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IIIAGGQLI), fflffiQRGIA,
FRIDAY MAY
The Atlanta and Lookout Hall
road and lt» Importance to Lh«
Fayette. -’4^.
The construction of the above n»iwl
to the Coal and I»t»n beds of Lookout
Mountain nod vicinity, which we con
litlently believe, in view of it* signal
im|K>rtnnee to the welfare of the State
at large, will soon l*e commenced upon;
should spur up the citizens of .LftFa
yette to prompt action in seenring the
const ruction of a branch road, having
its terminus at their town. Wo pre
sume they could easily effect an arrang
ment Jhat will cnoblo them to utu**
llie gtading done softy; .rears ago, be
tween Graysville, from
its int<w*eetfon by the Atlanta and
lookout Road. *
It is only necessary, wc think, for
the iieople of I.a Fayette to conijiare
the advantages of such railway connec
tion with those afforded by tiic con
struction of what is known as the North
and South Road, extending from Rome
to Chattanooga, to impress them with
the siijicrior benefits resulting from the
branch terminating at their doors. It
will secure the trade of an extended
scope of rich agricultural country, and
enable them to bring into market their
vast deposits of Iron Ore, by virtue of
hecessibility to Coal, which can then be'
placed in LaFayettc as cheaply as at
Ringgold. The cost of the branch
road will be truly insignificant as com
pared with its importance.
St. Louis and its Manufactures.
In manufactures, St. Louis ranks the
seventh city in the United States.
Among these manufactures,. that of
Iron takes precedence over all others:
“Within easy reach of St. Louis are
supplies of the richest iron ore in
quantities suilleicntto supply the wants
of the world for centuries to come.
Iron Mountain and Pilot Knob, in close
proximity, arc formed of immense mass
es of this most valuable of all metals.
“ Seven furnace stacks at Carondelet
illumine the skies with their perpetual
fires, and daily pour out nearly three
hundred lons of molten irosr—A large
capital and many hands are also occu
pied in changing the crude pig metal
into a thousaud forms to meet the de
mands of a civilized community. Foun
dries arc turning out immense quanti
ties of machine castings, stoves and
hollow-ware; —large rolling mills man
ufacturing many hundred tons of rail
way iron, but not half enough to meet
the present and pressing demand; oth
er establishments supply iron for plows
and other fanning machinery, but a
wide field is still open for manufactur
ers in iron. When these vacancies arc
filled, a million of people in St. Louis
and its immediate vicinity will live by
Ikon. The present annual value of SL
lxuiis manufactures may he put down
at $15,(XX),000 —and those of the whole
State of Missouri at $92,000,000.”
The quotations for iron ore at St.
Louis range from sto 5.50 per tou; all
having to he brought from Iron Moun
tain and Pilot Knob, respectively, 81
and 87 miles distant. Until March,
1871, supplies of coal for iron purposes
were boated down the Onio River from
Pittsbnrg, one thousand miles to Cairo,
and thence two hundred miles up the
Mississippi.
Here, we have ores of excellent qual
ity and rich yield, all around about us;
coal affording a greater per eentage of
coke than even that of Pittsburg, but
22 miles distant; as well as cheap tim
ber for charcoal. It is safe and in
keeping with truth, to say that both
coal and ore can be obtained here by
iron workers, at less than half their
cost in St. Louis.
A May Day Offering.
REPUBLIC MONTHLY SOUVENIR.
Volume 1, Number 1, of the above
named journal we arc in receipt of.
The Souvenir is published at Spring
field, Ohio, by the Republic Printing
Company, for SI.OO per annum, As
regards typographical excellence and
general get up, it is faultless; its con
tents are admirably selected, and from
our personal acquaintance with the
publishers, we can otter assurances that
it will never contain anything else.
The frontispiece, “child in a bath,” is
well worth the per annum price to all
who have children, and many times
that sum to those who haven’t.
Liberal Republican Nomination.
It is perhaps too early a day to ex
press an opinion as to how the nomin
ations of the Cincinnati Convention
will be received thoughout the South.
Up to this present reading, however,
we are. led to believe that Greeley’s
will prove the winning card, provided
there be no Democratic candidate en
tered, in inch event, the re-election of
General Grant will l#e anticipated as
fixed fact,
I laaleiter’s Atlanta City Directory.
