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VOLUME 11. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. This city is situated on the Western A Atlantic and East and West Railroads, 48 miles north of Atlanta, and in Bartow county. Georgia. Population 2,. r >oo, with churches of Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopal denominations. With superior educational, climatic aud business ad vantage Cartersvflle is unsurpassed as a place of reHraerice. Nestling in the beautiful mountain district of North Georgia, It is protected from theextreme chilly blasts of winter, while in the hot summer months the cool mountain breezes makes it a most pleasant summer resort. As to health ness it cannot be surpassed —is entirely free from all malarial influences, and there never has ibeen a case of chills known to have originated in the county. Mineral and Agricultural Resources.— Nearly every mineral known to exist is found in inexhaustible quantities, which will make Cartersville a great manufacturing centre at no distant day. The manganese shipments froorth*Sxlepot alone are simply enormous. The Farm ing Lands of Bartow county will compare favorably with those of Illinois, Michigan and other north western States. All the cereals is raised tw pemekioo here, while cotton is grown in immense quantities. The nature of our soil is very similar to the lands of the Northwestern States, w>ile we have the advantage of shorter and milder winters. Lands are cheap and superior inducements are ottered to those that may locate among us for the purpose of developing our beautiful county. GENERAL AND BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF THE CITY OF CARTERSVILLE. Physicians. . Lindsay Johnson, m. and., Physician and Surgeon. office: Curry’s Drug Store; residence, Erwin St. JH. MAYFIELD, M. D., , Physician and surgeon. Office: first door south Crawford A Hudson; res idence, East Main Street. Thomas h. baker, m. and.. Physician anil Snrgeon, Office: one door above St. .James Hotel, James m. young, m. and., Residence on Market street, near Baptist Church. ______ Daniel hamitkr, m. and., Residence on Market street, south side, HW. FITE, M. D. , Office West side Public Square CH, WHITE, M. I>. , Office oyer Mays A Pritchett 117 L. KIRKPATRICK, SI. tf Office in Howard’s Bank, Residence on Church Street. CM. GRIFFIN, SI. 1).. Residence on Market Street—South side. Merchant Tailors. Rm. clinkscales, Shop over Mays & Pritchett. Millinery and Dressmaking. MISS E. M. PADGETTE, Fashionable Millinery. Rooms ovc r Mays A Pritchett. MISS LEO SHOCKLEY, Fashionable Millinery. Rooms under Opera House. Financial. Bauer & hall, General Banking. West Main Street, North side. WH. HOWARD, Exchange and Collecting Office Office: In Bank Block. Drugs. MF. WORD, Drugs, Chemicals, etc. West Main Street, North side. TiAVID W. CURRY, V Druggist, Proprietor Curry’s Liver Compound, Curry’s Cough Cnre, Curry’s Diarrhoea and Dysentery Specific. Markets. John Dodgen, Choice Meats at all Times feast side Public Square. A A. Dobbs, Meat Market West Main Street, South side. Undertakers. ¥C EDWARDS, Coffins and Mourning Goods, Corner West Main aud Erwin Streets, Harness, Buggy Whips, etc. Hicks & brevard, Coffins and Mourning Goods, East Main Street. Hotels. Tennessee house, Joshua Sumner Proprietor, East Main Street. The sr. james, I>r. R, A. Me Perrin, Proprietor, East side Public Square. Bartow house, Mrs. S. C. Majors, Proprietress, West side Public Square. Barbers. JOHN TAYLOR, At St. James Hotel, Henry morris, First door south postoflice. WILLIAM JOHNSON, Shockley building, cast side railroad. Essex choice, Old Exchange hotel, east side railroad. Stoves and Tinware. VL. Williams, Stoves and Tinware, llousefurnishing Goods of every Description, West Main Street—South side. Carriages, Buggies, etc. RH. JONES & SONS’ MANF’G CO., Buggies, Wagons, etc, Cartersvillc, Rome and Stamp Creek. All kinds of Repairing, WA. BRADLEY, Buggy, Wagon and General Repair Shop, West Main Street—North side, Furniture. I H. Gilreatb, U North Georgia Furniture House, East Main Street—North side. Dentists. BE. Cason, Resident Dentist, Office : Upstairs, over Curry’s. 11 M. Puckett, jIX Resident Dentist, Office : Over R, II Jones A Sons’ Manf’g Cos. Groceries and Provisions. JF. STEPHENS, Groceries and Provisions, Northeast Corner Public Square. Stephens & co„ Groceries and Provisions, West side Public Square. B. MATTHEWS & CO., Groceries and Provisions, Under CoukAnt Office. B~ AKRON BROS., Groceries and Provisions, East Mam Street. WM. SATTERFIELD, Groceries and Provisions, East Main Street, Alt. HUDGINS, Groceries and Provisions, West Main Street—South side, JA. STOVER, Groceries and Provisions, West Main Street—South side, E STRICKLAND & BRO., Staple and Fancy Groceries, Canned Goods of every variety. West Main Street—South side. AM. PUCKETT, Groceries and Provisions, East Public Square, Glenn .tones, Groceries anil Provisions, West Main st., South side. JM. TODI) , . . Groceries and Provisions, West Main Street—South side. JL. WIKLE, Groceries and Provisions. West Main Street—North side. Tl H. WHITE & SON, Groceries, Provisions, Lumber and Coal West Main Street—North side. Bradford & CO., Groceries and Provisions, . West Main Street—North side. VANDIVEKE & WALDRUP, Groceries, Candies, etc. West Main Street-North side. fiEOKOE H. GILREATH, Staple and Fancy Groceries, West Main Street—North