removed from office, hav ing been inf only a few months more than two year*, the debt of the State waft §6,256,635 —showing an increase in tho pabtic debt of nearly FOUR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. Under tho present State Government, the puhtiu debt has not increased a single dollar, (withstanding the extraordinary legislative expenses forced npon the State by the new Democratic rebellion of September, 1868, and under which the colored members wero forced to secede. The expenses of Gov, Jenkins' administra tion froui.Octobor IGth, 1866, to October ICth, 1867, was $2,700,050,58 loss *11,586,73 cash in Treasury at last named date, nuking tho total oxpennCKfor tho year 82,689,5(3,- 85. The expenses for Gov. Bullock's adminis tration from October 1st, 1868, to October 1st, 1869^ were $1,444,895 00 less $116,695 00 cash iu Treasury at lost named date, nuking the total expenses for the year $1,328,- 200 OO being ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE DOL LARS less than the expenses of the econom- icnl ■•Democracy" under Governor Jenkins for tho same length of time. TIIE PUBLIC DEBT HAS NOT BEEN INCREASED ONE DOLLAR UNDER GOV ERNOR BULLOCK’S ADMINISTRATION. The JUccflluff at Cedartown. Wo yield most of our space to-day to tho verbatim report of the great Railroad meeting at Cedartown. It appears to have been one of tho most enthusiastic mass meetings over held in the State: The speeches were eloquent and appropriate to tho occasion. His Excel lency, the Governor of tho State, was present by special invitation. His speech will be found among onr verbatim reports. We regret to learn that certain parties cither through ignorance of the nature of the meeting, or through petty malice toward the Governor on acconnt of his well known political sentiments, have endeavored to create the im pression that this wasa “Radical meeting;" and that in eonacquenoewf this indiscretion on the part of n few partisans, several prominent and worthy Democrats who were present and par* ticipated in the meeting, have been greatly in censed at the mendacious-stories of one or two of their indiscreet party friends. The meeting was not partisan, either in design, in ception or conclusion; but a grand gathering of tho masses inospeetira of party, to signify their interest in the great Railway project un der consideration. In his short address. Governor Bollock pays a beautiful and touching tribute to the memory of tlie late General Robert E. Lee; and Lis remarks upon the subject of direct in terest to the. meeting, met a hearty response from stl those present, irrespective of party. Andrew Johnson, Gen. Lee and Gen, Grant. When Andrew Johnson, .as President of the United Staton, threatened to violate the terms of snrrcnder consummated at Appomattox; and, iu open defiance or the laws of war, to nuke a public example of Gen. Leo, by trying and executing him osar traitor,.General Grant found it necessary to interpose his authority as General of tho Armies, and to announce, officially, that the same military force that compelled tho^ surrender would, if necessary, bcevoked.'to protect the litilen hero under the terms of his parole. General Grant was too brave and noble a mas toailcmpt to humiliate a fallen foe; too honorable a man to be pectcd of panic faith; and he was too proud of the honor of his Government to see a vin dictive demagogue, in the Presidential choir disgrace the nation by violating the parole of ' a soldier. It was this timely chock to that maddened fury and cowardly malaee, whereof Andrew Johnson was chief, that made Gen. Grant the idol of the American heart. North and South. But for the firm and manly stand taken by Gsn. Grant, there is little question bat that the Nation would have been called upon to witness a scene alike shocking to humanity and disgraceful tb our civilization. And this was sought to be perpetrated by Andrew Johnson, the idol of tbe Southern Democracy! Tire Trades Unions and Demogogaes. The Labor Reform Associations in many of tho Western and Middle States have degener ated into mere political organizations, manip ulated by demagogues who seek this as a means of resuscitating themselves. Men who never did an honest day’s work in all (heir lives, but wbo are graduates in the school of political trickery, espouse the caueo of the laboring men ns a means of creating influence by which to direct nominating conventions. In too many instances, tbe working men have lieen the dppes of these genteel vagrants,and ac cepted them as leaden. This of conrse, always proves fatal to their organizations, os it in variably precedes divisions and counter asso ciations, led by rival politiciana, Tbo real object of Labor Associations is thus lost sq^lt wholly ignored; and Trades Unions, otherwise beneficial when managed by able and jndieions working men, are brought into eontempt even with their own members. Working men find by sad experience that the very politicians who rise to power through the influenoe of these Unions, or espouse the hobbies of the lobo reform associations, ere the first to turn against them, and thus kick down the ladder by which they asoended to position. Labor ing men should be cautious of political aspi rants, and never fail to give these political bummers a wide berth. If they would in fluence legislation, let them beware of dema gogues wbo suddenly become enamored of a branch of industry of which they really know notliing. STATE HEWS. ' uvuxu. Tho business men of tbe city closed doors anil the citizens generally observed Saturday as a Memorial day in honor of Gen. Lee. The city police will wear crape for thirty days The birth-day of Father Mathew, the Catholic Tcmpennee reformer, woe generally observed by the CatoKes More Aurora Borealis Frost Thursday night Bishop Perrico had not arrivod Saturday The colored citizens joined in paying honors to the memory of Gen. Leo It is rumored that a well-known Bay street merchant has disappeared under circumstances not tho most favorable to his honesty Bishop Verot is lecturing on Rome and the Ecumenical Council. Judge Parrott, Judge Undi - Crawford, GcneraTPhillips, and otu.c Distinguished GenlltnesPresent—Hen. Hr. Jsynes, or Polk. Elected President, with Judge Parrott, Judge Loehtmse and I Ion. Seaborn Jones,VicePresidents— [Note.—Wo ore indebted to tbe courtesy of the.Son for the report of the speeches mode at tho meeting.] Governor Bullock, accompanied by Judge Me Cay, Judge Loclirane, Hon. Mr. Walthall, Representative from Polk, Hon. Mr. Strick land, Representative from Panlding, Hon. Mr. Williams, Representative from Haralson; Hon. Mr. Tweedy, and other gentlemen left the city, on Friday evening's train, to attend a rail road meeting, at Cedar Town, Polk eounty, which had been announced, somo ten days since; to take place on the 15th instant On the arrival at the train at Marietta the party was increased by tho addition of Gen. Phillips, Henry G. Cole,'Judge Hammett CoL Horrell, Judge Green and a number of other leading citizens of Cobb, together with tbe Marietta silver cornet bond. At Cortersville Judge FerroU and others came on board. The party with many pleasant incidents joornied on to Cave Spring, nnd.thence by carriages over the cedar mountain and through the magnificent cedar valley to Cedar Town, arriving at 12 o’clock, noon, on Satur day. The party wero here joined by Judge Underwood, Major Burnett and CoL Gaskill from Rome, and were received by a delegation of citizens,' Ool. Dovers, CoL Waddell, Major Blanco, Mr. Bunn, Mr. Simmons and many others, and escorted to a samptaons dinner, after which the whole party repaired to the Court House which was crowded to its full espacity. On arrivftig in the hall, Hon. Mr. Jaynes was nominated and unanimously elected President of the meeting with Judge Lochrane, and Hon. Seaborne Jones as Vice Presidents, and Messrs Turpin and Anderson as acting Secretaries. Tbe President then announced tbe order of Speakers and introduced bis Excellency Gov - Bullock to. tbs audience. Gov. Bollock was kindly received and spoke os follows: 1U00X. Citizens held s meeting Saturday in honor of Gen. Lee. Speeches were mode and resolu tions passed Mon robbed of $1,000 Thurs day night More burglary. COLUMBUS. Citizens met Saturday in honor of Gen. Lee. Exercises very appropriate. BOWL Over 4,000 persons on the Fair Grounds last Thursday. ALBSXV. Citizens' meeting in honor of General Lee. Address by Gen. A. H. Colquitt LX GBASGE. ' » Publio meeting last Wednesday. Speeches by Hon. J. IL Caldwell and Colonel W. F. Wright Heavy reins. I .'