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THE COURANT.
Published Every Thursday,
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DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON.
MARCH 19, 18S.-.
Cain Glover, esq , is dead. He was
for along time a resident of Rome, but
died in Florida, where he was seeking
restoration to health. Rome had no bet
ter citizen, and the editors of The Cot
rant are deeply grieved at the loss of
such a true friend. May God comfort
his loving daughter, who survives this
noble father.
THE COCRA NTH PROGRESS.
A distinguished friend in Middle Geor
gia writes tis: “I know you must be
proud of your paper, tor all your friends
are proud of it. We read it every word
because we find just the information and
news items we especially desire.”
It would be silly for us to say we do
not feel pride in such kind words, and
we are prouder still, of the success of the
Coe rant at home, in Georgia, and in
many other states.
Before we had issued six copies we
numbered, by actual count, in the neigh
borhood of 800 names on our subscrip
tion books. A few days ago we register
ed thirty names as one morning’s work,
and fifteen on our last, visit to the office.
When ton remember the dull season
of the year, tlie lack of excitement in
politics or business, we think you will
agree with us that this record is hard to
beat. Yes, we are proud, kind friend,
especially of this confidence and good
will.
OK LA lIOMA .
The Indian question is up again. Ju3t
as .Judge Underwood is telling tffi now,
of the way the poor Indian was “pushed
oil' the l<g” in this country, so are the
“boomers” trying to do the very same
tiling in Oklahoma. President Cleve
land says the Indian shall stay on
his own territory—so said President
Jackson—but, the settlers pushed the In
dian all the same. We shall watch the
“pushing” process and wait to see
whether Cleveland is more of an An
drew Jackson than Jackson was himself
in protecting the Indians.
Our sympathy is with the Indian. We
never hear the tuneful Indian names of
these beautiful rivers in this lovely
Cherokee land, that wc do not sigh for
the fate of the exiles, who were born
here, and lived here, until a white man's
rapacity gave the order to march !
Oklahoma booming Is another Chero
k.>e- Nation outrage, and we are on the
side of the Indian.
Tiik death of Mrs. Herbert, of Ala
bama, has removed from public life one
of the most brilliant and attractive laditA*
from the South. She was the wife of
~ Hon. Hilary Montgom
ery, and a vice regent of the Mt. Vernou
. Association at the time of her decease.
To-day’s dispatches tell us that the
Mt. Vernon Steamboats placed their flags
at half-mast, in token ot her death. An
intimate acquaintance prepares us to
speak intelligently of her many graces
of mind and heart. A day or so before
our last parting, we together, arm in
arm, went over the immense ball just
before it was lighted np for Gartield’s
inaugural ball. Ilovv memory recalls
her bright, sweet face, and the playful
badinage and merriment of the hour!
Little did we think death would so soon
claim tills devoted wife and fond mother
for its own! We tender our heartfelt
sympathy to the bereaved family, and
we mourn the early departure of a lovely’
woman who was so precious to her fam
ily and to her friends.
COMM OK SEXSE IK THE WHITE HOUSE,
Fashionable life in Washington is
aghast at President Cleveland’s early
rising and business habits. The novel
ty is, as vet, creating surprise, but we
opine it will soon bring the accustomed
sneer. When'Mrs. Hayes “put her foot
down” on wine, we.overheard a distin
guished lobbyist’s wife deploring the de
cline in official circles—“So plebian,”
“so eccentric,” and “so sting}’.” Mrs.
Haves was set down by such of the “bou
ton” as a “small potato.” One fast
disciple remarked, “What better could
you expect of a woman who was a ‘cru
sader, w ben temperance swept over
Ohio
Look out, now, tor a tirade on Mr.
Cleveland! We predict he will beset
down as a “green-horn,” a “country
hoosier,” who never could get above a
“sheriffs manners,” etc.
Among a certain class it is a sign of
good breeding to sit up until two or
three o'clock in the morning, drinking
champagne and such other invigorators,
and then lie abed until noon, to eat a
languid breakfast, and then begin prepa
ration for another night of it.