side. BF. GODFREY, Groceries and Provisions. West Corner Main and Erwin Streets. Thomas layvhon, Groceries and Provisions, Bank Block—West side Public Square Pool and Billiard Tables. Harness and Saddlery. WC. EDWARDS, • west Main street north side WO. BOHLER, west M ain street, north side. THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT. Crain, Hay and Produce. Roberts & goblins, Wholesale Grocers, Grain and Produce. North side Public Square—West side railroad. Rm. pattillo, Groeer, Grain, Hay and Produce Dealer. Southeast Corner Main and Erwin Streets. A KNIGHT & SON, Grain, Ilay and Produce, South side Public Square—East side RailroaL Lawyers. JOE M. MOON. Office over J. K. Rowan’s store JA. BAKER, Office: northwest corner court house DOUGLAS WIKLE, Office with Sheriff, at court house JOHN H. WIKLE, Office with Ordinary, at court house. TW. H. HARRIS, Solicitor pro tent City Court. Opposite Clerk’s office at court house Albert s. Johnson, Office: two doors above St. James hotel. JOHN W. AKIN, Office: First stair way above postoflice. Ray. murphky, First stairway below PO. Ist Vr on right. JAMES B. CONYERS, First stairway below PO. Ist Moor on left. SHELBY ATTAWAY, Office: first stairway below P O, and second door on right, Mr. stansell, First door below postoffice, last door on left Graham & graham, First stairway below P O, and last door on right Am, foute, Office: Upstairs, cor Main and Erwin Sts. JM, NEEL, Judge City Court. Office over Curry’s Drug Store. AW. FITE, Office two doors above St. James Hotel. Jj. CONNER, Erwin Street, opposite Anderson’s Stable. Milner, akin & Harris, Office, over Howard’s Bank. Livery Stables. / IRAWFOKD & HUDSON, U Sale, Livery and Feed Stables. Near court house, east side railroad. Horses and mules for sale at all times. JOHN P. ANDERSON, J Sale, Livery and Feed Stables. Erwin Street, near Main. Printing. OUR ANT PUBLISHING CO., Proprietors “COURANT” and Job Printers, Official organ Bartow County. Office: Puckett Building, S. E, Cor. Square. Atlanta Prices Cut. ■>jm American publishing co., Proprietors “American” and Job Printers. Office : Upstairs, Cor, Main and Erwin St’s, Dry Goods snd Clothing. RW. SATTERFIELD, ' Dry Goods and Clothing, South side Public Square, near Railroad | P. JONES, O Dry Goods and Clothing, West Mam Street—Public Square. SCHEUEK BROS, Dry Goods and Clothing, West Main Street—South side. | G. M. MONTGOMERY & SON, and Dry Goods and Clothing, West Main Street—South side, Mays & pritchett, Dry Goods and Clothing, South west Corner Public Square. General Merchandise. George W. Satterfield, Groceries, Dry Goods, etc., Southwest Corner Publie Square. JK. Rowan, Groceries, Dry Goods, Hardware, etc. West side Public Square. I sham Alley, Dry Goods, Hardware, etc., South side Square, East of Railroad. Bakeries. YANPIVERE & WALDRUP, Bakery and Confectioneries, West Main St. Cabinet Makers. HIX & BREVARD, Cabinet Makers and Repairing, East Main St. TW. WHITE, Cabinetmakers and Repairing, East Main Street—South side. Jewelers, Watchmakers, etc. Turner & baker, Watchmakers and Jewelers, Under Opera House. JOHN T. OWEN, Watchmaker and Jeweler, Word’s Drug Store, West Main Street. WR. MOUNTCASTLE, Watchmaker, E. Strickland & Bro., West Main Street. Insurance. Bartow Leake, Fire Insurance and Commission Merchant. Office at Warehouse, West Main Street. John T. Norris, Life and Fire Insurance, Office, Second door below Bank, in Bank Block. Gerald Griffin, Life and Fire Insurance, Office : Rear Howard Bank. WH. Howard, Life and Fire Insurance. Howard’s Bank Loan and Real Estate. George H. Aubrey, Loan and Real Estate Agent, Office : First Stairway below Post Office. Cotton Buyers and Commission Merchants. Sam F. Milam, Commission Merchant, Clerk City Council and Manager Opera House. Office : Mays & Pritchett. Gerald Griffin, _ Cotton and Gnano. Office in Howard’s Bank. SF. SMITH, . Cotton Buyer. Office in Howard’s Bank. JC. MILAM, Cotton and Guano. Office, with Mays & Pritchett. Jj. HOWARD, j Hardware, Machinery, etc. Baker & hall, Hardware and Machinery, Guns Pistols, etc. West Main Street. North side. Educational. Cartersville High School anil Kindergarten, Mrs. S, F. liRAME, Principal, Mrs. S. J. WARE, Associate Principal. _ East Cartersville Institute. Prof. W. H. BOWERS, Principal Corner Carter and Douglas Streets. WEST END INSTITUTE, Miss Lucy Carpenter, principal, Mrs, j. w. Harris, Sr., assistant. Bartow street. Books, Stationery, etc. WIKLE & CO., Firit Door above Post Office. Curry’s Cough Cure is a scientific com bination of Tar and Wild Cherry. If is pleasant to take and a sure cure. Only 25 cents a bottle. Try it. , CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1886. FROM TAMPA BAY TO WHERE I AM. Special Corretpondence. | Florida is 59,000 square miles of land, water, orange trees and climate —mostly climate. These elements make up the great South-land of the United States. Its probabilities cannot be foreseen. So much territory, so much water, so many orange trees, so much climate, unsur passed on earth, leaves the imagination free as air to picture that which may come. Even now Florida is the home, winter and summer, for the sick from all the higher latitudes: for the idler, the sick and the money-seeker. Indeed, all these sorts of people are now here in great numbers. Some in the enjoyment oi an abundance, others slowly moving up to richer possessions, while some, at the bottom, are with