We take occasion to express our
thanks for a neat and well-bound com
prehensive City Directory, jti3t from
the press of the Plantation Publishing
Comjiany, Atlanta, Georgia. Besides
)>eing a complete index, the Directory
contains many items of signal interest.
Like all work executed by the P. P.
< 'nmjmav, it is .rust what it should be. I
Iu ' !!:11 nrt :
set forth facts that will be fully con
firmed liy Intelligent, capable examina
tion. We hope it will bellowed up
by many more in that, as wall another
papers throughout the State: : ' s
“Georgia, one of the original tliir-'
teen, with a cHniate and soil vastly su
perior in every respect to the Western
and Northwestern States, with A vari
ety of production that embraces both
the temperate and tropical regions,
with inexhaustible deposits of minerals
/.v being dragged nhnc/tf iiji th° * ((t <lf
development, which, compared with the
progress of tlu> c*tatoa referred to, is
like th»* at the snail against the fleet
amted race-horse.
The world moves, aud its multitud
inous interests are being developed aud
perfected by steam, stimulated by elec
tricity, with a marvelous rapidity.
A community or people who imffcc;
the greatest use of these wonderful
wealth creating ]K>wers, will lead in all
that pertains to true prosperity aud
solid wealth.
Attracting the enterprising capital
ist, merchant, manufacturer, and agri
culturalist, from the superior facilities
offered for the profitable investment**!'
capital, the advantages for extensive
commercial operations, the building up
and sustaining manufactures, aud the
profitable culture of the soil, such a
]*eople or community become prosper
ous and rich by administering to the!
wants and necessities of those whose
want of enterprise has made them
“hewers of wood and drawers of water”
for others.
Such is the condition of the South.
Such is the condition of Gcorgin.
Rich in cl mate, rich in soil, rich in
the wonderful variety of her agricul
tural products, rich in her iucxhausri
bls resources, she is nevertheless com
paratively poor.
She does not attract the capitalist,
the merchant, the manufacturer, nor
the agriculturalist. On the contrary,
much of her capital, and many of her
enterprising citizens are attracted to
more progressive localities.
If Georgia would invite capital, at
tract immigration, bring her wild lands
under cultivation, develop her coal and
iron fields, build up and sustain manu
factures, improve her water powers,
and thereby declare and establish her
independence, if she would become an
exporting instead of an importing State,
in a word, become free, let her extend
her railway system until all parts of
her territory arc provided with this
modern Sampson of development.
Make her county towns easily acces
sible, place her wild lands within reach
of a market, open the remotest sections
to her merchants and manufacturers,
bring her water powers within reach,
penetrate her mineral districts with
railways, and the good effect would be
almost magical.
Strike the Western and Atlantic out
of existence, and Northwestern Georgia
would be comparatively deserted, her
thriving towns and cities become de
|*opulutcd, her lands less valuable, and
the State’s treasury empty.
If depriving Northwest Georgia of
railway facilities would work this great
damage to her people and the State,
would not the furnishing of the snme
facilities to sections of the State now
without them, also develop theiHnter
ests in the same manner and to the
same extent?
From 1850 to 1860, Ohio constructed
2,371 miles of railway, a large propor
tion of which was for the purpose of
developing her coal and iron interests.
This has greatly cheapened those com
modities, enabling her iron manufac
turers to compete with those of Penn
sylvania, thereby largely increasing the
popoulation of her towns and cities, and
these in their turn stimulating the ag
ricultural interests, acting and reacting
upon each other, furnishing a solution
of her extraordinary growth in wealth
and power. -
I’enn sylvan in, during that decade,
built 5,381 miles of railway on the sur
face, and 500 miles underground in her
mines, at a cost of about $350,000,000,
mainly for the purpose of developing
her coal and iron, and has grown enor
mously rich.
Georgia lias yet to build her first
mijc of railway for the special purpose
of the development of these wealth
giving interests. With an ample sup
ply of coal within her own territory,
accessible bv the construction of twenty
two miles miles of railway, she imports
from Tennessee and Alabama her sup
plies of this wealth-giving power.
With the hills and mountains of
Northern and Northwestern Georgia,
literally paved and packed with iron ore
of the richest quality, we expend mil
lions of dollars annually for the impor
tation of our supplies of this absolutely
necessary article.
