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About The Cartersville express. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1875-18?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1878)
Tll k i: xp k ]•; ss. Established in 1857. FRANK P. CRAY, | X. B. H.isimu, s Editors. r..-r=;r-- '--..zz,.., : THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1878. j FOR CONGRESS: HON. CEO. N. LESTER, OF COBH. “If thb Convention was to j NOMINATE AS GOOD AND PURE A man as Geo. N. Lester, I would GROUND ARMS AND RETIRE TO PRI VATE rife.”— W. H. Felton , in 1874. HOW no YOU BIKE THIS. W E REPEAT HERE, WHAT U E SAID TO IK. FELTON’S FACE—THAT HE IS THE MOST ARTFUL TRICKSTER WE HAVE EVER KNOWN. WE SAY THIS WITH RE GRET, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT REFERS TO A MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL WHO SHOULD BE PURE AND GUILELESS AND IN: POTTED FROM THE WORLD.—C. U. C. Willingham, Oet. 5. 1576. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Montgomery, Ala., August 17. One c i?e ol lever Las reached Lure. Boston, August 17.~Carwfulljr prepared vtastistics ol tbe state bureau of labor shows that there are 28,505 working people unem ployed ia Massachusetts, i’rr; -bcrg, Pa., August 17.—The board of tr.ifto has quarantined all boats and trains from south and west. A public meeting has been ca.led to raise (unds for the sufferers south. (T.evklam), ()., August 17. —The batik of Miilersburg, U., closed its (loots yesterday at noon. Deposits about $50,000. Cincinnati, August 17.—Toe firm of Ely it Stirmon, large pork packers and grain deal er-1, Washington Courthouse, has suspended. The nominal asset - will cover the liabilities. l‘i n • bcrc, August 17.—A fire last uigbt in Alleghany destroyed the Pitt;burg wagon " oiks and the drug store of D. Hamilton, less, SOO,OOO. No insurance. Chicago, August 17. —A representative of I .I New York jewelry tiran of Max Friend & Cos., v. is rubbed at tbe Palmer bouse to-day of $ i 5,000 worth of jewelry. Detectives are look ing lor three suspected characters. St. Lol is. August 20.—Medical authorities say there is no yellow fever here,and no appre hension is .Vll that there will be. Washington, August 10.—The collector of customs at Pensacola, telegraphs to the treas ury department that there ia no yellow fever there. Canton, Miss , August 20.—Twenty-live or thirty cases of yellow lever here. Everybody is leaving. Depositors are calling for balances. MBs Henry and Dr. McKee have died. Baltimore, August 19.—The city police force sen I live hundred and seventy-three tlol -1 c-s to aid the c;il rers of Memphis and Gren ada. New York, Aug tst 19—Win Wogan, of Brooklyn, was taken sick to-day, it is suppos ed with yellow fever. Richmond, Ya., Aug. 19.—The city council meet to-morrow to consider the propriety of quarantining the city against yellow fever. The meeting lias been called at tbe instance ot the board of health. Jtot K, Aug. Is Col. Bull iio, agent !F a .... I Teune.-sci; Air-Liue, re ceived contributions to-day for the Grenada yellow lever suiierers amounting to $950. v* naii, Aug. 19. it i- ..;H.dally an nounced here that not a single ease of yellow fevi rli is been either at quarantine or in the city. Nashville, Aug. 19.—The city Council re jected ibe bill to establish a qnaratine against outlie rn cities, proposed by the board of health. Cincinnati, Aug. 17.—A Grenada special says that last night was a fearlul one for the yellow lever patients, die weather having turn ed cold, and 1 ora midnight until nine a. m. to day, nine deaths occurred. This caused a p tuie. and many fled the town at once, not standing on the order of going. The New Orleans physicians declare it ol the most viru lent type they ever contended w ith, not yield ing to treatment. Vh Kara ite,, Aug. 20.—The health officer is unable to give the ollieial figure?, but esti mates one hundred eases in the city, and the number rapidly increasing. New York, Aug. 20.—Two yellow fever deaths at quarantine yesterday, one being W. it‘illy, ol New Orleans. No eases now at quarantine. Cincinnati,•fl’iig. 20. The steamer John Gl ii, witli fever on board, is at anchor three in: s below G tllipolis, the engineers having ii In-. il to do duty. Tne Gallipolis health oi licoi - have placed a strong guard over her, to prevent any one front leaving. Charles Degel man, engineer, and Win. Koedler have died. There are ten cases on board. Captain Btiek erstall is sick. Little Rock, Aug! 19.—The yellow fever sv.ire is dying out, but the quarantine' regula tions an- rigidly enforced. Quincv, 111., Aug. 19.—The First National, the only bank in the city, has failed. The of liters say the liabiii'ies will be met. Ui:\ eland, Aug. 19.— I Tbe disappearance of UlurU-s line, cashier of the Exchange Lank, U mlo!i O .lias been reported. The people are excited over the report. New Orleans, Aug. 19. —Nine days prayer i< ordered in all the Catholic churches of the eily lor the eetsAtion ot the scourge. Bishop Eider, ot Natelas, directs the recital of a daily prayer for the eversion of tiie mortal sick ness. Cairo, Ang. IS. i lie steamer, J. W. Gaff, from Memphis, lull ol passengers, passed up the Ohio to-day without landing. No sickness on board. Tlit Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans railway has discontinued through passengers trains, but will carry mails on local freight trains. Pensaeoi. \, Aug. 19 —The brig Akbar has I'-ached quarantine. Siekuess proves to be Vi irgivs lever, All vessels front infested ports will lie detained at qnaratine until frost. LNOTHLII EI'KEEK BURSTS. it was first asserted that Judge L .-ter voted for Cole, but that was disproved by the fact that at that time Judge Lester was disfranchised mid ot“dd neither vote or hold office. Then it was asserted that Lester made a speech for Cole at Powder Springs and also in Murray county. The Certificates below, given by uti itnpvachuble witnesses, speak for themselves: “\V< , tiie uudersierued citizens of Fowder Springs, Cobb county, Geur (iia. do hereby certify that we were 0.