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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pep Annum, .... $2.00. Six Mentha, .... 1.50. M* X# Subscriptions received for lees than Six Months. To Clubs of Ten an extra copy will be granted. m~ Subscriptions must be paid in ad vance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of time paid for, unless renewed. Specimens sent free. W Business and other Communications to be directed to the Editor. GENERAL DIRECTORY. SUPERIOR COURT. Terms. —Second Mondays in February and August. J. R. Parrott, Judge"; C. E. Broyles, Solicitor-General. • COUNTY OFFICERS. John M. Combs, Ordinary; O. XV. Trini mier, Clerk of Superior Coupt; T. B. Cox, Sheriff; R. Clarke, Deputy-Sheriff'; W. A. Woods, County Treasurer; James A. Park, Tax A assessor; W. F. B. Ramsey, Tax Col lector; Abijah Johnson, County Surveyor; John Swope, Coroner. ■» Sessions of the Court of Ordinary are held Oh the I'irst'Mofftlay of each month. Sales-tt&y, First Tuesday of every mouth. I. R. Jobe and R.J. Jones, Justices. TOWN GOVERNMENT. XV. L. Whitman, T. B. Cox, T. J. Cox, Abijah Johnson, and R. B. Trimmier, Com missioners; James McGhee, Marshal. • MASONIC. _ i" aXvrxnck chaftek. Stated Meetings, First Friday night in every month. Rev. A. I. Leet, H. P.; N. Lowe, G. K.; D. G. King, Scribe; J. L. Harrell, C. H.; XV. J. Whitsitt, P.S; XV. G. Cook, Treasurer; L. A.Knapp, Secretary; A. S. Chastain, R.A.C.; R.J. Jones, Third V. ; Thos. W. Gordon, Second V.; Chas. First V. QUITMAN LODGE, NO. 106. Stated Meetings, Third Thursday in each month. D. G. King, W. M.; R. J. Jones, SeniorXVarden; T. J. Clarke, Junior XVar den; XV. S. Inman, Secretary; XV. J. XVidt sitt, Treasurer; G. P. Harris, S. D.; J. M. Edwards, J. D.; John Swope, Tyler; A. J. Leet, Chaplain. GOOD TEMPLARS. XV. L. Whitman, XV.C.T.; C. S. Evans, XV. V.T.; R. B. Trimmier, XV. R. S.; XV. 8. Inman, W.F. S.; A. Johnson, XV.Trcas.; R. H. Stanfleld, Chaplain; N. McMullan, W. E. Peary, D.M.; J. M. Mapp, P. XV. C. T. Meetings, Tuesday night of each week. POST OFFICE. C. S. Evans, Postmaster. ARKIVAL OF MAILS. Southern, 5.03 a.m.; Northern, 6.44 p.m. DEPARTURE OF MAILS. Southern, 6.45 p. m. ; Northern, 5.04 a. m. RAILROAD SCHEDULE. PASSENGER TRAINS ARRIVE AT RINGGOLD. Train No. 1, from Atlanta, - - 5.03 a. m Train No. 2, from Chattanooga, 6.44 p. m. 1 rain No. 3, from Atlanta, - - 2.36 p. m. Train No. 4, from Chattanooga, 9.42 a. m. GOVERNMENT OF GEORGIA. Hon. James M. Smith, Governor. Hon. David G. Cottino, Scc’y of State. Hon. Madison Bell, Comptroller-Gen. Hon. Nkdom L. ANGier, Treasurer, lion. N. J. Hammond, Attorney-General. Hon. B. W. Frobkl, Sup’t Public lVorks. Hon. C J. Orh, School Commissioner. SUPREME COURT. Hiram Warner, Chief Justice. XV W Montgomery! Associate Justices.' Henry Jackson, Reporter. Z. D. Harrison, Clerk. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. * Ulysses S. Grant, - - President! Schuyler Colfax, - Vice-President. the cabinet. Hamilton Fish, - - Secretary of State. G. 8. Boutwell, - Secretary of Treasury. XV. XV. Belknap, - - Secretary of XVar. G. XV. Robeson, - - Secretary of Navy. C. Delano, ... Secretary Interior. J. A. J. Ores well, - - Postmaster-General. G. H. XVilliams, - - Attorney-General. SUPREME COURT. Salmon P. Chase, - - - Chief Justice. GEORGIA IN CONGRESS. senators. Joshua Hill and Thomas M. Norwood. representatives. A. T. Mclntyre, First District. R. H. Whiteley, Second District. J. S. Bigby, Third District. T. J. Speer, Fourth District. D. M. Dußose, Fifth District. W. P. Price, Sixth District. P. M. B. Young, Seventh District. PROSPECTUS OF THE WEEKLY CATO OS AC OUEIBR, PUBLISHED AT RINGGOLD, GEORGIA. DEVOTED to the advocacy of a Thor ough, Practical Development of the Hmerai Besonrces or Georgia, Agricultural . Ma.lL* * b AXB GENERAL Inclu»t'l- Interests. ’ . 