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GO EAST, YOUNG MAN,GO EAST! THE MANY ADVANTAGES OF NORTH EAST GEORGIA. The Great IJefelopiiif IWWtts of the A. k C. Air-Line, Elberton Alr-IJn* and Hartwell Railroads. the dWITIEBIABD OF AMERICA. Ilnrtnrll n I‘nrailta*-Elbert nd Hart Count!** Kofure IW (hr DlxrMCd. Written /or The Uarheell Sun. For many years there has been one continuous tide of emigration to the West, and the eastern parts of Middle Georgia now, especially Elbert and Hart counties, presents the new aspect of frontier and almost unsettled country. I was utterly surprised to find so much fine timber and forest land in these old counties, where my parents even were raised a century ago. It seems that the restless population are never con tent, but travel westward to make their homes in the wilds, and prefer to brook the disadvantages of anew and untried country rather than stay and enjoy the blessings of an old and well tried country, where there are all the advant ages of civilization, health and pros perity. By this course many hundreds doubtless have found an early and un timely grave, many more have lost their health and found, to their sad mortifi cation, that while they indeed could make some more money in the \\ est, they had only to spend' the more to live as well as they did in their native sec tions. The Air-Line and the Elberton Air- Line railroads have already begun to re-develop Northeast Georgia, and so has the little Hartwell, which is only ten or twelve miles in length. Beauti ful farms are already opening; pleas ant cottages are building; and small towns dot those railroads every few miles ; some of them arc very neat and pleasant, and supply maiket for all the various products of the industrious farmers who are cultivating the soil in this most delightful section of Georgia. As healthy localities, these towns will afford homes for any and all who may desire to leave the insalubrious portions of this or other States. On the Air-Line R. R. there are quite a number of fine summer resorts, and at eacli one there are the best of hotels. Mount Airy is the most elevated, Bel ton and Toccoa are perhaps the next in altitude; and at all of these places there arc the very best accommodations, and finest air. There is no place this side of the Blue Ridge where there is so much ozone in the air, and conse quently, no place so favorable to the recovery of health when lost. Toccoa is a beautiful town, and is fast improving, and the hotels there will accommodate quite a number of boarders ; and they are furnished with all that is essential to comfort and health, as well as all that ministers to pleasure and comfort. To young men who wish to purchase a very cheap farm, there is no section of the South that I know of, where land is as cheap as in Elbert and Hart counties. Land may be bought at $4 to s'o per acre, and it is quite productive gray land, the easiest land cultivated in the South, and is adapted to the growth of wheat, oats, corn and cotton. The air is clear of any malarious effluvia, and hence they are exempt from remittent and in termittent fevers. The water is pure, cold freestone, and as good as can be found in the South. The ' people are intelligent, kind, obliging, sober, in dustrious and remarkable for their hos pitality. The impression upon the mind of many persons in Western and Southern Georgia has long been that Eastern and Northeastern Georgia would not compare with the southern and western portion of the State, but that is a mistake, they are equal, if not superior, to many portions of the State. The religious element predominates in most places. Ilart county abounds with churches and fine schools. Hartwell is a Paradise! It stands embowered amidst its native forest shades, upon a beautiful plat of land just undulating enough to convey off the heavy floods of water in excessive rains. Its buildings are rteat, tasty and commodious. It has a large Bap tist and a Methodist Church, with many of the most prominent men of the place in each. The “Nancy Hart” plies -tlong her iron track daily to carry the products of the many thrifty farms to market, and returns with the goods to supply the necessities of the people. Everything looks prosperous around this most beautiful little town, and the people owe that great boon—the rail- ,oad to the foresight and good sense of ft fftw of Hartwell’s citizens. But for the railroad the town would have gradually dwindled away. This tact being apparent to Capt, Craft, Judge Bowers and Mr. Henson, they, with some help, eoronwiced the little nar row.gauge at once, and have now com. pleted it, which saved their beautiful little town from desertion and ruin. Hartwell is very healthful! and is des tined to become a favorite resort for persons in the low. marshy districts of Florida and Houtli Georgia, who want to recruit their health. There are hun dreds of families in those malarious ro gious. who could recruit their health and prolong their lives by selling out their