-.ent and heard Judge George N. L 'ter make a speech in reply to I L. Dunning at said Springs in the year ISGB, and we have not the lightest recollection of hearing him idvocate Henry G. Cole for Congress against Gen, P. M. B. Young, or even mention Cole’s name ; and we foel sure that if he had so advocated Cole we would have heard and re in* inhered it. John C. Butner, Robert Baber, Uriah Matthews, John \V. Newell, Mrs. S. A. Matthews, Mrs. E. C. Varner. Dalton, Ga , July 11, 1378. “We, the undersigned, certify that we were present at Spring Place, in Murray county, and heard Judge (t o. N. Lester make a speech in the spring of 185S in favor of the election of Gen. John IJ. Gordon for Govern or, and that he (Judge Lester) did not in that speech advocate tlie elec- ' ! ion of Henry G. Cole for Congress— that we were citizens of the place,: ; ~(' >• th .1 this was the only speech made by Judge Lester in Murray county in the year ISOS, or during the canvass between Gordon and Bollock. It, J. McCamy, A ni) e rso n Fa rnsw o utii . The two gentlemen above men tioned stand first-class in the city ot Dalton. According to me average, the Ex- , • irc.-s-- i- now read every week by eighteen thousand people—a fact wliicii business nun should reinem- I, r. We also have a circulation in Bart<*w county equal if not sntwrior t , that ever enjoyed by any paper in Georgia. i THE ISSI E BEFORE THE I’EOI’I.K. The greenback question now before j thecour.try, is one of no minor im-; jiortance to the people ol the Seventh , Congressional District, as it is a ques tion which properly comes before the United States Congress. It is well known to the people that great dis tress has teigned throughout this once happy country for years—that workshops and factories have been closed, mills of every ehaiaeter stop ped, the farming and merehantile j interests brought to the verge of fi nancial ruin and thousands of work men and their families have been turned into the streets to 3larve or forced to become rioters in the great cities lest their loved ones should die of starvation in this once happy country where the harvest is as boun teous as ever and the rains and the > sun shine comes as of yore, to the end I hat the bond-holder should fat ten and the National banks revel in riches. Is it not time that people should cool their political partisan ardor and look this important matter straight in the face, and stand to the Demo cratic platform which points the way to remedy these evils. To show fully that this is the Democratic platform, we have only to refer to the actions of State Conventions. In 187 G Tennessee Democracy demanded the repeal of the resumption act, and the substitution of legal tender green back nott s for the national bank circulation. On the Gth inst., the Lousiana Democracy adopted t lie fol lowing : The Lousiana democracy demand that the national banking system should be abolished, and national bank notes retired, and in lieu there of, that the government of the Uni ted States should issue an equal amount of treasury notes, commonly known as greenbacks, and w T e also demand the unconditional repeal of the laws imposing a tax on the cir culation of State banks. We demand, also, the immediate and unconditional repeal of the re sumption act, and are unalterably opposed to the ruinous policy pursu ed by the Republican party, whereby the volume of currency has been con tracted far below the business re quirements of the country, and fail ures, depression of business, scarcity of labor and pauper wages have been entailed, and it is the sense of this convention that all bonds and obli gations of the national government should he paid in the legal tender greenback notes of the United States, except when it is otherwise provided in the origii ai law under which they' were issued. The Democracy of Arkansas, Mis souri, Texas, Ohio, Indiana, lowa, Maine, and other Stales have adop ted a similar platform. Mr. Hen dricks, in it is recent speech at the opening of the campaign in Indiana, says: These questions are not stale. Men will think and talk and vote upon them this year, and every voting year, until they are properly settled. The voters will have by their ballots to declare whether they are for the national bank system or for substi tuting treasury notes for bank paper. They do not see why the substitution may not be made, as the treasury notes will have an equal credit, and many miilions’Saved of interest upon tne bonds pledged as security for bank issues. Nor can the people see why the treasury notes, now that they have substantially ceased to represent the government credit, and have a use only as money, should not be taxed as all other money is taxed in the hands of its holders. Nor can a patriotic people remain indifferent while from year to year and from administration to adminis tration this fatal policy is pursued, contrary to that ol any other civiliz ed people, of seeking the sale of pub lic securities abroad instead of adopt ing every means possible to secure their purchase by the people at home. The great Wist which has felt the force of the contraction system the National bank iniquity and the bondholders pressure, have recently adopted this platform : Resolved, That as Bonds and Mon ey are both creations of the law’, and as in law all contracts can be met ana all debts be paid in legal tender mon ey, we demand that the United States bonds all be paid in full law ful legal tender money of the United States, and that the so-called green back paper money of the United States be declared a full legal tender for all debts, public or private, and that the United States bonds be paid i this full legal tender, absolute money of the United States of Am erica. “Resolved, That we demand that the Government of the United States shall never more issue United States bonds of any kind or class, whereby