a will toiling and hoping on for a better and brighter place in life. T.ie Peninsular of the Sta'e is its most promising section. From the city of Jacksonville south, lies the region of wonders and curiosities. East and west of the great river St. Johns fiom the lakes in which it rises, to its mouth, the variety of soil and pro ductions, known and to be known, are so great that an hundred years will not be time enough to settle up the country and bring the orchards, gardens and fields in to full perfection. Speculation with money investments are just fairly established. Extensive*as the country is, nearly every acre has a present value which will grow into a sur prising profit in the near future. Pur chasers are abundant, sellers are plenty and everything is for sale. Property is sold and bought every day, and buyers are often not satisfied till their money and credit both are exhausted. The above is but a short and imperfect sketch of the material, present and finan cial future of this delightful and wonder ful portion of our common country. The loss of two million dollars by the destruction of the orange crop in Janua ry last, is but one loss in a half century. Just as much money is being spent this winter as ever. The new groves, the land cleared and ditched keep pace with the incoming population, the transient buyeT and smitten speculator. An or chard in oranges, containing 125 acres, in Sumter county, at Leesbug, scarcely felt the freeze, except to shed the fruit. This very day most of the trees are in full foliage. The laborers are trimming, pruning, plowing and preparing for an other rich harvest, while the buds are swelling into full grown blossoms, soon to make the air odorous with their sweet perfume. From the latitude of Lees burg south, the orange interest is safer than for thirty years. Of course the population is an accumu lation of people from almost the whole earth. Every nationality has sent the adventurers, the scientific, the wanderer, the botanist, with the inevitable life in surance agent and, last of all, newspaper correspondent. Among them came also your own philosopher and philanthropist. Blinded by the climate, where the north star disappears, hq lost his bearings and was left iu profound astonishment, lie waited, he telegraphed, and when the next train came he icent, and in due time an apology, ample and sincere was made. Then came that oft repeated and cordial forgiveness of his wile. As he had been to Florida, w hut could she do ? lie pub lished these things in the papers, and when some of us read of his sufferings tears came unbidden, because “a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind.” The Georgia Arp was not born for a swamp life in the everglades, and therefore he kept so close to the civiliza tion about the lower St. Johns that he only lost his way going home. He found, as all do, that Florida is a country of op portunities. When the Queen of Sheba shall arrive at Lake Weir, in Marion county, and open her eyes upon that limpid sheet — turn them upon the splendid beach, and has time to comprehend the grand and beautiful situations around, on which are the homes that adorn the shores, and then shall meet that matchless advocate, whose moss-covered and curtained dwell- ing is embowered on the bluff, in speech less silence she will look and wonder, while listening to “the silver tongue” of Captain K. Lake Weir and its environments are surprisingly beautiful and Inviting. Per haps in altitude it is higher than any point in the peninsular, and for that reason must be healthy winter and sum mer. Religiously, it lias an advantage over many localities where the population is larger. The good people have a house for the worship of God unsurpassed in style and beauty. The building is the property of a devoted little Baptist church. Besides the house of worship, there is in .process of construction a large, fine two-stoty building, soon to be dedi cated to the education of girls and young ladies. There is but one ocher in the State like it, and that is at DeLand. This one will be a high school of learning and practical instruction in the things that pertain to the domestic duties of woman. There is ample patronage for it west of the St. Johns. These two enterprises at Lake Weir are largely indebted to the public spirit of that old Georgia Christian gentleman, and his wife, Dr. E. C. Hood, lately of Co lurn' us, Ga. Pilgrim. IS SHERMAN’S MIND FAILING? New York Correspondence Chicago Tribune.] The mental condition of another public character—Gen. W. T. Sherman—is giv ing his friends much uneasiness. He has shown an irascibility and petulance of late that revive all the old stories of his moods during certain periods of the war. I know from his own lips that some of his relatives in the East are alarmed for him. He has written letters to persons East and West in such tenor and character as to leave no doubt that he is seriously unsettled in his mind. It may be merely the effect of the sharp controversy with Gen. Fry and the con sequent irritation, but, whatever it is, it causes much anxiety among his friends. There is just a trace of insanity in the General’s family. His father, Judge Sherman, of Ohio, married a Hoyt. She was a sister, l believe, of the grandfather of Mary lienee Hoyt, who has been fighting in the courts here for the pos session of a fortune that her father put out of her hands at the time of his death because he believed her to be insane. She was once incarcerated for months in a Pennsylvania mad-house, a private asylum. Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, the athoress, who has been living in New York for some time past, returned to her old home, in Clarkston, last week. Merit will tell. Buy the genuine ar ticle and do not expend your means on vile trash. Shriner’s Indian Vermifuge is guaranteed if taken according fo the directions. SILVER COINAGE. An Able Speech by Our Congressman, Hon. J. C. Clements. Our Congressman, Hon. J. C. Clements, has delivered an able and extensive ar gument in favor of the “dollar of our daddies.” The speech Is somewhat cur tailed in order that some of the points may be published by us, and will be found very interesting reading. Mr. Clements said: Mr. Chairman: It has been directly charged by the enemies of the standard silver dollar that it is a “dishonest dol lar.” Is this true? If it is, then our laws are wrong, and the Government is a perpretrator of fraud against its own peo ple. What foundation is there for this charge? As faithful representatives of honest constituencies it becomes our duty to answer this question. If the allega tion be true, then the wrong should be righted; for the honor of the people we represent is more precious than silver or gold. But upon what reason do the enemies of silver in their warfare upon it base this indictment of fraud and dishonesty? It is not because a silver dollar will not buy as much as a gold dollar in our coun try, nor that it will not purchase as much of any of the commodities of trade or the necessities of life as it ever did. There fore, it is because silver is not worth as it has ever been when tested by its pur chasing capacity; and beyond controver sy this is the only true and honest test, for this is its sole use as coin. But it is said that where it is not by law made a legal tender it is only worth from 80 to 85 cents; and upon this statement of fact the charge of dishonesty is based. By what measure of vahie is this al leged depreciation of silver arrived at? It is not pretended that it is ascertained or proven in any other way than by its relative value as compared to gold, and that in such countries as have demone tized silver. What right have we to judge here of the value of our silver dollars, or of their honesty as legal-ten der, debt-paying dollars by the gold standard alone w here silver has not been depreciated but gold has been enhanced in value by reason alone of the total or partial demonetization of silver in other countries? I submit that gold is not the only standard or test of value by which silver is to be tried. Capital seeks to de monetize what appears to be the more plentiful metal and to make the dearer one the sole standard. Germany and Austria demonetized gold and make sil ver the standard in 1857 for fear of an inundation from the rich mines of Cal fornia and Australia. In Austria silver is still the standard and gold is only a commodity and not money. According as one of these metals has been demonetized the other has appre ciated in value w here it has been erected as the sole standard. Why ? Simply be cause debt-paying money has been made scarcer and therefore, harder to obtain by the striking down of the other metal, and the purchasing power of the former is thereby increased. We must judge of the honesty of our silver coin in the light of our own laws, our own condition, and our own obliga tions, rather than by the whims and fan cies of other governments vdiolly differ ent from ours in form and purpose, and w ith different surroundings and interests. Ours is not an effete monarchy. It is not a despotism ruled in the interest ot a ruling class or subservient to capitalists and creditors irrespective of the rights ol others, or rather it should not be. Ours is, in theory at least, a government by the people, for the people. It should be as jealously watchful of the rights of the humblest citizen as it is of its own honor. The disposition of the question under consideration will materially affect the rights and conditions of all classes of the people, for the ability of the debtor to pay depends largely upon the supply of money. If it is plentitul it is more easily obtained and it takes less property to procure it than when it jis scarce, for then it is dearer and requires more prop erty to be sacrificed to raise it. What right has the creditor to refuse payment in the legal-tender coin of the law at the time of the contract? What light has he to demand payment in a dearer coin ? Is he not asking substan tially an impairment of the contract in his own favor and against the debtor? This brings us to the consideration of what have been the legal-tender coins of our country. Among the powers of Con gress enumerated in ttie Constitution are the following: “To coin money, regu late the value thereof and of foreign com, and fix the standard of weights and measures.” The same instrument for bids that the States shall “make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in pay ment of debts.” Silver is just as much the recognized coin of the Constitution as gold. Under the authority above cited Con gress, as far back as 1792, authorized the unlimited coinage of silver as well as gold, establishing exactly the standard silver dollar of to-day of 412t£ grains. Its coinage as legal-tender money was not interrupted until 1873 —'74. Then