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BY SAMUEL H. SMITH.
** EQUAIJTY IX WE UNION OB INDEPENDENCE OUT OF IT.”
B. F. BENNETT, PnMtofaer.
Vol. 11.
Cassville, Oa., Ttuirftday, Nov. 17, 1850.
JSTOm 44.
E. L. BROWN,
Attorney at Law,
Cassville, Geo.
April 14, 1858.
B. IL LEEKE,
attorney at law,
Cas.svii.le, Geo.
B USINESS entrusted to his care will meet
with prompt and vigilant attention, and
monies paid over punctually. Feb. 1,1859.
E. M. KEITH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cassville, Gkohria.
P RACTICES in the counties of Cass, Cher
okee, Cordon, Whitfield and Paulding.—
All business entrusted to his eare will meet
with prompt attention. No\. 13, 1859.
H. L. RAY,
Attorney at Law,
Ei.lijat, Gilmer Co., Ga.
W ILL practice in the eotintiee of Cass,
Cherokee, Pickens, Gilmer, Dawson,
Fannin, Union and Towns. Collecting of
debts will receive special attention.
March 10, 1859—ly.
M. J. CRAWFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Riximoi.n, Catoosa Co., Ga.
A LL business entrusted to his care will be
promptly attended to.
Sept. 15, 1S. T 9.
Henry Pattillo Farrow,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
O.VKTEIISVILLB, GBORO!A.
Office—next door to Kramer's Drug Store.
Oct. «, 1S.V.I—ly.
]>. II. LARKY,
Attorney at Law,
CakteksvjuaE, Gka
W ILL practice in ull the counties of tlie
Cherokee Circuit, mid in tlie Adjoining:
counties of other Circuits. Particular atten
tion given to collecting Oct, ij, 1850—3j'.
G. W. JACK,
rooer,
Vhitchall street, Atlanta, Ga.
T HE attention of Planters mid Farmers is
especially invited to the large and excel
lent stock of
helms now in store and for sale at the lowest
prices. His stock consists in part of tlie fol
lowing Goods:
Bagging, Rope and Twine;
SUGAR, COFFEE,
TEAS, SALT;
Cit/ulltM, SUirchy Simps, To1mcef\ Coj'ir*;
Powder, Shot, Nails, Iron;
LIQUORS, &e.;
In fact almost arvthing in the GUOOFRY
line. Merchants and farmers would do well
to call and examine his stock before purchas
ing elsewhere, as be flatters himselt that he
can sell upon ns fuvornble terms as any bouse
in this market.
All he asks is a trial.
No charge for looking. Call and see me
on Whitehall street, below the Johnson block.
Atlanta, Nov. 1. G. W. JACK.
nmaaiKi
ATLANTA, GEO.
BY J. D. GILBERT A 00.
Nut. 1, 1859—ly.
F. A. WILLIAMS,
Manufacturer and Dealer in all kinda of
FUBH1TUKE,
MOSS AND HAI R MATTRESSES,
Looking Glass, Plates, Ac.,
Peachtree street, Atlanta, Ga.
Nov. 1, 1859—ly.
LAM) FOB SALE.
Twelve Hundred Acres
OF WELL IMPROVED
LAND,
Will be sold at Sheriff’s Sale, In
Cassville, Ga., on the 1st Tues
day in December nest, unless
previously disposed of. This
Tract of Land is a valuable set
tlement, and can be negotiated for in whole or
in part, to suit purchasers, previous to the
day of sale on more reasonable terms and at
lower prices than any such land in that part
of the country. This body of land contains
two former scttlnnents which aie improved
aiid in a high state of cultivation, ana lying
immediately oil the Western A Atlantic Rail
road at the Cass Depot, two miles from Cass
ville, in one of the best settlements fur good
Society in the country.
Pei sons wishing to purchase or look at this
Laud can address the undersigned at Rome,
(In., who will meet at Class Depot, any such
perso i, by receiving timely notice. Time pay
ments can be made for u portion of the pur
chase. M IV. JOHNSON,
Nov 10—titd Rome, Ga.
•JOHN H. LOYEJOY,
Wholesale Grocer
AND DEALER IN
Foreign and Domestic Liquois,
CIGARS, TOBACCO, Ac.,
No. 19, Cherokee Block, l’eachtree Street,
ATLANTA, GA.