the money of the country can be ab sorbed and draw interest in idleness. “Resolved, That w’e demand of the Government the retirement of all National Banks of issue, and that the General Government alone issue the money of the country, and pro tect ihe same for all time as a full legal tender for all debts.” And the great State of New York with its oppressed workmen, idle factories and starving people, have likewise fallen into line and declared as follows: “1. The greenback dollar must be a full legal tender for the payment of all debts, public and private, and by the Government issued, protected, and received as absolute money. “2. We declare that all acts of Congress changing the original bond contract, to wit : ol ISG9, 1870, and 1873, and the resumption act of 1875, were enacted without consent, priori ty, or procurement, and were, and are, frauds upon the rights of the j people; and therefore we demand the immediate calling in and pay ment of all bonds with absolute pa per money, without regard to 'he time they may have to ruu on their face, and that there be no further issue by the Government of any j bonds. “3. We demand the repeal of the National bank act; the immediate withdrawal from circulation of the National bank notes, and the substi tution therefor of absolute paper money. "4. The equal taxation of all property owned by individuals or corporations. In substance the two platforms are nearly identical, propose the same thing and is that which is adopted by all the greenback clubs which al ready amount in the West alone to 4,599, and which, are rapidly spread ing and increasing in number all • over the United States. In the South the greenback issue is rapidly gaining headway and in the Seventh Congressional District Geo. N. Lester the standard bearer of the Democratic party for Congress stands pledged, if elected, to introduce a bill to payoff the bonds in greenbacks and stands square upon the following plank adopted by the Ringgold convention on the 4th of July, 1878 : That we demand of our Represen tatives in Congress the immediate repeal of the resumption act, tiie abo lition of the national banking sys tem, including the tax upon the is sues of State banks, and the creation at once of a greenback currency based upon the credit of the government, adequate to the wants of this great people, who have been brought lo < ■ die verge of bankruptcy by the luth- i le s puisuit of a ruinous financial pol- j icy, which at the expense of industry has contracted currency for tbe bene- \ fit of capital; has taxed labor to en rich the wealthy, and has created an aristocracy of bondholders exempt from the burthens of government, and imposed its support uj>on the millions who toil. On the contrary, Hon. W. H. Fel ton said in a speech in the county of Cobb in 1876, “we are legally and morally bound” to continue to pay the enormous gold interest on these bonds—money loaned to the North ern people to buy the powder and ball with which to murder our peo ple and with which Sherman built the charred monuments which to this day marks the track of his mer ciless “March to the sea.” Geo. N. Lester w’ants these bonds paid in the same money that the laboring man receives for the sweat of his brow. If Dr. Felton was not a sympathizer with the money Shylocks and oppos ed to these principles, w hy has he not introduced a bill to redress these griev etiees in the four long years he has spent in Congress. Voters of the Seventh Congressional District think of these things before you cast your ballots. It is calculated that the growing cotton crop will yield five and a half million bales. Seventy five cents a day is what they pay laborers to work on govern ment buildings in Washington. Judge Lester is a good man. lie never has failed to answer “aye” at tbe call of his party. — Gen. Win. Ta tum Wofford, in his speech at Rome , July, 1878. Dr. Felton has been in Congress for four years and has so far failed to offer any bill looking to the relief of the burdened millions who toil. Alex. Stephens says: “If a man can ‘bile’ iiis own corn into hominy, why shouldn’t he be allowed to ‘bile’ a little of it into whisky if lie wants to.” Josh Billings is supposed to have referred to a prominent politician when he said it was better not to know so many things than it is to know so many things that ain’t so.” The government of the United Slates creates currency, gives it away to the bankers then turns around and borrows it back at four per cent, in terest’ According to the gospel of the bank this is sound finance. People are cogitating in their minds as to whether Ben. Butler is a Republican, a Democrat or a Nation al. He was elected as the first, is doing dirty work on the second, and talks like the third. He is a political What-is-it. In ISGS there were in circulation in the country aboul fifty dollars per capita, and to-day there is not much, j if any more than ten dollars per cap ita. The greenbacks have been burnt up and the gold has gone to meet the bondholder. Prof. Lewis Swift, of Rochester, N. Y., states that he discovered the planet Vulcan at Denver about three degrees from the sun in a southwest direction, eight minutes from Theta in cancer, simultaneous with Prof. Watson’s discovery. Perhaps no stronger argument can be offered for a radical change in our system of taxation than the fact that Vanderbilt, who is worth $100,000,- 000, pays taxes on only $8,000,000. Here is a man with $97,000,000 on which he doesn’t pay a cent of taxes. This, too, under a Government that had its birth in resistance to unjust taxation l—lrish World. Gov. Hampton advised the Demo cracy of Anderson not to lt “Inde pendents run under any’ circumstan ces.” He said, “an Independent now, though he be the ablest man in the South, devoted to the State, and willing to do anything for her, yet if he is an Independent now, and makes us run the risk of losing the State or county, is the worst enemy of South Carolina. Remember that