How long shall we continue to toil and
slave to enrich others? llow long shnll
we remain slaves to our want of enter
prise y , ••
Lying within the triangle formed by
the Rome Railway from Kingston to
Rome, the Alabama State line, and the
Western and Atlantic Railway, and
Chattanooga, almost within sight of
these cities and railways, are vast sup
plies of both coal and irou that can be
reached by the construction of a rail
way from 22 to 25 miles in length from
Ringgold, through a fine agricultural
section, and over an extremely favora
ble route.
The coal and iron banks are distant
from Atlanta as follows:
Atlanta to Ringgold, via West
ern and Atlantic Railroad, - 115 miles.
Ringgold to Coal aud 1 ron Reds, 22 miles.
137 miles.
Admitting the fact that Atlanta’s
future growth and prosperity depends
upon the establishment and successful
inaintninancc of manufactures, this
short line of proposed Railway becomes
invented with extraordinary interest to
Atlanta.
Shall we AUanU wak«|
up to the irnMmmj* eater-1
era and Atlantic Railway ean hold its
prosperity.
This being thq q»st, jhc rr"lV|lrf%l
ness of the roat} depends the d£
the building up of manufacturing ffi?
to rests at Chattanooga, Rome, Atlanta,
agd along their line.
fWye these place cheep caul, and
mantifSsturing j 8 no longer an exprsfE.
meat, biiTtiji established internal, la
With cheap- -caul, the, population oitj
these citUwr would tToitTiitnirnre xffeigba
years, thus furnishing the West and
North with a local business sufficient
for its continued success.
What say you gentlemen, yon wealthy
lessees, shall we have the Atlanta and
Ixmkout Railway?
What say you, citizens of Atlanta?
Will you have cheap Georgia co.ii, and
place’ the future of Atlanta on a sure
basis ?
With cheap coaj we can establish and]
successfully maintain manufacturig*!
interests.
Without it, it is impossible.” *jj
In connection wit& the foregoing
publish analyses of the Coal and Iron
of Walker and Catoosa counties, which
we had made last year by well known
practical chemists. J. B. Britton, of.
Philadelphia, reports hs follows upon
the Coal; *
Volatile matter, including moisture
expelled iu process of coking, 27.95
Combustible Carbonaceous matter, - 09.93
Ashes, .... - 2.12
100.00
Gross amount of coke, 72.05
C, E. Buck, who occupies the chair
of Chemistry in the University of Del
aware, reports thus upon the Ivon ore:
Scsqui Oxide of Iron, ... 70.88
(containing metallic iron, 53.81)
Phosphorus, ..... 0.11
Sulphur, none
All practical iron men know that the
above analyses indicate coal and iron
of great excellence.
We greatly err in our estimate of the
appreciative perspicuity of capitalists
in such States as coal and iron are
availed of, if they dp not soon come
and take the initiative such as will
lead to what we now, by means of The
Courier, are trying to bring about.
Letter Irani Rev. C. W. Howard.
The following letter we take unqual
ified sat is fart ion in laying l*efore our
readers—Mr. Howard being familiar,
from personal examination, with the
great elemental values of North-west
Georgia. We hope he will often favor
Tub Cockier with communications :
Spiuno Rank, Mary 7, 1872.
Editor of The C'atoom Courier:
Dear Sir :— I am much obliged for
the first number of The Catoosa Cou
rier, received a day or two since. Just
such a paper has been long needed in
that section of the State. The iron,
marble and coal lying at and West of
of Ringgold if developed, would not
only enrich that section, but would be
of vast utility to the whole State. With
you I am amazed that the people of
Atlanta do not tukfc hold of the pro
posed Railroad with great energy. If
they would do so, they might have
cheap coal for next winter’s use, besides
bringing to Atlanta a large amount of
agricultural produce which now finds a
market in Chattanooga.
Your first number is full, varied and
instructive. If you cau maintain this
elevated standard, your paper will de
serve and command ample patronage.
Respectfully yours,
C. W. lloavard.
Health and Strength.
Preserve the following and give it
conspicuous place, so that all may
learn how strength is to be. gained or
lost. Mntheson, M.D., says:
"All food contains Carbon giving
warmth, and Nitrogen the clement
which supplies ‘muscle’ flesh and
strength. Some articles contain both
in various proportions as fat beef, which
has 30 parts Carbon and 15 Nitrogen.