lands and pqrchasing land in Elbert or Hart counties. The country from Jz!lberton to Toe £oa and above to the line of Tennessee is quite healthy. The lulls above Toe poa for miles will some day be a vast fppilinij ground for sheep and cashniere both ol' which CQUW ho raised The Hartwell Sun. By BENSON & McGILL. VOL. IV—NO. 41. there. The hills are covered with grass for sheep, and herbage for goats. And many of the hillsides being very rich, will, ere long, be covered with luscious crops of grapes. This part of Georgia is destined to become the Switzerland of America. It is well adapted to the i grape and other small fruits. It is also well suited to the rearing of sheep, cat-1 tie and goats, and our markets ought to be supplied with lambs and kids from I this region. This country, which hitherto has been overlooked, has a bright future. Those mountains which loom up in majestic j grandeur and strike us with awe and admiration, were not created in vain. Doubtless there are hid beneath their rocky beds, precious treasures, yet to be exlmmed and swell the vast wealth of our Empire State of the South. Young man, then go East!—where health and wealth may both be enjoyed. There are thousands of broad acres of virgin forest in Eastern and Northeast ern Georgia, awaiting industry to de velop them into fertile fields of golden grain and snowy fleece. Then, instead of going to the malarious swamps of the West, go East, and purchase land where no foul breezes taint the health ful air to push you into an untimely grave. I. J. M. Goss, M. 1). His First (’all. I reached her house, and walked all around it four times before I summon ed sufficient courage to approach. By some remarkable nerve power I rang the hell, and a female apparition, with an odor of boiled cabbage lingering ! about “it” appeared. “ What do yez | want!" it asked. At last I conquered it* and asked if Miss Susan was at home. The apparition replied, “Yis —your card.” I was sure I had one some where. In my haste I gave her a pawn ticket, restaurant check and a jack of clu hs. Finally, in desperation, I handed her a card, but she returned it with a grin. It read : “Guudling <£* Cos., All-Wool Pants, §1.00.” At last I was ushered into the parlor, and sat upon the piano, a spittoon and a case ol wax flowers before I found a chair. When I did, I was surprised that I missed it and sat upon the floor. As I was rising Susie entered. “Won’t you let me put your hat on the rack?” she asked as she saw me grasping it as if it were my only friend on earth. I murmured a faint “ No,” put my hat on the sofa, and to my consternation, sat down upon it. For the first time I realized what an awful thing it was to he alone with a strange girl. She said it was a nice day. I replied “ Yes.” If she had said it was thun dering and lightning, I would have made the same original answer. Then we grew silent, and you could have heard a house fall. I was in trouble, I chewed tobacco then, hut don’t know why I did it. Just before entering I had taken a big chaw. My mouth was gradually getting full, but I did not spit in front of Susie, who said she de tested it. I began to pray for a fire so that I could spit. Meanwhile Susie got affectionate. She drew her chair closer and closer and said: “ Will Brown kissed me at school the other day.” J grew pale. Supposed she would want to kiss me. She would get an unexpected shower hath of tobacco juice. “Do you ever kiss?” she asked. I murmured that I never did except my mother and vener able aunt whose age was traditional. At last I tried to say so, but I am afraid I only made a few inarticulate sounds. “ What makes you talk so funny?” she asked. I did not say. “ What makes your mouth so big?” she interrogated. “The mumps,” I gasped, feeling as if there was going to be a flood at any mo ment. “ Ger-ger wooi-ger-wooi.” I re marked, meaning that I was sick and wanted to go home. “ Your cheeks are awful red.” Prob ably Susie spoke the truth. Why did no't some of my friends die so they would send after me? Poor innocent Susie didn’t know how I was suffering. She thought 1 was bashful. “ Let me feel your cheeks, she asked. She did. It broke the reservoir. For a second I didn't know whether Susie was drown ed or not. She started back in a sort of paralysis, and—the door opened and her mother entered. I grabbed my hat, and whether I went out by the door or through the wall. I don't remember. Anyhow, ‘'Susie and I are out.” We don’t speak. Hut still, it’s nice to be in love, ain't it, boys? A few years ago, a coon hunting Kentucky major had a fine piece of land which he desired to sell. He told a friend about it, who remonstrated with him und said: u Why, Major, you ought not to think about selling that property now t it will be very valuable some day.” ,f Valuahle, the devil,” re plied the major; “ I've not caught a coon off that land for ten years," The contented man is rich, H ART WELL, GA„ WEDNESDAY. JUNE 9, 1880. A SERENE VIEW i\nn.t:n i* by william ahp. ■ ll* niNroiirM** at