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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, - 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.