Oatmeal has 69 of Carbon and 13 of
Nitrogen. Peas, 59 Carbon and 23 Ni
trogen, wbHo- others, such as Rice, are
almost wholly Carbon, therefore you
ask your landlady to give you rice pud
ding on a cold day. The colder the
weather the more carbonized food do
we require, Ture aleohol is also almost
Wholly Carbon, and all alcoholic drinks
are proportionately so, beer having only
five per cent, of alcohol; but having no
nitrogen, they cannot add a single par
ticle of llesh'to the system, and conse
quently not one particle of strength,
of power to labor. A man feels stronger
after taking a drink of spirits, but it
is not added strength; it is only strength
preternaturally drawn in advance from
the store in hand for current use, the
nervous system having been stimulated
to make that draught, by the influence
which the alcohol .had upon it; but
when the system comes to use the
strength naturally prepared for it, and
finds it has been already appropriated, j
it sinks under the disapjiointinent, so
to speak, to a depth proportioned to
the strength or quantity of the aldthnl
used. The sinking experienced in de
lirium tremens is precisely of this na
ture, and is almost too horrible to fee
borne. All know that when the liquor
‘dies’ within a man, he is as weak and
powerless as anew born infant, and
this comes upon him suddenly. On
the other hand, food mid drink which
contain nitrogen, give flesh, create the
power to labor; and the strength which
is thus added is for cui#iit use, is sub
stantial and enduring. Hence, alcohol
is not a true tonic, has no really valua
ble medicinal or correct! ve value in any
mala dv known toman."
j seeing tjhp' they, were that would la 1 1
I put my ififk upon every young man
ing to]*ifßKteongtaien of this coun
try.' 1 fcdp&ret*;jjride in them, hut
.V, young men, don't
1 ommit tlflUunuer of t\ ing your no hs
as yon entjßthe feoisterous sea of pub
lic’ iife T tm mAnillstone of defeated
theotiftSylwfa rttfel; jt is unkind; oh,
it is tcrribm|cniel for those who are
old anff JKjy, ahd who have been
wrccksjpttjpK their theories, to spend
the.lßPtaffr «f their days in Urging
tin- young toy follow unfortun
ate footstep#! I tellipt&Jtog evolution
lias wrought results, uad bhch men art?
but the lingering ecpm% of a dead sys
tem; Ido apt ask roti to* approve of
those result! I tic notj my they me
right. I wofckl lose lny'rigiit arm lie
fore I tvbuhliLiy the \ ate all right, but
I tell ytw tijlre is j j greater t-riith in
history thanlthiitpo kn* is the chief ele
ment of law, and paver has wrought
resi Gts, and hi ? can’kcver be a wise
statesman th* future destinies
of this country and b|ilu up its pros
perity, who does npt recognize these
facts and go to work nctnrdingly. Why,,
fellow-citizens, there hlscarc ely a gov
ernment on t3lc face of,the earth that
is not the result of usurpation. The
I have faith that it wll come-inoder
kinduesH to each other, tbstai ui ng from
the history? of mankind.' and when re
construction will bo Slotted -out from
the records of the coiutrv. It may
not be in your day, it, may not be iu
mine, but I believe it will come at, last.
It is not In ypiir power to accomplish
it, but you can prompt# .it. You can
not prthimte It bf yftswnri. hatred or
intolerance, but by good wiH toward
each other, bv forbearance, charity and
moderation, oy goinglaVork and builtl
ing up your own material interests—
your own unlvcrsitiemydur own seiiools
and by engaging in') all those noble
works for the revival of, our prosperity.
If you do this, tlie.tiinekvill come when
passion will subside air a reaction will
take place and tnorc w It be a sense of
justice ill the North? n people, atuV
they will say “-sre rep ut that in the
hour of our we of
fered such nit inspit to >tir brethren of
the South,” and “out damned spot,”
they will cry. At lensf let us be char
itable enongh'to'hope if; let us lie kind
enough to believe it; I t us have faith
enough to act pi ton it. As for myself,
you con tint tie me to an' party. I have
no use for partv&xct >t as I eaii ac
complish good Tgvit. f have no use for
any organization- eMt nay I can pfo*
mote the intejfite of. the country Hv
h. Failh ii God’uuJ-hopc.in mnu arc
tin only funddSfiaQprinciples in my
creed. ibid to elevate
man are the ofßffluiitlrimcnta 1 obliga
tions I admit,-£JfMwhfiig else is sub
ordinate. All, : tlt|jpgs else arc simply
means to accomplish these glorious
cuds and to discharge those duties.