I.ii*tli l |>n lb* I*l*- Ht'ulll** ol Politician* Onl of Of lire. Who tan Find no (Cl lu Politician* Who ore NlMly Fl* mI In Of- Hr*. Sometimes I think man is a great in vention —grand, noble. Godlike. '1 hen again 1 think he is a contemptible pup. ! Sometimes I hear of his making some ' great sacrifice or putting his life in peril for the good of his fellow-men, and then again I see a whole passel of ’em quar reling like dogs over a bone. What kind of a thing is he on an average? j Are we all alike on a pinch, that is when we are put in the same situation and surrounded by the same circum stances? I’ve been reading the papers diligently about the Colquitt and Gor don and Joe Brown business. I’ve been reading all sides so as to get at the bottom facts if I could and I think I have, hut I don’t know yet what the fuss is about. One paper is mad with all three of’em, another is mad with Brown and Colquitt, another is mad with Col quitt and Gordon, but thinks Joseph is all right. That last is an independent paper that a few months ago was abus ing Joe Brown like he was a thief. I ; don’t understand it. When did the in-: dependents turn over to him and what i for? One man is dreadfully concerned j because Governor Colquitt said the man 1 who accused him of making a bargain j was a liar and a thief. He write's like his feelings were hurt and tries to prove that there was some sort of an under standing about something. Suppose there was—what’s wrong about it? Where is the poor man, who wouldn't swap oft' a 86,000 office for a 815,000 one? The only question I see in it is j whether Joe Brown's appointment was j one fit to be made. That’s all; and the Legislature can settle that when it meets. ! Joe can’t do any harm in the next ten days, I reckon, and then the Senate wiil adjourn. If the appointment was one lit to he made then nobody was hurt —and it don’t matter even if Joe Brown is to help Colquitt and help Gordon too. They are both poor and need help and j I wish they could get lots of it. I wish j everybody had help that needs it —I would like some myself, and if I ever get into office I want it understood now that if I can trade it off for a better one lam going to do it. That’s my understanding of what political office is —something to trade on. Folks have been trading in ’em ever since 1 can re member, from the president down. I don’t reckon there is an aspirant in the field now that hasn’t been trading—fix ing up his slate for his cabinet and the best officers so as to get as much influ ence as possible. Politicians make com binations and all sorts of promises. How does the clerk of the House or the sec retary of the Senate get elected or any other officer, iu fact? It’s like playing a certain game of cards —every man goes into the game with his hand, and if it ain’t a winning one he can throw up or turn over his best cards to his partner and divide the winnings. Sup- j pose a man goes into the Governor’s cod- | vention with twenty counties for him and there are several candidates and nobody has a majority, why he combines with some other fellow. They pool their votes, bank on their friends, and if they can’t he Governor they sell out for something less—ft judgeship, or attor ney-general, or something. W by, here in my county they fix up a slate for all the county officers, a sort of “ you tickle me, and I tickle you” concern, and it generally wins. All sides do it —Whigs and Democrats, Independents and lie publicans. That’s where independents all come from. When an ambiguous man is left off the slate lie gets mad about it and bolts and sets up a little state of his own, and there’s generally so many of ’em left out, they can make up a prettv good outside ring. T Hey pool tlieir disappointment and sometimes whip out the regulars. That’s all of it. But you see Geueral Gordon and Gov* j ernor Colquitt and Joe Brown all three deny this pooling arrangement,.and I believe ’em. They say that one tiling didn’t depend upon another thing —that it wasn’t a treaty with three corners, and they know better than I do. In tact, they know better thay Mr. Probo nopublico or any other man. I don t like that name. One of the worst | frauds I ever knew used to write for the papers under that name. Giey say it means “ for the public good,” but I II j bet that fellow is a sore head and is mad because the mortgage was foreclosed without public notice, and gave him uo chance to hid or to trade. I tell you Governor Colquitt is a thoughtful man. He knew how many hankered after the place and if he hadn’t made the appoint ment beforehand he would have been bedevilled mighty nigh to death. I don't reckon anybody is making a fuss except them who had an axe to grind, or haven’t got over their hatred for Joseph. I used to hate him myself, but I’ve got over it. I’ve abused him till f got Devoted to Hart County. tired and he just went straight along like I wasn’t about and so I’ve quit. If, a man smothers his feelings he can stay mad forever, hut if he will just