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THE COURANT.
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CARTKBSVILLE, GEORGIA.
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to THE COU HA NT,
D. H\ CURRY, CartemviUe , Ga.
Ru*inee* Man oyer.
DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON.
APRIL 2, 1885.-
The Citizens of Cartersville have
something pleasant in store for them in
the approaching extra religious services
at Ascension church. We hope the peo
ple will generally attend these services,
as they promise to be of unusual interest
to all classes of our people.
President Cleveland is fulfilling all
promises of reform. Let him continue
the good work. The people have un
bounded confidence in his ability, hones
ty and patriotism. Every man who voted
for him will endorse every act up to the
present.
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Ckn. Grant is sdo vly passing away.
He was reported dead on Monday, but
was alive at the latest dispatches. The
•South will do him all the honor that his
great name deserves, and death will
remove faintest trace of sectional
feeling in her respect for his memory ,
He is a great man, and his magnanimity
to Gen. Lee wilt live in his history as his
greatest feat in civil or military life.
We have just received news of the
death of our loved and honored class
mate, General Albert C. Garlington, of
Newbury District, S. C., aged sixty-two
years. He graduated at Franklin Col
lege, in 1 s 12, receiving the first honor of
that class. He was a brilliant young
man, and although we have seen little of
each other since that time, we have al
ways retained our boyhood affection for
him. Peace to his ashes, and honor to
his memory ! But lew ot us remain.
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i ’resident Cleveland has made an
other good appointment in selecting Hon.
A. .J. Sparks, of Illinois, as Commis
sioner of the General Land Office. We
know of no man better lilted by nature
and acquirements to clean up and clean
out this particular stall of the Augean
stable. Our only fear is, that his “right
eous soul,” somewhat ingrained as it is
with irascibility of temper, will be so vexed
from day to day, in reviewing the acts of
his predecessors, that he will “just die
for want of somebody to light.” But
true as steel, faithful to every trust, and
indomitable in purpose, he is the right
mau iifthc right place. W. H. F.
A Tramp called at a house in North
Carolina for food and lodging, one night
last week. Two ladies lived alone in the
house. They decided to shelter him, if
lie would allow them to look litni up in a
closet, to which lie agreed. Sometime
in the night a black mau broke into the
house and demanded money or their
lives, which they agreed to furnish, if
their lives were spared. The tramp
heard the conversation, and when the
closet door was unlocked, lie appeared
with a pistol and shot the burglar. The
dead man was examined and he was
found to he a near neighbor, who had
blackened his face to do his foul work.
This incident leads us to think, perhaps
the colored people may be counterfeited
very often in such attempts. That tramp
was a friend in need, and perhaps all are
nor'tramps who are suspected of evil
tramping. We are not careful enough
to entertain strangers, or we might be of
tener benefitted by their stay.
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COL. A KE KM AX'S OEX KROSITY.
Rev. T. K. Smith, ot Tallahassee, Flor
ida, after reading the first chapter of the
biographical sketch of Col. Amos T.
Akerman, by Mrs, Felton, in the Cou
kant, writes the following in a private
letter to a gentleman in Cartersville. It
is a highly deserved tribute to a man, no
ble and generous in thought and deed.
Speaking of Col. Akerinan’s charities,
Mr. Smith says: “He abounded iu this
as in other practical virtues. He fre
quently came to his pastor with money,
saying, ‘You will oblige me by acting as
my almoner. I’m away so much I don’t
know the needs of the poor whom, I sup
pose, we have among us. Use this as
your better knowledge of them and their
wants dictate.’
“It was my great pleasure often thus to
dispense his bounty to the needy—a mat
ter of which he and I alone knew any
thing.”
Cr ft Oft CrlA ft oy ft Srn
A prominent friend, who has left his
impress upon the legislation of the State,
and is noted tor every good word and
work, writes us from Marietta as follows,
touching our editorial of last week upon
the new Georgia bonds:
Marietta, Ga., March *26, ISSS.
My Dear Doctor: I read, with
much pleasure, your editorial in Coc rant
of this date. You concede the fact that
the people of Georgia are too poor to
make the loan; hut still the hints and
suggestions made, lead the public mind
out into right lines and wise ways. If
we could see and practice such philoso
phy, how much better for us and our
children. Such doctrine, and that which
underlies it and makes it true, are the
ways to “newness of life,” socially. But
surely Georgians can take some of the
bonds. I have not examined the act
authorizing their issue, but hope it does
not retpiire that the bonds shall ail be of
large denominations. Such would place
them beyond the reach of many, whose
judgment would lead them to purchase,
and who would be benefitted in more I
ways than one, as you show elearlv in
your article.