Those are'.Hugrftadplos upon which
to net Tbftf flfeat Roman (Cieero) to
whom I h a*c wei red k lid, shortly be
fore bis d©athfmatshe had one thing
■i-k <>f theHHFand it was, that.
and \ ing, lie infßp'‘i!bdve his country
free. Fellow-flMfel, that ismyambi
tion. God- kiM§tiHs not office that 1
want. I wantStefFconfidence, but Ido
not want in that way. I
have a yearning and an absorbing am
bition to thgwpmntry in which
I was born nmf which I have seen de-
vastated before eyes. And if God
should spare toy lil'p, I have, too, one
thing to ask aiitl that rs that when at
last I shall die, and my spirit shall
start on its flight though the air, let me
look down fttfl&p oft every square of
Southern laiidpjptautiftd cottage tilled
with a happy gppily and surrounded
with every evitfessce of .-virtu* aud thrift.
Cel me see up® our hills and in our
valleys tha,setort, the fhrnaeq and
the wfttuifjPijinl their smoke curling
toward heaven, and filled with busy
multitudes lj|Jpg|ng to our people a
steady steadiy stream of wealth and
prosperity. Let me turn my gaze to
ward the Utility of my State, and
see there thousands of noble Georgians
learning by art and science how to
make, great and prosperous their grand
old .native State. Then let me pause
for one moment in my upward flight,
and, bending ray ears, cpteh the sound
of lamentation coming from this free
and prosperous people, for the recent
departure of one who had done his
whole duty in this glorious work. Then
will I raise my eyes heavenward, and
with their ascending voices a holier
escort than that of angels, will proudly
go to the gates of Paradise and claim
I admission thori.”
,
The manufacturing statistics of tine
rCensus Bureau are so fur completed as
|to show that th 3 gross products of miui-
I ufacturcs last j ear was four thousand
million dollars.
I North Garolia a has 11 cotton factories.
i .. , ' 1
United States, #B?(Rational Convention
assembled at (’tncinnati, proclaim ilie
following principles as essential to a
Wc recognize the equality of all men
ityTraee, color or persuasion, rcligiouß
2. to maintain
, and enfranchisement, and tooppose any
[reopening of the questions settled by
Bth, and 15th amendments
itution. 1
mand the immediate and
mval of all disabilities im
ount-of the rebellion, which
übdued several years ago,
lat universal amnesty will
rnplete paeiffcation in all
:he country.
4. Social, self-government with im
partial suffrage will guard the rights of
alt citizens more securely than any cen
tralized power. I'hc people aud the
j/nroMv »nrare require the thrpreifta'cy
of the civil over the military authority,
and?freedom of person under the pro
tection of the halieas corpus. We de
mand for the individual the largest
liberty, consistent with public order, for
the State, self-government, and for the
nation, a return to the methods of peace
aud the constitutional limitations of
power.
5. The civil service of the Govern
ment has become a mere instrument of
partisan tyranny- and personal ambi
tion and an Object of selfish greed. It
-{jMl scandal and reproach upon free in
stitutions, aud 1 needs a demoralization
dangerous to the perpetuity, <>& repub
lican government.
6. We, therefore, regard a thorough
reform of the civil service as one of the
most pressing necessities of the hour;
that honesty, capacity and fidelity con
stitute tlm only valid claims to public
employment; that the offices of the
Government cease to he a matter of
arbitrary favoritism and patronage, and
that public station become again n post
of honor. To this end it is impera
tively required that no President shall
be a candidate for re-election.
7. Wc demand n system of Federal
taxation which shall not unnecessarily
interfere with the industry of the peo
ple, aud which shall provide the means
necessary to pay the expenses of the
government economically administered,
the pensions, the interest on the public
debt and a moderate annual reduction
on the principal thereof; and recogniz
ing that there arc? iu our midst, honest
but irreconcilable, differences of opin
ion With regard to the respective sys
teWMi (if protection and free trade, we
remit the discussion of tho subject to
tiy myopic in their Congressional dis-
and the decision of Congress
thereon, wholly free of Executive inter
ference or dictation.
8. The public credit must be Securely
maintained, and we denounce repudia
tion in every tbrm and guise.
9. A speedy return to specie pay
ment: is demanded alike by the highest
considerations of commercial morality
mid honest government.