The snobocracy in oflieial life will find
Mr. Cleveland’s early’ rising a source of
much criticism and discomfort, and his
personal attention to business will put
some hundreds of “opera-glassed” clerks
to better business than attending thea
tres and giving hot midnight suppers, to
be followed by late rising and neglect of
business on the following Jay.
The politicians me - peculating as to
mhat Mr. Cleveland will do with civil
service, e:c., but this early rising and
prompt business habits looks like the
country has captured a much needed re
former.
A fine lot of clean clover seed at bot
tom prices at Curry’s.
.Bradfield’s Female Regulator, large I
and small sizes, at Curry’s.
PORTRAITS OF BISHOP GEORGE F.
PIERCE ASD REV. DR. JESSE
MERCER FOR THE STA IE.
There is a joint resolution pending be
fore the Georgia Legislature appropri
ating one thousand dollars to have paint
ed and suitably framed life-sized por
traits of Bishop Pierce and Rev. Jesse
Mercer, to be hung on the wails of the
Capitol, in the House of Representatives.
These resolutions were not reached at
the last session, but will be reached eatly
in the approaching July session of the
Legislature and we hope favorably con
sidered by our General Assembly.
Dr. David E. Butler, of Madison, Ga.,
told us last winter that it was his im
pression but one original picture of Dr.
Mercer was now in existence, and that
one was somewhere in the State of Texas.
We have just received a letter from Dr.
Butler, informing us that his effort to
find that picture has been successful.
Should the Legislature order the paint
ing of the picture for the State, he can
secure that original likeness for the use
of the artist.
In reference to these two proposed por
traits we ascertained, last winter, that
two oil paintings, elegantly framed—in
finish the equal in every particular to
any of those now hung in the Capitol,
can be executed by some celebrated ar
tist of the State for five hundred dollars
each, just one half the amount of money
heretofore paid for the portraits executed
for the State. It is right and proper by
perpetuating the physical likeness of dis
tinguished men to thus perpetuate the
memory of their moral worth and intel
lectual achievements. The features of
men, who “being dead, yet speaketh,”
should be lovingly preserved by states
which have been the objects of their beu
eficient labors.
The State lias heretofore honored her
self by obtaining portraits of some of her
distinguished sons, and placing them in
the llall of Representatives. In this
matter her course has been most com
mendable. We would not disparage the
deserved fame of one, whose portrait
hangs upon these walls, the memory of*
their virtues or the glory of their deeds.
While we thus magnify the memory of
the virtuous and patriotic dead, we in
telligently assert that this concurrent
resolution asks for the portraits of Geor
gia’s two grandest, noblest sons.
As to George F. Pierce, the mention
ot his name thrills the hearts of all Geor
gians, and inspires them with all good
purposes, as probably no other name,
living or dead, has ever moved the popu
lar heart of our State. Young men, es
pecially, have their attention arrested
and their enthusiasm kindled at the men
tion of his name. Every section of our
State, from the mountains to the sea
board ; every class of our population—the
educated, the illiterate, the wealthy and
the indigent—every description of home
and domicil from the city residence to
the humble cabin of the day laborer, con
secrated to God and industry, lovingly
embalms his name and memory. Geor
gia rarely ever thinks of him as the Bish
op, or as the itinerant preacher, or as the
attache ot au ecclesiastical organization,
but we think of him simply as George,
great Georgian, who honored
and blessed its citizens by a life-
service.
The first president of the first. female
college in Georgia, and in the world—to
him, Georgia women, the great factors
of our Christian civilization, are largely
indebted tor that intellectual training,
whether found in college or country
school houses, which have made and are
making them the guardians of all that is
“pure, lovely, and of good report.”
Among the earlier Presidents of Emory
College, which has sent forth hundreds of
men, who in Federal and State Legisla
tures, in professional life, in agriculture
and all the industries of the South, have
left the impress of their moral and intel
lectual training. A graduate himself of
our State University, and for many years
one of its most careful and interested
trustees, he must, in connection with Dr.