.Everybody is going to the Atlanta Fair. City draped in mourning and public meet ing in honor of General Lee A. B. Wright and H. W. Hilliard delivered addresses.... Fire Department will parade daring Fair week and contest for prizes. Slight frosts Exercises of the University suspended in honor of General Lee. Superior Court in session. Full attendance of the bar. Tke North*! The "revolution in Northern public senti ment” that was to have been inaugurated at tbe elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indi ana, seems to have bora postponed for another term of two years. From tbe best informa tion we can gather. Republicans have mode gains in all tho States where tbo elections have taken place, and this wholly regardless of the confident predictions of some of our friends in this State, who set apart the year 1870 as the grand Jubilee of the “Northern Democ racy." Even in New York, where Democracy now bolds sway, the proepect is decidedly blue. "Shin-bone" Brooks is opposed, hr bis District, by another Simon pure Democrat, thus creating a division in favor of the Repub licans. Gen. Banks is visiting Kentucky. Or GOT. BUIXOCK. .Ur. Presides/, ladies and Gentlemen—Citi zens tf Folk eouidy : Your President has been kind enough to introduce me to you as one wbo will make an address. That I cannot do. But before saying anything upon the subject for the consideration of which we are assem bled, I deem it due to myself and to tbe feel ing which I am sure pervades the heart of ev ery one before me, to refer to tho solemn cere monies which on this day and at this hour are being performed in the State of Virginia. It so happens that this meeting was appointed for this dmy and could not well be adjourned in deference to the events which have occur red since its announcement We are there fore here when many, perhaps all of us would have preferred to remain nt onr respective homes and.tr> have given such expression as might to each of ns have seemed Met adapted to evince our feelings of sorrow at the death of General Robert E. Lee. [Emotion and snbdaeil applause.] In bis death tho Ameri can nation hoe lost an eminent Christian man, one wbo by his civic virtues has added addi tional hwtre to the title of “American citizen." Let nsbope that tbe sorrows which are mutu ally indulged in to-day both in tho North and in tbe Sooth, may weld together still more strongly the Union that has been restored, and through which each and all of ns an en abled with pride to say that wo are American citizens, with one country, one flag and one destiny 1 We of the South, have indeed beat en onr spears mod onr swords into usefril uten sils, and are now devoting onr Lost energies to develop tbe natural resources of our country, and -tins meeting to-day is an evidence of it Wears here to promote, if passible, the con struction of a railroad communication between the Alabama line and tbe State Road, to run through your county and the adjoining coun ties of Paulding and Cobb. At a meeting which I bod the honor to attend a week or BO since in Panlding county, I listened to several addresses from the citizens of Panlding and Cobb, setting forth the advantages which the country would derive if a bill which had been adopted by the General Assembly granting what ie known as “State Aid," in constructings rood to run trough those counties and beyond, poold become a law, and I assured them that it should receive my approval. That Act has not yet come to me, but when it does it shall be approved. [Applause.] And let me as sure you now hero to-day, that whatever lies in mv power to do, personally or officially, shall be done to secure the prompt and rapid construction of this line of rood, as well os all other lines that open up remote sections of our State that have hitherto been and still are without practical and convenient aoeess to railroad eommunicatian. [Applause.] There are some few timid and esutiaus per sons in the State who fear that we are “going to everlasting ruin” by authorizing what is known as “State Aid,” to railroads. Let ns refer for a moment to the exact relation which the State beam to this “Aid" which it extends to railroad enterprises. When railroad companies are organized and incorporated by act of tbe General Assembly, the next step is' that gentlemen of intelligence and responsibility form themselves together as a company, and they prepare, by careful surveys, examinations and estimates, to build a railroad. If the enterprise is. deemed by them site sash examination, practicable and likely to be feasible, they pot in their money, complete say ten or fifteen miles of road, and then by executing a first lien to tbe State upon the whole work completed, the State in ex change, give! hex indorsement npon the first mortgage bonds of tho-road to the extent of a certain number of dollars per mile, as may be fixed by statute, which can in no event exceed ane-half the cost or value of the road and equipments already completed. Yon will read ily see that if on enterprise has any merit, and it the gentlemen wbo put their own. money in the enterprise have any judgment the State is doubly secure. Tbe advantage which the railroad oompany derives from this indorse ment, is that it makes their bonds more valua ble and salable outside of our State, and in the markets of the world, because bonds baring such State indorsement, carry with them the security of the united wealth and capital of the whole State for the payment of tho interest and prin cipal of the bonds. The advantage of this plan to the railroad company is, that tbe peo ple need pay in on subscriptions only about ono-holf the cost of the rood, and can get credit for the balanoe for twenty years^.when by the increase in the value of property and the earnings of the road, they will be able to pay off tho bonds when they bocome due. The advantage to (he State is in toeincreoeed value of taxable property by development and increoseof population, .Asa business transaction, it is fully illus trated by every man who has bought a planta tion, paying half cash down and letting the balance run on mortgage, until by dealing up and cropping, be baa made bis placo pay twice wbat be paid for it .lam sure that if the gentlemen ’ before me to-day, are really in earnest and desire to have a road built from here to Marietta, each a road will be built It only requires tho united effort of the inhabitants of the section of country through which tho road is to pass, to insure its speedy completion. I need not, of conrse, go into detail as to how it shall be done, or as to the proper manner of doing it All that is necessary is united action and de termination npon your part, and the best means of constructing tbe rood will readily be found. As I see here in the audience some of my colored friends, let me say to them that the road is of as much importance to every colored man in the county of Polk, or in any other county thrtfT&h which the toad nibs, as it can be to any of tho white citizens. It i^ig fact, more