in 1878 a limited amount of not more than $4,000,000 and not less than $2,000,000 was required to be coined per month. It It has ever since its establishment origi nally been a legal tender except as limi ted from 1873 to 1878, yet we hear con stantly of the so-called “gold bonds” and “gold obligations” of the Government, and the bonds principal and interest are being paid in gold, in compliance with the avaricious demands of the holders. There are justly and legally no gold obli gations of the Government except gold certificates; the former are all payable upon their face in coin, not gold alone, for we have already seen that silver is as much a part of our legal coin as gold is. A bond, therefore, payable in coin is pay able in either silver or gold at the option of the debtor. It is discouraging to him who loves justice to see how unjustly and oppress ively the tax-paying people have been discriminated against in the interest of manipulating capitalists. The holders of greenbacks by the funding of the public debt became holders first of bonds bear- ing 0 per cent, interest, the latter paya ble in coin. Then in 1869, at the hands of a Republican Congress, by some means they secured the passage of an act requiring payment of the principal of their bonds in coin, notwithstanding the greenbacks which they had exchanged for them at so great an advantage were receivable at their face value “for all debt3, public and private, except inter est on the public debt and costom dues.” This specific exception of the “Interest on the public debt” and not the principal, as well as the stipulation in the bonds to pay the interest in coin and the absence of such a stipulation as to the principal, clearly shows that the demand of the bondholders was unfounded, except in their greed, and the allowance of it was a great wrong against the tax-payers. Not content with these ill-gotton advantages, and fearing that their right to hold them might be questioned, they secured in the act of July 14,1870, a provision requiring the new bonds under that act to be paid, principal and interest, in coin of the standard value prescribed by law at that date. At this time the coinage of silver was free and unlimited. They were th 9 cautious to secure themselves against any possible fluctuation by reason of a change in the standard weight of either coin by subsequent legislation. Still not content, they secured the de mouetizHion of silver in 1873 by means since characterized as stealth, hoping thereby to secure payment of their bonds in gold alone and that greatly enhanced in value and purchasing power by reason of the striking down of silver. Their bonds were already exempted from taxa tion of any kind. Why should accumu lated capital be so favored while the poor pay taxes on the little they have? In addition to all this they are permitted un der the national banking laws to make these bonds a basis for banking and to issue bills amounting to 90 per cent, of the amount of the bonds as currency. Within a few years the holders of green-backs, taxable and non-interest bearing, not worth over 50 cents on the dollar, have by the means just recited become holders of non taxable interest-bearing bonds payable in coin, principal and interest. Actually being paid in gold, and while their inter est is regularly paid by the Government, they issue and use bank bills amounting to 90 per cent, of the bonds —all without addi ional investment or consideration since they became the owners of the de preciated greenbacks. Accustomed to havihg their demands granted at the expense of the tax-bur dened people they in 1881 demanded and secured at the hands of Rutherford B. Hayes a veto of an act refunding a part of the public debt and reducing the rate of interest on the same. What right, legal or moral, have they to demand more now than the contract entitles them to? They should be coutent with the money of the contract—the money of the Constitution, silver or gold at the option of the debtor. To establish the single standard of gold and demonetize silver would be to require all debtors to sacrifice more property to procure gold or its equivalent to pay their debts contracted when silver was at par and a legal tender than they will have to do if both are retained. This would be no less unjust and oppressive to the debtor than it would to the creditor to arbitrarily scale and reduce his claim merely to favor the debtor. Neither would be right. It is contended that we should increase the amount of silver in the dol lar so as to bring it up to gold in value everywhere. This would be the same wrong, the same oppression, because it would be requiring that much more of value to obtain a dollar or the bullion to make a dollar. To require silver bullion of equal value to the gold bullion in a dollar would be to further burden debt ors under existing laws about 20 per cent, which, on the aggregate of ascer tained and estimated indebtedness re ferred to, would amount to $2,438,432,- 209. When the coinage act of 1878 was passed the cry went up that gold would leave our country and depreciated silver would take its place. This evil has been prophesied from that day to this. But what are the facts? The coinage of sil ver at the present rate has been going on now for seven years, and there is to-day more gold in the country than there was seven years ago. For the last fiscal year ended June 30, 1885, our total exports of gold