Jesse Mercer, go down to posterity thor
oughly identified with the education of
our children.
As an orator and master of the English
language, it would be enough to say he
was “primus interpares ,” though truth
would authorize the assertion that he was
without a peer iu the past and the possi
bility’ of a superior in the future history
of our State. He must, for a hundred
years to come, be the standard of excel
lence for all Georgians, who would moy’e
men to action by the persuasive power of
speech.
lie was emphatically, and in its broad
est sense, a Georgian. Living and dying
he was a Georgian. Her people, her in
stitutions, her growth and prosperity,
were the crown of bis rejoicing. In
times of trouble be stood by her and with
her, unfaltering in his love and untiring
in his devotion.
Georgia needs models for her young
j men. She especially needs models of
; men, distinguished for purity of charae
i ter, private and public. Georgia is a
Christian State, and she should give
prominence to Christian excellence. Her
; education should he Christian in its char
acter, and her young people should be
taught to respect and revere purity and
probity rather than to emulate success
through political trickery. Xo two men.
belonging to Georgia, have ever so beau
tifully illustrated Christian excellence as
these two eminent ministers of the Gos
pel. Xo two have been more instru
mental in building up the Christian civ
ilization and refinement of Georgia; and
their memories will live in the hearts of
Georgians when the wreaths of her
warriors and statesmen are blended in
common dust. Had either or both
sought political promotion, their gifts
would have adorned the highest positions
in the bestowal ot the American people. !
We have sometimes paused in what is
called “Statuary Ilall” of our Federal j
Capitol, where is preserved in marble
and bronze, the features of some of
America’s greatest men. Sometimes we j
have speut an hour in the various public i
buildings of Washington Oity, exam- i
ining the features as they appear on the j
breathing canvas, of the distinguished
men who, at various times, have been at '
the head of these seveial Governmental
departments. We have been impressed
with the fact that there are few among
this number, to whom the father can
point and say, “my son, make that man.
the model of your life!” We have been
told that great painters and sculptors
when engaged on some important work
of statuary or painting, will use a dozen
living persons as models for their art —
an arm trom one, a head from an another,
an eye from this one, a bust from that
one. They do this because all physical
perfection cannot be found in one indi
vidual.
It the pictures of George F. Pierce and
Jesse Mercer are hung on the walls of
our State capitol, Georgians can come for
a hundred years and point their children
to their lives and character, in public and
in private, in State and in church, at
home or abroad, and in every other rela
tion that adorns human character—say
ing to their offspring, “Here are models
worthy of your linure efforts; clean
above reproach, types of purity and pa
triotism—examples of men who loved
their country more than gold or public
fame, who gave their lives lor Georgia’s
welfare and Georgia’s true glory !”
There is one other man, loved anu hon
ored all over Georgia, who can stand
shoulder to shoulder by these mighty
men of the Lord. In good works—in
great power of speech—in life and char
acter unsurpassed—lor greatness, purity
and patriotism, in devotion to Georgia’s
truest and best interests—whose grace
and physical symmetry were only
equalled by his mental superiority, and
whose portrait would gloriously adorn
these walls as a model for coming gener
ations. This man was Rev. Stephen El
liott, late Episcopal Bishop of the diocese
of Georgia. Take these three men—not
as members of any religious denomina
tion —but as factors in the moulding and
shaping of Georgia as she is to-day—and
tell us if there is any face on those walls
that has so impressed himself for good
upon the age in which he lived, as any
one of this illustrious trio of scholars and
divines? Is there one who can equal
them in self-sacrifice, devotion and genu
ine patriotism? it is time that the real
glory of Georgia should appear upon the
walls of her capitol building.
W. H. F.
THE PACIFIC LAND GRANT.
Senator Van Wyck, of Nebraska, has
created a great sensation in the Senate
by bringing to public notice Senator
Teller’s haste in legalizing the aforesaid
corrupt land grant. Both Senators are
Republicans, and it promises to be a first
class family row.