explode and tare around, the reaction will come on after a while. Sidney Smith said that “a little morsel of slander was mighty sweet to indulge in,” hut no rea son is Justified in making a hog of him self and guzzling down groat hunks of it. That’s what some folks are doing right now—making hogs of themselves —eating more slander that.they can di gest and it not only makes them sick, hut acts like an emetic on their friends. | I’m sick right now from reading the pa pers. It’s too much fuss for tln f size of j the thing—ten days in office ain’t no ! birthright. Governor Colquitt hasn’t fixed no chains upon the people. Their time will come when the legislature! meets, and the big issue is not on Gor don nor on Colquitt. It’s going to be j on Joe Brown, and I reckon ho can stand it. One thing is certain, we cant be worsted up in this district. Our folks have been in purgatory for six years ami we can’t be sent much further. Maybe Joe Brown will throw bis lasso over these independents and haul ’em up to the rack and tie em. I hope so. lie’s got some of’em already, but I don’t know what he is going to do with them. But it’s all nothing to me. I ain’t afeerd of Joe Brown now. There ain’t any war on hand. If there was I reck on we would disagree smartly for one thing is certain, one or the other of us fails to understand what a patriot ought to do for his country when she is fight ing for life and liberty. But in time of peace I reckon we can all get along. At least we ought to try to, for there’s a big ger thing on hand than filling these lit tle short-lived vacancies. We’ve got to whip out General Grant and save the republic. That’s what we’ve got to do. In my opinion we can do it with General Hancock. I believe it was predestinat ed before the foundations of the earth were laid that we should whip this fight, and we must all pool our prejudices and stand up as one man. I’m preparing to pool mine, and if they was to put Alek Stephens on the ticket for the sec ond place I’ll vote for him. My fear is that general Grant will take him before \te do. " '•But all is well that ends well. So mote it he. Bill Ahp. Another Candidate. Gkkknvillk, June I.—Editors Con stitution : At a mass meeting of the Democratic party held at Greenville to day the following address to the people of Georgia, presenting the name of Chief-Justice Warner for Governor, was adopted. The meeting was largely attended and much enthusiasm prevail ed. You will oblige by publishing the address in both your daily and weekly editions. John L. Dixon, Chairman, T. A. Atkinson, Secretary. The Democracy of Meriwether in convention assembled, would respect fully recommend to their brethren throughout the State the Hon. Hiram Warner as emphatically the man for our next Governor. The honorable Chief-Justice of the State needs no introduction to the peo ple of Georgia. His name is a house hold word from the mountains to the sea. He has been tlieir public servant for almost half a century, and every trust confided to his care lias been dis charged with ability and fidelity. His genius is stamped upon every page of our jurisprudence, and his name will live as long as our laws. It is fitting that Georgia, the State that has honor ed him so often and so well, and which he has so faithfully served, should add the crowning glory to his long, useful and illustrious life by placing him in the Executive chair as Chief Magistrate of the State. Do the people of Georgia desire re trenchment in the public expenditures? his whole life has been a lesson of economy. Do they wish an honest ad ministration? the tongue of calumny has never charged him with corruption. Do they want a Governor dissociated from rings and cliques, and a stranger to the arts of a politician? he lias worn unspotted the ermine of a judge for nearly thirty years. Do they admire ability of the highest order? his career at the bar, in the forum, on the bench, even in the management of his private affairs, displays a judgment that rarely errs. Let no one think we magnify our fa vorite ; we speak the words of simple, sober truth. But we gladly admit our partiality. We live at his home; he has gone in and out before us almost all his life. We have been taught by his example, counselled by his wisdom, and long ago learned to love and revere him. Indeed, our love for him prompts this address. Though he is now in the enjoyment of vigorous health, we fear that the duties of his present laborious position are too wearing for hiss yeurs. and that he needs repose. We want him to find it in the discharge of the easy but august duties of the Execu tive chair; an office that will be at once gratefuL to his feelings, and hon orable to his ambition, and which his $1.50 Per Annum. WH£LE NO. 107. more than Unman virtue will illustrate ami adorn. We would not depreciate the merit a, nor pluck one laurel leaf from the brows of any of thaw worthy gentle men whose names have been mention ed in connection with the place. Gar troll. Lawton, Underwood, Lester. Ba con, Reese, and Hardeman, are Geor gians nil, and Georgians of a noble breed ! Koch has done good service to the State; and we hope that each will one day enjoy her highest rewards. But in the course of nature, many vears are before them, and they can safely await the future. Either one of them would now. make a good Govern or, still they would all, doubtless, most cheerfully admit that they could dis charge the duties far better, if they had before tlioir eyes for imitation, that perfect model of an administration, which the great Chief Justice, when he fills the chair, will leave behind him. We have not named among the aspi rants for the position our present Ex ecutive. 