6 tST The Courier will also contain a Review of the Markets, WITH A SUMMARY OP CURRENT POLITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS NEWS, And a due share of well-selected LITERARY MATTER. The Patronage already guaranteed war rants assurance of its proving a very desir able Advertising Medium. $2.00 Per Annum in Advance. GEORGE B. GHISELIN, Publisher. VOLUME LI “ NOXV I LAY MK DOWN TO SLEEP." It is said of the late John Quincy Adams that he never went to Med without repeat ing this little prayer, the first taught him by the mother whose memory was so dear to him to the last. There are two little IKieuis, descriptive of a child saying this prayer, that are among the tenderest in our language. We combine into one the best of both.—Exchange. Golden head, so lowly bending, Little feet so white and bare, Dewy eyes, half shut, half opened. Lisping out her evening prayer. “ Now I lay,”—repeat it, darling— “ Lay me,” lisped the tiny Ups Os my daughter, kueeling, bending O’er the folded linger tips. “ Down to sleep,”—“To sleep,” she mur ' —l —rTtljlßl v i “ I pray the Loro/* —I gently added, “ You can say it all, I know.” “ Pray the Lord,” The sound came faintly, Fainter still—“ my soul to keep:” Then the tired head fairly nodded, _ And the child was fast asleep. But the dewy eyes half opened, When I clasped her to my breast, And the dear voice softly whispered, “ Mamma, God knows all the rest.” O, the rapture, sweet, unbroken, Os the soul who wrote that prayer! Children’s myriad voices floating Up to heaven, record it there. If, of all that has been written, I could choose whut might be miqr, It should be that child’s petition, Rising to the throne divine. “ OUR LEFT’-MANASSAS. TO JOSEPH K. JOHNSTON. From dawn to dark they stood That long midsummer’s day! XVhilc fierce and fast the battle-blast Swept rank on rank away! From dawn to dark they fought— With legious swept and cleft, And still the wide, black battle-tide Poured deadlier on our Left! They closed each ghastly gap!— They dressed each shattered rank!— They knew how well —that freedom fell XVith that exhausted flank! “ Oli! for a thousand men ! lake those who meltaway !!i- [flame, And down they came with steel and Four thousand to the fray! They leapt the laggard train— The panting steam might stay ! [flame, And down they came with steel and Four thousand to the fray! Right through the-blackest cloud Their lightning path they cleft, And triumph came with deathless lame To our unconquercil Left! Ye, of your sons secure! Ye, of your dead bereft! Honor the Brave! who died to save Your nil upon our Left! —Frank O. Ticknor. 3la»ufacturcs. Three hundred barrels of cement arc made daily at Watson, near Jeffer sonville, Indiana. The Tiffin, Ohio, Agricultural Works will make eight thousand rakes during the coining season. There are forty-three distilleries in Illinois, with a capacity of producing 78,700 gallons daily. The manufacture of mocasins is car ried on in Bangor, Maine, to the extent of $200,000 a year aggregate sales. There is but one factory for the man ufacture of hair-pins in the United States. This one turns out fifty tons of pins per month. During 1871, Auburn, Maine, made 2,400,000 pairs of shoes, valued at $3,000,000. The business employs over 2,000 hands, and 58,000 pounds leather per week are used. The quarry and mills near Castleton, Vermont, where most of our slate pen cils come from, are owned by a stock company, and are valued at $300,000. From 50 to 100,000 pencils are turned out daily, and upwards of 100 hands are employed. Miscellaneous. Virginia has 80,468 farms. There are eleven editors in Congress. There are 1,468 medical students in London. The State Press Association of Texas meets the 12th of May. XVe annually import coffee to the value of $26,000,000. There are 3,000 confirmed users of opium in New York city, Most of the compositors on the Bos ton Globe, are women. The Queen of England keeps two dozen physicians in her household. Victor Emmanuel enjoys the snug little income of $3,000,000 per annnni in gold. Sir Roundell Palmer, g0t30,000 guin eas for his brief for the Geneva arbi tration. Four hundred women of Utah have sent a memorial to Cougress protesting against the admission of that Territory as a State. RINGGOLD. GEORGIA. MAY 10, 1872. Another Mamnath Cave. Thirty Miles Beneath the Barth—A Subterranean River —One Hundred Acres of Lake—Wonderful Water falls. .... During the Utter part of the war, a cave was discovered near Pineville, McDonald county, Missouri, bat the times were so unsettled that beyond a careless, superficial examinatiou of the more accessible portion of it, no gen eral explorations have as yet been made. Mr. C. C. Carpenter, a gentleman resid ing in Pineville, gives the following as the result of an expedition, made in company with one or two of his friends, in search of the wonderful: “ The loeatkm of this new subterra nean wonder U sixteen miles South east of Pineville, McDonald county; the entrance is on Sugar Creek, in a ravine bearing the suggestive title of 4 Bar Hollow.’ You make your entrance into the bowels of the earth through a volcanic fissure seven feet wide by twenty in length; you soon lose sight of daylight, and find yourself in a long entrance hall fully one hundred yards in length, which terminates in the bat room, so named by the explorers from the thousands of bats that swarmed within its dark and hidden recesses: they flew about in swarms, making a terrible noise in the arched roof above. This room has three sides, each with an aperture leading into smaller cav erns or side rooms. The dimensions of the room were taken by Mr. Car penter, and said to be fifty by one hun-. dred, the ceiling about twenty feet from the floor. 44 Passing from this room, a walk of about four hundred yards, through a spacious hall, and we find ourselves in the museum, so called from the number of strangely shaped stalacties found there. This roonfr ls in the shape of a horseshoe. Nature most, certainly in tended this room’for a church, since the roof is arched in purely Gothic style, with dome and columns, and to finish off and make it complete, a pulpit near the cpntre. The walls of this magnificent'cavern are one hundred feet high, but one of the most remark able features about it is a fountain of pure water, four feet in diameter. Turn ing northward, we find a room sixty feet wide, and filled almost full of a glistening formation of stalactites, which hang in curiously formed pend ants from the roof. 44 To the south of this is a room which should be named the bottomless pit, since it apparently has neither bottom, sides, nor roof. The darkness within the place is appalling. Turning to the cast the party walked a distance of about a quarter of a mile, when they came to a flight of natural steps, forty or fifty in number, terminating in a wide platform which formed the en trance to a mammoth hall, supported by Corinthian pillars of various thick ness, and endless in number, as white as snow, and glistening as though studded with millions of diamonds. This hall is probably two hundred feet in width, and communicates with a number of passages leading in various directions, none of which have been explored. “Proceeding on their way, the-ex plorers found a river of running water, coming no one knows from where. It is about fifty feet wide and three feet deep. The party followed its coarse down stream to the fells, where the water goes roaring over a precipice into the darkness below. “ The party retraced their way to the mammoth hall, crossed the river, and proceeded on their way. They passed room after room of endless shapes, and full of natural curiosities. “ Miles of caverns were passed through, each having outlets in others, and all dark, but all fell of beauty when lighted up with torches or lamps. A lake of pure water was soon reached, which was at first supposed to be a river. Here a rude boat or dug-out had been brought by a fugitive during the late war. He had explored the lake, and went northward until he thought he was coming to a waterfall, when he returned. “Further explorations on the lake developed the fact that the noise wts made by a huge waterfell, where the waters came pouring In from above. The water fells a distance of sixty feet The lake is circular in shape, and has no visible outlet for water. It is about one hundred acres in extent There are eight or ten dark passages found upon the banks of the lake, leading in all directions, but the guide accompa nying the exploring party lost his cour age and refused to go further. The party were then about eight or ten miles from their starting point They were in the cave forty-three hours. Mr. Carpenter says there is another entrance to the cave thirty miles away, which old trappers and hunters say leads to the lake.” Vestenlay-To-Diy-lfe-Morwiß Yesterday 'ls “ gone through til.