1 hope you will pardon this and be- j
lieve me. Truly, etc., * * *■
E. Miller, Curry’s prescription
clerk, lias had fifteen years experience,
and he is careful and accurate.
O YER-PRObUCTIOX.
A great many good and wise men ex
plain the hard times which are now op
pressing us, financially and industrially,
as the result of over-production. We
will not controvert the position of uiea
who are so superior to us in the manage
ment of all business affairs—men who
by good sense and industry have accumu
lated fortunes. But there are difficulties
surrounding this plausible theory which
we should like to have remove!.
What does this word production mean?
That which generates, that which cre
ates. Production in political economy
means tho creation of the useful. It is
bringing into existence new forms of mat
ter, and is general]}' applied to those pro
cesses of labor,or those chemical process
es in land or soil, which transforms crude
materials into the useful and desirable.
Production is the creation of that which
can be consumed by man, which meets
man’s wants, supplies man's necessities.
Man is the central figure of all produc
tive enterprises, the end and object of
all industries.
The advocates of the theory that over
production has caused all of our embar
rassments in business affairs, practically
assert that man is too richly and too
abundantly supplied with the necessa
ries of life, the comforts and luxuries of
life. Well directed labor is productive,
arid this class of political economists
boldly maintain that there is too much
labor in the world, too much work, too
many workmen. They practically as
sert that idleness is the great require
ment of the times—“that we must allow
the hands to hang down if prosperous
and thrifty times are sought after.
The land is also productive, and these
men assert by their theory that the land
has produced too abundantly, that there
is too much food and raiment in the
world, that there are too many railroads,
ships and comfortable homes; there is
tod much gold and silver, too many fat
mules, horses and hogs, too many schools,
books and newspapers, too many luxu
ries and comforts •generally—that the
world is surfeited with good things.
These modern Solons would say to the
Georgia farmer, as he stands in his
empty corn-crib, “over-production has
ruined you,” and that farmer, shuddering
with apprehension as he glances at his
empty smokehouse must exclaim, “over
production has brought me to this low
estate.”
The army of men, women and chil
dren who are clothed in rags, as the£
journey, starving, freezing to the graye,
must imprecate the existence of so many
factories,, so much clothing and such
abundant supplies of nourishing food.
Excess of good tilings is making them
beggars and tramps.
What absurdity is this? Did wise men
ever talk so foolishly? The truth is, the
lack of work has brought us to our pres
ent embarrassed condition. The failure
of production has spread discourage
ment over all of our enterprises. We
say money is scarce, hut the facts show
that in the United States there is more
gold and silver now than ever before.
Money is scarce with us because we have
no products of labor or of the soil to ex
change for money. If the farmer had
twenty hales of cotton on the platform ot
the depot in Cartersville, in ten minutes
he would have one thousand dollars in
his pocket, and could snap his fingers at
tiie hard times. If he had fat mules, or
hogs, or beeves, or if he had corn or
eggs, or butter or poultry, or any other
product oi labor or of the soil, in a few
minutes he could stuff his purse with
greenbacks and return to his home an
independent citizen. Over-production,
indeed!
There may be an over-production of
professional gentlemen,• of speculators,
ot extortioners, of men who seek bread
without sweat, who seek to Jive by their
wits, exempted from the penalties of la
bor, hut never too many honest work
men, never too many or too great a va
riety ot products of labor or of soil.
There is nothing but work wisely and
continuously applied and prosecuted
which can prize Georgia out of the mire.
Let her vagrants, w hether in kid gloves
or in rags, be scattered in the fields or in
the workshops of the State. Ler her
productive industries be multiplied an
hundred lold. Let every man, instead of
having one “iron in the fire,” put in a
dozen, and let him keep every iron hot
and hammered. Let the buzz of saws
and the whir of spindles, the song of the
plowman, the shout of the reaper, the
music of the cotton press, the bleating of
Hocks and the lowing of herds, all unite
in symphony over old Georgia, and then
she will put on her‘‘beautiful garments”
and once more move forward in all that
makes a State rich and powerful.
W. 11. F.
A TLASTA’S C/TAHITI’ BALL.
From all accounts, the Charity Ball is
about to come to grief by the united
efforts of the pastors of some of the
prominent churches. It promises about
as much discussion as Evolution pro
vided last year. We wait to see how it
terminates with considerable interest.