were $8,476,892, while our imports for the same year were $26,691,696, show ing an excess of imported gold of $lB,- 214,804. Our exports of silver for 1884 were $26,051,426, for 1885 $33,750,633, an excess of $7,698,207 last year over the year before. Despite the warnings and evil prophesies of those who look with horror for the substitution ot what they are pleased to call the “baser metal” for gold the importation of the latter has in creased while the exportation of the for mer has increased. In 1873, while silver was demonetized, it was estimated that there was in this country at that time $135,000,000 gold coin; it was then at a premium of 15)n per cent. About $98,- 000,000 of this was in the Treasury and in the national banks, not in actual cir culation. In 1876 the amount was esti mated to be $153,493,378. The coinage of silver therefore has not driyen gold away from us. It has not begun to do so. It does not threaten to do so. There is no cause for alarm on this account. The balance of trade —that is, the difference between the value of products exported and imported—has far more to do with the influx or outgo of gold than does the coinage of silver. This balance, owing to the richness of our soil, the amount and variety of our productions of agriculture and manufac tures, and the thrift and energy of the American people, has continued in our favor. The surest way to preserve this balance in our favor is by wise laws just ly administered to promote individual prosperity among the people. If we have individual prosperity, national prosperity must follow. There should be a removal of vexatious restraints upon commerce, grievous bur dens and unjust discriminations imposed by vicious laws, which inure to the ad vantage of a favored few and oppress the many. The thrift of the American peo p e and the richness ot their heritage would insure untold prosperity, individu al and national, if freed from the blight ing effects of unjust discriminations and oppressive burdens. There should be sufficient currency provided to meet the requirements of the increasing popula tion, business and developments of ou growing country. Money that is good enough for the employes ot the Govern ment, its officers and laborers, ought to be good enough for the bondholder, who is favored in so many ways. The last objection urged against the further coinage of silver which 1 shall notice is that the money vaults are crowd ed and we will soon have no place to put it. This is scarcely worthy of reply. In the first place, no sufficient reason has been shown why it is not paid out in dis charge of our bonds, now subject to call, and upon which we are paying interest, while the silver that ought to be in circu- lation lies idle in the Treasury. The reason why it has not been put in circu lation, I fear, is that it has not been in the hands of its friends. The minimum amount required by law is all that has at any time been coined under the present law. Repeated recommendations have been made for a suspension of this, and that which is required by the law to be coined is not paid out on due bonds and put in circulation, but is hoarded in vaults. If its inconvenience be an objection to it, that is obviated by the silver certificate, which is especially popular and accepta ble among the people. If there Is not room for it in the vaults there is in the pockets of the people, where it will find its way if you pay it out to the creditors of the Goyernment, who will employ it in the various busi ness channels of the country, and it will reach the people. Compel the bond- holder to take it according to the contract, and he will then be found helping to sus tain silver and not to degrade It. There ought to be an increase of the coinage of silver. The annual production of gold is slightly decreasing, while population and commerce are increasing; and, not withstanding the diminishment in the annual gold production, there is an esti mated increase in the amount of bullion and coin used In the arts and manufac tures. In the year 1883 $4,875,000 of gold coin was used in this way. Some professed friends of silver say that the only w T ay to uphold it is to sus pend coinage here until it can be resumed in other countries which have demone tized it. While we must admit that the action of other great powers toward the coins must affect us in greater or less de gree it would be un-American for us to conform at once to foreign policies with out ail effort to maintain our national coins intact, and no uphold one of the great products country. The remedy is not to suspend but to increase the coinage. The amazing prosperity of France after her unsuccessful conflict with Prussia, with an immense public . debt, has been largely attributed to her financial policy. She provided and has maintained in circulation an ample vol ume of currency. With a population of about 33,000,000 she has over $850,000,000 in gold coin and about $541,000,000 in silver, or a total of about $1,391,000,000, besides a paper Currency of about $556,- 000,000, making in all $1,947,000,000 or over SSO per capita. With about two thirds the population of the United States she has twice as much silver coin, which is a legal tender at par and circulates. The amount of money of all kinds, in cluding paper, in the United States, hoared and in circulation, is not over $24 per capita. In the face of these facts I fail to see the danger attending