the government is now paying about twenty millions of dollars per annum in gold interest to the National banks, and, at the same time lending these banks three hun dred millions of bank notes for noth iog. Dr. Feltou so far has failed in any attempt to correct this evil, but George Lester lias promised to intro duce a special bill to do so if elected to Congress. Voters, remember this, and cast your ballots accordingly. HOT AND COLD. Just a few days before the meeting of the Ringgold convention, which nominated Hon. Geo. N. Lester for Congress, tne Rome Tribune ex pressed a preference for Judge Lester over Dr. Felton. We give our readers the whole matter just as published in the Trib une, which is now lustily advocating Dr. Felton and heaping all manner of abuse upon Judge Lester, except that we use capital letters in that part of it referring especially to the latter: Editor Tribune —I think you are disposed to wiggle—at any rate I trust you will allow me to test the sinceri ty of your pretensions. You say Dr. Felton is not your choice, and there are are six or seven others you would prefer to him, but you have no idea the convention will nominate one of these. Now, sir, would it not have been better for you to have waited and seen whom the convention nom inated before putting on your war paint? But that doesn’t matter. What 1 want now is for you to tell who the six or seven are whom you prefer to Dr. Felton, l’lease tell us, and if you are not too damned fastid ious, perhaps, for your especial ac commodation, the convention may nominate one of the chosen few. Yours, an Organizer. Answer? Certainly, sir; we are never ashamed to show our hand. In the first place, the propriety of consulting the action of the conven tion, is one upon which we can hon estly differ. Perhaps it would have been better, and we should have waited had not the letter of Mr. Brown clearly convinced us that his candidacy was clearly fixed upon, and that the action of the convention would be only an endorsement of his claims. Next, as the “favored few.” We prefer Judge A. It. Wright to Dr. Felton, we prefer Cul. D. S. Printup to Dr. Felton, we prefer Col. W. 11. Dabney to Dr. Felton, wo prefer Hon. L. N. Trammell to Dr. Felton, we prefer Col. Abna Johnson to Dr. Felton, WE PREFER JUDGE GEO. N. LESTER TO Dlt. FEL TON, we prefer Judge J. W. 11. Underwood to Dr. Eel lon, and we ; prefer Judge McCutchen to Dr. Fel ton.— Tribune , June —, 1878. THE SPIRIT OF THE Pit ESS. Ob the Campaign in the Seventh. Cobb county is solid for Letter.— Marietta Journal. “We can’t help taking a hand in the fight in the 7th for Felton.” “Do lawyers ever lie ? They can’t beat Felton. No use to try ."—Atlanta Independent. The friends and constituents of Judge Lester are groming more san guiue every day of victory—reports encouraging are being received dai ly.—Cave Spring Enterprise. Judging from what we see and know, Judge Lester will very nearly or quite double Col. Dabney’s vote in this part of the district. —Catoosa Courier. Walker county will give Lester a majority of 400 votes. And the Mes senger predicts now that Lester will be elected by a handsome majority, in the district, and we make the prediction upon authentic informa tion.— Lafayette Messenger. If Dr. Felton is honest in his charge against Judge Lester in accepting pay as Commissioner of Im migration, why does he not arraign Gen. Wof ford for receiving three thousand dollars as receiver of the Alabama and Chattanooga railroad ? We do not think Gen. Wofford is guilty of theft because he received a salary of IhreG thousand dollars under Bul lock, but Doctor Felton does. If Gen. Wofford had been the nominee, how the Doctor would have fiddled on this string. No man is honest who opposes tho Doctor. —Rome Bul letin. The greatest enthusiasm prevails throughout the 7th district, and every day the former supporters of Felton are deserting his cause by hundreds, and coming over to the I standard of Lester. It is a terrible ground swell which threatens to overwhelm Felton and place him hors du combat in the day of battle. Nothing like it has been witnessed since the days of 1840 and ’44. Should the boys continue to close up, it will be impossible lor Felton and his independent disorganizes to es cape a complete Waterloo defeat in No vein ber. —Newnan Herald. Within the last week we have re ceived letters from nearly every county in the Seventh District, and from some counties several letters. The writers in nearly every instance speak of the political situation in their respective neighborhoods, and not a single one speaks discouraging ly of Judge Lester’s prospects, but, on the contrary, nearly all are enthusias tically hopeful. Judging from the tone of our correspondents, Lester will carry the District by a majority of thousands, —Rome Courier. Speaking of Dr. Felton’s speech at Sugar Valley, the Cal touu Times says: “Ho began on the line he has so closely adhered to during the canvass, repeating the slanderous charges against Judge Lester which he is everywhere wont to utter when the Judge is not present to nail the falsifications. The speech abounded in slimy abuse against Judge*Lester from beginning to eud, and we are confident won Dr. Felton no votes, as it was plain by the manifestations that those who were not already wedded to him and his cause were more disgusted than pleased with his address. At the close of the speech he was applauded by the Felton men in the crowd, and then a yell was raised for Lester which would have done the one-armed hero good. Sugar Valley has been one of the Felton strongholds, and the com plexion of the crowd at tho speaking there is encouraging to tho cause of Democracy.” We learn that Parson FMton, in his speech at Sugar Valley last week, paid Col. Dabney a glowing eulogi um—said lie was one of the purest men in the district—that his gar ments were spotlesi from the con taminations of tho bullock thieves ; but not so with Judge Lester—he was