important and more valuable to the” laborer than to the land holder, for tho en hanced price Of land brings up with-it tlip value of labor. The opportunity for the laborer to change his location is also given by this easy means of communication. You, oolored men have muscle; your white friends have money. Let the two be united, and the road will be promptly built. Thanking you, ladies and gentlemen,' for your kind reception, I will .now join you in listening to the eloquent gentlemen wbo arc to address the meeting. [Applause.] Upon the conclusion of Gov. Bullock's re marks Judge HcGay, of the Supremo Court, was introduced and spoke as follows: remarks of hon. n. k. if cay. Rllow Citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am a citizen of the low country. I live a long way below Macon. I am almost within sight of the Gulf of Mexico, and within range of its soft and balmy breezes. There ore no hills where I live, and no mountains. It is a great plain. From where I live out to the Gulf of Mexico, there is scarcely a single hilL But yet, fellow citizens, in my early life I lived in the mountains, and although I have passed through this section by railroad, this is the first time that I have passed in a long number of years, through such a country as this. It brings to me memories of my early days. It is a glorious country—a country to live in—a country in which the products of the land are in the way of a liyelihood. The country in which I live is a country where they raise cot ton, and where they don't have milk to put in their coffee, because they do not produce it They can only make cotton. I am, how ever, a cotton man. But, fellow-citizens, I con see that this is just the sort of a country that needs the development of a railrral. A pound of cotton is worth now about thirteen cents, and a pound of wheat ,is worth .only about two cents. A pound of cotton ton be transported in a wagon & long distance, but a bushel of wheat cannot; a bushel of com can not, and a bushel of oats cannot The country then that produces these things is the very country that needs a railroad. I am a sort of a hardshell in my religions faith, and I am a sort of a hardshell in my political belief. [Applause.] I believo that what God intends men cannot hinder, do all they may. Yon may delay it, you may stop it, you may put yonr foot npon it, you may hang back, but it will come to pass in spite of all you can do. And one of the decrees of God is, that all the world is to be bound together with iron bands, and it isn't worth while to try to stop it, jrad the man that is now the most strenuously op posed to railaoads, in a few years will be like a man in my town was when they built the railroad from Macon to Atlanta. He opposed it; he fought against it; he cursed it; be abused it; he gathered together a gang of men, and vowed that he would brei& down the first locomotive engine that came along. Ho took Li* men to the road. Presently ho heard the whistle blow, he saw the engine come rushing along by him with its great speed, puffing and blowing, and bo stood npon one side as it passed, and looking after it said, “well, I am in favor ot tbo thing after all.** (Applause.) Yon can't stop the decrees of Providence. This country has been seized with the spirit of improvement. You can’t stand Dj- yourself. You must do as others do. If a man living on the railroad can get his wheat to market for fivo cents a bushcll, when it costs yon ten cents, he will be better off than you. You will be obliged to take tbe railroad if for no other reason than because you belong to the great universal Yankee nation that never will stop. Now, I use the work Yankee not in the sense in which wo use it ordinarily. A Yankee is a man who, the harder yon push him down, the higher he will bounce up again. Yon are bound to improve your country, for when yon work and get a little money, you will want to invest it in something that will pay, and a railroad is the very best invest ment yon can moke, because it increases the value of the land. It brings people into your country that would not come into it before. Formerly if a man had $1200, he would send to Virginia and buy a negro. Virginia got the money, and Georgia got the negro. Georgia now gets the negro, but it don't cost her anything. Every new man that comes to Georgia now is worth just os much now os when wo used to send monfcy to Virginia to buy a negro. Every count# in creases in wealth in proportion to the number of the people in it. The products in it are valued in proportion to the people who are there, ana who want to get there. Now this count# is hard to get to. It takes longer to .come from Cave Spring to Cedartown than it does to go from Cave Spring to Atlanta. The progress this country has made in rail roads, in the means of intercommunication Is absolutely amazing. Bailroads and telegraphs have accomplished things which suck men as Washington and Jefferson never dreamed of. A journey can be made between New York and HfJi Francisco with more ease than a journey could be mode between New York and Wash ington fifty years ago. It is just as easy now to care of a country like ours 2,500 miles one way and 3,000 miles the other* all'govern ed by one Bet of laws, by one central head, as it was a country 100 miles square then. Why? Because railroads and telegraphs and other nv^n« of communication have enabled men to move rapidly from ono section to Another, and to communicate easily and instantaneous ly with one another. It makes their interest one, their feelings ono, their hopes one, their thoughts one; it binds them together in one great harmonious whole. . Their interests make every man feel that he is a part of tho whole, and not that ho is like a hermit sitting away off from civilization, doing as his fathers did before him. No, gentlemen, yon live in the world, and you can’t lire anywhere else without leaving the world. Of conrao, in tho remsrks that I, make, it cannot be expected that I should go into de tails as to bow this road shall be built I un derstand the object of this meeting to be to seek some means of communication with the Atlantic seaboard. The Atlantic seaboard is now tbo great center of American commerce. Before the war onr tendencies were towards the Gulf, which is comparatively unimportant now. . Thirty years ago the Mississippi river was looked upon by statesmen ns being the only outlet frum’tlie West Since the war the Mis- sisippi river seems to have lost its impor tance. r The Gulf is m t so important as it once was, because a railroad is better than a river: it never freezes and is never overflowed; it is not so cheap, but is & far more rapid and certain means of communication. There is no man the value of whose land will not be increased by constructing a road through this country. Some of you in this coontry own land worth $25 an acre, that if it it.. .f til:. —i,. conn B&h men who cry out Tunning tho State iu debt; of sinking the State in would have cried fire am for State aid&h its this occasion I am glad to see the Go' ^ Jtaxatiouand .t tty this _ a deluge But d on 'who lose Georgia coming to mingle with the people and went into the wodds and cat down the trees hearing their wonts, and aiding them m their that made their shelter, and by vigorous cf- pnblic enterprises.