10. We remember with gratitude tho
heroism aud sacrifices of the soldiers,
and sailors of the Republic, aud no act
of ours shall ever detract from their
justly earned fame or the full reward of
their patriotism.
11. We are opposed to all further
grants of lauds to railroads or other
coiq(orations. The public domain should
he held sacred to actual settlers,
12. We hold that it is the duty of the
government in its intercourse with for
eign nations to cultivate the friendships
of peace by treating with all on fair and
equal terms, regarding it alike dishon
orable'either to demand what is not
right or to submit to what is wrong.
13. For the protection and success of
these vital priiH'iptop* and the support
of the candidates nominated by this
Convention, wp invite and cordially
Welcome the co-'operation of all patri
otic citizens without regard to previous
IKfiiticalaffiliations. Horace White,
Ch’ui Committee on Resolutions.
G. I’. Thurston, Secretary.
The Coal Supply of Louisville, Ken
tucky.
The Louisville Commercial, in a re
cent issue, makes mention of the very
great importance to that city, of the
completion of the St. Louis Air Line
Road, by means of which supplies of
Coal can thel* lie obtained ami laid
down in their Coal yards at $4.50 per
ton. .’■■■ ’•
HoW shall we of Ringgold estimate
the importance of the Atlanta and
Lookout Road, when it will enable us
to get supplies of the same material at
$2 per ton? and When it is built what
is there to prevent the establishment
in our town of Locomotive and Machine
Shops, Car Factories and general man
ufaetu ring industries ?
We append description of what may
be truly calied an "Immense Establish
ment,” theTirst essential for the suc
cess of which, is cheap Coal:
“The workshops of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad Company are
the most extensive of the kind in the
South. They are supplied with the
latest improved and best machinery,
Width, in every department is ns com
plete ns it is possible to make it by a
liberal outlay of money. The company
run these works in the manufacture of
cars, locomotives, stationary enginens,
and railroad supplies of various kinds,
rendering themselves independent oi
monopolies.
There are now in the course of build
ing at these works two first class ten
wheef locomotives for the Louisville
ind Nashville rAad. There are being
rebuilt for the Louisville and Nashville
road four locomotives; for the Nash
ville and Decatur road five; and for the
North and £ostl!t Alabama road oue;
ish, mechanism, aud durability to any
manufactured in the country. The
Louisville and Nashville road has or
dered five hundred freight cars, of all
grades, to be built by these works, and
these are now l*eing turned out as rap
idly 1 as machinery and skilled labor
wiil produce them. This addition to
the rolling stock of the company, al
ready very large, will give some idea of
the immense freight business done by
the Louisville and Nashville road and
its many branches.
There are at present on the stocks in
the shops of the company fifteen lirst
c-lass passenger coaches for the Louis
ville and Nashville Railroad, and five
baggage, mail, and express cars for the
same road. These passenger corn-lies
and express (nrs will he finished in
very elegant style, aud will make up
four or five splendid trains.
The Louisville and Nashville road
also manufactures all its silver palace
sleeping coaches. Two magnificent
coaches of this class have just been
completed, and werp brought down to
inrttrcirnrst trip bn Tuesday.
These coaches are equal in point of
beauty, finish, luxury and comfort, to
any manufactured in America.
The works turn out a largo number
of stationary engines, and these arc
deputed of superior quality. Two are
now beiug built for the North and South
Alabama road.
The smithery of the works is to be
greatly enlarged and improved by the
addition of steam forge works, for the
manufacture of car axles and other
hcavyjforge work required by the Louis
ville and Nashville railroad and its
branches.
l’rm.ic Schools is Savannah. —The
Superintendent of the schools in this
cuy reports that a livelier interest has
been manifested iu the schools by the
community during the past year, than
at any former period of their history.
A larger number of children have been
reached, the excellencies of the meth
ods of instruction and discipline have
become apparent, and there has seemed
to l*c a deeper conviction in the minds
of the people that a substantial educa
tion is furnished in our public schools.
The schools may now he considered a
public necessity. With their abolition,
hundreds of children, who are now en
joying the benefits of education, would
he thrown upon our streets, exposed to
temptations which would make them
adepts in cripie and a curse to the com
munity.
A. T. Stewart is said to have slso‘-
000 worth of coal laud.
A daughter has just been born to the
wife of Mark Twain.
TELEGRAPHIC -SUMMARY.