contin ued coinage, but upon the other hand I believe that the present continued de pression is in fact the result of a lack of sufficient currency to meet the demands of the business of the country. A suffi ciency of currency would, stimulate busi ness, lead to investments, developments, and remunerative employment for labor, and consequent prosperity. Scarcity of money embarrasses business and pro duces stagnation, prevents employment of labor, and causes suffering. Our con dition demands increased coinage rather than suspension. The Secretary of the Treasury in his report states that about 54 per cent, of the metal money of the w r orld is silver and about 46 per cent. gold. The Uni ted States is by far the greatest silver producing country in the world and can not afford to aid in striking it down. It does not appear that other nations have so completely abandoned silver as the monomettallists would seem to repre sent. Silver has been the stand-by of the peo ple in many times of depression and threatened disaster, remaining among them when gold, the dearer metal, had to some extent concentrated in the hands of capitalists and bankers so that it has been, and that not without reason, called the “people’s money.” The effort to destroy it is but one more step in line with many that have been taken heretofore to trans fer the earnings of the masses to the cof fers of the rich and the strong. At no time in the history of our country has it been so important to the interests of the people as now for them to have a large circulation of silver. It will go far in protecting them against the effects of the manipulations and speculations of those who in recent years have absorbed un precedented fortunes, which are often combined and organized in support of schemes for further accumulation of the products of toil by those who toil not and yet by their wits absorb the wealth pro duced by others. It is the money of the fathers and of the Constitution, tested by experience and approved by the people. Let us have more of it. GEN. GORDON FOR GOVERNOR. An Interview with Gov. McDaniel Causes Considerable Speculation. Atlanta, March 17.—A one line per sonal in a local paper yesterday has cre ated considerable stir in political circles in the city. It was the simple mention of the fact that Gen. J. B. Gordon spent awhile in consultation with the Governor at his office the day before. To-day the rumor was general that Gen. Gordon will enter the race for the governorship. He has been North for some time, and re turned to this State only a few days ago. It is said that he has closed a trade with Northern capitalists in reference to his Florida interests which makes him a very wealthy man. These negotiations have, it is said, been pending for some time, and it has been reported here sev eral times that he has come back a mil lionaire, but this has never beon practi cally demonstrated as yet. Now it is said that the trade has certainly been consum mated, and that he has already trans ferred the Florida interests referred to and has the papers with him. This ru mor, together with the knowledge of the fact that he has been in close consulta tion with the Governor so shortly after the latter’s withdrawal, has given rise to general remark that he will soon re-enter politics. His retirement was based on a statement that(he was pecuniarily unable to continue in the public service. This remedied, he is free to act as his inclina tions lead him, and it is believed that he has strong political inclinations. The incident has created considerable talk to day at the capitol. POSTMASTER BENFftOE’S BOND. Atlanta, March 15.—Mr. Renfroe was in to see Postmaster Wilson this morning, whom he informed that he would be ready to take charge of the Postofflce on the Ist of April. It is understood that Mr. Henry R. Jackson, United States Minister to Mexico, and whose son How ell is married to Mr. Renfroe’s daugnter, has sent Captain Harry Jackson a power of attorney to go the whole bond of Mr. Renfroe. Three names are required on the bond; the two besides Mr. Jackson need represent no value. As the bond is SBO,OOO ($50,000 for postmaster and $30,- 000 tor the order department) the bondsman has to be worth $160,000 “over and above all debts and liabilities exist ing against him, and also over and above whatever property the laws of the State exempt lrom levy and sale.” The bond which Mr. Renfroe will have to give prescribes that he “shall pay the balance of all moneys that shall come to his hands, from postage collected, post age stamps and postage envelopes sold, or money orders issued by him or from any other source connected with the postal service, in the manner prescribed by the Postmaster General for the time b ing,and shall keep safely,without loan ing, using, depositing in other banks or exchanging for other funds than allowed by law.” , It has been settled that Mr. Park Wood ward will be appointed assistant post master. All of Clingman’s Tobacco Remedies are sold at Curry’s Drug Store. NUMBER 8 STONEWALL JACKSON. How the Confederates Hero’s Life Went Oat. From the Detroit Free Press.] Abont daylight upon the Sunday of hia eath Mrs. Jackson informed him that his recovery was very doubtful, and that it was better that he should be prepared for the worst. He was silent for a mo ment and then said: “It will be infinite gain to be translated to Heaven.” He advised his wife in the event of death, to