- < 1 rco:u of thL^^^Bwere: a schoolboy’s talc, tbefr9Rßp' of an hour.” To-day is here;%gHp>d wij§ immortal interest, ready if into eternity; ment in the have*..of W2flpEgidF>ou of being. To-day is treMwfaJrwoof of the soul’s UcnceftMrifc.' , i eternity in pee letUmfm. To-morrow? Tcmorw# tteV«f conics. “There is no such period in all the hoary calendar of Tubs** Embosomed In the dark Beyond. wo mortal hand can lift the misty curtain* no human eye catch the down-pomsng oration fromthe far-offjand .Mhrid the “vijf ory lives upon the a&mjoka& plains of Yesterday, with the ghosts of thn BUns tts plumage in the days. Here and there, a* wl-g&s the des ert of the Past, and* I fodtifrjtojpf beauty springs up along the watmS ,of Mem- j ory— “ Though the ocean roar around us Hints waves shall beAMon; Though the dcaort should surround us, It hath springs that may be won.” llow the 4 t)rig4|*potß on tbo bosom of Yesterday chip us! A kindly ut tered word, a mofilfedn temptotjon re sisted add trampHinto duet beneath the feet of noblefipearors, a About of victory uttered, iapod's strength, amid tbe flashing .fo'Jfcfftof envy, and the biaping firc brpjpPff Ac world’s cruel mockery and pate; a victory won in spite of earth and- hell. These grand memories lea > from out the historic rolls of the ’ast, and gird the soul with angel’* armor. Yesterday tells us what we n vj? do To-day; to feel the soul thrill wit , the grandeur Tomor row. Then, hanks be to God, Yester day is crowirfd with glory to the brave, true, humblff heart. Memory need not feet! on bones and husks; she may feed on angel’s 4*l, To-day? What are we doing to-day? The now of being is the seed-time bf distant harvests, whose golden gloried rill be gathered by the sons of Godj in the morning light of Eternity. the day of solva tion; n< i” is man’s heit&ge for weal or woe. God says, Now. Man says, To-morrow. To morrow “is me thick of time”—fruit less libel on pature. Nature asks no credit. Her beneficence strews the heavens witl light, the air with fra grance, the e< rth with food. She does not Insult thestrickon starveling with to-morrow’s promises; her promises, like God’s, ar 44 Yea, and amen.” We arc living to-dsy; to-mdlTow our friends may say: “Hi is dead?" To-day we may toil for Sod’s glory and Immun ity's great gqod, and carve our record where the stars glitter and the angels sing. Oh, hither man, glorify the soul by the pest of duty. and trough all men forsaKf you, th« armies of heav en will eneamiarcniffdteoit you. Pour yourwictorioui song bier the bosom of the storm. T 1 row and flash the f ery face of h umanity ’ scm my, Chtppjpbe. Speak gently to the ferriug, speak grandly to the tried, lift the fffl||i;':strehgthen the feeble, feed the Idmgry, clothe the naked, visit the sidn bury the dead, educate the orphan ajhlovc God and that your religion (Http than the moveless faith. BcMhw the right; crush down the wnaujrmogt amid the blaze of life’s 4? God and Humanity?" If riends, love them; never degradej©ur manhood by deserting them; if ttyfty fell, lift them up, and stand by them antil they can stand and run and lly. If you have beat us back from the gates of wrong and ruin. Thank God for your ene mies! Save th®m; l%is well enough to let your lives stamppltolr prophecies with falsehood. Work for God and And Sabbath garments on.’” A lady witness said in a St Louis Court: “Give me the least grain of truth for a basis, and I can ruin the character of any woman in the world.” Let gossips ponder this remark, and they will be brought to a realization of its truth. The first cars for the Leavenworth, Kansas, and Denver Narrow Gauge Railroad hate been received at Leav enworth. Mrs. Southworth is) said to have killed 700 people—in her ujnvels. . Women and Poets. L If I begin to quote Dr. Holmes I shall aat know where to stop. His talk is about women and poets, and these are some of the bright sentences: “A woman, notwithstanding she is the best of listeners, knows her busi-. ness, and it is her business to please. I don’t say that it is not her