In early youth we were exceedingly
fond of the pastime of dancing. Our
school teacher was a learned Presbyte
rian divine who settled all such things in
his school by* an arbitrary rule. If he
heard your lesson, you must not dance,
and if ypu danced, you must quit his in
stitution. The rule hurt, we confess,
and we thought him very harsh and un
kind. We found the best scholars were
those who obeyed him, and in tracing
them through after life, we found they
lost nothiug by the restriction. Asa
part of our church discipline, we never
thought of disobeying the church vow
on the subject in later life.
But we are not prepared to denounce
people as depraved and Godless because
they do dance. Each heart must- stand
or fall by its own conscience. Use all
reasonable persuasions if you think they
err, point the danger of worldly associa
tions if you think proper, command your
own household in a way that your duty
authorizes, but be careful not sit in
judgment on the and virtue of
those who are differently impressed. '
EXGLA XJ> A XD RUSSIA .
The British government has given Rus
sia notice that she will certainly fight.
Russia’s answer is considered to be equal
13’ as decided. She is not only willing
but ready to fight. So we may look out
for war. Contracts tor more than a half
million of canned meats for British
troops have been signed in the L'nited
States, i his is only the beginning, if
Europe gets down to the business in good
earnest. England has lost much pres
tige In r he last few’ months, owing to her
reverses in the Soudan, and the nation is
actually longing for a tight. The Queen
has called out the reserves, and the troops
are getting read}’ in camp, for sailing or
ders, very soon.
When Russia and England get to fight
ing, Germany, Austria, Italy and other
intermediate governments will be in
volved. If England wins, great will he
the glory and eclat for her statesmen and
officers. Whether she wins or loses,
great will be the loss among the private
soldiers, who die by hundreds and thou
sands, where officers die singly or h}’
tens. Then the pension roll will length
en out and the cripple will multiply in
the land. Widows and orphans will
mourn.
If Russia wins, then the Czar and
Grand dukes will be great fellows, and
perhaps the nihilists will go over to the
battle fields for a season and allow’ royal
alty to eat its food without the fear of
poison, and to go to bed without the
dread of being blown to atoms before
daylight.
The mines of Siberia may not fill up so
fast. The cruel knout may take a rest.
But the bullet, the cannon ball and the
screaming “Shell will play their part, and
the cruelty will be the same in another
shape. The harvest of death will not de
crease. The measure of suffering will
continue to be filled.
To us, at this distance, this coining
war seems to be very unnecessary. It
looks as though European governments
had become so crowded with population,
that war is a necessity, serni-occasional
iy. It appears to be easier to conquer
peace abroad than to keep the peace at
home.
England’s late experience with dyna
mite has taught her Russia’s caution.
The inside disturbances are harder to
subdue than their neighboring foes. Ni
hilists and Fenians are equally dreaded,
so their royal policy, or their humanity,
dictates a general war, in which the
killing may be regulated by discipline
and drilled by regiments. The serfs of
Russia are very troublesome in time of
peace, and dynamiters are equally rest
less and uncertain in Great Britain. Jf
the surplus vengeance in each can be
dissipated in Afaghanistan, then the
royal tyrants can smile in safety.
Human life is cheap, and human na
ture in the rough inclines to war—so the
slaughter is unrebuked, and the world
sings peans of praise to the man who
whips the fight.
OUR MINISTER TO TURKEY.
president Cleveland lias made one of
the best appointments which could have
been made in sending Mr. S. S. Cox to
Turkey. For scholarship, for sparkling
humor, for knowledge of public affairs,
and for having at his command the in
exhaustible stores of his learning, this
genial and inimitable Sam Cox has no
superior in the United States.
There seems to be great propriety in
sending this man of “winter sunbeams”
to the Golden Horn. Whenever we
think of him we associate him with
Eastern lands, with cathedrals, with
mosques, wkh escurials, with the antique
wreathed with fragrant flowers and with
all that is beautiful and attractive. He
fills our imaginary conception of a per
fect American Representative to Eastern
countries, and we predict for hitn a ca
reer in diplomacy as brilliant as his career
in Congress.
He can “stand before Kings,” their
equal in every intellectual accomplish
ment —a born courtier, who captures
mind and heart with his irresisible suavi
ty and eloquence.
He w ill not only serve the State De
partment to its entire satisfaction, but
his busy pen will make this mission a
blessing and comfort to the world of po
lite literature.
Tw’o hooks lie-before us as we write,
which are rich in thought and in descrip
tive imagery, each having upon its fly
leaf, in autograph letters, the words,
“With kind regards of the author.”—S.