- [Applause,] Differing forts,, toil and eeoqomv, nobly planted tbe with him as I do politically, on this lino wej^ceds ofai prosperity thatgrexr and flourished proudly and .gloriously, until cut down. Look at* Georgia os they had raised Tier.'' Her head was crowned with, a'garland ofr glory, and yielded precedence to no power or principality : n the healthy vigor and grandeur of her insti tutions, universities of .learning, invited, as they conferred the highest intellectual cultiva tion. Her mountain barriers opened to com merce, and from the bosom of the great West, >ourcd down the fruits of fertility to the At- antic; avenues overflowed with capital; and the hum of labor rose up with the lark and echoed with mills and foundries, factories, mid forges across the entire State. What the old men of Georgia did, the young men of Georgia can do. Do we lack immigra tion? So did they. Do we lack capital? So did they. Do we lack spirit? I invoke theirs to come down to inspire ns in our effort. To build this toad it is only necessary that yon be in earnest, and also, that these fair la dies before me give their co-operation. I am always proud to see before me, npon an occa sion like this, involving questions of public interest, the ladies; for gentlemen, they con trol you. You may sometimes look upon that little hand, hardly large enough to carry a diamond ring, as being able to accomplish but little, and yet that hand leads the world. | Applause.] A woman’s will is law in Georgia, iVhy, Governor Bullock at Dallas, when he made his speech, after all the manipulations of the men that were around him; after all the able statesmen that were endeavoring to get his views os to the policy of signing the biti* never said ono word upon the subject until he was forcod to yield by stand together—and I am proud to say to my fellow-citizens of Polk county, that T stand with him as the champion of a policy that has done moro to develop tho natural resour ces of tho State, than that of his predecessors within ten years. [Applause.] And I con gratulate you on traveling through your county from Cave Spring this morning—for I saw in tho evidence of wealth and prosper ity— “That there** life in tho old lend yet.** With the loss of fortune and the widowhood and orphanage, and desolation that flowed in the wave of war, we still retain our proud pre eminence of honor and social prestige, and have treasures of fame the brightest lands cannot boast, and memories that make ns immortal. Standing in the very track of General Sher man’s army, that went over Cherokee Geor gia like the overflow of the Nile, covering the fields of Egypt with waste, I am glad to see a prosperity that covers the land with fertility and fruit, and a scene of devastation, changed to a very sheen of glory. I feel the realization that the storm that disrobed Georgia, like that which took Elijah's mantle, has only carried her to a higher destiny. Standing upon a soil hallowed by its afflictions, and surrounded by spots 6acred to affection, where April bends in tears and May pours out her swsetest flowers. I thank the Governor for his allusions to the ceremonies that are this hour progressinj throughout the nation in memory of Genera Lee. Tho South is a Niolie clad m mourning ov/;r a loss that is irreparable. For Never hand Waved swonl from stain so free. And never sword led braver band Or braver bled for a brighter land. Or a brighter land had a cause so grand, Or a cause a chief like Lee. [Loud and prolonged applause.] Although he is to-day carried to his tomb, be is not dead; but bis spirit, beyond the.cedars and. tbo stars, will live in tbe hearts ot the people forever. [Applause.] And from other lands the telegraphic communication pulsates with sympathy across tho bosom of the Atlantic. England, a nation proud in a heritage of glo ries, radiant with names that stand glorious in every field of history; and proud in the Marl- boroughs, Wellingtons, and a host of worthies, that have overflowed Britain with the splen dor of imperishable fame, speaks her appre ciation. The world bows in homage to bis greatness, and North, South, East, and West melt and mingle in tho embrace of a common sympa thy over his tomb. But, especially is be cher ished by Americans. Wherever tne flag floats to-day, by sea or land, true men feel the elec tric pride flash upon the brain that he was an American. And his nnmo will go down the corridor of tho centuries, hallowed to Ameri can nationality forever. [Applause.] Bat I feel as a Southern man on this subject, that oilonoo in eloquence, for thought is deeper than nil speech, ami feeling is deeper than thought Our people 'were looked upon as a languid race: nml when tho war ended, the world looked for an epitaph marking tho great out lines of a cemetery. How sudden and surprising was the result that followed the wave of war, soldiers as gal lant as ever lived, that had they been with Lee at Sedan, would have marched with McMAhon to Berlin; and Nopoleon to-day, instead of be ing a captive, would have been a conqueror; rallied from the battle field to the plough, draped their buttons in mourning, went to la bor, and with their own hands built up shelter against the lonely chimneys left standing in the very haste of destruction, gathered their scattered families around them, and laid the foundation of a new and glorious prosperity. It must have been something more than necessity that brought back to peaceful fire sides the veterans of war and changed a people into the quietude and toil of labor. To those who knew tho Southern heart and were ac quainted with Southern character, the scene was not unanticipated, but was oven more successfully and universally developed than might have been expected. The act Drings in its hopes a new sentiment for onr people, and ono iu which the young and lovely faces around mo must tako port Before the war we did not feel as w e ought the love of home nnd home life essential to make it the sanctu ary of onr household gods. It was only the absence from the red hills and pine woods of Georgia that-made them look lovely. It was by the smoke of tho camp fire, reading lines traced by the Georgia fireside, that waked up this love of home. Bat it is now c. sentiment, n great principle of Southern life, that is grow ing into and becoming a part of our national character. And now no people are exhibiting a greater or grander devotion to their own firesides than w'e. ‘ In the light of this sentiment I see in the future, not alone a nationality, but a prosper ity of happiness. I see tho white cottage bubbling up out of a sea of green, the wood bine twining its Anns around it, and the rose tree climbing to kiss its windowed face. I see the orchard and the garden waving to the soft atmosphere of our Southern air their hanging fruits and Hewers. We have still left the materials of a great State. Mineral and Agricultural wealth abound all over Georgia. We have every va riety of climate, every character of soil, and every essential ingredient of prosperity. From the mountains to the - seaboard, we have a scope of country washed with rivefe that may be dotted with Manufactories. We have lands in cultivation capable of support ing ten times onr population. Looking from where I stand I can point to millions iu Iron, Marble, Slate and Coal, awaiting but the hand of labor to leap from tlio mine and mingle with the commerce of tho world. I can point to railroads in every section. I were in the State of Ohio would baworth $200 an acre. TSie State of Ohio is further removed from a market than yon are naturally, but railroads are the great cause of its lands being so valuable. Ohio is not such a fine country to Kre in as yours. A man has to perform almost as much labor to get wood for the win ter as yon have to perform during the whole year. Yon can't get peqplfiL to come to Polk county, where it wdl coat them twice us much to get their produce to* market as it does in Cobb, or any county easily accessible to a railroad. They will not come, and, os I re marked before* land is valuable in a country in proportion to tbo number of peoplo who are there, or wbo want to get there. A foot of land is worth $1,000 in Atlanta, and $50,000 in somo other cities simply because there are so many people in these