return to her father’s house, and added: “You have a kind and good father, but there is no one so kind and good as your Heavenly Father.” He still expressed a hope that he would recover, but requested his wile, in case he should die, to have him buried in Lex ington, in the valley of Virginia. His exhauston increased so rapidly that at II o’clock Mrs. Jackson knelt by his bed and told him that before the sun went down he would be with his Savior. He replied: “O, no! You are frighten ed, my child. Death is not so near. I may yet get well.” She fell upon the bed weeping bitterly and again told him, amid her tears and sobs, that the physicians declared that there was no longer any hope of his re covery. After a moment’s pause he asked her to call the family physician. “Doctor,” he said, as the physician en tered the room, “Anna informed me that you told her that lam to die to-day. Is it so?” When he was answered in the affirma tive, he turned his sunken eyes toward the ceiling and gazed for a moment or two as if in intense thought, then looked at the friends about him and said softly: “Very good, very good; it is all right.” Then turning to his heart broken wife he tried to comfort her. He told her that there was much he desired to tell her but that he was too weak for the un dertaking. Col. Pendleton came into the room about 1 o’clock. Gen. Jackson asked him. “Who is preaching at the headquarters to-day?” When told in reply that the whole army was praying for him, he replied : “Thank God! they are very kind.” Then he added: “It is the Lord's day; my wish is fulfilled. I have always de sired to die on Sunday.” Slowly his mind began to fail and wan der, and he frequently talked in his deli rium as if in command of his army on the field of battle. He would give orders to his aids in his old way, and then the scene was changed. He was at the mess table in conversation with members of his staff; now with his wife and child; now at prayers with his military family. Occasional intervals of his mind would appear, and during one of them the phy sician offered the dying man some bran dy and water, but he declined it, say ing: “It will only delay my departure and do no good; I want to preserve my mind to the last, if possible.” A few moments before the end arrived the dying warrior cried out in his deliri um. “Order A. P. Hill to prepare for action !” “Pass the infantry to the front rapidly.” “Tell Maj. Hawks—” then his voice was silent and the sentence remained unfin ished. An instant later a smile of ineffable sweetness and purity spread itself over his calm, pale face, and then looking up ward and slightly raising his hands, he said quietly and with an expression of relief: ‘ Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.” And when without sign of struggle or of pain his spirit passed away. Was death ever so sweet and peaceful? Was ever rest so anticipated or Heaven so re vealed ? THE PRICES OF LONG AGO. We lind this item going the rounds of the press: In 1807 corn sold for 60 cents a bushel, cotton 3 to 4 cents a pound, su gar 30 cents, coffee 50 cents, shot 20 cents, powder sl, tea sl, pepper 62 cents, nails 25 cents, calico and plaids 75 cents per yard, tumblers $1.55 per set, ladies’ shoes $2 per pair, salt 50 cents a bushel, brandy $2 per gallon, and twist tobacco 50 cents a pound. People were less in debt then than now. But then people bought nec essaries and did without such luxuries as they could not afford ; now they buy lux uries and try to do without the neces saries. Colonel M. E. Thorton, late of the At lanta Post Appeal, is again prominently before the public. He and Mrs. Thorn ton are large stockholders in the Jelico Coal Company, and Mr. Thornton has addressed to the Legislature of Kentucky a remonstrance against the employment of leased convict labor in that and other mines. He says that it is done by his other partners, without the consent of himself and wife, and he asks legislative interference to prhibit the continuance of the competition of convict with free and honest labor. Atlanta has at last failed in securing the Georgia Midland from Columbus, and the road will be built to Griffin and Locust Grove, where it will tap the East Tennessee. This is about the first fail ure Atlanta has made in a small enter prise. She only lacked $25,000, but could not raise thia sum. The Columbus peo ple will now go forward and build their new road, and about the time the iron is laid Captain Raoul, of the Central, will step in and annex it to the long line of the Central, so Atlanta sayes her SIOO,- 000 at last. News is received that at Carrolton, Mississippi, Sunday last, fifty men rode into that town and repairing to the court house where thirteen negroes were being tried for attempting to assassinate a white man named James Liddall, shot and kill ed ten of them and mortally wounded the others. Dr. Armstrong’s late parishioners have rented a house for him, furnished it with elegant furniture, and filled his larder with the essentials of life. They remain true to him and confide in his integrity despite the surroundings. Most Excellent. J. J. Atkins, Chief of Police, Knox ville, Tenn., writes: “Mj 7 family and I are beneficiaries of your most excellent medicine, Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption; having found it to be a*l that you claim for it, desire to testify to its virtue. 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