S. Cox.
Ilis wife, “the excellent of the earth,”
we suppose will accompany him. She
is not only a savor of good influences
wherever she goes, but especially is she
the salt that saves Sunset Cox. As long
as he lives he will bless the fate that gave
him so good a wife. She is quite as lit
erary in her tastes as her distingushed
husband, and is said to be his helpmeet
in all literary undertakings. May “sun
beams” attend their pathway!
W. H. F.
The Coukaxt has issued eight num
bers, and this will be riie ninth. Before
the eigth copy left the press, we num
bered eight hundred and seventy-five
subscribers, by count. We expect to
be in the vicinity of one thousand before
this paper reaches your eye. The young
ster has not only outgrown its baby
clothes, short dresses and knee-breeches,
hut is now clamoring for an extra col
umn to give us room to spread and con
tinue to grow. It has not had a single
stimulant to help its growth. There is
no excitement of auy sort to encourage
a swell either by advertising or catnpaign
news. It is just a strong, hearty, thrifty
pet, whit'll grows like a stout, hearty,
thrifty baby ought to grow—because it
can’t help growing, and because it has a
reliable, healthy constitution to sustain
its rapid popularity t We have had re
peated requests for back numbers, and
we are entirely out of several issues. In
response to these demands we will have
to set up Judge Underwood's articles
again to give our friends the whole se
ries, which we will perhaps do during
the summer.
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Prescriptions carefully and accurately
filled at Carry’s by W. E. Miller.
Russia axd maxenester.
The information has reached us that
executive lightning has again struck
Georgia in two places, Savannah and At*
anta. Mr. A. K. Lawton has been ap
pointed minister to Russia and C.qit. E.
P. Howell, of the Atlanta Constitution,
has been made Consul to Manchester,
England. These are good appointments,
and we congratulate these gentlemen
upon this deserved recognition of tiieir
merits.
Col. Lawton receives one of the best
appointments in the gift of the adminis
tration. Hie salary is
being one of the four first-class missions
—the other three being Londoirq Berlin
and F iri-A each 17,500. The consulship
to Manchester pays per annum,
without fees. Some years ago the gov
ernment allowed most of its consuls to
receive certain specified fees, but that
privilege has been w ithdrawn from all
the important stations and is confin
ed to a few unimportant consulships.
Some years ago Manchester was the most
Important manufacturing city in Eng
land, outside of London. It mvyleolihed
considerably in commercial importance
for the hist few’ years and may be regard
ed now as a sort of manufacturing sub
urb of the great city of Liv ,> rp'.7ol—though
still an immense and busy hive of cotton
spinners. The first railroad in the world
was built between Manchester and Liv
erpool for the express purpoAf of trans
porting cotton bales, whiefhad been
produced in Georgia and South Carolina,
from Liverpool, where they had been
landed from shipboard, to Manchester,
where, at that time, the cotton goods of
the world were manufactur'd. Now,
however, an hundred cities' Th Europe
and America are contesting the suprema
cy of Manchester as a manufacturing
town.. This celebrated city was built up
by the most exacting and ‘exorbitant
protective tariff which ever disgraced a
nation. But other nations . with
superior natural advantages have also
lessened the fostering power of
tariffs, and as England sees the hand
writing on the wall and is reminded by
the dingy appearance of old Manchester
tiiat spindles and looms can prosper in
such countries, she becomes a “free
trade saint” iu her latter days and runs
over the world with her evan
gelism. It was in this city England’s
free trade ideas originated, because cheap
breadstufls had become
to her spindles than protection against
foreign made cotton goods.
Perhaps Col. Howell may instill some
of his tariff doctrine into Manchester,
and in that sense he will also J>e filling a
mission abroad, We wish him success.
_ W. H. F.
CHURCH MUSIC,
A friend asked us yesterday how we
liked fashionable church music. We
made an answer that expressed our feel
ings, and we would like to know how
everybody else likes fashionable church
music.
We confess to being old-fashioned in
many particulars, perhaps very much so
in this particular.
We ride some distance to enjoy church
services. We like a sermon that will lift
us out of the cares and ruts of the week.
We would not give a snap for a learned
literary fashionable discussion of any
subject that did not have a strong con
nection with making t>s better, or with
making us feel the need of something bet
ter than the annoyances of daily life. Af
ter the sermon, we like a. tune we can
sing. Whenever church music rises to
the attitude of a real church service, it is
sure to be such as will permit each wor-
shipping heart to join in, as earnestly as
the spirit prompts.