cities, and therefore, if yon want to moke yonr land valuable, you must holdout inducements and facilities for people to come into your .country. But I am a lawyer, and I can't make much of a speech on a plain case. Let a man come up here and oppose this railroad, and I will Brake a better speech in favor of the road; but it is hard to speak upon such a plain matter. The road will bo built, and nobody can stop it [Applause,] After music by the baud Judge Loclirane appeared and said: Rlow-titiiens, Ladies and Gentlemen: If I come here for the purpose ot apology, I would have found it since I arrived m your city, for I have bod a chill only on hour or two ago. But I promised when I became a Director of. the Cortersville and Van Wert Railroad that I would take the position as a Director of Folk county, having impprtant interests in your county,land that I would, to the best of mv hum ble ability,represent your interest [Applause.] I told those with whom I met here some time ago, after traveling the route, that I not only favored this extension, but I favored the extension through the town of Cedartown, and am hero to-day to keep my promise, not for the purpose of demonstrating by figures, esti mates or calculations the advantage ot such extension, for you all know I am not a # rail road Winn. I am only ond of those citizens who have a general interest in the welfare of the State, and am proad to seo every section and every resource of tho State developed, not only by agricultural and industrial enterprises, bat by State aid when necessary in the construction of her railroads. [Ap plause.] I am not one of those timid or sel- can point to co-operative industry' already digging down mountains and spreading its in fluence in every direction. I can point to the edifices and improvements all around, and the invitation, opportunity"and advantage gives to foreign capitalists and investment We in vite it, and to all, from every section, who make this their home, and meet as on the sympathy of a common humanity, we offer an honest reciprocity and welcome where he Will find a homo of association and friendship. I regretted to meet on my way hero families moving from Paulding cotmty to Texas. This is wrong. We mast stand by Georgia, and by lal*>r and lovo develop her resources. This laud shall never be the land of strangers, nor shall the tombs of oar own be abandoned to others: Never! never! Butin the progress of our prosperity, wo will cherish the memo ries tluit live among her hills and plains, where tlicir music shall echo with thought forever. . We have inexhaustible resources of wealth and boundless prospects of future prosperity. You have soil as fruitful and a sky os genial ns Tuscany or the favored Arcadia. In'no region of earth can we have more to invite in dustry and exertion. If to-day God’s providence had led us to Upper Georgia, and ohr first house was still in the woods* that gird it in fewest grandeur, here, as tho most favored spot of eartii, woafd I hew down a path for civilization to pass, and start a home. God has given ns a world ctf greatness to develop which we still .con call our own. Let us not then murmur at what is gone, but feel grateful for what is-left. Resolve this day still more to adorn and illustrate Georgia, not only glorifying in her post, but in her future. If we are * Only roused to a sense of our resources, we have accomplished the first stop in moulding tho future. We have much to do, and I would not underrate the obsta cles still to be encountered, but to energy and industry these will go off like mist curling up from yonr mountain tops. There are times when tho world moves for ward with a perceptible shock, and every thing changes. The last few years was one of these great movements, in which wo all felt the shook, and in its progress millions of ottr capital wasjiwnllowed up. Wo have offered every inducement to capital to come and share with us the wealth that lies in onr fields and mines. ' Immigrants have been invited, and still they prefer to linger In cabins, and till lands of which they c*n never own an acre, and bequeath meanness and mis ery to their children j than come to a soil that yields moro with less labor, than any spot of earth—d land where ten yearn of industry would make ibom independent, and opens to their children every avenue of destination. Let them slay. Georgians will reap their own reward, and by economy and industry build our own railroads, plough our own fields, gather our own harvests,and soon start on every river flowing to tho sea, .their own manufacto ries, to spin and weave their own cotton, man ufacture their own iron, quarry their own mar- blo and slate, and when we pat the machinery in motion, we’ll make them pay for the inter ests they will be begging to buy. shtml< the oETmen of jGeorgia wave of desolation were ied more than this. They the influence of the ladies. [Applanso.} I implore your interest and influence in this matter. Extravaganco in the past has ruined and wrecked many of us, and you are the par ties to economise, and to say that you will put ; rourhand to this work and exercise your in- 5 Inence over those with whom yon are asso ciated, for if you do, this road will be built through Codartown, and I shall ride upon it within five years. [Applause.] If you don’t do it, I shall always think that yon ought to. Ladies are in favor of public-spirited enter prises, but let me assure yon that there are none so great os those which bring facilities of travel and communication to yqjir own doors. You, young ladies, before me, were not perhaps boro in cities, but it is in the country that you have spent most of your lives, and it is to a little wife well-willed and a little farm well tilled that tho people of Polk county must look for wealth, prosperity and happiness. Give mo the smile of a wife and her welcomo, and the prattle of little children around ono’i knee when he returns from his toil, and tho temptations of the world pass liko an idle wind bv him. Remove this from him, remove this influence from around him, and yon find that ho booomea n wreck, fonndoring in the waves of destruction. I therefore appeal to you, ladies, that yon become tho* advocates of this road. I do not desire to consume the time enumerating the benefits that would flow from the construction of this road. I need not refer to the rich and fertile lands around me needing but the hand of labor to touch them and mingle their products with the com merce of the earth. I need not refer to these things, for, as Judge McCay says, it is too plain a case to discuss. You know that this road must be built, and I pledge myself as one connected with the Cortersville nnd Van Wert Railroad that, so help mo God, I will do all I can to build it. [Applause.] Tho President then introduced Jtidgo Un derwood, who spoke as follows: SPEECH OF JUDGE UNDERWOOD. I hove listened with attention nnd with manner of indifference to all that has been so well and so eloquently said by the gentle men who have preceded me. I marked well the words of the Chairman jvhen ho stated that the object of the meeting was for the pur pose of considering the propriety of connect ing Codartown by rail with 'the East. If that is tho object of the meeting, I am opposed t > it The Chairman.— It was railroad connections generally that I had reference to, North, South, East, and West. But more particularly this meeting was called in reference to the project for connecting with the East Judje Underwood.