1 -A BAGS COFFEE—Rio, Java and Li
. guvra, just received and for sale bv
Nov.!.' J. II. LOVEJOY.
fT"- BARRELS A. B. C. Crushed and Pow-
I »J dered SUGARS, just received and for
sale bv J. II. LOVEJOY.
C)Q HOGSHEADS N. O. SUGARS, of all
grade
Nov. 1.
i, just received and for sale bv
J. II. LOVEJOY.
| A A BOXES Stnr and Adamantine 'Can-
Lvv/dles; also 50 cases Sperm Candles,
just received and for sale by
Nov. 1. i. H. LOVEJOY.
j AA BOXES CHEESE—Dairy and State—
1 v*Y* 1°0 boxes Duryeas’ celebrated Pearl
Starch, the best article that is nowin use, just,
received and for sale by J. II. LOVEJOY.
r A BARRELS new crop MACKEREL, No
Ov/ 1, 9 and 3 ; also half barrels and kilts,
for sale by J. H. LOVEJOY.
AAA SACKS LIVERUPOOL SALT, fresh
ZUU and full sacks, for sale bv
Nov. 1. J. H. LOVEJOY.
250
bv
some very flue, in store and tor sale
J. U. LOVEJOY.
OOO AAA CIGARS, of all grad
jLtJ J,VV’U to$75; olsoa fine loto;
des—$6
ofebew-
ing Tobacco, just received and for sale by
Nov, 1. J. H. LOVEJOY.
-i BARRELS French and Domestic
BRANDY; also 100 Baskets of
Munitns and Heidsick’s CHAMPAIGNE, and
S. T. DIGGERS,
ttnOLGSALK AND RETAIL.
Grocer and Warehouse and
Commission Merchant,
ATLANTA, GA.
B ACON, Lard, Grain; Coffee, Sugar, Syr- j numerous other, articles too tedious to men-
ups; Rope, Twine, Bagging; Wines, Licj- j t " ,n: Send >" J«nr orders—we wiM please
uors. Cigars; Lumber of all sites and quail- J 00 - ^‘ or - L
ties; Lime as a Cement and Fertiliser.
Strict attention given to the storage of Cot
ton, Ac. Advances made on shipments of
Cotton, Produce, Ac. Please give me a call.
Nov. 1, 1859—ly.
J. H. LOVEJOY.
CUTTING & STONE,
Dealers in Dry Goods,
CARPETS,
UlL CLOTHS, BOOTS AND SHOES,
Curtain Materials, Ac.,
Markham Buildings, No. IS, Whitehall str.>
Nov. 1. ATLANTA, GA. ly.
Ftten , I Gilbert * Burr,
T WO Prentinms hioreb*^ .wanted for j Itetail Defers in
X these Machines this month—nt the Indiana Hardware, Stares, aad Housekeeping
and New York State Fairs,
This is the original and only practical (am-1
By Sewing Machine for $8, $12 and $90. Par-i
Eddleman ft Banks,
Whits hall Sr., Atlasta, Ga.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in and Man
ufacturers of
SOOTS, SHOES,
Leather, Lasts, Pegs, Calf,
Lining aad Binding (Mss,
Snosii Annas' Tools, Ao,,
Of which they keep n large and eons tout
sapply at the lowest cash prices. Also agents
for the only Machine that saws with n Wan
Thread. Invite the alien lion of Oonntry
Merchants to their prices. Nov. 1.
Goods, Cutlery, Gams, foe.,
as well an
ties wishing to purchase are invited to all BuiJdin,/JfaUrwU and £iu Mrdaoie,' Tool*,
th,s *• Swede, sad Amerkwn Refined Inin,
Warranted Cast Steel, Nails, Shovels, Axes,
sod all other heavy goods in the line.
and examine
A to re of Catting A Stone, Atlanta, Ga.
C. W. CUTTING,
Nov. I. General Agent for the State.
M«NAUGHT, ORMOND 4k CO.,
Commission Merchants,
And Dealers nr Gntui llncumisr,
JCfg*tont Bvildiity*, WkiUhaU tt.,
ATLANTA, GBO.
To the Senate aad Hoaaa of
•entativea of the State ef Gears*.! «*** <** Besides, cotegmseedn-
Gentlemes;—Thin petition af the True- cation is brought withis rem* of the poor j
tees and Faculty of the Cherokee Baptist
id the other Colleges of Georgia than 1^ than, there should be no endowed cot-
College at Cassville, Cass Co., Ga., res
pectfully prayeth that you wffl aid theta
in the promotion of useftil learning by en-
aad is heiag embraced by them through
its beneficence.