Now, what is the effect of an unfamiliar
tune? We occasionally find such a one
that takes all our time to struggle along
after it, afraid to sing out aloud, lest we
made a ludicrous mistake, and set the
knowing ones in a titter, and yet we
wish to sing, all the same. We have oc
casionally failed to follow, because we
couldn’t, and found ourself tackling a
note high up in the gamut, when we
properly belonged much lower down.
We felt badly for more reasons than one,
perhaps we were most ashamed to be
caught trying to sing, when we should
have been quiet.
Now, the secret of the colored peoples’
good singing lies in the fact that they
know the melody, and then they pour it
out con amore. Watch the effect in a
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large congregation, after the choir has
dispensed some chant, figure, or extra
new tune, when some old-fashioned
brother rises up and starts, “Am Ia
Soldier of the Cross,” “Rock of Ages,”
or something equally well-known and
appreciated. There is no sort of com
parison in the effect. We grant you this
is not progress—it is slow and very old
fashioned, but it is worship.
Perhaps the major part of a congrega
tion are to blame that they don’t try to
learn new tunes, but they do not, and
the question to be solved is, whether we
are to do our singing by proxy, or wheth
er the church, as a whole, prefers to sing
for itself. A tune, no matter how old,
should be raised and started to suit the
singers, and this is a difficult and perhaps
thankless task, but the singing will have
to be general to be an acceptable church
service.
Speaking of appointments, the people
of Georgia can likewise cordially endorse
the appointment of Mr. Crenshaw, of
LaGrange, to be Collector of Internal
Revenue for the State of Georgia. A
young man of tine business qualifications
and with intellectual endowments con
siderably above the average, we predict
for him a most acceptable administration
of tins very difficult and entangling
office. The objections and complaints so
frequently arising heretofore out of its
management are largely attributable to
the miserable and outrageous system of
which it is a part. There will be no
satisfaction in connection with this
until the office itself and all is. ernal
revenue laws are completely
abolished. We think the appointment of
our friend, Mr. Crenshaw, is quite sig
nificant of President Cieveiat i ‘.S' policy
as to Georgia officials. Mr. W ,j.er John
son, who is displaced by Mr. Crenshaw,is
as acceptable to the people of Georgia as
any Republican who holds office in this
State. He is a gentleman as well as a
native Georgian, and upon whose official
and personal record there is neither spot
or olemish. Certainly he has never been
offensive in partisanship as some who are
still retained in office. We therefore in
terpret the displacement of Mr. Johnson
as indicating a policy on the part of the
President to make a “clean sweep” of all
official incumbents. If Mr. Johnson
had to be removed, who has conducted
himself and his office so honorably, it
certainly should mean President Cleve
land's purpose to remove those who are
less respected by the people of tire State.
W. If. F.
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THE SEX A TE RETRENCHES.
Senator Van Wyek has, by bis expo
sure of senatorial junkets, taught the
Senators a lesson. They had cleverly
fixed up twelve nice, summer recrea
tions to be paid for by tlie taxpayers.
Hie Star, of Washington City, says one
hundred thousand dollars would have
been needed to settle the bills of these
trips.-
The exposure of the inside rottenneSsof
the trip to Central America, where the
chairman never got further than Albany
and Washington, and yet drew nearly
$5,000 for the service, brought out a gen
eral comment all over the Union. The
republicans held a caucus, and resolved
to pnt a stop to some of it. Let us hope
a stopper will be found on all such
schemes of plunder, by somebody’s
effort.
It takes three hundred employees to
wait on the seventy-two Senators, at an
expense ol $350,000 annually. Each
Senator lias a clerk, who is generally an
attache of some newspaper, whose first
business is to get his patron well adver
tised for having given him the place.
These lords of the manor like to travel,
also, during the summer. The bulk of
them shine bigger a little, distance from
home. Their pay never stops, but they
require an extra allowance for summer
travel, so they call it committee work.
The truth of the business is just this:
Six years of office is a little too much for
their general equilibrium. They get too
far from the people. They forget how
they got there.
NOMINATIONS.
Graphic Descriptions of How They are
Sent, in—The interesting Bits of Paper
Which Disclose Much Sought for In
formation.
A Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Times-Star sends the follow
ing graphic description of how nomina
tions are sent in to the Senate:
W askington, March 25. —There is
great excitement in the Senate nowadays
when the nominations come in. To the
uninterested spectator it is very inter
esting. To the poor devils who are
waiting on expenses for this or that ap
pointment it is probably not so much so.