cheek-by-jowl with these fel lows. What contemptible dema goguery is this; yea, it is down right hypocrisy of the worst sort, for when Col. Dabney was his oppo nent nothing was too severe for Fel ton to say about this “pure man” and his party. But Col. Dabney is not a candidate, and he is a marve lously incorruptible man now. Just so when Col. Trammell was his oppo nent. He was a very bad man when a candidate, but when he retired from the contest ho was a capital fellow—nothing wrong about him— private and political character all right. And Judge Lester —he was a “pure man” before he offered for Congress; but now, poor fellow, he is the worst man to be found any where. Now, the question is, will the honest, fair-minded men of tlie “old seventh” vote for a man who is such an adept at blowing “hot and cold” —who can traduce a man atone time and praise him at another ? We cannot, we will not think so.— Dal. ton Citizen. We now predict that if Dr. Felton is elected he will be an indepeddent candidate for Governor of Georgia in ISBO. If this be true, the majority of his supporters will be the old Repub licans throughout the State. They will claim a share in the spoils of the new party, and hence, will be accor ded a few of tho electoral votes of Georgia* With these votes another Republican will be elected to the Presidency, and with it, will follow the same old story: Laboring mill ions taxed to death and public rob bery in high places. Democrats be ware ! The supporters of Dr. Felton have some curious ways. For instance, the Doctor slashed Col. Dabney dur ing the last campaign in a most unmerciful manner and at the same time said that Geo. N. Lester was a good and pure man. Now “Aliquis” in the Free Press, who quotes from the devils speech to the fallen angels (very appropriate under the circum stances) says: “Dr. Felton’s former opponent was a Democrat, a gentle man, and a man strictly honest, against whom no man could find aught.” “When Doctors disagree, who will decide.” The news from New Orleans con tinues to be of the most alarming character. The fever continues to spread, has reached Vicksburg and already one hundred cases have been developed at Grenada one hundred meles below Memphis. Memphis is in the throes of the destroyer. Wo hope for the best, but the indications are very gloomy and distressing. WILLINGHAM’S COLUMN. My Record. Not What 1 -*m Lately Lot WJill 1 Foil to be. [Mr. G. 11. G. 'Willingham, notv the editor of an Independent paper, wrote as follows until recently.] Felton is dependent upon negro, votes and and such Democrats as he can slab off from the party’ candidate ; for an election.—Willingham, Oct. 19, 1876. He who would tear down organi zation, would break the shield of lib erty and forge the chains of political slavery.—Willingham, Oct. 19, 1576. Will the intelligent supporters of Dr. Felton tell us why Zachariah B. Hargrove is so anxious for the elec | tion ot Dr. Felton? Can they give us any reason for it except to “make an alliance offensive and defensive,” and by it “make war to . the knife” upon the Democratic party?—Wil lingham, Nov. 19, 1876. If Dr. Felton don’t walk straight, it will take the balance of his life to explain his political record.—Wil lingham, Oct. sth, 1876. We repeat here what we said to I)r- Felton’s face—that he is the most artful trickster wo have ever known. —Willingham, Oct. 1876. The Felton Ting of disaffected Democrats, Radicals and subservient j negroes combined together to break up the Democratic party must be broken asunder. —Rome Courier, Willingham, editor, Nov. 3,1874, The campaign is ended, the record is made, and it is a source of eonsola ! tion to us that we have stood by’ the organized Democracy’, whether we loose or win.—Willingham, Nov. 9, 187 G. We have labored faithfully for Democratic supremacy in Georgia and we are not willing to see the grand old party disentegrated by r a I disruption of its organization ; |nor are we willing to unite in any move ment to do so.—Willingham, Nov. 187 G: Stand by’ the Democracy of the Union, by tho Democracy of the South, by the Democracy of Georgia, and by the Democracy of tho 7th Congressional District—all of which is thoroughly organized everywhere ; and which would be nothing without organization.— Willingham, Nov. | 1876. Poor Felton who is to bo elected by the help of Radicals, if elected at all, seeing that the great majority of the true Democracy are against him re | sorts to duplicity’ and misstatements to bolster up his falling fortunes. — Rome Courier, Willingham, editor, Oct. 27, 1874. Organization is our idea of Democ racy’. It is our idea of the preserva tion of public liberty’ upon this con tinent, and if there be those who cannot endorse such Democracy; we can only leave them to their own convictions; but for us, we shall al ways stand by r the Democratic flag as it represents the party’ all over this country.—Willingham, Nov. 187 G. THE PRESS ON THE MONEY QUES TION. Indiana, by the Radical bhylock curse of contraction, lost $25,000,000 in six years and six months. John sherman, under oath, say’s that there is but $042,000,000 in the United States. The officers of the various banns in the country swear that they have on hand, as deposits, over two thousand million dollars, a difference of over fourteen hundred million dollars. Wonder where the banks got it ? Won’t some of the bank organs tell us? —Cincinnati En quirer. Tho National bankers arc in favor of that system of fiuance which per mits a privileged few to live on the interest of what they owe. Sift down the hard money policy and this is what it amounts to, The idea is to float a shin-plaster currency, having nothing but individual credit to back it, upon which the insurers can draw a comfortable interest. —New Haven Union. Tho Sherman financiers say that j when the Nationals ask that tho cir | culating medium be issued directly by tne Government, they demand a currency based on nothing. This currency would