By reference to its location it will be
•mb that it ia tit the midst of the most
trusting to them sad their Successors in valuable geological phenomena in the State.
office the use of twenty-five thousand dol
lars, for the permanent endowment of the
school of Natural Sciences in said College.
In consideration of this amount your pe
titioners pledge themselves and their suc
cessors in office to support in said College
a Professor and apparatus for the instruc
tion of the members of the Junior and Se
nior classes of the College and any other
students or citizens who may desire to at
tend the lectures given said classes in the
sciences of Chemistry, Mathematics, Geol
ogy, Mineralogy, Botany and such others
as come under the general denomination
of the “ Natural Sciences” and also then-
application to the Arts, especially to Ag
riculture. Your petitioners also pledge
that this Profeasor shall report annually
to your bodies an account of his labors
It is within tee palaesonia region near the
junction line of the upper metamorphic
strata, which forms the western boundary
of tee great gold belt of Georgia and which
is well known to contain numerous valu
able veins and deposits of gold, iron, cop
per, lead, manganese, plumbago, titanium
Ac. Looking from its doors towards the
North West we have before us the most
interesting and important, though least
explored, chain of fossiliferous formations
to be found in the State, embracing the
Trenton limestone, the Helderberg series,
the Portage and chemung group and ter
minating in the carboniferous system as
developed in Walker and Dade counties.
Hence its students in Mineralogy and Ge
ology have for cabinet and museum the
great laboratory of nature and but little
and of any observations of a scientific more to do than open their eyes under the
guidance of an accomplished instructor, to
see many of the leading truths of these
sciences exemplified.
Besides this the seven furnaces of Cass
county, particularly the Etowah Iron
works, with its foundry, rolling mills and
naH factory—the Allatoona and Bell gold"
mines, the copper and lead mines of Can
ton, the marble works of Pickens count}-,
the New Bangor slate quary of Polk coun
ty, the lime kilns of Rodgers and of C. W.
Howard and other similar works, are all
within a day’s ride of this College, and all
in active opemtion, and afford its classes
in natural science rare opportunities of be
coming familiar with the practical process
of quarrying and mining, of metallurgy
and sculpture &c., at a very trifling cost,
while the students of other Colleges of this
State may only hear of these things or at
best, make a flying trip to this region with
comparatively little satisfaction or advan
tage, though at considerable expense to
themselves.
Again, by affording collegiate advan
tages to the youth of North Georgia—
those destitute of means as well as those
of modarate means, the Cherokee Baptist
College is educating the youth who are to
be the teachers, surveyors, farmers and
miners of this interesting region. Thus
it becomes obvious how important it is to
the State that the chair of natural scien
ces in this College should be endowed with
a sum sufficient to support at all times a
competent Professor and to place within
his reach the means of instruction.
It may safely be calculated that the
crude mining operations hitherto conduc
ted in upper Georgia have yielded in pro
portion to labor and expense, less than
half the profits which would have accrued
to persons thoroughly acquainted with the
best inodes of operating. Agriculture al
so, has greatly languished, through igno
rance or disregard of those beneficial ap
pliances which tee man of science is ever
reedy to point out
Who can estimate the influence on the
wealth and prosperity of the State white
would in a few years he exerted by twen
ty or thirty graduates annually sent forth
into the ooontry around this College—each
topunue his teroen avocation, with the
ability to anatyaeaoOs, and minerals, con
duct geological surveys, or direct a band
of mitten, as occasion should arise ? How
soon should we see these wide spread val
leys and hills affording the means not of
■canty subsistence merely, but of wealth
and luxury! How soon too, would tee
result return more than twenty five thou
sand dollars to the Treasury of tee State
of Geargia 1
Add to this—our formers and miners
are at present often desirous to have their
soils analyzed, and the exact character
for aid only because they are not able to
support the enterprise in a manner com-
Oqr Store and Tin" Deportment is qnsur- j porting with its success and dignity, and
passed; we can fornisb latest patterns Cook Because they are impressed with its claims
and Parlor Stoves and Grates at the very low- ' . ‘
est rates. A liberal discount will be allowed, upon the State.
t II- TheCherokeeBaptist College is now
. a useful and efficient institution, and its
character which may arise to him and
tend to the development or illustration of
the resources of Georgia, especially of that
portion known as Cherokee Georgia.