The Interior Department seems to be
prolific of such scandals, and if Mr. La
mar gets out without trouble, lie will be
the first one since the war. It was a
difficulty about a land grant to the Pa
cific railroads which caused Hon. Arnos
T. Akerman to leave Gen. Grant’s Cabi
net. This upright lawyer and patriot
declined to furnish a decision defrauding
the Government, giving away public
lands to unauthorized parties, and Co
lumbus Delano, as Secretary of Inte
rior, made ir too hot for him to stay.
A bribe of $50,000, covertlj' offered,
having failed to effect anything with Mr.
Akerman, the Pacific companies induced
President Grant to ask his resignation.
As no fault could be found with Attorney-
General Akerman in the office, except
his refusal to become a tool to a Pacific
railroad lobby, he was retired to put in
the famous Laundalet Williams, who
brought discredit and disgrace on the
party and administration in a short time.
General Grant parted with Col. Aker
man with regret, and he felt the injus
tice he was inflicting on an innocent
man so keenly, that he wrote him a pri
vate letter offering him a vacant District
Judgeship in Florida or one in Texas,
or any Foreign mission then in his dis
posal, but Mr. Akerman declined them
all. Of this fact we hold the positive
proof.
The Union Pacific company was then
organizing its raid on the Government,
which outrage, when perfected, made
the Thurman hill a necessity’ to protect
even a moiety of the money in bonds
granted to this railroad monopoly by a
subsidized Congress. If Mr. Akerman
had been sustained at home and by’ the
Democrats in Congress in his efforts to
throttle the robbery’ at that early stage of
the steal, then the people of this country
might have been saved some millions of
dollars, and subsequent members of Con
gress would have been denied the oppor
tunity to sell their votes to the lobby’ and
thus disgrace themselves in the eyes of
the Xation.
Mr. Teller finds himself in a tight
place now, and unless the Pacific com
pany does some fancy work in the Sen
ate and pays well for the" privilege, Mr.
Teller will be in a tighter place later on.
The public domain has been frittered
away to railroad companies until the out
rage has become stupendous, and public
opinion demanded that Secretary Lamar
should check the scandal and the Waste.
Out of a million of acres of this late
steal, all had been slipped into the hands
of this monopoly but 300,000, the
clerks working all day Sunday before j
Mr. Teller went out of office to sign up |
this fraud on the people, and to rob the
tax payers.
Mr. Akerman’s decision, which signed
j his death warrant with Jay Gould and
i Huntington, was a declaration that no
power hut Congress had the right to dis
pose of the public domain, and that no
Secretary of the Interior had authority
to give way au acre, and he would so de
cide at all hazards. Thereupon, Secre
tary Delano, the Secretary of the Inte
rior, was published in the Baltimore
American as going to Grant and insisting
that the public interests could only’ be
served by the dismissal of such a refrac
tory Attorney-General. Mr. Delano
made a private apology when the matter
was investigated, but the howl of sec
tional hate in Georgia left the Attorney-
General friendless in Washington and at
home. Mr. Teller was only walking in
Delano’s footsteps, but thanks to Senator
Van Wy’ek, he has not had such easy
sailing. The country demands an In
vestigation, and we propose to give the
public a full account of the meaning of
the attack on Attorney-General Akerman j
iu au early article.
JA >' GOULD S SUPREME JUDGE.
Under this heading a writer, in the
New York World gives some astounding
revelations regarding the appointment of
Stanley Matthews to the Supreme Bench.
In the year 1577 Matthews was elected
•to the United States Senate, to fill out
John Sherman’s unexpired term, who
went into Hayes’ eabinet. Ilis term ex
pired in ISSI. Hayes then appointed
him to the Supreme Bench, but the Sen
ate refused to confirm him, because he
was known as a “railroad lawyer” in the
Senate, lie was very active in seeking
to defeat the Thurman bill, and it was
tacitly understood that he was Gould’s
and Huntington’s man in that body, as
well as some other Senators of the same
ilk. When Matthews’ name was pre
sented to the Senate judiciary committee,
after Hayes appointed him to the Su
preme Bench, the committee refused to
act on it, and the confirmation was 6afe
ly pigeon-holed until the time expired.