be based on the cred it of the Government and the prop erty of the nation—precesely the I same basis as the Government bonds. Do tho contraction advocates claim that Government bonds are based on nothing ? — Toledo Bee. When the National bank notes are retired and greenbacks substituted, the National banks will still be re : quired to pay taxes on their deposits just as they and other banks now are. When the National bank notes are withdrawn and greenbacks substitu ted, the National banks will still be taxed on their capital stock as at present. When the National bank notes are withdrawn and greenbacks substitu ted, the National banks will continue to pay every Slate and local tax that they now pay, and the amount of their taxables will not be reduced one single farthing. If any National banker withdraws from the banking business because the right to issue notes is withdrawn, his capital will still remain in exis tence and will be subject to taxation just the same as the capital or prop erty of any other citizen. When the National bank notes are retired and greenbacks substituted, the people will save over $15,000,000 each year in taxes. What we mean by “substituting” greenback for bank notes, is not to give the greenbacks to the bauks on tiie same terms as they now have the bank notes, or on any other terms; but to have the greenbacks substitu ted for bank notes in the channels of business, by having the Government pay them out in tiie purchase of sil ver bullion, the payment or redemp tion of bonds or in payment of sala ries and for supplies, eic.-Inaiana polis Sun. The Felton bulldozers are warming up: The Rome Tribune promises to present before the election is over a full fist of business men who belong to the Lester Club in order to induce the farmers fo withdraw their pat ronage from them because they ex ercise tin' right of thinking for them selves. Till] LATEST NEWS. Selma is under strict quarantine. Mobile is said to bo unusually healthy. Atlanta has four colored compa nies. Cotton crop estimated at 4 700,000 bales. Yellow fever prevails in New Or leans, Cincinnati, and Louisville. The L niverity of Georgi \ gradu ates seven young men. Montgomery has proclaimed a vig ilant quarantine against New Orleans. Lock-jaw has become epidemic among North Carolina swine. Columbus, Ga., lias received this season over 71,000 bales of cotton. Over 3,000 people have fled from Memphis, already. Bee is in fine condition, and an unusually large crop is expected. Gilmer county boys are killing wild turkeys with rocks. The Shelby Iron Company are shipping large amounts of iron to Pennsj 1 vania. The news from all sections of Ala bama indicates large crops of corn and cotton. By compromise and settlement the city debt ot Griffin has been reduced from $105,405 to SGS,7OO. Typhus fever has killed more Rus sians since the war than Turkish bul lets killed in action. All th rough Alabama, says the Montgomery Advertiser, crops are V(,, 'y good and the yield promises to be large. Governor Colquitt lias gone to New \ oik to attend the normal Sun day school meeting at Lake Chautau qua. There is now a great deal of sick ness in Selma, bilious fever prevail ing to an unusual extent. The state engineers of Louisiana are examinging the levees of the Mississippi the entire length of the state. France has reduced her rate of pos tage on pre-paid letters to the United States from forty to thirty-five cen times. The United States pays annually to other countries $100,000,000 for sugar and molasses. $120,000 arc annually sent cut of the State to purchase camied fruit. How fooli.-.h ! A society for the promotion of sheep husbandry in Alabama has been or ganized at Montgomery. The Cincinnati yellow fever case was treated by telegraph tronr New Orleans, Dr. Brickell prescribing. Sam Bard has become a Murphyite, and has been mustered into the great army of temperance lecturers. 11. I. Kimball has been elected President, Rufus B. Bullock Treasur er, and Samuel Stocking Secretary of the Atlanta Cotton Factory. Young nursery trees were nearly all killed by the dry weather this year— and about $3,000, ‘went by the board,’ in Oglethrope county'. A white man was killed at Little Rock by a negro because he drove an ox wagon across a field where some negroes were playing base ball. The National Greenback -rs of Con necticut held a convention Wednes day and nominated Charles Atwater of New Haven, for Governor. One hundred and thirty eight illicit distillers of South Carolina have plead guilty with the understanding that they are to go free. A family at New Orb ans, consist ing of four persons, were poisoned last week by using oxalic acid by mis take for sugar in cooking. Four men boarded the baggage car of Kansas City, St, Joseph and Coun cil Bluffs Railway and the safe of $51,000 and escaped. The California Communist, .Kear ney, has a great aversion to news papers—we suppose for the same reason that causes rogues to hate hemp. A South Carolina negro on Wade Hampton: “IV de Lawd! butchery time dat man opens his mouf I feels dat I am turniti , whiter an’ gittin’ de kinks out’n my lia’r !” The Chicago Journal intimates that there is room in this country for 10,- 000,000 wives and mothers who can keep house, loye their children and take the straight road to heaven. Nine thousand dollars in money ! premiums are offered for the State | fair which is to be held in Macon in October. There will be a military en campment. The prizes to the amount $-5,500 have been made up for races. The balance of trade in favor of the United States during the last fiscal year, amounted to the sum of S2GI,- 000,000. With such a showing, hard times should soon become a thing of the past. Gen. Grant wao enthusiastically re ceived at St. Petersburg, and wel comed in the name of the Czar. A band played American airs and a roy al salute was tired. The General, it is thought, will go to India in No vember. The New Orleans Times, with rather ill-timed levity, alluding to the prevailing fever in that city, says : “Since the doctors disagree in their diagnosis of this disease now preva lent, we suggest it ba given anew name— Mcjapliritis ; from Negaphre ‘lazy,’ and ids ‘dam-bad.’ ” A letter from Grenada, from Gun. j W. J. Smith, attributes the breaking out of the disease to local causes, mainly the opening of an old sewer which runs through the town. The filth of the sewer was dragged out and allowed to fester in the sun. The town altogether is ina very filthy condition. The fever is of a malig nant type. There is a great deal of distress and an indisposition to bury the dead. The Rome Lester Club has over GOO members. It is cla med that Gen. Gordon al ready has 117 votes of the members of the members of the Legislature for re-election. Asa sanitary measure, the Board of Aldermen of Vicksburg,Miss., have passed an ordinance imposing a fine of not more than SI,OOO on any per son digging out any cellar, or doing any excavation of any kind during the summer, without the written per mission of the Health Officer. The quarantine enforced against New Orleans has almost brought bus iness in that city to a stand-still. The press complains of the unnecessary severity of the quarantine regulations, and the Board of Trade have issued an elaborate and able protest against the isolation of that city, so prejudi cial to the commerce and that of the business centres of the South and West, with which Mew Orleans is' connected. The Cartersville Free Press says: Any rumor to the effect that Judge Lester did not lose his arm in battle is untrue. He lost it in line of bat tle at Perryville—a fact which can be proven. We are opposed to misrep resentation in whatever shape it comes, and we take this opportunity to do justice to Judge Lester. The editor of the Free Press is right in denying in this way the many false reports in circulation as to the way in which Judge Lester lost his arm, and the manliness lie exhibits in having courage to deny them and do justice to an opponent of Dr. Felton is worthy of praise. Now if the Free Press will only continue the good work no nobly I begun and say that — Judge Lester never did support Cole for Congress; that— Judge Lester never had anything to do with “lobbying” the railroad lease through the Legislature; that — Judge Lester was elected Commis sioner of Immigration by a Demo cratic Legislature, and was not appointed by Bullock; that— Dr. Felton’s charge that Judge Lester “pocketed five thonsand dol lars of the people’s money” has no foundation in truth— Then the Free Press will be what it promised in its prospectus to be an independent journal. Rome C ourierr. Let us vote for no man for Con gress who will not introduce a special bill in that body to abolish National banks and payoff the bonds iu green backs or some like currency. Geo. N. Lester has promised to do this. Make a note of this, ye greenback element, ye sufferers from the pres ent onerous financial system, and vote accordingly. New Advertisements. Tax Police. T)artow County Commissioners’ Court, 1 ) Special Tern' Aug. 10, 1878. It is ordered by the court that the following tax be assessed, levied and collected from the tax-payers of Bartow county, over the Stte tax both general and specific, except wherein excepted by law as a county lux lor said county for the year 1878, to wit : First, That lortv (40) per cent, on said State tax, both general and specific, be levied and collected to pay the legal indebtedness ot Bartow county past due and to become dflfe which accured since the Ist of June 18(15, to pay the necessary current expenses of said county for the present year and for the build ing and repairing bridges and other public works not mentioned in tnc order. Second, That twenty-five (25) per cent, on said State tax, both general ana specific, be levied and collected to pay jurors and neces sary court expenses. Third, That thirteen (13) per cent, on said State tax, both general and specific, be levied and collected to pay Commissioner of Pauper Farm and support of paupers. Fourth, That five (5) per cent, on said State tax, noth general and specific, be levied and collected lo pay bailiff’s fees, fuel, stationary, etc. FIFTH, That seven (7) per cent, on said State tax, both general and specific, be levied and collected to pay jailor’s fees and support in mates. Ordered, That the foregoing order bo pub lished as the law directs and that the tax col lector be furnished with a copy thereof. Done this lOlli day of August, 1878. it. 11. Cannon, .). It. Brandon, J NO. H. WIKLE, County' Commissioners. A true extract from the minutes. .1 no. 11. Wiklb, Clerk Board Com’rs. Anglo lm. G 1 EORGIA, BARTOW COUNTY. I Whereas, A. T. Wolley, administrator oi the estate of Wrn. J. Wood, deceased, has ap plied for leave to sell all real estate belonging to said deceased. Therefore, all persons concerned arc hereby notified to file their oojections, if any they have, in my office within the time prescribed by law, else leave will be granted applicant, as applied for on the Ist Monday In October, 1878. This August 13. 