Washington, May B. —The feeling
among Democratic Congressmen Ho
wards the nominations of the Cincin
nati Convention is rather more favor
able than when the news of the nom
ination of G roc ley and Brown was first
received. There are, however, many
who still insist that there shall he a
straight-out Democratic ticket nom
inated.
To-day Justice Davis was waited on
and asked if lie would accept a nomin
ation from the Democratic Convention.
The Justice did not give a positive
answer, but suggested that should he
permit the use of his name by the Dem
ocrats it might be considered a want
of good faith after he had permitted
his name to go before the Cincinnati
Convention.
Arrangements arc about to be made
to divert great through mails between
Washington and New Orleans, from
their present route at .Cleveland Tenn.,
so as to pass thence to their destination
via Dalton, Georgia, Calcra, Montgom
ery and Mobile. By this change the
mails will reach New Orleans at 2 a. m.
ten aud a half hours ahead of the pres
ent time via Grand Junction, Missis
sippi, and render practicable the de
livery of letters before the opening of
the business of the day, instead of the
afternoon, as before. A sure connec
tion aj New Orleans for .the morn irig
mail for Texas, will ajgo be effected.
The Treasury Department has de
cided that after the first of July next,
tea and coffee shall lie subject to no tax
whatever, whether imported directly
from the country of production or grown
beyond the Cape of Good Hope and
imported into the United States from
places this side of the Cape. This
ruling being made in view of the pro
vision in the bill recently passed, that
no further import duties shall be col
lected on the same.
The following nomination has bean
made in Washington: Robert Hargrove
Postmaster at Rome, G a. „
Richmond, Virginia, May B —Col.
W. E. Cameron, editor of the Peters
burg Progress and a member of the
State ConseVvative Executive Com
mittee, has resigned the editorship in
consequence of a disagreement with
the proprietors of the Progress who
disapproved his advocacy of Greeley.
.Macon, May B. —The Grant Conven
tion met at noon. It was very noisy
and boisterous. Akennan was chosen
permanent Chairman. Various com
mittees were appointed, and the con
vention adjourned until to morrow.
New York, May 8. —The National
Democratic Convention is called to
meet in Baltimore on the oth of July.
dissolution.
mil® Firm of Wood A Harris was ills
-1 solved by mutual consent, on the first
instant.
Their successors, CTavous & Harris, are
authorized to settle atl outstanding claims,
and parties indebted wdl please make
es-ir
"wayside Hotel,
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CONDUCTED BV
MAJOR HEALON AND LAI>Y,
RINGGOLD, GEORGIA.
jyArrangements perfected with a well
stocked Livery establishment to convey
Passengers to Catoosa Springs and else
">myio-ly. A. J. HEALON.
U. J. JONES. T. B. COX.
LIVERY, FEED AVI) SALE
STABLE,
—BY— ♦
JONES COX,
RINGGOLD, GEORGIA.
WE are prewired to furnish vehicles
and horses at all hours, to parties
visiting Catoosa Springs, and any and all
points away from the Railroad.
HP I Careful drivers, safe horses, and com
fortable vehicles..JßJ
maylO-tf.
O. F. JOHNSTON,
General Commission Itelmt
AND —
Keal Estate Agent,
RINGGOLD, GEORGIA.
references; JR*
Devant, Waples & Cos., Savannah; Geo.
W. Wyley, Esq., Savannah; J. C. Plant,
Macon; 'lion. Wm. Doherty, Atlanta;
Thos. Crutchfield, Esq. Chattanooga, Tenn.
Marsh & Allgood, Trton Factory, Ga.;
Hon. Ben. C. Yancey, Atlanta; Rev. C. AV.
Howard, Kingston; Hon. T. M. Gordon,
Rev. A. E. Leet, Ringgold; Rev. Thomas
McCauley, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
maylO-tf.
TOWN ORDINANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Chairman
and Board of Commissioners of the
Town of Ringgold, Georgia:
1. That a Tax of One Dollar ($1) per head
he levied and collected annually on all dogs
kept within the corporate limits of said
Town, and in case of a failure or refusal
of the owner of any dog or dogs to pay the
tax on them on or’before the 20tli day of
May in each year, then the tax to be col
lected iu the same manner as all other taxes.