11 is Excellency, Alfred H. Col quitt.. We desire to state distinctly, that, we have no sympathy for the as saults that have been made upon bis administration, and still less for the ;charges preferred against his character. His administration upon the whole has been prosperous and creditable to the State ; and we have the most, profound respect for the grandeur of the name he bears, the purity of his private life, his patriotic services in the past, and his lofty Christian character. But his election to another term, now, would violate, not the letter, blit the spirit of our new constitution. He hasalrSadv hold the office four years, the full peri od of two terms; and every one liere .after, after holding the office for four years, will be disqualified to a re-elec tion, for four years. Did the framers of that instrument intend that he alone should be an exception to the general operation of the fundamental law? The indignant mutterings occasionally made against bis administration, are in a measure, doubtless owing to the unwise zeal of bis friends, in attempting to force another term upon him, against, the spirit of the constitution. Let them cease their clamors for Colquitt until after the lapse of four vears', (when tie will again become eligible), and the : murmur against his administration will i lie heard no more. It will be better for his fame, better for the unity oft,lie i Democratic party, and better for the j peace and happiness of the people. We close this necessarily short ad dress with t,he request that the papers I of the St ate will publish it, and that the people will instruct, their delegates to vote for Warner, in the approaching gubernatorial convention; and with the hearty wish that the grand old Com monwealth of Georgia may for the | next two years experience the felicity i of an administration, under the guiding I hand and intellect of the great Chid' Justice. John 1.. Dixon, Chairman. T. A. Atkinson, Secretary. BcKjiect, ny and. c. A. Written for The llartwell Hun. Respect is the foundation of all pri vate friendship. Mutual respect should always prevail. It is a duty of para mount obligation for ns to cultivate the sentiment of due respect to our fellow man. This feeling should be cherish ed with zeal and pride. If it is done great good will be accomplished. Hv its practice all our cords and ties of affection will be strengthened. It will imbue us with unfaltering devotion to our companions and friends. Such re spect and devotion may save someone from degrading inferiority. It, is cer tainly one among the greatest errors we commit when we refuse or fail to show our companions and friends due respect. We certainly practice deceit alone when we refuse to respect them until they are dead ‘ let us show them some respect while they live. It cer- tainly is right to watch over the little mounds that mark the place where the bodies of friends are sleeping : to keep them neatly ornamented with flowers, &o. We believe this is neglected too much in this part of country. It cer tainly is our duty to respect the last resting place of our dead companions and friends. While we believe it is right and our duty to respect the dead, we also believe it. is right to respect our friends while they live, and much more important. The dead need not our care—there is a God. We are commanded to love one another while we live. True love cannot exist with out respect, and it is no dumb, dead carcass —it will seek expression. Let us show them at least enough to mani fest the truthfulness of the respect we try to show them after they are dead. Seaport Appeal : If we could only keep politics out of religion, religion out of politics, and hypocrisy out of both, we should have an admirable world to live in. It is the unnatural admixture of these three fiery elements that makes countless millions mourn. THAT APPROPRIATION. EiMTOits Stn : You will allow me space to reply to *• Stockholder” again under anew name, “Old B.’’ He says •• The letter of mine last week, aigne<F “ Stockholder,” has provoked a couple of replies, which appear in this issue, and they are altogether of a different currency from that I had hope* 1 to get.” I answer for myself, that 1 never was stamped but once, and that was by the God that made me, and if he expects to get. any other currency out of me he is mistaken. I simply asserted my right ns a freeman, and I expect to re main ns such, unless fate decrees oth erwise, until f die. He says •• and the object of tnv writing certainly was not to precipitate learned disquisition of law.” To this I answer, that lam not learned in the law, but referred him to the constitution in defence of my ac tion. That, instrument emanated from the brain of the most eminent men and learned lawyers of Georgia, and if tlie act of the Town Council voting otic thousand dollars of stock is unconsti tutional, as I have shown you by refer ence to the constitution of 1877, it is illegal Sec Georgia laws of 1855-6, incorporating the town of Hartwell, page ,182 By Laws, Sec. 3d. And be it further enacted, that, said commission ers shall have power and authority to pass ali ordinances and by-laws for the government of said town corjmration not in conflict with the constitution and laws of the State and of the United States. Under this act it is illegal; if so how can it be just in a legal sense. He savs that “It is pretended that it is unconstitutional to pay this just debt.” I answer, that, I am bowing to the law, and not to the writer’s desires or opinions. He says, “ admitting that town councils are ordi narily restrained from using public revenues too promiscuously, which I think is n very prudent constitutional restraint, the fact that this an extraor dinary case, a wise appropriation of public money, <(•<•." I answer by say ing, with all the keen foresight of those learned men who framed the constitu tion thev could not. see this extraordin ary case, and therefore did not make any provision for it. lie says, “and there were no citizens opposed to it, then circumstances I say ought, to plead into silence those who would throw in surmountable difficulties in the way and bar out imported professionals, who if only paid will undertake any case.” I answer, that there were citizens opposed to the Town Council taking the stock, and opposed it in a public meeting; others did oppose it that, said nothing publicly. lam one of those that was, and am still, but not the man now op posed to the citizens paying that ille gal subscription to the road. I think that the citizens are morally bound to pay it. They voted it, and it had to come out of somebody's pocket. Now if the licenses had to be raised over and above the amount that was neces sary to carry on t he government of this town to meet that demand, I ask in the name of Justice, is it right that the two grocery men. Mr. Pink Harris and John Snow should be taxed directly or indi rectly to pay it ? And yet this is the only way that the Town Council, if they were disposed to, could raise the one thousand dollars. He says again, ‘‘lt is not. pretended that this debt is not just,” and that “the people have passed ii|von it.” f srty the mot ivc from which the Council acts is not the justice or in justice of the debt, but we refuse to pay it because we have no legal right to pay it ; and if it is morally just and the people have passed upon it, let the people pay it. They have the same right to do so that they had to pass upon it. The writer of' the piece signed “Stockholder" refers to Mr. K. I’. Ed wards as art imported lawyer, and iff the next Issue undef his more illustri ous name uses the following language to-wit: “ These circumstances ought to' bar out imported professionals, who if only paid will undertake any case.” If he means to say that lawyers as a class will, if only paid, undertake any case, the assertion will no more alarm the profession than it will prove that the Town Council ought to pay out money. It is generally known and admitted that the members of that profession as a class are high-toned and honorable. I know that there is a class of weak minds that are in the habit of looking upon the profession as being unscrupu lous and addicted to falsehoixl, but when a man who pretends to carry brains makes the assertion, it will re coil upon his own head with a weight sufficient to drive him from the estima tion of men of veracity. He had as well battle against the winds or sifrge against the ocean, lie has piled a lit tle chaff in a powerful current. He cannot dam the Euphrates with a straw rt- raise the Alps with a grain of pow der. If lie means fo assail the integri ty of Mr. E. I*. Edwards, the thou sand voices cry him down, and an un broken community is ready to hurl back ttie assault, and a bright and hon orable record stands between him and the slanderous pen. With regard to this imported lawyer, I have this much to say. as I was the importer. lie is not only a gentleman, but above doing anything non-professional, and does not love money to that extent that he would advise me or the Council to do an unlawful or unconstitutional act, as Old 11. would have me to do. Now. I leave this subject with unbi ased minds to justify or condemn my acts as they see fit, feelirg that I have done mv diitv as a citizen and Coun cilman/ A. .T. Mathews.