business to vote, but I do say that a woman who does not please is a false note in the harmonies of nature. She may not have youth or beauty, or even manner; bat she must have something in her voice or expression, or both, which it makes you feci better disposed towards your race to look at or listen to. She [knows that as well as we do; and her ww. question artfr you have been talk ing your soul into her consciousness is, Did I please? A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day, “The less there is of sex about a woman, the more she is to be dreaded. But take a real woman at her best mo ments, well dressed enough to be pleas ed with herself, not so resplendent as to be a show and a temptation, with the varied outside influences that set vibrating the harmonic notes of her nature stirring in the air about her— and wliat has social life to compare with one of those vital interchanges of thought and feeling with her that makes an hour memorable? What can equal her tact, her delivery, her sub tlety of apprehension, her quickness to feel the temperature as the warm and cool current* of talk blow by turns? At one moment she is microscopically intellectual,, critical, scrupulous iqffudg ment as an analyst's balance, and the next as sympathetic ns the open rose that sweetens th#jjnfed from whatever quarter it finds its way to her bosom.” How to Become a Millionaire. John McDonugh, the millionaire of New Orleans, has engraved upon his tomb a series of maxims he has pre scribed through life, to which his suc cess in business is mainly attributed. They contain so much wisdom that we copy them: BULKS VOK THE GUIDANCE OF MY LIFE. Remember always that labor is one of the conditions of existence. Time is gold; throw not one minute away, but place each one to account Do unto all men as ye would be done by. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. Never bid another to do what yon can do yourself. Never covet what is not your own. Never think any matter so trifling as not to deserve notice. Never give out that which docs not first come in. Never spend but to produce. Let the greatest order regulate the transactions of your life. Study in j T our course of life to do the greatest amount of good. Deprive yourself of nothing neces sary to your comfort, but live in an honorable simplicity. Labor to the last moment of your existence. Pursue strietly the above rules, and the divine blessing and riches of every kind will flow upon you to your heart’s content. First of all your life should be to, tend by all means in your power to the honor and glory of our Divine Creator. The conclusion to which I have ar rived is, that without religion, no order; and without religion, no happiness; and that the aim of our being is to live righteously, wisely and soberly. Johm McDonough. Hew Orleans, March 9, 1804. Good Counsel.— No young man can hope to rise in society, or perform worthily his part in life, without a /air moral character. The basis of such a character is a virtuous, fixed sense of moral obligation, sustained and invig orated by the fear and love of God. The youth who possesses such a char acter can bo trusted. Integrity, justice benevolence, truth, are not with him, words without meaning; he feels, and knows their sacred import and aims in the tenor of his life, to exemplify the virtues they express. Such a man has decision of character; he knows what is right aud is firm in pursuing it; he thinks and acts for himself, and is not to be made the tool of unprincipled and Aneserving politicians to do the dirty work of party. Such a man has true worth of character; his life is a bles sing to himself, to his family, to society, and to the world; and he is pointed out to future generations as a proper ex ample for the rising youth to emulate. —i. •* • « However many friends you may have, do not neglect yourself; though you have a thousand, not one of them will love you as yon ought to love your self. IKUMBER 2. Glutting the Professions. We' fear that our young men are glut ting the professions. Better that more of then* go to trades aud farming. Horace Greeley was elected an honor ary member of one of the societies of the. law schools at Lebanon, Tennessee. ln the following brief letter, that contains ft-wocld of solid applica ble sense on this subject New York, March 26, TfffSr Dear Sir: —l have yours of the 23d iustant, and gratefully accept (he honor of which it notifies me. And now per mit me to make an ungracious return for-your kindness. 