—I have no objections to that, but I want the North ami South Railroad to have au equal chance with the proposed road. I desire that Cedartown shall have com munication with the North and tho South as* well as the East I believo that rail roads should bo placed upon an equal footing, and if I were Governor, I would sign every bill. We are here to consider the necessities of the whole country, and not a part of it And now let me say nght hero, before I forget it, that I endorso overy sentiment nttcred by Gov. Bullock. They are charactcrizeiT by statesmanship; they are wise, public spirited $ml patriotic, and I don’t care what your politics axe, you ought to approve iu your hearts the sentiments that he has uttered to-day. looking towards the development of fbjg country. I am not going to raise any question.as to the difference between us polit ically, for, if I understand myself precisely, I have got no port in politics. [Applause. ]-- Certainly I don’t agree with him, and I don' know that I agree with anybody else. My friends, I have been a politician. I have stood before this people in the advocacy of the principles upon which this government was Dosed. I have defended them; I have main tained them, but I have lived to see the day that those that were at war with me then, are now in control of the Democratic party, and ore attempting to kick me out I have had more office than I ever was entitled to, and I think ybu will agree with me upon this point I hare been honored by this peoplo for which I bow my most sincere thanks hero to-day be fore you.- I have seen enough of public life to know how the allurements of office fade and glimmer into nothing when compared to the calling of an honest man. I understand that I am ineligible to office, and I had liked to have said that I thanked God for it One thing 1 do know, I don’t want any offico. I shall never be before you Again for your suf frages. I do feel an interest in common with the people of this country in the welfare of tbe country. I have looked, my fellow- citizens, back for the last ten years into the dark scenes that have passed before us. I have sickened and turned away from those miserable cesspools of corruption and plunder, or have turned my attention to the material development of the country and its truo prog ress, and to the interest and the honor and tho welfare of the whole people. The spcakei then spoke at length upon the direction, pros pects, advantages and merits of the North and Bonth Railroad Company. If the bill, incor porating this road through Cedartown was sanctioned, the bill incorporating the North and Sooth Railroad Company should be sanc- practical qu< are interested. I don't Atlantic Ocean, nopthe Gulf Stream, i noif Sic these outside ifcues, fo: which wc havWbut lit1 question of the greatest importance is to ar rive at some practical result by which the peo plo of the county 6f Polk and certain counties adjoining arc to be mutually benefited by-tlie development of railroad interests, and to exactly believe it, however. It may come, but if somebody don’t bnild it, if somebody don’t make some efforts toward it, it _ wii! never come. It may l>e that it is decreed by Providence that this road running from Marietta through Cedartown shall be built, but that time may not' come until after we are dead. We aro passing along the journey of life. The days that are allot ted to us among men are fast passing away, and it we would accomplish this object, we must put our hands to the work. People tell us that onr children will get the benefit of this road, but we must get tho benefit of it ourselves. One man cannot build a road; it must be done by the concentrated effort and energy of tbo whole corporation or communi ty—by the united power of tho brains nnd the wealth and tho muscles of many. This is tho only way in which you can be assured of success. This is what State aid means—all the united power of a million of people in one corporation directed upon one great enter prise; and they guarantee that - your bonds shall be paid, if you will 'mild your road.— That guaranty will enhai .*e the value of your land, will bring people into your section and will ponr money into the Treasury of the State by increasing the amount of taxable property within her limits. The whole State of Georgia concentrates her efforts upon iTlie enterprize. If you have energy enough you can have a Road from Ma rietta through Cedartown to Pryor station, yon can have a road from Cartersville and Van Wert through Cedartown by this means. You may ask how is the State going to be protected. I will tell you how. You arc required to build 20 miles of the road with your own individual money—to put this amount, out of yonr own pockets, into the construction of the road, amounting to $2,000 or more per mile. Then you are entitled to thcJjcuefit of State aid. Thus, you see, the State is protected, for if tho road foils the State cannot lose anything unless the individ uals lose their money first. Suppose you are building a rood from [Marietta to Pryor Sta tion, you aro required to build IQ mile? be fore State aid cau be extended to your road. That will cost of ytmr t individual money, $25,000 per mile.. There is $250,000 of rnonoy already laid out and expended, by the people before the State’s endorsement is given at all. When they have thus expended, their own money they*get $15,000 per' mile. The road costs you $25,000 per mile and the State loans you her credit for $15,000 a mile. That is, she places her endorsement on the bonds of yonr road after yon liavo completed a certain number of miles, and then you can go into tho markets of the world and raise the money. Tho State always has the-first claim upon the road, and no matter how great debts may bo against tho road the elaim of the State must first be satis^ed. • There has been some di?ccussioa about tho different roads to bo built through your pouu- try. Yon will consider this in a sensible, practical manner, and yon will choose the road that is tho most easily bnilt, and which will be the mest proper. When you have de termined upon it you must give the enterprise yonr every energy. I have no fear of competition from any road. If people want to build roads wherever they liavo a wagon yard; if they, wish to put their monoy in it, I have no objection to it When you are convinced that yon ought to have a road and that it is to your interest, lfet overy property-holder come up and take stock in the railroad enterprise that will benefit his prop erty, that will make him richer and happier. It takes a great deal of money, a great deal of labor, a great deal of brains to accomplish bring out your monoy. Don’t id of your railroad as an old preacher irked to some of his people. He preaching in a certain town and ing to get disheartened. His _ _ e around him, and said, ‘Why brother we all love to hear yon whenever you come, we take good care of you, we give yon all the chickens and tho good things.” “Yes,” said tho old man, “but my brother. I have ..... . __ . been coming here for ten long years trying to arouse the people’s appreciation of tbo import? seLora, and save your souls, but not anco of this great interest-, To this question one e€«yon has over put yonr hand down in I shall direct the few remarks that I have to '* make npon this occasion. It is known to us all that throughout the habitable globe, it bos been established be- ; rond all controversy, that wherever railroads ! lave run. the country has grown richer,, and more powerful. Now in the State of Georgia for many, many yeara past—and these old citizens who are present know it io be so—there were particu- ar regions that were highly favored by tho legislative power, authorizing and empower ing them to have railroad communications. For long years it was impossible for many sections of the State to derive any advantage or benefit from the railroad laws of tho State of Georgia. It is well known to these people here that the Central Railroad and the Georgia Railroad and their connections exercised a controlling' influence over the interests of