When Garfield went in on the 4ih of
March, (the day Matthews’ senatorial
terra expired,) among his first acts as
President was to return the name of
Stanley Matthews, on tiio 12th, to the
new Senate. Notwithstanding the fact
that the judiciary had pronounced Mat
thews as unfit, by this non-action he was
again forced on the Senate within two
weeks, by Garfield. The World shows
why it was done.
A prominent Republican in New York
State tells the facts, and the proof is said
to be ready, and waiting to come to the
front.
In 1880 Gen. Garfield became alarmed
that Indiana would not go republican. He
wanted a large sum of money to carry
the Slate, lie applied to Gould and
Ilitntinglon for it. Huntington was
anxious to have the Texas Pacific land
grant kept in his grasp, and Gould de
sired to have the Supreme court decide
against the Thurman act. These gentle
men were willing to give the money if
certain guarantees were made to them.
The bargain was made in the office of
T. C. Piatt, Senator, and he and White
law Reid acted for Garfield. The Pacific
railroad was represented by five gentle
men. Gould and Huntington required
a written pledge from Garfield that Stan
ley Matthews should be placed on the
Supreme Bench before they would sub
scribe a dollar. As Gould remarked,
“Ohio white men are very uncertain.”
The pledge was reluctantly given, and
then only when it was clear not a cent
woulu be given without it. • Two copies
were made, one given to Gould and one
to Platt.
Two hundred thousand dollars were
handed over to these men, and were sent
to Indiana by one of Levi P. Morton’s
agents. The remaining was paid to
Chester A. Arthur by C. P. Hunting
ton. Arthur employed, one BridgeianJ,
the then Consul at Havre, to carry that
money to Indiana. Bridgelund had been
Internal Revenue Collector in Texas, but
had to leave because his office got into
serious difficulties. When Garfield acted
so ungratefully to Conkllng and Pratt,
in appointing Robertson Collector of the
Port, Platt wanted to bring out his pa
per, but Conkling was no party to it, and
Platt was afraid of Conkling, For that
reason Arthur could not ail >rd to risk
exposure himself, and Conkling dropped
Arthur. Matthews appointment was
bought by Gould and Huntingdon with
$300,000. It is now said that Platt is
ready to bring forward his copy, and
when he does, the Senate should im
peach Matthews and purify the Bench of
such a tool.
When the Judiciar y Committee sat
the second time on Matthews’ case it was
held up a long time. Finally it passed
by one majority. Jay Gould’s Senators
in both parties united to put in Jay
Gould’s judge, We have the vote on
confirmation, and we are pained to see
so many Southern men taking a hand in
the corrupt trade. For Matthews, there
were sixteen Republicans and twenty
Democrats. Against Matthews, there
were nineteen Republicans and sixteen
Democrats. Two or three were absent,
hut Jay Gould’s senators, in both par
ties, pushed in his judge by one single
majority. Only two members of the Ju
diciary Committee voted for Matthews,
while Edmunds, Logan, Conkling, Mc-
Millan, Bayard, David Davis and Gar
land were strongly opposed to him, and
voted “no,” every time, in or out of
committee.
These things stagger one’s faith in the
permanency of the republic. A corrupt
Judiciary’ is the sure eyidence of the
speedy downfall of any country or any
people. This matter, so openly stated,
so defiantly proclaimed, needs prompt
attention, and each State should instruct
its Senators to proceed to an investiga
tion as soon as practicable. 2
The World’s article is too long for pub
lication, so we present a synopsis in its
stead.
MOTIIEES, TAKE COMFORT!