1878. * J. A. HOW IRD, Ordinary. SAYRE & CO„ Cartersville, - - Georgia, DEALERS IN Drugs, Medicines, CHEMICALS, PERFUMERY, Glass, Putty, Oils, Varnishes, Dyestuffs, Soaps, Combs, Brushes and Toilet Articles. CHOICE TEAS a Specialty. Kerosene Oil 110° and Kinslow Kerosene 150°, with a lull supply of L A M PS, <’ II 2 M nr a: V # f Lamp Fixtures always on hand. aug 8-x ELI CLAYTON JJAS fitted up a First-Class BARBERSHOP Over J. F. & Free Stephen’s stove, West Main street, where he is prepared to do all work in his line in the best style ot the art. He invites liis friends to call round and give him their patronage. aug 8 ELI CLAYTON carters™ high school. WILL be opened for the admission of pu pils ol both sexes, on August 5, ISIS, and continue Four Months, Rates of Tuition from $2 50 to ?! per month, according to grade. Tuition payable monthly. Parents are earnestly desired to enter their children at the beginning ol' session. Strict discipline will be enforced. Parents will receive the benefit of Public School fund. It. JOHN TON, Principal, Erwin Street School, Caitcrsvilio, On. r |MIE Fall Session will begin on Monday, August 19, 1878, and close neccmbcr 0, 1878. L. It. JIILLICAL. Principal. Hits. M.G. Millican, ) , . , . Miss 8. Kingsbkkky, i Assistants. Miss E. Richardson, Instructress in Music. CHARGES FOR TUITION: Primary Class, - - $8 00 to $lO 00 Intermediate Class, - 12 00 Collegiate “ - - 10 oo Music and Piano, s~ - - 10 00 I wish to state distinctly that the above terms are as low as I can afford, and that no discount will be made except in cases of protracted sickness. aug 8 L. ii. MILUCAX. JOIIIY la. lIAWKOTS, Wholesale Liquor Dealer, HANDLES BOURBON AND RYE WHISKEY, Apple and Peach P,randy, Scotch and Irish Whiskies, Port, Sherry, Madeira, Claret anil Champaignc Wines, and Cigars. BROAD STREET, ROME, UA. Prompt attention given to the selection and shipment of orders. aug S THE OWNEKS OF TIIE Kimball House —A RE Dr. Joseph Thompson, Joseph Thompson, Jr John T. (ileun, ol Atlanta, and Hon. Jlob’t Toombs, ol Washington. Having leased the above ele . guilt. House for a term oi years, it is my intention to run it as a FIRST-CLASS HOTEL and I hope to so conduct it as to meet (lie np prohutioii of my Guests, and to make it the cipial ol him Hotel in the country. j. e.Campbell, Piop’r, NEW AD VE it T I BEMENTH. Positively Selling Out at Cost! o THIS IS NO HUMBUG! o JN OROF.Ii TO MAKE ROOM FOR MY FALL STOCK OF coons, l WILL SELL MV entire stock at and below cost. I now have on hand. DRY GOODS OF ALL KINDS. Cashtuors, Dress Goods, Notions, Bleechings, Shirtings and Sheetings at Factory Prices. —I ALSO HAVE A FINE STOCK OF- Hardware, Cutlery, Crockery, Hats, Caps. READYMADE CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, Coffees, Sugars and all kinds of Groceries, Saddles, Leathers, Sheepskins, Deerskins, Guns, and all kinds of Mcrehudlse. My Ready-Made Clothing I WILL SELL FOR LESS THAN COST. All who would get A BARGAIN had better call at once and examine my slack. No such bargains have been offered before to the people of Cherokee Georgia. Come at once or the opportunity will be lost. Very Respectfully, IS H A ITI A LI. V. West Main St., Carter is vHle, C!a. URIAH STEPHENS & SON, DEALERS IN DRY GOODS and GROCERIES, SUCH AS Susar, Coflee, Teas, Oysters, Crockery, Glassware, lIAUmVAREI niMl CITTLEUY, TOBACCO, CIGARS, SNUFF, HATS, CAPS, SHOES AND BOOTS READY-MADE CLOTHING, Aug 1 3m HOME INDUSTRY R. H. JONES J..JAS TIIE Eldest and most celebrated CARBIAGE FACTORY In North Georgia, Established by himself in 1 8 r> a More Reliable and substantial Work cannot be obtained in the North or West. For Elegance oi finish, proportion and adaptation to the country, bis work CANNOT BE EXCEL!,EI)! lie uses the best material to be had in the United States, and has as skilled laborers as can bo obtained, many of thorn having been with him for years. Let every one who has his own country and home at heart, who desires convenience at homo and independence at the .South patronize him. No establishment North, West or South, enjoys a tatter reputation than his. lie does not build the cheap, shoddy work, such as is brought to the country from the North and West. All his work is WARRA NTE I) T O LAS TANARUS, not simply to stand for twelve months, lie is selling BUGGIES AT 90, 100, 110,115,120,125,135 and 140 Dollars, Eiul or Side Springs Double Seated for 120,125, 130,135,140, 150, 105 Dollars, Phaetons for 250, 300, 325, 350, 400, 500 and 000 Dollars., One Horse Wagon at $55, with Spring- Seat. Two-Horse Wagon at 005, S7O, $75 & SBO, with spring seat & break B E I .A. I R I IV ii done as cheap as it can be done, to be properly done, and done without de ay. O REFERENCES = J. C. W orthy, t . I>. Mcf otehen, .T, 1). VYil- J. S. Cleghorn, IV'. M. Johnson, Sumntor ltamson, VV. A. Rogers, Dalton, Ga. ville, Ga. R. C. XT. E. Roberts, Thompson & Scott, A. P. Algood, M. Steele, Ti ion Factory, Cartersville, Ga. (da. W. S. Whitcly, .Tames Duglass W. Ramy, A. C. Trimble, J. W. Gray. AuairsviUe C a Rome, Ga. ’ _. r. T ANARUS,, „ „ . . Foster & Harlan, Calhoun, Ga. Rice Uamsaui, J. G B Erwin Fairmount, G i. „ ~ „ ... ... I , Dr. Horner Reynolds, .Tames Coopar Powder George Foote. Charles Foote, Dallas, Ga. i Springs, Uu. J. M. McAfee, Dr. ,T. M. Turk, Canton, Ga. ! T -r, T ANARUS, ...... , W, A, Candler, l>r. J. T. Strickland, Villari- J. R. Bather, A. Ilunting.on, A. Dougherty ! ca, Ga. Ccdartown, Ga. ’ J. P. Johnson, Roland Tilley, Cave Springs, j Chuck Anderson, Marietta, (la. t, ‘ l ' * j J. T. Stocks, Pleasant Gap. Ala angl ITOIYAU FOlIlf&1IACHI1 SHOP. H. l. LO WMAI & BEO m Proprietors? MAN UFA Cl URERS OF SORGHUM MILLS AND EVAPORATORS. Hollow Ware, Grates, Mantles, Etc. i Ali Kind* of Iron and Brass l asings, nnd Repair iisg done wills Wcafnm :>nd Dispatch. mo the public we would say that weave thoroughly exoeiieneed in our w • • X hesitate to guarantee satisfaction in all w<.a .inno 11. c 11 oul amess and not material and employ none but the best workman c '• ar> " l! u ' il> nothing but the best Cartersville, Ga., August 1, 7878. The Stanton House, ( l A TTA TsrCX)GA, TENN, r l in ‘J* accommodate permanent and transient guests is situated near the ttailroad SVVS V* hrst-class hotel in the country. Ic citv. The house lias been recently V .0i1',,,-'’ 1 , 1 A, ,or * distance Iroin tile business centre of the comlortahlo, the sample rooms for enmm’it.T I throu ? ,o,lt ' A lle sleeping rooms are large and room airy, cool, well ventilated X SSrJf Uln ‘“* A Billiard Room, Bar Room, Barbers'hop, and a Telegraph Office are Established irolthe House. mmlattoii flui'ilVin' home South?^itiid'gli 1 u-imee' alf t' 1 a ’'' l :is , s,, l v l o ' l " c ‘ ,ao aeeom -11, N. Me t. AN E, Chid t lei lo 1, 1 j'* V \ (, a |i UTB, Lliiel „, e , u f STO.NL, Late oi Maxwell House.