To sustain this prayer your petitioners
respectfully offer the following
MEMORIAL.
L The Cherokee Baptist College is nec
essary for the welfare of one of the most
important portions of the commonwealth
of Georgia. It was projected and estab
lished to provide the citizens of Cherokee
Georgia an institution in which the Arts
and Sciences should be taught, to as great
an extent, and as thoroughly as they arc
generally taught at Colleges. This was
considered expedient by the projectors
because the other Colleges in the State
were established before Cherokee Georgia
was peopled by the white race, and there
fore they did not contemplate its conven
ience or wants. Meanwhile Cherokee
Georgia has become the inhabitancy of the
larger portion of the whites in the State,
and is likely to continue so, because the
greater part of her farming lands are in
small tracts and inconvenient for large
plantations, and because on the developc-
ment of her mines there will necessarily
bo introduced a vast population of opera
tives. The Political, Social and Religious
interests of the country therefore pointed
to education as the great conservative pow
er ; but there being no educational influ
ence in their midst, the people generally
took no interest in education. The few
who sought an education turned away
from Georgia. It is impossible to remove
the prejudices ofa mountain people against
the climate of the low country, and also
impossible for the fanners of Cherokee
Georgia, to any extent, to meet the expen
ses ofthe Colleges in lower Georgia. Thus,
by reference to the catalogues of the Geor
gia Colleges for ten years previous to tee
opening of Cherokee Baptist College, it
will be found that there has been but an
average of five students from the Chero
kee country at them annually, while tease
were about eighty annually from the same
place attending in Tennessee, the Canti
nas, Kentucky and Virginia. And again,
by the census of 1850 it will appear that
nearly f of tee youtha of the State of Geor
gia were living in Cherokee Georgia, with
out the bounds of a school at which a sys
tematic education could be obtained, and
that while then were five of those youth
who resorted to Georgia Colleges, and
eighty who looked upon their native land
as a step mother and sought the nurseries
of other States, the vast majority wen
growing up amidst the intelligence and
tee refinement of the nineteenth century
with but very few advantages other than
those afforded by the “ old field schools.”
To meet this case, an appeal might have
been made long since to yoor bodies; but
the projectors, at great personal expense
sad toil, bare carried on the enterprise
and its importance demands consideration, g tted for want of their development Give. th h j benefit of which shall return to
and now your petitioners appeal to youj ^ the smaU sum here
pense and Inconvenience, or this buried 1
since they must pay out large sums to pro
fessors residing in other States, they must
leges, there would be no collegiate educa
tion in the State, while if colleges be so
endowed as to afford their advantages to
the poor or men of limited means, there
is a class provided who will supply the
common school education. It is thus that
the college is the base of the educational
interest ofthe State; hence kings, princes,
statesmen and ecclesiastics in all times
have made their patriotism effectual by
their munificence to collegiate establish
ments; and to-day the universities of Eu
rope are the most convincing testimonials
of their founders’ and benefactors’ claims
to the gratitude of their country ; hence,
too, we often find tyrants who revelled in
human oppression, bestowing their treas
uries upon colleges—not because they es
poused the rights of man, but because
they cared for their countries’ prosperity
and the majesty of their own sceptres
which they knew depended upon the ac
complishments of their subjects in the
arts and sciences, which arc gained in the
college.
We therefore appeal to you as those en
trusted with the-intercsts of Georgia ; we
call your attention to the fairest portion
of the States a land often spoken of ns
flowing with milk and honey—capable of
supplying the whole State with wheat,
the small grains, fruits, cattle and swine,
and haying mineral wealth of iron, gold,
copper, lead and coal sufficient to supply
the whole union if these arts—agriculture
and mining -were applied scientifically
to these productions. Wc point you to
the facts, that previous to our efforts the
youth of this country were comparatively
neglected, that we have done much to ex
cite an interest in their education and
bring about facilities for it, that we are
doing a great work and that the magni
tude ofthe enterprise is increasing beyond
our ability to sustain, and therefore we
are forced to look without ■ ourselves for
help. We have met with misfortune, for
we lost our first house by tire on January
4th, 1850, just as we were about to enter
upon its occupation, which loss has ever
since embarrassed our finances, and we
are nearly dispirited in view of the expen
se^ we find must be encountered to make
the enterprise efficient. We come to you,
wc cast qurselves upon your sympathy,
your love for Georgia youth and Georgia
soil* and your sense of justice towards
those who arc working for the benefit of
both.