\ Asa factor in public life, there has
I never been a time since the Declaration
j of Independence when mothers, per se,
I were at such a premium. Garfield was
| inaugurated on the 4th of March, ISSI,
and as he turned from the immense
crowd before him, after the ordeal of
| speaking his address, he bent over and
; kissed his little aged mother, who had
; taken a seat just in his rear, that she
i might see her beloved boy accept the
first and highest gift in the bestowal of
fifty millions of American people. What
a thrill must have passed through that
faithful heart! Who can doubt the chan
nel through which her thoughts reached
that culminating moment? She alone,
in all that vast populace, could remem
ber her James as a little toddler at her
knee. She, only, eould*recall the struggles
of that early ti ne when the boy’s daily
work helped to give him his daily bread.
The crowning glory of Garfield’s life*
the brightest, the best and the no t
side of his character, as yet reveal, i lo
the public, was the respect and attention
he ever evinced for that
ioned, cbiidish little mother, who had no
more fitness or aptitude for gay, fashion
able life, than a guinea-heu for the
plumage of an Indian flamingo.
Whenever Garfield’s mistakes as Pres
iaent are criticized (and he made many),
this attention to his mother rises up like
charity to cover a multitude of failures.
fwo weeks ago another inauguration
took place, on the same spot, for the
same purpose. Another President made
his speech, and turned, like Garfield, to
take the oath ot office, in the presence of
even a greater multitude. He had no
mother to greet, she had long slumbered
in her peaceful grave. Perhaps in all
that crowd no one but her son gave the
poor dea l widow a thought. But her
child, in the full-tide of promotion and
prosperity, laid his lips upon the little !
worn, well-thumbed, old-fashioned bible,
that his mother gave him when a lad, as
he left the old homestead to make his
way in life. In all that journey upward
his mother’s bible has gone with him,
and by his own request he took this sol
emnoath to God, in the presence of the
nation, on this homely souvenir of a
mother’s trust and affection.
In the account of the ceremonies of the
day, nothing touched our heart like Gro
ver Cleveland’s remembrance of his dead
mother. No display in the streets, no
parade, no music, no splendor of dress or
military glory, was half so impressive as
President Cleveland’s silent homage to
that dead mother’s influence.
Napoleon said; “The future destiny of
a child is always the work of the moth
er,” and our Savior, in his last hour, in
the unutterable agony of a cruel death,
was mindful of his mother.
Happy the mother who lives in t.ie
honorable lives of her dutiful sons! No
heroism, no beauty, no majesty can ex
press the power of a mother’s unselfish,
deathless love, and it marks an epoch in
history when mothers are recognized as
the golden link that binds the Presidents
of Amejioa to faith and duty.
FROM TUOMASVILIE AND ARKAN.
SAS,
We are in receipt of a couple of letters
—piivate—but they are so interesting
that we insist on our readers sharing our
pleasure. One, from our old schoolmate
and lite-long friend, Mr. Andrew Baxter,
now an invalid seeking health in Thom
asyille, Ga.—may a merciful Providence
soon restore him to health, home and
friends. The other is from a “noble fel
low” who, when we were both young
and buoyant, the writer delighted to
honor for his manly character. Many
years have passed since we grasped the
hand of Bob Wyly, but wherever he
may be, we know ho stands out as one of
the purest specimens of mankind.
Thomasville, Ga., March 10, 1885.
Dear William: —The editor of the
Thomasville Times has kindly sent me
two copies of the Cos or ant, and I sin
cerely congratulate the public, and es
pecially the people of Bartow county,
that you and Mrs. Felton have con
sented to take charge of its editorial
department. To you, and her, I tender
heartfelt sympathy in your work, and
hope and predict for the Courant entire
success.
I cannot say how long our stay here
may be, but as I wish to get the CouraNt
regularly, I send you fifty cents, which
will certainly cover the time. Illness
has prevented my seeing as much of
Thomasville as I desire, but 1 have seen
enough to constrain me to speak of it
only to praise. You may travel far with
out linding a. pi ace with half its attrac
tions. It is certainly a beautiful and
progressive little city, and indications
are presented everywhere that in a few
years it will be to us Southerners one of
J.he large ones. Commencing at the close
of the war with a population not more,
it any, than 500, it can muster to-day, in
1885, 5,000. Thomasville is not located,
a3 1 thought, on a dead level, but ou
ground a little rolling and elevated just
enough to give it easy and perfect drain
age. The streets, which are wide, clean
and dry, cr*ss each other at right angles,
and as a rule are shaded by trees planted
by each sidewalk with occasionally an
other row in the center. Here you will
find the water-oak, the live-oak, pride of
India, magnolia, and on every available
spot of private grounds, the inimitable
Le Conte pear—and right here let me
say a whole chapter might be written
on that pear alone.
