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THE COURANT. Pwbliithsd Every Thursday, CARTKBSVILLE, GEORGIA. THE corn AXT i* published every Th u rtday morning and in delivered by carriers in th* city nr mailed, putt at]* free, at fI.SO a year; tie menthe, SOeenft; three months, SO cent*. A I) YERT/SJXG RA TES depend on location in the pii/>*r, and mill be fnr nit lied on aj/jtlica lion, CORRESPOXI/KXCE containing important news solicited,from all parts of the county. Alt DRESS all letters. communications anti tel eyrams, and wake till drafts or check* itayable 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. + ♦' ♦ 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. ♦ -■- +. ■ 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. ——— ♦ —- 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. - ♦ 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 % 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. * ♦ 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.