The sport is more exciting because the
resuits are so unexpected in most eases.
Tliere have been, so far, but few of the
nominations that were not really a sur
prise. l'he nominations are prepared at
the W .life House about noon, the hour
of tlie meeting of the Senate. Some
times they are ready earlier, but as a
rule they are later than that hour.
President Arthur seldom sent in his
nominations until two or three o’clock,
but President Cleveland, like other new
brooms, sweeps clean at first. By next
fall’s session -it will be an old story
and they will probably be as late as lias
been the ease with others. Now, how
ever, they come pretty soon after the
Senate convenes. •
E ich nomination is made out on a sep
arate sheet of paper, usually large sheets,
written in a stiff form, “I hereby nomi
nate So-and-so tor the office of Such-and-
Sueh, signed, Grover Cleveland, Presi
dent.'’ These are enclosed in a very
large envelope, sufficiently large that
there is no nhed of doubling the-sheets
of paper on which the nominations are
written. Then the good natured clerks
at the White House make out four lists
in manifold, simply giving the names
and residences of the men nominated,
and the positions to which they are ap
pointed. Then Major Pruden who has
been a private secretary at the White
House for twenty years, and has been
carrying nominations to the Capitol for
time out of mind, takes them under his
arm and to the Capitol.
Arriving at the Senate end he is ad
mitted at once to the floor, for everybody
knows “Prude.” When he makes his
appearance on the floor there is always a
stir, for even on the most important oc
casion there is much of interest in the
nominations. As soon as circumstances
will permit, as soon as there can be
momentary balk in the proceedings, a
Deputy Seargeant-at-Arms marches with
him about one-fifth of the way down the
center ai.-le, in front of the President of
the Senate, the presiding officer raps
with his gavel and the Deputy Sc-rgeant
at-Arms says, “Mr. President, a message
from the President.” Then the pre
siding officers says, “Mr. Secretary”
To which' the Secretary, Mr. Pruden,
aforesaid, says, “Mr. President, I am di
rected by the President of the United
States to deliver to the Senate sundry
messages in writing.”
Then he make a little bow, and having
spoken his little piece, retires. In doing
so, however, he* hands to a page, whose
duty it is to be in readiness to take them,
the four slips of manifold made out at
the White House, giving the names of
the persons appointed. One of these is
for the Xew York Associated Press, an
other for the United Press Association,
and another to be exhibited in the Clerk’s
room, just across the corridor of the
Senate, for the benefit of all wdio want
to see what the nominations are. The
aiin piece of paper on which they are
wiiiten would blow away by the first
bTeath of air thac might chance to stir in
the rooms, so it is pasted onto a sheet of
heavy paper and left there for everybody
to s- m It is the chief object of atten
tion, too, now*. “Any nominations !” is
alwafs u : eager inquiry of those who
knew tL_ cubits in regard to this bul
letin, as they enter the room.
Often there is a crowd at tlie door of
the Senate Chamber when the page with
the fatal sheet makes his appearance, and
sometimes, be has great difficulty in ’
making Ills way through the crowd that
wants to waylay him and get. a look at ;
the sheet. If he stops by the way to show
it to some favored individual, there is a
growl by the crowd that has gathered by
the spot where it is usually first ex
hibited. When it gets there and i- pasted
down, there is a rush for it, when some
cool-headed fellow in the background
who cannot see for himself sings out,
“Read it out,” and some one in front
calls out tlie names and the places for
which they are named.
Then there are looks of surprise and
disgust, low voiced expletives from the
disappointed ones, side remarks as to the
influence that brought about this or that
nomination, or that defeated this or that
man, the newspaper correspondents rush
off to send the news with comment, the
fellows who were in the background
gather round to read it for themselves to
see that no mistakes were made, and the
crowds scatter discussing the men and
the influence that caused their nomina
tion. Meantime the Senate grinds on
for an hour or two, goes into executive
session, the nominations are read formal
ly and referred to the committee that re
lates to the line of duty to be performed
by the office mentioned, Finance Com
mittee for customs and internal revenue
officers, Foreign Aftairs Committee for
diplomatic appointments, etc.
Next morning, probably, the commit
tee mee.es and considers the nomination
referred to it. If there are no charges
of any sort against the person nominated
the report is favorable) and when the
Senate goes into executive session that
day the report is and in most
cases the nomination confirmed without
debate. Of course there are exceptions
as to this rule, but they are not numer
ous. Then the executive clerks of the
Senate make out a list in manifold of the
nominations confirmed and those re
jected, if there are any,.give them to the
press, and next morning the lucky or un
lucky man’s friends read his fate.