In the business portions of the city are
abundant evidence of its thrift and enter
prise, but among the private dwellings
and grounds of Thomasville are found its
most pleasing aspects. These, as a rule,
are substantially built, presenting indica
tions of wealth and refinement seldom
seen in any of our inland towns. Each
dwelling has abundance of room in
grounds with shrubbery and flower gar
dens, which in a few weeks will cover
the place with rjch colors and fill the air
with delightful odors.
I cannot now give a name to the pre
vailing style ot architecture in Thomas
ville. I only know that it is strikingly
rich and beautiful; there are a great
many angles, gables, towers, brackets,
with any number of verandas and stoops,
with every variety of ornamentation and
every shade of color. I have been sur
prised at the number of new’ dwellings
in all stages of progress, from founda
tions just laid to finished buildings. I
believe I am inside the truth to say there
are more than fifty. .
A visitor can have choice among a
number of hotels, all of which, I am
told, give satisfaction to those who
patronize them. Two of these hotels
would do credit to any city in the Union.
The Piney Woods, recently completed,
fronts on the railroad more than 400 feet,
contains IGO rooms, is crowded with
guests, and I am told its receipts reach
SBOO per day. The Mitchell House
stands in the center of the city and will
not be ready for gyasts before next
season. It frouts on Broad street some
thing over 200 feet and over 200 feet on
the Park, is built of brick ot various
colors, from a light canary to giay and
red and almost black, which are worked
into the walls with very pleasing effect,
it contains 125 rooms besides a number
of very handsome stores on. the Broad
street These hotels are built from
“turret to foundation-stone” entirely
With Thomasville capital. Our enter
prising friend and fellow-townsman, N.
S. Laves, has the contract for building '
the Mitchell and has with him most of !
our ( artersville workmen.
Tu addition to the hotels there are a |
number of private boarding-houses,
many of them first-class in all respects,
so that in the future we may expect that
i'homasville will be able to accommo
date all who come.
Ot the people of Thomasville, 1 can
not speak with too much praise. 1 have
met here some old friends, some of them
friends of my school-boy days, and to
them I may in some measure be indebted
for the kindly manner in which we have
been received. Be that as it may, 1 sha'l
gratefully remember them and shall al
ways regret that almost continued ill
ness has prevented me from showing a< l
wish my appreciation of kindness to me
and mine.
For further proof of the enterprise of
this city let me giye you a few facts:
There are six livery stables, more than
70 stores, 3 planing nulls, 2 cotton w are
houses, 1 cotton seed refinery. These
figures are taken from the Thomasville
Times. In addition, there is a public li
brary, 2 weekly newspapers, 4 fire com
panies, 1 steam fire engine, 5 churches, 3
colored churches, 1 female and male col
lege and several piivate schools of high
order, 2 florists, who are doing a good
business, and last but not least, the citi
zens drink pure, soft water, which comes
from away down towards the center of
the world through an artesian well over
2,000 feet deep, and from which it is dis
tributed by a steam force-pump through
the city, etc. With best wishes, lam
very truly yours,
Andrew W. Baxter.
Maysville, Ark., March 9, ’BS.
Dr. W. 11. Felton: —Dear Sir—Some
acquaintance or old-time friend, it may
be, has seen fit to send me a copy of the
Courant, in which a series of articles
are to be published styled “Reminis
cences of the Cherokees,” by Judge Un
derwood. I saw the Judge when last in
Georgia, some three years ago, and he
told me then he contemplated the publi
cation of the articles, above mentioned.