Will you help us ? We hold up before
you the piajority of the white youth of
Georgia who. now have the least means,
but are yet to have the greatest influence
at tho ballot-box and in the general as
semblies of the commonwealth. We are
trying to educate them. We do not want
in any wise to interfere with other like
institutions, but we know that from loca
tion, climate, social considerations and ex
penses coming within their means, that
the majority of tlieuLSre dependent upon
us.
We bold up before you our forms and
our mines, the most interesting in the
States promising illimitable wealth to pos
terity, which, while lower Georgia has
been surveyed by a State Geologist, has,
to tee great loss of the State, been wholly
neglected, and is unknown except in parts
through pritate interests. We are trying
to locate* geologist and agriculturist in
our midst, who win aid our citizens in
the developement of the country and pre
pare our sons to form and mine it
We come to you begging aid for a .de
partment of learning which cannot be effi
ciently sustained except at great expense,
but the benefits of which shall ultimately
return to the State. To the State' we ded
icate our building—the best college edi
fice in her bounds—to .the State we dedi
cate our college system, modelled from
the best systems in the Union—to the
State we dedicate otil endowment and
EDWIN DYER, LaFayettc.
W. T. WOFFORD, Cassville.
T. H. SPARKS, Cedar Town.
E. J. TARVER, Dalton.
S. G. HILLYER, Rome.
LEMUEL DILLARD, Cassville.
J. J. HOWARD, Cartersville.
A. FITZGERALD, Dalton.
C. W. SPARKS, Cave Spring.
J. H. MeCLUNG, Romo.
G. ROBERTS, Marietta.
J. A. BLACK, Dalton.
T. J. WOFFORD, Cassville.
J. G. RYALS, Cartcrsvillc.
J. A. CRAWFORD, Cassville.
^BLLL to be entitled an act to make a^
appropriation to endow a professorship
of Natural Science and Agriculture in
the Cherokee Baptist College, and for
other, purposes therein mentioned.
Whereas it will be conducive to the in
terests of the State of Georgia to have
made chemical analysis of the soils there
of dnd geological surveys made therein,
especially in that portion of the State
known as Cherokee Georgia, and whereas
to-endow a professorship of Natural Sci
ence and -Agriculture in the Cherokee
Baptist College, an institution located ve
ry nearly in the centre of that portion of
the State would tend to bring about these
and other similar beneficial results, as
well as to promote the general education
al interests of the Shite, therefore
Sec. 1st Be it enacted l»y the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of Georgia in General Assembly met, and
it is hereby enacted by the authority of
the same, That so soon as any portion of
the bonded debt of the said State of Geor
gia shall become due, or may otherwise
be presented for payment, upon the same
being paid off, it shall be the duty of his
Excellency ■ the Governor of said State,
and he is hereby authorized and required
to issue in the usual form, and to have the
usual attestations made thereto, coupon
bonds of the State of Georgia in amounts
equal to those which may have been paid
off, until the sum of twenty-five thousand
dollars of bonds shall he issued, payable
to and in behalf of said Cherokee Baptist
College; said bonds to become due thirty
years after the date of those first issued,
in accordance with this act, and to bear
interest at the rate of six per centum per
annum, the interest to be paid annually 1
and the said bonds so issued as aforesaid,
to deliver to the Treasurer of tee Board
of Trustees of said College, or to his au
thorized agent, and not otherwise.
Sec. 2d. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, that the bonds is
sued in pursuance of the first section of
this act be, and tee same are hereby de
clared to be in no way negotiable or as
signable, but the Treasurer of the said
State of Georgia is hereby ordered and di
rected to pay the interest as the same may
become due thereon to the Treasurer of
the Beard of Trustees of said College, or
to his authorized agent, and to no other
person.
Sec. 8d. And be it further enacted,
That the principal of said bonds, and the
interest which may accrue thereon, shall
not be subject to the present or any fu
ture debts, liabilities or contracts of said
Cherokee Baptist College, only so far as
to authorize said Board of Trustees to ap
ply the annual interest as the same may
be paid on said bonds to the payment of
the salary of the Professor of Natural Sci
ence and Agriculture in said College, anil
to the purchase of such apparatus, chem
icals and labratory as may be found nec-
cssar} - to the promotion of Natural Science
and Agriculture.