BLAIXK BELIEVES
Clvrland and Thinks He Intends to Do
Kight—How He is to lie Treated By
Eepiiblican Senators.
Washington, March 23.—The Star
says Mr. Blaine is still busy on his new
book. lie expects to have it completed
by the middle of the summer, and is
very well pleased with what he has done
already, lie has a critical eye and he
has the rare quality of being able to
criticise Ms own work as that of another,
lie expects this work to live and give
him a name when a long line of ex-Presi
dents have sunk out of sight. He was
very well pleased with Mr. Cleveland,
and after Ms call a few days ago, when
he saw his successful rival for the first
time, he expressed his opinion that the
new administration would be a success.
He thinks Mr. Cleveland meant every
word he said in his inaugural, and that
he is not to be moved or shaken in his
determination by any amount of politi
cal pressure. Mr. Blaine feels friendly
towards Mr, Cleveland, and thinks it will
be the duty of the Republicans in Con
gress to give him every possible backing
in carrying out the policy he has laid
down.
A large majority of the Republicans
agree with Mr. Blaine in this. They ex
pect to see many Democrats repudiate
Cleveland if he lives up to his promises.
They expect to see a large faction of
Democrats opposing him in Congress
next winter, and they have determined
that they will stand by him. There is
no disposition in the Senate to oppose
any nominations he may send in except
on such grounds as they would oppose
them if sent in by a Republican Presi
dent, and they will treat all his recom
mendations with respect.
Leading Republicans, who form the
opinions and policy of their party in the
House, say that, from what they can
judge of his policy at this time, and from
his public declarations, they do not ex
pect Mr. Cleveland to follow any line of
action in which he would not receive
their endorsement and hearty support.
Should there be a split in the Democratic
party, growing out of the discontent of
those Democrats who looked for a com
plete revolution of affairs when the Dem
ocratic party came into power, Republi
cans say they will rush into the breach
and support Cleveland. Moreover, if
Democrats oppose the new administra
tion in ths House, two years hence, when
the next congressional election come3
off, the Republicans will make that an
issue in the campaign, and try to beat
the anti-Cleveland, anti-civil service re
form men on the grounds that they are
more interested in the spoils than in hon
est government. The Republicans are
united in this, and they will be found in
the next Congress to stanu with Cleve
land in everything except, it may be, the
tariff, and they don’t know how he
stands on that.
GEORGIA RONDS.
Five PerCent.—Thirty Tears.
Executive Office, )
Atlanta, Ga., Marcii 10, 1885.f
Under authority of an act, approved
Dec. 23, 1884, authorizing the Governor
to issue Bonds for payment of principal
of bonds maturing in 1885 and 1886,
sealed proposals will' be received at the
office of fhe Treasurer of Georgia up to
twelve o’clock m. on April 15, 1885, for
three million, four hundred and fifty-five
thousand dollars ($3,455,000) Five per
cent thirty year coupon bonds as herein
after set forth, bearing date July 1, 1885.
Principal and interest payable in the city
of New .York, at the fiscal agency of
Georgia; and ut the office of the Treas
urer of Georgia in the city of Atlanta.
Interest payable semi-annually on Jan
uary 1 and July 1 respectively,
Bids will be received for two hundred
thousand dollars ($200,000) of the amount
to he delivered on July 1, 1885. And for
two hundred and twenty-five thousand
JTArs ($225,000) to be delivered January
1, 1886, the accrued interest being with
held by the State. And for the remain
der of the amount of three million four
hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars
($3,455,000), (or so much thereof as may
be necessary for the purpose aforesaid),
on June 1, 1886, the accrued interest
withheld as aforesaid. As to last de
livery, however, successful bidders will
have the option’of tendering any Geor
gia Bonds maturing as aforesaid, at then
par value,, in payment therefor, at any
time after July 1, 18S5, and receiving
new bonds.
Bids must specify amount of bonds de
sired in multiples of one thousand dol
lars ($1,000) accofnpanied by certified
cheek, or certificates ol deposit of some
solvent bank for five per cent, of the
amount of such bid,.payable to the order
of the Treasurer of Georgia, or by a de
posit of bonds of the State of Georgia.
Bids will be opened and declared by
the Governor and Treasurer, the State
reserving the right to reject any one or
all of the bids.