Enclosed please find $ for your pa
per, commencing with the appearance of
those articles in its columns. Now, in
dulge me for a few moments. It has
been a long, long time, since I saw you
last—27 years. At a little bush arbor,
about three miles north of old Cassville,
in the latter part of 1850, I heard you
preach your first sermon, at least that is
my recollection. It was while walking
up to that little bush arbor, escorting a
young lady, that she consented to be
mine. That fixes the time beyond a
doubt, “for you know how it is your
self.” On the hill, or near the top of it,
sleeps, “in silence and pathetic dust,” in
the Cassville cemetry, that lovely wo
man. One other recollection, away
back, perhaps in the latter part of the
forties, say in ’4B or 49, at the old 6ih
court ground, as it was called in those
days, my recollection is, you made your
first political speech. In those days
whisky was cheap, and abundant on that
occasion, for the boys cheered lustily and
cried, bully for Bill Felton.
Should auld acquaintance bo forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And days o’lang sync?”
Yours truly,
Robert F. Wyly.
ASSESSMENT OF TAXES.
Messrs. Editors. —A reasonable dis
cussion of every subject that is of public
interest, which leads the people to think,
can only result in good, and as “Scrib
bler” differs with me in the matter of
district tax assessors, I am glad that he
has spoken out. I have been impressed
with the dignified, manly and sensible
character of his letters to your paper,
and as these characteristics are so novel
in the average “local correspondents,” it
is to be hoped that he will not consent to
be dragged or bantered into the old,
namby-pamby ruts. I had thought, be
fore I read his last letter, that I could
name your correspondent from Cassville,
and now, that he has* undertaken
answer me, I am sure I have the
gentleman “spotted.”
I am glad that he has given us the law
on the subject of the mode ot assessing
taxes. I was aware of the text of the
law, and should have incorporated it into
my first communication, but I did
not have a copy of the code at hand
while writing.
I still maintain that it is “stuff” that
the law is sufficient to remedy the evil,
and the fact that the press generally
complain of this wide-spread evil is pri
nt a facie evidence that it is not carried
out in any county in the State, nor do I
believe it can be.
I venture the assertion that if “Scrib
bler” should give bis undivided attention
to the sale and purchase of real estate in
our county for the ensuing ten years he
then would not be qualified to discharge
the duties of tax receiver in the spirit of
the law as it stands on the statutes, nor
could any other single individual in the
county accomplish it.
It is perfect stuff to expect a tax re
ceiver to know the approximate value of
all the property in one-fifth of the coun
ty, w hile it is reasonable to suppose that
three good citizens in each district, judi
ciously chosen as to reTlence, could
nearly cover.the whole ground. And if
the tax receiver attempts to give personal
inspection of the property, in order that
he may carry out the law, then twelve
months is not sufficient time to do it in.
1 suppose the animus of the law is that
the grand jury shall act in the place of
I these district assessors. If they ever do
it it will have to be a body appointed spe
cially for the business, or otherwise, the !
business of the county w ill have to suf
fer, and if such body could be appointed
the same necessity would exist at every j
fall term of court, as property jis contin
ually hi iiig subdivided or changing
hands, but it does seem plain that, with
three assessors to each distiicc to assist
the tax receiver in passing upon the,-
property returned, we will get
root ol the evil more promptly/ an( j c .f.
feetualiy Chan by any other war that
yet been suggested. The triitll 4!;: fui nr\a j
needs to fear a plan that tendf 5 t 0 cfiua *'
ize taxation except those who are willing
to avail themselves of the laxity of the
officials and the insufficiency of the law
itself to put any price on their property
that they choose regardless of its intrin
sic value.
1 have been urged to discuss the pro
priety of citizens sitting on two succeed
ing grand juries, as the grand jury of the
third week contained two citizens (ono
of them its foreman) who had sat with
the body the preceding week, and it is
thought a significant fact that the last
body “retused to concur” in an investi
gation of the county officials’ books by a
committee of citizens, not ono of whom
was a citizen of Cartersville; but I have
taxed your kindness already too long, I
w ill not probably again call on you for
space on this subject. Bartow.
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