Sec. 4th. And.be it further enacted,
That if at any time said Cherokee Baptist
College shall fail to have an existence, or
the Natural Sciences shall not bo taught
therein, in the same manner as they are
taught in like institutions in tlieSoulhem
and value of their minerals determined, hut ‘provision for the annual education of portion of theUnited States, or in a sim-
twenty poor youth, and of the State,
through you, gentlemen, we ask aid in
gnnerally remain ignorant of tee value of I th e interest 0 f twenty-five thousand dol-
S. B. O ATM AN,
1 connection with the future welfare of the. 4oun<l to the general good of the State.
wealth of our state will be saved as wej^ - ' FACULTY.
shall perform the service required and ^ ^ ’ PreS1 ’
pare tee rising generation to do it f%' dent Cherokee Baptist College,
themselves. Vj J. D, COLLINS, A.
Lastly. We are pursuaded that tt will Na ^ 1
be an equitable appropriation and re-
ilar or more advantageous manner, then
and in that event the Legislature may in
its discretion order the interest accruing
on said bonds to he .withheld, and said
bonds delivered up to he cancelled.
Sec. otb. And be it further enacted,
That when the principal of tho bonds to
be issued m accordance with this act,
shall become due, it shall be optional with
r - the Legislature either to pay off said
Professor of , D . - , . ' : , , -
bonds or to issue others in their stc-ad, of
FOR SALE.
I OFFER (he following lots of land for sale,
on reasonable terms;
No. 371, in Gilmer Co., 6th distriet and 3d see. •
175, Cass, 6th 3d
383, Fannin, 9th 3d
867, Paulding, 19th 3d j
Apply to the subscriber^ or to John G. Be-
qune, Oolm *
QcL 13—2m,
mhos, Go.
JORN BETHUNR.
I opposite Georgia R. R. depot. . - , . , .. . .. _ . _ . . ,
James V.aghanlTgent, Cassville, Ga. [ > nfluence als0 u P° n rt, 5 cause of Question moro eviirot to the croe of adfeptoe ate
Oct 27, 1859—ly. Js most salutary; during the four y«ar» of u«g£on than hi the case of common ScSael
-{its existence a general desire for education education, for a common school education •
TAILORING. has been crated and stimulated through- can be provided for without endowment
. .... * .. .out Cherokee,Ga., and now there is de-, but a coUegtate education cannot be so 1
trade and stand, in Oartmvi(lft G*.-? j for tad schools pf the provided. It is expensive and limited m ;
Catting and making Clothing in foe neat- er class in every, neighborhood, and more-, extent by endowment, even as it-can he
est noti«.°*GhrefoS»a trial- ’ Vovlo5m than double the number of Cherokee youth 1 extended by tha magnitude of endowment. ^
o tt TTR.i-rvf>D i i: tt_ » J the same amount, of toe same purport,
S. H. DE\ ORE, A. M., Professor of , „ * ,. . .. .
„ . , and for the same object as those which •
Mathematics and. Astronomy. , . ,.. . »
. may have become due, and the same to do
T. A. SEALS, A. M., Professor Ancient ' .. . .. .
’ at all times in rclatnjn to any bonds which
may hereafter be issued in pursuance of
this act.
Sec. 0th. And be it further enacted,
Jhat all laws and parts of laws militating
against this act he and the same are here
by repealed.
.4*
TRUSTEES:
. BUFORD, President
MERCER, Secretary.
COMPTON, Treasurer.
CRA.WFQRD, Cassville.
J. M.1LRQ4CKELFOBD, Calhoun
G. w. TUMLDC, Wnrotis.
E R H ARDEN, Dalton.
R. L. R06Pf!te. Cassville.
^be fugitive Duke
i heir of the Stuart drnaati
,to the doctrine af
TURNER GOLDSMITH, Cartereville. i <« the Mtite tte
IRAK FOSTER, Alatoona. [ ST In matters of conscience the first
J. M. WOOD, Rome. j thought* are best; in matters of prudencs
W. H, ROBERT. Marietta. j the last.
Got. Brown’s Inaugnrai
SffXATons Jfse REPitEsrovATiVxa 1
Two years since; in ohScfience to tee
popular will, I met year predeceases* hero;
and took upon myself the kboribna Sad
responsible duties,, which are incumbent
upon- the Executive of our befovwh State.