The State will issue registered bonds
in lieu of any of the above named five
per cent, bonds as provided in said Act
at any time on demand of the owner.
Copies of the Act of the Legislature,
and information touching the proposed
issue of bonds, will be furnished on ap
plication to the Treasurer.
•By the Governor.
Henry D. McDaniel,
W Bat is life? Afflicting shadow,
Youth its sunshine,‘age its sorrow;
Nigkt has come, the weeping willow—
But the light will dawn to-morrow.
Acwobth.
DECORATION DAY AT CASSVII.EE,
Tlio Annual Address to bo Delivered by
Walter M. Ryals.
At a late meeting of the Ladies’ Memo
rial Association it was resolved to have
the celebration of the memorial exercises
at the Cassville cemetery, Saturday, the
25th day of April next. Mr. Walter M.
Ryals was elected tlio annual orator (a
most happy selection), and we hope he
will comply with their request. This
beautiful custom of paying our annual
tribute to the memory of our brave and
gallant dead, should be kept ever fresh
and green. Well do we remember the
day of the surrender of Gen. Johnson’s
army at Greensborougli, North Carolina.
It was the termination of the war, the
saddest • day of our lives. It was the
grave of our brightest hopes, amf we felt
that all we had ever fought tor was lost
That, day there were but few hearth
stones throughout the length and breadth
of our sunny land that did not present a
scene of mourning. The widow and
orphan realized too keenly and sensibly
the irretrievable loss they had sustained.
Bankruptcy and ruin was the common
lot ot all. Guant starvation was stalking
through the land and almost everything
the South loved and reverenced was
desecrated. Well do we remember the
dark period of April 1805, and we invol
untarily shudder as memory brings the
sickening scenes from out the past again.
But thank God, defeat did not render all
our sacred tilings profane, but the war
left the South its own memories, its own
heroes, its own tears and its own dead;
and under theso traditions 6ons and
daughters have grown up to manhood
and womanhood, and precepts have sunk
deep into their tender hearts that were
learned from the lips of widowed mothers.
Wa are satisfied that through all coming
time the memory of our Southern heroes
will be remembered by our own people,
and when time shall have fully with
drawn the misty veil with which crush
ing defeat and an acknowledged failure
have obscured them, ana sectional hato
and passion have died out, an impartial
historian shall arise wlro will give them
that place and rank in history to which
their noble daring and disinterested pa
triotism so eminently entitles them. We
feel so grateful that tears our mothers,
wives and sisters shed when the armor
was girded on for the strife, and tho
flower of Southern youth went forth
to battle for their homes and firesides—
we feel so glad that the tears that were
shed after the battle when tho intelli
gence came that some of our bravest
and noblest boys had fallen; that tears
that were shed just twenty years ago,
when the electric wires flashed the news
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande
that the war was ended, the Southern
cause was lost, and that the thousands of
our noble slain had been sacrificed for
naught, will be remembered and cher
ished as sacred oblations forever. We
are so glad, too, that our noble dead who
are sleeping in humble graves far away
from the homes that knew them and
cherished them, will not be neglected as
long as there is a Southern woman’s
heart to sympathize and a Southern
woman’s will to execute. Woman, from
time immemorial, has ever been found at
the couch of the suffering, at the bed of
the dying and around the graves of their
cherished dead; and our Southern wo
men, true to the instincts of their na
tures, soon after the struggle had ceased
and the war clouds had rolled away, col
lected the precious remains of our dead
and buried them in cemeteries. Xor did
they cease the work of love ana duty
when they had fully accomplised this,
but they established the beautiful custom
of bringing an annual tribute of flowers
and evergreens with which to deck their
graves.
"Yes, annually they bring the tribute flowers,
Well watered with their grateful tears,
To strew them on these graves of ours,
Ours, yes! in ail life's coining years.”
Let tbi3 beautiful custom be perpetual
and let every soldier, every soldier’s wife,
daughter and son, and everyone who
would cherish the memory of the noble
dead and the cause for which they died,
be at the Cassville cemetery and take
part in this annual tribute.
Scribbler.
The stranger rarely lingers long in our
midst without being impressed with the
progress, thrift and hospitality of the
place. We publish elsewhere to-day a
communication from Mr. Andrew W.
Baxter, a prominent gentleman of Xorth
Georgia, to Dr. Felton of the Cartersville
Cocraxt. Mr. Baxter is a close ob
server, has seen much of the world and
is a fair, impartial witness. Thooiasville
and her people will thank the gentleman
for his kind words.—Thomasviile Times.