the people of tho State of Georgia, and that these powers and these monopolies were depriving in a great measure, the interior and back counties from the benefit of railroad enterprises. This Was true until the close of the late war, when a change came over our people. The common mass of the people detennined that they would have their rights in the Stato of Geor gia as well as the more favored few*. Their ands wero riot enhanced in value, yet the tax gatherer never failed to visit each house however humble in these back counties to gather up. revenues by winch these monopolies wero to bo favored, bat they were denied tho benefits of railroad enter- prizes. This existed for many years until finally iho pooplc rose in their might and said that the Georgia Railroad and tho Central Railroad and tho State Road might run on, but they should not deprive other sections of tho benefits which rightfully belonged to them; and so a road has been constructed from Macon to Brunswick, another has been com menced from Brunswick to Albany running through tho South-western section of the State; and the Cartersville and Van Wert Rail road, this little child of our own section. AU these have followed from this new policy, the result of tho voice of the common people of tho country; and so by these means, fellow- citizens, yon are to derive benefit from tbe State. Yon contribute to tbe support of tlio Government and you derive tho benefit of its support in return. It may be that tho theory advanced by Judge McCay is correct and that this road is going to come anyhow. I don’t the bottom of your pockets, and drawn out a dollar.” I want you to put your hands down deep into your pockets and draw out the dol lars. Subscribe to some road—to the Carters ville and Van Wert Road, or to any road that seems most profitable to you, and most likely to develop your resources and build up your material interests. A railroad is a public ne cessity. Your property will bo worth three times as much os it is now. I have seen lands in the valley of the Little Miama river in Ohio, that you cannot buy for $200 au acre in gold, aud yet I have seen farms hero that I would rather have than any of them. What is the reason of this? It is be cause they have beaten us iu their facilities of communication and transportation. What this country needs is energy, people and trans portation. -You must have the energy or you will not have the people, and you cannot have the transportation. I am reminded, in look ing over this country, of the words of a gen tleman whom I heard speak of Polk county. He said, alluding to her agricultural and her mineral wealth, that “dame nature had bro ken her apron strings and spilled out of her lap, the wealth of the world.” [Applause.] There is more truth than poetry in that re mark. .You have inexhaustible mineral re sources. You have got farms that would be envied by men who live upon the banks of the Mississippi, or in North-western Mis souri, which is tho richest part of the world. Yon surpass* them in climate. Y’ou have no long winter. Yon cau raise many things that they-cannot Yon can raise all the fruits of temperate and tropical, zones, with a very few exceptions. But with all these things, you have got to work if you would have these vast resources utilized and most advantageously de veloped. It has often been said that where God docs the most for men. they do the least for themselves. We often find that the most sterile regions are best supplied with railr. ad and commercial facilities, and the richest por tions are, for want of energy, left undeveloped. Yon will not do your duty if you do not have a road to this place, and you must put your entire energies to the task. Col. Crawford is here representing tlie Cartersville and Van Wert road, and Gen. Phillips is here repre senting the road from Marietta. You will de termine which of these* roads will secure to you the greatest advantages. Tho advocates of these different roads will speak for them selves. I am not an advocate for auy particu lar road. I am in favor of railroads iu every section of the State. Iu tho inspiring words of the poet, “No pent-up tTtic* contract* our powers. Dot the whole boundless continent is ours." Col. Crawford, of the Cartersville and Van Wort Railroad, having been noticed in the audience, was loudly colled for aud responded os follows: REMARKS OF COL. CfeAWFORP. Jfr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: This reminds me of what occurred hvst week iu Carteraville. At tho close of the week’s festiv ities that ended tho Fair nt onr town, tho President of the Association announced from the stand that there was to be a ball that evening at my house. That was the first inti mation I had had of the ball. And here I am called upon to make a speech. Now, ladies and gentlemen, if I was ever overwhelmed 9j with embarrassment, it is right here now. I have never douo much iu the wav of making speeches, except it may be making compli ments to the ladies. I came here to hear my friend, Gen. Phillips in ihe interests of tlie peoplo of Cedartown, and in his efforts to in duce you to help him bnild bis road. lam trying to build a road also, nnd I hope I will be able to succeed. Succeed! Why, wheth er you' get Gen. Phillips road or not you will get a rood—just remember that—and I will bring it through Cedartown, so help me, God! [applause,] if his Excellency, the Governor, don’t in some way or other, put his foot upon it. That I am not sure of, you know. Now the Governor will excuso me for calling atten tion to him, for he is as good looking as any of us, I think. Now, gentlemen, in all seriousness, there has been some reference made to politics, and State lines and State Rights. I have dropped all that. I did some pretty good fighting during the waT. And you, my friend, with yonr empty sleeve, (putting Ins hand upon the head of Major Rlane,) were in the same regiment with myself, and we did all that wo could. But when we slipatlied onr swords and gave our garoles^wo were douo with the racket,* and since that time I have been at work; and, fortunately, the Governor of the State has kindly given me a great deal of as sistance. I don’t know whether he intended to do it or not, but he bus, and I niako hero public thanks that he has rendered mo as sistance,-ns he has assisted the whole State of Georgia iu extending State aid—tho true aud wise policy—to the different railroads of tho State. It has been truthfully remarked by some of these gentlemen that Rufus B. Bullock is the champion of this great policy which has developed tbe material interests of Georgia in advance of all his predecessors. If anybody doubts it, I will demonstrate it. I have Uo war to make on the Governor, no war to make upon his school policy, and I have no war to make on his railroad policy. -■ Many years ago, beforo some of yon were born, I was associated with tbe Central Rail road Cdmpany, of Savannah. I was connected with Emerson Foote, the great Civil Engincor of his day, who surveyed the lino from Griffin to Decatur in North Alabama. I was con nected with the road at that time, and became- familiar: with tho workings and with the. thoughts of the meu who conceived this enter*- prise. •’ It Was a favorite project of Mr. Cnylcr. over whom the mantle has not yet descended. For a few years past, I liave been laboring upon that same plan. In 18G6,1 was success ful in securing State' aid to the Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Railroad. By-such aid I expect,, to- complete tho road, but his Excellency* Gov. Jenkins* witnhcld his sanc- 7Y - „. , . . . tion from my bill; but lam under pceulior these things, but you most pat you hands obligations to Gov. Bullock who did sanction deep into yonr pockets aud yon most mlt tbo OartersmUe and Van Wert Road, wl.icli is, hard. Concentrate yonr effors upon the erf- ^ raftd that is going from Cartemlic to. terprise, and don t lot ewery man be palling jlccatar, through Cedartown. I might, per- his own way. It will rosrtt ur uuprowmrent, . Ma Qcn rh flij rs . by submit prosperity and advancement It takes a 1; ‘ fcr Ills nee. The line from •>- Jnt dfal1 °.