2. It shall be the duty of all owners of
dogs within tho corporate? limits of said
town, to keep his or her dog within his oi
lier own enclosure, and if any dog be found
outside of such enclosure (unless in charge
of its owner or some member of his or her
family) then shell dog shall be taken in
charge by the Marshal, and if, after due
notice being given to the owner, lie fail,
for five days to ward and pay the
the sum of Two Dollars ($2) and expenses
and take his or tier dog, then the Marshal
shall carry the dog outside the limits of
tlie town and kill it.
Approved and ordained May 4tli, 1872.
T. B. COX, Ch’m pro tern.
It. B. TRIMMIER, Clerk.
Office Board of Commissioners, )
Ringgold, Ga., May 4th, 1872.f .
It is ordered by the Board that the aliove
and foregoing Ordinance be published for
one week in The Catoosa Courier.
T. B. COX, Ch’m pro tem.
R. B. TRIMMIER, Clerk.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALK.
THIRTY DAYS After (late, application
will be made to the Court of Ordinary
of Catoosa County, at t lib first regular term
after the expiration of one month from
this notice, for leave to sell tlie lands be
longing to tlie estate of I). M. Ramsey,
late of said County, deceased, for tlie ben
efit of the heirs and creditors of said de
ceased. This May 6th, 1872.
T. C. AVILLIAMS, Administrator.
inayKMt.
/T'i KOROIA, Catoosa County.
VX Ordinary’s Office, Ringgold, Geor
gia, May Term 1872. As there lias been so
much contention about the Public Road
Running West via tlie Red House Ford
and the Dafforp Ford, on West Chlcka
mauga, in said County, notice is hereby
given to all parties interested, to be at my
office on the first day of June next, and
give all tlie information they can to enable
the Court to decide which is tlie most prac
ticable route, and establish tlie road filial.
Given under my official signature.
inayKMt. J. M. COMBS, Ordinary.
SHERIFF’S SALES.
WILL BE SOLD, Before the Court
House door in Ringgold, Georgia,
on the First Tuesday in June next, within
the legal hours of sale, the following pro
perty to-wit: Oue and a half acres of land
in the Northeast corner of lot of land No.
6. in the 28t.U district and 3d section of Ca
toosa County. Sold as the property of Ed
ward Nash,"liy virtue of a Justice’s Court
ft fa in favor of A. J. Morgan, vs. said
NnSh. * Levy made and returned to me by
a Constable. Also, three acres more or
less, in the Northeast corner of lot No. 6.
in the 28th district, 3rd section of said
county. Sold as the property of Edward
Nash, by virtue of a Justujb Court fi’fa, vsr
said Nash and in favor ofl»laek
Levy made and returned t crone by a Con
stable. Also, the interest belonging to T.
T. Gosnell’s estate, in and to Town lot In
the town of Ringgold, Georgia, known In
the plan of said town as lot No'. 87, on the
North side of LaFayette street, fronting
on said street. Levied- on by three li fas
from the Superior Court of said County;
one tt fa in favor of M. Dickson, for the
use of the officers of Court, vs. Lewis
Shepherd, Administrator of T. T. Gosnell,
deceased. One ft fa in favor of Laura E.
Gosnell, vs. said Shepherd, Administrator
as aforesaid. Oue in favor of James R.
Brown, Administrator vs. same party.
Levied on by said ft fas for cost, and pointed
out- by O. W. Triunnier, C. S. C. Also, lot
No. 74 in the 28tli district and 3rd section
of saidCouutv. Levied on as the property
of J. M. Baldwin, by virtue of aft fa is
sued from the Superior Court of said county
in favor of John M. Todd, vs. J. M. Bnld
win#nd G. W. Williams; bond for titles
and part of the purchase money paid.
Also, North half of lot of land No. 192 in
the 28tli district 3rd section of said county,
levied on as the property of D. E. A. An
derson, for the cost on a ft fa issued from
the Superior Court of said County in favor
of T. J. Payne, vs. said Anderson; bond
for titles aud part of the purchase money
paid defendant in posession. Also, one
share of the Stock in the Ringgold Ma
sonic Institute. Sold as the property of
G. W. Bruce, by virtue of it cost ft fa, is
sued from the Superior Court of said county
in favor of L. C. Graddy, and C. L. Wooten
. for the use of the officersof Court vs. J. IT.
Anderson and G. W. Bruce, said share be
-1 ing fifty dollars. This May Ist, 1572.
may 10-tds. T. B. COX, Sheriff.