1 am impelled to protest against the devotion of so many young men—many of them our ablest and brightest—to the profession of law. I have no vulgar prejudices against that pursuit—l know that many have nobly served God and man in that calling— I protest only because I see that pro fession overcrowded while others arc unfilled and neglected. Your State needs this day ten thousand educated and capable young men to teach her where to look for mines and how to open and work them; how to belt her soil with additional railroads, laid with steel wrought from her own vast wealth of iron ore; how to multiply her fur naces, factories, machine-shops, imple ment manufactories, etc., etc. Yet she leaves these needs unsupplied, while she grinds out grist after grist of super fluous lawyers and doctors. You will not lieed my protest; still I ask you to record it,’ for the benefit of the wiser and more docile generations which I trust are to succeed you. Believe me, yours, Horace Greeley. Hairy Lee Gosling, Law School, Lebanon, Tennessee. How Small Expenditures Count. Five cents each morning, a mere trifle. Thirty-five cents a week not much, yet it would buy sugar and coffee for a whole family—s4o.27 a year—and this amount invested in a savings bank at the end of the year, and the interest thereon at six per cent, computed an nually, would in twelve years amount to more than $689.00 —enough to buy a good farm in the West. Five cents before breakfast and din ner and supper—you would hardly miss it, yet it is fifteen cents a daj r —sl.os per week. Enough to buy a small library of books. Invest this as before, and in twenty j-ears you have over $3,000. Quite enough to purchase a good house and lot Ten cents each morning—hardly worth a second thought, yet with it you can buy a paper of pins or a spool of thread. Seventy cents a week—it would buy several yards of muslin— s37.so in one year. Deposit this amount as before, and you have $2,340 in twen ty years—quite a snug little fortune. Ten cents before breakfast, dinner and supper—thirty cents a day. It would buy a book for the children; $2.10 per week, enough to pay for & year’s sub scription to a good newspaper; $109.50 per year—with it yon could buy a good melodeon, from which you could pro cure sweet music, to pleasantly while away the evening hours. And this amount invested as before, would in forty years produce the desirable sum of $15,000. A Truthful Sketch. Let a man fail in business, what an effect it has on his former creditors! Men who have taken him by the.arm, laughed and chatted with him by the hour, shrug their sholders and pass on with a cold “ How do you do?” Every trifle of a bill is hunted up and presented that would not have seen light for months to come, but for the misfortunes of the debtor. If it is paid, well and good; if not the scowl of the Sheriff, perhaps meets him at the corner. A man that has never failed knows but little of human nature. In prosperity he sails along gently, wafted by favoring smiles and kind words from everybody. He prides himself on his name and spotless char acter, and makes his boast that he has not an enemy in the world. Alas! the change. He looks at the world in a different light when reverses come upon him. He reads suspicion on every brow. He hardly knows how to move; or do this thing or the other; there are spies about him, a writ is ready for his back. To know what kind of stuff the world is mode of, a person must be un fortunate, and stop paying once in his lifetime. If he has kind friends, then they are made manifest. A failure is a moral seive; it brings out the wheat and shows the chaff. A' man thus learns that words and pretended good will are not and do not constitute real friendship. Edwin Forrest went on the stage at twelve years of ago. RATES OF ADVERTISING o*o Square. o*e Insertion, - Back Sataeqnciit Insertion. - Fifty Cents. space. IM. 3M.J3 M. 6M. 12 M. 1 Square, sjToojso 00 tjl 00 12 00 S2O 00 2 .Squares. 