* labo . r . % Marietta to Cedartown was surveyed iu 18C0.hy one given Object, but the» a^-nowttg the engineer now in tho employ of onr com- ~ ** ** I have at communication from him here great deal of labor to get the people united upon one given object, trat tlicro is nothing ,. en „ i[lc< .| within the range of human probability that ° I have a commnmcauon irom mm iwrc you cannot do if yon wUl but all work, to-, ntaU r^fl T hopTtho road may be get her. j.; . • . • r built., Tlie letter is as fofiows: ^ Now what.s yoarmteresttnth^omtlyor t 1 Polk in regard to ibis matter? Will you sit ■ i - ..... down quietly and pay jtesna* for wagon reads - P^ TERsrr M^ Van Wkirt > i and pay commissions to commisifiou raarchruita;.. GAitTEBSvmm GA., uctoncr i*, io< . ; and factors in cities as long as you live, aqi Cbll Hhtterf Ai Grmtfotd, Superintendent Carters- tinned also. He wanted only justice and pro- then leave them all os a legacy to your childr^h? ville (Oul Van. Wer^IirUtoad : taction and enjoyment of his rights. The I liope you will not' G*t all vonr people 1 Sis; In compliance with request, I take > —-*— ' - — j — * » - fed upon this enterprise. You will hare..a* pleasure in lajang beforo you all information road in that way and in np Qtb$r, A gwat in ffij' t^wer, regarding the line of railroad deal of help will bo extended to you by the known as ih* '“P©Hc State'Quarry Railroad,” State, but it is not‘going to doyorf any gOocf extending from Marietta, via- Dallas, Vai unless yon do something fur "yourself. «- 3 Wert and Codartown, to : tho Alabama line. This system of: State aid hoar accomplished. All tho books, maps, profiles, etc., with tho Governor has spoken for this road, and has. pledged himself to sign the bilk He .wanted him to say just one word for the North and South Railroad, and that word was' “ap proved.” He opposed the opinion of Judge McCay that the Gulf was not deemed as im portant as ,formerly as an outlet for the com merce of the Southern States* and argued that it was not only the cheapest and 1 most direct route for the south to interchange her com^ modi ties with those of South America* bnt also for tho shipment of her products to other parts of the world. He said* I will'just tell whoever upholds this theory that they stand upon untenable ground. I don’t care tfhe&er it be a Judge of the Supreme .-Court of Georgia or some one else. As a Judge of the Inf erior Court once said to me, “ I : have been some Judge myself.” Aud I am opposed to another idea of his—this great central head. I don’t believe that this great country, 3,000 miles one way and 2,500 miles the other, can be governed as easily as a country but 100 miles square. I do not believe in any such cen tralization. ■ My fellow-countrymen, I feel it in my heart that State lines are nearly rubbed out, and Unit State Bights are, for tho present, nearly dead, bnt I hope thnt they will have breathed into them the breath.of life and that they will become operative in this country. [Applause.] I believe that that idea of Thom as Jefferson of a General Government and of State Governments, of a wheel within a wheel will bo accomplished in America. I don’t be lieve that State Rights are entirely dead, nor State lines entirely wiped out. I ilou'C be lieve in setting np a central head. It is a form of gqvunMnent that I do not wank- I-want a separate government of tho States. I know State Rights ore nearly dead, but I want them revived and brought into force. Upon the conclusion of JudgeUnddrwodd’s Speech, of which we have been able to give only a synopsis, Judge Parrott was introduced and spoke os follows: 8TEECH OF HON. 1. B. PARROTT. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : * I come before yoa for a short time to discuss your Cobbs, your JolmsOnsp, many, of whom now BleepTn 1 ttar graves, ; IiaVn brought this matter beforo tho legislature for many years past If, our. people but ; take., advantage of this great system of internal : improvement which is now within .their grasp, it nfll make them great; prosperous, and happy. * v There is no reason in this world,, my foQoW- citizen.v except your awn want of energy and. 'industry, why this beautiful section of. qur State should not be opened'-by railroad ‘ebm- mnnication», and I am sure it will he. - If the enterprising citizens of tho ..town nm to to gether, aided by tho ladi^s f , of whom our friend, Judge Lochrane^ so eloquently spoke. I will.venture the assertion that in less than twelve mouths from- this date thetJoVerndr of Georgia, tho Judge* of the Supreme Court and other lcadiug citizens will :l>o invited to eome to Cedartown upon tho Carters ville and Van Wert Railroad amt, partake of a collation, drawn by a railroad engine!' ^Appl^Use.] ■ Col. Gaskill was then tolled upon by tho andienco and spoke briefly as follows: • 1 REMARKS OF COL. GASKILL. The great question of this Ago is- transporta tion. It is exciting the nation. -1 have just returned from a convention of 350 delegates representing twenty-five. States, who intend to cover this whole continent with raihrtod tracks; Bnt it is npt enough, citizens of Polk county, that yon desire this road to be built* it is not enough that you have, the road built on paper, tho only way is to put your shoulder to the wheel. Put your hands down deep into more for**the State of Georgia, than any other exception of home few detached portions of doctrine which hag beeped vosatod or adopted tho experimental lines having been lost during since her foundation: Go anti/read, if you the,w»r, um constrained to trust almost please, tho messages of your-, Governors for altogether to recollection of the work done ten twenty years past, and you Tflli find that this years since.' system has been Oflvetoteit befofA the- Legisla- * The line located in 18G0, commencing at tare during all that period.. .Your Lumpkittfy: Marietta, wne; with.few exceptions, one pre- your Schleys,. your McDonalds, your .Gilineftfr sentikg np very great,; difficulties, and could, in my ophpon, bo rendered comparatively tight by crossing streams lower down, and avoiding *idgU routes more than was done in that location. This is the case as far os Dal las, twp miles beyond (which the really heavy work commences) extending from Pumpkin Vme Croek to Hill’s Creek, crossing tho di- viding ridge between these two streams and RacoooikCreek. Surveys which I made iu November of 1358, convince mo that much of tilts work can be tightened, and a moro favor able location obtained. From Hills Creek to Enbarle* Creek is light work. Hence to Ce- dartown the work is light, as also beyond to the crossing of tbe Selma. Rome nml ^ Railroad, and presents no considerable difli- onltics as fer as tbe Alabama line, nt tbo heads of Hurricane Creak. The distances arc, approximately: Irom .Marietta .to, Daljas 20 miles, Dallas to En- harlec Creek (Van Wert.) 15. Van Wert toCe- dear fown, 18 miles- Cedar Town to S. R. and D. B. R. 5 miles, thence to the line about ^Tb too best of my recollection, the estima ted averaco cost per mile, was, at the prices *** igin 18C0, $25,000, and might still bo by changes of location, to something tike those figures, at cash prices. This amount, I think, also, included depots, stations, engin eering, superintendence, etc. The distances which include the classes of work, from Marietta to the S. R. & D. R. R. xnay be roughly estimated os follows: Heavy work 10 miles; Medium 20 miles; Light 22 miles.