At that time, the future looked (fork
and portentious, and anxious gloom seem
ed to rest upon the minds of our peepfe.
From high state of prosperity, the coun
try had been precipitated into a fearful
'commercial crisis. Most of our Banks had
suspended specie payment, and bad refus
ed to redeem their bills in specie, when
presented, as they, had solemnly contrac
ted to do. The creditor was pressing the
debtor, who had not the means with which
to pay.' Our commercial interests were
almost prostrated, and distrust and de
pression. prevailed in every part of the'
State, t
I'i»tliis state of things, as the Executive,
I was called upon to encounter grave res
ponsibilities, and to act upon questions of
much magnitude, when, great divemity of
opinion existed. I did not hesitate to
meet those responsibilities,andtodfecharge
my duty, according to ro.y own conscien
tious convictions of right. The correct
ness of my official conclusions was repeat
edly called into question, and my official
acts were closely scannned and severely
criticised. At this F did not contain, as
I was willing for the people to pronounce
their verdict upon my administration, at
the proper time and in tlie proper way.
The constitutional term' for which I was
elected being near its expiration, it recent
ly became the duty of the people, at tho
ballot box, to set in judgement upon my
official conduct. The decistow has been
pronounced, and in accordance with it, I
now appear before the General Assembly,
for the purpose of taking tee oath pres
cribed by the Constitution and laws ofthe
State, preparatory to entering upon the
discharge of the duties of another term in
the Executive office.
Before doing so, I feel that I may justly
congratulate you, and the people whose
representatives you arc, upon the present
condition, and brightening future pros
pects of our noble State. Between the lof
tiest peak of the mountains’ which range
along her North Eastern boundary, where
until June, the bud has scarcely swollen
upon the cliff, where the Eagle builds her
nest; and the Orange grove, which blooms
perpetually upon her senaw bound limits,
Georgia contains a groat variety of soil
and climate, with an almost endless diver
sity of valuable production*
Her bills, valley* and plains, are inhab
ited by an intelligent, industrious and
prosperous people, noted alike for their
honesty of purpose, and their integrity of
character. Her surface is almost check
ered with Railroads, winch are in a pros
perous condition, affording the means of
rapid transportation and travel, from one
extreme portion of the State to the other.
All her groat agricultural interests, inclu
ding her cotton crop, which is worth mil
lions of dollars annually, exhibit flatter
ing evidences ef prosperity. Her manu
facturing interests are valuable and grow
ing. Her commercial interests are in
creasing in importance, and her vast re
sources are being rapidly developed. Her
currency is now as sound as that of. any
of her sister States where banking is tide-
rated. The. aggregate wealth of her peo
ple probably exceeds seven hundred mil*
lions of dollars. Her public or State pro
perty, including the Western & Atlantic
Railroad, is worth over seven millions of
dollars, while lier public debt is but little
over two aui a half millions. Each in
stallment of Ikt debt has been promptly
paid as it fell due^ and one hundred thou
sand dollars, of iier bonds which were not
due, have l>ee»» purchased at par, by her
proper authorities, during tlie past year.
\\ ith a large amount of property exempt
from taxation, the State tax paid by her
citi/xns this year, is only six and a half
cents upon the one hundred dollars worth
of taxable property owned by each. Her
Railroad is paying into her treasury, clear
of all expenses and repairs, over four hun
dred thousand dollars per annum. The
amount for distribution among the coun
ties for educational purposes,, which baa
heretofore been about thirty thausqixl dol
lars per annum, lias been increased this
year to about one hundred and fity thou
sand dollars. Her resources wiU justify a
still fiirthcr annual increase, until the a-
mount in a few years, with prudent legis
lation, will be amply sufficient for the 1
acation of all the children oif tea
both rich and poor. The a
of this grand object may
highest ■infiiititojff Gc
aacjpj
froth **mrfima!e, are in a flourishing
and are annually affording to
hundreds of young gentlemen and ladies
the advantages of a collegiate education;
while her school houses and aeadcmian are
being thrown open to her free white chil
dren of every class. And it is oot devoot-
ly to be hoped, teat but few man years
will have passed, until she shall ham am-