5 00 8 00 12 00 17 00 S2B 00 3 Squares. 7 0© 10 **> MOO 24 00 $35 00 4 Squares. 0 001* 00 16 00 28 00 s4l 00 5 Squares. U 0014 00 M 0025 00 S4B 00 6 Square* 13 00 16 00 20 00 40 00 SCO 00 % Column. 15 00 IS 00 28 Off 54 00 $74 00 \ Column. 20 00 28 00 33 00 67 00 SB3 00 1 Column. *6 PC 33 00] 45 00 75 00 140 00 tW Transient advertisements must be paid to r in advance. Contract advertise ment»Ji O > by)aidJiairjjuartmd^^ i>M< __ >> _ BUSINESS DIRECfORYr “educational. INGGOLD MASONIC LITERARY INSTITUTE, R. T. McMullen, Prin cipal ;J. A. Robert, Associate Principal; ' Benjamin F. Clark, Professor of Music. The Curriculum of this Institution is of the highest standard. goods and groceries. TMj/GoftiriN. Ringgold, Georgia, • Deafer in St&]N»-~<iJid Fancy I)rv Goods, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Saddles, Bridles, Groceries, Provisions, etc." Also, Agent for the sale of Wilcox, Gibbs & Co's ' Standard Fertilizers. J. WHITSITT, Ringgold, Georgia’ • Dealer in Clothing, Hats, Caps; Boots, Shoes, Saddlery, Dry Goods, Gro cerieeXmd Provisions. Agent for the sale of General Agricultural Implements. WI,. WHITMAN & BKO. y Corner of • Tennessee and Nashville streets, Ringgold, Georgia, Dealers in General Merchandise. Purchasers of all kinds of Country Produce. TB. COX, Dealer in Dry Goods, Gro • ceries, and general Merchandise, and dealer in Country produce. Lafayette Street, Binggold t Georgia. CHARLES S. EVANS, Dealer in Coun try Produce and General Commission Merchant, Postofflce Building, Ringgold, Georgia. OBEBT F. ANDERSON, Lafayette Street, Ringgold, Georgia, Dealer in General Merchandise, Choice Family Gro ceries, XVines, Liquors and Cigars. High est market prices paid for all kinds of Country Produce. WC. PATTON & CO., General Com • mission Merchants and Dealers in Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, etc., Ringgold, Georgia. XVc buy all kinds of Country Produce. MERCHANT MILLERS. DUNN & BROWN, Merchant Millers, Produce and Provision, and Commis sion Merchants, Ringgold,'Georgia. DRUGS AND MEDICINES. RAVENS & HARRIS, Druggists and Apothecaries, Dealers in Paints, Oils, Glass etc., Nashville street, Ring gold, Georgia. ~ BOOTS AND SHOES. 11. STANFIELD, Dealer in Custoin • made Boots and Shoes. All orders promptly executed. Ringgold, Georgia. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. EM. DODSON, Attorney at Law, will • practice in the Cherokee and Rome Circuit Courts of Georgia. Chattanooga, Tennessee. AT. HACKETT, Attorney and Coun • sellor, Practicing in Cherokee and Rome Circuit Courts and Supreme Court. Ringgold, Georgia. WH. PAYNE, Attorney and Coun • sellor, Practicing in Cherokee and Rome Circuit Courts. Ringgold, Georgia. saddlery' CM. CROXVSON, Agent. Manufac • tures all kinds of Saddlery, Har ness, etc. Ringgold, Georgia. CARPENTERS. ARSONS & TRIMMIER, Contractors and Builders. Carpenters work of all kinds, promptly and faithfully ex eented. Ringgold, Georgia. Abijah Johnson, cabinet Maker and Undertaker, Ringgold, Georgia. Established ) j Established in Augusta 1853.) (in Rome, 1856. A. A. CLARK & SONS., DEALERS in PIANOS, ORGANS AND ALL KINDS OP MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. SECOND-HAND PIANOS taken in ex change for new ones, and always ou hand for sale or rent. Every Piano sold by us is fully war ranted, and kept in order twelve months free of charge. Brass Bauds furnished at short notice. Pianos tuned and repaired in the best manner, and on reasonable terms. Orders or inquiries addressed as below, will meet with prompt attention. A. A. CLARK & SoNß,<r mny3-3m. Ringgold, Ga. NEW CARDING MACHINE. DUNN & BROWN, RINGGOLD GEORGIA, ARE PREPARED TO DO ALL WORK with promptness, in either Plain or Mixed Carding, and the reputation of MR. W. S. HANNAH, Who has charge of the Machine, is a guar antee that the work will be done in a superior manner. Wool shipped from other points, taken from and rolls returned to depot free of charge. For every lOfcs wool, send 1 pound of grease. RATES for CARDIN6.JP Toll, one-sixth—Cash price per pound. ' Plain, 10 cents: Mixed, 16 cents. may3-if.